Balance Protein Bars -- Convenient, Zone Nutrition

Here you can find information on balance protein bars so you can continue to work and play in a typical modern American lifestyle yet stay on the healthy Zone diet as recommended by Dr. Sears.

My introduction to balance zoneperfect bars came shortly after I read Dr. Barry Sears first book THE ZONE sometime back in the 1990s.

Balance Bars Make The Zone Convenient for Everybody

I wanted to try out the Zone diet, but I was working long hours and so like many Americans, had a hard time fitting it into my schedule. Fast food was just so convenient, on top of tasting so good.

I had tried other kinds of nutrition bars and protein bars which I'd seen in health food stores starting with the 1980s -- maybe back in the 1970s, it's hard to remember.

However, when I picked up the power bars in the stores and read the amount of protein, fats and carbohydrates in them, it didn't me a long time to figure out that these bars, however many vitamins had been packed into them, were little more than candy bars in disguise.

When I first got serious about going on the Zone diet back in early 2004, I really needed some help. By then, I was working two jobs not just one, and so I knew I couldn't do it unless there was a way to make it convenient.

I knew that Zone bars existed in an MLM company, but I didn't want to join one even as a customer, because I knew the price would be high, and saving money was also important to me.

Fortunately, reading about Dr. Sears' Zone program online, I discovered that Barry was still selling zone perfect bars through his website. Unfortunately, they are also expensive. They are still the ones I would most recommend, but not if you have to really watch your budget.

I found balance bars in a local supermarket and tried them out. I discovered that they were delicious. Unfortunately, they were still too expensive.

Then I looked for them at the next logical place -- Wal-Mart. And here I found to my delight that the average price was just over a dollar per bar -- not bad for two blocks of perfectly balanced 30% protein, 30% fat and 40% carbohydrate.

Balance Bars Come In Delicious Flavors

I particularly liked the chocolate bars and cookie dough bars. They're thick and chewy.

Yes, they are a lot like candy bars and, to me, that's an advanteous. By eating them, I don't feel like I'm giving up my sweet tooth.

True, it'd be better to eat only food -- so long as it's organic, cooked right, and balanced according to the Zone diet.

I don't think I could achieve that perfection even if I had the time, money and access to organic fruits and vegetables and grass-fed beef.

While we're at it, why not go fully raw and paleo, and hunt our own animals? Because the most of the population of the United States, not to mention the entire world, would starve to death, that's why.

We cannot reverse the agricultural revolution, nor do we want to -- but we need to find a way to eat to satisfy our genetic need for the Zone balance of macronutrients while remaining civilized.

A balance bar satisfies your hunger while keeping your insulin within the health range known as the Zone.

I went downhill from there, partly from personal problems that made me too depressed to care much. I began eating more and more fast foods. In the past two years I'd eaten at Taco Bell and McDonalds -- which is allowed -- but limited the carbs. I'd eat a quarter pounder with cheese with only one bun. I'd order three gordita supremes and shovel the contents of two of them into the wrapper of the third. And I drank only water.

But from early 2008 through June 30 I began eating whatever fast food I wanted -- including a Quiznos sub once a week -- and drinking down a large Dr. Pepper or Mr Pibb, my favorites.

As time went on, I simply ate what I wanted and stopped exercising due to lack of time.

On Store Shelves, Only Balance Bars Keep You in the Zone

You know the result -- on July 1, 2009 I stepped on a scale for the first time in decades and I'm too shy to put down the result, because it was far more than I'd ever weighed before. I used the BMI charts to calculate my Body Mass Index at 30% -- the official line of obesity.

I first read THE ZONE by Dr. Barry Sears in the 1990s and was impressed -- but not enough to change my diet. Rather, because I was involved in a nutritional network marketing company, I thought that Zone food products would make a good basis for an MLM company.

I've read or re-read all of the books by Dr. Sears -- THE ZONE, MASTERING THE ZONE, THE SOY ZONE, THE ANTI-INFLAMMATION ZONE, THE AGE-FREE ZONE, THE 0MEGA RX ZONE, and the latest, Toxic Fat: When Good Fat Turns Bad.

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Balance protein bars are a great way to stay on the healthy Zone diet while remaining a normal too-busy person in today's modern world.