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The Zone Diet
The zone diet plan is a great well balanced that is clinically proven
to
help individuals lose weight and to get rid of that excess fat. That is
what seperates this diet from the others.
This diet has been said to help get rid of or to further decrease your
chances of heart disease, high
blood pressure,
and diabetes. Not only that, this diet can also improve an athletics
performance and help an athlete become a better more well rounded
player.
In here we will be discussing what this kind of diet is, what to eat
when you are on this diet, and tips. Take advantage of all this
information and implement them if you decide to use this diet as your
main weight loss program.
What
Is The Zone Diet
This diet program is actually a well known and a huge diet book seller
called "Enter The Zone".
The Zone is normally a place where are state of mind places that has us
feeling alert, refreshed, and full of energy.
What The Zone diet plan offer is a system that concentrates on making
you think about good nutrition. having a diet that is high in
carbohydrates, low in protein, and fats wrong. Those types of diet are
risky and cause some serious problems and it can even cause some life
threatening issues such as heart disease, stroke, and cancer.
What
To Eat On The Zone Diet Plan
This diet program is not
recommending that you eat fewer calories than what you are currently
consuming, just only different ones.
The book
may have a more complicated and exact measurement of what to eat, but
it can be simplified as:
- By having a small amount of protein at every meal.
The food should be the size of your palm or a small chicken breast.
- Your favorite carbohydrates that is twice the size of
the normal protein portion that includes most vegetables such as
lentils, beans, whole grains, and most fruits.
- Having your favorite carbohydrates, but in a small
amount
which includes brown rice, pasta, papaya, mango, banana, dry breakfast
cereal, bread, bagel, tortilla, carrots, and fruit juices.
Dairy products are not highly
recommended, but The Zone diet covers a small percentage to them,
besides explaining how quick they release glucose. However, dairy
products is really just there.
The
Zone Diet Tips
PROTEIN
Tips:
- Look at your hand to determine the right amount of
protein to eat.
- To eat protein it should be equal to the to the size
and thickness of your palm.
- Protein does include chicken, fish, beef, turkey, egg
whites, low-fat cheeses, tofu, veal or low-fat pork, and so much more.
CARBOHYDRATES
Tips:
- When going to consume the right amount of
carbohydrates such as vegetables, it should be similar to the size of
curling both of your hands into a fist to determine how much to eat.
- When consuming carbohydrate such as sugar or starch,
it should only be a fistful.
FATS
Tips:
- Fats are important!
- Any extra fat added to your food should equal the
size of your thumb and not any bigger.
- And these are foods such as butter and olive oil.
FOODS THAT GET THE
THUMBS DOWN
Tips:
- Sugar such as Bread, Pasta, Potatoe, Rice, Bagels,
Cereals, Juices, Sodas, Alcohol, and caffeine.
- however, these foods are not to good for your, but
you can have them from time to time.
FRUITS THAT GETS
THE THUMBS DOWN
Tips:
- However, this diet program allow all foods, but there
are some fruits that are too high in sugar that should be consumed in a
very small amount.
- Those fruits that you should only consume a small
amount of are Bananas, Figs, Prunes, Raisins and Grapes.
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