Food Combining Helps you Lose Weight

Vivian Beck Feb 24, 2013 · 7 min read

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

1 Secret to Lose Weight: Food Combining

Do you love to eat? Do diets make you miserable, make you hate getting through your day? Think about you on a diet. You are hungry all day. You get cranky. You can’t sleep. You get headaches. All these side effects from dieting impacts your weight loss motivation. After reading this article you will have insight, the secret that will help take back control over your weight.

The 1 secret to lose weight is food combining. The method of combining food is tricky. You just need to learn these details and apply them. If you are disciplined to the guidelines listed you will shrink your belly fat a lose that tummy. The principle of food combining is rooted in science. All foods digest at a different rate and this impacts how your body reacts to the process of digestion.

Food Combining for Weight Loss

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Foods are divided into proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. All of these digest at a different rate. Eating these in specific combinations can be the cause of your weight loss resistance. Meat proteins need to be digested in an acid environment digestive environment. Carbohydrates on the other hand require an base digestive environment, the opposite of proteins. Eating them together causes an internal conflict while digesting food.

Here’s what happens, because the environments of proteins and carbs are in direct opposition. What happens is the efforts for proper digestion ends up nullifying that needed digestive environment for each, not ideal for eaither foods.

Why Food Combining?

Insulin is a contributor to weight loss, weight gain, and weight control. This fat storing hormone, insulin, must be in balance in order to maintain weight. Hormone imbalance is the main reason for weight gain. COntrol your insulin, control your weight. If you are eating foods in the wrong combinations,, insulin rises and so does your capacity to gain weight.

What Causes Insulin To Increase?

Sugar is the enemy whether you are combining foods or not!

Sugar causes a spike in the level of your fat storing hormone, insulin. Unfortunately, a lot of the foods you eat on a regular basis are causing you to lose control of your weight. Sugar is a bad carb and bad carbs make your insulin spike. To help you understand the impact of bad carb get familiar with the ranking of foods on the glycemic index.

The food that rank higher are worse for your weight loss efforts. The higher the number the higher the sugar level of that food choice. A lower glycemic index is always better. Here’s what you need to know:

Every carb, good or bad, is reduced to a sugar during the digestive process. Hyperglycemia is when your sugars are too high. You want to avoid this state at all costs. With elevated insulin levels your body system is directed to store food as fat. Even the good foods that normally wouldn’t be stored as fat are processed differently.

And where does that fat go? Right, straight to…

BELLY FAT!

Elevated insulin expands your belly with increased fat storage. How can you help yourself immediately? Start eating whole foods. The less processed a food is the easier it is for your body to process. DUH!

This is because nature made food the way our bodies can digest it. With a low glycemic index. ”Healthy” protein bars, breakfast bars, cereals, crackers, chips, etc are a detriment to your sugar levels. Don’t be fooled by ”low fat” labels. These foods tend to have more sugar to replace the fat.

To help you out take a look at the glycemic rankings below.

Glycemic Ranking List for Food Combining

Imagine the way you want to look. The slim waist, the trim thighs, heck maybe you even want a thinner face. What would you do to get that back again? Would you be willing to tweak your intake a little bit each week to get long term weight loss results and shrink belly fat?

Here’s what you need to do. Start trading out high GI food for low GI foods. Just shift a few choice a week. For instance. Rather than eating the “healthy” dry cereal this week, trade it out for oatmeal. Rather than drinking two cans of soda today, trade one out with a glass of water. These little changes can make a huge difference.

As a guide line, glucose has a ranking of 100. This is high. This is you barometer as you read down this list. Glucose impacts weight loss. Leading you to the reason why you have to know about the GI scale.

Beer 110

White Bread 95

Honey/Jam 90

Popcorn 85

Potatoes 70

Pasta 65

Bananas 60

Brown Rice 50

Whole Wheat Pasta 45

Oatmeal 40

Dairy Product 35

Fresh Fruit 35

Beans 30

Dark Chocolate 22

Green veggie less than 15

A Plan for Food Combining

There is no one, exact formula that can be given for successful weight loss and diet motivation. It all has to do with you creating a digestive environment that works for your body chemistry by following the provided guidelines of food combining.

