If you're worrying about gaining weight a few of months after you quit, you're not alone. Here are a couple of processes to study.

The dieting method

We all know that if we eat less calories, we will initially lose weight. Unless we burn calories, the weight loss will consist of lean muscle tissue and water. Our metabolic rate is the rate at which our body uses calories, or fuel. The metabolic rate is altered by many things, such as what we eat. If we were trying to just decrease our caloric intake, our bodies would go into survival mode. In survival mode, our bodies try to conserve as much fuel as it can and therefore try to keep as much fat as possible. Our bodies actually try to store fat. Lean muscle tissue is then burnt for fuel. What this in fact does is decrease the metabolic rate. This results in no fat burning.

The weight loss method

What we need to do is intensify our metabolic rate. Our bodies have to receive the message to burn fat instead. Muscle tissues are made of cells that use fuel. Fat cells are inert, they don't need any energy. Muscles burn fat as fuel in their calorie burning job, and need a constant supply. The more they employed, the more they burn, even during our sleep. So the method to stop using the wrong type of fuel is to have the muscles burn fat as fuel. The main way is through exercise. The muscle tissue we build, the more the fat the tissues will burn.

How to increase fat-burning

A study at Laval University established that you can burn calories nine times faster by applying a 'burst' trick to your exercise. Let's Suppose you choose walking as your preferred exercise. Walk at your regular rythm, and somewhere during the walk, walk faster for twenty seconds or so, to the point you have to breath faster. This is an interval training many fat loss experts recommend.

Building muscle tissue

Aerobic exercise, and particularly weight training, resistance, and strength training will increase muscle tissue. You can do a little by using cans of food from your cupboard for a few minutes every day, while you're in the kitchen waiting for water to boil, for instance. Put on some rhythmic music, set the microwave or oven timer for a couple of minutes, and voila, you've begun a simple kitchen gym program! Your metabolic rate will heighten by stimulating muscle mass and working out that muscle will result in fat burning. Growing up lean muscle mass will raise your resting metabolic rate.

Foods that elevate metabolism?

Researchers say that some foods will heighten your metabolism, but they only do so for a short time. Those foods known to increase metabolism include grapefruit, cayenne pepper, chives, and curry. The last two are reputed to help lower cholesterol.