Easy GI Diet - Helen Foster

The GI Diet: Demystified

Advantages: Clearly explained diet that's certainly not a fad
Disadvantages: Not for everyone, some annoying comments

many calories - not because you upset some carefully-calculated balance of food - and that the only way to lose weight is to eat fewer calories. The GI Diet offers a strategy to do this without leaving you feeling deprived or - as with Atkins - in a dangerous state called ketosis. Gallop divides food into three 'traffic light' categories: red foods are high GI, amber foods are medium GI and green foods are low GI. This is a fairly simple organization and the charts are easy to understand, but you will need to consult them frequently to check whether the foods you're eating are low GI. In what Gallop refers to as Phase I, the weight loss phase, you are expected to eat nothing but low GI (green) foods and recipes. This sounds a bit extreme, but the blow is softened when you realise that a lot of low GI recipes include medium GI foods in ...

DoubleFantasy11 09.01.2007 · Read full review
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Review of The GI Diet (Updated Edition) - Rick Gallop

The GI bride loses weight successfully

Advantages: Easy to follow and really works
Disadvantages: Sometimes you still want some chocolate

to avoid foods that have a high GI and to eat foods with a low GI instead. So you can get an idea from this list what you are permitted to eat. Before I go into the nitty gritty of this diet I have to tell you that I have been on this diet for about 6 weeks now and I have lost more than half a stone. Its not one of those lose weight quick schemes, it?s just an easy, healthy way to permanent weight loss. The problem is that most food these days is highly processed that they are too easily digested by our bodies ? the digestive process needs to be slowed down so that you don?t feel as hungry as often and you don?t get those unnatural sugar highs and lows that cause us to snack. Most of the food that you eat on this diet is ?slow-release? so they break down at a slower rate and fill you up for longer. The other problem is Fats ...

MadeinScotland 02.04.2003 · Read full review
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Review of The GI diet

Finally, a sensible way to lose weight.

Advantages: A realistic and healthy eating plan
Disadvantages: No sugars and processed white carbohydrates allowed.

The GI Diet. ************* Before I start this review it is important to note that I am not a dieter and I don't need to lose weight. I feel qualified to comment on the Glycaemic Diet (GI) because I am involved in conducting research into relationships between diet and wellbeing and thus I know ALOT about this area. In addition I follow a very healthy eating plan which conforms to a low GI eating plan. With the increasing waistlines of the Western World, new miracle diet plans pop onto the market continuously and there is just no escape from the latest diet fad!! But the GI diet is a much more realistic diet which is based on sensible dietary guidelines and which attempts to avoid weight cycling (continuous losing and regaining of weight), which is terribly bad for health. GI stands for Glycaemic Index, and describes ...

nickyturnill 14.01.2005 (18.04.2006) · Read full review
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Review of The GI diet