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CALORIE SHIFTING AS A METHOD OF 'DIET WEIGHT CONTROL'
by David K Snyder
Low fat diets are being used by hundreds of thousands of overweight people as we speak. Has it curbed the overweight epidemic we are facing? Not even slowed it down. There are thousands of low fat items in the groceries and restaurants. We are consuming more low fat products than ever.
Where are we as a society today? In the last 30 years our overweight population has gone from approximately 1 in 8 to approximately 1 in 2. This means we currently have over 100 million overweight Americans and the world is laughing at us.
Starvation diets, including low calorie and low carb diets, just arent working. We see rapid weight loss then the weight gain starts all over. Just like a yoyo. We gain and we lose....we gain and we lose.
Lets look at a revolutionary new weight loss idea. It is called calorie shifting. Our bodys metabolism adjusts to what we have eaten in the last few days. It has no way of knowing what we are going to eat tomorrow or the next day so it has to go on history. So what happens if we trick it into speeding up the eat foods that have calories that are rapidly consumed. It consumes those calories and then moves to consume our stored fat calories.
We then continually change our calorie intake on a daily basis. We change the types of calories we are consuming as well as when we consume them. This constant changing causes our bodys metabolism in high gear and causes us to keep losing weight. This idea makes sense as we look at the other diets we have seen on the market lately. Most of them encourage us to starve our body which causes our metabolism to slow expecting us to not get enough food the next day. For example we eat 2500 calories normally then we drop our calorie intake to 1000. Our body gears down to the 1000 level and burns only 1000. When we return to the 2500 calorie diet our body is still at the 1000 calorie level and the extra 1500 calories get stored as fat.
We then gain our weight back while our body adjusts. We have just defeated ourselves in reaching that much sought after goal of weight loss.
The author is an RN living with his cat. He is about 15 pounds overweight and understands the problems with weight loss and dieting. Visit his blog at http://loseweight-dave.blogspot.com for more ideas about weight loss and links to some of the products discussed in his articles.
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