Sherry2k
Baby got Back!
Hi all!
I've returned in all my glory and a stone heavier!!! Doh! Yeah, I've gained all the weight I lost while on weight watchers but I'm not going to sulk about it too much. I knew I was cramming that crisps 'n dip down my throat and I didn't turn the other way in Asda when huge bars of Dairy Milk were only a quid! So yeah, it was all me! However, I know Weight Watchers works fine for alot of people and did for me for a wee while but I had to stop. I was becoming unhealthily obsessed about food and was constantly starving. All conversation was about food and what I could eat next. Pretty much 4 months on and I've tried a bit of low carb diets which were effective but not enough and I stumbled accidentally across the GI Diet. I'd noticed this on Tescos months ago and didn't know what it was so ignored it. I work checkouts at Asda and a lady going through had really healthy stuff in her shopping. I'd commented how impressed I was with all her healthy food and she explained that she'd be diagnosed with diabetes and her friend had given her a Collins Gem GI Diet Guide and that with simply following this diet, she was controlling her diabetes and she'd lost a stone! Well that was all I needed to hear so I was online as soon as I got home.
I got The GI Diet Guide and read it and from there on I was interested. It looks great and all the reviews for the most famous of the books (Rick Gallop - GI Diet) say pretty much the same. This is a way of life and not a diet and easy to follow. The pounds start falling off and you don't even feel like you're on a diet.
Not all carbohydrate foods are created equal, in fact they behave quite differently in our bodies. The Glycemic Index or Gi describes the difference by rankin carbohydrates according to the affect on our blood glucose levels. Choosing Low GI Carbs - the ones that produce only small fluctuations in our blood glucose and insulin levels - it is the secret to long-term health reducing your risk of heart disease and diabetes and is the key to sustainable weight loss.
So here I go.....forever the Yo-yo dieter, praying that this will be the one! Hopefully it will work for me. So here I go, my diary and what I've eaten today. Please feel free to join in or comment....I just hope I'm doing this right....according to my Gem I am.
DAY 1
Breakfast
Porridge
3 chopped Dried Apricots
Pinch of Cinnamon
Water
Snack
Apple
Lunch
3 Oatcakes
Small Portion of Reduced Fat Brussels Pate
Apple
Snack
Monkey Nuts
2 Dried Apricots
Dinner
Sliced Ham 150g
Mixed Salad
Teaspoon of Humous
Mashed Sweet Potato
Olive Oil & Red Wine Vinegar
I've returned in all my glory and a stone heavier!!! Doh! Yeah, I've gained all the weight I lost while on weight watchers but I'm not going to sulk about it too much. I knew I was cramming that crisps 'n dip down my throat and I didn't turn the other way in Asda when huge bars of Dairy Milk were only a quid! So yeah, it was all me! However, I know Weight Watchers works fine for alot of people and did for me for a wee while but I had to stop. I was becoming unhealthily obsessed about food and was constantly starving. All conversation was about food and what I could eat next. Pretty much 4 months on and I've tried a bit of low carb diets which were effective but not enough and I stumbled accidentally across the GI Diet. I'd noticed this on Tescos months ago and didn't know what it was so ignored it. I work checkouts at Asda and a lady going through had really healthy stuff in her shopping. I'd commented how impressed I was with all her healthy food and she explained that she'd be diagnosed with diabetes and her friend had given her a Collins Gem GI Diet Guide and that with simply following this diet, she was controlling her diabetes and she'd lost a stone! Well that was all I needed to hear so I was online as soon as I got home.
I got The GI Diet Guide and read it and from there on I was interested. It looks great and all the reviews for the most famous of the books (Rick Gallop - GI Diet) say pretty much the same. This is a way of life and not a diet and easy to follow. The pounds start falling off and you don't even feel like you're on a diet.
Not all carbohydrate foods are created equal, in fact they behave quite differently in our bodies. The Glycemic Index or Gi describes the difference by rankin carbohydrates according to the affect on our blood glucose levels. Choosing Low GI Carbs - the ones that produce only small fluctuations in our blood glucose and insulin levels - it is the secret to long-term health reducing your risk of heart disease and diabetes and is the key to sustainable weight loss.
So here I go.....forever the Yo-yo dieter, praying that this will be the one! Hopefully it will work for me. So here I go, my diary and what I've eaten today. Please feel free to join in or comment....I just hope I'm doing this right....according to my Gem I am.
DAY 1
Breakfast
Porridge
3 chopped Dried Apricots
Pinch of Cinnamon
Water
Snack
Apple
Lunch
3 Oatcakes
Small Portion of Reduced Fat Brussels Pate
Apple
Snack
Monkey Nuts
2 Dried Apricots
Dinner
Sliced Ham 150g
Mixed Salad
Teaspoon of Humous
Mashed Sweet Potato
Olive Oil & Red Wine Vinegar
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