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The Glycemic Index (GI) is a popular and excellent tool for assisting you in determining which foods are best to eat or avoid for managing glucose (blood sugar) levels or for weight loss. As a Type 2 Diabetic focused on weight-loss, I refer to the Glycemic Index often. Think of it as a popularity contest for carbohydrates. Good carbs are more popular, while bad carbs don’t have many friends. The GI is literally a ranking system for carbohydrates on a scale from 0-100, according to how much they raise blood sugar levels after eating.
Foods with a high glycemic index (100 being the highest) are rapidly digested and absorbed. These types of foods are known to mark fluctuations in blood sugar levels. Low GI foods are generally slow to digest and are not absorbed as quickly. They produce gradual rises in blood sugar and insulin levels—they also have proven health benefits too. Low glycemic foods help with glucose levels and weight control because good carbs help control and delay hunger so you feel fuller, longer.
Generally, a low GI diet will push you toward healthy foods for consistent glucose levels and weight-loss. You’re going to want to eat more whole-grains, fruits, vegetables, lean meats and proteins.
Here are a few glycemic index examples to put things in perspective.
High: 70 and up. Examples in this category include instant and long-grain white rice, certain kinds of brown rice, plain white bread, most potatoes, and watermelon, to name just a few. These are foods you’d want to stay away from, or eat only sparingly and earlier in the day.
Medium: 56 to 69. Examples include sweet corn, bananas, raw pineapple, raisins and certain types of ice cream. Foods in this classification should be eaten in moderation. Use your best judgment, though, as falling into an equivalent GI classification does not mean that two foods are equal in nutritional value as well. Case in point – ice cream. More often than not, you should opt for the fruits and vegetables in this classification.
Low: 55 and under. Examples include raw carrots, peanuts, raw apple, grapefruit, peas, skim milk, kidney beans, lentils, and white spaghetti (boiled).
Can a low GI diet slash your medication costs?
Medication can be extremely expensive and a diet made up of low glycemic index foods can absolutely slash your medication costs. When you eat better, your body works better—this is based on real science and the unique knowledge that food is medicine.
Don’t know where to start? Let Personal Chef To Go help!
At Personal Chef To Go, the glycemic index is one of many tools that we use to ensure that our entrees are perfectly suited for healthy weight loss. That’s because, almost by default, a low glycemic index diet will include more fresh fruits and vegetables, more fiber, more dairy and more lean protein—all foods that offer essential nutrients, and are more likely to be lower in calories in the first place.
If you’re one of those people who cringe at the idea of having to count calories or track what you’re eating, Personal Chef To Go’s meal plans will be extremely beneficial to you. Our chefs work together to make sure that every bite of delicious food that we deliver follows this proven approach for healthier eating.
Let us assist you in reaching your goals!
For these reasons, we encourage you to give us a try (if you haven’t already) if even for just a few short weeks and here are two easy ways to do it:
Ordering our Dinner Only service (5 meals) is a great way to try us out for a week, and it’s just $69.50 (shipping or delivery costs are calculated separately based on your location). Use coupon code "IntroA" and get an additional 10% off your initial order. We'll even take $10 dollars off each meal delivery if you decide on an Autoship order after your first order.
If you're in the the Richmond, Virginia area, you can pop in to our kitchen in Mechanicsville, Monday through Friday, 10 AM to 6PM and pick up a Grab n' Go meal or two to try out. Right now when you buy any 2 entrees you'll receive $2 off any salad!The offerings change weekly so there's always something healthy and delicious to choose from!
The great thing about our low GI menus is that you do not have to wait until you reach your weight-loss goals to start seeing results. The vast majority of our Autoship subscription members see weight loss results quickly, and have reported being able to reduce blood pressure and diabetes medications. Some have even able to come off of them entirely and are able to maintain healthier weight and a healthier lifestyle with one of our Personal Chef To Go meal plan services!
Why wait to see results, when you can begin today?
One of the best investments in our future is to feed our kids right. The next best investment—feed yourself right. Understanding how eating choices affect health, quality of life and future is analogous to financial planners' simple view of investing—contribute now and you'll reap the benefits long term.
Our "fast food" and hectic lifestyle supports eating on the go but they do not support health. A recent national magazine brought this point to heart. Americans are collectively more than 5 billion pounds overweight with nearly 70% of our population overweight or obese.
Eating for health does not mean driving up to a fast-food window, eating your brown bag meal within minutes, gulping it down while driving and talking on your cell phone, hoping you'll make it to the kids' game on time. Sound familiar? What it does mean is taking the time to plan, prepare, and savor the benefits of your knowledge and investment, and focus on food and the act of eating as a fundamental aspect of well-being.
Planning healthy meals involves a few basic rules that everyone in the family should learn. Considerations should include the amount of time available for meal planning and preparation, family likes and dislikes, and choosing from a variety of foods to meet you and your family's nutritional needs.
