Food Combining For Weight Loss and Good Digestion

Have you ever noticed how after a large meal your energy plummets and often you will start to yawn and need to nap. That is food is passing from your stomach to your small intestine which is doing the work of breaking it down and extracting the nutrients for your bodies survival. After it has finished then it passes what is left to your large intestine for disposal services.

So when you lump a big pile of grub down there with lots of meat and bread guess what, it is a bit like heavy thick glue. That little intestine is having one heck of a time pushing it all through.

So trying eating lighter, start your day with fruit and add more fruit and vegetables to your diet as the fiber will help things to slide through much easier.

Also certain things don’t go together well. Carbohydrates don’t mix well with protein. So if you can try having your vegetable pasta for lunch with marinara sauce with a salad and your steak for dinner with broccoliand any other non-starchy vegetable you fancy you will find the load in your tummy is much lighter.

So starchy vegetables would include any kind of potato, squashes and beans.

Also only eat fruit on it’s own and wait at least 20 minutes after you have finished the fruit before eating either some carbohydrate or some protein. But try to keep them separate from each other. This is called food combining.

Here are some sample menus

Breakfast:

• On rising have fresh citrus fruit, whatever you like.

• Stay away from bananas as they are a starch.

• Wait 20 minutes after eating.

• Then have either a carbohydrate breakfast or a protein breakfast ,your choice.

• Some people believe a protein breakfast is better for weight loss.

• Two poached eggs on a bed of spinach with a little Parmesan cheese sprinkled on top and put under the broiler for 1-2 minutes only.

• 2 poached eggs with two chicken or turkey sausages.

• Western omelet with side salad or sliced tomatoes.

• Note we are skipping the home fries and skipping the toast.

• Of toast with peanut butter. No protein.

• Granola with soy or rice milk.

Lunch:

• whole grain pasta salad mixed with chopped vegetables and a little mayo. Some good whole grain toast.

• Or pasta marinara with sun dried tomatoes and button mushrooms or other vegetables.

• No pizza with cheese on top. That is protein and carbs mixed together.

Dinner:

• 6 oz steak and a big salad and lots of veg’s – broccoli, green beans, artichokes, whatever you like

• same goes for a piece of fish, chicken, turkey or lamb.

• Stay away from the carbs for the dinner meal.

• That way your food will get a chance to digest well before you hit the hay for the night.

• Fruit goes thru the stomach in 15-20 minutes

• Protein goes thru the stomach in 3-4 hours

• Carbs go thru the stomach in 2-3 hours

Put them all together and you can be in for an 8 hour long adventure of digestion dealing with low energy and exhaustion.

If you have more energy to burn you can be more active and do more in your life.

Water weight loss will be the initial reaction but real Weight loss will follow if you stick with it.

The choice is yours.