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There is indeed a three day diet and it works! It is one of the newest diets to come out in our never ending quest to find the perfect means of losing weight and it is designed to make diet easier! You will lose weight because anytime you diet, you reduce your calorie intake, and you will therefore lose weight. The beauty of this new diet plan is that it also increases your chances of dieting success.

This new method of dieting is based on a system known as calorie shifting. Also referred to as cycling calories, it is a diet that bases its success on its ability to prevent the dreaded 'diet plateau' from occurring, therefore increasing the likelihood that a dieter will be successful in their weight loss plan.

Almost everyone is well aware of 'hitting the wall' or 'plateauing' when dieting. It occurs when your body figures out that it is losing weight, under the assumption that it could be starving your metabolism kicks into a protectionist stance, and does everything in its power to prevent the body from losing any more weight. Your metabolism slows down and your body starts making better use of the calories that it does intake. In other words, despite the fact that you continue to diet, you stop losing weight. Most dieters get very frustrated during this period and just give up!

For the three day diet you decide how many calories you would like to intake on your diet days and you begin your diet. Your regular food intake can be reduced by 500 to 1000 calories or you can choose a more drastic weight loss program and drop to a virtual fast during this diet period (existing on soup and juices for three days). You select the structure of your three day diet plan and once your three days are complete, then you go back to your regular food intake for a week, two weeks or till you once again decide that it is time to return to your three day diet regimen. You alternate your three day diet with regular food intake till you lose the degree of weight that you wish to. You choose the schedule that you would like to follow and the degree of dieting that you would like to do during your three day diet period. You have only to be careful not to overeat on the days that you return to your regular food intake levels.

The beauty of the three day diet is that it tricks the body into believing that everything is actually okay. Before your body has a chance to figure out that you are losing weight, you are back on a regular eating program, and have in essence avoided the dreaded diet plateau that would have occurred if you had continued on the diet. You maintain the weight that you have lost during that three day period, and when you decide that it is time once again to schedule another three day diet, you will add that weight loss to your previous one. Your body allows the weight loss to occur because it has been effectively tricked into believing that the weight loss is a natural one. It is done on such a gradual level that it is considered acceptable and no defense mechanisms go into play. You are then allowed to choose how much weight you want to lose, and you get to lose it without your body fighting your every attempt, losing weight is easier!

The three day diet plan does work! However, as with all alternative therapies, before beginning any diet speak to a trusted health professional to insure that you are well enough to participate in the weight loss program that you are considering.

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