The Glycemic-Load Diet: A powerful new program for losing weight and reversing insulin resistance

My wife and I bought this book a little over a month ago and started a week later after reading it thoroughly. This book explains the basic truth about why so many of us are overweight. In a word - starches! If we each take the time to inspect our cupboards and refrigerators we'll see that our diets are flooded with white and over-processed starches. Because of this we are paying the hard dues of obesity and other related illnesses and injuries.Being completely honest, my wife and I have tried many diets (Atkins, Six-Week Body Makeover, South Beach, Vegetarian, etc...). All provided some weight loss, but ultimately failed in the end because the level of deprivation was too steep for any human being to maintain an honest commitment. More importantly, too many diets ask you to sacrifice salts, sugars, and fats. In other words, those diets ask you to sacrifice flavor. When you give up flavor it is inevitable that your dieting efforts will fail.My wife and I have both lost approximately six pounds in the first month and we have done nothing more than cut out potatoes, rice and wheat products while increasing our intake of meats and vegetables. Have we been 100% perfect - never straying from the path? No. But I can honesty say that we have never missed a meal, never felt hungry, and never felt deprived of flavor. Our stomachs don't even make that all too familiar growl that comes with other dietary approaches. Before we started this approach I will admit that I often struggled to push myself away from the table when I was eating starch heavy meals. I just couldn't get that feeling of fullness or I was hungry all over agin shortly after my meals. Now I am satisfied after one single serving and I no longer feel the need to go back to the refrigerator for more. As for exercise, the only form I get is the mile walk to work and again in the evening when I walk back to my car. My job is a sedentary one, as I spend the majority of my day in a cubicle with a computer.This is not a gimmick diet nor is it difficult. You'll enjoy tasty food and will no longer need to count calories or figure out exchange points or any other form of nonsense. You simply eat your meats and vegetables and do your best to avoid starches (potatoes, rice, and bread) and other high-sugar foods like soda pop. Notice that I said avoid and not eradicate. The whole point of the book is that some starches can be consumed, but you should do your best to ensure that the starches that you eat are better low-glycemic load foods. Glycemic loading information is similar to the glycemic index (GI), but it goes one step further and factors in serving size - which the GI does'nt.Don't worry, My wife and I still enjoy small pieces of dark chocolate candy or a glass of almond or coconut milk after dinner just to satisfy our sweet tooth. And yet we still lose weight. Does it come off quickly? No. Is it supposed to? Once again, no. This is a lifestyle change and you need to think of it in that manner. Some weeks I have lost two pounds and others I have lost only a fraction of a pound, but I have always lost weight. Do not get hung up how much you're losing. If you're honest you will admit that it took you years of abuse to get overweight and you should be prepared to spend some time in losing the weight.The book is well written and divided into two basic groups. The first half makes the case for the approach and the second half of the book is glycemic load data and other appendices with related information. This book is an easy read and should take you no longer than a few days to read. The author presents the information in a friendly manner and share's his own experiences with weight loss. The fact that Mr. Thompson is also a doctor adds credibility to his assessment of the American diet since 1970. This book will open your eyes and expose a lot of the half-truths and misconceptions that are floating around in the dietary literature. I have since given this book to my mother and I am hopeful that she too will enjoy some of the many benefits that both my wife and I have enjoyed. Imagine this: never feeling bloated anymore, never felling hungry anymore, never turning down food because it has fat or other supposedly bad ingredients.Good Luck with Your Weight Loss Goals.

To me this seems to be the best book for common sense eating. It is not a diet. It is a healthy way of eating and easy to follow.

For a full review, please visit: http://thelivesofendlesslight.wordpress.com/2014/12/14/book-reivew3-the-low-glycemic-load-diet-understanding-insulin-resistance-point-7/I have never worried about my diet because I have always been stick thin, hovering on a BMI of just about 18. However, as I started considering pregnancy and talking to doctors about baby plans, I found out that because I have a family history of diabetes and therefore I have a genetic predisposition of developing insulin resistance. Insulin resistance can do harm to you body and women who are considering conceiving should be made aware of their connection to PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome). It causes PCOS, which is the most common cause of menstrual irregularity and infertility. Relieving insulin resistance often restores normal ovulation. My doctor advice me to read up on it just to better understand the mechanism of this problem and to modify my life style accordingly.After a quick browse on Amazon.com, I purchased Dr. Robert Thompson’s book on low glycemic load diet and reversing insulin resistance based on three reasons: 1) glycemic load is a more accurate and effective tool in controlling weight and insulin resistance; 2) executionable – as it is not overly restrictive and allowing dieters to eat more foods while still burning fat, cutting cravings and speed up their metabolism; 3) simple to follow, as I don’t have to measure calaories diligently and constantly.The book can be divided into three parts, firstly, Dr Thompson explains the mystery of obesity and how does insulin resistance works against us; in the second part, he propose two life-style modifications that can be easily adopted: cut starch and do slow-exercise; finally, he provides a long lists of receipts for a low glycemic load diet. I would advice readers to learn and understand the first two part and skip the final part, use it as a reference cook book when you are in need. In the following book review, I shall summarize the absolute essentials in the book, and if you are interested, please go to the end of the blog for more relevant extracts from Dr Thompson’s book.

Love this book. I have read a number of books on dieting, carb restriction and insulin resistance. This is so readable and packed with interesting tips and information. For example the author explains how walking uses 70 percent of your body muscles and is very effective for reducing insulin resistance and weight. Walking uses slow twitch muscles and they have a lot of mitochondria. Highly recommend this book.

Book is really good. It is giving good overview and guideline if you new in the world of insulin's resistance.

Quite Simply, this is the best diet book I have ever read...and I've got a bookcase dull of them !! This is sensible and substanable for the long term weight management. For those of us who are Hypothyroid, Diabetic, cannot seem to lose weight no matter how many different diets you try, then THIS is the book for you. This throws low GI in the bin, it throws low fat in the bin, what it advocates is fruit, veg, meat are GOOD for you. It shows you what a REAL portion of carrots REALLY contain in relation to the so called low GI ....truthfully folks, GLYCEMIC LOAD are what we should ALL be doing. No counting calories, no weighing food just eliminate refined carbohydrate STARCH, potatoes, bread ( ALL bread ) Rice...that's it. It's easy and is a way of eating for LIFE.

Exactly the information I was looking. Clear, well written and interesting, but not really a diet book as such. More a lifestyle change!

This book does a great job of simplifying the reasons why glycaemic index and load are so relevant to people today. he explains why we don't digest refined foods well and how our primitive system cannot handle the sugar peaks we are forcing insulin to work at reducing. over time this makes our insulin inefficient and if you're a sufferer of unexplained fatigue and feeling frazzled at the end of a day, he does a good job of explaining why at last! Adrenalin is part of the problem. You don't have to diet if you don't want to but this book encourages you to change your lifestyle in to habits that are easily achieveable; a good overview of the subject.