There are a million fad diets available that all claim to help you lose a million pounds in a week. Maybe not exactly, but you get the idea. While it is not a fad diet, there is a new concept, which is called calorie shifting, which is a concept that seems to be working. This diet is not all about creating a calorie deficit which seems to be the current rage. You are allowed to eat as much as you want from all four food groups. There are some basic guidelines you will want to follow, but the flexibility of this diet should keep you on track, and provide great results.

1. You must eat four full meals every day. No snacking at all in between your meals.

2. Each meal is to be spaced out by at least 2.5 to 3 hours in between each time you eat.

3. You may eat as much as you want at each meal until you are satisfied, not until you are full. Learning the difference is something you need to recognize in your body.

4. You need to drink at least 10 glasses of water every day.

5. You have to generate a personalized meal plan that consists of a variety of foods from each of the four major food groups.

6 Every two weeks you need to take a 3 day break from the diet, so it is eleven days on followed by 3 days off. On your 3 day breaks, you can anything you want at all, as long as you are only eating till you are satisfied, not full. You then resume for another eleven day stint.

People have a hard time with this concept. How could one lose in upwards of twenty pounds while not cutting there calories drastically? There have been reported claims of people losing twenty pounds or more a month by applying these concepts.

Calorie shifting uses the thinking that you can trigger your body to burn more fat by altering the type of food that you are consuming each time you eat. By varying the types of calories at each sitting, your body is tricked into feeling specific nutritional deprivation, and will force your metabolism to use your fat reserves. By varying your nutrients constantly, you can keep your metabolism constantly burning.

Trying this concept out is pretty much free, besides the food that you will buy to satisfy the eating requirements. Considering that the idea seems logical, it seems it would be worth it to give it a shot to get over that weight loss plateau.