If you are planning to reduce body fat percentage, which is the percentage of your overall weight that is comprised of fat, then you can do it and reach significant results by alternating the categories of calories that you consume from meal to meal. This type of special diet is commonly known as the Calorie Shifting diet.

What you consume in one meal dictates what you can eat in each subsequent meal for the rest of the day, and for the rest of the week, as well. For instance, if you decide to eat milk and eggs during breakfast time, you may choose to eat shrimp for lunch, peanuts and cheese for a snack, pastrami for dinner, and frozen yogurt for desert.

The above may sound like a normal meal plan, however in reality it is an example of one day on the Calorie Shifting diet. Another sample day could look like thus: You could eat oatmeal during breakfast time, sausage during lunch, peanuts during an afternoon snack, and a fruit salad during dinner time.

Essentially, the Calorie Shifting Diet is founded on the concept that you can trigger your body to burn fat by simulating a nutritional deficit. This in turn produces the appropriate metabolic response, which is to invoke the generation of fat burning hormones into your body.

If you choose to follow this diet perfectly, you should reasonably expect to lose weight at the eye-popping rate of one pound daily. But, for the vast majority of people, 9 lbs for every 11 days is more achievable.