5 Reason Why The Low Gi Diet Works For Losing Weight

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Recent news reports have added to the growing interest in the Low GI Diet also known as the Low Glycemic Index Diet. Numerous popular diet management systems have begun to use their own version of the Glycemic Index to effect successful weight loss for their clients. If you are wondering if the Low GI Diet might be right for you it is important to find out exactly why it works and why it has proven to be so successful in helping dieters to keep the weight off long term.

One of the major benefits of this diet is that it helps to decrease the pattern of what some know as yo yo dieting. Many of us are quite familiar with this process. We go on a diet, lose weight and then eventually gain it right back. Then we go on another diet and experience the same results. This continual weight loss, weight gain and weight loss can have a profound impact on our bodies not to mention our self-esteem.

Experts who have studied the Glycemic Index are now reporting that the diet has proven to be so successful because it contains two built-in checks that in essence restrict the weight loss-weight gain cycle.

Studies indicate that one of the reasons why dieters may be so susceptible to gaining back weight after dieting is the presence of calorie restriction in many diets. Severely restricting the amount of calories we consume has the effect of increasing our hunger. Once we go off the diet we tend to eventually begin consuming more calories and that of course, results in weight gain.

Additionally, as we lose weight our metabolism begins to slow down and this creates a situation in which we are able to burn fewer calories. Therefore, even if we stick with the diet it makes it much more difficult to keep from gaining back the weight we have just struggled so hard to lose.

According to research reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, patients who use the Glycemic Index Diet to lose weight are able to keep the weight off longer than individuals who lost the same amount of weight using a traditional low-fat diet. For many individuals who have previously relied on low-fat and low-calorie diets, this was startling news indeed.

One of the reasons for this is the fact that foods which are low-glycemic are more slowly absorbed by the body. In comparison, foods which are often referred to as fast carbs; those which are high-glycemic, tend to be more quickly absorbed into the body’s blood stream. This leads to a situation in which the body’s insulin and glucose levels fluctuate. These foods commonly include white bread and rice, pasta, potatoes and sugar.

In the study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, patients who participated in a low-glycemic diet plan to lose weight experienced less hunger than the individuals in the group who participated in a low-fat diet. In addition, it was noted that the individuals using the Low Glycemic Index diet had less of a reduction in their metabolism rate than the low-fat diet group. At the end of the study it was concluded that individuals on the Low GI diet were able to keep their weight more effectively than their counter-parts.

The study concluded that the success of the Low Glycemic Diet patients could be attributed to the avoidance of blood glucose spikes; a situation that could not be avoided by the patients in the low-fat diet group. Study results indicate that insulin levels which rise rapidly and then fall sharply tend to produce greater feelings of hunger. This also creates a situation in which the body is unable to metabolize the fat that has already been stored in the body. The Low Glycemic Index Diet seems to work because it avoids this dangerous cycle.

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