Want to lose weight safely and effectively? Want to look younger, have more energy and beat stress? Then follow this low-GI eating plan and we guarantee you will never look back

Starting today in Style and continuing every Sunday in January, you will find a low-GI special. This will provide you with all the eating plans and delicious recipes you need for our life-changing 28-day programme

This guide was put together by Amanda Ursell, Style’s nutrition correspondent. She is a qualified nutritionist and dietician who trained at King’s College London, and she has twice been voted the country’s most influential health professional. She is the author of several books, including Complete Guide to Healing Foods, Super Beautyboosters and What Are You Really Eating?

GI: it can change your life

What do most people want? Simple. To look younger, feel less stressed, have stacks of energy and, of course, be thinner. So here’s the deal. If you allow us to dictate your diet for the next four weeks, we guarantee that not only will you be slimmer, you will find yourself feeling calmer, yet more energised. You may even lose a few wrinkles.

The Sunday Times GI Guide is not a typical weight-loss diet – it has been designed so that you can adapt it to address how you are feeling at any given time. With this diet, what you eat can change the way you feel - yes, you really are what you eat.

If you want to rapidly shed a few pounds, opt for a Quick Blitz Detox Diet week. If your mirror is revealing a few too many lines for your liking, this eating plan suggests meals and snacks that are loaded with anti-ageing nutrients. Is your boss making you feel tense? Look for the foods that are labelled as stress-reducing. Are you unsociably sluggish? Then simply follow the directions to the energy- and libido-boosting ingredients. This pocket-sized plan explains how all this can be easily achieved without you feeling hungry.

Following the basic principles of low-GI eating, we guide you through the science. We also tell you exactly what to shop for and suggest a wide choice of foods to eat, making this diet easy to follow, even when you are out and about. With such a painless eating plan, you can improve your figure, look younger and, above all, boost your lust for life.

How it works

You will eat foods that are packed with nutrients and supernutrients

You can mix and match components of the diet depending on what you want, choosing to target weight, ageing and stress, or boost energy

You will eat great-tasting food and never feel deprived

You will not get hunger pangs, as low-GI foods keep you feeling full

You can do it for life. This is not a fad diet that causes dramatic weight losses and subsequent gains

You do not need willpower. The meals and snacks create a biochemical balance in your body that stops sugar cravings and the resulting binges

You can still have tea, coffee and the occasional alcoholic drink

You can snack between meals

You will not need to count calories and grams of fat, or cut out whole food groups

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