Calorie Shifting - Unique Technique for Healthy and Rapid Weight Loss

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Calorie shifting is a weight loss approach that focuses on eating patterns, rather than on what types of food to eat or have to avoid. The result is a rapid and safe weight loss without starving yourself.

Don't ruin your health with diet pills or so-called low calorie diets! Many people waste thousands of dollars on diet pills over and over again and are still overweighted - or even more than before. After several intents with different methods, I found finally an economic and healthy loss diet that results in a rapid and sustainable weight loss. Read the information below and you will understand why you should stop ruining your health and wasting your money!

Many of the popular programs, supplements and diets currently on the market help people lose a lot of weight quickly. But that is only half the battle. The real challenge is keeping the pounds off once they have been shed. These programs often counsel people to reduce or eliminate certain type of foods, such as carbohydrates, fat or proteins, from their diets. Even if the immediate result is often some short-term loss, the body’s metabolism usually adjusts to the new eating regime by slowing down to conserve energy. In other words, your body goes into survival mode. But this doesn’t stop the body from craving the foods that it’s missing, though. When those types of foods are consumed again, the body soaks them up like a sponge and stores them as fat to keep them in reserve for the next time there is depletion in the food supply. This explains the so-called “rebound” effect: most of the weight that was lost initially - and sometimes even more - is gained back as rapidly as it disappeared during the weight loss diet.

In this blog I describe my experience with the Calorie Shifting Diet in a series of postings. You will find a lot of information related to this weight loss diet but for a good overview I recommend to start with the following:

1. Why 95% Of Diets Fail and the Healthy Loss Diet Does Not

2. How to Calorie Shift as Healthy Loss Diet - and use the free Food & Calorie Finder as Menu Planer (see bottom of this page).

3. Calorie Shifting avoids the Diet Plateau and Rebound Effects

4. Strengths and Drawbacks of the Calorie Shifting Diet
5. Calorie Shifting - Maximized Weight Loss

Why 95% Of Diets Fail and the Healthy Loss Diet Does Not

And Why I Choose thehe Healthy Loss Diet with Calorie Shifting
Researching statistics about the success of diet plans shows that 95% of them fail miserably. Like the vast majority of people with overweight I already followed several distinct diets (among those: low fat, low carb, low calories) and always with the same result: I managed to lose some weight in the beginning of each diet, though unfortunately most of it seemed to be just liquids and not fat. As a result, I stopped losing weight after a while and gained back what I lost after finishing the diets, and worse - I ended up even fatter than I was before I started each procedure.

The main reason why most diets fail is that they are based on a greatly reduced calorie intake and/or a total avoidance of a certain food group. A low calorie diet, and I have seen people go on 400 calories a day diets, causes our metabolism to slow down considerably and your body to burn less and less fat. The explanation for this: the body protects itself because it thinks we're starving it – we are constructed to survive, even in extreme situations.

The dangerous part of the story:
After complying with a diet we are going to consume more calories again and as our metabolism is still at low speed after the "bad times" of dieting we are accumulating fat much faster - which is being accumulated by our body as calorie deposit for bad times. And besides, eating 400 calories a day over a prolonged period is very hazardous to your health, even though you are taking supplements like vitamins, minerals, etc. In general, consuming less than 1800 calories a day will not provide you with enough essential nutrients to meet all of your needs. The human body is an extraordinarily intelligent machine. When you cut back on your energy intake (calories) too much, the body perceives this restriction as a threat. As a defense mechanism, your body protects its reserves. The stricter the diet, the more your body will go into famine mode in order to protect itself. Thus, your body slows down. It then becomes easier to gain weight over time. It has been shown that many diets avoiding food groups like carbs or proteins hurt the body because they deprive a necessary ingredient from it, causing potential health problems even after the diet.

What is the Main problem:
Any weight loss achieved through this type of diet schemes is of short term. In contrast, a healthy loss diet lets you eat a reasonable amount of food with a certain supply of all necessary food groups that still helps you to lose weight. And the most important fact is that the diet needs to be sustainable, without the feared Diet Boomerang or Rebound Effect.

