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By: Ikedi Ani-okoye.

Introduction to calories

How much weight you can lose is dependant on your ability to reduce the amount of calories you eat over a long period of time. It doesn’t matter if you eat a little more today and a little less tomorrow. For weight loss, you need to think in terms of weeks and months rather than hours and days.

The only thing that matters is how many days you can eat less calories than you need to maintain your current weight vs how many days that you eat enough or more calories than you need to maintain your current weight.

Calories facts

A food's fat content is important, but when it comes to weight loss, total calories are more important. So many of the low fat products on the market aren't calorie reduced. For example, 2 tablespoon of reduced-fat peanut butter have the same number of calories as the regular kind. And replacing a tablespoon of butter on a bagel with 2 tablespoons of jelly eliminates the fat but doesn't change the number of calories. Let's explore some calorie-cutting tricks. Paying attention to the Nutrition Facts.

Shifting calories

When you shifting calories, you will be triggering a metabolic response in your body that induces rapid weight loss. You are not reducing your food intake, nor are you cutting out any carbohydrates, fats, or sugars from your diet. Instead, you are increasing your body's metabolic rate by feeding it different types of calories at different meals in such a way that causes your body to burn calories more rapidly. Your body is not going into starvation mode. Your body responds to the digestion of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, fibers, and sugars differently.

When it comes to shifting calories, however, you will be eating four full meals a day. You will be eating as much as you want until you feel satisfied. You will be eating food from all four major food groups on a rotational basis every day in eleven-day cycles. Thus, deprivation is no longer a factor and losing your motivation to diet. What could be better than to eat as much of every food as you want, but just be disciplined about when you can eat each type of food?

CONCLUSION

Burning calories is not only about exercising but also eating the right foods and adjusting your eating habits. Sometimes a simply change in eating pattern can drastically change your body and results start to show instantly.