How to burn calories while doing nothing

Be like this, But don't look like this!

Are you not getting the results at the gym you want? Are you sick of seeing all of the buff guys and lean gals sitting around socializing while your busting your butt and it seems like they have the results when you don’t? There is nothing more discouraging then to stay in envy of others when you are doing all of the work. What you need to do is realize that you are  hamster and you need to jump off of the wheel. Stop working that much.  Don’t only work your body. Let your body work for you! That’s right, you should work your body a little bit, but most of the time…the body does the work!

Metabolic Rate is the rate at which the body burns up calories. A body that consumes 2500 calories a day, and burns 2500 calories a day will stay at the same weight. A body consuming 2500 calories daily but burning only 2000 will gain weight at the rate of about one pound a week.

You can do quite a lot to speed up your metabolism — the secret of burning calories lies in knowing what determines your metabolic rate and what you can do to influence it.

You burn calories to provide energy for three main functions:

1. Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)
This is the amount of calories you burn just by being alive — even when you are lying down, doing nothing. BMR accounts for approximately 60 percent of the calories burned for an average person.

2. Burning Calories for Activity
This is the energy used during movement — from lifting your arm to operate the remote control to cleaning the windows. This accounts for approximately 30 percent of the calories burned by an average person.

3. Dietary Thermogenesis
The “thermogenic effect” described as meal-induced heat production — the calories burned in the process of eating, digesting, absorbing and using food.

So what? Well here is what you can do to prepare your body to work for you…WHILE YOU DO NOTHING!:

1) Build Muscle
Increase the amount of muscle in your body. The more of it you have, the more your calories your body will automatically burn. For every extra pound of muscle you put on, your body uses around 50 extra calories a day. In a recent study, researchers found that regular weight training boosts basal metabolic rate by about 15 percent. This is because muscle is metabolically active and burns more calories than other body tissue even when you are not moving. Training with weights just 3 times a week for around 20 minutes is enough to build muscle. Not only will you be burning more calories, you will look better — whatever your weight.

2) Eat Spicy Food
There is evidence to show that spices, especially chilli, can raise the metabolic rate by up to 50 percent for up to three hours after you have eaten a spicy meal. Drinks containing caffeine also stimulate the metabolism, as does green tea.

3) Eat negative Calories!

As nutrition consultant Jessica Campos of Wellsphere writes:

Instead of having empty calories, increase your consumption in negative calories. What are negative calorie foods? They’re foods that basically must burn more calories than the food contains to digest them. What that means, in theory, is that since you end up with a negative calorie count, you are helping your body to lose weight. Remember that one needs to burn more calories than one consumes to lose weight. This is a proven scientific fact.

When it comes to burning calories, here is a very interesting fact- ice water. It keeps you full, flushes out your body, and …. it’s a scientific fact that it burns calories. Really. It’s a few calories here and there with all honesty, but every one counts, right? Your body works harder to digest that cold water than say room temperature water.

Negative calorie foods… to combine

Alfalfa Sprouts- put them in your salad.
Apples, Clementines, Cranberries, Grapefruits- add some to your oatmeal, mix them with yogurt, or just add them to your salad.
Apricots- it’s a great source of natural sweetener also.
Carrots, Cauliflower, Broccoli, Cabbage, Asparagus, Green Beans, Zucchini- with your meat. No butter!
Blackberries- mix them with yogurt.
Celery- with apples and fat free blue cheese (organic and no sugar)- it’s an awesome salad.
Mushrooms- white omelet with mushrooms and natural bbq it’s a great breakfast.
Onions- with spinach salad.
Papayas, Peaches, Pineapple, Plums, Prunes, Strawberries, Tangerines, Watermelon- great mixers or alone, are just perfect.
Peppers
Seltzer Water
Tomatoes, Turnips

4) Increase your EPOC!

Excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC) is a measurably increased rate of oxygen intake following strenuous activity intended to erase the body’s “oxygen debt.”

Maximize your heart rate and your body burns em’ for you!

In recovery, oxygen (EPOC) is used in the processes that restore the body to a resting state and adapt it to the exercise just performed. These include: hormone balancing, replenishment of fuel stores, cellular repair, innervation, and anabolism.

EPOC is accompanied by an elevated consumption of fuel. In response to exercise, fat stores are broken down and free fatty acids (FFA) are released into the blood. In recovery, the direct oxidation of free fatty acids as fuel and, the energy consuming re-conversion of FFA’s back into fat stores (a futile cycle) both take place.

The EPOC effect is greatest soon after the exercise is completed and decays to a lesser level over time. One experiment found EPOC increasing metabolic rate to an excess level that decays to 13% 3 hours after exercise, and 4% after 16 hours. Another study, specifically designed to test if the effect existed for more than 16 hours, conducted tests for 48 hours after the conclusion of the exercise and found measurable effect existed up to the 38 hour post-exercise measurement