Calorie Shifting Review - Is this Diet useful for a 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 supposed to be a rapid and safe weight loss without starving yourself. This blog describes my personal experiences with this diet. 



Calorie Shifting Review


After several intents with different weight loss diets, I decided to give it a try with the "Calorie Shifting Diet", a diet promoted in Internet as "Beyond Calorie Diet". The diet is claimed to result in a faster  and sustainable weight loss and for being more economic and healthier. This blog describes my experiences with this diet and you will understand why I chose this method and stoped wasting money on diet pills and doing other unhealthy things for losing weight - and maintaining this.  

Many of the popular programs, supplements and diets currently on the market help people lose weight. In general if you follow a calorie reduced diet you will drop some pounds. But that is only half the battle. The real challenge is keeping the pounds off once they have been shed. Common diets often advise people to reduce or eliminate certain type of foods from their diets, such as carbohydrates, fat or even proteins. The immediate result of these diets in general is a short-term weight loss but the body’s metabolism usually adjusts after a few days to the new eating regime by slowing down in an attempt to conserve energy. In other words, your body enters into a "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 a diet called "Calorie Shifting" in a series of postings. This diet was designed to overcome several general dieting problems:

  • It is healthier compared to other diets 
  • It avoids the rebound effect
  • It is cheaper compared to many other diets
  • The only diet I found where you do not need to starve
  • It results in a FASTER weight loss compared to other diets
  • You don´t need to starve!
As a conclusion, the only real disadvantage of this diet I found is the fact that it is a bit time consuming to start with it. The reason is that at the beginning of shifting calories you´ll need to develop diet plans based on the estimated average calorie demand of your body. I did this homework by my own using the free Food and Calorie finder posted below which I found a very helpful tool in developing menu plans and calculating calorie intakes. Once you developed your menu plans, there will be only minor adjustment work involved when you decide to modify a menu using different or changing quantities of ingredients. 

As the Calorie Shifting Diet is not really that straight forward compared to other diets, I decided to present the rationals and applications of this weight loss diet in this blog. Here you will learn how to lose rapidly weight by "shifting  Calories" and how to start even without sofisticated software and guidance. As introduction to the Calorie Shifting Diet, I recommend to start with the following articles:

1. How to Calorie Shift as Healthy Loss Diet - and use the free Food and Calorie Finder as Menu Planer (see bottom of this page).
3. Strengths and Drawbacks of the Calorie Shifting Diet
4. Calorie Shifting - Maximized Weight Loss

As everything in our modern world, there are people who developed tools to make life easier. If you don´t want to invest time in counting calories and developing menu plans by your own, it is easier and faster to use commercial calorie shifting sofware with automatic diet planer which comes together with a diet handbook, called "Beyond Calories Diet".