The team at McCarty Weight Loss Center has decided that the following is the best plan of action to help keep our staff and patients as safe as possible. These are temporary changes recommended by the World Health Organization and the Center for Disease Control to help encourage social distancing in response to COVID-19:
Effective Friday, March 20, 2020 --
Dr. McCarty and his team will be accepting phone consultations. In person consultations spots are limited - please contact our team at 1-866-2-MY-HEALTH for availability
Hours of operation:
Monday - Friday: 8AM - 4PM
Saturday - Sunday: Closed
For Business Related Inquiries please contact 469-547-6170.
Warmest Regards,
McCarty Weight Loss Center
You may have heard that a slow metabolism is linked to weight gain, but is weight loss truly dependent on metabolism? If you’ve been looking for the secret to how to burn calories, is revving up your metabolism the answer?
The metabolic process is a collection of chemical reactions that are continually happening within your body. Through this complex process, your body converts food (calories) to energy. Even at rest, your body requires energy to carry out basic functions such as breathing, circulating blood, growing and repairing cells, and more. The amount of energy (or number of calories) your body needs to maintain these basic functions is known as your basal metabolic rate (BMR), or metabolism.
The rate at which your body burns calories at rest is dependent on several factors, including?
Is metabolism directly linked to weight loss? The short answer: yes. And while a “faster” metabolism burns calories more quickly, it is not always true that a “slower” metabolism causes weight gain. Rather, the foods you eat and how much physical activity you do on a daily basis are more influential on weight gain or weight loss than the rate at which your body burns calories (metabolism).
How quickly you gain or lose weight is dependent on a complex combination of factors, including genetics, hormones, what you eat, your environment, how much sleep you get, how much you exercise and your stress level. In order to burn more calories and lose weight, you must eat fewer calories than your body burns through metabolism.
Your body’s basal metabolic rate is responsible for burning about 70 percent of the calories you burn each day. While it is true that some people are born with a higher BMR than others, a “slow” BMR doesn’t mean you’re destined to be overweight. While there’s nothing you can do about many of the factors that determine metabolic rate, there are some changes you can make in your daily habits can help you burn more calories. Most weight loss programs are centered around the basic fact that you must burn more calories than you consume in order to lose weight.
Here are some helpful tips to help you burn more calories.
Is it time to get rid of the extra weight you’ve been carrying around? Contact the weight loss doctors at First Baptist Medical Center today to learn more about the medical interventions available to help you lose weight reach your weight loss goals.