Digestion time for different food

DIGESTION TIME OF VARIOUS FOODS: (The time spent in the stomach before emptying).

Juices: Fruit vegetables, vegetable broth - 15 to 20 minutes.

Semi-liquid: Blended salad, vegetables or fruits) - 20 to 30 min.

Fruits: Watermelon - 20 min. digestion time. Other melons - Cantaloupe, Cranshaw, Honeydew, etc. - 30 min. Oranges, grapefruit, grapes - 30 min. Apples, pears, peaches, cherries, etc. - digest in 40 min.

Vegetables: Raw tossed salad vegetables - tomato, lettuces, cucumber, celery, red or green pepper, other succulent vegetables - 30 to 40 min. digestion. - Steamed or cooked vegetables Leafy vegetables - escarole, spinach, kale, collards etc. - 40 min. - Zucchini, broccoli, cauliflower, string beans, yellow squash, corn on cob - all 45 min. digestion time Root vegetables - carrots, beets, parsnips, turnips etc. - 50 min.

Semi-Concentrated Carbohydrates - Starches. Jerusalem artichokes & leafy, acorn & butternut squashes, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, yam, chestnuts - all 60 min. digestion.

Concentrated Carbohydrates - Grains: Brown rice, millet, buckwheat, cornmeal, oats (first 3 vegetables best) - 90 min. Legumes & Beans - (Concentrated Carbohydrate & Protein) Lentils, limes, chick peas, peas, pigeon peas, kidney beans, etc. - 90 min. digestion time soy beans -120 min. digestion time

Seeds & Nuts. Seeds - Sunflower, pumpkin, pepita, sesame - Digestive time approx. 2 hours. Nuts - Almonds, filberts, peanuts (raw), cashews, Brazil, walnuts, pecans etc. - 2 1/2 to 3 hours to digest.

Dairy: Skim milk, cottage or low fat pot cheese or ricotta - approx. 90 min. digestion time whole milk cottage cheese - 120 min. digestion whole milk hard cheese - 4 to 5 hours digestion time

Animal proteins: Egg yolk - 30 min. digestion time Whole egg - 45 min. Fish - cod, scrod, flounder, sole seafood - 30 min. digestion time Fish - salmon, salmon trout, herring, (more fatty fish) - 45 min. to 60 digestion time Chicken - 11/2 to 2 hours digestion time (without skin) Turkey - 2 to 2 1/4 hours digestion time (without skin) Beef, lamb - 3 to 4 hours digestion time Pork - 41/2 to 5 hours.

Top Tips for Good Digestion

Eat in order of digestibility.

You should eat the easiest to digest foods first in each meal and slowly move towards the more complex. Think of a highway, if the slowest cars are in front they'll hold up the faster cars behind them, causing a traffic jam. The same goes for your food. Eat those fastest to digest first and save the tougher to digest foods for the second half of your meal.

Here are the time sequences for different food groups:

Water & Juices: 20-30 minutes.

Fruits, Smoothies, Soups: 30-45 minutes.

Vegetables: 30-45 minutes.

Beans, Grains, Starches: 2-3 hours.

Meat, Fish, Poultry: 3 or more hours.

Drink warm or hot liquids with your meal.

Ice cold drinks can slow down the digestive process, think of it as putting ice on a muscle. The muscle stiffens and does not function as well. Warm or room temperature water, juice, or decaf tea will encourage proper digestion. (Just remember the traffic jam – drink liquids prior to meals).

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Weight restored and I feel amazing.

The longer you eat recovery amounts the stronger you will be to tolerate the weight gain and bloat. I live with what I feared my whole life now every day. A body with normal weight with fat on thighs and stomach. But anyway I feel amazing. I had forgot how good it feels to be nourished. I am more positive because the mood is way better when I have eaten so I look at the positive aspects of my body. I DON'T NEED TO LOOK PERFECT.

More energy, no edema.

So, it's been 11,5 weeks on recovery amounts of food now. The edema is completely gone. I noticed my butt was no longer hard as it was when it was full of water. I look better. I think maybe redistribution has began now. I know it is very soon so perhaps I'm wrong, but I think the fat is distributed more naturally now than before.

