Zone Diet - The diet that works

To loose weight, ideally, you watch your nutrition and eat a healthy diet and you excercise regularly to assure that your body burns enough calories to offset the calories that you eat. But the world is far from ideal. And over the years, extra pounds accumulate. That overweight is a health risk is scientifcally proven. And most people want to lose weight. - The question is how to achieve this difficult task and how to drop the pounds and keep them off.

The Zone Diet - A Philosophy

The Zone diet is a proven diet that will help you lose weight and keep your ideal body weight once you have reached your target. This is a process and will take time. This is a philosophy that you will need to adopt. And it's by no means a process of a few days and then ypour problem is instantly solved. Anybod who tells you 'in 10 days 15 pounds less' might be right, but still lies to you. These drops in weight consist mostly of water and certainly will not last.

Alternatives To The Zone Diet?

If you want to read ridiculous promises and 'lose 20 pounds by netx week' sales pitches, all you need to do is google for any of these terms.....:

Anybody who offers you a quick and dirty diet solution that involves pills is making promises that might simply not be possible to keep....  If you are eating just anything in sight, or if you are eating the wrong food, and if you are not supporting your quest to lose weight with enough physical activity and enough sleep, then you will have a hard time losing wieght, and especially keeping it off. Simply popping a pill and hoping that the dollars you spend (these candies are expensive!!) will do the rest is bound to fail!

The Zone diet:  40:30:30

The Zone diet means that you will start eating differently. The diet is based on the numbers 40:30:30. This means the relationship of calories obtained from different food sources: 40% carbohydrates, 30% proteins and 30% fats.

It's particularly important not to eat empty highly refined carbohydrates like white flour and refined sugar, white polished rice and other over-refined foods.

These foods push the insulin level very high very fast and then make for an equally fast drop in the insulin level. That triggers hunger pangs and make people eat more than they should.

Less refined foods that contain more of the valuable ingredients provide much more value, provide the body with a certain challenge and are digested much slower, keeping the insulin level more equal and avoiding the big swings in the insulin level.