An impending event or social occasion is often a trigger for people to want to lose weight, and fast.

While it's impossible to lose a sizeable amount of weight spontaneously overnight or even in two or three days, there is a process that can work weight wonders in just 11 days.

Calorie shifting involves completely re-evaluating your diet and re-distributing your calories so you're consuming them at the optimum times of the day to assist you with not only losing weight, but keeping it off.

The only thing standing between you downsizing your dress size could be embracing a shift in your calorie intake each day.

While instinctively we all know that food is more powerful than diet shakes or weight loss pills, we still seem to forgo nature's fuel for quick fixes.

But by eating the right foods at the optimum periods during the day, you will notice a sudden shift in your weight, and best of all, you're still eating a healthy, varied diet that is giving you the right amounts of vitamins and minerals to function at your best each day.

By following the calorie shifting method you will lose weight fast, feel sated and satisfied and continue to maintain a healthy body weight.

If you've ever tried to decrease the amount of calories you're eating you may not have had a lot of success. This is because your body is extremely smart and your metabolism will adjust itself so that your body only burns the amount of calories you're consuming per day. This is your body's natural preservation method, because it doesn’t know when it will be fed again so it's trying to preserve the calories consumed as long as possible.

If you would like to lose weight fast, then you need to avoid drastically decreasing your calorie intake. You'll only end up tired, hungry and with little or no weight loss. Other diet 'no-nos' to avoid include:

• Consuming only diet or low-fat products. Ideally your body needs whole-foods to function effectively and consuming too many diet products will not give it the adequate vitamins and minerals that it so richly deserves.

• Cutting out carbohydrates. This will only result in you feeling lethargic, irritable and yep, still hungry. Eaten in their correct quantity of 4-6 serves a day will see you firing on all cylinders and you won't feel starved.

• Only drinking diet shakes. While incorporating a diet shake into your diet once a day or a few times a week is fine, simply consuming them all day every day can not be maintained. Again, your body needs many more nutrients than diet shakes (which is just powder and water) can provide.

Calorie shifting may just be the ideal way for you to lose weight fast, feel fantastic and maintain your ideal weight long-term. And all in time for that special occasion you've got coming up.