The GI Diet is going to be my next diet experiment here on this blog and I have some high hopes for it. It is, to be fair, quite similar actually to the Body For Life diet which we know works and so it seems reasonable to assume this diet will bring similar results.

The diet consists of eating 3 meals a day, and 3 snacks as well. This is in contrast to the Body For Life diet where you eat 6 meals each day and so should be even easier to stick to.

Foods are graded as red, yellow or green depending on the Glycaemic Index (or GI). The GI is basically a measure of how quickly a food is broken down by your body. The theory goes if you eat foods that take your body a long time to break down (and so have energy to burn) you will feel fuller for longer and won’t need to eat as much. Also, your body will use up energy digesting the food so increasing the calories burned.

Lastly, with this “slow release” food there shouldn’t be spikes of blood sugar leading to the body putting down fatty deposits.

The food choices are pretty close to Body For Life - lean meats such as chicken and seafood, a variety of vegetables and fruits.

There are some surprises. Rice and pasta will be pretty much banished, as will potatoes and all cereals except oatmeal.

So this is going to be a classic “low fat, high protein diet” with slow-release carbs. I am swapping some fo the fat from the Atkins Diet for some of the carbs in fruit etc so it will be interesting to compare and contrast the results.

In the initial phase you only eat the green foods and when you have reached your goal weight you are allowed to start including some yellow. As I will only be doing this for a few weeks, I will only be eating the green foods throughout.

The other difference between the GI Diet and Body For Life is that you won’t get a “free day” on this diet which I think may make it harder to stick to, but only time will tell.

We have already been grocery shopping and stacked up on oatmeal, fat-free yogurts, fruit and veg plus a variety of meats to let the fun begin!

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