Here is the way to burn faster calories…
1. By far, the biggest increase in metabolism comes with physical activity, particularly aerobic exercise such as brisk walking, running, dancing or singles tennis. Your calorie burn is dramatically higher than at rest, and the effect may persist briefly after you stop.
2. Weight training helps, too, because it increases–or at least maintains–your muscle mass. Muscles burn dories more quickly than most other body tissues.
3. If you limit your calories, be careful. Even if you’re eager to lose weight, very low-calorie diets tend to slow down your metabolism.
Here’s the rule of thumb:
Take your ideal body weight, and multiply it by 10. This gives you your calorie minimum. For example, if you would like to weigh 150 pounds, your calorie minimum would be 1,500. You can eat more than this, but if You are restricting calories, You cannot go below this number. If You do, You risk slowing down Your metabolism.
4. Increase your after-meal burn. Your body has to work to digest the food you’ve just eaten, and, in the process, it burns some calories as body heat. This after-meal burn is sometimes called the ‘Thermic Effect’ of food. It turns out that vegetarians seem to have a better after-meal burn than meat eaters do.
We measured the after-meal burn in 59 overweight, postmenopausal women consuming the same liquid breakfast drink. Then half of the group went on a low-fat, vegetarian diet, while the others went on a low-fat diet that included modest amounts of animal products. After 14 weeks, we brought each participant back into the lab and checked her after-meal calorie burn again. It turned out that members of the vegetarian group had significantly increased their after-meal burn while the others had not. We measured the effect for about three hours after the meal, but it likely persists a bit longer than that.