Why some cannot lose weight?

Food combining is a great way to manage your weight. The idea is that you eat a single food by itself, or more than one food in the right combination with other foods, you maximize your digestive capacity and ability to break down the foods effectively.

This means your body doesn't hold on to undigested food which then gets turned into fat balls of toxins and cellulite. Proper food combining allows the body to efficiently burn fat.

HOW IT WORKS?

Group 1: Proteins (meat, poultry, cheese, fish, eggs, milk, nuts) produce acid juices for their digestion. They digest slowly.

Group 2: Carbohydrates - these are all grains and the foods made from them 9bread, pasta, cereals, flour, biscuits, etc.) and starchy vegetables (such as potatoes, yams, and sweetcorn) which produce alkaline juices. They digest quickly and require different enzymes to proteins.

If you eat Groups 1 and 2 together, the competing enzymes and digestive juices will fight and neutralize each other. The result is that food doesn't get digested properly and rots inside the gut, causing gas, bloating, heartburn, stomach pains, malabsorption, indigestion and energy drain, to say the least.

Group 3: Salads, non-starchy vegetables, roots, seeds, herbs, spices, nut and seed oils. These can be digested with either Group 1 or 2 above.

Group 4: Fruit. This is out on its own and holds the record for the fastest digestion rate. Fruit uses completely different enzymes from all other groups above.

The solution:

• Don't eat Group 1 (proteins) and Group 2 (carbohydrates) together at the same meal.
• Group 3 (vegetables) can be eaten with Groups 1 or 2.
• Group 4 (fruit) must always be eaten on its own, at least 30 minutes away from other food groups. It is best to eat fruit on an empty stomach, preferably in the morning with no other food types. If you eat fruit after a meal, it can't go anywhere, because it's stuck behind food that takes much longer to digest, so it will ferment in the gut. When fruit is indeed mixed with other food groups, you can expect bloating, flatulence, indigestion. (Never mix melons with other fruits. Melons digest the fastest of all fruits. Therefore, eat alone or leave alone!).
• Leave 2 hours after a carbohydrate meal before eating protein. Leave 3 hours after eating a protein meal before eating carbohydrates. Proteins take 4 hours to reach the bowel, and carbohydrate meals take 2 hours from mouth to bowel.