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.
Well, even with the streams on information about losing weight that you can get, I’m pretty sure the prospect of testing them one by one will blow your resolution to lose weight in an instant.
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. He doesn’t seems to having health problem since his body has somehow adjust with this behavior, but it surely not something that everybody can follow. If you are really going to follow advices from someone who is not a professional, consult your doctor first.
3. ‘Conservative’ diet that every ‘expert’ suggested: low calorie meals (probably by measuring every ounce of it) and hours at treadmill, stationary bike, or elliptical machine, complemented by some weight lifting at your local gym; it does sounds like a ‘hard work that will be paid off’, but the fact is it WON’T WORK either.
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.
Alternating calorie intake is not the only part of the program; it also specify a few days where the user can ignore all the rules and eating freely throughout the day; this is called high calorie 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 fast weight loss diet.
Not only you avoiding hunger and eating the food that you dislike, this method also keep your metabolism rate steadily high, thus result in fast and steady fat burning. 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 lose weight quickly – how to do it.
‘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 another look at Fat Loss 4 Idiots.