Hope you can clear this up for me.... time between meals

[LAwoman75]

I'm new to food combining, so please bare with me :)

I read Fit for Life by Harvey Diamond as well as done alot of reading here and other sites on the net about food combining. I understand that protein based meals should not be eaten within 3 hours of a carb based meal/snack. Okay, I got that, but if I eat a protein based meal, and according to Fit for Life, we should not eat but one protein, so let's use chicken in this example. So I eat chicken with cauliflower and a side salad. 2 hours later I'm hungry and would like a snack............ can I eat a boiled egg or do I have to wait 3 to 4 hours for the chicken to digest? I know I shouldn't eat anything carb-based for the full time, but can I have a different protein?

Also, does Somers and Montignac's plan also not allow but one protein at a time or is this only the Fit for Life rule? I ask that because I love to have broccolli and cheese on the side of my meat for dinner, or a little cheese in my side salad but on Diamond's rules, I couldn't mix the meat and the cheese at one meal.

[RCFletcher]

I have never heard of the only one type of protein rule so I think it must be only Fit for Life. In Montignac's, Hay and the one I'm doing Slimming World you can have more than one protein at a meal (but not mix them with carbs.) Cheese is a fatty food and under hays it can be mixed with meats so if you are prepared to bend Diamond's rules a little at least Hay will back you up!

I see in the Hay diet (I have the book in front of my now) that all nuts (except peanuts) are neutral. You could therefore have some nuts as a between meal snack.

I hope this helps.


Robert

[LAwoman75]

Thanks so much, that actually does help me. I am one to tweak a diet, so knowing that others allow for more than one protein and that nuts are allowed gives me a little wiggle room there. In Fit for Life, nuts are considered a concentrated food just as proteins and you are only allowed one at a time.