Showing posts with label low-GL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label low-GL. Show all posts
Sunday, February 8, 2015
Up a bit this week
Dunno what I was doing wrong! But I've cut out bread--Holford recommends that you be very wary of bread as it has a high-GL, and since then my weight has started to fall again. So I fully expect to weigh less next Saturday
Saturday, January 31, 2015
My Weight
Lost a bit more this week. Still haven't unwound the gains I made over the year-end, but I'm getting there. 0.5 kg ( or just over one pound) a week. And no depriving myself! Except for the tea ....
Sunday, January 25, 2015
The struggle naught availeth
Well, not quite. I am losing weight. Not fast, but it's been 3 weeks now. The chart shows my weight, measured each week on a Saturday morning after my shower. You can see how I gained weight over the Christmas period (wife's birthday, wining and dining clients, Christmas, New Year, wedding anniversary), reversing the previous downtrend. But once again I'm losing.
I'm on the low-GL diet, discovered by the nutritionist Patrick Holford, and I was on it before the Christmas splurge. GL stands for "glycaemic load". "Glycaemic" is a nice Ancient Greek word meaning "sweet-blood" (glykos/glukos=sweet, haim/haem = blood) and the low-GL diet is about controlling your blood sugar. Well, much follows from that, which is a little bit complicated. But it is NOT a conventional low-calorie diet. And unlike all other diets I've tried, it works. I tried it 10 years ago and lost 1 kg a week over 20 weeks. I'm never hungry. I avoid high-GL carbohydrates such as white flour and sugar, but eat (as a vegetarian) a fair amount of low-GL carbs like beans and chickpeas. I eat lots of raw nuts whenever I am hungry. You can eat berries (delicious), nuts, peanuts, beans, veggies, tofu (meat if you have to, but I never eat meat or fish), apples, cheese with care, tehini, hummous; but you must avoid things made with white flour and sugar. I avoid alcohol; it seems to make me gain weight very fast (hence the Christmas gains). You do have to give up caffeine because it affects your blood-sugar much like high-GL foods, and that was by far the hardest thing to do. You must exercise 15 minutes a day, which I find doable.
So, by next Christmas I want to be 20 kgs (44 lbs) lighter. And I'll have got there without self-deprivation .... except for not drinking tea .....
I'm on the low-GL diet, discovered by the nutritionist Patrick Holford, and I was on it before the Christmas splurge. GL stands for "glycaemic load". "Glycaemic" is a nice Ancient Greek word meaning "sweet-blood" (glykos/glukos=sweet, haim/haem = blood) and the low-GL diet is about controlling your blood sugar. Well, much follows from that, which is a little bit complicated. But it is NOT a conventional low-calorie diet. And unlike all other diets I've tried, it works. I tried it 10 years ago and lost 1 kg a week over 20 weeks. I'm never hungry. I avoid high-GL carbohydrates such as white flour and sugar, but eat (as a vegetarian) a fair amount of low-GL carbs like beans and chickpeas. I eat lots of raw nuts whenever I am hungry. You can eat berries (delicious), nuts, peanuts, beans, veggies, tofu (meat if you have to, but I never eat meat or fish), apples, cheese with care, tehini, hummous; but you must avoid things made with white flour and sugar. I avoid alcohol; it seems to make me gain weight very fast (hence the Christmas gains). You do have to give up caffeine because it affects your blood-sugar much like high-GL foods, and that was by far the hardest thing to do. You must exercise 15 minutes a day, which I find doable.
So, by next Christmas I want to be 20 kgs (44 lbs) lighter. And I'll have got there without self-deprivation .... except for not drinking tea .....
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