Food combinations

Hi, trimpaul. Both the amount of food and the combinations can help improve weight loss.
First, the amounts of foods are what would be recommended for a healthy weight – they will look like a lot because most “diets” are based on too little food, which actually lowers your ability to lose weight.
Second, the main food combination in the program is protein with carbohydrate, which dulls the impact of the carbohydrates and makes for greater satiety and less impulsive eating.

Hi, Jeanne. “Fast-burning” is another term for “simple” carbohydrates, and “slow-burning” is another term for “complex” carbohydrtes. These are discussed in the online guides that you can get from “My Downloads” above. Because there are millions of foods that can fit into either of these categories, it is best to remember what makes them fast/simple or slow/complex, so you can make the right choices. Basically, a fast-burning/simple carbohydrate is one that is white and/or refined, and/or high in sugar; a low-burning/complex carbohydrate is one that is brown, a whole grain, etc. In a natural food such as a potato, the peel is slow-burning while the potato itself is fast-burning; white rice and bread are fast, while brown, whole-grain rice and bread are slow. Non-starchy vegetables tend to be slower burning than fruits, and whole fruits are slower burning than fruit juice. I hope that helps.
There is no specific recommended ratio between the two – just to limit simple carbohydrates as much as possible.

Hi, mayotes. Just switch the foods around in your menus.
For example, eat the proteins from breakfast and the first snack at breakfast and concentrate the carbs from both meals at the snack; do the same for lunch and the afternoon snack, and for dinner and the evening snack.
Plenty of Club members switch their foods around throughout the day for various reasons – the program is intended to be flexible.