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Living the GI Diet: To Maintain Healthy, Permanent Weight Loss | 
 enlarge | Author: Rick Gallop
Publisher: Virgin Books
Category: Book
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Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 0753508826
Dewey Decimal Number: 613
EAN: 9780753508824
ASIN: 0753508826
Publication Date: January 8, 2004
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 This book changed my life January 24, 2007
26 out of 27 found this review helpful
I'm 34 years old 5' 7" and when i started following the advise in this book i weighed 16 stone and a waist of 41 inches. When i was 18 i was 10 stone 7 lbs, had a 28 waist and was toned and muscly. From 15 years of lack of exercise and poor food crisps, biscuits, carbonated soft drinks (soda, pop or ginger depending on where you live), curries etc my body was a mess.
I wheezed when walking up more than 4 flights of stairs.
In short i'm probably much the same as a lot of you reading this review. I knew about sensible eating but was too lazy/uneducated to implement it. I'd lost about 20 pounds on the Atkins diet previously but piled it back on because i couldn't stick to it's almost "meat only" ethos.
My main problem is i don't like cooking so the takeaway was an easy option. So the foods i CRAVED kept calling to me
I read this book and discovered a great secret - by purchasing the pre-made salad packets in supermarkets and canned fish (which i like) i could make a tasty nutricious meal in 5 minutes. Less time than you'd wait for your chinese to be cooked. I substitute the fish for chicken, turkey etc as the mood takes me and often have a small portion of meat with veg etc.
Where this book differs is showing you where we ALL go wrong in Britain - we have a plate made up half of meat a third with potatoes/pasta/rice and a token portion of veg. This ethos is half a plate of veg/salad a qtr of meat and a qtr of potatoes. THAT is the difference.
I've changed my eating habits because i am now EDUCATED about how much damage high GI foods cause. I now know why the old comment "why is it i'm hungry an hour after eating a chinese meal" is true.
In the past 4 months i have lost two and a half stone and 4 inches off my waist. My 38 inch jeans are falling off me and i fit comfortably into 36 inch jeans.
The other day i ate a chinese curry and couldn't finsih half of it - it was disgusting. The same can be said for chocolate and i don't even take a crisp if it's offered to me.
THAT IS THE KEY - on previous diets i've CRAVED the curries, biscuits, crisps and YOU have too. Now i don't even want to touch them.
Give it a try - the book is indepth but easy to follow with meal plans and ideas.
Change your life - i have because by the time i go on holiday in August i should be 11 stone with a 32 inch waist. Something i've been dreaming of for years.
Eating low GI foods makes a lot of sense. May 16, 2006
54 out of 55 found this review helpful
I have never been a dieter having dismissed them all because they were based on one stupid fad after another and long term results are typically like a yo-yo with the weight loss/gain effect. I also like my food too much.
Approaching middle age, slowly developing a "bear belly" and "Man boobs" (attractive image that!) I wanted to try and adopt a healthier lifestyle and eating habits.
I had read that the GI diet (and also the GL variations) were broadly supported by the government healthy eating guidelines and most professionally qualified nutritionalists were praising it as the right way to change your eating habits. Encouraged by other reviews, I brought this book.
What did I learn from the book.
1) The link between Sugar/Insulin and Fat creation/energy storage and appetite.
2) What my BMI should be and how to caluclate my target weight.
(I wasn't classed as obese yet but I wasn't in the recommended range either)
3) Lots of encouraging letters from people who had tried this diet and been succesfull but had also had positive side effects on other medical problems.
4) Which foods are impacted by this and how to choose low Gi alternatives to some High Gi foods. A simple traffic light system was used to explein this concept. THIS IS THE KEY.
Since starting the healthy eating I have lost around 1 lb a week. Some weeks it was flat and others it was as much as 2 lb.
Now here is the good bit:
I didn't follow the recipies so I have no idea if they are any good. I didn't worry too much about portion sizes either.
I still have the ocassional cake or sweet without being silly about it. Realistically 50% of the book was wasted on me.
All I did was understand the GI content of what I was eating and chose accordingly. Two weeks ago I bought a new suit. I had to.
This damn book is going to cost me a fortune in new clothes but I don't mind so much as I don't expect to put the weight back on again like a yo-yo diet. I see no reason to change back to my old eating habits and I also feel generally healthier.
A truly life changing experience and one I definately recommend to the readers of this review. Good luck
It changed my way of eating August 23, 2005
50 out of 51 found this review helpful
Having struggled with various diets over the years I decided to give the GI Diet a go and, after 20 weeks, I have almost lost two stone (without exercising). This is not really a diet but a healthy way of eating. Unlike many diets you do not feel hungry and you may wonder how you are managing to lose weight when you are not eating rabbit food or feeling hungry all the time (like most diets). I look forward to my home made GI friendly muffin every day and have lost all cravings for chocolate and alcohol. The results of the diet speak for themselves. It helps if you like cooking as you really must be prepared to make the effort and get back to basics ie avoid convenience food! It would be helpful if Rick Gallop produced a follow-up book of recipes only, but once you get to grips with the theory of the diet you can soon 'adapt' recipes to make them GI friendly. There are many GI diet books on the market but this is easy to understand and it's worked for me.
Springboard to Better Health June 17, 2005
52 out of 54 found this review helpful
This book is a brilliant start to a healthier lifestyle but it's not enough to buy it in isolation. In the same way that you can't learn to drive a car by just reading the Highway Code, you can't expect to lose weight just by consulting this book. You need practice and instruction.The principles outlined by Rick Gallop are very sensible, straightforward and, yes, you've probably heard the basics all before. Whole grains, fresh fruit and vegetables, low fat, low sugar and lean meat/fish. But if we all know that, how come nearly two-thirds of us are overweight? The diet is significantly different to the ones that have gone before because it concentrates on controlling blood sugar levels rather than simply restricting calories. Having been a yo-yo dieter for many years I read this book and then opted to join up with an on-line GI Diet group to help me put the theory into practice and provide some contact with other dieters. That was six months ago. The combination of the two has so far resulted in a 30lb+ weight loss but with none of the usual boredom/hunger/deprivation associated with calorie-restricted diets. I fully intend to follow it for life. So I would recommend this book as a springboard to a healthier lifestyle but would also recommend that it is used in conjunction with a support network or some other form of structured help if significant weight-loss is your goal.
 Nothing New May 31, 2005
84 out of 122 found this review helpful
I bought this book hoping that all the recent hype about the GI diet would be based in reality. Sadly there was nothing new here at all that I haven't already been told at Weight Watchers. It's a low fat diet with lots of fruit and veg. That's it. Full stop. Plus they suggest you eat lots of diet products with artificial sweeteners which I am VERY reluctant to do as I like my food to be natural. The only good tip in the whole book was to use fructose instead of sugar if you absolutely can't or won't use artificial sweeteners .. it has a lower GI. If you stick to lean meat, lots of fruit and veg, no sugar and a limited amount of high fibre carbs then you'll already be on this diet (and pretty much every other diet that's been around for the past 20 years) so there's no need to waste your money on the book.
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