Page 8 - Boost Your Metabolism (Marie Egyed) : Flip It & Read It

INTRODUCTION

Metabolism.

This is perhaps the most frequently used word in the weight loss / weight
gain vocabulary.

It is quite common to overhear people talking about their struggles - or
triumphs over the holiday bulge or love handles, in terms of whether their
metabolism is working, or not. Doctors often refer to metabolism when they
try to explain why starvation and water-loss diets don’t work.

With all of the focus around this rather daunting and biologically charged

word, you would assume that most people actually understand it. Or at least
have some fundamental knowledge when it comes to how to speed up their
metabolism, right?

Wrong!

Towards Understanding Metabolism

Regrettably, many people don’t even understand the concept of metabolism
and metabolic change.

There is so much information floating around out there that there's bound
to be some confusion and conflicting messages. And, understandably, many
people mistake their own weight gain and weight loss experiences as a
matter of metabolic change. Sometimes this is true, and sometimes it isn’t.