Sumo Wrestlers’ Want a Slow Metabolism.
How to increase metabolism is One question Sumo Wrestler’s don’t ask themselves.
Their Tricks for Getting Big:
1. Don’t eat breakfast. Sumo wrestlers never eat breakfast. This is a great way to slow your metabolism way down and will definitely ensure over eating later in the day.
2. Eat only 1-2 meals each day. Sumo wrestlers get up early, work out and then don’t eat until late in the day. This way they will be starving and will eat anything they can grab and in enormous amounts. This ensures a great calorie surplus and maximum weight gain. When you eat a large amount of calories in one sitting, the body will use up what it can and then fill your extra energy reserves for later. When your storage gets full, everything left over is stored directly as fat.
3. Drink beer. Sumo wrestlers drink large amounts of beer with their meals. For a sumo wrestler, the bigger the belly the better!
4. Eat out. Many studies have found that people eating in a restaurant will eat 40% more food and 30% more fat then they would if they were at home. Sumo wrestlers like to distract each other while eating to make sure they don’t notice those “getting full” signals. They also always have someone else cook for them so they don’t pay attention to fat or ingredients.
5. Sleep after eating. When they finish their LARGE meals, the wrestlers will take a long nap. Going to sleep on a full stomach forces the body to store most of the calories as fat because it doesn’t have the ability to metabolize large amounts of food while sleeping.
SO, if you’re NOT a Sumo Wrestler: How To Increase Metabolism
Here are Rules to Live By:
NEVER SKIP BREAKFAST: Break-fast. The first meal of the day jump-starts your metabolic rate. Make it a good one, rich with protein.
I personally don’t want to cook in the mornings. If this is you, grab one of these shakes to begin your day. (trust me, you’ll thank me.)
- Vegetarian, gluten-free & dairy-free Vanilla Protein
- Non GMO, gluten-free, soy-free Chocolate Protein
Eating Protein actually increases levels of the satiety (you feel full). Because we feel fuller longer it could decrease your overall calories and help with cravings.
Protein also causes a ‘thermogenic effect’. Meaning, a high protein intake tends to increase metabolism.
When my husband finished his chemotherapy treatment he (unintentionally) lost 50 pounds. As we were putting the weight back ON him, we had to keep his protein on the lower side otherwise the ‘thermogenic effect’ could happen and he would not gain the weight back.
Losing muscle is often a side effect of weight loss. We don’t want to lose muscle we want to lose body fat. Eating plenty of protein can help prevent muscle loss when you lose weight. But there needs to be a balance with protein and increasing metabolism.
2) ALWAYS EAT AFTER YOUR WORKOUT: Called the “golden hour.” Replenishing your body immediately after exercise keeps your body burning fat and retains your muscle.
3) IF NEEDED HAVE A MEAL BEFORE BED: Your body repairs itself at night when you sleep. Your body can only do this IF you EAT!
If needed, eating one hour before bedtime is fine. Keep the choice of your meal high in protein and keep it clean. No sugars or starches.
Why not eat complex carbohydrates before bed? Complex carbohydrates such as; oatmeal, brown rice or brown pasta are great energy sources. If you eat them before bed they won’t get ‘burned off’; (remember they are energy) so, they will convert into body fat. My suggestion is stop eating complex carbohydrates about 4pm.
4) YOUR METABOLISM: It looks for food every 3 hours. So feed it and keep it as high as possible.
Try to Eat about Every 3 Hours
5) HYDRATION: Drink water throughout the day. Our guideline is drink HALF of your body weight in OUNCES of water daily. (Increase 20% for heat. Increase 20 for exercise.)
6) SLEEP: If you sleep after a meal you may want to eat at least one hour before laying down to sleep. Keep fruits and complex carbohydrates off of your menu before bed. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that adults get at least 7-9 hours of sleep per night. Sleep deprivation may impact your weight loss goals.
When you don’t get enough sleep you are more likely to have larger appetites due to a normal drop of leptin (a hormone that regulates appetite). Leptin is dependent on the amount of sleep we get.
Good sleep, good leptin hormones, good appetite control.
So, eat for healthy living and to keep your metabolism high. Leave the Sumo Wrestler’s diet to the Sumo Wrestlers!
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The Author Heidi Fleming is a Lifestyle Architect. She helps people create a personal blueprint for healthy living and healthy aging. She is a proponent for encouraging others to find their path and stay on their path for healthy living; Clean label living and healthy aging.
