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Easy Diet Plans – The Calorie Shifting Diet

Among the myriad of diet plans that exist out there, calorie-shifting is one of the more easy diet plans to follow. You can eat as much food as you want from each of the four food groups, and still expect to lose 9 pounds in eleven days. You even get a 3-day "cheat break" every two weeks while on this diet. The only thing you have to do is follow a structured meal plan which requires you to group your calories together at each meal in such a way so as to increase your metabolism and induce fat burning and weight loss, and then rotationally shift your calories around regroup them from meal to meal.

What does this mean? How does the calorie-shifting diet works? Calorie-shifting is based on the principle that you can effectively manipulate your metabolism at will to induce weight loss, not by eating less food or cutting out carbohydrates or even by exercising, but by systematically removing and reintroducing various types of calories from your body at specific intervals. Somewhat analogous to how a low-carb diet induces weight loss due to the lack of carbohydrates in your body, the calorie-shifting diet reacts to the loss of certain types of nutrients, but as soon as your body begins to compensate for this loss, you reintroduce that nutrient and withhold another type. Thus, you are able to effectively maintain rapid weight loss, but without the actual nutritional deficit as is the case with the low-carbohydrate diet.

So what makes this diet plan so easy to follow? Because you can eat as much as you want on this diet, you will always feel satisfied and never hungry. Because you will be eating from all four food groups on this diet, you will never feel deprived. Thus, remaining motivated on this diet should be a non-issue.

There are only four basic rules you need to follow:

Eat as much as you want at each meal until you are satisfied but not too full. Overeating is never conducive weight loss, no matter what diet plan you are on. Space your meals out by at least 2.5 to 3 hours. You must take a mandatory 3-day break from the diet every 12th through 14th days on the diet. This gives your body a chance to rest from the rapid weight loss you will be experiencing. During these 3 days you must adhere to healthy eating guidelines, much like you would if you had basically finished losing all of your weight. You must follow a customized diet regimen as prescribed by the guidelines of this diet plan.