The Zone Diet

 Weight today 191.8

Seeing some drop off, which is good. It is typical for me at the first of the month to start high since I take diet break on the last day of the month. I am getting better about not gorging myself on those days “off”.

The pic at the top of this post is me running with my nephew in Pigeon Forge. I held him when he was born and now he towers over me. To give you a frame of reference, I am 5′10″. He’s a big guy. It was fun to run with him though. He is an athletic trainer and a personal trainer so I felt pretty good about being able to keep up (I think he sandbagged a little to make me feel good, but I will take it).

Anyway, yesterday went well on the Zone. I did a little research today to find out if my beloved smoothies would fit in the zone diet. Turns out that they will with just a little modification. I got the smoothies from The Diet. I kept them all through Weight Watchers and The Diet because I love them and they are diet friendly. They will fit in the zone with minor modification. Notable the portions change a little and the oatmeal goes from instant to slow-cooked. I will try them soon and let you know how it works out. Right now, breakfast is oatmeal (which I love). Of course there are also Zone shakes and bars that I will try eventually to see how those work.

So, thus far today I have had:

• 1 cup of oatmeal with 1 oz of whey powder (3 carbs and 3 proteins)
• 1 cup of milk (1 protein and 1 carb)
• 20 almonds (4 fats)

That has me at 4 blocks of my 15. Right now I am about to eat

• 5 almonds (1 fat)
• 1 cup of milk (1 protein and 1 carb)

So I will be at 5 of my 15 blocks for the day. I’ll let you know how everything else goes. I am scheduled to go out for lunch today. I am hoping I can talk myself into a chicken caesar salad or something like that. Very Zone-friendly.

So lunch was

• Grilled chicken caesar salad. I only ate about half of it as I think that approximate 4 blocks of protein, 4 blocks of carbs and I added a little dressing to get the 4 blocks of fats

Then, this afternoon I had

• 1 cup of milk (1 protein and 1 carb)
• almonds (1 fat)

So that gets me to 10 blocks of my 15 for the day. This evening I will go for 4 for dinner and then have the 1 zone-friendly snack before bed. I ran yesterday so tonight it is weight-training.

Okay for dinner I had:

• The rest of that caesar salad from lunch along with oil and vinegar dressing I made myself. Even I can follow that recipe. 2 tsp of extra virgin olive oil. 2 tsp of vinegar (balsamic).

So I am done for the day except for a 1 block snack tonight. Probably yogurt and almonds or milk and almonds. I will do my weight training in a bit and make sure I get my last 16 ounces of water. I may get more than that, but I hope that is okay on The Zone.

Later

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