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This article shares tips on losing weight fast by using a method of cycling your calorie intake. This helps keep your metabolism high because it does not give your body time to adapt to a low calorie intake which is a problem that many dieters experience.

Tips for losing weight fast

When you go on a diet you reduce the number of calories you are eating. This works for a while and your body loses weight but if you continue this restriction your body starts to worry that there is not enough food available and that you are headed for starvation. Your body then moves into protective mode by slowing your metabolism in an attempt to save your calorie-rich fat stores.

So what happens is you get into the downward spiral of having to reduce your calories more which slows your metabolism even more.

There is a better way, a way that allows you to keep your metabolism high even as you diet to lose weight. The solution is to cycle your calorie intake. There are many variations to calorie cycling but I prefer to keep it simple and sane by restricting calories for 6 days of the week and then cycling to one high calorie day.

This is an easy to remember method and very convenient because it allows you one day “off” your diet a week. This one day you can have your favorite foods, pasta, pizza, cookies…and what happens is your metabolism that was slowing because of your diet now springs back up to take care of the extra calories and you reset at a high fat burning level.

This concept is well researched and tested in thousands of real life cases and if you would like to learn more about how to make it work for you then I encourage you to follow the links below.

By: Dr. Becky Gillaspy

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