What do you think the best method to lose weight? At this modern world, various fast information means have made us even more confused with so many advices and suggestion regarding this matter.

So, should you go for the famous fad diet that offer lightning speed result? Maybe having a popular diet like Atkins is better? Hey, you might even want to try next door’s Mrs. Cruz secret tricks or Uncle Jeff’s methods to achieve your ideal weight.

Well, even with the streams on information about losing weight that you can get, I’m pretty sure the prospect of testing them one by one will blow your resolution to lose weight in an instant.

Why don't we assess the choices that we got:

1. Fad diet; grapefruit diet, cabbage soup diet (low calorie), atkins diet (low carbs), the list continues and the conclusion is ‘definitely NO’.

With this kind of diet, you’ll gain the weight back as fast as you lose it, suffer lack of nutrients due to restriction of certain food groups, and feel hungry with various other side effects during the process. It will only bring depression to your weight loss process and messed up your daily routines.

2. Suggestion and advises from family members in the form of ‘home made’ weight loss program; while sometimes it seems that the plans did wonders for them, remember that they are not an expert in this field and cannot give professional solution to the problem.

For example, I know someone who merely takes two meals a day and sometimes even just once. He doesn’t seems to having health problem since his body has somehow adjust with this behavior, but it surely not something that everybody can follow. If you decide to have advices about losing weight from someone who is not a professional in that field, talk to your doctor before doing it.

3. 'Conservative' diet that every 'expert' suggested: low calorie meals (probably by measuring every ounce of it) and hours at treadmill, stationary bike, or elliptical machine, complemented by some weight lifting at your local gym; it does sounds like a 'hard work that will be paid off', but the fact is it WON'T WORK either.

Why? If you're on a diet that reduce carbs or calorie intake (also known as low carb/low calorie diet), your body doesn't get the amount that it usually gets; this condition will activate its defense mechanism against starvation: keep the fat instead of burn it and slow down its metabolic rate. If you fight against your own body, it will win; you will notice that when it is getting harder and harder to lose weight (even if the same diet plans used).

So, what is the best way to lose weight? The answer is ‘calorie shifting’. Calorie shifting is a technique that devised to counter the body mechanism by keep switching the calorie intake between meals every day, thus make your body unable to identify the reducing in calorie intake.

That’s not all, there are specific days that specially chosen as the ‘high calorie’ day when you break the low calorie routine and boost the calorie intake throughout the day. This also means that you can take any food that usually forbidden for dieter such as donuts, pizza, and ice cream. Again, this will trick your body into believe that you are eating as usual.

Not only you avoiding hunger and eating the food that you dislike, this method also keep your metabolism rate steadily high, thus result in fast and steady fat burning. Physical exercise is still essential and should you have time for both cardio and strength training, it is even better. But if you don’t, moderate exercise like light jog or stair climbing is enough to complement this diet.

‘Calorie shifting’ is truly the best way to lose weight and it will work when other fails; it even works for vegetarian by replacing meat and dairy products with soy products.