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What Is Calorie Shifting?

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Written by Marie Wilson

Wednesday, 26 March 2008

by MarieWilson

All of us want to lose weight but wouldn't it be nice if that could be done without having to endure a diet that makes you have to limit your food to just salads and soups forever and to constantly have to feel hungry all the time? Now that would be a diet we could stick with. And if you were to believe the hundreds of TV advertisements for exotic pills and programs to help us reduce weight, they have the mystery solution to our dieting woes. But sadly, they don't.

Most of us are smart enough not to buy into some unrealistic diet plan like that, although it's ok if we have tried a few just to prove they don't work. What we find out is that there are a lot of problems that come with those expensive diet pills. They seem to be of two types. They either make your metabolism run like a freight train so you sweat and quiver which causes fat to fall off or they do weird things to your digestive track so (in theory) fats are pushed on through causing your insides to feel like you have the flu. Both of these solutions make you feel slightly ill and on edge which would be fine except they also don't usually do anything more than cause slight weight loss that comes right back.

The calorie shifting diet is not a scam and you can try it out for free to see if it will work for you. It is not based on some wild scheme to shake or push out fat from your system. Instead it is based on the idea of balancing several small meals throughout the day so your metabolism naturally processes food differently resulting in steady weight loss that is natural and sustainable meaning you won't necessarily gain all the weight back.

The great thing about calorie shifting is you don't have to cut calories or stop eating good foods you like. You can keep you favorite foods but just shift when you eat them by spreading your calorie types over several small meals. The result is you enjoy the foods you love, get all you want to eat and you never have to endure that feeling of being deprived that is the cornerstone of most diets.

Diets that make you go without good foods don't work because they remove part of your diet that your body comes to crave and you spend all your time wishing you could eat like you used to. So the diet can only be a success as long as you stay motivated enough to resist the temptations and discomforts but once you get discouraged or lose the discipline, the diet is over and the weight you might have lost comes right back. Don't think the problem is in your will power. The real problem is those diets are not designed for you to lose weight in natural cooperation with how your body works.

Each of the most popular diet plans have draw backs that have the seeds of failure built right in. On Atkins, you must put yourself into a harsh discipline to get where you need to be. Most people hate having to follow such a difficult plan and cheat when nobody is looking so the plan fails. Low fat diets similarly deprive you of the foods you like the most so you spend a lot of time "missing" those foods. If the weight loss stalls out, it's very easy to give up. And low calorie diets also create a feeling of starvation but they require advanced tracking which is a huge bother and the weight comes off very slowly which means it's easy to lose interest and give up.

By taking advantage of your metabolism's talent for reducing your weight, the calorie shifting diet energizes this important internal regulator to burn off fat in a healthy and natural way which leads to weight loss that is reasonable and sustainable. To be truly effective and not just get you short term weight loss, any program must work in harmony with your metabolism so the unneeded fat burns off naturally. The calorie shifting program is scientifically designed to use this natural approach to diet by giving your body good foods it wants and still making you slim down without the use of drugs or by causing unnatural physical trauma to drive the weight away.

The beauty of this diet plan is you don't cut calories at all. You simply organize your food intake in a systematic way so the calories are scattered across four meals a day which causes your body to naturally lose weight. The meal programs "shift" different food groups around different times of the day so one day you might have bacon and eggs for lunch and a steak for breakfast and the next day pancakes for dinner and fish for breakfast. But the important thing about this plan is that it works, its works naturally and it's something you can stick with and lose weight over a period of time and keep it off. And that's what it's all about.

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