{"id":6979,"date":"2023-04-04T10:55:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T09:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietandhealthtoday.com\/?page_id=6979"},"modified":"2023-04-17T10:31:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T09:31:52","slug":"the-harcombe-diet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dietandhealthtoday.com\/the-harcombe-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Harcombe Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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How did The Harcombe Diet\u00ae come about?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Harcombe Diet\u00ae came about as the result of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) Over twenty years\u2019 worth of research into diets, diet advice, the characteristics of a \u2018workable\u2019 diet, obesity, eating disorders, food cravings and what causes them;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) My own experience of dieting, eating disorders, unworkable diets, food cravings and what causes them; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3) My determination to answer the question Why do you overeat, when all you want is to be slim<\/em>?, which became the title of my first book published in 2004 and substantially revised for the 2013 edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The research that followed, led to three conclusions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) First of all, the diet advice we have been given is fundamentally wrong. I am absolutely convinced that telling people to \u201ceat less, do more\u201d is the cause of the obesity problem, not the cure. Stop Counting Calories & Start Losing Weight<\/em> explains exactly what happens, directly and indirectly, when we try to eat less and how our bodies work against us to keep us alive and sabotage any attempts to lose weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) The second huge discovery was that there are three medical conditions, which cause insatiable food cravings: Candida; Food Intolerance and Hypoglycaemia. These three conditions are extremely common \u2013 you probably suffer from at least one of them, if not all three. If you do suffer from any of them, they each cause food cravings in their own destructive way and you will have little chance of sticking to a diet until you overcome them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3) The final shock discovery was that, if you have ever counted calories, or tried to eat less, you have substantially increased your chance of having one, or more of these conditions. That means \u2013 your previous attempts to diet have almost certainly given you the three medical conditions that will turn you into a food addict!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So \u2013 go on a low calorie\/low fat\/eat less kind of diet and your body will do everything it can to wreck your diet and you will be highly likely to develop three medical conditions that will give you addict-like cravings to further wreck your diet. No wonder the more I tried to starve the more I ended up bingeing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What can I eat?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Harcombe Diet\u00ae is about eating real food and ditching fake food. You won\u2019t be counting calories, or points, or carbs, or starving every other day, or 2 days a week. You won\u2019t be eating less \u2013 full stop. You\u2019ll be eating better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The diet is in 3 Phases:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Phase 1<\/strong><\/a> is just 5 days long (although it is recommended to stay on Phase 1 for longer if you have more than 20lb to lose and\/or if you have marked Candida overgrowth). You can have unlimited meat, fish, eggs, vegetables (except potatoes\/mushrooms), Natural Live (bio) Yoghurt, herbs, spices and one portion of \u2018safe\u2019 grains daily (brown rice, quinoa, oats).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Phase 2<\/strong><\/a> is followed for as long as you need to lose weight. Fruit, dairy products, baked potatoes and whole grains are re-introduced, as works for you (the books hold your hand through all this).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Phase 3<\/a><\/strong> is the lifelong weight maintenance plan. It\u2019s how to eat \u2018off-piste\u2019 and keep the weight off. You\u2019ll learn the rules of \u2018cheating\u2019 and see what you can get away with without re-gain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n

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