Today’s Weight: 193.8
First day on The Zone (or should I say “in” The Zone?). Anyway, we will see how it goes. Here is my plan: I intend to eat a Zone diet for a couple of weeks and then I might add in some of The Zone supplements (shakes, bars, etc) to see how they work or if they work. The book by Dr. Sears has The Zone sounding like the best thing since sliced bread (sliced bread, by the way, is not really allowed on The Zone.)
Anyway, daily I am supposed to eat 15 “blocks” of protein, which means 15 blocks of carbs and 15 blocks of fat. The book makes it really clear what constitutes “a block”. For me, breakfast looked like this:
- 1 cup of slow cooked oatmeal with 1 ounce of Whey protein powder (3 blocks of protein and 3 blocks of carbs)
- 1 cup of milk (1 block of protein and 1 block of carbs)
- 24 peantus (4 blocks of fat)
That has me 4 blocks into my 15. I will basically be eating 4 blocks per meal with 3 snacks of 1 block each. Hopefully by tomorrow I will feel like a new man! Okay, so that was said a little tongue-in-cheek. I will be more objective than that and I will let you know if I do feel better, more energetic and more mentally acute. I did weight training last night so tonight is a running night. I will run 5 miles (it is a beautiful day - how about taking a walk?) Then we’ll see if there is any difference tomorrow. In actuality, The Zone, similar to the Diet from last month, only promises a pound to a pound and a half per week so we might not see a rapid change, which is okay with me. I am now a firm believer in the slower weight loss is easier to maintain if done in a healthy fashion. Of course after one day diet” I am 2 pounds up so maybe if I dieting I would be back where I started in no time. I guess I will just have to keep on keeping on!
I’ll let you know how lunch goes.
Lunch consisted of:
- 1 apple (2 carb blocks)
- 1 cup of grapes (2 carb blocks)
- 4 tsp of almonds (4 fat blocks)
- 6 oz of Turkey (4 protein blocks)
So that has me at 1000 calories for the day and I have eaten 8 of my 15 blocks for the day. I feel pretty good, but I don’t know if it diet-related or if I am just in a good mood today. I have 1 snack to eat before dinner which I will do when I get close to running. I’ll post what I eat in a little bit.
I had an afternoon snack that consisted of:
- 1 oz of deli ham (1 block of protein)
- 1/2 cup of grapes (1 block of carbs)
- something like 10 almonds (1 block of fats)
So that had me at 9 of my 15 blocks. I then got home and ate:
- 1/2 cup of yogurt (1 block of protein and a block of carbs)
- 7 or 8 almonds (1 block of fats)
DInner was then:
- 4 oz of grilled chicken (4 blocks of protein)
- 1 cup of green beans (1 carb block)
- 1/4 cup of hummus (1 carb block)
- 1/2 an apple (1 carb block)
- 2 cups of celery (1 carb block)
- 1 teaspoon of live oil (on the green beans) 3 fat blocks
- 1/2 teaspoon of peanut butter (1 fat block)
SO that left me with one snack for tonight . I just jad that. It was:
- 1 cup of milk (1 protein and 1carb block)
- 8 almonds (1 fat block)
SO that is it for the day. I didn’t feel too hungry today. I haven’t planned out my food for tomorrow, but I will modify a bit (that was A LOT of celery) but it’s not so bad. I ran my 5 miles as well and I also had my 8 glasses of water (8 oz). All-in-all a good day in “The Zone”
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