Hi everyone! I'm new to the GI diet and could use any support or advice anyone has to offer. I've lost a fair bit of weight over the past few years by switching back and forth between Slimming World and WeightWatchers, and now have only a stone left to lose, but I want to try something different. SW was nice and easy to follow, but I ended up living off stodge and lost weight very slowly. WW worked well (before propoints, which didn't work for me at all), but I hated counting points. And the meetings weren't cheap, though the support was good. Someone recommended a low-GI diet to me as a good way of keeping my energy levels stable throughout the day, which sounds great as I'm forever "crashing" mid-afternoon, so I got a few books and decided to give it a go.
I read a couple of books, but am using the principles from Rick Gallop's "Living the GI Diet" (though I have been mixing and matching recipes from other low-GI/GL books too). This was what I ate yesterday (my first "proper" on-plan day): does it sounds ok? I want to get it right but I don't want to feel like I'm overthinking it, I want a diet that's simple to follow so I don't end up off the wagon again. I don't mind baking and cooking from scratch, but obsessing over weights and measures of every little thing is definitely not for me.
Breakfast: Homey oatmeal with blueberries (this is a recipe from the Gallop book: a mixture of oats, wheatgerm, skimmed milk and a few flaked almonds)
Skimmed milk decaff latte
Mid-morning snack: Apricot cinnamon bran muffin (another Gallop recipe, where I substituted apricots for cranberries)
Lunch: Four-bean tomato soup
Slice of multi-grain bread with low-fat olive spread
Pink lady apple
Another muffin (these are very moreish!)
Cup of roobios tea
Mid-afternoon snack: Oat cake with salmon paste
Glass of skimmed milk
Tea: Bulgur wheat chilli (Gallop recipe)
1tsp grated Parmesan cheese
Small portion of basmati rice (50g dried weight)
Handful of grapes
Evening snack: Oat cake with houmous
More grapes
Does that seem like too much food? I really want to get this right and finally shed my last stone!
I read a couple of books, but am using the principles from Rick Gallop's "Living the GI Diet" (though I have been mixing and matching recipes from other low-GI/GL books too). This was what I ate yesterday (my first "proper" on-plan day): does it sounds ok? I want to get it right but I don't want to feel like I'm overthinking it, I want a diet that's simple to follow so I don't end up off the wagon again. I don't mind baking and cooking from scratch, but obsessing over weights and measures of every little thing is definitely not for me.
Breakfast: Homey oatmeal with blueberries (this is a recipe from the Gallop book: a mixture of oats, wheatgerm, skimmed milk and a few flaked almonds)
Skimmed milk decaff latte
Mid-morning snack: Apricot cinnamon bran muffin (another Gallop recipe, where I substituted apricots for cranberries)
Lunch: Four-bean tomato soup
Slice of multi-grain bread with low-fat olive spread
Pink lady apple
Another muffin (these are very moreish!)
Cup of roobios tea
Mid-afternoon snack: Oat cake with salmon paste
Glass of skimmed milk
Tea: Bulgur wheat chilli (Gallop recipe)
1tsp grated Parmesan cheese
Small portion of basmati rice (50g dried weight)
Handful of grapes
Evening snack: Oat cake with houmous
More grapes
Does that seem like too much food? I really want to get this right and finally shed my last stone!