When you run, swim, or bike, increase the intensity of your pace for 30-second intervals, before returning to your normal speed after. This will help you take in more oxygen and make your mitochondria, your cell powerhouses, work harder to burn energy, Mark Hyman, MD, an integrative and functional medicine specialist in private practice in Lenox, Massachusetts, and author of Ultra metabolism : The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss , tells Health . A nice perk of this move: You can exercise for less time than usual and still see great results. If you slash how many calories you take in, your metabolism thinks food is scarce and slows down to try to conserve your energy, and puts the breaks on fat-burning to conserve energy, Hyman explains. To keep your metabolism revved up while trying to lose weight you’ll want to make sure you have enough calories to at least match your resting metabolic rate. That's about 1,330 calories for a 5-feet-4-inch, 150-pound, 40-year-old woma...
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