metabolism

from prevention.com

Our fat fighting diet and exercise plan will help you drop major pounds at any age You probably don't need scientists to tell you that your metabolism slows with age. But they're studying it anyway--and coming up with exciting new research to help rev it up again. The average woman gains 1 1/2 pounds a year during her adult life--enough to pack on 40-plus pounds by her 50s, if she doesn't combat the roller coaster of hormones, muscle loss, and stress that conspires to slow her fat-burning engine. We've found a plan that will tackle all these.

from menshealth.com

Your step-by-step plan for losing the last 10 and revealing your abs Any man can tell you: Dropping a few pounds is one thing; becoming Brad Pitt-in-Fight Club lean is quite another. Which is why you'll never mistake Jared Fogle for Tyler Durden.

from ediets.com

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

Have you been trying to lose body fat, but find it comes off at a snail's pace? Tired of losing a pound a month as you exercise and diet your brains out?

from fitsugar.com

Most of what controls your metabolism is not under your control, some folks have fast metabolisms and others have slow ones. Also, as we age our metabolism slows down. Scientists have estimated that metabolism slows about 5 percent per decade, beginning at age 40 as we lose muscle mass and increase body fat.

I can identify with the platueau problem. You're trying to lose weight or stick with an exercise plan, (or both) and everything is going fine...until suddenly, it isn't. All of your carefully wrought methods of rewards for increments of success, your altered schedules to fit the fitness in, the dietary adventures you've taken in search of better nutrition that's less filling. They all begin to falter in the face of The Plateau.

There are steps you can take, and Monica Neave, BellaOnline's Weight Loss Editor, identifies them--point by point--in an article that has much to offer men and woman. Part cheerleader, part personal trainer, part dietician, she gives us hope and hints. That's fitness news I can use.