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Now you know what can go wrong when you chronically diet or eat foods that don’t contain dense nutrition. So what do you do about it? How do you make it right.

When your metabolism has become dysfunctional, it needs the equivalent of a personal trainer to get it back into shape—someone who can take the raw materials of your body and sculpt them into the body of your dreams. Consider me that trainer and Fast Metabolism your guide to cross-training your metabolism.

What do I mean by that? If you do only one kind of exercise, like running or the elliptical trainer, your body gets used to that exercise and you soon stop seeing results. You hit a plateau. You’re using the same muscles in the same way every day and neglecting all the other muscles in your body. In the same way that cross-training shakes up that routine by keeping your body surprised, Fast Metabolism shakes up your dietary patterns by doing two things.

 Flooding you with some of the vital nutrients you’ve been missing, but never in the same way for more than two or three days in a row

Asking your body to do something difficult, but never for more than two or three days in a row.

This strategy keeps your body working, surprised, and supported, reversing the biochemical patterns that have slowed down your metabolism. It’s your body’s wake-up call, and it will trigger a burn that will torch calories and fat like never before.

Cross-training your metabolism also means switching up your meal maps (you’ll find out more about those soon!), so the new you will never get in a rut or get bored. Two days eating one way, two days eating another, and then three days eating a whole new, specific nutrient mix. It stimulates the metabolism, it keeps eating interesting, and it works.

It’s not a trick. It’s just the way nature is. It’s a basic principle of physics: a body at rest tends to stay at rest unless something compels it to move. A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless something compels it to stop. This is the same for your metabolism. Once you coax your metabolism into motion, it’s easier to keep it moving. You’re taking that horse by the reins and walking him around the paddock so you can move him into the trailer.