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There is a diet plan advertised on the SBD home page that advocates among other ideas that one can trick your body by not eating what the body is expecting (based upon what you ate 24 hours ago). I have copied and pasted a few paragraphs from their advertisement. Any comments?
[u]The Shifting Calories Theory...[/u]
Your metabolism doesn't know how much food you'll eat tomorrow or the next day because those days have not happened yet.
Therefore, your metabolism always burns calories based on your eating habits during the past few days -- because it assumes that you'll continue to eat in the same general way.
Guess what? You're about to shock your metabolism by doing something you've never tried before -- you're going to do the OPPOSITE of what it expects you to do. You're going to NOT continue eating the same types of calories and meals for more than a couple days at a time, and you're going to lose a lot of weight by doing this.
To make this work you need to SHIFT the types of calories eaten as shown in our diet on the next page, and if you do this then your metabolism will burn all of the calories eaten. Then, when it finishes burning those calories it will find the nearest available fat tissue on your body and burn that too...
To lose weight your diet menu needs to be SHIFTED every few days -- and this is something you've never tried before, and that's why you've never been able to change your body when dieting.[/b] |
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Thu Sep 14, 2006 4:56 pm |
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Voodoo nonsense.
To wit: some days I exercise pretty hard. I might burn, say 3600 calories in 6 hours. My body doesn't "know" that this exertion is coming...it just happens. The next day, I might do nothing. Does my body miraculously shed pounds because one day my caloric needs are over 5000 calories and the next day they are 1500?
No.
Losing weight is about using more calories than you consume, while maintaining your metabolism, while maintaining lean muscle.
Zig zagging calories can occasionally "unstick" your metabolism if you stall, and it can also help avoid falling into a rut that creates a stall, but it's not the answer by itself. In fact, zig zagging should occur naturally just from living "normal life." Have a cocktail once in a while, eat a few bites of desert or a meal at a restaurant. The zig zagging takes care of itself. |
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Fri Sep 15, 2006 3:55 pm |
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