CAD aka Carb Concentration is a meal timing method that helps curb cravings, thus giving you more control of your appetite. Dr. Rachael Heller wrote "The Carbohydrate Addict's Diet", with the basic premise being what Carb Concentration suggests. Click on the banner, and it will take you to a video that will describe it in more than the few words I will use here.
Basically, take all of the food you plan on eating in the day and place each item appropriately, at a set time. No nibbling is best. The main challenging thing is to eat all of your carb foods, including carb dense vegetables, within 1 meal only. You may eat snacks and meals outside of this carb meal, but these other meals need to be low carb.
A typical Carb Concentrated day would look like this:
- Breakfast - eggs; bacon
- Lunch - Hamburger patty, with cheese; brussels sprouts with butter
- Supper - Pizza, peanut butter pie, tossed salad with dressing
This is a method I use to keep from overeating, to keep my appetite under control. To graze on even low calorie diet type foods creates a vacuum, where I feel much less control, and I feel more content as a result as well.
Allowing only protein and non carb foods outside of this main meal controls the urge to over eat, nibble, and plain just eat too many calories.