Weight loss diets that are too restrictive can be harmful to your health and well-being. For example, cutting out milk products can deprive your bones of the precious calcium and vitamin D necessary for their strength. Eating too few grain products, especially whole-grain products, could mean less fibre and other nutrients that help digestion. There are many other examples as well!

A diet that finally worked best for me, as it avoids all the mentioned pitfalls, is the so-called Healthy Loss Diet with Calorie Shifting (or simply Calorie Cycling). This diet is known already since many years among bodybuilders and other body-conscious people as ideal method to increase the muscle mass without the increase in body fat, which occur with most long-term nutritional programs। This group of people is applying acute calorie cycling, consuming a high-calorie diet for 2 weeks followed by a low-calorie diet for 2 weeks, and then repeating this pattern over and over again. A modification of this bodybuilder diet resulted in an extremely fast weight loss diet which at the same time is healthy as it does not eliminate important nutritients from your diet plan. For me and many other people this healthy loss diet works very well as it does not starve you and at the same time produces a fast and continuous weight loss.

Several friends of mine tried as alternative to this calorie shifting approach the "Burn the Fat - Feed the Muscle" Diet that also has been developed based on bodybuilder diet plans. This diet also has been shown to be an alternative and very successful approach for reducing and controlling overweight.

Well, I tried the Healthy Loss Diet based on Shifting Calories and found it the best bet for me as I don't want to starve myself and at the same time achieve a fast and continuous weight loss.

How Does it Work?
Healthy Loss Diet using Calories Shifting is accomplished by constantly changing what you eat, so that your body doesn't get used to any routine. This causes your metabolism to remain high and your body to burn fat faster and more efficiently.

The Healthy Loss Diet with Calorie Shifting keeps the metabolism high at all times, so your body always burns fat, leading to a rapid and continuous weight loss.

The developers of this diet call it with some enthusiasm the Extremely Fast Weight Loss Diet as it really is a diet giving very rapid results that can be applied easily and by everyone. The diet, originally promoted as "FatLoss4Idiots" due to its simplicity, includes a detailled handbook and a menu generator which produces a personal menu to each user. You type in the food you like to eat, and the menu generator takes it into account, so you end up eating much of the food you like, but it always shifts it around. The Healthy Loss Calorie Shifting menu is comprised of 4 meals a day so you never starve. That's why so many people have been able to stick to it for so long and maintain their new weight once they lost the number of lbs. they wanted.

Now you might imagine why this healthy weight loss diet works so well for me and for so many people.

But how to start?
At the bottom of this page you find a Food&Calorie Finder that I used at the beginning to develop my personalized daily diet plans. When I recognized that this concept really works, I searched the web and found a commercial software package to design diet menus based on the calorie shifting diet concept. Since then I am using this software with really exceptional success. I found it quite easy to reduce my weight rapidly but for me the most important factor is that I managed to maintain my weight for now more than two years, just changing my eating style and planning once a week my daily diet. This allows me to take control over the things I purchase in the supermarket, considering also other personal health related facts.

To read more about the diet system I am using and to design my own diet menu plan, check out the following site: Healthy Loss Diet Menu Planning.

Avoid Weight Loss Plateau and Rebound Effect with Healthy Loss Calorie Shifting

Weight Loss Plateau is a stage when after initial weight loss you are not losing pounds any more, independent on the consumed calories. Healthy Loss Diet with Calorie Shifting is a proven method to overcome this Weight Loss Plateau and to avoid the feared rebound of lost weight.

Most people associate the word calorie with something “awful”, as it is common knowledge that eating excess calories leads to excess fat. Hence, the conclusion is that cutting way back on calories each day is the fastest way to lose weight. This means, when a person who usually eats 2,500 calories per day decides to cut back to 1,500 calories per day, the saved 1,000 calories are consumed by the body fat reserves resulting in a weight loss.

This calculation is quite easy to understand but unfortunately it doesn’t really work like this.

Experience shows that cutting calories too drastically, for instance by skipping meals or starving yourself, the body gets used to the calorie reduction and you quickly experience what is called a “Weight Loss Plateau”. After an initial steady weight loss, suddenly the scale refuses to drop any lower - no matter how little you are eating.

