The Calorie Shifting Diet

Calorie shifting is a new approach to dieting. While other diets require you to reduce the number of calories, carbohydrates, sodium, sugars, and fats that you consume, the Calorie Shifting diet simply requires you to shift the types of calories that you consume, from meal to meal.

In other words, you can eat as much as you want on this diet without regard for counting calories more or less counting anything, for that matter. It is more of a qualitative diet than a quantitative diet. Essentially, it is not how much you eat that really matters. What ultimately matters is what you eat and when you eat it.

How much weight can you lose?

If you follow the tenets of this diet strictly to a tee, you can expect to lose approximately 9 pounds every 11 days. That roughly translates to just under one pound of weight loss per day on average. Since there is a certain degree of flexibility on how much you allow yourself to eat at each meal, your individual results could very in either direction.

So how exactly does calorie shifting work?

As explained above, the emphasis is not on the quantity of the food that you eat, but on the quality. By eating the wrong types of foods you will gain weight. By eating the right types of foods you will lose weight. Moreover, by shifting the types of calories that you consume, from meal to meal, you can trigger your body’s metabolism to tap into your body’s fat reserves for energy.

For example, think about what you might typically have for breakfast. A bowl of cereal with some milk, and a glass of orange juice? Or perhaps you are reating a cereal bar on the go. Maybe you eat pancakes. Maybe you eat eggs and toast. And then for lunch you have a hamburger with french fries. And then for dinner you have a steak with some vegetables.

On the Calorie Shifting diet, your daily meals are restructured in such a way that different calorie types are regrouped and literally shifted from meal to meal. You still end up eating all of the same calorie types. However, they have just been regrouped so that you eat them in a different sequence… a sequence that, upon careful analysis, results in a dietary pattern that is most conducive to weight loss.

Next: The Rules of the Calorie Shifting Diet >>