Have you tried on last year’s bathing suit yet? This would be a good time. There is still a few day left to take emergency action if necessary!

You can take off those extra pounds quickly with the calorie shifting diet plan: in fact, if you plan it right, some of the weekends can even fall on your mandatory 3 days off between the 11 day cycles!

There are several types of calorie shifting diet plans, but the one I prefer is called “Fat Loss 4 Idiots“. Many people using this plan see weight loss at double the rate of conventional diets. And the system is very easy to use. You don’t have to count calories, calculate body mass, or measure anything. The system provides you with an 11-Day diet menu, so all you have to do is go to the grocery store.

“Fat Loss 4 Idiots” is not an e-book, but an online membership site which provides the dieter with an “Online Diet Generator”. This enables you to customize your 11-day calorie shifting menus to your personal preferences. And if you would like to lose weight even faster, you can purchase “Beyond Calories” for the accelerated program.

Vegetarian? This calorie shifting plan includes a vegetarian section, but some of the menu selections may not be suitable for purests.

Many people have asked if they have to exercise to lose weight on the calorie shifting plan. It is recommended that you at least take a couple of long walks each day. But if you want to look good in your bathing suit, you’re going to have to tone those abs a bit. However, ab exercises are not a requirement of the calorie shifting system as far as burning fat is concerned.

You can get an 11-day sample menu by filling out the form at the top of the right-hand column. If you are a vegetarian, after signing up for the newsletter, email me for the 5 day sample vegetarian menu.

In summary, summer is coming faster than you think, and not even the calorie shifting diet plan has a magic wand. You may want to start thinking about shedding the winter blubber soon!

Click on the link below to learn more about the Calorie Shifting Diet Plan:

http://jl1954.4idiots.hop.clickbank.net

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One of the great benefits of the Fat Loss 4 Idiots calorie shifting plan is that you only pay a one-time fee for a lifetime membership. That means that the Online Diet Generator is available to you any time you need it. The Online Diet Generator allows you to customize the 11-day calorie shifting menu to suit your personal taste as closely as possible.

If you have lost weight in the past and now are on a “maintenance” regimen, it’s great to know that if you do gain some weight back, you can go to the Fat Loss 4 Idiots site anytime and drop the extra pounds fast!

I’m not telling you this as a license to “cheat” during the Holidays, just to let you know that, if you do, the calorie shifting plan is there to bail you out.

If you are not currently a “Fat Loss 4 Idiots” member, you can sign by clicking here!

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Fat Loss 4 Idiots provides you with daily menus, all you have to do is read them over and make a grocery list. This calorie shifting plan is an online system with a one-time fee for a lifelong membership. At the site, there is an Online Diet Generator where you can customize your meals to make them more to your liking. There is even a Vegetarian version.

You eat exactly four times a day for 11 days, then take a 3 day break. On this break, you can eat whatever you want as long as you don’t overstuff.

You also must, and this is absolutely crucial, you must drink 10 eight-ounce glasses of water per day. You may have diet soda, Crystal Light, or tea with artificial sweetener with your meals, but not as a substitute for the water.

For maximum results, it is recommended that you take 2 thirty minute walks per day, at a normal pace for you. You will lose a lot of weight with the calorie shifting plan without the walks, but you’ll lose more if you take them.

The calorie shifting plan is not extremely rigid. What is important is that you eat from the food group for a specific menu. If it says chicken, it does not matter how it is prepared, though I personally would stay away from the fried version. If it specifies a certain kind of nut, you can substitute another nut if necessary.

If your doctor has told you that you need to lower your cholesterol, the calorie shifting plan may not work for you. You should follow a conventional weight loss plan that provides a balanced diet for each meal.

The bottom line is, if you need to lose weight fast without compromising your health with dangerous pills, the calorie shifting plan is a good place to start.

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By Judson Lassiter

Many people are now turning to calorie shifting for rapid weight loss. It’s easy to see why when you analyze the options.

The most popular way to lose weight fast is by taking appetite suppressants and “Fat Burning” supplements, but many of these products have come under scrutiny lately for having adverse effects on the health. This has caused a lot of people to look for more natural methods of losing weight fast.

Another popular rapid weight loss system is based on exercising less than on a conventional diet plan, but doing it in a certain pattern. This is popular with younger, more active people, but doesn’t fit the bill for everyone.

Calorie Shifting fills the gap for those who want rapid weight loss without pills or intensive workouts. Some light exercise is recommended for maximum effect, but it is more in the form of a long brisk walk rather than a trip to the gym.

Calorie shifting is based on eating from different food groups in a certain pattern, which theoretically keeps the metabolism off-balance. This keeps the body from adjusting to lower calorie levels and prevents the “plateaus” that occur with conventional diet plans. It also results in rapid weight loss. Losses of up to 9 pounds in 11 days have been reported.

