The Dirty Little Secret of Calorie Shifting They Don"t Want You to Know
Let's take a moment and expose the true SECRET of calorie shifting diets to the bright light and eager eyes of desperate dieters everywhere.
The simple truth about calorie shifting is it's philosophy of rotational nutrition patterns.
While many outdated and tired dietary programs attack certain foods, or outlaw, ban or prohibit you from eating whole parts of the food chain, calorie shifting is actually an integral approach to ALL (ok,most..
:-) foods.
Essentially, it embraces the diversity that variety brings to your nutritional plate, and LEVERAGES this diversity to facilitate weight loss.
Let's take a quick peek at some of the science behind it, below.
Read on..
:-) Filed Under: Food, Glorious Food The basic tenant of diets like the fat loss 4 idiots program, (which popularized calorie shifting) is the constant variation of foods and nutritional patterns over a fixed, 11 day schedule.
You can choose amongst a wide swath of ordinary foods of YOUR liking over this period, with the only requirement being that you MUST vary when you consume them.
(i.
e - no eating the SAME thing everyday like many other popular but highly prohibitive programs) Another very novel element of this sort of plan is the "three day vacation" after each 11 day cycle, where you are essentially given a 3 day pass to indulge your food fantasies (within reason, of course..
:-) before repeating the 11 days success cycle again.
Filed Under: What about Exercises? Exercise is NOT a mandate under calorie shifting...
but it IS recommended.
Why? It's quite simple.
Exercise does a body good..
:-) And failure to move your body, regardless of your size, is NEVER a good thing, and counterproductive to good health, and a holistic view of well being, which calorie shifting aims to fix in the first place.
The simple truth about calorie shifting is it's philosophy of rotational nutrition patterns.
While many outdated and tired dietary programs attack certain foods, or outlaw, ban or prohibit you from eating whole parts of the food chain, calorie shifting is actually an integral approach to ALL (ok,most..
:-) foods.
Essentially, it embraces the diversity that variety brings to your nutritional plate, and LEVERAGES this diversity to facilitate weight loss.
Let's take a quick peek at some of the science behind it, below.
Read on..
:-) Filed Under: Food, Glorious Food The basic tenant of diets like the fat loss 4 idiots program, (which popularized calorie shifting) is the constant variation of foods and nutritional patterns over a fixed, 11 day schedule.
You can choose amongst a wide swath of ordinary foods of YOUR liking over this period, with the only requirement being that you MUST vary when you consume them.
(i.
e - no eating the SAME thing everyday like many other popular but highly prohibitive programs) Another very novel element of this sort of plan is the "three day vacation" after each 11 day cycle, where you are essentially given a 3 day pass to indulge your food fantasies (within reason, of course..
:-) before repeating the 11 days success cycle again.
Filed Under: What about Exercises? Exercise is NOT a mandate under calorie shifting...
but it IS recommended.
Why? It's quite simple.
Exercise does a body good..
:-) And failure to move your body, regardless of your size, is NEVER a good thing, and counterproductive to good health, and a holistic view of well being, which calorie shifting aims to fix in the first place.
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