As our meal sizes get larger, more people have started to wonder if they have thyroid issues. Now there are plenty of people out there with an underactive thyroid and it certainly doesn’t hurt to get it checked. Unfortunately however, our bodies just don’t need that many calories a day to maintain weight. In fact the average woman only needs around 1200-1400 calories a day to maintain not even lose weight! Here are a few tricks to bump up your metabolism:
Pack on some muscle—muscle mass requires at least 5 times more calories per day than fat so for your metabolism’s sake pick up some heavy dumbbells!
Burn a couple hundred extra calories by throwing high intensity cardio intervals into your workout—these intervals take longer for your body to recover from so you’ll be burning calories even hours after your workout!
Get some sleep! The rate of calories your body burns at rest represents 60-75% of your daily calorie burning—don’t skip out on the easiest way to burn calories!!
Eat every two or three hours—If you eat frequently your body can use up the calories and not store it for fat—the key is you never want to be hungry, you never want to be full
Eat lots of fiber, fruits and vegetables—each is low in calories, high in nutrients and bumps up your metabolism
Drink as much water as possible—this will bump up your metabolism and fill you up—remember the human body is 60% water so one cup of water before just isn’t going to cut it!
