Basal metabolic rate is the amount of energy your body needs to maintain normal function while at rest. If you can increase your basal metabolic rate, you can increase your body's capability of burning more calories while at rest, making it less likely that your body will store fat. How do we do this? Let's start with your diet. Have you ever consumed a large meal and felt very tired and sleepy afterward? Chances are the meal contained a lot of fat and/or a lot of hard-to- digest foods which decreases your basal metabolic rate. What happens is the body has to break down the food you ate, and if it's a high fat meal and/or food that is hard to digest, it will take a considerable amount of energy and time to break down those fats and/or foods so that they can either be used by the body, or stored in the adipose tissue. Look at your body as a machine. By feeding it a high-fat meal and/or hard-to-digest foods, you just gave it a lot of work to do, therefore leaving you with not too much energy. This type of meal lowers your basal metabolic rate, increasing the chances of fat storage at rest. It is better to eat whole-unprocessed nutritious foods your body can utilize without much effort, meaning the less fat and/or hard-to-digest foods your diet contains the better.

The most effective way I have ever seen to raise your basal metabolic rate is to juice and/or eat fresh fruits and vegetables without eating any meats whatsoever. Juicing every couple of hours or so will allow your basal metabolic rate to hit the roof! You will have enough energy to do your daily activities and then some. Some people claim they need only four hours of sleep per night while on this type of diet. Also, the amount of weight loss you can achieve in conjunction with the workout routine is extraordinary. The only down side to this diet is you must be very disciplined but it will definitely increase your basal metabolic rate. However, it takes a lot of time and effort to juice pounds of fruits and vegetables per day. You must also juice enough calories so that you keep up your energy level. If you feel you are disciplined enough to do such a diet, this is definitely the way to go. You will see results in weight loss so fast that you will not believe your eyes! Here is the reason. After you consume fresh juice from fruits and vegetables, it takes only a few minutes for the nutrients to enter your bloodstream, making them available for energy almost instantly. Your body's digestive system does not have to work, leaving energy to do other things, like burn fat! There are numerous other benefits from juicing. Some claim healing of incurable diseases is possible, making this the choice for those who are ill.

Let's talk about other ways to raise your basal metabolic rate. Do  anything you can do to speed up the digestive process, like chewing your food very well so that the stomach does not have to work as hard. Also eating slowly allows tasting of the food, therefore causing your stomach to release enzymes necessary for digestion of the particular food you may be eating. So eat slow and chew your food very well.

Now the fun part, exercise! Working out at a moderate intensity with resistance weight, followed by a good 20-45-minute fat-burning session will definitely raise your basal metabolic rate. In fact, statistics say up to 50 percent more than doing either one by itself. Adding lean muscle mass through resistance training is another great way to increase your basal metabolic rate. Other ways would be taking a fat-burning supplement that contains caffeine, or some other type of stimulant. The downside to this of course is the dependency, and once the stimulant is stopped, you will feel like you were just ran over, meaning you will have no energy. After you stop taking such a stimulant your body's basal metabolic rate will drop well below satisfactory measures-some experts say so low in fact making you prone to gaining fat at almost three times the rate as before you started the supplement.

Now that you know what lowers and raises your basal metabolic rate, choose the best way to raise yours, and most of all stick with it! After all, your basal metabolic rate is your best tool when it comes to burning fat day in and day out!

So many people try to lose weight on their own and unfortunately suffer the consequences by negatively altering their metabolism, thyroid, and hormonal function. When this occurs weight loss becomes impossible and no diets will work.

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