About Low GI Lifestyle

The corkboard above the kitchen counter in a single-family house northeast of Seattle has accumulated three years of printed GI charts, sticky notes, and handwritten corrections to predictions the charts got wrong. The open shelf holds labeled Mason jars of dried lentils and steel-cut oats. The peninsula counter is where the testing happens. This site is the record of what the testing has turned up.

Low GI Lifestyle publishes practical accounts of eating around prediabetes on a working professional's schedule. The focus is glycemic index and glycemic load: not as theory, but as a framework someone can actually use in a Trader Joe's or Costco aisle when choosing between two products that both say "whole grain." The articles report what the framework correctly predicts, what it gets wrong, and what the glucose monitor logged in the hours after a meal. That specificity is the point.

Coverage here is narrow on purpose. No broad wellness lifestyle pieces, no supplement roundups written to fill a calendar. The writing is mostly about specific foods, specific swaps, and what the CGM data said afterward. Readers sometimes send questions that reshape what gets covered next. Two recurring ones: whether tracking glycemic load instead of just glycemic index changes the practical calculus on grains, and what the cooling and reheating method actually does to starch versus what the research says it does.

The site is run by Erin Callahan, an HR manager living with a prediabetes diagnosis in suburban Seattle. Her story is on the author page.

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