Weight Loss - Glycaemic Index (GI)

Glycaemic Index (GI) diet for weight loss is based on scientific research into the cause of hunger and the way body stores fat. By keeping to foods with low Glycaemic Index (GI) value, people can regulate their hunger and the body fat in a weight loss program.

How Glycaemic Index (GI) diet works?

Glycaemic Index (GI) diet is based around foods with low GI value. By keeping to foods with low GI value people can regulate their blood sugar levels, which prevents the body's natural insulin response from storing fat unnecessarily and making you feel hungry. By sticking to low GI valued food, people can in effect drip feed the body with energy through out the day so the body would not feel a need to eat more to satisfy the hunger.

The easy principals for following the Glycaemic Index diet:

Always have wholegrain over white breads and pasta.
Have oat based cereal in the morning instead of a sugary one
Stay away from ready made meals. Cook your own meal using fresh ingredients.
Eat five to six small meals rather than three large ones. This means that your energy levels stays constant and you would be less tempted to reach for snacks. Also, this means your metabolic rate stays higher and so you reduce the chances of body storing fat.

Children & Obesity

In simple terms, obesity is caused when the body stores excessive calories. Obesity in civilized countries is reaching epidemic proportions. What is worrying is that the children too are now more obese than ever before in the history of man kind!

Child Obesity and Weight Loss

Calories and Weight Loss

Weight loss depends on the amount of calorie intake. Calories are used by the body to perform its day-to-day functions. However, when the calories taken in is greater than the energy burnt, then the excess calories are stored as fat. The most common reasons for excessive consumption of calories are:

Psychological
Emotional
Lack of knowledge
Habit

calories and weight loss

Weight loss plans

There are a number of VERY dangerous diet plans used to target weight loss. A dangerous, or misleading, diet is one which provides "rapid" result. Remember, in order for a diet to be effective and safe, your body needs time to adjust to the change in your lifestyle. This is because rapid dieting will almost always have health consequences, and in fact research has also shown that as soon as your body adjusts to the diet, you will start to put on weight at even a higher rate than before.

Weight loss diet

Weight Loss plans to be avoided

For legal reasons we are unable to actually name dangerous or misleading weight loss diets, however, the following is a list which should help you identify these diets for yourself.

Any diet that cuts out any essential food groups (Specially carbohydrates!)
Any diet that promises or guarantees fast result
Any diet that involves you drinking only liquid food.
Any diet that involves you buying processed and ready made "food substitutes".

Weight loss diets

Diet

The food you eat is the single most important factor in your weight loss program. Weight loss is only achieved through a healthy diet.

Weight loss diet and health

Exercise

Exercise is vital not only to a safe weight loss plan, but, is also crucial to the general operation and well being of the human body.

Weight loss exercise

Measuring Body Fat

Measuring the Body Fat is a much more accurate way of measuring how your weight loss program is going than using a bathroom scale. The bathroom scales are highly misleading!

Measure Body Fat

Swimming

Swimming is a VERY effective and safe way of burning calories. Its one of the safest ways of exercising as you do not put any excessive force on the joints.

Swimming

Walking

Walking is one of the safest form of exercise as you burn those calories without excessive wear and tear on the joints.

Walking

Pilates and Yoga

Pilates and Yoga are important to any weight loss program as they both encourage good body posture and alignment.

Pilates