What does it mean to shift calories to lose weight? The simple answer is that unlike other diets that require you to reduce the number of calories or the number of carbohydrates that you consume every day, a calorie shifting diet requires you to shift the types of calories that you consume each day from one meal to the next on a daily basis.
Calorie shifting is a qualitative diet, not a quantitative diet.
So your weight loss is less a factor of the quantity of food that you eat and more dependent on what you eat, and when you eat it.
Does this mean that you can theoretically eat as much food as you want and you will still lose weight? The short and simple answer is a resounding 'yes'.
On the calorie shifting diet, you are allowed to eat as much food as you desire at every meal until you reach the point of being completely satisfied, but you are strongly advised against eating until you have reached the point of being too full.
Learning to recognize the varying degrees of hunger and satisfaction in your stomach can take some practice but it is one of the key skills in learning to control your tendency to overeat.
The Calorie Shifting diet guarantees that, if you follow it strictly to the tee, you can lose weight at an alarming rate of nearly one pound per day, all while you are eating plentiful foods from all four of the major food groups.