Tagged As: Zone Meals Diet
Question:
I wondered if anyone had done well with the zone diet and could maybe recommend some menus ?? could eating 5/6 small meals a day be compared to the zone diet??
Answer:
The zone diet is hard to follow. It requires you to try and maintain a hormonal balance through diet manipulation. Eating 5-6 meals a day doesn't really set you into the zone, it will just ensure that you have energy all day without the lows and highs most people have during the day. If you are endomorphic (tend to put on fat easily), the zone wil help you lower your bodyfat because it provides a relatively easy way to stay on a low-calorie diet. It is not hard to follow, but does require that you read lables and plan your meals. The basic zone meal is 40% of calories from carbs, 30% from protein and 30% from fat (_but_ there are 'good' fats and 'bad' fats). You should ALSO eat 6 meals a day. I don't know how a high-calorie version of a zone diet would work for an ectomorph (normally skinny person), but Dan Duchaine has recommended a 1/3 1/3 1/3 diet in MM2k which is close to the zone recommendations.
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