I have a colleague who is using the meal and water separation method to lose weight, see his results are quite good, I am worried about whether there will be any side effects, I would like to ask you for advice. A: Separation of meals and water, as the name implies, is the separation of wet and dry – no soup, water and drinks during the main meal, while between the main meal (before and after the interval of about 2 hours) allowed to drink water at will. It is said that some people have tried it and have weight loss effect, want to know why? The group leader repeatedly reiterated a weight loss concept – chew slowly! But the reality is harsh. When one is faced with a delicious meal, it is extremely difficult to control oneself through subjective perseverance, to slow down the pace of eating. On the contrary, more often than not, hungry people face food, most of them are gobbling, so they eat too much, not fat! Therefore, the implementation level, want to achieve the real “chew slowly”, is the head of the consistent emphasis on “active to passive”, to put it bluntly is “appropriate to increase the difficulty of eating”. “appropriate to increase the pain of eating”, forced to slow down the speed of eating. An example. If you are given a bowl of eel rice, you may eat quickly and aromatically, and finish the bowl quickly and still want to finish it; but if you mix some sand in this eel rice, you will be afraid of gnashing your teeth, and have to carefully use your tongue to slowly find the sand, spit it out, and then swallow the food, in this way, do not chew slowly? But you may say, this is not the brain is not normal? Why do you want to put the sand in a good meal? That slightly reduce the difficulty, a fluffy cake with a cup of milk tea, and a piece of dry compressed cookies do not allow any liquid, the same ingredients and calories, which would you choose? If you want to challenge the excitement, you can try to chew a piece of dry compressed cookies, that difficult to swallow the feeling of pulling throat, as if eating desiccant! Such a bad and unpleasant eating experience, naturally bring about a slowdown in eating speed + eating volume decline, long-term eating like this, not thin is strange! In my opinion, I do not recommend this meal and water separation method, after all, everyone’s tolerance for pain is different, why so extreme? On the contrary, Yu Dafu advocates before meals and the beginning of the meal to drink soup and water, comfortable and weight loss! If you want to make eating more difficult, try switching to smaller utensils, making food ingredients finely chopped, and eating coarse grains and potatoes instead of refined rice and white flour. If you just like to challenge the limits, or feel that this way of eating is quite a sense of ritual, is a kind of experience, then forget I said. But this meal-water separation method, incidentally, reduces the consumption of beverages at meals, provided that the two meals (2 hours away) is also drinking sugar-free drinks. The good thing is that the side effects on the body are not significant, perhaps the food is too dry for digestion and nutrient absorption is somewhat affected. I heard that the separation of wet and dry during meals is to not allow soup and water during meals, is it necessary? I do not know if you hear this statement, the purpose is to lose weight or stomach, this is a two-way thing. 1, first of all, weight loss Whether soup or water, because of the presence of water, its energy density is lower than that of solid food, provided, of course, that soup can not be floating a thick layer of animal oil broth, or starch thickened or even put sugar in the thick soup, but the fresh taste of clear soup, such as mushroom soup, seaweed soup, sea rice and winter melon soup, tomato and egg soup, etc.. I always emphasize that the order of meals for weight loss is crucial: first drink a small bowl of fresh soup, then eat vegetables to three or five minutes full, then eat meat to six minutes full, and finally eat mixed grains or potato staples to seven or eight minutes full, so properly thin. So from this point of view, you say the wet and dry, is a meal within the wet and dry, but the second half of the sentence does not drink soup is wrong. Weight loss is not only to drink soup and water, but also to drink before eating the main course, in fact, many Chinese food is reversed: big fish and meat to eat, and then a bowl of West Lake beef jelly or hot and sour soup simmering seam, not fat is strange! This point, to learn from the Guangdong people, Cantonese cuisine is very good, with the meal either soup, or tea, think about the body of the Guangdong people, not much fat, right? 2, said the stomach If the main meal of meat, vegetables, rice itself is not steamed and stewed very soft, at this time, if mixed with soup to eat, such as soup soaking rice this way of eating, is very hurt the stomach, and affect the digestion, for two reasons: First, the original solid food is easier to be captured by the teeth and chewed to, after the mouth fully grinded into surimi and then swallowed into the stomach, reducing the physical digestive burden of the stomach. If this is the same time with the soup to drink, such as soup bubble rice eating method, it is likely to be “swallowed whole” feeling, the stomach is really clucking pain! Secondly, the synchronization of a large amount of liquid with solid food into the stomach, the stomach’s digestive juices are also diluted, the effect of digestive enzymes is weakened, resulting in the subsequent poor intestinal digestion and absorption, food nutrition is easy to “through the intestines and pass”. Not only does the body not get enough nutrients, but the nutrients enter the colon through bacterial fermentation, and bowel movements tend to be more smelly or thinner. Note that this is different from the previous “soup – vegetables – meat – rice” order, the beauty of soup first is that the absorption of liquid by the stomach and intestines is very fast, with the latter chewing and digestion of solid food intersection time is not much. Therefore, the separation of wet and dry within a meal is right, the dish is the dish, rice is rice, water is water, if mixed before the entrance, it is not good for the stomach, but said the main meal can not have soup and water, but not necessary. Summary 1, not only can you drink soup and water at meals, and must drink, there is no need to drink water between meals 2, soup and water is best to drink before the main course, choose no oil, no sugar, no starch soup fresh soup 3, weight loss meal order: soup – vegetables – meat –Rice, chew slowly, seven or eight minutes full