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Title: The Zone : Revolutionary Life Plan to Put Your Body in Total Balance for Permanent Weight Loss by Barry Sears ISBN: 0-06-039150-2 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 21 June, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.89 (210 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: the only book on diet that ever made sense
Comment: This book changed my life. Several years ago I become chronicaly ill. For six months I had one terrible case of flu-like symptoms after another. My health was breaking down. I went to one kind of doctor after another, including increasingly wacko new age therapies. These might work in general, but I wasn't getting better. Then someone put this book in my hands. I read it in about two days. I thought the science and the studies that applied it to diabetes, athletic peak performance, and the like made enormous sense. I threw out all my old food, went to the store, and bought strictly zone food. In a week, literally, I was well. Not only that, I weighed myself and discovered I'd lost ten pounds. I ended up losing forty pounds and maintaining my health. I recommended the book to others who had similar experiences. This book isn't just for losing weight, it's a way of life. You learn the science of food, and you live a different way. I've learned how to stay on the zone and still "cheat". That is, enjoy my food. Basically you eat a balanced protein, carb, and fat diet. And you watch what kind of protein, carb, and fat you eat. What could be simpler? Then I bought all the rest of the books, too. The zone has become part of the rest of my life.
Rating: 3
Summary: A little too scientific for the average reader
Comment: The great thing about the Zone is that you CAN have carbs, just as long as you balance them with protein and fat. Everything in the 40-30-30 ratio. Every meal, every snack. Sounds simple enough. I read the book and found it all very informative. They discuss insulin levels and balancing your hormones. A lot if it was geared toward physical performance, like that of Olympic swimmers who got better times when they were "in the Zone." I didn't feel like the book was confusing. But putting it all together and actually doing the diet was another story. It requires a lot of planning and seems to require a lot of math. The ratio business sounds easy, but trying to use it when eating an actual meal and not just a cup of this and 3 ounces of that is very difficult. If you're truly committed to the principles and theories presented here, then you can make it work, lose weight, and look great. But I think that the average reader will get too frustrated to really make a go of the Zone.
Rating: 3
Summary: This works and it makes sense!
Comment: I bought this book a little over a week ago, even though I was skeptical of some of the reviews in Amazon. After a week I have already lost 3 pounds! I'm 28 years old and exercise every day, yet I was always stuck with about 5-7 extra pounds that didn't budget. I didn't understand why - I had cut my calories down to about 1300 a day and exercised religiously but nothing changed.
After reading this book, I realized that I eat little protein - my diet is mostly carbs (and not the good ones either). This theory makes sense - dieting isn't just about creating a calorie deficit, as some people say in their review, it's about eating the right foods. If all we needed was a calorie deficit then we could all live on candy bars as long as we created a deficit, right?! And yet I bet we'd all be severely undernourished.
This way of eating (it's not really a "diet" in the traditional terms) allows carbs and even says we need them, unlike the popular Atkins diet. It also recommends eating fat! The basis is to eat a 40% carb, 30% protein and 30% fat ratio at every meal as well as 2 snacks a day. I have not been at all hungry and have noticed sleeping a little better and feeling a little more alert during the day (and not famished by 5 p.m. like I was before). And figuring your unique protein, carb and fat requirements are not difficult at all, even though some reviews on Amazon will tell you differently. If you can read and understand 7 grams of protein, 9 grams of carbs and 1.5 grams of fat are a "block" you can understand this diet.
I would recommend it without a doubt. I've already asked for one of the cookbooks on Amazon for my birthday next week because it helps to have the recipes laid out for you instead of trying to create them all the time. Basically, the food possibilities are endless, the weight loss is practically guaranteed if you follow the instructions and you may feel better. The way I see it there's absolutely nothing to lose, except excess fat, by at least trying this diet.
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Title: A Week in the Zone by Barry Sears, Barry Sears ISBN: 006103083X Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Zone Perfect Meals in Minutes: 150 Fast and Simple Healthy Recipes from the Bestselling Authorof the Zone and Mastering the Zone by Barry Sears ISBN: 006039241X Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 25 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Mastering the Zone: The Next Step in Achieving SuperHealth and Permanent Fat Loss by Barry Sears ISBN: 0060391901 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: December, 1996 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: What to Eat in the Zone : The Quick & Easy, Mix & Match Counter for Staying in the Zone by Barry Sears ISBN: 0060587423 Publisher: HarperTorch/ReganBooks Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Zone Food Blocks: The Quick and Easy, Mix-and-Match Counter for Staying in the Zone by Barry Sears ISBN: 0060392428 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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