Amazing! Lost Another Pound This Week, Low Gi & Eating Out

I'm really amazed, I've lost another pound this past week.

I'm amazed because I've been to friends' places for dinner and have met friends out for lunch a few times this week. Sound like a real social butterfly........not really, it was just one of those weeks when everything happens together.

So because of my social butterflying, I've not been as strict as I should have been with the low gi foods. Mind you I did try to follow what Wesley said in his GI Diet Breakthrough about eating out., its just little things that he made me aware of like, drinking water with the meal instead of a soda, order grilled chicken without the skin, with vegetables, open face sandwiches at lunch time and many more. So it pays to be conscious of what you are about, instead of ordering the wrong foods.

The other thing I did this week is find Fruisana fruit sugar. I did notice a difference in just the way I felt after having it on my cereal and in my tea. I did notice it sweet on my cereal too and have been experimenting with how much I use. With the tea and coffee I didn't notice it quite as sweet, maybe it is the heat that has some affect on it. Nevertheless, I am cutting down on the quantity I use and that is a good thing, also being a low GI food of only 19, this is even better.

Next is to try it in some of my own recipes and turn them into low gi recipes, the family may have to put up with a few mistakes until I get the measurement right. Still they are getting good at that and are very encouraging, love 'em.

Back to work, catch you later.

Lost Another Pound This Week, Low Glycemic Index I Like.

My bedtime reading this week has been The GI Diet Breakthrough, there is so much good info in that book, it's not just a diet book. I'm determined to understand this low gi diet plan.

All these years I've been guilty of using the "I need a sugar hit" to get me through the afternoon. I've done this so often and reading GI Diet Breakthrough, I now realise just how 'off beam' I've been.

Things like chocolate bars, good old Coke and coffee with sugar have been what I've reached for and now I can see how wrong that was. These are all simple sugars and the worst kind for causing a spike in my blood sugar levels, heaps of energy and very soon after, lethargic.

Since I've been doing things the GI way, I haven't felt the need for that 'sugar hit' and I've lost another pound this week which is just great and I haven't even thought about being on a diet, thanks to the GI Diet Breakthrough.

Slow and steady is how I want to lose my weight that's how it is happening and I don't feel like I'm dieting. Then I want to keep it off with sensible eating and by the time my weight is where I want it, I should be eating a low GI diet as a natural thing, not having to think if this is a low gi food or go to the GI Diet Breakthough to find out. I will know that book by heart by then.

I've been repeating recipes for the last couple of weeks but this week I'm off to find some more new ones. What I did find last week, is a great program for my recipes, it not only stores recipes and cookbooks but with a few clicks, organises the shopping list and menu planning. It's called ShopNCook Menu and you can get a trial download, which is a good thing as you can figure out if it is what you want or not during the trial. Although this is not an expensive program and I've found it so good that I think I will buy it when the trial is up. This is the download link ShopNCook Menu and the trial is 45 days.

Okay that's it for now, I'm going to plan my menu for next week with ShopNCook Menu and print out my shopping list. this is such a time saver when I'm working such odd hours.

Catch you again soon.

Low GI Diets and The Benefits,

just found this on Wiki, it's about low GI diets and foods, remember the carrots being a medium GI well this is how it came about.....

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From Wiki Books

Low-GI diet refers to a diet that advocates consumption of foods with a low glycaemic index (GI). The glycaemic index measures the rate at which the body converts the carbohydrate in a given food to glucose (blood sugar). A low-GI diet is important for people with diabetes, as either their bodies' insulin production is abnormal or their bodies are insulin resistant, restricting their ability to metabolise glucose.

However, low-GI diets have benefits for non-diabetics also. A high-GI diet results in peaks and troughs of energy throughout the day, whereas a low-GI diet results in a good level of sustained energy. Low-GI foods also tend to have a longer satisfaction period per calorie given the slow energy release, which is useful in maintaining a healthy weight loss/control diet.

It should be noted that, since the glycaemic index measures the rate at which the carbohydrate in the food is converted into glucose, it can be misleading for foods with a low quantity of carbohydrate. The carbohydrate in carrot has a medium GI but, since a carrot only is about 7% carbohydrate, it has a relatively small effect on the blood glucose. For this reason, some people advocate use of the glycaemic load (GL) instead, which is simply the GI divided by 100, times the quantity of carbohydrate (in grams).

Foods such as meat which have no carbohydrate have no GI.

A GI of up to 55 is low, 56-69 medium and 70+ high. Glucose has a GI of 100.

A GL of 10 or less is low, 11-19 medium and 20+ high.

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Can get a little confusing, but I know I'm on the right path.

Be back soon

Low GI Diet Breakthrough, An Easy Diet To Follow

The more I research the more I like the idea of building up my low GI recipes. I started out wanting to control my carb intake and so reduce my weight. With Wesley Atkins' book The Low GI Diet Breakthrough there is so much information to help with the choices I need to make.

With this book I'm beginning to understand about low GI or glycemic index and the reason I've been adding the weight, it's through not understanding the carbohydrates in the low fat foods were responsible.

In Low GI Diet Breakthrough it is explained about how this works and why eating the low GI foods benefits the body so much. Also, the number of people who have followed what Wesley Atkins has in the ebook and have lost so much weight shows that this low GI diet plan works.

It all makes sense the way it is explained, it doesn't focus on the carbs you should not have or I should say, should limit but more on the type of carbohydrates you eat.

There is nothing worse than going on a diet and being restricted, I don't know about you, but when I can't have something that's when I want it the most. Just a bye the bye, when I stopped smoking I kept a pack and a half of my brand of cigarettes in the pantry, they were still there eight years later.

That's got not much to do with low GI foods or low GI diets only for the fact that with the low GI recipes there is such a fantastic variety to choose from, there are very little or no restrictions to worry about. No wonder so many people have lost weight by following this low GI diet plan, it's an easy diet to follow, you don't even realize your dieting.

Check out my low gi recipes for today, click here and be amazed at what you can eat on a low gi diet.