subject: Compare Diet Plans: Weekly Low Calorie VS. Daily Low Calorie [print this page] Author: Christian Walker Author: Christian Walker
Your weight and your health. It is important to compare diet plans.
You know I think we learn in burst instead of steady progress. At least that is the way it seams with me. I have been studying health now for awhile and early on I came to the realization that being overweight causes serious health problems, but how to lose and maintain a proper weight has been a mystery to me. I compare diet plans but often that doesn't even help. A new way to compare diet plans.
On the surface losing weight seems like a no brainer: eat less food than your body uses for energy each day and you will lose weight. It is suppose to be like a bank account with too much money in it--ha ha I wish I had that problem. Anyway, if you consistently take out more money than you put in you will eventually empty that bank account. Can you compare diet plans to a bank account? If it is so easy why is it so hard?
It turns out that you can't compare diet plans to a bank because to a certain extent your body controls how much of your fat deposit is taken out each day and it has very different ideas about that than you do. When you start reducing your daily food intake (deposits). Your body will reduce its daily output. (withdrawals) So you end up on the ridiculously boring low cal diet and you have stopped losing weight. That is why it is hard to compare diet plans to a bank account. Fool The Bank Manager.
As I said at the beginning, I at least learn in bursts and the other day I had an epiphanythat is a fancy word for a burst of learning. You don't need to reduce your daily calorie intake every day as long as you reduce your total weekly calorie intake. I can hear you murmuring the question, "well, won't the body just adjust to that?" Hold on. Lets say I wanted to reduce my daily calorie intake to 2,000 calories a dayI'm a guy. That would be a total of 14,000 calories a week. If I keep my weekly calorie intake at 14,000 calories I should get the same benefit as reducing my daily calorie intake to 2,000 calories. But if I look at it on a weekly basis I can shift these calories around, some days eating very few and on others I can party on! With these two low calorie approaches I think I can compare diet plans. In this case the sum is greater than the parts of the whole
Because of this shifting around of calories, my body will never realize I am withdrawing more calories on a weekly basis than I am depositing and it will not reduce its output. I will actually lose more weight than if I were trudging along the path of a daily low calorie plan. Did I mention I could occasionally party on with this plan. If I add exercise to this plan my body will even increase its withdrawals and I will lose weight even faster. It is a great way to get to my proper weight and maintain it the rest of my life. When I compare diet plans the weekly calorie shifting wins hands down.About the Author:
Christian has been teachng health classes for over 25 years. He is a self proclaimed life long dieter. He has been a fan of calorie shifting since it is the easiest diet he's ever been on and he can party on occasionally and still lose weight.
If you would like to see an exellent example of a calorie shifting diet then check out Jon Benson's excelent calorie shifting diet The Every Other Day Diet
