Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load.?

Glycemic Index indicates the blood glucose raising effect of a food's carbohydrates on a person. A value of 100 represents an equivalent amount of pure glucose. Bread and potatoes have a GI of 75. A raw apple is 36. This means that if you ate a cup of mashed potatoes it would be the same as eating 3/5 of a cup of table sugar.

Glycemic Load is more complicated because it looks at both the quality and quantity of carbohydrates. For example, watermelon has a very high GI (76) but when you apply the calculation for GL, it may be okay to eat in small quantities because the Gl is only 8. The GL of a single food is calculated by multiplying the GI by the amount of carbohydrate in grams (g) provided by a food serving and then dividing the total by 100 (GLFood = (GIFood x amount (g) of available carbohydrateFood per serving)/100). A good goal in GL foods is a GL score under 10.

NO processed foods are going to be on a low GL or GI list. Sorry. You basically can eat veggies, meats, and fat. No grains or grain-based products of any kind.

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carrots and potatoes do effect blood sugar which is why, on a diabetic diet, they are given in limited quantities. 1/2 cup portions usually.

They won't "mess" it up though. EVERYONES blood sugar goes up after a meal and goes down as the body digests that meal.

The kind of diet you are looking at is probably a version of the South beach diet..any used book store, or library should have a copy of the book that goes with it and can help you.

If you read sugar on the label avoid it. I used to be severely insulin resistant due to my craving of milk chocolate. If you look at the GI of milk chocolate it's low due to the fat content. That sugar will go your liver and cause insulin resistance via that pathway (Dr Lustig explains the biochemistry well...see youtube video Sugar The Bitter Truth). Potatoes and carrots are fine. I reversed my severe insulin resistance and still ate potatoes. I cut out all sugar!

Reverse Insulin Resistance in 4 Easy Steps:

https://www.larabriden.com/reverse-insulin-resista...

Sugar - The Bitter Truth:

https://youtu.be/dBnniua6-oM

http://www.carb-counter.org/

http://www.the-gi-diet.org/lowgifoods/

http://www.diabetes.org/food-and-fitness/food/what...

Mamawidson Has a great answer

Except I think potatoes have a bad rap, boiled potatoes when eaten cold have a GI of 56 which is acceptable, they also contain more vitamins and less calories than grain products.

Never heard of that diet.

So how is it supposed to make you loose weight?