Wed, Feb-18-04, 17:14
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Posts: 47
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Plan: PP
Stats: 186/129/125
BF:30.5%
Progress: 93%
Location: Ontario, Canada
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I too have been attempting the GI Diet, although I'm not quite fully into it yet. I'm coming at it from the other way--from a truly LC WOE. I lost 55 lb. on Protein Power, but couldn't get rid of the last 6 lb. to goal. Also needed to get a WOE for maintenance. I know someone who is using the GI Diet and loves it. So I bought the books out of curiosity. When I first read them, I thought "no way". His adamant anti-fat really kind of turned me off. But then I got thinking about it and reading about it. Cheese is really my only issue. I don't drink milk, low fat salad dressing and cottage cheese are just fine with me. I make my own yogourt and switching to skim milk is OK for that. And I don't eat that much cheese to start with. Low fat cheese is just so yucky!
However, I've had to ease into it by gradually increasing my carbs since my body wasn't used to handling them. Just today I've started trying to get in the 3 snacks. I'm sure not hungry.
I've also been really a fiend (for me) on the exercise with doing WATP 3 mile 7 days a week, Curves 3x weekly and a firming and toning video 3x weekly. Whatever the cause, I lost a pound last week (and I wasn't even fully into GI Diet). So I was happy with that as the scale hadn't budged in 5 weeks.
Have yet to put beans, oatmeal and some other items into my diet. Still trying to be fairly cautious about the number of carbs I consume. But so far, so good.
Marjorie
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