The first step in providing healthy meals for you and your family is making the process simple and easy. The days of reading through cookbooks for fresh meal ideas or experimenting with new recipes are foreign to most of us—we are just too busy. The focus should be on the balance and variety of proper nutrients that will support our busy and stressful lifestyles and promote optimal health. This is where we can help!
You can choose from a number of healthy and delicious meal plans to suit your needs Eat like a pampered celebrity at surprisingly reasonable prices with heart healthy meals delivered weekly to your door!
Family Favorites. Each week our chefs create a delicious four entree menu complete with one to two side dishes and whole grain rolls to compliment the main course. Kid-tested and Mom Approved, each weekly menu is always delivered fresh and never frozen and ready in minutes. Who says there is no time to sit down to a great family dinner at home?
Couples On The Go. You can make time for relaxed, gourmet dining at home every night of the week. Plus there is no extensive shopping for groceries that often gets thrown out after they spoil, (yuck) or piles of dirty dishes to clean up.
Busy Singles.Sometimes there just isn't enough time to eat well at home. That's why we created this plan with you in mind. You can relax after a hard day and refuel your body with the finest and freshest meals available. Your busy singles plan keeps you well fed with minimal effort and time. You demand the best and we deliver it without wasting a minute of your precious time.
Lunch and Dinner. Each week we prepare another guilt- free gourmet menu that features three hot lunch entrees, and two composed salads, plus five dinner entrees from our Busy Singles menu. Let our chef’s pamper you with affordable, heart-healthy, lunches and dinners during your busy work week and you’ll wonder how you managed before without us!
Dinner Only.Perfect as a sampler or when you only need a few nights of pampering. Five individually packaged dinners consisting of a single serving of the five weekly entrees from the Couples on the Go menu are included in this package.
Meal planning doesn't have to be overwhelming and something foreign to us or our children. Learning and teaching our children the role food plays in our health, is one of the greatest contributions you can make in their investment for health.
LetPersonal Chef To Go be your meal planner and investor in the health of your family!
We're thrilled with the feedback we’ve heard from all the people who are deciding to choose healthy living. It motivates us to continue our mission to helping people change their lives by making healthier choices.
Here is a recap of just some of the feedback we’ve received of people who are choosing a smart and healthy lifestyle.
"Chef Gene Castelluccio & Chef Blair Grossman, two formally trained award winning chefs, have collaborated to bring FRESH, healthy meals to the front doors across the U.S. We can now enjoy their many wonderful recipes – all prepared & ready to just heat up. They are delivered fresh (not frozen), and each meal is labeled with complete nutritional info. Choose from different weekly services. You receive an entire week of fresh (guaranteed) meals. Each week the menus change. Even gluten-free meals! About $14/meal including the shipping- that is less than our local deli, and this food is really delicious." -Food411.com
"I heard about Personal Chef To Go from a friend and decided to give it a try. The quality and taste of the food was excellent and the portions were generous. We have ordered the family style option to feed our family of four and have been more than satisfied. There is no better feeling than to open the refrigerator and see the neatly stacked boxes of gourmet food waiting for me to heat for the week. On several occasions I have given PCTG meals to friends that are in need of a little TLC-a friend that just has a baby and another grieving from the loss of a loved one. They said it was just what they needed at the time. I would recommend it to anyone! I have used other local food delivery services and PCTG blows them away in terms of taste, quality, creativity and portion size." -Sarah Gobble
"We have been enjoying Personal Chef To Go meals for the past several years. The meals are wonderfully flavored and appropriately portioned. We lead a busy life with three active teenagers. Unfortunately, that means several evenings a week that we can't all eat together. It is very convenient to have an excellent variety of professionally prepared meals available at any time. In fact, we have frozen the meals to enjoy at a later date." -Erik Roper
"I am a working woman who is not always up for cooking dinner when I get home - however that doesn't mean my husband and I aren't up for enjoying a good meal after a long, hard day. We absolutely refuse to eat fast food. And we don't have the time or money to dine out every night. Besides that, good nutrition is very important to us. We try to be careful about what we eat, looking for fresh & healthy ingredients (without forgoing good flavor).
Personal Chef To Go is the perfect solution; the menu is absolutely 5 star in our book! The food is cooked fresh, flavored delicately in a way that is sure to please, and delivered right to our door. PCTG takes pride in creating meals that are low in fat yet high in flavor, and to our amazement, the cost of a weeks worth of meals is unbelievably reasonable! Dinnertime used to be dreaded; now it is anticipated! Thank you!!!"-Two Very Happy Customers
If you want to choose health, and gain some fantastic rewards in the process, please visit our website, our blog, on Twitteror on Facebook and join Personal Chef To Go in it's commitment to healthy living!
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