Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight

by Linda Bacon

Speeds up your metabolic rate, not just while moving /exercising, but for many hours afterward. • Reduces your hunger drive. • Increases your body temperature so you burn more energy. • Increases your energy levels so you burn more energy. • Improves your sensitivity to hunger and fullness. • Increases your amount of muscle tissue so you burn more energy. • Increases fat-burning enzymes and decreases fat-storing enzymes. • Improves cell sensitivity to insulin (you need less to do the same job), allowing you to burn more energy. • Uses more fat and less carbohydrates for energy (which helps stabilize blood glucose levels). Last—and maybe least important—is that while doing many of these, it burns calories.