Lose Weight With The Low GI Diet

The Low GI Diet has many similarities to the Mediterranean Diet. Both are enjoyable lifestyle diets but need to be modified for weight loss.

Now GI stands for Glycaemic Index. To put it simply, it tells us how carbohydrates effect our blood sugar levels.

Foods with a high GI are broken down and released into the blood stream quickly.

Foods with a low GI are broken down and released into the blood stream slowly.

High GI foods make us feel hungry and wanting more food soon after we’ve eaten.

Low GI foods leave us feeling satisfied for longer and we feel less tempted to have that extra snack or to overeat when it’s the next meal time.

So for dieting – avoid high GI foods and stick to combinations of low and medium GI foods.

As this is a lifestyle diet, you will be able to have high GI foods sometimes when you’re down to your goal weight so long as the meal is balanced with the low GI foods.

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