muscle = higher metabolism ??

hi , there iam a 17 yr old female 164cm

well i reached my goal weight of 56kgs

and for a month  i've been experimenting with intutive eating where i try clean eating and eat when i'am hungry in the proper times.

i work out 5 days a week varying from 45min to an hour doing cardio and weight lifting .

so, my question is that concetrating the weight lifting to build muscle

'will building more muscle help prevent weight gain?'

since i supose having more muscle consumes more calories, therefore i will get a faster metabolism?

Yes.

In general, since the body burns more calories, including at night when we're sleeping, to rebuild muscles, yes, you will help keep weight off by having more muscle and less fat. 

It is important to eat a healthy breakfast that will jumpstart your metabolic engine.  Things like grains, fruits, milk, cheese, meats, beans, yogurt, vegetables, healthy cereals and breads, etc. can be in a typical person's healthy breakfast.  From I have read on several sites, around 40% of one's calories should be consumed with a healthy breakfast. 

Also, from what I have read, depending on the nature of your weight-lifting, if you make it cardio-connected, that will also help keep the weight off.  Or if we follow a weight workout with a cardio workout that also helps.  After we "tear" the muscles lifting weights, the body burns calories to rebuild them.

Original Post by ichigomisaki:

so, my question is that concetrating the weight lifting to build muscle

'will building more muscle help prevent weight gain?'

 

NO building muscle puts on weight, that being the muscle your building, plus you will also put on a little fat as well. Of course to build muscle you would also need to be in a caloric surplus, which sounds like your not. Weights will help preserve muscle in a deficit, so in that regard, the weight you do lose will be a higher precentage of fat in contrast to not doing any weight training at all.

Both yes and no could be the correct answer depending on one's point.  Many people lose weight, but become much more muscular in terms of overall lean body mass compared to body fat %.  However, I would agree that losing fat weight and gaining muscle weight can be in opposition.  So, I suppose, an approach to solving that enigma would be to first lose body fat to a weight range one knows is healthy (such as by cutting calories and doing good cardio workouts) and then doing serious, but healthy weight-lifting, to tone the body by building muscle.  The fact is clear that many people who lose a lot of weight, also add a higher % of muscle than they had before they lost the weight. And they can keep the muscle but not gain weight.  

I was curious about the answer to your question, so I spent quite a bit of time searching the Net for some sort of consensus answer.  My conclusion is that, yes, if one has a higher % of muscle, then that will prevent weight gain, all other factors being equal.