Help boost metabolism

Klm1702

Lady Member
Joined
Jun 5, 2017
Messages
6
Reaction score
0
Points
1
Hi I'm female and disabled, I've put on a lot of weight due to disability. Any advice on what I can do to boost my metabolism? Need to lose weight but can't exercise so please can someone offer practical advice?

thanks
 

PillarofBalance

Elite
SI Founding Member
Joined
Feb 6, 2012
Messages
20,402
Reaction score
18,204
Points
0
Hi I'm female and disabled, I've put on a lot of weight due to disability. Any advice on what I can do to boost my metabolism? Need to lose weight but can't exercise so please can someone offer practical advice?

thanks

What's actually wrong with your metabolism? If your disability involves a hyperactive thyroid go see a doc.

Otherwise just eat less
 

Megatron28

Elite
Joined
Dec 19, 2013
Messages
704
Reaction score
619
Points
93
Are you able to lift weights in some fashion. Adding muscle increases your metabolism and causes you to burn more calories all the time -- not just while exercising.

An EC Stack will increase your metabolism


But none of this will make much of a dent unless you get your diet under control. Do you track what you eat daily and have macronutrient targets? Do you know what your TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) is?
 

Solomc

Elite
Joined
May 16, 2017
Messages
674
Reaction score
373
Points
43
Eat clean and you will turn your body into a fat burning machine.
 

BigSwolePump

Elite
Joined
Apr 1, 2017
Messages
4,012
Reaction score
4,832
Points
193
A clean diet combined with a caloric deficit will burn fat just as easy as exercise if you do it correctly.
 

Klm1702

Lady Member
Joined
Jun 5, 2017
Messages
6
Reaction score
0
Points
1
What's actually wrong with your metabolism? If your disability involves a hyperactive thyroid go see a doc.

Otherwise just eat less

My hips, pelvis and lower back are all broken (long story) so it's hard for me to move hence I hobble about not very far in my house so due to being so slow I'm not burning any calories, I have an Apple Watch and my energy monitor never moves. As for food), I barely eat anything (no appetite)
What's a stack? I guess I could get hand weights for my arms. When you say eat clean what do you mean by that? I make smoothies sometimes but even the prep and standing takes it out of me. There's no fix for the problems I have so how do I lose weight when I'm not burning any calories?
 

Jin

Retired UG Staff
Joined
Jan 20, 2017
Messages
13,853
Reaction score
22,715
Points
441
My hips, pelvis and lower back are all broken (long story) so it's hard for me to move hence I hobble about not very far in my house so due to being so slow I'm not burning any calories, I have an Apple Watch and my energy monitor never moves. As for food), I barely eat anything (no appetite)
What's a stack? I guess I could get hand weights for my arms. When you say eat clean what do you mean by that? I make smoothies sometimes but even the prep and standing takes it out of me. There's no fix for the problems I have so how do I lose weight when I'm not burning any calories?

That sucks.

There are some pretty jacked and lean dudes in wheelchairs. Is your disability worse than a paraplegic? If not I'd say look up some of their workouts. Any plan will include eating less calories than your burn. So you're either going to have to burn some calories or eat next to nothing.
 

widehips71

Elite
Joined
Dec 14, 2013
Messages
1,528
Reaction score
1,037
Points
113
Staying hydrated can help keep your metabolic rate up. And caffeine. Outside of building muscle mass and increasing heart rate during exercise, there's not a whole lot that science supports in this topic.
 

Summer

Lady Member
Joined
Jun 6, 2017
Messages
22
Reaction score
2
Points
0
Small meals often throughout the day, and keep it all unprocessed so stick to small amounts of lean meats (chicken/kangaroo/turkey etc) with lots of veggies, id probably myself do the following -
9am 1/2 cup rolled oats with 1/2 scoop protein powder with 1 cup blueberries
11am 80g chicken breast with 2 cups broccoli
1pm 2-4 cups mixed salad leaves with 100g white fish
3pm 80g kangaroo with 2 cups mixed veggies
5pm 1/2 banana with 1/2 scoop protein powder with 10g almonds
7pm 80g turkey with 2 cups mixed veggies

Or something along those lines.
 

widehips71

Elite
Joined
Dec 14, 2013
Messages
1,528
Reaction score
1,037
Points
113
Small meals often throughout the day


This has nothing to do with metabolic rate though. What you're referring to is something called Thermic Effect of Food, which is the amount of calories used when digesting. What people fail to understand is that it is relative to the calorie content, not frequency. There's a whole bunch of math involved to show my point but I'm to lazy to do it right now.
 

New Threads

Top