Increasing metabolism

From what I understand and my experience if you exercise your metabolism should increase.  I do at least a half an hour cardio 3-5 days a week and I work out w/ weights (not heavy, not to bulk up to tone) on nautilus machines 2-3 days per week.  I have had success with this.  There is also medication for this, consult a medical weight loss clinic and/or your physician.

cindyjmd is right about the exercise I can think of some more tips like:

green tea.

eating small portion meals during the day.

breakfast- after a night when your body is deprived of food it is essential.

High protein low fat foods.

Avoid stress. 

Yes, there are ways other than the hard ones (exercise, balanced diet, etc.), but they are all either illegal or unadvised.  The illegal which come to mind are the amphetamines, including ephedrine.  The unethical (except if a medical condition exists which indicates its use) include thyroid replacement medications (no, I'm not going to tell you the name brands).  Of course, if your metabolism is truly low, you should see your Dr., and get him to draw at least a T3 and T4 panel to see if you are low thyroid.  Maybe you'll get "lucky" and have Grave's disease.  Or Cushing's. There are others, too, but not being an endocronoligist, I'm not going there.

Suffice it to say, the hard ones, although hard, are much safer than the easy, quick fix ones.  Sorry. 

check out this to see how yoga can help you burn up energy (boost your metabolism)

http://coaches.aol.com/diet/denise-austin/fat-blasting-yoga?step=2

 here's more advice on how to rev your metabolism, and slim down

http://coaches.aol.com/diet/jorge-cruise/rev-your-metabolism?step=2

http://coaches.aol.com/diet/jorge-cruise/rev-your-metabolism?step=4 

There are many ways to boost metabolism naturally:

 Cardio exercise, lifting weights to add muscle which will boost metabolism, meditation to reduce stress which will help to boost metabolism.  Check out this page which explains it all.  Boost Metabolism