How To Lose 25 Kilograms on a ‘Food Combining’ Diet

Most diets work as a quick-fix, but this one will help you become fit for good

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When I was a kid, I was overweight. I don’t know why and how it happened, I just remembered that suddenly, I started being called ‘fatty’ by my classmates. Maybe it was because I switched 2 cultures rapidly (as a kid, I moved from Russia to U.S. and back). Maybe it was because I ate too much fast food. I don’t know. My family had good diet habits, I was overweight and I was ashamed of it. So I did what any overweight kid would do feeling stressed out, I went for a Big Mac.

One day, as a teenager, I’ve had enough. I was on vocation on the Tenerife island in Spain with my family, and I wanted to run up the hill with my sister and her friends. But half-way through, I had to stop and gasp for air. I was in a bad physical shape, and I didn’t like it.

That very day I started browsing the web for solutions. I saw the intermittent-fasting diet, the ‘China Study’ and other self-help advice on the web, before self-help even became mainstream. And then I stumbled upon something called the ‘food combining diet’.

The idea of this diet is simple: you don’t eat carbohydrates and protein in the same meal.

Although many Americans are used to…