The calorie shifting diet differs a lot from the conventional diets. The great thing is that we don’t have to calculate and measure everything we eat. No more tormenting and starvation, however it requires a little bit of discipline and some changes. Of course.
All diets targets the metabolism but in different ways. A low fat diet takes out a piece of the puzzle and so does a low carb diet. I think that we could agree that low fat diets is no good. We need fat but we should eat the healthy fats, use more olive oils and not so much hard fats. Liquid fats are better, if we penetrate this deeper, this will be a complete essay in physiology. Just trust me on this one.
Low carb diets are have gained in popularity over the last 5 years. The main reason I don’t like low carb dieting is that our brain needs glucose to perform well. We get glucose from carbohydrates. If we exclude all carbs from our diet our body will lack glucose. To replace this, our metabolism tries to find a substitute, ketones. Ketones is a product from metabolized fats. When these take over the role of the glucose we have a condition called ketoacidosis and our breath starts smelling like nailpolish-remover. Do you think that this seems natural?
VLED (Very Low Energy Diet) wants to starve out the fat. During the first days you are successful in losing weight but then your metabolism catches up and adapt into a low-consuming mode. Your body and metabolism think that you are starving and it makes every possible change to help you survive. The reason it works during a couple of days is that you lose a lot of water. Water is lost once your glykogene is lowered as this binds much water. The factor of importance to us is that it takes a couple of days before the metabolism adapts. This gives us a world of opportunities.
How, you may ask. Well, it tells us that the metabolism is based on the previous days diet. We could use this to fool our metabolism. When it expects a certain kind of calorie we give it something else. Our metabolism will get confused and in order to keep you alive it starts to empty the reserves. And where are our reserves? -Yes! In the fat cells!
This means that a meal plan in the calorie shifting diet is…shifting. Some basic rules apply. Don’t eat energy rich snacks like chocolate or candy. Don’t eat fattening meats. Ok, you see how much easier this is!
There is one more basic rule that may be the toughest one. You have to cook your own meals. No highly processed ready-cooked meals. Use fresh groceries.
This diet goes in 14 day cycles. You follow a diet during 11 days and then you get three free days. Those free days have a greater purpose. This will help you stick to the diet during the 11 days. If you crave something, eat during the free days!
Jennifer Olsen was a master of failing at different diets. She understood that there were more to losing weight then just going on a diet. Today she has lost nearly 50 pounds with the calorie-shifting diet and meanwhile she has finished reading ‘Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle’ and she is implementing what she learned into daily activities.
She made a mini-site that gives examples of diets, complete fast weight loss diets and reviews of books that helped her stop living the unhealthy life and turning around into a more healthy life-style. If you are interested in learning more please Click Here!
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