The Shifting Calories Theory
The theory behind the shifting calories diet plan is that weight gain is caused by not properly regulating your metabolism.
If you have ever met anyone who is able to eat a huge meal every day without gaining a single pound, or if you have ever met anyone who only has to eat junk food once and he or she puts on weight, then you are observing examples of both fast and slow metabolisms at work.
Why is it that some people's bodies can metabolize food more efficiently than others? While it is true that the more muscle you have the greater your metabolism is, it is also true that the quantity of the types of food you eat at certain times can trigger your metabolic rate to go up or down? The shifting calories theory is based on the ability to manually trigger the appropriate metabolic response at will to induce weight loss, even though you are not exercising and you are not depriving yourself of any of the four food groups.
You are able to eat as much food as you want and you are able to eat food from all four food groups.
The only thing you are doing differently is that you are grouping together different types of calories such that they are only eaten at specific meals.
In order for this to work properly over several days, you would have to regroup, or shift these calories from meal to meal each day.
Your body's metabolism basically has the ability to adapt to your eating habits.
That is why they say that if you starve yourself, even though you will lose some weight at first, your weight loss will actually slow down.
The reason for the slowing down is because your metabolism adapts to the reduction in calories by slowing down the rate at which it consumes food, in an effort at self-preservation.
In a similar fashion, when your body detects the lack of certain nutrients at certain times in your body, a signal is sent in your body to trigger the release of the appropriate hormones that induce fat burning.
You are in effect, "tricking" your body into thinking it is going into starvation mode, even though you are really not.
This is because those calories that your body expects you to have at breakfast, lunch, or dinner, are being reintroduced again the next day at that meal time.
You are causing your body to work on burning through fat because you are tricking it into thinking that it is being deprived of carbs at this meal, but then you reintroduce them back at the next meal, while at the next meal you take away the proteins.
While on this diet, you can expect to lose 9 pounds every 11 days.
You must also take a break from this diet every 12th through 14th day.
These three "cheat" days allow your body to take a break from the rapid weight loss that you would have been experiencing.
If you have ever met anyone who is able to eat a huge meal every day without gaining a single pound, or if you have ever met anyone who only has to eat junk food once and he or she puts on weight, then you are observing examples of both fast and slow metabolisms at work.
Why is it that some people's bodies can metabolize food more efficiently than others? While it is true that the more muscle you have the greater your metabolism is, it is also true that the quantity of the types of food you eat at certain times can trigger your metabolic rate to go up or down? The shifting calories theory is based on the ability to manually trigger the appropriate metabolic response at will to induce weight loss, even though you are not exercising and you are not depriving yourself of any of the four food groups.
You are able to eat as much food as you want and you are able to eat food from all four food groups.
The only thing you are doing differently is that you are grouping together different types of calories such that they are only eaten at specific meals.
In order for this to work properly over several days, you would have to regroup, or shift these calories from meal to meal each day.
Your body's metabolism basically has the ability to adapt to your eating habits.
That is why they say that if you starve yourself, even though you will lose some weight at first, your weight loss will actually slow down.
The reason for the slowing down is because your metabolism adapts to the reduction in calories by slowing down the rate at which it consumes food, in an effort at self-preservation.
In a similar fashion, when your body detects the lack of certain nutrients at certain times in your body, a signal is sent in your body to trigger the release of the appropriate hormones that induce fat burning.
You are in effect, "tricking" your body into thinking it is going into starvation mode, even though you are really not.
This is because those calories that your body expects you to have at breakfast, lunch, or dinner, are being reintroduced again the next day at that meal time.
You are causing your body to work on burning through fat because you are tricking it into thinking that it is being deprived of carbs at this meal, but then you reintroduce them back at the next meal, while at the next meal you take away the proteins.
While on this diet, you can expect to lose 9 pounds every 11 days.
You must also take a break from this diet every 12th through 14th day.
These three "cheat" days allow your body to take a break from the rapid weight loss that you would have been experiencing.
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