| Are you looking for an easy diet to follow? | | | | One such alternative to these "fad diets" is |
| Well, I've got news for you: There is no such | | | | what is known as a calorie-shifting diet. |
| thing as an "easy" weight loss plan. Well, | | | | This type of diet represents an extremely |
| easy is a relative term. Easier than what? | | | | radical departure from the aforementioned |
| | | | diets above in that you are not sacrificing |
| Dieting is definitely not easier than eating | | | | any type of food, nor are you sacrificing on |
| whatever you want (unless what you want is | | | | the quantity of food. |
| perfectly in line with only what is good for | | | | |
| you). All diet plans require some level of | | | | This "no-sacrifice" diet works on the |
| effort, or modification of your existing | | | | principle of "calorie-shifting". Calorie |
| eating habits. Let's face it. After all, it | | | | shifting is based on the premise that by |
| is your present eating habits that got you to | | | | shifting the types of calories you eat at |
| become overweight in the first place. | | | | different times of day, you can trigger a |
| | | | metabolic response in your body that will |
| Many popular diets require you to sacrifice | | | | result in rapid weight loss. |
| something in order to achieve weight loss. | | | | |
| There are low-calorie diets. There are | | | | This easy weight loss plan allows you to eat |
| low-carbohydrate diets. There are low-fat | | | | comfortably from each of the food groups for |
| diets. There are low-sodium and | | | | four meals a day. The difference is that you |
| low-cholesterol diets. Each one of these | | | | may only eat certain types of foods at |
| types of diets is based on the theory that | | | | certain times of the day. Your menu also |
| excessive weight gain is the result of one | | | | varies on a daily basis. You will not feel |
| identifiable culprit - the calorie, or the | | | | deprived of any foods. You feel satisfied as |
| carbohydrate, or fat, or sodium, or | | | | you eat because there is no restriction on |
| cholesterol, and that by reducing that one | | | | the quantity of the food that you eat. Plus |
| element from your diet, you will achieve | | | | you are eating a healthy balance of every |
| rapid and sustainable weight loss. Rapid yes, | | | | food group. |
| but sustainable? That is another story. | | | | |
| | | | What defines an "easy diet to follow"? |
| For many people, these diets become relegated | | | | Obviously it does not mean easy to follow |
| to "fad diet" status. Like any fad, these | | | | instructions. If that were the case, the |
| weight loss plans have all been hailed at one | | | | low-carb diet would be classified as "easy". |
| time or another as the key that unlocks the | | | | But if you ask any carb lover if a low-carb |
| mystery of weight gain and provides the | | | | diet is easy, he or she would tell you |
| end-all be-all solution to weight loss. This | | | | otherwise! What defines an "easy diet to |
| is because we are creatures of habit. | | | | follow" is the ease with which you, as the |
| Sacrificing the foods that we crave makes | | | | dieter, are capable of carrying yourself |
| dieting very difficult and, more often than | | | | throughout the day without feeling cravings |
| not, it causes many would-be dieters to give | | | | due to dissatisfaction or lingering hunger. |
| in to their cravings, to cheat on their diet, | | | | When you are able to eat fatty foods, foods |
| or to just throw in the towel because it is | | | | with carbohydrates, and not worry about |
| just too difficult to sustain this diet | | | | reducing quantity, then you would be able to |
| beyond a few weeks. | | | | sustain the motivation to maintain the diet. |
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