Though the calorie shifting menus do not provide for a balanced diet per meal, the balance does occur over a period of a few days. However, the system has not been around long enough for studies on the long term health effects to be conclusive.

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This said, I have received a few letters from people who want even faster weight loss. They say that a loss of 9 pounds in 11 days is great, but more would be even better! So here are a few tips to maximize weight loss through calorie shifting.

1.  How you prepare the food. When the daily menu includes chicken, for example, it doesn’t specify how to prepare it. As far as the calorie shifting theory goes, you could have fried chicken. But common sense will tell you that you taking in all of that extra grease is not really good for your weight loss aspirations! So take the skin off of your chicken and bake or broil it. The breast is the best piece for low fat and high protein, but don’t restrict yourself to that unless you want to.
2. If the menu for a meal calls for nuts along with a food that is lower in fat, try to eat more heavily of the low fat selection. The oils in nuts are healthy, beneficial oils, but they can be fattening when taken in excess.
3. Get more excercise than the plan call for. Try to do a one-hour session 3 times a week with a mixture of aerobic and resistance exercises. I recommend a good walk daily in addtion to this if possible. If not, try to walk on the days that you don’t exercise.
4. Avoid refined sugar whenever possible unless it is on the menu. Sugar substitutes can bring about their own set of problems, but we need to solve the weight loss problem first.
5. Purchase “Beyond Calories” along with the “Fat Loss 4 Idiots” calorie shifting system. In fact, about half of my customers do this right up front, and the feedback has been very positive.

 In summary, the calorie shifting plan is a faster weight loss method than most, but it can be maximized by using common sense in your menus, getting more exercise, and by other tips and tricks from “Beyond Calories”.

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If you’re a parent like me, then you know your kids like the fast food chains like Burger King, Wendy’s, McDonalds’s etc…

So when you smell those french fries in a vehicle with the windows shut, it’s like getting hit with a sledgehammer of temptation.

Me, I am always the driver so I always get the bags of food handed to me first, and invariably I grab a small handful of fries as they’re on the way to the back seats…

If the kids don’t finish their french fries, that’s like a bonus for me since I rationalize that I “can’t let good good go to waste” and eat more french fries.

Sometimes, I am as hungry as the kids are and try to eat a salad instead of a burger and fires at the take out fast food places…

However, the temptation is usually too great for me, I really don’t like eating salads because it’s a lot of chewing and I’m always still hungry afterward.

So, if temptation is too much what I like to do is order a kids meal instead of a regular-sized adult meal, and I don’t just do this at the major fast food chains, I do this at restaurants, too.

Some people say that you can trick yourself into thinking you ate more by using smaller plates and that’s a decent method to try, but what I like doing is ordering kids meals wherever and whenever I can.

The fact is, at most restaurants the food portions are more than would be recommended by a dietician or someone who’s calorie shifting diet precludes a certain meal from being eaten.

Since the adult portions are usually more than necessary for a per-meal requirement, the kids meal is sufficient, especially if you’re eating the bread and the rolls and the apetizers that come before, during, and with the main entrees.

Point being, this is another method I used for calorie shifting and it works, but the best thing about doing things this way (eating kid’s meals) is there’s no battle with temptation and that’s what causes most people to quit any new diets, even a calorie shifting diet.

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Calorie shifting is a recent breakthrough in the science of weight loss. Conventional diet and exercise programs, as heart healthy as they may be, are slow and often “plateaus” are experienced when fat loss practically ceases. While the dieter is no doubt improving his general health and feeling better, this phenomina often leads to discouragement.

Through years of research, experimentation, and testing, the answer was found. By “shifting calories” in a certain pattern over a period of time, it was found that the plateaus could be avoided. Not only that, but test subjects lost weight at nearly twice the rate experienced by conventional dieters. Thus, the calorie shifting plan was developed and perfected.

The same fundamental fat loss truism still prevails. If you burn more calories than you consume, you will lose weight. But now, with the calorie shifting plan, your body does not adjust to the lower caloric intake level, which previously forced you to lower it again and again, while exercising harder and harder. This means that you never have to go hungry on the calorie shifting plan, or to the gym either if you don’t want to. Two half-hour walks per day are recommended for best results.

The other major benefit of calorie shifting is its simplicity. With conventional diet plans, you have to calculate your basil metabolic rate (it took me two days to find out what that meant!), how many calories to consume each day, and how much to exercise. Then, the meals consisted of a certain percentage of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. You have to read labels, calculate how much of this and that to eat at each meal, and design a menu that will make all of that happen. Who has time for all of that? The diet plan consumes your whole day. That may be fine for the rich and famous, but you and I have to work for a living, clean house, cook, and raise the kids.

