Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Calorie Shifting Diet - Is it really a diet?


After reading through this article it seems as if this isn't actually a diet but just a sensible way to eat. If you add the word diet to it will it make people try it? Every diet plan you look at will basically tell you to eat this way to lose weight.

My personal success story is stop eating fast food every week, especially those of you who sit behind a desk five days a week. An entire pint of pork fried rice with the entire pint of sesame chicken on top will not help you lose weight. Neither are those four slices of pizza with bread sticks on the side going to help your booty either.

The amount of calories in a McDonalds chicken sandwich makes me a little nervous. Somebody told me one time that chicken is suppose to be very good for you and low in carbs so why is the McDonalds Chicken sandwich so unhealthy. What do they put in it? McDonalds might get lucky to see my five dollars one or two times a year.

Do I miss it? All I have to do is look at my feet that I can see now and fast food is forgotten.

Calorie Shifting is the new sensation in Diet Plans. Because of it's ease to follow it has had a huge gain in popularity all over the world. The Calorie Shifting Meal Plan, as the name implies, is a diet based on the theory that shifting your calories from meal to meal, from day to day, will trigger the appropriate metabolic response that will induce fat burning and thus rapid weight loss.

Calorie shifting differs from other diet regimens in that you are not restricting the quantity or the types of food that you eat. You can eat as much as you want from all four food groups while you are on this fat lose plan. The only restriction is that you must group your calories together in accordance with the pattern that is most conducive to fat loss.

It is not uncommon to lose as many as 9 pounds in 11 days without ever feeling hungry or deprived. Interestingly, you must eat 4 meals every day, and you can eat as much as you want until you are satisfied, but not until you are too full. (Stuffing yourself is counterproductive to the fat loss process.)

The rules of this diet are very simple and straight-forward, as outline below:

  1. Eat only until you are satisfied but not until you are too full.
  2. Leave a minimum gap of 2.5 to 3 hours between meals.
  3. Eat only the foods prescribed to you according to the calorie shifting meal plan at each meal.
  4. You must eat exactly 4 meals per day, no more and no less.
  5. You have a choice to eat any of the 4 meals in any order throughout the day.
  6. You must take a 3-day break from the diet on days 12 through 14 of your diet, before you may resume the diet again. This is to give your body a chance to rest from the rapid weight loss that you will be experiencing.

Here are some sample meal plans that you would be following. The diet plan lasts for 11 days. Only 3 days are included here, just to give you an idea of how the plan is structured and to give you a sense of how satisfying and sustainable this diet truly is. Keep in mind that each of these four meals may be eaten in any order throughout the day, as long as you only eat that the designated foods at each of their respective meals.

Day 1:

Meal #1: Scrambled Eggs Meal

Meal #2: Sandwich (any type)

Meal #3: Flavored Oatmeal

Meal #4: Tuna Salad

Day 2:

Meal #1: Cottage Cheese

Meal #2: Scrambled Eggs [and] Mixed Vegetables

Meal #3: Chicken

Meal #4: Banana Milk Shake

Day 3:

Meal #1: Chicken

Meal #2: Fish Filet

Meal #3: Cottage Cheese

Meal #4: Fruit Salad

There are some Snags:

Starting a Calorie Shifting Regiment sounds easier than it really is. Most of us don't know how to group foods and the the success of the diet will tempt people to choose the same diet for more than 11 days.

The best way to attack a Calorie Shifting diet is to purchase a "Calorie Shifting Diet Calculator." What this does is actually plan your meals for you 11 days at a time. Such Calculators are very reasonable (under $20) and well worth the expense.

Benefits:

  • This a viable weight loss diet.
  • It is safe if the instructions are followed.
  • You can adapt it to most any lifestyle (yes you can eat out and have alcohol).
  • There are no pills.
  • There is no exercise regiments.
  • There is no extra cost to absorb. This is regular food.
My point exactly!

If you ask your doctor to give you a diet plan the chances that you will receive this plan is pretty good.
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