Do you want to pick up healthy habits to help you lose weight faster? According to one expert, you need to incorporate some of her simple tricks into your morning routine. Healthy Emmie is a plant-based nutritionist and social media influencer specializing in vegan weight loss. In a new social media post, she offers some tips. “I am sharing with you the five things I do every morning for fast metabolism, and now you can do them too,” she says.
Habit 1: She Starts the Day with a Cinnamon and Ginger Drink
“As of recently, I've been starting my day every day with a warm cinnamon and ginger drink. So why cinnamon and ginger? Well, we know that at this point, my blood type is cinnamon because of how much I consume it. But cinnamon contains cinnamaldehyde. Cinnamaldehyde helps increase thermogenesis. What is thermogenesis? It's the fancy term for our body. Taking energy calories and converting them into heat. AKA, it is boosting your body's calorie burn,” she says in the post.
There Are Lots of Benefits
“Ginger, on the other hand, is known to improve digestion and to stimulate fat breakdown. Now let me tell you the specific drink that I have been drinking every morning that I am obsessed with,” she says. “Not only does the ginger within the drink help support healthy immune function and circulation, but ginger contains a bioactive compound called gingery, and ginger all help reduce oxidative stress and inflammation.”
Why It’s Important to Boost Metabolism
She goes on to discuss the idea of boosting metabolism. “Metabolism is the umbrella term for all of the processes that keep our body alive. You may have heard the term BMR (basal metabolic rate). This is how many calories our body burns at rest. So, how much energy does it take just for us to sustain life? It would be like if you were in a coma. How many calories is your body burning in order to keep you alive? That is your basal metabolic rate. That is the baseline of your metabolism. So the question becomes, how do we fix that? Well, there are certain aspects of our metabolism that are completely out of our control, like our sex or our age, but there are things that we can do to help support inefficient metabolism,” she says.
Habit 2: Stretching
“The next morning habit that I do is stretching. In 2013, there was a study published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research and it found that dynamic stretching, especially when done in the morning, can enhance your metabolic rate for several hours after the activity because it increases oxygen consumption and improves circulation,” she says.
“When you wake up and begin stretching, you are increasing circulation, increasing blood flow to the muscles, and that increased blood flow is going to deliver more oxygen to the tissues, which is an increase in a metabolic process. When your muscles are warmed and stretched, they are going to utilize energy more efficiently, which means when you engage in your movement soon after, your muscles are primed and ready to go, and your metabolism is too.”
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Habit 3: Meditation
“The next thing I do every morning, and actually this is the first thing that I do in my day, is meditation. It's the very first thing that I do. After brushing my teeth, I take out my retainers, I brush my teeth, and then I meditate,” she says. “This is the first thing that I do every single day, and it actually helps improve and support a healthy, fast metabolism.”
Research Finds Meditation Speeds Up Metabolism
“Study after study shows that meditation helps lower your cortisol. Cortisol is a hormone that is linked to fat storage, specifically fat storage in the abdominal area. So if we are engaging in activities that are going to help lower our cortisol, we're going to encourage our body to store and utilize fat more effectively. When our cortisol is high, the body is more likely to store fat in the stomach region. So engage in that daily meditation.”
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Habit 4: Strength Training
“The next habit is strength training. Once again, I just follow the strength training that's in Slim. I follow my workout plan there, but it is one of the most impactful habits that you can engage in to support a healthy metabolism. Why? Because the more muscle mass you have on your body, the faster your metabolism is,” she says.
Research Finds That Strength Training Is Effective
According to the Mayo Clinic, strength and weight training help reduce body fat, preserve and increase lean muscle mass, and burn calories more efficiently. Strength training may also help you:
- Develop strong bones
- Manage your weight
- Enhance your quality of life
- Manage chronic conditions
- Sharpen your thinking skills
Habit 5: Eat in the Morning
“The last habit is a controversial one, but it does highlight one of my favorite parts of the entire day, which is my morning meal. I love my morning meal with my tea birds chirping,” she says.
“Listen to your hunger. I don't encourage eating if you're not truly hungry and forcing yourself to eat. However, if you find that you're not hungry until the afternoon and then you're engaging and overeating, or you're struggling with your weight, these two things are linked together. If you are not eating all day long and then you start eating in the afternoon and then you can't stop, it's because the state that you've put your body into all morning is a state of famine. Your body thinks that there's a famine. And so then when you actually eat, it signals to the body, oh my goodness, we're in a time of feast. The famine is over. Let's eat, let's eat, let's eat because I wasn't getting anything in earlier in the day,” Emmie says.
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Research Supports Eating Early in the Day
“Studies show that eating in the morning is going to lessen the chances of you overeating later in the day. And that's my big thing here. It's not that eating first thing in and of itself boosts your metabolism. It's that if you're eating more regularly, you are less likely to be overeating and telling your body that food is a scarce resource that it has to hold onto. Again, please don't force yourself to eat and force something down because then you're overeating if you're forcing yourself to eat. That is overeating. But let's try to change your eating schedule so that you are eating more regularly throughout the day,” she says. And if you enjoyed this article, take advantage of these15 Quick Ways to Lose Body Fat Percentage in a Week.
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