The journal

Eating well, explained.

The science behind the Alka-Terranean® method, fat loss without dieting, and the Mediterranean way of living that makes it last — written by Selen.

Selen seated against a white panelled wall, hand resting on her stomach
The Method

The Alka-Terranean® method, explained

The biochemistry of alkaline nutrition meets the pleasure of Mediterranean living — and why that combination makes fat loss both fast and sustainable.

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Eating well

The Mediterranean breakfast for weight loss

The best breakfast isn't the smallest — it's the most balanced. A morning plate that steadies energy and curbs cravings, no calorie counting.

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Food factsIs pasta alkaline?
Food facts

Is pasta alkaline? The honest answer

Short version: mildly acid-forming — and never forbidden. Where pasta really sits on the scale, and how to eat it the Alka-Terranean® way.

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Food factsAlkaline foods list
Food facts

An alkaline foods list — and what they actually do

The everyday alkaline-forming foods worth keeping on your plate — and the myth about blood pH worth clearing up.

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Selen laughing in her kitchen, tossing a lemon into the air
Story

From engineer to nutritionist

How treating her own body like a system — not a diet — became a science-backed method for balance, gut health and lasting change.

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Selen in a bright kitchen holding a green juice
Gut health

My dieting obsession wrecked my gut

Years of yo-yo dieting left her bloated and inflamed — until a gastroenterologist's insight about acidity changed everything. Plus the honest science of alkaline eating.

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Gut healthHow to stop bloating
Gut health

How to stop bloating — 9 things that actually help

The real causes of a bloated stomach, what helps fast, and the calm daily habits that keep digestion smooth.

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MindsetFast & sustainable
Mindset

Weight loss can be fast and sustainable

We've been taught fast can't last. The biochemistry — and an addition mentality over restriction — says otherwise. From Selen's GOSS Magazine cover feature.

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In their words

Built by a method women actually keep.

After years of trying to find a diet that fit my life, I lost more than twenty kilos — without restricting myself, while building habits I actually kept.

Victoria S. · coached by Selen

The whole mindset was adding to my meals, not taking away. I started craving better food — and leaned out eating more and training less.

Elena G. · marathon runner

I finally broke the never-ending diet cycle. She changed how I eat — and my whole relationship with food — for good.

Erinc V. · coached by Selen

Real words from Selen’s coaching clients. Names shortened, shared with permission.

Stop reading about it. Start living it.

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