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.
