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with it, our ability to burn body fat regulate" your metabolic rate, and
also drops. That's why it becomes your body will hold onto and store
harder to take the weight off and additional body fat. Our goal then
easier to put it on the older we get is to help you understand which
(and that doesn't just mean when lifestyle factors you can alter to
we're "old" but when we're merely give you complete control over
past the age of 25). For this reason your thermostat… (In other words,
alone, it can seem literally show you how to "up-regulate"
impossible to shed unwanted body your metabolism to get and stay
fat, despite the amount of time we lean.)
spend in the gym and how steadfast
we remain on a diet. "Our goal then is to help you
understand which lifestyle factors
you can alter to give you complete
control over your thermostat… (In
other words, show you how to "up-
Why is the regulate" your metabolism to get
and stay lean.)"
Metabolism so There are five distinct factors that
Important? have been scientifically shown to
have a dramatic effect on the
Even the slightest upward "shift" in metabolism. Typically, we tend to
the metabolic rate can have a pay little attention to these simple
profound, lasting effect on our yet powerfully effective lifestyle
ability to burn body fat for fuel, factors that can influence the
instead of the dreaded alternative— metabolism. So, to help you
storing it as fat. discover which obstacles are
defeating your attempts to lose
body fat as well as to learn how to
Think of your body as having a
thermostat you can turn "up" or positively "up-regulate" your
"down" by modifying specific metabolism, we've provided a list
lifestyle factors. Turn the of common challenges on the
thermostat up, or "up-regulate" following pages for each of the five
your metabolic rate, to burn body metabolic factors.
fat at a much faster rate. Turn the
thermostat down, or "down-
