The Hay diet
 

Food Combining or The Hay Diet . Its Like this : dont mix protiens and carbs. wait 3 hours between a carb and protien meals and eat at least one protien meal aday. No processed foods White sugar or flour. Whole wheat only. veggies with every meal.I lost 50 lbs on Atkins and gained back 15 lbs . I have maintained my weight for five years.at 215. I went on this diet 8 weeks ago .I started at 215 and now I am 187lbs OMG! It was so easy.
Smitch

I think there's a guy on here who does food combining. I've never heard it called The Hay Diet. My dental hygenist says it works for her, but she doesn't do it all the time.

My dental hygenist is Polish. Polish doctor Jan Kwasniewski's Optimal Diet has some food combining aspects too.

For me, it would be too complicated. I only eat once a day, and I can't eat wheat at all.

we all do this already. it's automatic when on a LC diet, and that is what this forum is all about.

Not necessarily. I think on food combining, you are allowed to eat much more carbs than on a plan like Atkins, so when he says carb meals, I think, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, you could eat rice cereal and a piece of fruit for breakfast, but then wait at least 3 hours before you eat a protein/fat meal.

I find this very interesting, would you mind giving me a sample of your daily menu?

No we don't. last time i checked vegetables contained carbs aswell. so does eggs, peanut butter, cheese and whatnot.

This forum is about maintaining a low carb lifestyle. Food combining is automatically low carb as you only eat carbs with one type of meal. Your total carb intake is therefore cut possibly in half.

So is it okay to mix fat and carbs? Because without fat, I'm not sure what's the point of eating carbs...

Smitch007, can you please post a sample menu? I have never understood the concept of food combining.

I am interested too!

I'm still learning myself, but you should keep your carb meals low in fat. Fats/oils can be eaten with protein.

Typical Day meals
 

Breakfast: carrot juice or V8/ apple/ Whole wheat Toast or bagle.Butter

Lunch : Tamatoe soup / whole wheat crackers.

Dinner : Salad / avacado/ olive oil dressing. steamed broccli/ Butter/ Steak.



Day two
Breakfast: Eggs and bacon


Lunch : Whole wheat Pasta with marinara and Whole wheat garlic toast


Dinner: Salad / chicken breast/ olive oil dressing

I have a menu on my journal

You might like to cut out the butter on your carbohydrate breakfast. I sue very low fat spread. Fats should not be combined with carbohydrates.

low fat spread
 

Hi Robert , Are low fat spreads processed? In true food combining can we eat whole wheat pasta with olive oil? I have been mixing oils and carbs and still loosing. What is the best book on FC . I made up my own diet useing Atkins Pro Power and what I could find on Fc on the net.. Smitch007