You’ve heard the bold promise before: lose weight by eating more. Sounds black magic, or maybe just plain bogus, right? Not this time. This isn’t about eating certain mystical foods with supernatural weight loss properties—just simple eating tips to kick your metabolism up a notch.

• Eat More. If you’re eating less than your daily required calorie quota, your body will throw the breaks on the metabolism. Worse yet, your body will also seek out what it needs by breaking down muscle tissue, which you also need to burn more fat.

• Breakfast: The Most Fat Burning Meal of the Day. To get your metabolism fired up first off, don’t skip breakfast. Women who opt out of breakfast are 4 ½ times more likely to be obese. It doesn’t take much to get your metabolism going, just a cup of yogurt or oatmeal.

• Get Your Daily Caffeine. Okay, we’re not suggesting you hand over your life savings to Starbucks. And yes, too much caffeine can leave you feeling jacked, but a cup of brewed tea or coffee can rev up your metabolism 5 to 8%. Drink it black and you burn calories with consuming any.

• Fighting Fat with Fiber: Mom told you to eat your fruit and vegetables until she was blue in the face. Turns out mom was onto a great weight loss plan; daily fiber can speed up your metabolism up to 30%!

• Cold Water: When you drink water, colder is better. Your body needs to warm up cold water in order to utilize it, and warming water burns calories. Okay, maybe it only burns 50 calories a day, but that’s 5 pounds by year’s end.

• Eat Organic: Canadian researchers found that people who eat more organic foods have a more hyper-charged metabolism than those who eat foods with pollutants. Why? Scientists speculate the pesticides and other chemicals consumed through inorganic food may actually block the fat-burning process.

• Don’t Forget Protein: The math here is simple. Protein = Muscle. Muscle = Faster Fat Burning. Got it?

• Take it easy with Alcohol: One drink is fine, but more than that and your body starts using the alcohol as food, instead of your fat. Who knew those martinis could pack on pounds?