RMR is the key to flatten your belly

With a few lifestyle changes you can flatten your belly. Changing your diet to include more fresh vegetables and making sure you are getting enough sleep is important. But exercise is what drives metabolism and metabolism is what drives weight gain or loss.

RMR or Resting Metabolic Rate is the Key

You know that you control your weight by yourself. No one else is forcing you to eat or drink anything. No one else is forcing you to sit and watch TV. But do you know how to change your metabolism? Most important, do you know how to change your Resting Metabolic Rate?

What is RMR or Resting Metabolic Rate?

RMR is measure of how many calories you use when you aren\'t moving. It is the rate you burn calories while watching TV. Your body burns calories 24/7. It is possible to eat something that takes more calories to chew and digest than it adds to the body.

One of the factors that affects our RMR is age. That is because as we age generally we lose muscle mass as we become more sedentary. It does not have to be this way. Just keep on moving that body to retain muscle mass. If you have been sedentary for many years then you must rebuild the muscle mass.

Compare your RMR to a candle. No movement is just a small flickering flame. Sitting or standing turns that into a large flame. Start moving around and you have a torch. Your metabolic rate remains high for a while after you stop moving. In about a hour you are back to RMR. You want that RMR high enough to burn stored fat.

Your main goal right now is to flatten your belly. Fine, but you must consider the body as a whole. Walking can tone the whole body while free weights can build muscle mass in specific areas. RMR is determined by muscle mass.

To gain that lighter weight and healthier life your must increase your RMR. Thin people can have a bulging belly. You need muscle and you need to exercise those core muscles to hold that belly in. Work on your posture, sitting tall and standing tall with stomach sucked in to touch your back bone. Any time you use a muscle you increase your RMR over time.

The Distended Belly and Colas

Have you noticed that your stomach is flatter in the morning? By the end of the day is it back to the bulging flab?

I have a couple of thoughts for you. One -- are you drinking colas or other fizzy drinks. If so, stop just stop now.

That refreshing fizzy drink is eating your stomach and esophagus. The carbonation causes the stomach to swell and can push food and drink back up into the esophagus - acid reflux. Consider that the constant stress on the esophagus can lead to cancer. We won't even go into the sugar you are consuming or is it the liver destroying sugar substitute.

The other reason has something to do with why you are shorter at night that you are in the morning. Gravity. And exercise. Are you at least trying to hold that stomach area in? When sitting do you suck in your stomach trying to touch your back bone at least 20 times a day.

I published a post on Binge Eating but it way down the list because of the draft date. Click the link to check it out. I talk about 2 supplements to burn fat.

until next time
Sharon
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