Calorie shifting diets “fool” your body into shifting into a more energized metabolism so you burn calories quicker. The basic premise is to up-shift or down-shift your calorie intake when you reach a weight loss plateau, which is often caused by your body adjusting to your regular calorie intake. Your metabolism learns to live on the new calories you’re consuming, and weight loss grinds to a halt.

This is where “calorie shifting” comes in. Calorie shifting is up-shifting or down-shifting your calorie intake on a regular basis, in an attempt to “fool” your body’s metabolism from settling down at any level. This prevents any weight loss plateaus.

If you want to avoid starving yourself or going through exercise you can’t handle, then calorie shifting may be for you. You’ll need to have followed a regular diet for at least a month before trying calorie shifting — just to be on the safe side. Here’s an example of how to calorie-shift:

Say you’re following a 2,000 calorie diet. The first week of calorie shifting, you should add 300 calories to your diet two days, say Sunday and Wednesday. The rest of the time, eat your normal 2,000 calorie diet.

On the second, choose two other days and eat 500 less calories on those. Maintain the setup from the previous week.

The third week, add 400 calories to your diet on Tuesday and Friday, so you’ll eat 2,400 calories.

The fourth week, eat 500 less calories on Wednesday and Saturday, so you’ll eat 1,500 calories.

After you follow this four week process, go back to your regular diet for at least two weeks before you try the calorie shifting again. You should see increased weight loss during the calorie shifting diet, because you are fooling your metabolism so it doesn’t have time to get used to what you’re consuming.

It’s also very important to eat the right kinds of foods when you’re calorie shifting, too. Certain combinations of foods can make calorie shifting more effective, and you have to know what types of foods to combine with each other, and in what order, to help your body react to calorie shifting.

When you begin your calorie shifting diet, you may not want to consume more calories, it may not make sense to you, but you do have to consume more calories with the plan, in order to shift your metabolism and get it working again. That doesn’t mean adding empty calories to your diet. You should always eat healthy alternatives to high-calories snacks and high-fat snacks. If you follow one of the many calorie shifting diets available, you’ll end up losing more weight than you would simply following your 2,000 calorie diet, and you’ll lose the weight quicker. It really works, and you don’t have to starve yourself to lose the weight you want to lose.

There are several calorie shifting diets available online such as Fat Loss For Idiots and the Every Other Day Diet. If you would like to learn more about these diets, read our Fat Loss For Idiots review or our review on the Every Other Day Diet.

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