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Hundreds are just too scared yet hate being fat... what scares you? And how do you feel about diets - can they ever be as effective and long-lasting? ...
THE 7-DAY GL DIET - we gave 50 away - and here's what you thought!
By resident www.fathappens.com dietitian – Nigel Denby’s fantastically simple GL diet makes weight loss and maintenance so much easier. 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. We gave 50 away - and here's what you thought!
23-04-2007
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. THE 7-DAY GL DIET is published by Harper Thorsons priced at £6.99 paperbackhttp://www.harpercollins.co.uk/books/default.aspx?id=34928 * ALL the recipes take 10 minutes or less to prepare
* You can drop a size in 10 days * Recipes really are fantastic (and cater for veggies as well) – you won’t know you are on a diet until you start to lose weight * The diet that fits around your life and doesn’t eat into your time or social life. It’s about what is right for you, not the diet! * No rigid rules but there is a 10-day planner to get you started. In addition to helping you lose weight, The GL Diet Made Easy also has impressive health benefits – GL has been scientifically proven to help people suffering from diabetes, heart disease, PCOS, high blood pressure, and is also the ideal diet to follow if you’re going through the menopause.
With The GL Diet Made Easy you can become healthier, slimmer and still eat the food you love!
So we teamed up with Harper Collins to offer 50 lucky www.fathappens.com members the chance to win THE 7-DAY GL DIET in our great giveaway competition - and here's what you thought!
You will not be surprised to know that an increase in exercise is recommended alongside the GL Diet – after all, even slow release carbohydrates produce energy which needs to be expended if it is not to disappear into the fatty recesses of your body.
I have yet to put the GL Diet to the test, but I think Nigel Denby and his two colleagues Tina Michelucci and Deborah Pyner, have put together a logical plan to help everyone lose weight, in an exciting format which should help us get over the first hurdle in adopting a weight-loss plan: doing it, rather than thinking about doing it.
The whole GL Diet is built round the principle of little and often as far as eating is concerned. There should be no temptation to snack on items outside the plan, because the aim is for three proper meals a day, with two scheduled snacks to fill in the gaps – all based on slow release carbohydrates.
There are full detailed 7-day plans for the five eating times in each of the three GL Diet groups mentioned above, and the idea is that meals should be interchangeable between the plans (so there is an alternative, if there is a food you really hate), and that one 7-day plan should become two 7-day plans, two should become three and so on, until the GL Diet becomes a way of life.
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When I received Nigel Denby's book, I never expected that it would solve that dilemma, but the slow-release carbohydrates my dietician suggested are the basis for Dr. Denby's Glycaemic Loading, or GL, diet.
All those slow-release carbohydrates are listed in the book and analysed in considerable detail for their contribution to the GL lifestyle.
There are over 100 tasty recipes in which the carbohydrates play a starring role. That is not to say there is total exclusion of bread, pasta, rice, and even chocolate (yes, chocolate), but they are confined to supporting roles only.
I like the way the recipes are presented: there are separate sections for vegetarians (The Veggie Friendly 7-day plan); easy recipes for carnivores who don't enjoy spending time in the kitchen (The 7-day Fast and Friendly plan); and more ambitious recipes for cooking carnivores (The 7-day Foodie Friendly Plan).
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So there I was – aged 63, 6' 1" tall, as wide as a barn door, weighing 20 stone and recently diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes – and facing a dilemma.
My doctor says I have to cut back on carbohydrates to lose weight (I've lost a stone and a half in the last year, but there's a long way to go). My diabetes dietician says I must eat three meals a day, and that each meal must include carbohydrate. She recommended "slow release" carbohydrates, rather than the high glucose foods which produce a surge of insulin in the pancreas, but did not give any information about them.
So how could I eat carbohydrates, and cut back on them? It would be like having your cake and eating it (if we were allowed cake)
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Hi, just wrote a very long critique and pressed submit only for it to disappear! Maybe I'll have the time and the patience to repeat it later.
Thanks for the book.
Easy to read just several things that irritated.
"remember a time when you sucessfully dieted.." Hmmm if I had been sucessful I wouldn't be reading this book!!
However printing a vegetarian recipe that calls for chicken stock is just plain silly.
Clearly I need a mood makeover.....
i love my book it balances the other one just right ... ( i was worried that it was going to be the same as the recipe book ) but not only are there different foods there is a different set of menus as well , plus plenty of tips to motivate you and start you exercising ... thankyou fat happens this food plan really works for me .
Gilli
i received my copy of the book and have been amazed at how easy the plan is too follow.
i am currently on day 3 so will keep u posted as to how i go.
thankyou so much!
I am so pleased to have received a copy of this book. I followed the 10 day plan, and am delighted to say that I have lost 4lbs. It is easy to follow, and the recipes are quick and easy.
Thank you so much for the publication - am in the process of reading it. Recipes seem simple for someone who works. I shall get back to you with an update when I have started the diet and can comment on its results. Thanks again.
This book is fanastic and together with GL Made Easy I have a good variety of ideas, menus, recipes and tips. Will let you know how I get on but not weighed until 4th April.
Thanks Fat happens for these books.
I began with the GL diet cook book very successfully. My GL diet book came last week. It really is a fantastic diet, I have lost 4lbs already, and feel so very much better.
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. THE 7-DAY GL DIET is published by Harper Thorsons priced at £6.99 paperback 
In addition to helping you lose weight, The GL Diet Made Easy also has impressive health benefits – GL has been scientifically proven to help people suffering from diabetes, heart disease, PCOS, high blood pressure, and is also the ideal diet to follow if you’re going through the menopause. 