I have got more energy the last days as I started being more active by doing strength training at home. I actually felt I had energy to do some yoga today as well. I'm very happy about this, and the improvements in strength day to day is motivating. I still don't take long walks. That is the last thing I'm going to do. I have to be smart so the adrenals gets the rest it needs. I will not strain myself. My manual therapist wanted to see me in his gym in 4 weeks time. I said I would show up and I could bring my buddy that moves in with me this week, who also needs to start building strength. Edit: It was too early to start strength training so I stopped after a while.

I have eaten mostly fruits and potatoes lately + oats. I love it, and it makes me sure I won't gain more fat. I gained more than enough when I ate mostly fat the first 7 weeks. I regret doing that, but I'm confident the amount that is too much will come off as I continue to eat low fat. Edit: I did lose the overshoot weight quickly while eating mostly whole food carb-sources so my prediction was correct.

Higher weight

It's can be easier to handle being at a higher weight the longer you have been in recovery because you feel better over all, your mood is so much better and you feel stronger. That is how it is for me at least. It is so nice to be able to make jokes and laugh hard again. It is strange to be spontanious again, but now I don't take myself that serious anymore, so I can live with the shame of saying stupid jokes sometimes. I think my energy has started to increase too now. I don't think so much that I am in recovery anymore. Instead I focus about getting stronger and enjoy life. Like, i eat because that is normal, not because I'm in recovery. The only reason why I could start restricting again would be my vanity, but I do not want to be a slave of vanity. Then I'm more proud of looking normal. Most people are at a BMI between 23-28 or something. Don't remember exactly. So it is not that we will look bigger than most. So, no worries. Those who make a lot of effort just to look a certain way is not someone I look up to anymore. I feel a bit ashamed I have been such a person all my life. I will focus on important things instead. Not appearance. I will eat and move because it is natural and enjoyable.

Pretty happy with it all now.

I've eaten around 2600 calories a day for a couple of weeks and I'm excited that I can eat food that I've missed. I have baked my own rolls, eaten mashed potatoes almost daily, oats with yoghurt and pineapple and a lot of fruit. I can't see a weight gain because of this, so it's great. Today, even though I'm as big as before my eating disorder started I think I look pretty good. I don't think a redistribution will make a lot of difference on how I look now because I do not have the toddler shape some say they have before the redistribution (fat around the waist).

My metabolism is definitely improved. I know this for a fact because I have measured my body temperature for weeks now. It's gone up slowly from 36,3 to 36,9. Before recovery it was far less than this. Some people have cold hands and feet, but a high temperature. Then it have to be poor circulation. I know vitamin E can help. Probably a lot of other things too.

I eat meat only once a week or two. I get enough protein from all the grains. I have tried rolls with wheat, spelt, barley and rye and prefer rye. I have read that modern wheat contains more gluten that the original wheat so it's best to avoid it as much as possible. I like the taste of rye better anyway, but it is very hard to digest for me.

I have ordered a blender and look forward to make nice cream, using frozen fruit to make fat free sorbet. I'm gonna use banana, mango, peach and papaya. I'm happy I can eat food like that with no problems. I do get some gas from the grains, but it doesn't hurt as I am far from constipated.

The pain in my legs and feet are less, the head aches are almost gone and it's a long time since I had flu like symptoms (migraine).

My family has been supporting and nice to me. I have avoided other people, but now I accept more how I look so this will change. A guy who likes "the skinnier the better" is coming to live with me in ten days time. He hasn't seen me since before I started eating more so I worry what he will say. 

I look forward to have energy to exercise again. I have burned out my adrenals so it will take years, probably. I sleep a lot to heal them.

My energy level and strength is not improved more than say 15%. I will do a bit of strength training at home for my back, thighs and stomach because I need it. It will just be a few minutes a day in the beginning. Hopefully I can do a bit of yoga as well soon. Just sun salutations and a couple of other asanas to start with. I will stop as soon as I feel I'm straining myself.

I have not stepped on the scale these ten weeks. If I should guess I am probably at a BMI of 23 now.