Women’s Health Reports: 5 Tips to Speed Up Your Metabolism Please Consult Your Medical Physician Before Attempting These Methods. 1. When You Roll Out Of Bed Eat (a good) breakfast Every. Single. Day. If you don’t, your body goes into starvation mode (it’s paranoid like that), so your metabolism slows to a crawl to conserve energy, Berardi says. And the heartier your first meal is, the better. In one study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, volunteers who got 22 to 55 percent of their total calories at breakfast gained only 1.7 pounds on average over four years. Those who ate zero to 11 percent of their calories in…