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@Lexloveslife

Thanks for your two messages, Lex! It's good that you've heard of this way of eating. When you say that when you eat a salad with protein such as turkey, you don't feel sick, that's because salad can be combined with everything, except with fruit, just as green vegetables can also be combined with everything, again except with fruit. Then you can combine all starch (carbohydrates) together. With protein, it's a little different, as there are four different protein groups which shouldn't be combined together, but as meat, poultry and fish are all part of the same protein group, these can be combined together.

I understand how you feel about this way of eating, but it has been clinically proven by nutritionists and dieticians all over the world, for the plain and simple reason that it's just a question of basic body chemistry.

Here's an article, in which I wrote about this, for the 7 Cups Forum, when I first joined 7 Cups:

How can I maintain a healthy body weight?

The "Fit 4 Life" diet is not only 4 slimming, it's also 4 those who need 2 gain body weight.

The main priniciple is simple: "avoid mixing starch with proteins". Why? Because, if u do, u'll have 18 hours of indigestion! The reason is, ur stomach secretes different digestive gastric fluids 4 both, 1 acidic, the other alkaline (a base).

Now, when these 2 fluids mix 2gether, any1 who's studied even basic chemistry knows what pH value that gives u . . . yes, pH 7, which is completely neutral, just like water, which won't digest a thing!

So, the badly combined food ends up stagnating in ur stomach, just rotting there, making u feel rotten 2, whilst the body desperately pumps more mixed fluids all the time, making u feel totally exhausted, from doing nothing!

Finally, after 18 hours of horrible indigestion, the body just throws it's arms up in despair and simply gives up altogether, expelling from the body all the badly digested waste products, together with all the good elements the body wasn't able 2 digest and absorb, whilst at the same time, all the bad stuff, like bad cholesterol, etc., instead of being properly broken down and disposed of, ends up as unwanted excess fat in the most unsightly places!

I don't know what you think of my forum article. But if you don't think separating your food groups from each other will be beneficial for you, then that's fine, there are lots of different ways of losing weight and staying healthy, some methods work better for some, and others work better for others. Just as you say, you seem to be fine after eating the two together (protein and starch), and you also say that it's foods that are high in refined sugar and fat that don't sit well with you. I can just say this method of eating works well for me, and I've already lost 50 kilos, three times, from 120 kilos down to 70 kilos, but as soon as I stop eating this way, and I no longer properly combine my food, I put the weight on again! ^^