The Calorie Shifting diet is a revolutionary new approach to diet and weight loss.
I decided to try this diet out and journal my experience with this diet, and summarize it here in a critical review.
I can summarize the Calorie Shifting diet in two words: It works! I was once very skeptical about this diet, dismissing it as just another fad, "here today, gone tomorrow" fly-by-night type of diet.
What I found, my trying this diet out first hand, was that it is quite the opposite! True to its guarantee that you can lose 9 pounds in 11 days, I lost 9.
4 pounds when I weighed myself on the morning of the 12th day.
I had my doubts along the way, though.
I didn't lose any weight in the first 24 hours.
But then I lost a couple of pounds by day 3.
Rather than bore you with a day-by-day progress report of my weight loss, let's just say that my weight fluctuated up and down and plateaued during the 11 days...
but by the morning of the 12th day, I had reached my goal! Basically, the way the Calorie Shifting diet works is that you must use their online diet generator to create your own personalized 11-day menu plan.
The plan consists of 4 daily meals, which can be eaten in any order that you want on each respective day.
You are allowed to eat as much food as you want at each meal until you are satisfied.
But for best results, you should stop eating just short of becoming too full.
You also must space your meals out by at least 2.
5 to 3 hours in between each.
So what does the Calorie Shifting diet consist of? You basically are required to eat a healthy balance of foods from all four food groups: bread, dairy, meat, and fruits/vegetables.
The only "catch" is that you can't eat each of these types of foods whenever you want.
You can only eat them at certain intervals.
The way this diet works is that you basically shift the types of calories that you consume, from meal to meal, from day to day.
So you will be grouping foods together and eating them at meal times that you are not normally accustomed to eating them.
How about grapes and a slice of cheese for one meal? Or how about roast beef and a banana milkshake at another? Or oatmeal and peanuts at another? Or how about a day in which you are only allowed to eat fruits or vegetables all day long? The premise of the Calorie Shifting diet is that by shifting your calories around like this, you are triggering your body's metabolism to go into fat burning mode and start tapping into your body's fat reserves for energy, because you are simulating a nutritional deficit...
you are, in layman's terms, "tricking" your body's metabolism into believing that it is not getting the nutrients that it requires.
Of course, you are eating foods from all four food groups and getting all of the nutrients that you body requires in ample and abundant quantity.
By the time your body goes into "starvation-response" mode, you reintroduce that nutrient into your system and withhold a different calorie group from your diet.
Does that make sense? Now, back to my review: The Calorie Shifting diet was not difficult to adjust to at all.
I never felt hungry because I got to eat every 2.
5 to 3 hours.
I got to eat foods from all four food groups, so it's not like I was "craving carbohydrates", because I got to eat a balance of carbohydrates and proteins and all day long.
I didn't have to worry about starving because I got to eat as much as I want without counting calories.
The only limit was that I had to pay attention to my stomach and stop just at the point when I thought I was getting full.
Also, over the course of the diet, I noticed that my appetite started to decrease.
I was able to get full on less food.
I didn't starve.
Of course it helped that I drank lots of water, diet soda, and black coffee.
One more unique feature about the Calorie Shifting diet is that you are required to take 3 days off from the diet every 2 weeks.
Hence you diet for 11 days and take 3 days off, before you repeat the cycle again of 11 days of dieting followed by 3 days off.
During those 3 days, you are allowed to eat anything you want as long as you don't overeat at each meal.
Here's a tip: If you start the diet on a Monday, then your 3 day breaks will always fall on alternating Fridays through Sundays.
So in summary, the Calorie Shifting diet really works! I lost 9.
4 pounds in 11 days.
Guess what I got to do that weekend!
I decided to try this diet out and journal my experience with this diet, and summarize it here in a critical review.
I can summarize the Calorie Shifting diet in two words: It works! I was once very skeptical about this diet, dismissing it as just another fad, "here today, gone tomorrow" fly-by-night type of diet.
What I found, my trying this diet out first hand, was that it is quite the opposite! True to its guarantee that you can lose 9 pounds in 11 days, I lost 9.
4 pounds when I weighed myself on the morning of the 12th day.
I had my doubts along the way, though.
I didn't lose any weight in the first 24 hours.
But then I lost a couple of pounds by day 3.
Rather than bore you with a day-by-day progress report of my weight loss, let's just say that my weight fluctuated up and down and plateaued during the 11 days...
but by the morning of the 12th day, I had reached my goal! Basically, the way the Calorie Shifting diet works is that you must use their online diet generator to create your own personalized 11-day menu plan.
The plan consists of 4 daily meals, which can be eaten in any order that you want on each respective day.
You are allowed to eat as much food as you want at each meal until you are satisfied.
But for best results, you should stop eating just short of becoming too full.
You also must space your meals out by at least 2.
5 to 3 hours in between each.
So what does the Calorie Shifting diet consist of? You basically are required to eat a healthy balance of foods from all four food groups: bread, dairy, meat, and fruits/vegetables.
The only "catch" is that you can't eat each of these types of foods whenever you want.
You can only eat them at certain intervals.
The way this diet works is that you basically shift the types of calories that you consume, from meal to meal, from day to day.
So you will be grouping foods together and eating them at meal times that you are not normally accustomed to eating them.
How about grapes and a slice of cheese for one meal? Or how about roast beef and a banana milkshake at another? Or oatmeal and peanuts at another? Or how about a day in which you are only allowed to eat fruits or vegetables all day long? The premise of the Calorie Shifting diet is that by shifting your calories around like this, you are triggering your body's metabolism to go into fat burning mode and start tapping into your body's fat reserves for energy, because you are simulating a nutritional deficit...
you are, in layman's terms, "tricking" your body's metabolism into believing that it is not getting the nutrients that it requires.
Of course, you are eating foods from all four food groups and getting all of the nutrients that you body requires in ample and abundant quantity.
By the time your body goes into "starvation-response" mode, you reintroduce that nutrient into your system and withhold a different calorie group from your diet.
Does that make sense? Now, back to my review: The Calorie Shifting diet was not difficult to adjust to at all.
I never felt hungry because I got to eat every 2.
5 to 3 hours.
I got to eat foods from all four food groups, so it's not like I was "craving carbohydrates", because I got to eat a balance of carbohydrates and proteins and all day long.
I didn't have to worry about starving because I got to eat as much as I want without counting calories.
The only limit was that I had to pay attention to my stomach and stop just at the point when I thought I was getting full.
Also, over the course of the diet, I noticed that my appetite started to decrease.
I was able to get full on less food.
I didn't starve.
Of course it helped that I drank lots of water, diet soda, and black coffee.
One more unique feature about the Calorie Shifting diet is that you are required to take 3 days off from the diet every 2 weeks.
Hence you diet for 11 days and take 3 days off, before you repeat the cycle again of 11 days of dieting followed by 3 days off.
During those 3 days, you are allowed to eat anything you want as long as you don't overeat at each meal.
Here's a tip: If you start the diet on a Monday, then your 3 day breaks will always fall on alternating Fridays through Sundays.
So in summary, the Calorie Shifting diet really works! I lost 9.
4 pounds in 11 days.
Guess what I got to do that weekend!
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