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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.I WOULD LIKE TO SEE LIST OF FAST BURNING CARBS VS SLOW BURNING
what percentage or ratio of each will help in eliminating low blood sugar. Of course protein has to be included.
I understand that this will reduce cravings.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.For the past 10 years, I have not eaten proteins with carbs. My digestion works better, I do not experience indigestion and I do not have trouble at night with waking up feeling like things are coming up from my stomach. My food choices have been very healthy for the past two years, but the TrimDownClub has helped me understand where to tweak things like whole grain in place of whole wheat and almond milk in place of soy milk, for example. I am just having a real problem with combining the proteins with the carbs at meals. My body does not like it and I need to find a menu plan in the program to accomodate this. Does anyone know of such in the system?
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.
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