Eat Youself Slim: Low Glycemic Method of Nutrition
The foods you eat affect your blood sugar levels. Refined products make blood sugar to sharply jump up, causing the pancreas to secrete a lot of insulin and to store sugar surpluses in the form of fat, and overloading the pancreas. We need food with low glycemic index (GI). If we eat natural products rich with fiber their glycemic level is low, pancreas secrets a less insulin, fat is dissolved also and the person loses weight. Michel Montignac - the author of the sensational book Eat Yourself Slim and low glycemic method of nutrition.
This method is directed mainly at losing weight, but there many other valuable things in it, like lowering blood sugar level. The low glycemic diet is supported by the American Diabetic Association. The beauty of this method is that quantity of food you eat is not limited; it is possible to eat as much, as you want. You just have to be more reasonable in the choice of products.
Montignac books are easy to read and understand. He clearly explains why it is necessary to avoid some products and to prefer others. When we understand why it is necessary to do this or that and what happens in your body during and after food intake, it is much easier to follow rules. Books by Montignac are written in such a way. His style is easy and fascinating.
The basic idea of Montignac’s method is briefly like that. All products influence what level of sugar in blood (glycemia) becomes after their intake. If we eat processed refined foods with artificial carbohydrates from which fiber has been removed, such as a white flour, white [polish] rice, sugar, etc. blood sugar or glycemia sharply jumps up, the pancreas in respond is compelled to secrete a lot of insulin and to store surpluses as fat, and the pancreas themselves are getting worn out. They need rest - i.e. food with low GI.
If we eat natural, not refined, non-processed products rich in fiber and natural carbohydrates, such as whole wheat bread, whole grain cereals, brown rice, beans, vegetables, fruit, etc. glycemia is low, pancreas secretes a small amount of insulin, fat in our body is dissolved, and we lose weight. The body reaches a level of ideal weight and stops losing it, we do not grow thin any more.
About 7 years ago my girlfriend, ex champion of Ukraine in gymnastics, has introduced me to low glycemic method of nutrition. She tried really heard to peal off a few extra pounds, but could not achieve a stable success. Her physical exercises are no rival to ordinary people’s. After eating by Montignac’s method she lost 14 lb easily and her weight remained stable for a long time. I did not starve either, even ate more substantially, than usually, and have lost 22 lb within 2 months. I never had such weight in my life before. I learned about Montignac’s method 3 weeks prior to a serious urgent operation (back then I did not suspect, that I needed it), and this diet has rescued my life since my blood vessels were cleared.
My husband began (even with periodic infringements) to adhere to the method, and within the first 3 months he lost more than 30 lb. In total for 3 years he dumped 50 lb. This way my husband looked prior to losing weight, in March, 2001. The second picture was taken in July, 2004.
Montignac warns, that men lose weight easier, than women. He advises women to be especially cautious and not to deviate from the method. My experience has confirmed it. In the autumn 2000 I arrived to the USA and found lots of fruits I had known nothing about and nothing was mentioned in glycemic indexes table. I thought, that any fruits would be all right, but began to gain weight, not understanding, why. Couple of years later I learned from another book on low glycemic diet , that papaya, mango and kiwi have high glycemic index. I excluded them from my diet, but did not lose weight any more.
Low glycemic nutrition normalizes blood sugar level, renders a positive influence on heart and blood system, reduces level of cardiovascular diseases; makes pancreas healthier and facilitates their work. Products with high GI raise sugar in blood, wear out pancreas, lead to diabetes gaining weight.
Eating products with low GI smoothly raises sugar in blood up to an optimum level, spares pancreas, clears blood vessels, stabilizes level of insulin and leads to achievement of ideal weight. This method also takes into consideration compatibility of products, characteristics of different fats, time and frequency of eating food, how to prepare it (for example, raw carrots have a low GI and cooked carrots have a high GI) and many other things.
The method has two phases: in the first phase of weight loss it is necessary to adhere to strict rules of diet; in the second phase when we reach ideal weight, different indulgences are allowed; at the end of the meal sometimes we can eat food with high GI. I will add that the value of different foods is not limited to glycemic levels. It is necessary to consider other criteria too.
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To buy the book click on Michel Montignac. Eat Yourself Slim
About this book:
Highly successful French food writer takes aim at calorie myth, and teaches how to lose weight while enjoying abundant food the gourmet way.
Womans World - Carmel Berman Reingold
French Miracle Diet! Thanks to the amazing discoveries of a brilliant French research scientist named Michel Montignac, you can eat as much as you want (even chocolate!) while you get slimmer week after week… Begin your diet today and join the slim millions who have just one word for Michel Montignac: merci!
