Yesterday I mentioned about how some people will tell you that eating breakfast will “stoke your metabolism”.
Or maybe something will “boost” or “reset” said metabolism.
Maybe the form of exercise that they’re trying to sell you will “turn you into a fat burning machine for up to 72 hours afterwards”.
Sounds lovely doesn’t it?
I don’t even know what it could possibly mean though.
Our metabolism can be defined as “all the physical and chemical processes in the body that convert or use energy”.
And, if we think about it, what we’re really saying when we’re claiming something will “boost” a metabolism………
Is that we will use more energy for something when all else is equal.
So we do the exact same amount of physical activity and in-body processes………
But, for some reason, that uses more energy than it did before.
How could that be a thing?
How would it work?
What are the actual mechanisms for energy transfer that would be going on here?
Where would the energy be going to?
Why have the basic rules of physics stopped applying?
If changing something makes us feel better in some way and we are, therefore, more active………
That wasn’t our metabolism being boosted…….
It was us being more active.
If some sort of food stuff is less calorie dense and / or we find it easir to eat less of it………..
That wasn’t our metabolism being boosted…….
It was us consuming less.
And all of those things are considerations.
If making some changes enables us to consume less energy and or use more………
Then that’s awesome.
But none of that means it did anything to our metabolism.
And thinking it does just adds an extra layer of confusion and difficulty to the changes we could make (simple, straightforward and relatively easy to do is what our approach is all about —> www.myrise.co.uk/apply)
Much love,
Jon ‘On Trent’ Hall
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RISE in Macclesfield was established in 2012 and specialise in Group Personal Training weight loss programmes for those that don’t like the gym and find diets boring and restrictive!
