Calorie Shifting.

I've done all kinds, I think I'm going to stick with calorie counting and exercise --- that way it's a life change and I don't have worry about what to do when I don't want to do a fad any more. Every time I try some new fad, I end up putting all the weight plus more on when I go back off of the fad...just me

I have found success with just plain calorie counting but interested also in knowing what is calorie shifting?

I do what people call calorie shifting. I didn't realize it had a name. I read about not letting your body get used to eating the same calories every single day...that you should switch it up. It boosts your metabolism supposedly. For 6 months on and off, I've been eating between 1100 and 1500 calories every day. For 2 days I'll eat 1100-1200 then two days I'll go up close to 1500. I've lost over 36 lbs during this time so it seems to be working. I have had my off weeks where I'll eat under 1200 for too many days and I end up not losing a full pound that week. On those weeks were I'm diligent, I'll lose close to 3 lbs that week. There are just some weeks where the only reason I do eat up to 1500 is because I'm just that hungry. lol

I've always given myself two days off from calorie counting a week. It hasn't hindered my weight loss at all, I've lost 13.5 pounds since October and I had plenty of time off from the gym and at least the whole month of December where I wasn't counting calories at all. As I've evolved my eating habits over the course of the last few months (completely cutting out junk food, refined sugar, etc.) I've been closer to my calorie goal on my days off, but it hasn't changed my overall weight loss. It still averages out to about 1-1.5 pounds per week, though some weeks I lose close to 2.5 and the next I'll only lose .2 pounds.