Diet Tips

What is the best option when it comes to losing weight? In today’s world where we are bombarded by brochures, advertisements, and banners, it is become really difficult to discover the answer by yourself.

So, are fad diets that offer super fast result worth to try? Maybe having a popular diet like Atkins is better? Hey, you might even want to try next door’s Mrs. Smith secret tricks or Uncle Tom’s methods to achieve your ideal weight.

Even though you have a bunch of way to lose weight in your hand, I doubt you’ll find the prospect of testing it one by one really interesting; after all, all that you want is to get rid of the extra fat as soon as possible.

Let’s analyze the options that we got:
1. Fad diet; grapefruit diet, cabbage soup diet (low calorie), atkins diet (low carbs), the list goes on and the conclusion is ‘absolutely NO’.

The diets above guarantee fast weight loss as well as fast weight gain after you’re back to your old eating bahavior, it will also make you suffer lack of nutrients as a result of banning certain food groups, feeling hungry throughout the day, and many other side effects. It will only add depression to your weight loss process and messed up your daily activities.

2. Suggestion and advises from relatives in the form of ‘home made’ diet plans; while sometimes it seems that the plans worked for them, remember that they are not expert in the field and can’t giving professional solution to the problem.

For example, I know someone who only takes two meals a day and sometimes even just once. Oddly enough, he doesn’t have any problem with his health because his body can accept that eating behavior perfectly, but of course not everyone can do that. If you are really going to follow advices from someone who is not a professional, consult your doctor first.

3. ‘Traditional’ diet method that involving reducing calorie intake while taking long hours of cardio and weight training sessions; it seems nice and ‘following the rules’, but the answer is still NO, it won’t do at all.

Why? If you’re on a diet that reduce carbs or calorie intake (also known as low carb/low calorie diet), your body doesn’t get the amount that it usually gets; this condition will activate its defense mechanism against starvation: keep the fat instead of burn it and slow down its metabolic rate. When you fight against your own body, it will win; you’ll notice that when it is getting harder and harder to lose weight, even when the same diet plans applied.

So, what is the best way to lose weight? The answer is ‘calorie shifting’. Calorie shifting is a method devised to counter the body mechanism by keep changing the calorie intakes between meals each day, thus make your body unable to identify the reducing in calorie intakes.

That’s not all, there are specific days that specially chosen as the ‘high calorie’ day when you break the low calorie routine and boost the calorie intake throughout the day. In other words, you can have foods that usually not included in ‘healthy eating’ criteria like cookies, chocolate, and fries. Again, this will trick your body into believe that you are eating as usual. Read more about calorie shifting at diet for fast weight loss.

Aside from kicking hunger and eating foods that you dislike from the process, this method also guarantee fast fat burning by keeping your metabolic rate high and steady. Exercise is still needed and if you have time for cardio and weight training, it is even better. But if you don’t, mild exercise such as light jog or stair climbing is enough to complement this diet. Read more about complementing this diet with great exercise at how to lose weight quickly.

‘Calorie shifting’ is truly the best way to lose weight and it will work when other fails; it even works for vegetarian by replacing meat and dairy products with soy products. Note that you don’t have to be an expert in ‘calorie shifting’ theory to implement it; why? Discover the answer at a review of Fat Loss 4 Idiots.