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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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Carina Smith

I'm very grateful for my fast metabolism! ;)

Steph W.

its so important to eat often...small meals often

Steph W.

its so important to eat often...small meals often

Joy Lynn Spencer

Great advice! Also watch WHAT, not just WHEN you eat.

Abo Ahmed r.

Although sometimes i donnot feel hungry I eat something...Fruits, drink milk.
Its true regulating meals with needed nutrients is very importatnt thing we need to do....
2 smal meals and good coplete lunch or supper according to your time with snakes in between will help you a lot.
personally i do so with a snake before bed time... I have no nutritional problem ,I am not obese i have no diabetese or hypertension.

April Theberge

Even if you are not hungry first thing in the morning you should try and eat something like a piece of fruit.

Adam R.
  • Adam R. says
  • Nov 29, 2009 10:33 PM

Include lots of fiber in your diet. Fiber facilitates digestion and the removal of waste from your body. Eating more vegetables and raw fruits will add fiber and enzymes that will facilitate your digestion and raise your metabolism. Drink a lot of fresh water between meals. Depending on your weight, you may need as much as sixteen glasses per day. It will assist your body to flush the waste that may be clogging your system.



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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.

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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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