You've heard the old saying that if you want to make money you have to spend money, of course! Did you know a similar idea applies to increasing your metabolism? If you want to boost your calorie burning rate and help your body run leaner, and more efficiently, the good news is you have to feed it regularly. You have to eat to lose weight.

While that sounds brilliant and seems to back up to those commercials on television that tell you with a miraculous pill you too can eat anything you want to and still lose weight, there is a bit more to it than that. The trick to eating your way to a more efficient metabolism is to eat frequently and to eat the right kind of foods.

The idea behind the eat to lose weight concept is deceptively simple: If your body eats in regular, shortish intervals, your metabolism and digestive systems keep working too. If you skip meals or fast to lose weight, your body tends to throw the switch on energy conserve mode. This means your metabolism slows down and calorie burning is slowed rather than helped by meal skipping or starving.

Many experts now recommend eating a small meal every four hours or so while awake. This helps keeps the bodies metabolism at its peak. If sensible mini meal choices are chosen and combined with a bit of exercise, like a regular walk, the total impact on the metabolism is quite impressive.