Thousands of people across the world have found success by shifting calories to lose weight. A viable alternative to the more well-known low-carb, low-calorie, and low-fat diets, calorie shifting is gaining popularity as a serious contender in the world of rapid weight loss solutions.

Unlike the other “restriction” diets, where you must restrict your carbs, restrict your calories, and restrict your fats, the shifting calories diet allows you to eat as much food as you want from each of the four food groups. You will never find yourself starving or hungry as you might on a calorie-counting diet, because you can eat as much food as you want until you are satisfied. You will never find yourself feeling deprived of a food due to cravings you might have for foods laden with carbohydrates, because you can eat as many proteins, carbohydrates, and fats as you want.

Shifting calories to lose weight is based on the principal that you can manipulate your body’s metabolism at will, simply by constantly withholding and reintroducing different types of nutrients at each meal on a daily basis. Think of it as an “induction diet”. If you are familiar with how low-carb diets work, then you know that your body induces weight loss due to the lack of the carbohydrates that your body needs.

Similarly, if you were to withhold certain nutrients for a short period of time, your body will begin to burn its stored fat. But rather tan adhering to one linear path of simply “cutting out carbs”, you are constantly “cutting out” proteins, carbohydrates, fats and fiber from fruits, vegetables, meats, breads and constantly “reintroducing” them into your diet, again and again in rotational cycles at every meal, every day. Every meal will be a little different, because you will be constantly regrouping the type of calories you eat from meal to meal. Indirectly, you will also be shifting the quantity of calories you consume as well. If you are eating a meal filled only with fruits or vegetables, for example, you will quite naturally consuming fewer calories, even though the diet allows you to eat as much as you want at each meal. The average person would theoretically never reach a point where he or she would “overeat” and consume too many calories this way.

This is the genius behind the shifting calories to lose weight diet.

The rules of this shifting calories to lose weight are simple:

1. Develop a personalized meal plan for yourself that you will be following for the next 11 days. You should have a roadmap of what you will be eating at every meal for the next 11 days. What you eat at each meal is what makes or breaks this diet.
2. Eat as much as you want at each meal until you are satisfied, though not too full. (Overeating is never conducive to weight loss.)
3. Eat four complete meals every day. From the personal meal plan that you develop, you can eat any of the four meals in any order during the day.
4. Space your meals out by at least 2.5 to 3 hours in between each.
5. You must take a 3-day break on days 12 through 14 of the diet, to give your body a chance to rest from the rapid weight loss you will be experiencing, before you must develop a new 11-day meal plan and resume your diet, if you wish. Of course, you must strive to eat healthy to maintain your weight loss during those 3 days. You cannot simply go on an eating binge during those 3 days, otherwise you will gain some or all of the weight back!

How much weight can you lose on this diet? If followed properly, you can expect to lose at least 9 pounds in 11 days on this shifting calories to lose weight diet.

Here are some sample meal plans that you would be following. The shifting calories to lose weight diet plan lasts for 11 days but 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: Flavored Oatmeal

Meal #2: Tuna Salad

Meal #3: Sandwich (any type)

Meal #4: Scrambled Eggs Meal

Day 2:

Meal #1: Banana Milk Shake

Meal #2: Chicken

Meal #3: Scrambled Eggs [and] Mixed Vegetables

Meal #4: Cottage Cheese

Day 3:

Meal #1: Chicken

Meal #2: Fruit Salad

Meal #3: Fish Filet

Meal #4: Cottage Cheese

How To Shift Calories

Shifting Calories is one of the best ways to achieve fast and long term weight loss. It is good for a number of reasons:

1. It lets you eat a reasonable amount of food so you don’t starve which makes it easier for you to stick to the diet for a long time.

2. It lets you eat different things which means that you’re never bored with the diet.

3. It keeps your metabolism running high and burning a lot of fat constantly.

How to shift calories? Can you do it yourself or do you need guidance?

In order to shift calories safely and effectively you need to know the following things:

a. Which food to eat at what time a day. The time of the day in which you eat certain types of food is very important to your weight loss efforts.

b. How to construct a well balanced menu so you get a healthy amount of all the food groups (carbs, proteins, fat).

c. How to shift your calories the right way to keep your metabolism running high.

Most people don’t have the necessary knowledge to do those things correctly. It takes a lot of expertise and knowledge of nutrition. If you don’t possess that kind of expertise, you can do one of two things:

1. Consult with a dietician - If you can afford the sessions with a dietitian, he or she can construct a Shifting Calories menu for you to follow.

2. Use a Calorie Shifting diet which will supply you with a personalized menu which you can then follow in the comfort of your own home. The inventors of the Shifting Calories method market such a diet under the name Fat Loss 4 Idiots.

I hope I answered some on your questions on shifting calories. I am sure that by shifting calories you have a great chance to achieve your desired weight loss.

By John Davenport

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