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Living the G.I. (Glycemic Index) Diet |  | Author: Rick Gallop
Creator: Emily Richards
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Category: Book
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Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 15379
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.8 x 1.1
ISBN: 0761135944
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.56383
UPC: 019628135940
EAN: 9780761135944
ASIN: 0761135944
Publication Date: December 15, 2004
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The easiest diet going is now even easier--and tastier. Off to an explosive start, The G.I. Diet quickly landed on New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists, and required five quick printings (for a total of 190,000 copies) to keep pace with demand after national publicity discovered the "Canadian miracle diet" (Woman's World). Now, continuing to build on the nutritional wisdom of the glycemic index, Rick Gallop follows up with the essential companion--a cookbook and strategy guide for living the G.I. Diet.
Organized around the simple, intuitive principle of green-, yellow-, and red-light foods--if you can follow a traffic light, you can follow this diet--Living the G.I. Diet gets right into the kitchen with 135 dishes that are as easy to prepare as they are unrecognizable as diet food. Grilled Pesto Salmon with Asparagus. Beef and Eggplant Chili. Garlic Shrimp Pasta. Thai Chicken Curry. Pork Tenderloin with Grainy Mustard and Chive Crust. Cinnamon French Toast. Florentine Frittata. And desserts: Baked Chocolate Mousse, Basmati Rice Pudding, Pecan Brownies--that's right, brownies.
In addition, the book spells out how to lose weight (Phase I) and maintain weight loss (Phase II); how to make G.I. eating a family affair; navigating holidays, restaurants, vacation eating; and exploring the psychological and emotional aspects of food and food cravings--everything you need to stay on this proven track.
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 A Must Have August 17, 2010
Carey C. Anderson (St Augustine)
I have read 2 other books (The Glycemic-Load Diet Cookbook and The Good Carb Cookbook) on the GI diet and have found this to be the best book. There are meals plans to follow if you need help getting started, the recipes are great and tasty even our friends love the meals I make. Everything is easy to follow and the information is outstanding. I was looking for a healthy eating cookbook, that would also help me loose weight while offering good variety and tasty food. This hit the spot! If you are looking for this type of cookbook start here then add to your library once you know more about what you are looking for.
PS I am not a natural cook, we live on a boat so the recipes have to be fairly easy and not all over the place with too many steps and the cooking times have to be short in the summer so I don't heat us out of the boat.
The only thing that has worked for me! July 12, 2010
Avid Reader (Salt Lake City, Utah)
I first found the GI diet a few years ago when I learned I was having some blood sugar issues. Fast forward 3 years and about 15 lbs when I picked it up again. During that time I tried what felt like everything. Weight Watchers, Calorie Counting, Low Carb, raw food diets, etc. At one point I was eating just vegetable juice and salads and still managing to gain weight. A few months ago I picked up this book again, the first day lost half a pound, the first week lost 3, and haven't looked back!
This program rates foods on a red light, yellow light, green light basis. Green, eat basically whatever and how much you'd like throughout the day (there are a few foods that have limits, like nuts and bread). Yellow, go easy on, and avoid in the weight losing process. Red, stay away from. The program works in two ways: 1,gets you eating foods that will not raise your blood sugar levels high enough to need a huge insulin rush (therefore keeping you fuller for longer. I also learned that insulin works to not allow you body to release fat--that was my problem with the other diets--I think my body was trying to lose weight, it just couldn't because I was constantly in the crash and burn cycle.) 2, eat foods that are low in calories and bad fat, and high in fiber, nutrients, protein, etc.
This is the easiest program I've ever tried, no counting, minimal weighing/measuring, and I have really liked a lot of the recipes in the book. The best part is how awesome I feel. I have a ton more energy, less mood swings, and I could feel my body changing right away.
This program works but you've truly got to stick with it--I can see and feel my "cheat" days, but they never set me back for long.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
good book to help you lose weight June 22, 2010
Richard L. Stevenson (Illinois)
recently found the I was diabetic and was told that I needed to lose some weight. book seem to explain in an understanding way how to lose weight based on what you want. I didn't say it was easy, but just following some of the tips, I have lost about 15# in 6-8 weeks. seems like the book makes it easier to lose weight faster than other books I've got.
