How does Calorie Shifting Work?
May 3, 2008 by Jan Margrit
Filed under Weight Loss Tips
Calorie Shifting is the procedure whereby you alter your eating habits and food combinations, forcing your metabolism to burn more of the calories you eat.
Your metabolism can’t know what your calorie intake will be tomorrow or the day after, so it burns calories based on your eating habits during the past few days. Your metabolism assumes your eating habits will be the same over the next days to come.
If however, you could do the opposite of what your metabolism was expecting this would effectively shock your system into burning more calories. By rotating the foods you eat and the frequency and types of foods, your metabolism will start to burn calories based on this rotation.
Effectively, you are forcing your metabolism to burn more of the calories it receives, as it expects to see this differing calorie intake continue for the days to come.
After every meal you eat, hormones are released by your brain. One hormone, the Fat Burning Hormone, controls the amount of calories used by the body and the other hormone, the Fat Storing Hormone, controls the amount of calories stored as fat in your body.
Making your body release more Fat Burning hormones would cause your body to burn more calories. Reducing the amount of Fat Storing hormones, reduces the number of calories stored in your body as fat. Making these changes happen is the basis of a Calorie Shifting Diet.
Fat tissue produced by your body is designed to be burned away as energy used up during your day to day activities. If the volume of Fat Burning Hormones released after every meal however is too low, instead of burning this fat tissue, your body stores it.
Calorie Shifting involves rotating the food types and the frequency, to allow the release of the highest percentage of Fat Burning Hormones. By achieving this, you force your body to burn a higher percentage of the calories you eat and minimize the percentage your body stores as fat.
Using a Calorie Shifting diet in the proper cycles can result in weight loss appening for every cycle of the program. This weight loss happens without any starvation regimes or eliminating any food types.
The weight loss is the direct result of the shifting nutrition patterns and the way in which your body produces Fat Burning Hormones and Fat Storing Hormones.
A Calorie Shifting diet allows your body to burn more of your calorie intake as energy while also using up the fat deposits already stored, converting both to fuel for your daily activities.
I believe Calorie Shifting to be most effective for individuals with a Body Mass Index of between 26 and 36. This range seems to react best to Calorie Shifting diets, although, as with every kind of weight loss rogram, results will vary from individual to individual. In my experience however, people in the BMI range of 26 to 36 react best to Calorie Shifting diets.
How To Choose the Best Weight Loss Program for Your Body Type
May 2, 2008 by Jan Margrit
Filed under Weight Loss Programs
Have you ever stopped to wonder why there are so many weight loss programs available today? Surely loosing weight should be a simple equation – more exercise or less calo rie intake. Unfortunately it’s not quite that simple, and making the right decision about a new program is something which adds significantly to the benefits such a program would offer in the long term.
Choosing a weight loss program is easy. Matching a program to your body type and requirements is much more difficult. Too many people wrongly assume that a popular or effective program that works for somebody else will also work for them.
One thing all weight loss programs have in common is the amount of advertising time they devote to the weight loss you can achieve using the particular program. As far as I know though, no weight loss program starts off by matching itself to any particular segment of users.
The reason weight loss programs don’t do this matching is really quite simple. The publishers or owners of these programs obviously want to have the biggest number of customers, so if they were to say things like -only suitable to xxx types- they would probably be limiting their exposure.
The weight loss arket is extremely competitive and as with any competitive market, publishers need to position their product to the widest possible user base. A weight loss product which is very effective for one particular type of person might be less effective for a different type, making the right choice of program vitally important.
How do you choose the right weight loss program though ? It’s not just a case of trying something and if it doesn’t work trying something else. One of the most common reasons people give up on trying to lose weight is frustration. Frustration when they don’t see the results they expected or were promised by the program. Imagine the frustration levels if you had to switch to a new program every week because you didn’t make the right choice of program ?
Any weight loss program will involve a level of commitment on your part. Commitment to stick to the program and schedule. Commitment to cut out or substitute certain food types. Commitment to making the necessary life-style changes for the program to succeed. You are much more likely to have this commitment to a program that works for your profile than one that doesn’t.
Successfully choosing a weight loss program should involve an easy procedure, since not everybody is a weight loss xpert or knows what to look for. Finding the right product can involve an amount of research that not everybody has time to do.
The following are the main points to keep in mind:
1. Finding your Body Mass Index
2. Determining your weight loss expectation
3. Estimating your time frame for weight loss
Making these 3 simple decisions will help you to choose the best weight loss program for you and give you the best chance of successfully loosing your excess weight and achieving your own goals.