The calorie shifting plan provides you with menus for exactly four meals each day, you eat until you are satisfied but not overstuffed. Done. All you have to calculate is how much time you are saving by following the calorie shifting plan, and how much money you can afford to spend on your sleek new wardrobe!

There are other important aspects of the calorie shifting plan, but the one that really catches the attention is the 3-day break at the end of each 11- day cycle. You are required to eat whatever you like during these three days. You should still eat only until you are satisfied and not overstuffed. But the fact that there is a “light at the end of the tunnel” keeps many people on their weight loss program, instead of giving up in dispair.

So if you don’t need to lose a lot of weight, just want to live healthier, feel better, and have more energy, a conventional diet plan like Tom Venuto’s “Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle” will suit you just fine. But if you’re looking for fast fat loss and simplicity, you can begin today by clicking here.

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This is all relevant to how the calorie shifting plan works, but the changes I made to lose weight had very little to do with how I was eating at the time.

Like so many other people, I work in an office all day.

I usually ride the elevators to get to where I need to go, but I decided one way that I’d walk from the 5th floor down instead of riding the elevator all the way down from the 15 th floor.

I did this every day for 2 weeks, and it helped straighten out my back as well as give me a bare minimum of easy cardiovascular exercise.

Another thing I did to change my daily routine was to park further away from the train station where I pick up the train to commute to work.

Usually I try to find the closet spot to the station so I have to walk less of a distance, but these last 2 weeks, I’ve added about 5 minutes of walking into my daily routine.

The third thing I did was to vary the meals I was eating at work.  I’m not talking about meal planning or counting calories or anything, just getting something different every day instead of getting the same thing every day.

I lost 5 pounds just form making easy routine changes that don’t even make me feel like I am exercising at all.

Part of the reason why making slight changes like this has to do with metabolism confusion and muscle confusion, and both of these confusion techniques are part of why calorie shifting works so well.

Muscle Confusion:

Have you ever heard of “muscle confusion?” When muscles are confused as to what the heck is going on, they are forced to work harder. A hard-working muscle needs more energy to carry out the task. And where do muscles get energy from? Two sources, basically: food, and body fat.

Now, if you eat way too much every day, your muscles will get their energy supply from all this food, which is why an overweight person may be working out diligently seven days a week like a horse, and never lose a pound, because there are just too many beers, pizza and nachos in the picture.

But suppose you are like many people out there, watching what you eat, practicing portion control, counting calories, limiting sugar and fried foods, and exercising day after day after day — and you just aren’t seeing any results? Is this aggravating or what?

You are so serious about your workouts. Without fail, you make it to the gym almost every day. On your days off, you exercise maybe by riding a bike, walking or jogging at the park. Why isn’t the weight coming off? Why are your legs still flabby? Why is your middle still mushy?

It’s because your muscles have adapted to everything you are doing. This doesn’t mean that your routines are necessarily easy. They may still bring on sweat and fatigue, and even a little muscle burn. So shouldn’t you be losing more weight?

It’s time for muscle confusion. If your routine is predictable to your muscles, they will adapt. An adapted muscle requires LESS work than a confused muscle. Less work equals fewer calories burned, less body fat used for energy.

So instead of doing the same thing week after week after week for your legs, change up your program every few weeks. You maybe have heard this should be done every 12 weeks. Sometimes the protocol is named as eight weeks. But strive for a big change every 2-4 weeks, and see what happens!

You can switch up your routines by using different pieces of equipment or doing different exercises for the major muscle groups.

So if you always use the horizontal leg press, instead use: declined leg press, Smith machine barbell squats, hack squats.

If you do lying-down hamstring curls, do them on the seated machine.

If your gym has more than one leg extension machine, try another leg extension machine. The different make and model will stimulate your muscles.

Do you use mostly machines for upper body work? Start using dumbbells and barbells. Confuse your muscles. Shock them.

Do you always use the elliptical trainer for cardio? Start jogging on the treadmill. If you use the same piece of cardio equipment three times a week, take one of those sessions and replace it with a group cardio class.

If you never use an incline on the treadmill, start using a high one, but do not hold on. Holding on will cheat you big-time. If you’ve been holding on at no incline, then let go and swing your arms and never hold on again. Your muscles will be gratefully confused.

If you’ve been walking all this time, then jog. If you use mostly free weights, replace some of these routines with machines.

Bottom line: Never let your body get used to your workout routine. This will ensure muscle confusion.

