by Wayne K. Wilkins

Created on: July 24, 2008   Last Updated: August 05, 2008

Increasing your metabolism can be a crucial step to achieving your weight loss goals, and what is better, it is very easy to increase making your goal oh-so closer to grasp!

A healthy and active metabolism is the key to the door of weight loss. From shedding those excess pounds to keeping them off, the entire weight loss process is dependable on the speed of your metabolism. Quite simply, the metabolism is a chemical process inside of the body, which controls your energy levels based on your lifestyle and your dietary routine. For example, someone who is a housewife with minimal exercise and minimal work in their daily routine will often have a naturally slower metabolism than a builder who works from 9 to 5 will will. Of course, in a lot of the cases, the speed of your metabolism is based on your genetics, but there are plenty of ways to "play God" so to speak with your genes in order to speed up your metabolism for the better.

For those of you who have been reading my work the past year and a half on Helium, you will know that throughout 2006 and 2007 I was battling with weight issues. Last June I weighed in excess of 14 stone. Not only did I look bad in the mirror, I felt bad in myself which affected my confidence levels and my mental stability. I was afraid to go outside and get a proper social life and in general I just felt horrible. The one way I would make myself feel better was by eating and drinking excess of unhealthy food, comfort food one may say. Of course, I was also sleeping in and missing the most important meal of the day, breakfast, and lacking greatly in healthy meals. This was NOT the way to maintain a healthy metabolism.

Closing in on the New Year I decided I wanted to make a change. In November of 2007 I purchased a multi-gym and a treadmill and decided that come the New Year I would start to train and change my ways as my New Year's resolution. We are now in July of 2008 and I am down to a lean, muscular and toned 9 stone 10 pounds and feel better than I have ever felt in my life. I owe all of my success in the weight loss process thanks to the immense build up of my metabolism. Despite what you may think, it is actually a very easy process to increase; it just takes a bit of time, effort and willpower. However, in all honesty, in reality all that it takes is the ability to get out of bed in the morning.

As I stated earlier, breakfast is the most important meal of the day for a very good reason. After a general and healthy 8 hour sleeping

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