by Tommy Fassbender

Created on: March 01, 2009

If you've tried to lose weight before you are probably too familiar with the numerous roadblocks that can prevent your from losing weight. Your weight loss plans can be railroaded by tempting junk food, emotional issues, boredom, failure to exercise and genetics. But do you know that your metabolism has a lot to do with how much weight you lose?

Yes, that's right. Simply put, your metabolism is a chemical process that involves the conversion of food into fuel and the rate at which your body burns food/calories. Your metabolic rate is important to your weight loss plans because it determines the amount of calories you are able to burn. The higher your metabolic rate the more calories you burn. And the more calories you burn, the more you lose weight.

So for the best weight loss results try to avoid the roadblocks that keep you from losing weight. Instead, try to increase the ways to speed up your metabolism so that you can lose weight. Here are five ways you can speed up your metabolism and lose weight:

1. Eat Breakfast

One way to speed up your metabolism and lose weight is to eat breakfast. You should not skip breakfast when you are trying t lose weight. That's because skipping breakfast actually causes your body to store fat, not burn it. When you don't eat for more than eight hours your body goes into "starvation mode" and begins to store fat in order to protect itself. So skipping out on breakfast regularly during a weight loss regimen will create the opposite effects. Besides, when you skip breakfast you are more than likely to pig out at lunch.

2. Increase your protein intake

Increasing your protein intake will speed up your metabolic rate and help you lose weight. Protein is the hardest nutrient to burn, so you burn more calories getting rid of them. Experts believe that eating more protein can boost your metabolic tare and help you lose weight by burning about 150 to 200 calories a day. So try to include more chicken, fish, lean meats and nuts to your weight loss plan.

3. Eat smaller meals frequently

By eating smaller meals frequently you can help to speed up your metabolic rate and lose weight. Try to eat six small meals a day instead of the usual three meals a day. Eating small meals at an interval of three hours will help your metabolic rate to adjust to burning calories every three hours, instead of the long time span between breakfast, lunch and dinner. The longer you take to eat, the more your body stores fat, so snack throughout the day and "trick" your

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