The metabolism goes through peaks and valleys, high points and low points throughout the course of 24 hours. It is our energy and the foundation for how we feel. When a person wakes up in the AM after sleeping the recommended 7-10 hrs for adults, their metabolism is at the very low end of the spectrum. So, how to increase it to have energy in the AM? Simple, put food in the body, because food is calories and calories are energy. This is why breakfast is the most important meal of the day, it jump starts your metabolism.
No longer will I reference eating a meal, bur refer to eating by saying the word “feeding.” Ideally, an adult should have 5-7 feedings a day. A traditional example of 5 would be, breakfast-snack-lunch-snack-dinner to cumulatively make up 5 feedings for that day. The thing is if a person is only eating 2 times a day they are INTENTIONALLY LOWERING their METABOLISM through habit. The idea is to take our daily calories and spread them out then put them into the body during massive feeding times. A good strategy for a person eating 2 times a day is to not eat more, but spread out all that food over more feeding times.
Every time food is put into the body, the metabolism increase, so more frequent “feedings” will consistently train your body metabolism to work in a more cyclic pattern. In order to lose weight a person MUST EAT many small feedings throughout the day and this action in itself will increase a person’s metabolism.
Now, if you are not eating several feedings throughout the day or always skip breakfast the idea is to make a small change. If not hungry in the AM, then start with eating just a bit of something healthy and slowly increase that desire to be hungry over time. It takes many months for the body to change habits depending how long we have been doing the opposite. So by adding one cheerio a day from week to week with adding a couple more each time, soon enough you will be ready to have a bowl of cereal in the AM.
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