Divide the foods you eat into four categories

Proteins and fat
Veggies
Carbohydrates
Fruit.

Elimination List

High starch foods
Caffeine
Alcohol
Sugar.

Each of us have a unique physiology. This is called bio-individuality, meaning no one method of eating creates the exact same result for someone else. You must learn to listen to your body.

However, there are some foundational principles of this method of eating that require dedication. If food is listed on the elimination list, DON’T EAT IT! It’s that simple. These food ply havoc on your acid/base balance in your digestive system. Moderate your intake of these if you have a hard time walking always from these. make changes slowly.

Better to build habits slowly that will stick over time rather than making drastic measures that will exhaust your stamina to stay dedicated. Again everyone is different. Act in a way that will maintain your focus on your goal of losing belly fat with food combinations.

This week start paying very close attention to the amount of sugar you consume. Where ever you are now in your intake, cut it down by 1/4 or 1/2 of this amount. Now let’s look at the simple principles for how to combine your food for weight loss.

Guidelines for Food Combining for Weight Loss

The advice of the Elimination List
Consider selecting foods higher in fiber
Always eat fruit on an empty stomach
Eat Proteins and fat with veggies only
Eat Carbs with veggies
Never eat carbs with proteins and/or fats
Give yourself 2-3 hours before switching from a carb meal to a protein/fat meal
Eat at least 3 meals a day
Eat until you are satisfied (not stuffed)
Never skip meals

Fiber: Friend of Foe?

Fiber is your friends. Know it own it.

Fiber is a maintenance tool for your health. It has zero nutritional value. Like a broom, it sweeps through your systems ridding you of fats and toxins that would otherwise not be eliminated. Eating fiber increases the bulk of the food for easier elimination. the results? You are cleaning house and increasing your metabolism and ridding your body of poisons. The results? Weight loss, decreased possibility of heart disease, lessen the chance of cancer. Fiber is your friend. It will help you reach your goal of shrink that ugly belly fat.

Eat the Good Carbohydrates

good carbs and bad carbs whats the difference? When selecting carbs, you have to think of your new friends, Mr. Fiber. All carbs you eat should be high fiber, high water content. A great example of a a healthy veggie that is not the best choice is the sweet crunchy carrot. It has less water and more sugar than other veggie options. You can eat veggies alone with food combining and get great benefits.

Take celery for example. It has lots of fiber and lots of water. This means carrots are higher on the glycemic scale than celery. Carrots are not totally crappy for you. but the better choice would be celery. Mr. Fiber in the celery will help regulate your sugars and the fiber helps increase your metabolism.

Start paying attention to your choices of carbs.

Is Water Really that Important for Food Combining?

DUH!!!!

Every cell in your body, every nerve, muscle, tendons, and system requires water to function optimally. 75% of your body is made of water. When you drink water it help flush out toxins and reduces water retention – sounds oxymoronic I know – but it does. It allows your fostering systems, the kidneys and the liver do their jobs more effectively. If the filtering systems are working right, then you have a greater chance of losing the weight you want in the time frame you want.

Water has no nutritional value, like fiber, but it is eliminates toxins and balances out acidity. Did you know drink water can boost your metabolism as much as 11%. Water must be a priority in your daily regimen. The question is how much do you drink?

Easy,

David your weight (in pounds) by two. That’s how many ounces your should drink a day. To maximize the metabolism boosting effects, drink a glass of water right when you wake up, but before you eat breakfast, and drink a full glass of water before each meal.

This week, drink to shrink!

Food Combining and Weight Loss

Just remember, there is no exact science for food combining. You must respect your bio-individuality while remaining realistic. be dedicated to your weight loss goals and start taking these steps listed above and you will lose belly fat and lose weight. The awesome bonus is an increased energy level.

Blessings and Prosperity to You!

Viv

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