So You Want To Lose Weight Quick?

If you want to lose weight quickly, there are a number of steps that you could take.

In order to both lose weight quickly and keep it off, though, the choices get a little slimmer. The thing is - low calorie, low carb, and starvation diets certainly do help people lose weight quickly... but after a few months, the "honeymoon period" is over.

So what does one do?

The best course of action to combat flat lining is shifting calories. With this method, people don't do anything unhealthy (with other diets such as low carb, there are a lot of adverse health effects). In fact, shifting calories is something that has been around for many years and is widely used by bodybuilders. With shifting calories, people simply vary the amount of calories that they eat on a daily basis. Because the body stays "confused", it cannot adjust in the way that it normally would with a typical low calorie or low carbohydrate diet.

Dieters continue to lose weight long after the "honeymoon period" with this style of eating. People have reported losses of up to 11 pounds every 13 days with shifting calories (although that's not necessarily typical). Because of its ability to work quickly and safely, this is the best way to lose weight quick.

Outside of the quick weight loss, shifting calories is very beneficial psychologically. Because there are "high calorie" days in addition to "low calorie", people don't feel as if they're as neglected as they would be on a typical diet.

Because of this, the shifting calories method has much higher retention rates than other diets.

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The Best Way To Eat - Shifting Calories

With all of the different diet and health information out there, it's easy to become lost in a sea of "This is better, that's better."

But the question still remains - What's the best way to eat when trying to lose weight?

In this author's opinion, the answer is calorie cycling (also known as shifting calories and zigzag diet).

The reason for this is because it's a completely natural and healthy way of losing weight. There are no pills, no patches, no restriction of food groups, and no gaining the weight back as soon as you stop this way of eating. All that one does with shifting calories is vary the amount of calories that they eat on a daily basis. It's simple enough, right?

Because the body can't get used to what it's being fed, it can't adjust accordingly, and it can't plateau. With other diets that have the same amount of food per day (for example, diets that say to stay under 35 grams of carbohydrates or to stay on a 1200 calorie diet), the body anticipates this ahead of time. Weight loss comes to a complete halt.

With calorie shifting, there's no anticipation on the body's end, and pounds continue to be melted off. This diet is also the best way to eat because it's so psychologically inviting. There are "cheat days", so people don't feel miserable and restricted. This is generally one of the biggest reasons why people quit diets in the first place. They have eating patterns that are not conducive to their normal way of life, and the "shock" of the change frustrates them.

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The Shifting Calories Theory

The Shifting Calories Theory is one of the newest "it" phrases in the weight loss industry. The interesting thing, though, is that shifting calories has been around for a long time. It's been called many things, including "calorie cycling", "calorie shifting", and "the zigzag diet".

Although most "it" diets focus on restriction of some kind (whether through calories, food groups, or eating only specific foods), The Shifting Calories Theory is a bit different. It focuses on eating any kind of food that the dieter wants (but recommends healthy foods, of course).

This weight loss method, which seems counterintuitive to people, actually gives most dieters fast and continuous weight loss.

There are two different websites that are promoting The Shifting Calories Theory right now. One of these websites works by supplying the dieter with many different meal choices to eat, grouped by calorie. The dieter gets to choose the meals that they want, and make sure that their calories equal what the calorie calculator tells them to eat. Dieters get to eat a liberal amount of calories most of the week and even get one to two "cheat days" so that they don't feel restricted.

These "cheat days" are what makes psychologists adore the diet, and what makes dieters stay on the diet.

Some websites have success stories from people who have lost over 18 pounds in two weeks (obviously this is not typical).

The Shifting Calories Theory works so well because it was discovered that deprivation diets force one's metabolism to actually slow down. While weight loss is effortless in the beginning, metabolism slows down and people have a hard time continuing to lose weight and subsequently plateau.

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