Calorie shifting diets are unique among the glut of low-fat, low-carb and low-calorie diets out there today. First, they're unique because they promise fast fat loss, and they deliver. Can you lose 9 pounds in 11 days with the other diets, then take a 3 day break and do it again? Calorie shifting diets are also unique in that they let you enjoy food again.
Food is No Longer Your Foe
Have you ever walked into your kitchen to eat something while on a diet and found yourself snarling at everything you encountered? You looked at the salad bowl, but you'd eaten salad for days already and were sick of it. You looked at the bread; nope, low-carb, that's off-limits. You looked at the ice cream. Oh, too much fat and look at that sugar, and those calories!
Pasta, no, rice, no, gravies, no. Some fruits and vegetables might have been off limits if you were on a low-carb or a very low-calorie diet. Food was the enemy. Food made you fat and miserable. With calorie shifting diets, though, food is your best friend. It's food that makes you burn the fat, and that makes you slim.
How Food Burns Fat
That sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? As if that apple you eat runs around your stomach, burning fat and tossing coal in your body's furnace to burn even more. The food itself doesn't do anything but taste great, offer nutrition and give you a pleasant, satisfied feeling after eating. Of course the food can't burn fat. But when you digest the right foods, your body is told that it's time to burn fat. A fat-burning hormone appears in your bloodstream and it works to melt down fat wherever it finds it.
That's not the only way your food can make you slim. On good calorie shifting diets, you should be eating 4 times a day. The very act of throwing fuel in your body more frequently makes your metabolism work harder and burn hotter. It's like throwing logs on a fire, the flame flares up right away at the new burn.
So you've got fat-burning hormones swimming around and a furnace that's being replenished regularly. Food has turned your body into an efficient fat-burning machine. And what's even better, if you really miss a favorite food, you know you'll only have 11 days at the most between the times you can indulge.
Eat Food to Lose Weight - Fuel Your Metabolism