Zone Diet Guide

the zone diet

The Zone diet helps in loosing weight slowly and maintaining an ideal weight. It is recommended to manage blood sugar level. It is a calorie restricted plan.The zone diet is consuming calories in a balanced ratio of 40:30: 30. That is 40 percentages of carbohydrate 30 percentage of protein and 30 percentage of fat with special emphasis on lean proteins fruits and vegetables. Zone diet also insists on control of the portions you eat and the timing of your eating. Zone diet promotes weight loss or weight maintenance depending on your health condition and physical activity. According to zone diet blood sugar can be managed by eating at proper time and certain foods and can produce low glycemic index. Zone diet was developed by Barry Sears Ph D a former researcher in biotechnology at Massachusetts institute of Technology.

Zone diet promotes hormonal thinking instead of caloric thinking. In fact zone diet is a way of eating and maintains hormone balance. It is a truth that human body can’t store or burn the fat simultaneously. Zone diet doesn’t generate weight loss but studies shows that sometimes it can produce weight loss to some extent.

The basic premise of the zone diet plan is eat everything, but everything in moderation. Don’t throw out the chocolate - it’s allowed! If you make sure you take everything in moderation, you’ll achieve a healthy balanced diets with all the necessary components to leave you feeling great. Also, combine your diet with some light to moderate exercise: go for a walk, or a swim, or a cycle in the park. That way, you’ll help to maximise the calories you’re burning, whilst maintaining a healthy controlled diet which will see those pounds vanish even sooner.

The Zone Diet Do’s and Don’ts

Carbohydrates are bad. These include rice, muffins, pastries, chocolate, candy bars, sugar, preserves, pasta, and breakfast cereals.

Fruits and vegetables are good. In addition, skinless chicken, turkey and fish are recommended for most meals.

Most fruit and vegetables are allowed. Low-fat protein-rich foods such as skinless chicken, turkey and fish should be eaten with every meal. Meanwhile, eating fewer foods that contain saturates and choosing foods that are rich in monounsaturates, such as olive oil, avocado and nuts, is recommended.

Think about the value of eating fruits and vegetables instead of, say, one 650 calorie McDonald’s burger for lunch. If you eat a light salad with 100 calories and an apple with 60 calories for lunch that will reduce your calorie intake at least 450 calories per day. Over a year that could be 40 pounds!Weight loss: Following The Zone Diet religiously you can expect to lose over five pounds in the first two weeks and after that, about 1.5 pounds per week.

See Also : health eating

Executive summary by Doel

Based on article Rebecca Chan.