Drinks?...

When you are on low GI diet, what is the best thing to drink:
Water. Some people say they do not like water. Water should be tasteless, if it tastes something like plastic, please don't drink it, it has been staying for too long in the bottle. If your tap water does not taste good, filter it with carbon or reverse osmosis filter. If you want variety, you can put three frozen blueberries in your water, a frozen strawberry, a piece of lemon or lime.

Please avoid those crystal clear and any type of processed powder which will add artificial color and flavor and sweetness to your drink. It is not because some drinks are low in calories or in sugar that they are healthy. Stick to natural flavoring of your water with putting a piece of fruit for a mild taste or you can also make green tea, and put it in the refrigerator and drink in cool.

Please avoid all sodas, even the diet ones, avoid all fruit juices. The Glycemic index measures how fast the sugar is absorbed into your blood stream. When we are talking about liquids like juices and drinks, sugar is absorbed very quickly directly into your blood. Therefore you want to avoid all fruit juices and softdrinks. Take coffee and tea in moderation (max 3 per day) and replace those by ginger lemon infusion, and green or white tea. However, these teas should be consumed over your 2 liters of water per day.

Alcohol is something that I have covered before but I want to emphasize one thing: in one gram of fat (butter, oil, animal fat) you have 9 calories. In one gram of alcohol, you have 7 calories. Alcohol and fat have similar caloric values, but alcohol is absobed very quickly, whereas fat is slowing down the absobtion.

Would you have a glass of oil, or just melted butter and drink a full glass (I can ear you say....ouash, yak...). So next time you have a glass of alcohol, picture a glass of melted butter or oil, it may help you modify your order.

Go with your water! ) Drink and sweat into success!...
MM