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Why the Low GI Diet Works for Weight Loss
October 20, 2008
The Food and Agriculture Association of the United Nations states that industrialized countries base their diets on low glycemic foods in order to prevent the most common diseases of influence such as; coronary heart disease, diabetes and obesity. Eating low glycemic is not only great for weight loss, but for overall heart health it is the best.
I even have my children eating low glycemic. Low G.I. eating is important because it keeps your body in the fat burning zone. Examples of low G.I. foods are beans, low sugar fruits like apples and meats. Most of our foods turn high glycemic by the way they are processed. Items that contain white flour like pasta and white bread and anything made with refined sugars (donuts) are high glycemic. Processing many of our foods has taken out nutrients and the necessary fiber we need for heart health and gastrointestinal health.
The adapting a low glycemic eating habit works best, because it will help you control your blood sugar level. It decreases hunger and increase satiety (feeling full or satisfied). Before I started eating low GI, I would joke that I had no satiety. I was hungry every hour. Personal trainers would tell me that it was good that I was hungry all the time. They said it meant that I had a high metabolism. I told them it was not working for me. Personal trainers do understand exercise, but many of the young ones don’t understand how the body works. I was constantly eating high GI process foods, but because it was low fat they thought I was fine.
Healthy regards,
Del-Metri Williams, MBA NC CTLC
Weight Management Coach
Fat Factor #2 Crash Dieting
September 25, 2008
I spent my teenage and young adult life crash dieting. I did it because it worked for a while. I did not realize what it was doing to my body. When you drastically cut calories, your brain misreads it as a life threatening time of famine.
When people were hunter gathers, sometimes there was not much to eat. Our bodies protected us by creating a starvation mode that would slow the rate of which we burn calories. When you drastically cut calories to lose weight, you slow down your metabolism.
Nothing has changed about the way our bodies work. Our brain does not know when you crash diet that you have a pantry full of food. Our brain thinks we are going to die from starvation, so it will do everything it can to keep you alive.
Crash dieting works when you are younger, because you naturally have a higher metabolism. As you getting older crash dieting will have a greater effect on your body. No one can crash diet for the rest of their life. Now that you lost your 5 to 10 pounds, you go back to normal eating and gain more than what you lost even if you eat healthy.
Healthy regards,
Del-Metri Williams, MBA NC CTLC
Weight Management Coach
