The Hay Diet

Sylvia · Post by **Sylvia** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:47 am

No, not for the Dexters, for my long suffering other half (and me because I'm not doing 2 sets of meals!!) Much merriment has been caused by my consideration of this regime. Without fail everyone round here thinks it means tucking in to the same food as the animals. Rather unfortunately the person who thought of it was a William Hay.

However, I just wondered if anyone had tried it - not as a weightloss programme, but as a health-enhancing option? E-mail me direct if you don't want to 'go public' on this site!!

John C · Post by **John C** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:04 am

My thoughts are with you Sylvia.
Not the hay diet but I'm two weeks into my latest one.
No chips, no booze,no sweets,no ice cream or curries. No nothing.
Best of luck. :;):

I feel a lot better for having lost those few early pounds.

Sylvia · Post by **Sylvia** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:16 pm

Commiserations, John C, I think you can have all of those (except sweets) on the Hay diet. The problem is you can't have fish with the chips! Or meat in the curry if you want it with rice. Hey ho, it is a good time it is a bit slack on the farm, this is going to involve serious concentration.

Kathy Millar · Post by **Kathy Millar** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:50 pm

This wouldn't be the "food-combining" diet would it? Tried it, gave up after a month and had a pizza. Did find an excellent cook book in the UK years ago that has great recipes. They claimed butter and cream were "neutral" so you could use them on your spuds and pasta. :D

Kathy

Sylvia · Post by **Sylvia** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 5:26 pm

That's the one Kathy, well done for lasting a month!! Did you feel any better before the pizza? :p

Kathy Millar · Post by **Kathy Millar** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 4:16 pm

No :p

Kathy

PS There are several different takes on this type of diet. The Americans call it the Natural Hygeine diet and we have a naturapath (sp?) over in Vancouver that has written a book on his version. I found the British version to be much more user-friendly as the US version is really strict

and won't even allow butter and cream to be used on a carb including the root veggies. The Canadian version was graded so that you started out fairly strict then moved back into more traditional combinations. I did feel a bit better with this version although it is hard to cut out glutin

Kathy