Anyone follow Food Combining in their Meal Plans for Lifting
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Anyone follow Food Combining in their Meal Plans for Lifting
I've spent a lot of time trying to come up with a good simple meal plan. Does anyone use the principles of food combining? I've been reading about it and some of it makes complete sense from a chemistry point of view. It doesn't seem like it would be that difficult to setup. Do you think that while setting up meal plan I should make it follow food combining rules? For example, I sometimes make for lunch a salmon and Rice with Mayo mixture. According to this I shouldn't be doing that. Same applies for rice and beef. What does everyone think?
Whether its bull or not is going to depend on the individual. There is not one plan that will work for everyone, if there was we'd all have met our goals long ago.
Metabolic typing has been around for a while, and Poliquin has his Biosignature protocols, there are many others to choose from. Biosignature looks interesting, I may check it out after the competition season is over and I have some cash to invest in myself.
Metabolic typing has been around for a while, and Poliquin has his Biosignature protocols, there are many others to choose from. Biosignature looks interesting, I may check it out after the competition season is over and I have some cash to invest in myself.
Agreed. You can do a few basics, like not eating Fruit directly with meals, giving it some time to digest first. Not bothering with Fruit based Yoghurts and Cereals, eat plain or Nut based Yoghurts, and Fruit and Cereal as seperate entities, but all that stuff about no Proteins and Starches, together, no Milk with Cereal, just gets too prblematic and fiddly.
If the individual is that concerned about Enzymtic issues with certain foods, they could take adDigestive enzyme product and see if that resolves anything, but most combining issues like that, don't usually produce any noticable issues, like Vomiting, Stomach cramps etc etc, that I know of, so you wouldn't be aware if a piece of Beef was getting ticked, about having its spaced invaded by some Rice, because almost certainly there would be no bad reaction, just a possible slight reduction, in the amount of intact Micro and Macronutrients the body could absorb properly.
The only thing I've ever read that may be a real issue, is Citrus Fruit combined with Whole-grains like Cereal. Apparently it can potentially cause Hyperacidity, (related to badly competing Enzymes), which can lead to GERD, (Gastro Eosophageal Reflux Disorder), where you get Stomach Acid passing back up the Eosophagus, and causing something like Heartburn, and also Hyperacidity can possibly make food Hyperacidic, irritating the Duodenum, and causing possibly mild side effects, and much potential wasted nutritional content.
Most combination issues, shouldn't cause sides anyway, but if you try to follow something like that strictly to the rule, you'd end up eating about 4 times a day, with something like 3 portions of Fruit and Veg, a Piece of Chicken, some Nuts and some Water.
Food combining would never help you to get solid mass that easily, and may even make weight loss harder to do in a healthy way.
People can bang on about how we should all eat the Cro-magnon way, or some such example, and to some extent I can agree with that, but aside from polluted water fatalities, poisonus plant and Fungi fatalities, inadequate healthcare related deaths, Animal, Spider and Insect based deaths, most of those people lived upto about 30-35 years at best anyway.
If it was like that now, DianaB would be dead, and me and Swanso, (if we were still alive), might have very long beards, and probably sore backs and Knees, from about 15-20 years of hunting stuff like Rabbits and Deers all day.
So you can accept there's validity with Food combining, and even implement a few aspects if you wish, but in order to get a good calorie rich diet for excercise, and to make things more financially easier on yourself, stick to a basic reliable eating plan.
If the individual is that concerned about Enzymtic issues with certain foods, they could take adDigestive enzyme product and see if that resolves anything, but most combining issues like that, don't usually produce any noticable issues, like Vomiting, Stomach cramps etc etc, that I know of, so you wouldn't be aware if a piece of Beef was getting ticked, about having its spaced invaded by some Rice, because almost certainly there would be no bad reaction, just a possible slight reduction, in the amount of intact Micro and Macronutrients the body could absorb properly.
The only thing I've ever read that may be a real issue, is Citrus Fruit combined with Whole-grains like Cereal. Apparently it can potentially cause Hyperacidity, (related to badly competing Enzymes), which can lead to GERD, (Gastro Eosophageal Reflux Disorder), where you get Stomach Acid passing back up the Eosophagus, and causing something like Heartburn, and also Hyperacidity can possibly make food Hyperacidic, irritating the Duodenum, and causing possibly mild side effects, and much potential wasted nutritional content.
Most combination issues, shouldn't cause sides anyway, but if you try to follow something like that strictly to the rule, you'd end up eating about 4 times a day, with something like 3 portions of Fruit and Veg, a Piece of Chicken, some Nuts and some Water.
Food combining would never help you to get solid mass that easily, and may even make weight loss harder to do in a healthy way.
People can bang on about how we should all eat the Cro-magnon way, or some such example, and to some extent I can agree with that, but aside from polluted water fatalities, poisonus plant and Fungi fatalities, inadequate healthcare related deaths, Animal, Spider and Insect based deaths, most of those people lived upto about 30-35 years at best anyway.
If it was like that now, DianaB would be dead, and me and Swanso, (if we were still alive), might have very long beards, and probably sore backs and Knees, from about 15-20 years of hunting stuff like Rabbits and Deers all day.
So you can accept there's validity with Food combining, and even implement a few aspects if you wish, but in order to get a good calorie rich diet for excercise, and to make things more financially easier on yourself, stick to a basic reliable eating plan.
Thanks Bossman,
I initally thought that many on this site followed these rules because in the sticky the meal plan outline showed solid protein + Veggie. Using a protein and green veggie was one of the acceptable combinations. Given that some people consider corn and rice a veggie when it is actually a grain, I was just a little confused. Trying to follow those rules seemed really hard and difficult and does make eating enough harder and more difficult. I don't need that right now since I am struggling to get myself eating 6 times a day. I am not even sure how many calories I am eating at the moment. I'm just trying to get onto a schedule. I've decided to forget this whole idea with the acception of fruits as Bossman was describing. Thanks for all the input on this.
I initally thought that many on this site followed these rules because in the sticky the meal plan outline showed solid protein + Veggie. Using a protein and green veggie was one of the acceptable combinations. Given that some people consider corn and rice a veggie when it is actually a grain, I was just a little confused. Trying to follow those rules seemed really hard and difficult and does make eating enough harder and more difficult. I don't need that right now since I am struggling to get myself eating 6 times a day. I am not even sure how many calories I am eating at the moment. I'm just trying to get onto a schedule. I've decided to forget this whole idea with the acception of fruits as Bossman was describing. Thanks for all the input on this.