Resting Metabolic Rate:
Losing weight can be challanging. Often times people try to embark on the journey to weight loss on their own with little or no success. Why is that? A lack of information or understanding about their body and their metabolism perhaps?
Testing ones metabolism provides important insight and information about your body and how it is currently functioning. This information is used to help educate you and increase your udnerstanding of how to effectively manage your weight loss efforts. That way you don’t just lose the weight but actually learn how and what you must do to keep it off!
"What usually happens is that you lose too much weight"
Could you’ve been a ‘yo-yo’ dieter for all these years and not even known it? What usually happens when people go on a crash ‘diet’ is that they lose too much weight too fast. I know what you’re thinking... ‘this is a bad thing?’
YES! And here’s why.
When you lose too much weight too fast your body loses a combination of fat and lean muscle mass but when you gain it back you only gain back fat. Additionally, when you lose such a large amount of lean muscle tissue your body responds by slowing it's metabolism to conserve energy utilization. Why would you want to take an approach that will ultimately slow your metabolism?
It's weight loss suicide! Muscle mass is so much harder to preserve and gain in the first place that you're simply setting yourself up for failure with this approach.
Did you know?...
You’re metabolic rate, or metabolism, is the rate at which your body burns energy. Knowing your unique metabolic rate is vital for weight loss as well as for determining the proper feeding amounts needed to treat various disease states. Energy expenditure can be divided into three groups of calories.
Resting Calories - Calories that you burn while your body is at rest. These calories are needed just to maintain life. The majority of all calories burned (about 70-80%) are burned at the resting level. - changing your resting metabolic rate is the easiest way to enhance metabolism.
Activity Calories - Calories that you burned because of normal daily activities are "Activity Calories". Normal daily activities such as walking, eating (digesting food), typing, etc. are included in activity calories.
Exercise Calories - These calories are burned during exercise. "One of the keys to successful weight loss is to burn more calories then you consume."
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How do I know how many calories I burn each day?
As you already know, one of the keys to successful weight loss is to burn more calories than you eat. Since you are unique you may burn much fewer or greater calories than predicted by charts or calculations.
At Renewal Centers a simple 12-minute breathing test can measure your unique metabolic rate using the same method as used in leading research hospitals. We can tell you exactly how many calories you burn at rest.
This test will also tell you if your metabolic rate is fast or slow, how many calories you need to consume to achieve weight loss goals or maintain present weight, and how much your diet has changed your metabolic rate over time. This information is vital to a successful weight management program and is essential to preserving as much lean muscle mass as possible throughout your weight loss program..
If you'd like to get your metabolism tested and see how you fair call us now at 1-800-617-0314 or fill out the following consult request form and we'll be glad to have someone contact you.
Or, if you'd like to continue learning about your body and natural health read our articles of interest.
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