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5 Keys to Balancing Your Metabolism

posted by Annie B. Bond Jun 24, 2008 9:00 am
5 Keys to Balancing Your Metabolism
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Adapted from The Slow Down Diet, by Marc David (Inner Traditions, 2005).

Think of these five keys as ways to come into better balance with your eating habits and your relationship to food. Nutrition and metabolism are intimately regulated by natural rhythms. Living a rhythmic life can bring us back into balance physically and emotionally.

By bringing the power of rhythm into our relationship with food, the body finds its rightful place. Rhythm grounds the soul in the world.

The five keys:

1. Alignment with the rhythms of life brings our metabolism into its fullest force.

2. Digestive and calorie-burning metabolism are strongest when the sun is highest in the sky (lunchtime) and weakest in the late evening hours.

3. Skipping breakfast and lunch or not eating enough at these meals slows down metabolism and inhibits weight loss.

4. Eating at irregular and unpredictable times each day causes our digestive and calorie-burning metabolism to fall out of sync.

5. Excessive consumption of refined carbohydrates out of rhythm with the seasons makes the brain think it’s summer and signals the body to store more fat.

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Natalia H.

Thank you Annie for great advices. I also like these tips on boosting your metabolism

Vural K.

thanks...
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Lin C.
  • Lin C. says
  • Jul 21, 2008 11:28 PM

The article points out on so much of what I've picked up from the past couple months...especially that calorie-burning metabolism is strongest at noontime. I've been following the saying: Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper. I eat a big breakfast filled with protein. Lunch I eat a salmon filet and fruits. Dinner is usually a small salad and fruits.

Josephine Fenech

thank you anne for this information !will be glad to read about how to lose a few inches / kilos

MisfitQueen PJ

i cant eat til im fully awake, how can one get a boost on starting the metabolism back on track?! im run down and sluggish grr!

Jen LW
  • Jen LW says
  • Jun 30, 2008 10:10 AM

In regards to the comments about refined carbs trickng the body into thinking it is summer, I do not think that is a misprint. The point of it is that your body starts to store fat in anticipation of the upoming winter months, when you would need the warmth from the fat.

Asia Elsbree

I, too, feel just fine until about 1pm with delicious cafe con leche. Am seriously concerned that at 64, while very healthy and active, I'm disregarding all the advice about eating a good breakfast, etc. HELP!

Pamela Zamora

I am not hungry until like 1 in the afternoon, what's up with that?
How can I regulate my metabolism clock??
Help!!!

Sanjay Saklani

it is good advice. we take balance diet and listening our body not listeening mind.
do exercise regularly and when eat something first thing and then eat.fast food avoid and take salad daily.take quality food and balanced diet.

Lora Mckown

Oops, guess I should read more carefully! Thanks for pointing that out. Lora

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Adapted from The Slow Down Diet, by Marc David (Inner Traditions, 2005). Copyright (c) 2005 by Marc David. Reprinted by permission of Inner Traditinos.

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