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Other books by Michel Montignac:
Slim Forever: The French Way by Michel Montignac
The book synopsis:
Designed for food-lovers who want to lose weight while indulging in the gourmet foods they love, this beautifully illustrated collection of recipes and reveals the secrets of dining, looking, and living like the French.
Author Biography: World-renowned diet guru and scientist Michel Montignac developed a unique diet plan, “The Montignac Method,” based on the Glycemic Index, and brought it to international prominence with his first self-published, bestselling book, Eat Yourself Slim.
Michel Montignac. Eat Yourself Slim CookBook
About this book:
Synopsis
Losing Weight By Eating Great - 200 Recipes by Michel Montignac, the Author of The Bestseller Eat Yourself Slim
“As physicians, we feel that the Montignac Method represents the most innovative and effective approach today for the treatment of obesity and its health related consequences.”
In the Eat Yourself Slim Cookbook, Vol. 1, you’ll find:
* Starters (salmon, chicken, avocado, etc.).
* Soups (garlic, tomato, etc.).
* Egg dishes (tarragon, tortilla, tapenade, etc.).
* Meats (beef, lamb, spare ribs, steak, etc.).
* Poultry (chicken, duck breast, turkey, etc.).
* Fish (tuna tartare, salmon, trout with almond, etc.).
* Side dishes (ratatouille, artichokes, cauliflower, etc.).
* Salads (chicken, asparagus with smoked salmon!).
* Desserts (chocolate mousse and truffles, and many more).
* Lots of vegetarian dishes.
* Menus for 3 months!
The French Diet: The Secrets of Why French Women Don’t Get Fat by Michel Montignac:
This book synopsis:
The French have the lowest average body weight per capita in the western world, and yet they eat famously well. Montignac explains in The French Diet that this not only has to do with which foods the French choose to eat, but their quality, freshness, and most importantly, the way that they are combined. Although the book is based on the concept of glycemic index (GI), which other diet books discuss, The French Diet is the only book that provides the net GI values of combined foods. Already a phenomenon for years in Europe, Montignac’s dieting methods have been helpful to tens of thousands of people around the world who have achieved impressive and long-lasting results and reduced their risk of developing cardiovascular disease. The diet has also found a celebrity following among devotees like singer Kylie Minogue and fashion designer Christian Lacroix.
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Prepared by Tatyana Noel-Tsygulska
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April 12th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
It seems to me that Montignac’s low glycemic method is very much alike to recommendations given by Ellen White in “Basics of Good Health” and in the book “New Start” by Vernon Foster. What do you think?
It is still hard to figure out how to use this method in practice. I don’t eat meat, and there are not so many fresh raw vegetables available in my area. Among those on sale I can afford only beets and potatoes, but they are not allowed.
Thank you.
Olga
April 13th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Olga
>It seems to me that Montignac’s low glycemic method is very much alike to recommendations given by Ellen White in “Basics of Good Health” and in the book “New Start” by Vernon Foster. What do you think?
- Dear Olga,
Thank you for our comment. Their recommendations are similar in terms of giving preferences to unprocessed unrefined food products rich in fiber, though neither E. White nor V. Foster wrote anything about glycemic index. Among Adventist teachers and pastors whom I had a chance to listen to Kenneth Cox http://www.wordsight.org/net2000/meet-kenneth.html in his health message uses and promotes low glycemic method. I saw his programs on 3ABN. He himself lost weight with this method.
>It is still hard to figure out how to use this method in practice. I don’t eat meat, and there are not so many fresh raw vegetables available in my area. Among those on sale I can afford only beets and potatoes, but they are not allowed.
- It is very good to eat raw beets and carrots. If you cook them, then their glycemic index jumps up. Don’t forget about cabbage ( it is not expensive), soy and soy products. Buckwheat kasha is a great product, I read somewhere that Montignac after visiting Russia took a bag of buckwheat grain along with him to France. I also eat cauliflower, sweet pepper, onion, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, green beans and peas.
April 17th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Comparing to what I’ve read about this before, it sounds absolutely impressing. I’m an old internet user, and have read a lot about this kind of stuff, but what I read here today is absolutely different.
April 18th, 2008 at 6:34 am
Yes, Kimberly, it is different. It differs so much from the popular and ungrounded calory method that it took me to read 3 or 4 of Montignasc’s books till it finally soaked in.
Blessings,
Tatyana Noel-Tsygulska
August 12th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Thank you. You have helped someone more than you could know.