GI is the short form of Glycemic Index. You could google it to know more about this diet. Basically, it is a diet suitable for diabetic consumption because food choices include those which will not spike up body's blood glucose and hence prevented the release of insulin.
So in the case of healthy young people, we see low GI diet this way. If insulin is allowed to release, it will convert excess glucose to glycogen. How if glycogen storage reaches its limit? Then the insulin will convert excess glucose (that can't be converted to glycogen) into fat. And the most important thing is eating fat can't make you fat without presence of insulin, but eating high GI carbohydrate food together with high fat food will sure make you fat. It's similar to Atkins diet, but less brutal.
So for fitness and healthy purpose, we opted for this diet. Experimented it for 2 and a half weeks.
Objective:
- maintain healthy blood glucose level to prevent diabetes.
- reduce fat, increase lean muscle tissue.
Methodology:
- Diet shall only contain food with low to medium glycemic index, such as fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, egg, legumes, etc. We have 3 dishes: vegetables, meat, and legumes.
- Diet is to be eaten for a week except Saturday, which is our off day. We're free to eat any food on Saturday.
- Adequate exercise is encouraged.
Results:
- Along with adequate exercise, we succeeded in losing some weight (fats) and building more leaning muscles.
- I had lost approximately 1kg and my tummy is smaller now, though it might take me some time to make it flat because I have no time for cardio workout.
- SuWei had lost more than 2kg with the combination of low GI diet and intense gym session.
We usually home cook our dinner and because both of us are beginner in cooking, we tried to find the simplest and easiest recipe to experiment with.
(from upper left to lower right)
#1 Dry texture grill chicken + require long cooking and lots of spices dahl + spinach
#2 Too salty fish wrap in scramble eggs + pinto beans in can + spinach
#3 Hard texture grill striploin + kidney beans + spinach
#4 Fish fillet marinated with orange juice + spicy but hard black beans + spinach
#5 Tomato onion salsa + broccoli + chicken breast marinated with orange juice/5spice
#6 chicken breast + fish fillet + spicy pinto beans + bok choi
#7 Salsa + grilled chicken + pinto beans + scrambled eggs
#8 Pork frankfurter topped with cheese slices + salsa + broccoli + pinto beans.
#9 Fish salad
Our cooking skills have improved bit by bit since our first meal. Food gets better (especially from #5 onwards) and we enjoy it very much. Not a tiny feel of suffering. However, it's kinda hard to continue this low GI diet when we're outside. No rice, no bread, no high carbohydrate food, how is that possible? So far, the easiest and cheapest outside food is KFC snack plate with 2 coleslaw. No bun and no softdrinks.
Maybe you can do some research and try it out? share with me your result and experiences k.
#Till date of post, I've stopped eating low GI because we don't have time to cook and eating KFC or Kenny Rogers aren't a good choice for daily dinner. Hopefully, the diet can resume after we're back from CNY. hehe.
