Low GI Diet

126sarahw
126sarahw Posts: 10
edited October 5 in Food and Nutrition
What daily intakes should I be aiming for with this kind of diet? I want to consume around 1400 calories a day with lots of wholegrain carbs and fruit/veg.

Thanks
Sarah

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  • curiositycat
    curiositycat Posts: 111 Member
    If you go into custom settings and select 40% for your carbs, 30% for your protein, and 30% for your (healthy) fats, you should do great.
  • Arabian♥Breeze
    Arabian♥Breeze Posts: 323
    I tried a low GI diet. All i can say is it didn't last, I got too dang hungry lol

    Good luck
  • Acg67
    Acg67 Posts: 12,142 Member
    An 18-mo randomized trial of a low-glycemic-index diet and weight change in Brazilian women

    http://www.ajcn.org/content/86/3/707.abstract

    Conclusions: Long-term weight changes were not significantly different between the HGI and LGI diet groups; therefore, this study does not support a benefit of an LGI diet for weight control. Favorable changes in lipids confirmed previous results.

    Reduced glycemic index and glycemic load diets do not increase the effects of energy restriction on weight loss and insulin sensitivity in obese men and women.

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16177201

    In summary, lowering the glycemic load and glycemic index of weight reduction diets does not provide any added benefit to energy restriction in promoting weight loss in obese subjects.

    Long-term effects of 2 energy-restricted diets differing in glycemic load on dietary adherence, body composition, and metabolism in CALERIE: a 1-y randomized controlled trial

    http://www.ajcn.org/content/85/4/1023.abstract?ijkey=57903af923cb2fcdc065ffd37b00a32e22f4c5cf&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha

    Conclusions:These findings provide more detailed evidence to suggest that diets differing substantially in glycemic load induce comparable long-term weight loss.

    No effect of a diet with a reduced glycaemic index on satiety, energy intake and body weight in overweight and obese women.

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17923862

    CONCLUSION:

    This study provides no evidence to support an effect of a reduced GI diet on satiety, energy intake or body weight in overweight/obese women. Claims that the GI of the diet per se may have specific effects on body weight may therefore be misleading.
  • AZackery
    AZackery Posts: 2,035 Member
    What daily intakes should I be aiming for with this kind of diet? I want to consume around 1400 calories a day with lots of wholegrain carbs and fruit/veg.

    Thanks
    Sarah

    Are you going on this diet, because you want to or because you are a diabetic and you need to be eating low GI foods? Diabetics are told to eat GI foods that's under 55.

    Check the internet for a list of GI foods that's under 55 and you can go from there.
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