 The Zone Diet for Dummies -- Great!...With one key exception. August 4, 2009
rockchick (Western U.S.)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I've read both "The GI Diet" and "Living the GI Diet" by Rick Gallop. The basic principles of both books are the same as those of well-respected but more famous diets like The Zone, South Beach, Sugarbusters, The Sonoma Diet, etc. So why buy THIS one? Because Gallop's books stand out from the rest in their simplicity and practicality for the real everyday world.
Gallop breaks down a complex concept, the Glycemic Index, into an easy format that busy people can understand, remember easily, and apply. He gives you just enough background to explain the reasoning behind it, yet doesn't bog you down with a lot of complex physiology and scientific jargon. If you like research citations and supporting documentation, this book is probably too basic for you. But if you want to quickly grasp the concepts of a healthy, weight-reducing, sustainable diet, and immediately start applying them, this is the book you want.
Gallop's easy traffic-light system ranking foods incorporates not only the glycemic index, but fat and calories as well. This is important because some foods can have a low GI but still be unhealthy and cause weight gain, for example regular bacon - listed as red-light (avoid) in this book due to its high saturated fat and calorie content. His color-coded food list is very complete (see his website, [...], for a few additions), and all the thinking is done for you as to what foods are low-GI AND low-calorie AND healthy.
The many recipes in "Living the GI Diet" are innovative and tasty, yet use common ingredients and basic preparation methods...nothing requiring chef's training or a specialty grocery store. I like the fact that Gallop is in touch with reality when it comes to diet compliance - he even encourages "red-light" cheat days a couple of times a month, maximum. 90% diet compliance is acceptable, and if there are one or two things you just can't give up, you can continue to eat them and only marginally delay your weight loss. For me, those are peanut butter and dark chocolate, which I have about twice a week in very small portions. For others, it might be caffeinated coffee or an occasional beer. However, the proof that this way of eating is good for your body is in the fact that, after a few weeks on the GI diet, even one red-light meal will make you feel awful - tired, bloated, and almost sick - you know, the way you used to feel all the time & not even realize it! These effects naturally encourage you to stick to the diet.
The one thing I don't like about this book is the author's promotion of artificial sweeteners and fake "franken-foods", such as non-fat cream cheese, aspartame-sweetened yogurt, diet sodas & non-fat sour cream. I don't believe these lab-created concoctions are good for our bodies at all, and may even contribute to diseases. It's probably OK to use them in the short term Phase I (weight loss) portion of this diet when trying to cut calories, but it's best to wean off of them as much as possible once you reach your goal. When you get to Phase II (maintenance) where you can increase your calories a bit, I feel it's better to do it by switching to natural "good-fat" or whole-food products like canola/olive oil full-fat mayonnaise, low-fat plain yogurt sweetened with a dab of all-fruit jam, homemade frozen yogurt - substituting natural stevia for sugar, and the book's own recipe for yogurt cheese instead of non-fat sour cream. Natural stevia seems like a far healthier choice as a sugar substitute than chemical-laden Splenda or Equal. Try replacing diet sodas with home-brewed natural iced tea, now available in many exotic flavors. A small amount of full-fat strongly flavored cheese seems healthier than a bigger portion of non-fat cheese with artificial fillers. The author does mention some of these natural alternatives, but I feel he doesn't emphasize them enough as the better option over the fake "franken-foods".
With that minor change, the GI diet is definitely the way to go! Living The GI Diet represents the most widely accepted current evolution of nutritional theory. It takes only the good things we learned from the low-fat and low-carb crazes, incorporates the best medical advice that we have to date, and modifies the old USDA food pyramid to reflect updated knowledge of healthy eating. It synthesizes decades of researchers' hard-won experience and distills it down into one easy to follow, effective and sustainable plan. I highly recommend it!
Living the G.I. Diet April 7, 2009
Tracy V. Carman (Utah)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent reading, and well put together so as to be easily understood by the common lay person. A very useful tool in the life of a diabetic.
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