Product Description

GI is only half the picture -- it's the load that counts. GL, or Glycaemic Loading, is the newest diet revolution -- it is simpler than low GI and more effective, too. Start today and watch the pounds melt away -- and stay away. With this fantastic new plan you can love food and not feel guilty! Kick-start your new life to a slimmer and fitter you with The 7-Day GL Diet. Glycaemic Loading is the smart way to permanent weight loss as it allows you to balance your blood sugar levels by mixing and matching carbs. You will have many more food choices than you do on other diets (like low GI), and even better, there's no faddy calorie-counting, weighing or measuring. Weight loss couldn't be simpler! The 7-Day GL Diet includes: / What GL is and why it is better than GI / More-choice food lists -- check out which 'banned' foods are back on the menu / Three 7-day plans to suit your individual lifestyle -- 'Fast and Friendly' (if time and convenience are key), 'Veggie Friendly' (for time-pushed vegetarians) and 'Foodie Friendly' (for more leisurely gourmets). / Simple and delicious recipes, clear menu plans, quick-reference shopping lists

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #116175 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12-19
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Review
"Forget GI -- the latest trend is its updated sister, GL. Quick, easy and a little bit sinful ! The crash diet that's healthy and works!" Elle, January 2006 'If you're determined to start 2006 with an improved diet, they don't come more user-friendly than this one.' Now magazine, December 2005 "A brilliant, no-panic party-dress diet" Zest, December 2005 "Slim down for Christmas in seven days" The Times, December 2005 "Say goodbye GI and hello GL -- the new, improved diet for savvy slimmers" THE TIMES, May 2005 "Simpler than GI and makes better sense" EVENING STANDARD, January 2005 "The GI diet has been much hyped but, its refined GL form is about to supersede it." FINANCIAL TIMES, Aug 2005 "Choice is back on the menu ! The GI diet is so last year" THE TIMES, May 2005 "Try the easy new GL Diet -- everyone's talking about it!" ESSENTIALS June 2005

About the Author
Nigel Denby has a successful practice on Harley Street whilst also working for the NHS. He has a strong media presence, with a weekly column in The Sunday Telegraph and writes regularly for The Times, Zest, Closer, Essentials, Spirit (Superdrug magazine) and Somerfield magazine. TV and radio include Channel 4's Fit Farm, BBC and ITN news, BBC Breakfast, BBC Real Story. Tina van der Heijden and Deborah Pyner run their online dieting company, dietfreedom.co.uk, which received over 10,000 hits a week during peak publicity. All three authors are ex-serial dieters.

Customer Reviews

Home at last
Before the '7 Day Diet' I was already on the wagon with the first Nigel Denby GL diet book, which has changed my life. Just like my mother and sister, without being clinically either diabetic or hypothyroid, I have always been supersensitive to certain kinds of refined carbohydrates but never knew why ... until Nigel and the Team stepped in!

The new book is a refinement of, and revised approach to, the first book, with even more delicious recipes. This is a real foodie diet (as delicious as Ruth Watson's excellent 'Fat Girl Slim').

The system is easy to manage, there is no tedious weighing or point-counting, and it is based on good fresh unprocessed food. It can easily work around family life (and believe me, with one post-stroke diet and one obsessive eating-disorders candidate to cater for, I need that!).

I am now losing slowly but steadily and actually enjoying being a DietFreedom Fighter rather than a dieter.

The other great advantage (am I allowed to mention it here?) is the community on their website www.dietfreedom.co.uk where I have been a member since last May. Not only is it a terrific mutually supportive community, but Nigel and the team stay in regular touch and incorporate our recipes, behavioural hints and all sorts into their work, plus responding with their own professional wisdom. Not to be missed.

Marie.

Forget the diet! This is a gem.
Forget the diet. Buy this book for the recipes.

In fact, buy it just for the Nutty Seedy Bread recipe, you won't regret it. Of course, while you eat that, you can browse through the other recipes, and there'll be lots you want to try. Chilli, lime and ginger chicken, for example. Chunky bean and bacon soup.
Prawns with mucho-spicy dip; though I wouldn't really call it spicy, it has fresh ginger, garlic, dill, mustard and worcester sauce. I would call it delicious, though. Warm French Bean Salad, with chili, soy sauce and sesame seeds.

Mouth watering yet?

I've already bought the peanuts for the Spicy Peanut Chicken (this is dipped in ground peanuts and baked, and not the Indonesian style chicken with peanut sauce.) Plus the ingredients for the chickpea and pepper salad.

Best of all, the recipes are so easy and take so little time and effort. Except the nutty seedy bread, which needs the wholewheat cycle on the bread machine, and it really is a pity to wait so long to eat it.

Accesssible, delicious, and oh! so effective
I bought the first book by Denby et al last autumn (2005). A friend had suggested the Holford Diet to me, and I simply added the other book to my Amazon order on a whim. It has been one of the best random choices I have made.

Holford was interesting, and very knowledgeable - but the Denby book was so easily accessible, and so full of unpretentious but delicious recipes that it made adjusting my eating habits remarkably simple -and, dare I say it, fun!

By combining the recipes with regular exercise I lost two stone in four months - not bad for a middle-aged man who originally weighed over fifteen stone. I succeeded despite many lapses, and without being overstrict.

The most impressive part was that the GL concept dramatically reduced my desire for even the most delicious sweet things and chocolates.

I bought the new book to renew my commitment after lapsing for a month [Christmas, birthday, family visits, trip abroad - all filled with temptation] and have been even more impressed.

Firstly, the layout and style make for easy reading - the font is lovely and clear, the headings unpretentious - all creating a book that is easy to browse through. [Compare this with 'You are what you eat' which is only really accessible to the totally colourblind!]. There are lots of commonsense touches, such as having two indexes, one for recipes the other for general information. The compact size means that this is no coffee-table book, but something which just emerges from the shelf on a daily basis. There are no carefully composed pristine pictures to make one feel inadequate to the task - after the first glance pictures in a recipe book are not all that useful.

There is plenty of theory, but somehow it does not get in the way of the fact that this is will mostly be used as a recipe book. The way the plans are presented makes it just as easy to use by the casual and haphazard dieter [such as myself] and the highly systematic one [who will get some clear 7-day plans to follow].

And the main reason.....
it works, it works, it works!