Dieting For Lazy People

Some people just don't have the wherewithal, the stamina, the willpower, the motivation, the discipline, and the drive to start a diet and stay on it. Is it their own fault? Is it an attitude problem? Or is it a problem with the diet itself? Could it be that the diet plans that we have to choose from are not appealing and seem very difficult to follow, due to the amount of sacrifice, discipline, and mental reconditioning that would be required of us?

What if there was a diet for lazy people? What if there was a diet that allowed you to eat as much food as you want to your satisfaction? What if there was a diet that allowed you to eat food from all four major food groups? What if such a diet did exist, and could yield rapid weight loss results?

Though it may seem too good to be true, there does indeed exist such a diet as described above: the calorie shifting diet. This diet is gaining widespread popularity as a major player on the "mainstream" diet scene. What makes it unique from all other diets is the fact that you don't have to count or restrict your calories, your carbohydrates, fats, or anything else. You can literally eat as much food as you want at each meal until you are satisfied (but not too full). In fact, you are required to eat four full meals every day. Furthermore, your diet regimen would contain foods from all four major food groups.

While on this diet you can expect to lose 9 pounds every 11 days. Now this may alarm most nutritionists, who advocate losing weight at a slower pace because rapid weight loss is unsafe. To address this very legitimate concern, the calorie shifting diet also requires you to take a mandatory 3-day break, oftentimes referred to as "cheat days", every 2 weeks. This means that you would follow the diet regimen for 11 days and then take 3 days off from your diet, before you resume your diet again for another 11 days. During these 3 days you are expected to eat healthy, but not to actually follow the diet. This gives your body a chance to rest from the rapid weight loss you will have been experiencing.

How does the calorie shifting diet work? Calorie shifting, as the name implies, is the process of shifting the types of calories that you consume from meal to meal on a rotational basis over several days. In other words, what you eat for breakfast on day 1 dictates what types of foods you can and can't have for every meal for the next 11 days, because your meals must follow a specific pattern of including and excluding various nutrients at specific intervals in order for your body to enter a fat burning mode.

Research has shown that you can deliberately manipulate your body's metabolism at will by eating certain types of foods at certain times. Your metabolism is what regulates the rate at which your body converts food into energy, stores it as fat, or consumes your fat stores. If it detects a nutritional deficit, it compensates by burning its fat stores.

In the case of the calorie shifting diet, of course you are not really experiencing a nutritional deficit, as you will be consuming foods from every food group in plentiful quantity. But because you will be consuming only certain types of foods at certain times, at certain intervals, you are effectively simulating a nutritional deficit in a series of short bursts while simultaneously "recovering" from your deficit. By maintaining this cyclic diet, you can sustain rapid weight loss over long periods of time with absolutely zero adverse effects. Taking the 3 day break every 2 weeks also helps to stabilize your body and prevent your body's metabolism from "adapting" to the weight loss and hitting a plateau.

It doesn't get any lazier than this.

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