Smartest Way To Lose Weight
Monday, July 19th, 2010What do you think the best method to lose 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, should you go for the famous fad diet that offer lightning speed result? Or following the popular diet such as South Beach diet? You may even interested in your neighbor Ms. Smith secret tricks or Uncle Tom’s methods to achieve your ideal weight.
Even though you have a bunch of way to lose weight in your hand, I doubt you’ll find the prospect of testing it one by one really interesting; after all, all that you want is to get rid of the extra fat as soon as possible.
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’.
With this kind of diet, you’ll gain the weight back as fast as you lose it, suffer lack of nutrients due to restriction of certain food groups, and feel hungry with various other side effects during the process. 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. Oddly enough, he doesn’t have any problem with his health because his body can accept that eating behavior perfectly, but of course not everyone can do that. If you are really going to follow advices from someone who is not a professional, consult your doctor first.
3. ‘Traditional’ diet method that involving reducing calorie intake while taking long hours of cardio and weight training sessions; it seems nice and ‘following the rules’, but the answer is still NO, it won’t do at all.
Why? When you are following a strict diet plan and reducing calorie/carbs intake, your body will think that sufficient foods is not available and it will ‘counter’ you by lowering its metabolism rate and preserve the fat instead of burn it. 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.
That’s not all, there are specific days that specially chosen as the ‘high calorie’ day when you break the low calorie routine and boost the calorie intake throughout the day. In other words, you can have foods that usually not included in ‘healthy eating’ criteria like cookies, chocolate, and fries. This is another trick to make your body thinks that there is no changes in your eating behavior. 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 quick weight loss tips.
‘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.