During the first weeks of the diet, the body’s response to the reduced calorie intake is very encouraging. Calorie intake is low, whereas the body metabolism is high. During this time, the body is subject to new changes in terms of food intake. The result is an instant, steady weight reduction, even though most of this reduction is due to the loss of water. Then suddenly, the body is switching to the “survival mode”, slowing down the metabolism for getting used to the calorie reduction. This is the point when Weight Loss Plateau sets in. The body is “tuned” to the new conditions and has settled down to adjust by burning fewer calories. The diet program and the exercise regime don’t produce the expected results any more and it is getting harder and harder to lose more weight. This is a very dangerous point as most of the people give up and slipping back to where they started.

How to avoid a Weight Loss Plateau?
Many of the popular diets and dietary supplements on the market help people lose a lot of weight quickly but what they are losing is basically water and almost no fat. Apart from the explained metabolic change, this is one of the reasons for running into a Weight Loss Plateau. Another problem of these diets is the “rebound” effect. Most of the weight that was lost initially-—and sometimes even more-—is gained back as rapidly as it disappeared.

But there is good news. You can avoid and overcome a Weight Loss Plateau. A proven way is to trick your body into thinking that you need more energy to stay alive while eating less. The result is that you body will burn more calories than you consume. But as your body is designed as a smart “survival machine” and easily can get used to new environmental conditions, it will automatically adjust itself to burn less calories for your daily activities. The trick is to use a unique eating system called Healthy Loss Calorie Shifting Diet to confuse your body in a healthy way.

As the Healthy Loss Diet - Calorie Shifting idea is unusual and goes against many dieting rules and standards, it has been dismissed by many people being a scam. But the most important behind all this: it works and anyone who tries this diet quickly finds out how shocking the weight loss effect is. It's just something you have to try to believe.


Your body will receive different calories each day. One day you will consume 1500 calories and the next could be 1100 calories, derived from different types of food. This way your body does not establish any eating habit, it keeps burning calories and maintains high rate of metabolism even when you are eating less. The result is a faster weight loss, avoiding the feared Weight Loss Plateau and the Rebound effects.


Learn more about this new diet system and set up your personalized Diet Menu Plan

Strenghts and Drawbacks of the Calorie Shifting Diet

During the past years, the Calorie Shifting Diet, originally developed as "Fat Loss 4 Idiots" Diet and now promoted as "Extremely Fast Weight Loss Diet", has been evolved as one of the most popular diet plans today. The diet advocates a theory called Shifting Calorie or Calorie Shifting. The idea behind this Calorie Shifting approach is to increase our metabolism rate by stimulating our bodies to burn additional fat through giving signals that the calorie level is low.

Based on personal experience and discussions with other users of this diet (see following publications at this blog), this is my oppinion on drawbacks and strengths of Calorie Shifting:

Drawbacks:

1. Without Commitment And Determination no Success
The Fat Loss 4 Idiots diet claims to be the easiest solution for fast and sustainable weight loss but according to my experience, without commitment and determination you’ll never have the desired success. Even though, the diet is quite easy to implement and to follow, it’s up to you to comply with your diet plan or not. This diet is not just like a weight loss pill treatment where you throw in your drug and forget about the rest.

2. Claim of Losing 9lbs in 11 days is very difficult to achieve (if not impossible).
The diet claims that one will be able to lose as much as 9lbs in 11 days. Many people might be attracted by this number whilst others will be alerted that it sounds dubiously.

The weight loss success depends basically on the consequent application of the diet plan, the reduction of daily calorie intake and also physical activities - sorry, but unfortunately this is true :-(

From my personal experience, I decided to reduce my daily calorie uptake by 500 calories (accumulating to 3500 cal less per week) to achieve an average of 1900 cal per day. For a convenient planning of my daily diet plan, I used the Online Menu Planner that came with the "Extremely Fast Weight Loss" handbook. This diet was published originally (and I understand is patented) by a program called "Fat Loss 4 Idiots" (strange name, however...). With this "idiot proven" strategy, I was able to loose 6 pounds in the first month, 4 pounds in the second and again 6 pounds in the third one (accounting for about 2.7 lbs in 14 days). I achieved this weight loss without starving myself or increasing my physical activities.

