Metabolism Mayhem!

I LOVE using formula's and logic to lose weight, cause thats me. A pound is 3500 calories, so if I cut 3500 calories a week from what my body needs to maintain, then I lose that much. LOGIC. LOVE IT. But sometimes people do that and lose even MORE, why....because of their metabolism. So I'm BIG into reading on metabolisms. I know that my yo-yo dieting during college probably really messed it up big time....so I like learning how to fix it.

These are things I KNOW can fix your metabolism:

• Frequent small meals
• ALWAYS eat breakfast
• Work out in the morning
• add a second smaller workout or walk mid day to re-rev it
• Intervals when working out are HUGE (confusing your body)
• Get 8 hours of sleep

Along with loving my logic and my math, I'm a reader, and I know you shouldn't believe everything you read, but I overheard a trainer telling one of his clients to read the new posting on the wall. So of course I did. And I believed it!

It listed some of the above ways to boost your metabolism. BUT it had a number one I had not read before:

When we drop our calories to a certain number and eat that each day, our body gets used to that, and SLOWS its metabolic burn rate (adjusted on what we are eating). To prevent this from happening you should find your "maintain" number of calories (which I've done with my formula) On 3 days a week, eat that amount of calories, and on the OTHER days, drop your calories by 20-30% of that number. The thing is you can't do it every other day, or anything your body can get "used" to, predict or adjust to. It needs to be random. (They suggested flipping a coin in the morning and heads is maintain, tails is lower)

That made a TON of sense to me. I am definitely going to try this.