Foods to Eat that Boost Metabolism

Have you noticed how some foods make you feel or look fatter and others make you feel or look skinnier? Have you ever wondered why some foods speed up metabolism and others don’t? You see, food that causes your body to make more fat doesn’t take much energy to burn off. Those foods are digested first and stored as fat “for later use”. On the flip side, those foods that make you feel or look skinnier take a while for your body to digest. They are the foods that speed up metabolism because they force your body to create more energy to burn.

Without getting too technical, we can name the foods that speed up metabolism “negative calorie foods.” What they do is make your digestive system work very hard during digestion because they contain mostly fibrous materials, something the body cannot easily break down or store as fat.

The broken-down version: Your body burns more calories than the total amount of calories you consumed in a meal. That means you’ve created enough energy to burn off the calories from the food you ate IN ADDITION TO stored body fat! That is how food can speed up your metabolism. Here’s a real-life example.

Let’s say you have a small salad or fruit cup that contains about 80 calories and it causes 130 calories to be burned off while your body digests it. Then what that means is your body has used all 80 calories from your meal IN ADDITION TO 50 calories of stored body fat. Now you have an overall calorie loss.

How it really works for most of us is quite the opposite. We consume a rich fudge brownie containing 245 calories but our body burns only 80 calories to digest it. So that means we have GAINED 165 calories which will be stored away as body fat for “later use”. The big problem comes when you are not exercising on a regular basis to burn up those stored calories. That’s when they sit there around your waste or thighs and collect until you can’t fit into your clothes anymore.

Searching the internet for a comprehensive list of negative calorie foods will give you a great idea of what they are so you can add them to your meals. Eat these foods that speed up metabolism everyday so you can begin to see and feel the healthy and lasting changes in your body.

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