I talked to 5 friends and relatives using the Calorie Shifting diet plan strictly already for more than three months and evaluated their dieting results. As a conclusion, the average weight loss in 11 to 14 days was only 7.6lbs instead of the claimed 9lbs. All of the interviewed dieters were exercising more than usual during the application of the Calorie Shifting diet. Anyhow, I found it difficult to come up with an exact number as several evaluated persons did not control their weight on a daily basis.

I personally feel that the claim of losing 9lbs in 11 days is rather an exaggeration and maybe should be seen as an upper limit rather than the rule as only very few will be able to achieve this goal in just 11 days.

3. No Permanent Weight Loss if not Continued
I recognized that once I stopped following the Calorie Shifting diet and tried to enter in my previous “routine” again, my weight started to increase again. Therefore, even though this diet plan does work and all people who used it really lose weight, it is not more than a temporary solution if you don’t adjust your lifestyle after dropping the extra pounds. Anyway, after experiencing the diet and adopting to the new eating habits, you’ll recognize how easy it is to continue with this diet and you will do it almost automatically.

4. Other Potential Drawbacks

• There are no clinical studies presented on the official website
• The Fat Loss 4 Idiots diet does not apply any appetite suppressants (which are not natural)
• There no formal fitness regimen addressed on the official website
• The diet requires that you change quite drastically your daily eating habits. Not everybody may be ready to manage this.

Strenghts :

1. Simple Diet Plan

Calorie Shifting is a simple and unique weight loss diet that is learned via the official website with low start-up and no follow-up costs. I purchased/tried several other diet programs but this one really is different from each and every other diet program I know. The diet book contains loads of information about weight loss techniques and reading the book you recognize how easy it is to follow this diet.

2. Healthy Diet Plan
Most of the people I talked to (and including myself) prefer a weight loss method that doesn’t use appetite suppressants or other expensive food supplements. As the Calorie Shifting diet does not exclude any food group, in contrast to other diets like the low carb, low fat, low cal etc., you don’t need to worry about unbalanced alimentation. This is probably the most healthy diet plan you’ll ever find.

3. Highly Effective Diet without Starving Yourself
Even though the claim of losing 9lbs in 11 days is rather an exaggeration, experience shows people using this diet are losing weight very rapidly. It is in particular useful for people with a low metabolism who tried already other diet plans without success (including myself). With some more physical activities, it should be no problem to lose between 7 and 8 lbs in two weeks without too big effort and, most important – without starving yourself.

4. Avoiding the feared Weight Loss Plateau and Rebound Effect
Weight Loss Plateau is a stage when after initial weight loss you are not losing pounds any more, independent on the consumed calories. The Calorie Shifting Diet is a proven method to overcome this Weight Loss Plateau and to avoid the feared rebound of lost weight. Your body will receive different calories each day. One day you will consume 1500 calories and the next could be 1100 calories, derived from different types of food. This way your body does not establish any eating habit, it keeps burning calories and maintains high rate of metabolism even when you are eating less. The result is a faster weight loss, avoiding the feared Weight Loss Plateau and the Rebound effects.

This is the main reason why this diet is that successful. It targets your metabolism rate as the root of most weight problems, instead of simply reducing the calorie intake.

5. Online Diet Generator
When purchasing the diet handbook, you’ll get access to an online diet generator. I found this tool very helpful and used it a lot for defining my daily menus. The diet generator creates 11 days of basic meal plans based on your food preferences.

As a conclusion, for most people the strengths of the Calorie Shifting Diet by far outweigh the drawbacks. This is the reason why this healthy diet is considered as one of the best and most powerful weight loss methods currently available.

Calorie Shifting Plan - Maximized Weight Loss

The Calorie Shifting Plan – or simply called Calorie Shifting – ensures a faster and easier weight loss than any other diet plan I know of. You don’t have to go hungry, it doesn’t require calculations, and you don’t have to exercise rigorously. It works really great, but you have to be cautious not to take it too relaxed. The plan still has to be followed rigorously in order to be successful.

