The G.I. Diet: The Easy, Healthy Way to Permanent Weight Loss
The G.I. Diet: The Easy, Healthy Way to Permanent Weight Loss
Why was this a #1 bestseller in Canada in 2002? Because it is an easy-to-follow, easy-to-stick-to, truly healthy approach to eating that is based on the Glycemic Index, the original science behind The Zone Diet, but eliminates that diet’s complexity and tendency to leave dieters wanting more. If you can understand a traffic light, you can understand this diet–and lose weight permanently without feeling hungry, counting calories, or jeopardizing your health. If a food is in the green column, eat it. If it’s in the red column, avoid it. And if it’s in the yellow column, proceed with caution. Take bread, for example. White bread, with its high G.I. number, is red-because it’s so highly processed the body digests it quickly, resulting in a spike in blood sugar, a release of insulin, potential storage as fat, and a quick return of the hungry feeling. Low-G.I. 100% stone-ground whole-wheat bread is green-the body takes a while to digest it, with no spike in blood sugar and a much longer feeling of satiety. Green, yellow, red: It’s all here, with a full explanation of how the diet works, plus ratings for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, eating out or eating in. Includes some recipes, snack ideas, a shopping list, and tips on dining out.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars good resource
for anyone looking to remove refined sugar and carbs from their diet this is a very good book! It breaks down “allowable foods” by red, green, and yellow categories. Very easy to follow.
5 Stars Great diet book, lose weight without starving
This is a lifestyle changing book as much as a diet book. It’s about eating high fiber and healthy foods. Eating high fiber means that food stays with your longer, helps you stay ‘regular’, and helps you stay full. I didn’t really have to cut back. I just stopped eating the white stuff - white sugar, white flour, white rice. Stop eating so much processed foods.
It spells it out easily using red, yellow, green light foods. You stop eating the red light foods.
Course, it isn’t easy. We sort of cleaned out the old stuff and started buying the right foods. It takes effort at the grocery and at the table, but it’s doable. I dropped 10% of my weight and never really felt like I was dieting.
5 Stars To the point
This book is to the point and easy to read. It does not cloud it’s intentions with terminology that only doctors and nutrition experts will understand. It is weight loss made easy and simple.
5 Stars Easiest and Most Sensible Diet There Is
This is more than a diet, it is a promotion of the way the human body is meant to consume food for sustaining life. Over the years we have become so caught up as a race in eating junk like processed flours and sugars, along with very thick sauces comprised of primarily bad dairy, that we lost touch with the real reason we need to eat….which is to say….to survive. Now if you are a food lover and actually find food to be a “vice” in your life, this diet will ultimately be hard for you. Yet if you crave increased energy, loss of excessive fat, overall better well being, then buy this book. Gallop simplifies the diet into a very simple “stop light” technique of: Green Light foods = eat as much as you want; Yellow Light foods = be very cautious and only eat once in a while, and Red Light foods = NEVER eat. So with the green light foods you can literally eat as much as you want, regardless of whether or not it is a carb or protein based food, therefore, you never, ever feel hungry on this diet. He promotes 5-6 small meals a day and promotes avoiding anything that is processed. Simply because, by eating processed foods, you are bypassing what the body was meant to do and that is process the fiberous portions of food itself(like the bran that is in whole wheat). By not doing that, the food is digested much faster then it would normally be and thus creates a whole series of chain reactions within the body revolving around insulin productio, that ultimately causes us to gain weight. I LOVE this diet and have adopted it as the way to eat for life. It’s that simple, that satisfying, and that good. If you have tried diet after diet and failed, then give this one a try IF you really want to lose weight. Otherwise, treat it like a bad thing and you will fail once again. But absorb it for what it is, a sensible approach to eating for life, and it will work, you’ll look and feel great, and it will be the best thing you could possibly do for yourself ever. Bravo to Rick Gallop for providing such a vitally necessary approach to life.
5 Stars This book changed my life
2 years ago, a friend was put on this diet by his doctor, he told me about it and how it worked for him, so I did some research and ended up buying this book. I must say this book has changed my life. Like others have said, its really not a diet, it is a lifestyle change, and it shows you how to make these changes in a simple layed-out format. There is no measuring or calorie counting, simply making the right food choices. It has been over 2 years and I’ve lost over 25 lbs. my energy is up, my cholestrol is down and I have kept off the weight with no problems. I never felt I was on a diet, I never had to eat smaller portions, I don’t feel the need to binge snack, because these foods keep you very full and satisfied. Sometimes I still can’t believe how easy it was. If you are serious about getting healthy and losing weight this book is for you.
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