The GL Diet Made Easy: How to Eat, Cheat and Still Lose Weight
Dieting is so much easier thanks to Nigel Denby's fantastically simple GL diet. There's no calorie or point counting, no hunger, no guilt and no faddy food rules. Even better, you can drop a size in 10 days – and keep it off. All you need to do is stick to a few simple eating guidelines and enjoy his delicious recipes and flexible meal plans.GL, or Glycaemic Load, gets better results than GI (Glycaemic Index) because it helps you manage the quality AND the quantity of the food you eat. For example, on a GI diet chocolate is off the menu because a single bar of chocolate and a truckload of chocolate have the same bad rating. It's a different story on GL: you can cheat a little and still enjoy your chocolate fix. This diet is so easy and so indulgent that you'll hardly notice you are on it until your unwanted pounds disappear.• Simple eating guidelines – no rigid rules• Safe, permanent weight loss• 10-day flexible planner – drop a size and get on track• Mouth-watering choice of 10-minute recipes
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THE GL DIET
MADE EASY
How to Eat, Cheat and Still Lose Weight
Nigel Denby Tina Michelucci and Deborah Pyner
Contents
3 This Diet is Seriously Good for Your Health
9 Get Active and Feel Fantastic!
We’ve been there a thousand times – battling away at a diet we hate, feeling starving and fed up with eating crazy food combinations only to get to the end of the week and find that all that effort and misery has been in vain when we look at the dreaded scales and see a very disappointing result! Sound familiar?
Thank goodness we’ve found you! At last we can share with you what we and thousands of GL devotees have discovered – everything you could ever want from a diet and more!
Why is GL Different?
It’s easy peasy
No counting, measuring or weighing! No getting up at dawn to start scrubbing, peeling, dicing and juicing weird fruit and veg concoctions (thank goodness!).
You can drop a dress/clothes size in a week or a month
It’s entirely up to you how you use the diet, so you can lose weight as quickly or as slowly as you want. This is not a race but a permanent lifestyle change. How healthy you are on the inside is just as important as what you look like on the outside.
It’s so flexible you can be as saintly or as devilish as you like
Of course, the more devilish you are the longer it will take to shift the weight, but fear not – you will lose it. You’ll never have to avoid social occasions like the plague because you can’t eat anything but cabbage or strange beans. The GL Diet allows for socializing because it’s based on real life, real food and real people!
You can ‘cheat’ without guilt
In fact, we positively recommend a cheat or treat every now and then. We all live in the real world with temptation at every turn so we simply face up to it before we indulge, make sure we enjoy it and then not use it as an excuse to give up. This is THE most important thing!
The GL diet is achievable and enjoyable …
We’ll never ask you to do anything we haven’t done ourselves! In short, we understand what you are going through and how you got here in the first place.
… satisfying and safe
We hate feeling hungry. Starving ourselves and feeling miserable is a recipe for disaster: it’s bad for you mentally and physically and never works in the long run.
GL is based on science (there are loads of research references later in the book if you’d like to know more), not hype.
The GL Diet is something you can follow forever. It’s not just another ‘quick fix’ that will fail and keep you on the yo-yo diet treadmill. If you just want to drop a dress/clothes size for a holiday or special event then that’s fine, but you can also take things more steadily if you have a lot of weight to lose or are looking to really change your eating habits to improve your health.
Why Do So Many Diets Fail?
Are we destined to fail because we are meant to stay a certain size? Of course not!
We’ve all tried diets that we hate, only to give up because it’s just too hard, we don’t like the food, we’re constantly obsessing about food and we’re STARVING! Ever gone to bed early because you’ve already eaten your allocated points/calories for the day? That’s no way to live is it! But if it’s familiar then remember …
It’s the diet that failed you – you are NOT the failure!
Some diets are such hard work there’s no way you can stick to them, so you shouldn’t feel guilty at all. We’ve all been there and got the T-shirt. If you’ve tried the myriad diets out there that are too rigid/complicated/boring and full of false promises with no scientific basis whatsoever, toss them in the bin now!
GL isn’t a quick-fix, faddy diet. It’s a simple, healthy-eating lifestyle based on sound scientific research for people who want to lose weight and be healthy.
Sound too good to be true? Read on and see why we and so many other experts and dieters now trust and believe in low GL.
‘Rather than being just a fad diet, GL represents a sustainable lifestyle choice, which is healthy and satisfying in the long term. The science is well founded, and has been talked about in academic circles for years, but now, as we are becoming expert nutritionists, we should all be more aware and conscious of GL as part of a healthy balanced lifestyle.
Dr David Haslam,
Clinical Director of the National Obesity Forum
How to Use this Book
There are lots of extra bits and pieces in the book to help you along your journey to find your own ‘diet freedom’ but if you can’t wait to get started you can go straight to the Plan in Chapter 4 or the 10-day Starter Plan in Chapter 5.
For those of you who want the lowdown on the science behind the GL, Chapter 2 explains how your body uses the food you eat and how GL works with your body to help you stay in control of your food intake.
