FAQs

The “Stop Counting Calories & Start Losing Weight: The Harcombe Diet” book contains more than 100 Questions & Answers – these have been carefully compiled to be exactly the questions to which you’re looking for an answer.

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The whole book is written in a really user friendly Question & Answer style. So, for example, the chapters on the three conditions are structured as follows:

– What is (for example) Candida?
– What causes it?
– How do I know if I’ve got it?
– How does it cause food cravings?
– How can I treat it?

The chapters on the three Phases of the diet are structured as follows:

– What can I eat?
– How long is each phase?
– When do I eat?
– How much do I eat?
– Why does it work?
– How will I feel?

The top 5 most Frequently Asked Questions are these (Sweeteners; Yoghurt; Avocados; Soya Milk; Sweet Potatoes). Please click here to see the answers to these questions.

The index for the main Question & Answer section in Stop Counting Calories is listed below (the numbers in brackets indicate the number of questions on this topic, if more than one):

A – Addiction (2); Agave Nectar; Alcohol (2); Avocados
B – Bacon; Benefits (of doing this diet); Bingeing (& Starving); Butter
C – Caffeine; Calories (3); Candida (4); Carbohydrates (2); Cereal; Cheese; Chewing gum; Children; Chips; Chocolate; Cholesterol; Constipation; Corn Flour; Couscous; Cravings (4); Cream; Crème fraiche (& fromage frais)
D – Dairy Products; Diabetes; (Candida) Die-off; Diet Drinks; Drinks generally (2)
E – Effort; Eggs (2); Eyesight
F – Falling (off the wagon); Fat (4); Food Intolerance (by country); Fruit; Fruit teas
G – Gravy; Grazing
H – Healthy; Honey; Hummus
I – Insulin; Insulin resistance (Syndrome X)
J – Jam (preserves) (2)
L – Lemon
M – Mascarpone cheese; Meat (2); Medication; Milk; Mixing (2); Moderation
N – Nuts (& Seeds)
O – Olives; Olive Oil
P – Pain killers; Pasta; Phase 1 (staying on Phase 1 & going back to Phase 1); Potatoes; Pregnancy; Protein; Pulses
Q – Quorn
R – Real food; Recipes
S – Salt; Sausages; Smoked food; Snacks; Soy(a) milk; Stevia; Stock cubes; Sugar; Sweet corn; Sweeteners; Sweet potatoes
T – “Time-of-the-month”; Tinned tomatoes; Tofu
V – Vegetables; Vegetable crisps; Vegetable juice; Vinegar; Virtuous & Vicious circles; Vitamins
W – Water retention; Weight loss (2)
X – Xylitol
Y – Natural Live Yoghurt (NLY) (4)