| What is the easiest way to lose weight? The easiest | | | | You are not required to exercise. You will have the |
| way to lose weight is to pick a diet that promises | | | | opportunity to eat plentiful foods from all four food |
| significant weight loss over a short period of time, | | | | groups over the course of each day over a |
| which requires the least amount of sacrifice, least | | | | two-week period. The only thing you have to do is |
| amount of deprivation, the least amount of behavioral | | | | shift the type of calories you eat around from meal to |
| reconditioning, and which does not require exercise. | | | | meal. In other words, you will be grouping your |
| That pretty much rules out the Atkins diet or any other | | | | carbohydrates, proteins, fats, fruits, vegetables, fibers, |
| low-carbohydrate diet. Why? Even though you can | | | | and starches into different sets of combinations at |
| lose a significant amount of weight in a short period of | | | | each meal time. |
| time, this diet is not easy to follow. You have to cut out | | | | Each combination varies from meal to meal on a |
| all sources of carbohydrates and finds ways to get | | | | rotating, or shifting basis, every day for an eleven-day |
| through each day surviving on mostly meats, salads, | | | | cycle. Statistics have shown that most people who |
| eggs, cheese, water, and diet soda. | | | | follow this diet will lose about nine pounds during those |
| That pretty much rules out any low-calorie diets such | | | | eleven days. After those eleven days, you will be |
| as Weight Watchers. While Weight Watchers does | | | | required to take a two-day break from your diet during |
| teach you good lifetime habits, it will take you several | | | | which you can eat whatever you want (but you should |
| months to lose weight while eating significantly fewer | | | | still strive to maintain healthy eating guidelines and not |
| calories per day than what you are used to. You may | | | | overeat). Then you can start another eleven-day |
| lose one to two pounds per week on this diet. You | | | | cycle. |
| have to keep track of "points" for every food that you | | | | How does this diet work? Calorie-shifting is based on |
| eat. Thus, this diet is also not easy to follow. | | | | the principle that your body's metabolism reacts |
| That pretty much also rules out any low-fat, | | | | differently to different types of nutrients. When your |
| fixed-menu diets such as Nutrisystem or Jenny Craig, | | | | body digests different types of nutrients at different |
| which are also not easy to follow. You are required to | | | | types of day, you can literally trigger a metabolic |
| spend money on their foods and follow rigid menu | | | | response that induces your body to burn fat more |
| plans. You do not get to your goal weight very quickly | | | | rapidly, thus resulting in this rapid weight loss. |
| on these types of diets either. | | | | So what makes this the easiest way to lose weight? |
| The Calorie Shifting Diet, on the other hand, is an | | | | |
| example of a diet that just might fit the bill. This diet is | | | | 1. You are not deprived of eating any foods. You |
| based on the principle of a diet regimen known as | | | | merely control when you eat which types of foods. |
| calorie shifting. On this diet, you are allowed to eat as | | | | 2. You can eat as much quantity as you want in order |
| much food as you want until you are satisfied. You | | | | to feel satisfied. |
| are required to eat at least four full meals every day. | | | | 3. You do not need to exercise. |