Very Effective Diet

Calorie shifting is a very effective diet that is both safe and easy to follow.

Be prepared for some rapid weight loss! You can plan to lose at least 9 pounds every 11 days, or just under 1 pound per day.

How will you achieve this? By eating as much as you want at each one of four daily meals, with a diverse menu plan that requires you to eat food from all four food groups over the course of 11 days.

Calorie shifting is based on the principle that you can trigger the release of your body's fat burning hormones simply by shifting the types of calories you consume from meal to meal, from day to day, regardless of the quantity of the food you eat. By withholding certain nutrients from your body, your body's metabolism lapses into fat-burning mode, which is its natural self-defense mechanism against hunger. You are, in effect, simulating a "nutritional deficiency". By the time your body goes into fat-burning mode, you reintroduce that nutrient back into your body. But before your body's metabolism has time to readjust, you begin to withhold yet another nutrient from your body. So you are able to sustain a prolonged state of fat loss, even though you are actually eating plentiful food from all food groups!

Another distinguishing feature of this diet is that you are required to take a mandatoryI 3-day break from the diet every 2 weeks. Most dieticians and nutritionists agree that too much rapid weight loss for prolonged periods of time is unsafe. Therefore, to allay this concern, the calorie shifting diet requires you to take this 3-day break. Not only does it give your body a chance to rest from the rapid weight loss you will have been experiencing, but it also gives you a psychological boost. Just think about it: As a reward for following the diet, you are granted a 3-day reprieve every 2 weeks.

If you start your diet on a Tuesday, then every other Friday through Sunday, you can take a break from the diet and eat whatever you want! What a boon for motivation!

So, what makes calorie shifting a very effective diet? It is definitely the motivation of knowing that you can eat as much food as you want without fear of starving or having your cravings go unfulfilled. It is also without a doubt the incentive of being able to look forward to taking a 3-day break literally twice a month from the diet, and still lose at least 20 pounds per month!