But if despite this, you think you have a metabolism that works against you, let’s evaluate together all the things that can slow down the metabolism.

WHAT MAKES METABOLISM SLOW DOWN

1. We don’t eat enough.

   If you keep cutting calories, there comes a time when a problem with metabolic efficiency arises . With this phenomenon we mean that mechanism by which the body makes enough calories, lowering the energy demand in many respects. From the reduction of the basal metabolic rate to the reduction of energy expenditure with certain activities, so if, for example, you used to burn 300 calories an hour while walking, now you burn half of them.
   The metabolism as I have already told you tends to regulate itself: we can slow down the metabolism if we eat little, raise it if we eat more but better. Here, here you are at the “slower if we eat little” phase. You have to burn more, not ingest (so much) less.
   See what to do to achieve greater metabolic flexibility,that is, a faster metabolism.

2. We are subjected to too many obesogenic agents.

   These include pesticides, but also the plastics we use to cook food, cosmetics, detergents.
   Two studies, one from Canada and the other from the US, confirm that pesticides and other substances can alter our metabolism.

3. We are training too much

   We spend hours doing activities such as running and treadmills to burn calories, but as in the first case, even in this one there is a risk on the one hand of progressively reducing the lean mass, on the other hand, through an increase in stress, of reaching that state. of metabolic efficiency that I mentioned in the first point.

4. We are targeting the wrong foods to lose weight

   Here we mean: wrong for us. For example, if I have a sensitivity towards some fibers, I do not tolerate certain additives, I have problems with substances defined as anti-nutrients, but I continue to eat these foods, the result is that a state of intestinal inflammation is created which in the long run, acting on the metabolism and on the immune system, leads to swelling and even extra pounds.

   So if we have: problems with a swollen stomach, difficulty digesting, bloating, water retention, problems with intestinal regularity, it is advisable to keep a food diary in which we associate adverse symptoms with each food. Let’s try to eliminate the foods that cause us more intestinal discomfort.

5. We get too much fat and too many carbohydrates in the same meal but also throughout the day.

   Carbohydrates and fats don’t get along. Both provide energy, but with a difference. For the Randle cycle, the body will burn first the carbohydrates for energy purposes, then the fats, which however are temporarily stored.

   So when we eat carbohydrates and we are having an important meal such as lunch or dinner or breakfast, we reduce fat and vice versa. This does not mean eliminating them completely, but one of the reasons why snacks and biscuits make you fat are not only the calories or the fact that they are not very satiating, but that they contain a lot of fat in addition to sugars.

6. We drink. 

   Alcohol makes our metabolism worse , especially if we don’t drink once in a while but do it frequently. If you have this habit, it is useless to cut calories elsewhere to indulge in hard alcohol, because it is the hard alcohol that damages you, even if it falls within the daily calories.

7. We eat a lot of nutrient-poor foods.

   There are deficiencies, such as that of B vitamins or calcium, which in the long run cause the body to accumulate more body fat. Calories matter, but if I don’t feed my body nutrients I will always tend to be hungrier than I should.