Raise your hand who, whenever the diet does not give the desired results or who, having the impression of eating little or nothing (often it is just an impression), has put on an extra pound instead of “wasting”, thinks of have a slow metabolism problem .
So many huh? It is an often unfounded thought, but one that comes commonly to everyone.

If we wanted to know how much we consume with our basal metabolism, just to get rid of the thought, the internet would help us little : you can find many tables by typing ” calculation of the basal metabolic rate “, but the results can be very precise, because they are based on objective parameters (height , weight, age, gender, type of activity) that you provide, but nothing can tell you about those physiological variations that change from subject to subject, and which depend on our phenotype. If we really wanted to be fussy, the tool that allows us to know how much we and only we burn at rest, that is our basal metabolism, then we should resort to the calorimeter or the calorimetric chamber . This is an exam that takes half an hourgives us the long-awaited response .

Yes, but then what? Assuming that the calorimeter’s answer is convincing and that we have ascertained that we have a metabolism like everyone else (otherwise it would be better to consult your doctor), spending a little money on it, the basic question remains: but why then I don’t lose weight ? There are two answers:
– because without realizing it I’m eating a lot
– because I don’t move enough
Then obviously the expert will be able to motivate: you don’t eat the right foods, you move but not like this and like that, and so on.
But let’s cut the bull’s head and make a serious purchase right away , without even examining the calorimeter: let’s buy a nice wrist calorie counter. A heart rate monitor . One of those things you step, cough, scratch behind your ears and tell you that you have spent zero point eight calories. It is often a pedometer , in the sense that it has a pedometer function, so it is valid if we use it for walking, running, etc. However, it would give us an idea of ​​how much we actually burn by moving, and then hit our face with the bitter, bitter truth : to burn calories you have to move, really move. We are often lazy, slow as hell, we do the least and our metabolism goes lazy. There are often no other reasons.