Do you have an important reason why you want to lose weight? Maybe you will attend a social event such as a family wedding soon or you simply want to feel comfortable with your figure while on the beach with the kids.
You might be tempted to follow the latest fad on dieting because it has been effective on friend of a friend, or because a celebrity said something on TV. Let me tell you: such a BAD idea! Some of these diets might work for a short time, and dieting will even seem easy. In the end, chances are you will return to your normal habits and, as soon as that happens, you will slowly regain that weight again.
Truth be told, your chances are a lot better if you simply start watching out for what you are eating and pay more attention to your food choices. The low glycemic diet, also known as the GI diet, is a great way to lose weight in a sustainable fashion.
Success with the low glycemic diet is up to a number of factors, such as your body's metabolic rate, the types of food you usually eat to help with weight loss and how fast (or slowly) you want to lose weight,
The glycemic index classifies foods into three separate groups, depending on the amount of simple or complex sugars each of them contains:
High GI Foods: mashed potatoes, corn flakes, watermelon;
Medium GI Foods: white rice, raisins, pineapple, green pea soup (tinned);
Low GI Foods: whole milk, apples, baked beans in tomato sauce.
Basically this diet works by avoiding and/or controlling the intake high GI foods. These foods are digested and absorbed very quickly by the body, raising the blood sugar level too fast. The end result is that you will feel hungry much faster, craving for your next meal or some unhealthy snacks. Athletes can get away with this, but normal people like you and me should avoid this. This can be especially dangerous for people with diabetes because of the instant surge in blood sugar levels. In fact, this diet was created having in mind patients with type-2 diabetes and their needs to stabilize the glucose levels in their blood.
On the other hand, low GI foods slow down the process of glucose peaks, since they often contain complex sugar that take longer to release carbohydrates. Since the body will take longer to digest the nutrients from these foods and convert them into usable sources of energy, we will feel satisfied for a longer period of time, thus dis encouraging snacks between meals.
For example: if your breakfast is oatmeal, chopped nuts, low fat milk and whole berries, you are more likely to make it until lunchtime without a snack in between. But by eating a bowl of corn flakes, then you will probably be craving a cookie as a mid morning snack.
The good thing about the low glycemic diet is that it is not so restrictive, being balanced throughout the food groups. Foods from the high GI group can be replaced by others from the medium or low GI groups. Actually, this is a diet pan that can be followed by your entire family, changing everybody's eating habits and moving towards a healthier lifestyle.
Ken D. Rice invites you to visit LowGlycemicIndexFoods.org -- where you can find out about low glycemic index foods and get some healthy eating tips. He also wrote a detailed article on his personal experience with a low glycemic diet, losing 9 pounds in 6 weeks.
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