Metabolism confusion:

With that last sentence in mind we should realize that muscle and metaobism confusion are closely related but a more accurate term for this would really be metabolism shifting, as a result of shifting calories in diet and in the stress levels (A.K.A. exercise) caused my muscle confusion.

Calorie shifting makes your metabolism work differently, makes it work harder, and results in fat loss.

A lot of people are obsessed with weight loss when they really just want to lose fat off their body.

As any good personal trainer will tell you, the more muscle there is in your overall body composition, the easier it is to burn fat…

The shifting of calories you do as part of your calorie shifting diet plan are condusive to burning fat without exercise because of how it alters the behavior of your metabolism…

The calorie shifting method is widely known at the Fat Loss 4 Idiots program by the Internet Made Simple company and it’s very popular and it does work.

However, you need to have some sort of plan/regimen , or diet that tells you when to do what… The beauty of this weight loss/ fat loss method is that it is easy to follow, free diet plans are widely available, but your best bet is to get the Fat Loss 4 Idiots ebook so you understand and become convinced in the legitimacy and effectivness of this health method for losing unwanted weight and fat.

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Everything. For all of these centuries we have known that exercise supports wellness and helps to keep people fit long into their old age. It is only in these recent years of sedentary work places and long hours of television or computer use that our bodies began to complain and become flabby from inattention and lack of use. What we did not really connect was the truth that this inactivity not only contributed to obesity in this nation but it also contributes to mental decline. Recent research studies into these connections are verifying what Cicero knew all those years ago. Inactive bodies lead to inactive muscles and less capable brains.  Now do you see a connection to calorie shifting?

Let me spell it out. When we keep fit physically, our brains benefit. Exercise helps to keep us fit. Eating properly and maintaining a healthy body weight helps to keep us fit. Calorie shifting can help you burn fat and lose weight to get back into a healthier lifestyle. Why?  Our bodies function better without excess fat. Fat even influences our cellular structure and circulation. With better circulation to carry nutrition to all parts of our bodies and remove wastes from our cells, our brains can work well much longer.
If you knew a way to protect yourself from mental decline was as simple as exercise and a healthy diet, wouldn’t that be enough to motivate you? Wouldn’t you choose to watch your grandchildren grow up? If you had a choice.  To some extent you do have a choice, everyday, simply by choosing what you eat more carefully and by adding exercise to your routine.
 
One study compared routine daily activity levels with cognitive function among women over 65. Their results verified that the most active women had a thirty percent lower risk of declining brain function. This loss of cognitive capabilities was related to distance walked not to the pace of walking.  These results were published in 2001 after a study of nearly 6000 women across the United States.  Additional studies showed that not only did moderate daily activity have positive effects on sustaining brain functions, but muscle toning and aerobic exercise contributed to improved cardiovascular health among people in their 70’s.  Source: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fit-body-fit-mind

Getting rid of excess fat is one result of regular exercise and physical activity. In addition the more knowledgeable we are about the links between brain function and physical wellness and fitness, the more likely we are to engage in life enhancing pursuits as our bodies age.  The calorie shifting diet plan is one very helpful way to boost your metabolism and burn fat away faster. As we pay bett  er attention to what we eat and engage in regular physical activity, even as simple as a regular daily walk, we reap benefits mentally and emotionally as well.

Fat Loss 4 Idiots is the internet’s premier calorie shifting diet plan.

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I read an article in Scientific American recently about how being physically fit helps you keep your mind mentally alert too. It makes sense. You need good circulation for your brain to work right.  Regular exercise is one way to keep that circulation and cardiovascular system running smoothly. Being careful not to overeat also helps. Remarkably it is still true that drinking more water and less soda or carbonated beverages is also beneficial to both your body and your brain.

Ideally if we are in good health and have cared for our bodies and our minds, we can live to old age and be healthy when we get there. We can really stay sharp, it is not a case of winning the gene pool lottery.
 
Our customary view is that intelligence is primarily genetic. But that is only part of the story. What you choose to eat and drink and do with your mind and body does have multiple affects on your health and mental condition throughout your life.

We may not be capable of avoiding all diminishment in our mental or physical performance over time, but it is astounding what this research is revealing about how much power we have to maintain our own wellness and mental health with physical activity. Thinking and keeping physically active go hand in hand. Each one affects the other.

So, I ask you again, do you know why you want to lose weight? I know why I do.  I want to be healthy and mentally alert through all of my life. So I turned to a calorie shifting diet plan to help me get on top of the need to get rid of excess belly fat.  It is working well. I am losing about 9 pounds every 11 days. Take a look at the program I am following at my calorie shifting site.  Be fit, mentally and physically as long as you are able. You will appreciate it and your family will too!

Source Material from Scientific American:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fit-body-fit-mind

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