Designing Your Own Zig Zag Diet - General Guideline For Zig Zag Diet

Zig Zag diet, is a diet that requires you to alternate your caloric consumption. Many people call this diet zigzagging because of the nature of the caloric consumption. Here, I would like to teach you how can you design your own diet plan. If you are confused of what to do, you can refer to a free 7 days diet plan provided at this Calorie Shifting (another name of Zig Zag diet) website.

Basically, there is no general trend in the diet. What you need to do is to find out your basic daily caloric usage. For illustration purpose, in this hub, I will assume that your basic daily caloric usage is 1800.

If you basic daily caloric usage is 1800, then your :

Low caloric intake = 1300

Medium caloric intake = 1500

High caloric intake = 2000

For a course of 7 days, you should have 4 medium caloric day, 2 low caloric day and 1 high caloric day. As you can see, you are "zigzagging" your caloric intake, that's why this diet is called the Zig Zag diet.

If you are first introduced to the ZigZag theory, then you might have doubt on the effectiveness of this diet. Is it better than the normal diets like low fat, low carb and low calorie diets? The answer is yes.

According to the theory, our human body is able to alter the body metabolism so as to suit the nutritional intake. For instance, if we always take a low calorie diet, after a few weeks, our metabolism will fall, leading to a weight loss plateau.

Zig Zag diet, however, works in the opposite way. It helps to boost or at least our body metabolism when we are dieting. This is done through the insertion of "high caloric" day to signal our body that we are still taking in high calorie occasionally, thus our brain will not change our general metabolism. Therefore, this diet is indeed more effective than the general diets.