Calorie Shifting Research?....

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Reeveso

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Hey everyone,

I know I'm new and I'll be posting more (I just signed up in the past week), but if you don't mind I'd like to ask you a small favor.

If any of you have any REAL research done on the subject of calorie shifting, can you please direct me to it?

I'm writing a book and I hear people talking about it all the time claiming that it's backed by research, but I can't seem to find a single shred of evidence that supports it.

So if you could find some, I'd really appreciate some links to the research.

Thanks!
 
Where are you doing your research?
 
So, you're writing a book and you'd like us to do the research for you?

The Calorie Shifting Diet is another name for the Fat Loss 4 Idiots programs.

The word "idiot" aptly describes anybody that would believe this voodoo science.

The whole premise of the plan is...

"... based on "Calorie Shifting" What this means is that you will be giving your body different types of calories each day to confuse your metabolism into burning more fat calories. You see, your body doesn't know what you will be eating tomorrow or the day after, therefore it doesn't know how many calories to burn."

Right.

You confuse your metabolism so it doesn't know how many calories to burn.

While you're writing your book, you might also like to explain the part about "different types of calories".

A calorie is a measurement of heat. There aren't different types of calories anymore than there are different types of "inches" or different types of "pounds" or different types of "seconds". They're all a standard unit of measurement.
 
While I'm in agreement with most of your post Doc, clearly a calorie of protein will burn more calories in digestion and use in the body than a calorie derived from carbs or fat so maybe the semantics are wrong but the premise that protein v. carbs calorie for calorie are digested the same and have the same effect on your weight is also not exactly on target. Not sure if that's what you were getting at when you noted there aren't any different types of calories in the context of weight loss.
 
I know what you're saying, Blancita, it's the wording that's confusing.

We're back to the "a pound of muscle weighs more than a pound of fat" argument.

Clearly they're the same, and a calorie whether it comes from fat, protein or carbs is still the same - "a calorie is the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of of water by 1° C".

I think that we can agree too the premise that by "giving your body different types of calories each day to confuse your metabolism into burning more fat calories" isn't exactly scientifically accurate.

You may burn more fat on a high protein diet, but that doesn't come about because you "confused" your metabolism.
 
What I'm asking is if there is any proof of the myth that if you eat more calories your metabolism increases.

Like a lot of people say that you should eat low calories for a few days, then have a "cheat" day to boost your metabolism back up..then go back to low, etc.

I don't personally believe it...just seeing if there's any research behind it because I can't find any. Just making sure I'm not missing any :)

For example - I know that the more you weight the more calories you burn b/c your metabolism goes up...just seeing if you could increase it by just increasing your calories, not your bodyweight. From the research I've gathered, you kind of can b/c of your leptin levels, but not really enough to make any significant difference.
 
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You're not understanding the context of that advice. Why are you writing a book on the subject if you aren't well versed in the lingo or research?
 
Wow, do you guys seriously not understand what I'm saying?

I am well-versed, and went to school for Psychology doing research studies so I know how to interpret them, read them, etc.

However, it IS possible to miss something..you know..since I'm a human being and not perfect and all.

All I'm asking for is if anybody knows of any studies either proving or disproving the theory.

I already have some research, just making sure I didn't miss anything that's all. There's thousands of studies out there...pretty easy to miss 1 or 2.

Geez...:banghead:
 
Reeveso said:
Wow, do you guys seriously not understand what I'm saying?
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I clearly understand what you're saying, which is why I asked what I asked.

I am well-versed, and went to school for Psychology doing research studies so I know how to interpret them, read them, etc.
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Haha.

Maybe if you said physiology here.

But not psychology.
 
??

I meant being able to find/research/interpret research studies.

You learn that in Psychology, especially when you do taking Advanced research methods classes, doing various research studies yourself, etc.

You don't need to go to school for Physiology to understand it. It's called doing your own studying. :rolleyes:

Anyway, I honestly don't need to prove myself to you lol - this is going nowhere fast.

I'm gonna get back to writing instead of wasting my time on this forum :)
 
actually eventhough you've gotten a lot of negative feedback on the shifting cals idea, it has worked great for me. I lost about a 100lbs and i had trouble with pockets of fat especially on my lower abs and what I started doing was going above my mantenance calories 1 day and then dropping 25% below for 2. For example, my mantenance cals is about 3300 so I eat about 3500 cals one day and then 2500 for the next two and its working great. I think its because once youve lost so much weight your body sort of goes into starvation mode so its hard to drop bodyfat % anymore but if you vary in your calorie intake it kind of tricks your body. Even better its helped me hold on to muscle. Of course I have a good diet, I excercise regularly and I have an overall calorie deficit but I have dropped from 14% bf to 11% in the last couple months so it is working plus the fat is coming off where I want it to.
 
mdawson2 said:
actually eventhough you've gotten a lot of negative feedback on the shifting cals idea, it has worked great for me. I lost about a 100lbs and i had trouble with pockets of fat especially on my lower abs and what I started doing was going above my mantenance calories 1 day and then dropping 25% below for 2. For example, my mantenance cals is about 3300 so I eat about 3500 cals one day and then 2500 for the next two and its working great. I think its because once youve lost so much weight your body sort of goes into starvation mode so its hard to drop bodyfat % anymore but if you vary in your calorie intake it kind of tricks your body. Even better its helped me hold on to muscle. Of course I have a good diet, I excercise regularly and I have an overall calorie deficit but I have dropped from 14% bf to 11% in the last couple months so it is working plus the fat is coming off where I want it to.
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Some things work in spite of why you think they're working.
 
well i was doin everything to keep lowering my body fat and nothing was working I even cut down my calories really low for a while and the only thing I lost was weight probably muscle. Im 6ft and I weighed 180lbs at 14%bf as of last october but when I started shifting calories as of right after christmas I weighed 185lbs and I was at 11%bf (and that was after xmas haha) and I used the same set of calipers and everything same time of day and week. I know that sometimes calipers can be off but since they were the same set even if they were off there was still a 3% difference from some bf% number. So back to the original question, shifting calories didnt help me lose weight but it helped me lose body fat which is what I needed.
 
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