diets and diet food make you fat

by Jay
(Australia)

This article is brilliant! I was recently diagnosed with gestational diabetes and changed just one small thing in my diet and without trying the weight is falling off at 1kg a week.

Although weight loss isn't recommended when pregnant, I am overweight and I honestly can't stop the weight from dropping off!

And guess what! I've been eating lots of yummy foods like ice cream and chocolate and even a little KFC. I even switched to full fat milk and yogurt because they actually contain less carbs than the diet versions.

All I've done to my diet is moderated the amount of carbs I eat to less than 30g per meal or snack, eating 5 times a day at regular intervals.

Basically monitoring my blood sugar levels after each meal has taught me what I can and can't eat.

For years I've tried every diet and my weight hasn't budged. Now I'm just following a regulated carb, low GI diet and I barely notice the changes to be honest.(mostly just changed the times I eat and switched real sugar with fake sugar options and switched bread to dark grainy bread and stopped going to bakeries and I don't have to weigh and measure food or count calories at all!)

I couldn't believe that I was actually losing the weight so I was googling around and found this article which is so easy to understand I don't know why most people don't know this and my friends struggling on atkins diets and shakes would never believe me!

With all the low sugar options out there It's not hard to still have yummy snacks. (diabetic chocolate is awesome and has less than 1g of carb per serve) I was actually surprised I could eat a massive bowl of oats with milk for breakfast and not effect my blood sugar levels yet one glass of zero fat milk would send my levels sky high!

But overall low GI foods usually contain less fat too so it makes sense to stick to it really. I guess it would put a lot of diet companies out of business if everyone knew how easy it really was to lose weight ;)