We know that having too much sugar is bad for us especially at night time just before we go to bed. With the low glycemic foods that are available such as whole meal pasta, brown rice, wholegrain breads and cereals will be more beneficial to your diet and give you longer lasting energy over your period of being awake. During this time we need foods for fuel which are long term and sustainable if we run out of our own stored fuels. Using the scales in the glycemic index we can determine how many calories and what kind of calories we are about to put into our system however keeping away from the sugar is the hardest part of picking something from the low glycemic foods index.

The best way that I have found to go without the overly sugary foods is to cut off everything that has a GI rating of over 40. This leaves out a lot of foods however if they are fresh and natural foods I can still eat them as an alternative or a sometimes food. Dieting is all about calorie control which is how we create the negative calorie equation to lose weight and the GI index is just one of the many tools that people all over the world use to help them with their weight loss program. Once you master the GI index then you will be able to make diet meals that suit your tastes.