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When deciding to lose weight, many people fall into the trap of believing that they will automatically lose weight if they just eat less. Because of this, the majority of people head straight to the diet which promises them the most effect from eating the least amount of food possible. This is actually one of the worst ways you can possibly use to lose weight. It’s often called the “low calorie” approach and is very unhealthy for you.

With this type of approach, you are actually starving your body of the food that it needs to survive. This sends it into “shock mode” which leads to you not losing much your excess fat, if any at all. “Shock mode” is when your metabolism – the process which controls how much fat you have on your body – becomes scared that you aren’t getting enough to eat, so it hoards all the energy it can and stores it as fat.

Your metabolism does this because it feels as if it is being starved. It thinks that you don’t have any food to eat so it simply cuts down the amount of energy that it burns. So if your metabolism used to burn 2,500 calories when you were eating 3,000 calories a day – it will only burn 500 calories if you suddenly start to eat 1,500 calories a day. It’s a natural “fail safe” system which has evolved over thousands of years.

So if using low calorie diets isn’t the answer to fast weight loss then what is? Because using low calorie diets actually battle against your body, you need to be able to work with your body to ‘trick’ it into burning more energy than you are consuming.

To do that, you should use a diet program known as “calorie shifting”. Since calorie shifting works on the basis of eating small, frequent meals (4-6 a day) coupled with eating different amounts of calories each day, your metabolism will start to think that you have more food than you can eat… which leads it to burn as much energy as it wants. Because you are eating different amounts of calories each day, your metabolism burns more energy than what you are eating, which is the key to fast weight loss.

However, the key point here is that these types of diets don’t care about what types of food you eat (I.E healthy foods, low fat foods, etc) – they are purely focused on how many calories you eat each day.

The most popular “calorie shifting” diet on the Internet is called “Fat Loss 4 Idiots”. It’s an 11 day cycle diet which promises to help you lose “9lbs every 11 days”.  It does this by giving you meal plans for the full 11 days that vary in portion and frequency to give your metabolism an excuse to burn as much of your excess fat you want.

The diet has been proven to work time and time again by hundreds of positive customer reviews, which has made it one of the most popular for over 3 years now.

You can see how it works in more detail by visiting their homepage here >>

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