Using the tradtional starvation diet, the body tends to slow down its natural metabolism so that its fat stores - which it holds back for emergendcies - isn’t depleted. A calorie shifting diet is designed to fight this tendency in the body. Its entire purpose is to keep the metabolism rate from decreasing.

Whereas with the traditional approach, the body protects its fat reservoir, a calorie shifting diet works against nature to counteract this effect. By using this method, your metabolic rate will not decrease because your body will never catch on to the fact that your fat stores are in jeopardy.

Take for example; if you were following a strict 1000 calorie a day diet you would probably not lose any weight. So instead of this you alter the amounts of calories that your body gets. So you could have 100 calories one day and then the next day eat 1200, then you could go back down to 900 a day and so on. This way your body does not become militant to the specific amounts of calories and as it never knows what it is going to get; your metabolism works at its normal fast rate. You are in effect playing a trick against your body.

There are other benefits to this method. For instance, it’s been proven that people tend to snack on certain days, whereas on others, they are not as likely to do so. This allows you to plan snacks accordingly. Calorie shifting also allows you eat a larger variety of foods, as you can make up tomorrow for what you eat today. As a result, you’ll probably stick with the diet longer.

A good calorie shifting diet to follow is that for 4 days out of the week you could eat the same amount of calories and eat low fat foods. Then you could have 3 days of the week eating a higher consumption of calories and in effect eating anything you want. Then after the 3 days you go back to the strict level of calories. This will work in the exact same way and will help your metabolism stay fast to ensure you actually lose the weight you set out to lose.

Your body is smarter than you think; so make sure you are always changing the calorie amount on a regular basis; your body will soon learn to recognise that you eat less after a certain amount of time and will change to accommodate this. When you raise or lower your calorie intake; make sure it is different every time. Always keep track by writing everything down that you eat and the amount of calories eaten that day or week.

If you’re one of those who has thus far found permanent weight loss evasive, take heart! The calorie shifting diet might be just what the doctor ordered, and might be your key to permanent success.

And one last thing, consume at least 8 to 10 glasses of water everyday. This is to ensure that your body does not retain water to make up for the loss of it.

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