I have tried the Gracie Diet (www.graciediet.com) for about three months during which I have two or three meals a day. One key import for me was no food without relish. The diet dictates that an adult put at least four and a half hours between meals. I respond very well to this kind of quantatative rules. I have tried the food-combination rules and felt that mixing too many varieties in one meal does seem to burden the digestive system. Having a single kind of fruit or starch for a meal feels clean. I become more aware and increasingly plan my meals. I need to experiment and expand the food lists prescribed in Rorion Gracie's book and find out why pork and pickles are banned. He is from Brazil and probably knows not much about kimchi. On top of the GD, I have recently tried Time-Ristricted Eating, to get all my eating done within 9 to 10 hours during the day. According to Dr. Rhonda Patrick, this helps endurance and muscle growth. At the moment, pushing off morning coffee to after 10:00am turns out to be hard. So far, this diet (a life-style really) has fixed my snacking/grazing and over-eating problems and my weight stays easily below 145 lbs. My next experiment is to try juicing which I hope can help Dad. |