Low-GL Diet: 8 Week Update

Not sure this picture has anything to do with the post but I like it, and what do you put as a picture for these?

I started the Low-GL (Glycaemic Load) diet eight weeks ago, there’s a post with a bit more about it here if you want more information on what it actually is. I have to say that when I hear the word diet I automatically think of not being able to eat much, feeling hungry or avoiding carbs but I have not found that I missed anything in this diet.

The main idea is to have the right proportions of a more carb heavy food, protein and a lot of low carb veg so it turns the carb into a more slow release sugar rather than having the peaks and lows that I was having before.

I started this as it’s a bit of a different version of the Low-GI (Glycaemic Index) diet that was recommended by an ME specialist a couple of years ago. I tried Low GI and I just couldn’t work it out so ended up giving up as it didn’t seem to work but it may be more to do with me failing to get it right. With my ME one of the symptoms I have is post prandial hypoglycaemia, though I don’t have diabetes my blood sugar drops low a few hours after eating so this diet was recommended to even that out.

Comparison: Low-GL Diet Made Easy vs Low-GL Diet CookBook

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I recently did a post on starting the Low GL diet and a couple of the books I bought for it, if you want to read that post it’s here and explains a bit about the ideas behind it. This is a bit of a different book review on that, as these two are so similar, I thought I’d do a bit of a comparison between them. The two books are The Low-GL Diet Made Easy (Holford, P. 2006) (RRP £15.99) and The Low-GL Diet Cookbook (Holford, P. And McDonald Joyce, F., 2014) (RRP £12.99). I’ve included more information on each at the end if you want the ISBN number and publisher information.