My metabolism is so fucked up. I am so pissed.
It's my fault really, from years of binging and purging like a pig, but I am not sure how I am going to fix this. For two weeks I have eaten around 400 calories a day and burned that all off, yet I've lost probably close to two pounds. Are you fucking kidding me? I know it's because my body is in starvation mode, but I've never experience this before and I'm scared, so scared it's going to mess everything up. I'm hoping the lack of weight loss is from gaining alot of muscle, because I have been working out like a freak. Whenever I used to restrict I didn't usually exercise excessively since I hated it so much. I mean, I hated the calories more but if I just didn't eat I figured I would still lose weight. And I did. So I am praying to whatever universal force is out there to please make it just be muscle gain so all that extra muscle can burn off extra fat.
While I was so panicked about my metabolism I found a lot of great ways to boost it.
1.) Exercise: The key is to do 30 minutes or more of medium-high intensity cardio at a time to boost the heart rate and this is supposed to dramatically increase your metabolism. However, you have to push yourself with the workout to acheive the results. Also one pound of muscle burns 6 calories a day just to sustain itself, while fat only burns two. Then you need to mix it up with strength training. I always ignored this part, but studies have found that cardio is only effective to a certain degree and that while it can burn calories fast, strength training works better for boosting your metabolism in the long run by creating muscle.
2.)Water: Drinking lots of water apparently helps your kidneys filter better along with everything else. A German study found that drinking 17 ounces of water boosts the metabolism by 30% for half an hour. Drinking cold water burns even more, and can create an extra burn of almost 50 calories a day.
3.) Eat More Often: I cringed when I read this, but it does make sense. You should eat every 3 hours so that your metabolism will keep woring throughout the day. After 5 hours or more it starts to shut down as it realizes you ahve gone too long without food. I try to eat 50 calorie snacks at a time of fruits and veggies.
4.)Protein: Eating protein can take 25% more effort to burn than fat, which fills you up longer and gets your metabolism working.
5.)Coffee: It has been shown to reasonably increase the metabolism for a short period after it is drinken. (-It revs up your nervous system-)
6.)Green Tea: I've seen info that this both does and doesn't work, but webmd says that drinking four cups can increase your metabolism by 17% for several hours. Even if it doesn't work as well as they say, green tea has too many anti-oxidants to pass up and it will also clean out your body and aid with weight loss through appetite control
7.) Spicy Foods: The capsaicin in spicy foods is supposed to increase your metabolism. And while there is some debate on just how much, it is agreed upon that it does help control appetite.
8.)Fiber: Fiber takes alot of energy to process, making it one of the best things you can eat
9.)EAT BREAKFAST: I don't blame anyne for not wanting to rack up calories so early on but it is proven that skipping breakfast dramatically slows your metabolism. Breakfast should be the biggest meal of the day and dinner the lightest.
10.)Sleep: Eight hours of it is one of the most important things for boosting your metabolism (If you don't belive me go look it up)
There is definitely a lot more of these tips, but honestly started to get tired of trying to write them all so I gave the most important. My plan is to incorporate all of these in order to maximize my weight loss. Obviously the best thing to do would be to eat 1200 calories again, but at this point that means weight gain for awhile and that I'll have to wait until who knows when for it to fix itself sooo yeah, thats just not an option. Not to mention that I can barely stomach 800 calories if I try really hard.
If anyone reads this and has been through a similar situation and can give advice please leave a comment, I am desperate as much as I hate to admit it.
Stay Strong <3
ItLiesHeavy
We can beat genetics, adopting new aesthetics for beautiful bodies,
figures ever-so-slender, taking control, oh,
what a nice, nice thing.
Besides, my problems hide in numbers that leave when i gag and heave
and heaving's kind of hard with your hands tied round your waist.
point out the obvious, tell me just how dangerous
then bundle every fight in an "isn't right" and leave it alone.
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