How to Increase Your Metabolism ..

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Understand what metabolism is. In the simplest terms, metabolism is the rate at which your body burns calories. Very few people have a fast metabolism.  A faster metabolism will enable you to lose more weight than a person with the same activity level, diet, and weight.

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   Determine what is influencing your metabolism. There are some factors that you can control and change, and some factors that you can't.
   
• Age - Metabolic rate decreases 5% each decade, after the age of 40 ^[2], partly because of decreased muscle mass.
• Gender - Men generally burn calories more quickly than women because they have more muscle tissue.^[2]
• Heredity - You can inherit your metabolic rate from previous generations.^[2]
• Thyroid disorder - Hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid gland) andhyperthyroidism (overactive thyroid gland) can slow down or speed up metabolism, but only 3% and .3% of the population have hypo- and hyperthyroidism respectively.
• Weight - different tissues of your body contribute different amounts to resting metabolism. Muscle contributes more than fat per unit mass and, because it is denser than fat, muscle contributes much more per unit volume ^[2], but this may not be practically significant ^[3]. See "Weight training" below.

3 Eat small, frequent meals. Extending the time between meals makes your body go into "starvation mode," which decreases your metabolism as a means to conserve energy and prevent starvation. While some people are able to lose weight through intermittent fasting, most people generally eat less overall when they eat small, frequent meals. In addition to having four to six small meals per day^[6] eating healthy snacks will also increase metabolism