To answer this common health and fitness question, I need to first say that this diet does indeed work for many people.
The Calorie Shifting diet (known more as Fat Loss 4 Idiots) is probably the most popular diet in the world today (or one of them, at least).
I've personally had contact with hundreds of users of this diet and the results are overwhelmingly positive.
Of course, this doesn't answer the important question of how does calorie shifting work? To answer that we need to realize why so many other diets fail.
This has to do with the depriving nature of many diets.
The basic rule of many diets is to deprive you of enough calories or force you to cut down or give up a specific nutrient like carbs or protein.
This is something which our body dislikes and fears.
It reacts by trying to conserve the food it has stored by burning less and less calories.
This is called metabolic slowdown.
Metabolic slowdown creeps up on you and before you know what has hit you, you're unable to lose more weight.
This is because your body is taking its time in burning calories.
This happens because when our body senses that we're dieting, it automatically slows down to preserve itself.
It still believes we live in a time in which food was scarce.
To avoid this metabolic slowdown, you may shift your calories.
Calorie Shifting helps to 'trick' your metabolism into believing you're not dieting when in fact you are.
This means that you can lose weight without causing metabolic slowdown.
By doing so you achieve a fast and long term weight loss.
How do you shift your calories? The easiest way is to follow the Calorie Shifting diet (Fat Loss 4 Idiots)