Food Combining Diet To Burn Fat

Posted on March 1, 2011 by admin

The key to healthy and fast weight loss with a food combining diet is getting the combinations and ratios right.  Don’t worry too much as none of this involves weighing out food before you can eat – you can just gage it by eye like I do.  After a couple of weeks you can judge ratios automatically without giving it too much thought.

There are basically the groups that you need to balance when you’re food combining.  The first group consists of lean high protein so this could be fish, chicken, turkey and egg whites.  If you try to keep about 40% of your meals made up of this group then you will be using the principle of food combining.

The second group are foods that involved are your complex carbs – these are my favourites :)   Yummy foods like wholemeal breads, brown rice (make sure you cook it well and it’s so tasty), oatmeal and green vegetables.  This group should make up 30 % of your meal.

Finally the third group is your healthy fats such as olive oil so make sure you cook your vegetables with it and you can also use it on salads as a dressing. Of course this part doesn’t make up the remaining 30% but it is combined with snacks like peanuts and almonds both of which leave you feeling satisfied.  There are far more combinations that when eaten together almost create a furnice effect and really rev up your bodys’ metabolism.

If you want to find out the details in more depth and really get to grips with it then here’s the food combining diet that I use.

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Food Combining For Fast Fat Loss

Posted on February 28, 2011 by admin

Although a food combining diet sounds complicated it really isn’t.  There are plenty of food combining tricks that you can use to accelerate the process too.  One of my favourites is having a slice of lemon in my tea, especially in the morning when my metabolism is at his fastest.  Anything citrus is great!

Another aspect of food combining that suits me is spicy food.  Currys’ and mexican foods with chillis are a really good way to burn off fat.  They produce heat in the body which speeds your metabolism up and increases fat loss.

Raw vegetables and fruit are good options for mid meal snacks as they are bulky so they chase away hunger pangs.  They do not contain the usual things like fats that stick to your hips and so when your digestive system gets going it attacks the fat instead of the food.  These types of foods are sometimes called negative foods.

Most fad diets get you to cut out or reduce bread.  With the food combining diet you can eat brown, wholemeal bread because it actually prevents ats from storing in your body.  It acts like a blotting paper in your body – I love carbs so this suits me well.

The main foods to avoid are the well documented evils such as High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS).  This is totally banned in the UK but unfortunately it is still alowed in the US so be sure to watch for it on food labels.  It can usually be found in processed foods which also have a reputation for being ladened with salt too.

The beauty of food combining is that it isn’t about calorie control, low fat foods that taste like cardboard or high proteins.  It’s about a balanced healthy diet that hardly denies you anything at all as long as you eat them in the right combinations.

You can check out the food combining diet I use HERE>>>

 

 

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So What Is a Food Combining Diet?

Posted on February 7, 2011 by admin

It seems that every year or so a new celebrity diet gets pushed at us and everyone seems to be telling you how fantastic the latest craze is. Unlike these fads, the food combining diet has been around for over a century now – it’s sometimes refered to as the Hays diet.

The principe of food combining is quite simple. There are certain foods types that when put together reduce the effectiveness of our digestive systems and cause us to gain weight and surplus fat. The combination that I think most people have heard of is the mixing of carbohydrates and fats. If you think about it, most of the popular foods we eat use this fatty mix – fries, sandwiches, potato chips, cakes and pastries etc

Just as certain combinations cause us to pile on the pounds, the same principle applies to different combinations creating increased fat loss.  Certain types of foods, when combined in a certain way, rev up your metabolism at an amazing rate which creates a kind of ‘eat yourself thin’ effect!

Another diet that has proved this in the past is the Atkins diet that basically strips out all carbohydrates but lets you eat as much protein and fat as you like.  The results is that you end up getting rid of fat.  For me, the Atkins diet also gave me constipation, bad breath and I was so tired I could have fallen asleep stood up.  I’m also not great with huge amounts of meat and so it became another diet I simply failed on!

It’s Not What You Eat – It’s The Way That You Eat It!

Food combining is very different as it is a healthy, balanced diet.  It doesn’t actually deny you anything, it’s just a matter of eating certain foods separately.  I think it’s so important to have good nutrition.  Many diets leave you feeling hungry and I’m sure it’s because you end up deficient in some vital vitamin or mineral so your body starts kicking against it.

So, after many failed attempts, much money spent and my weight constantly yo-yo’ing I was relieved to find the food combining diet that feels more like a way of life than a diet.

 

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