Weight Loss And Women: 5 Simple Ways to Boost Metabolism After 40

Weight Loss And Women: How to enhance metabolism after 40? Boost your metabolism at any age by following these simple lifestyle tips.

Your body turns the food and liquid you consume into energy through a process known as metabolism. This process releases the energy your body requires to function by combining oxygen and calories in meals and beverages. Your metabolic rate affects how quickly you burn calories, which affects both how quickly you lose weight and how easily you gain weight. A good diet by alone is insufficient to maintain the excess weight off at this age since specific hormone levels start to drop. Additionally, we are now frequently exposed to chemicals, the food we purchase is losing nutrients, and we are less active than we once were.

HOW TO IMPROVE METABOLISM IN THE LATE 40s?

1. Physical Activity: Include yoga, weight training, being active throughout the day, any form of sport, walking, jogging or swimming four-five days a week.
2. Healthy Diet: Eating at least 30 to 40 grams of dietary fibre, fermented-rich food (pro, prebiotics) every day.
3. Stay Hydrated: Drinking two to three litres of water, and herbal tea (including herbs, and spices).
4. Sleep Enough: Ensure to have seven to nine hours of uninterrupted sleep every night.
5. Stay Close to Nature: Expose oneself to the five elements of nature including sunlight, earth, water, space, and air.

HOW TO MANAGE WEIGHT IN THE LATE 40s?

1. Being active in the form of any physical activity can be a simple step too.
2. Intermittent fasting or fasting once a week with more rest periods
3. Eating a fibre-rich diet.
4. Practice mindful eating.
5. Set a regular sleep schedule, if the sleep cycle is varied, especially in women, it affects the hormonal regulation activity in the body which might increase body weight.
6. Drinking water. Try to do mouthful drinking, where you leave the water in your mouth for about 30 seconds.
7. Get into the habit of prioritising themselves.

FOOD HABITS TO BE WATCHFUL FOR IN YOUR LATE 40s

Did you know that calorie restriction to the point of famine also decreases metabolism? Instead of starving AVOID salty, sugary food, and dairy food products. Intake of saturated fat and animal protein. In addition to this, be cautious to avoid including processed, refined, junk, grilled, and other food kinds in your diet.

• Processed Food: When ingredients such as oil, sugar, and salt, are added to food and packed (Eg. simple bread, cheese, tofu, canned tuna)
• Refined Food: Foods that have been processed in some way or changed (white bread, rice, noodles, cakes, flavoured yoghurt)
• Grilled Food: A form of cooking that involves dry heat applied to the surface of food commonly above, below or at the sides.
• Fried Snacks: Food cooked in a pan that contains hot fat or oil.
• Food Additives: Substances added to food to preserve or enhance taste, appearance or other sensory qualities.
• Food Preservatives: Prevent the growth of micro-organisms such as yeast, and slows the oxidation of fat that cause rancidity (packed refrigerated, frozen, canned, dried food).
• Junk Food: High in calories from sugar, fat, and sodium with little or no dietary fibre, protein, vitamins, and minerals (cakes, biscuits, hot chips, burgers, pizzas, sugary drinks, sweetened caffeine drinks. alcoholic drinks, gluten-rich food etc.).
• Refined Oils: Soya bean oil, corn oil, cottonseed oil, sunflower oil, peanut oil, palm oil, rice bran oil.

When you know how to improve your metabolism after 40, you may simply enhance your energy levels and lead a productive life.

(with IANS inputs)