Ideas for an easy Low GI Diet

Firstly, it’s a good idea simply to have a Low GI Diet. Choosing low GI carbs – the carbs that produce only small changes in your blood glucose and insulin levels – is the key to long-term health, reducing your risk of heart disease and diabetes. It is also the ideal weight loss method.

Why is a Low GI Diet a good diet?

So, the idea is to switch from high GI carbs, especially the processed ones, to eating mainly low GI carbs. These carbs will slowly trickle glucose into your blood stream which keeps your energy levels balanced and means you will feel fuller for longer.

Snack Stop.

The simple, but admittedly hard, act of not snacking will help your weight loss or management no end. Snacking in-between meals is OK…in moderation and with healthy foods.

Hitting a mid-morning ’sugar-low’ wall? Pumping your body with empty calories by ripping off the cookie jar or downing a mocha is not OK. OK?!?

Seriously, if you eat well – healthy amount, low GI, natural – you shouldn’t need to snack. Most snacking is habit anyway. If you do find yourself feeling full enough but craving a snack, do something to take your mind off it. Go for a walk. Play with the kids. Read the paper. Bake cookies. Actually, not the last one.

Enjoy these Low GI Diet ideas.

Enjoy a breakfast cereal based on barley, oats and bran. Avoid high carb, sugary cereals.

Enjoy sweet potatoes. Reduce the amount of potatoes.

Enjoy pasta and noodles. Try quinoa.

Enjoy stone-ground flour, sour dough, wholegrain breads. Avoid white bread.

Enjoy plenty of salad vegetables with vinaigrette dressing.

Enjoy all other types of fruit and vegetables.

Enjoy Basmati or Doongara rice. Avoid other white rice styles.

Enjoy!