Nevertheless, I received emails from people asking for an even faster weight loss. For them, a weight loss of 9 pounds in 11 days is magnificent, but as they have a real problem with their extra pounds, more would be even better! This motivated me to write this article, including a few tips to take full advantage of the Calorie Shifting Plan.

So here are a few tips to improve weight loss using Calorie Shifting.

1. Set your goal rationally! Most of the people fail to achieve their target weight because they want something that even God will fail to confer. If you want to lose 15 pounds of weight in just 7 days, then I am sorry. No weight loss regimen has been discovered so far that will offer such an immense reduction of weight; unless, of course, you choose to operate out whole of your abdomen. Calorie shifting diet will give you 9 pound reduction in just 11 days.

2. Calorie Shifting works best when the diet is accompanied with an exercise program that avoids the reduction of muscle mass and favors the consumption of fat as energy resource. This exercise program preferably is a cardio exercise performed in the morning and even better before having breakfast. At that moment of the day the carbs stored from your last meal will be almost depleted and your body will be burning your fat instead.

3. Don't skip any of the 4 meals that you have to take daily. Moreover, you must take the tea-time snacks. These meal plans are formulated as per your need and they follow the calorie shifting protocol. Skipping a meal will break the rule and will not help you in successful weight reduction.

4. You must take at least 2.5 to 3 liters of water daily if you are staying in temperate countries. This amount of water will help to flush out the toxins that may produce during the weight loss regimen. Many people are simply not drinking enough water or replacing water by sugar saturated soft drinks. Try to avoid very sweet drinks, even when they made with dietetic sugar substitutes. The best drink still is fresh water!

5. Don't trust others! Prepare all the meals by your own hands. Don't let others to do job for you. Say for example, if the diet generator says 'Chicken sandwich' for a meal, don't go to the 'Subway' for a pack. Cook it in your kitchen. All the nutritious values will remain as it is.

6. Avoid refined sugar whenever possible unless it is on the menu. Sugar substitutes can bring about their own set of problems, but we need to solve the weight loss problem first.

7. You need adequate sleep! No matter whichever weight loss regimen you adopt, if you are not sleeping at least 8 hours a day, they will definitely fail. Sleeplessness will create anxiety and depression. It will slow down the normal metabolic processes. It severely hampers your daily routine and you will not be attracted to the weight loss regimen.

8. A lot depends on how you prepare the food. When the daily menu includes chicken, for instance, it doesn’t define how to prepare it. As far as the calorie shifting theory goes, you are free to have fried chicken. But using your good sense it is clear that by taking in all of that extra grease is not really good for your weight loss aspirations! So take as much of the grease off and bake or broil your chicken. The breast is the best piece for low fat and high protein, but don’t restrict yourself to that unless you want to.

9. Change the menu plan as you feel so! Boredom with similar menus may drag you out from the weight loss journey. So, as soon as you feel weary, grab your computer and use the online diet generator to bring out a whole new bunch of fresh meal plans.

10. Use professional advise if you experience problems with the Calorie Shifting Diet. Most recommended program and inventor of the calorie shifting system is the improved “Fat Loss 4 Idiots”, called "Beyond Calories". Beyond Calories is an online book that shows you how to increase the number of meals you eat to get rid of even more pounds. It works by using H.S. foods to lose the extra weight. H. S. foods are High Satiety foods, that is foods which naturally make you feel full after you eat a small portion of them. In fact, Beyond Calories not only goes into great detail with lots of tips, tricks and secrets, but it gives very detailed examples of results that have been achieved and exactly how to make it work in your particular case. This program comes together with a very helpful on-line diet generator you should use to program your daily or weekly diet.

If strictly using the rules and in combination with cardio exercises, the Calorie Shifting Plan is a faster weight loss method than most other diet plans. Using common sense in the application of the diet and the combination of your menus, and by other tips and tricks explained in the new exciting book titled "Beyond Calories", will maximize your weight loss results.