MY POSITIVE DIET EXPERIENCE


*THIS IS ME BEFORE LOSING 40 lbs!!*
In this picture I am roughly 220 lbs.

I look older too.



*THIS IS ME AFTER LOSING 40 lbs!!*
In this picture I am 180 lbs.

It may sound like a commercial but I do look and feel younger.

GI DIET DETAILS

My Testimonial
  • GI = Glycemic Index.
  • *DISCLAIMER* This page can not be used as nutritional or medical advice. Consult your doctor or nutrionist before starting any diet.
  • The first ingredient was discipline. This was not a quick fix. I gave up foods that I greatly enjoyed, but I felt that the benefit I recieved was far more important.
  • I also excercised often. I have a job where I do more walking than desk work so that worked out well.
  • In addition I took some supplements, this is not a part of the diet but its what I did.
  • Major change, I stopped drinking soda and eating fast food (McDonalds, pizza, "Chinese" food, etc). In any diet you should curtail these indulgences. They are loaded with calories and sugar.
  • What did I eat, pretty much what I wanted, just differently.
  • I switched from white to whole grain breads, white rice to brown rice, white pasta to brown pasta. Basically, brown is better.
  • I started drinking tea and occasionally coffee as my usual drinks. After you stop drinking cola for a month it really tastes like crap when you go back to it.
  • I increased my vegatable intake except corn, carrots and potatoes. Those vegatables are loaded with starch and sugar. They pack a great amount of energy. The energy that you don't burn off will go straight to your gut.
  • Each food that you eat has a GI value. Its a complex system of calculation that I won't go into. But I avoided foods with a high GI value and consumed foods with a low value.
  • Sure, I gave up some foods that I liked, but I discovered more that I like now.
  • The foods with a low GI value makes your body work harder to break them down while delivering sufficient nutrition.
  • The sugar that I took in was nutural fructose when possible. It is best to lower your sugar intake. For my coffee I use fructose instead of sugar.
  • I usually ate an orange or a tangerine for my fruit. If I drank juice it was 100% juice (avoid anything called 'cocktail', its not 100% and loaded with sucrose).
  • As for meat, any kind of meat is good, so long as it was just a portion of the meal and a low fat cut. I usually ate pork, ham and chicken.
  • Cooking oil was switched to extra virgin olive oil. Also, when any kind of soup or stew was made and oil bubbled to the top the oil was skimmed off.
  • There is info available online that can explain this diet in detail. You can find it here.

This page was created on October 27, 2002 and last updated on September 18, 2003.