Low GI help please

[JarethTheGoblinKing]

I've tried Atkins and it worked, but just piled the weight back on when I stopped. I don't want to do calorie counting or points related, and the idea of the cambridge diet fills me with horror.

Does anybody have any positive tales of a low GI diet? I want to change my diet permanently so that the weight comes off slowly, and STAYS off.

Any recommendations for books? There are so many of them I can't filter out the crap.

Thanks
Alison

Hi yes I've been doing low GI since end of June and have lost a stone and a half so far. About 1-2lbs every week. Unfortunately cannot recommend a book as I've been doing it online via the Guardian eatright website.
But it really makes sense - three meals a day plus one snack, all feel really substantial (eg my normal breakfast is a large bowl of porridge plus a banana plus a tsp of honey) so you really don't have appetite for anything between meals. I think it's a way to eat forever for me, (ie i cant see myself falling back into the waaaaaay too much wine and croissants black hole because both now make me feel a bit crap) and my DH - who is fed the same stuff (but I let him have full fat yoghurt) reckons it doesn't feel like living with someone who is "on a diet" if that makes sense.
Good luck with it!

Ps obviously I'm not proof that the weight stays off yet. But the diet is basically normal eating so I think you'd be quite hard put to really massively fall off the wagon unless you were totally minded to do so.

Thanks for replying.

I like a lot of the foods, and if I could just cut out the crappy white carbs and concentrate on low GI stuff I think I'd lose weight.

I read something interesting re high GI vs low GI, and even with the same calories people apparently lose/don't gain on low GI. Interested me and it seems a sensible way to slowly slowly lose weight.

Hi again - I think you're probably right, though really it's just calorie-controlled eating - but of warming, energy-giving foods, so it doesn't feel like it.
You've dieted before so you probably already know this, but the thing I've found most helpful is writing down every single thing I consume. I used to Hoover down white carbs and sugars without even realising I was doing it, but being really aware of what's going in keeps me really on top of what I've had/can have.