Zone Diet Meal Delivery

Is Zone Diet Meal Delivery for You?

Zone Diet meal delivery is like a dream come true.

If you're like many people -- and the numbers are growing every day -- you've read one or more Zone books by Dr. Barry Sears, or maybe you heard about the Zone from a friend or relative. Or on TV or ran across a website.

You were intrigued. Eat large amounts of healthy food, including fats, and still lose weight? Sounds too good to be true.

But as you find out if you try it for more than a week or two, it's not.

You cut out or down on sweet and starchy foods such as rice, bread, candy, and so on. Let's face it, you already knew you shouldn't be eating all that sugar. Even people who don't need to lose weight shouldn't be eating so much sugar.

Years Ago, People Didn't Know About Insulin or the Zone, but They Knew to Cut Down on Starchy Foods to Lose Weight

Reducing starchy foods to a bare minimum or eliminating them altogether may have come as a surprise, though probably not to your mother or grandmother. Up until the 1960s or so, it was well-known that people who wanted to lose weight shouldn't eat much bread, potatoes or other such foods.

But sometimes in the 1970s people started getting paranoid about cholesterol. I remember picking up a loaf of bread and seeing "Cholesterol Free!" emblazed on it.

Well, duh!

Bread is made from wheat, so it's a plant product. Cholesterol is found only in animal foods, so bread has never been a source of it.

But people got the idea that animal products were bad for you. Not only connecting cholesterol and heart disease, but because those same foods were fatty, thinking they made you fat as well.

Seems logical, doesn't it? Eat fat, get fat.

So we tried to cut fat out of our diets, especially saturated fat from animal sources with the dreaded cholesterol on it.

So we started frying foods in vegetable oil, not realizing we were putting our Omega 6/Omega 3 oil intake out of balance.

To replace our steaks and hamburgers, we started eating pasta, or just plain spaghetti. Maybe we'd add a meat sauce, but many times we didn't. Meat had cholesterol, after all.

Turns out the low fat advocates wanted us to eat more vegetables, but who wants to eat a plate ful of vegetables? It's more fun to eat spaghetti -- especially because your body digests that starch into sugar that goes into your bloodstream and gives you a glucose high that forces your pancreas to secrete a lot of insulin which instructs your body to store that excess glucose as calories, making you fat.

But by eating the right balance of carbohydrates, protein and good fats on the Zone -- 40% carbs, 30% protein and 30% fat -- you are eating the right balance of those macronutrients, so your insulin levels stay in the Zone for health and weight loss.

But let's face it, the Zone Diet can be a hassle. You have to frequently spend time in the produce department of your supermarket, and learn how to cook vegetables you like in combination with meats you like.

And you're busy. Your job keeps you over eight hours a day and it's a long commute back home. You're tired. It's easy to go to a fast food restaurant and get something easy.

Zone Diet Meal Delivery Makes Following the Zone Simple and Easy

With Zone Diet meal delivery, however, you can have three full Zone meals and two snacks prepared for you and delivered every day. There are services which deliver themselves to people in major metropolitan areas in North America, and others which use FedEx to deliver to the rest of us.

The meals are fresh and ready to heat up. Lunch and snacks can be taken to work. You can get this every day, or a lesser number if you really want to cook for yourself on weekends. Myself, being unmarried, I'd prefer to get it every day, saving me the effort of cooking, which I'm not good at. (I've read all the Zone books, but have just skimmed through the recipes. Dr. Barry Sears had a team work hard making them fancy and delicious. I want convenient, decent taste, not gourmet level meals.)

You can specify lots of details. Maybe you need food that's gluten-free. Or free of peanuts. Or you also want to avoid dairy. Or you just hate the taste of salmon or peas. Just tell the service. They all have expert chefs who can adjust their dishes to fit your needs. And they'll come up with delicious meals that you probably (certainly not in my case), could have have prepared on my own.

The cost is fairly reasonable. Remember you won't be buying strange veggies in the produce department, spending your time cutting and slicing, or paying for the cost of the electric or gas to cook the food (though some to heat it the dishes that should be served hot).

Zone Diet Meal Delivery Costs Some Money, but a Lot Less Than Regular Fast Food and Dining Room Meals

And you'll save the money you'd otherwise spend on fast food. For someone with a large appetite, these days that's at least $8-10 per meal. That adds up to more than you'll pay for most of these Zone meal delivery services.

And of course you'll benefit from having better long term health, which will save you money lost to sick time off work, buying over the counter medicines, and co-payments on doctor visits and prescription medicines.

And you'll amaze your friends when they notice how much weight you've lost. When I'd been on the Zone Diet a few months I had coworkers asking me how I'd done it. They didn't like the answer, and that's unfortunate, but people just have to learn for themselves.

That's why I say Zone Diet meal delivery is a dream come true. It's the Zone diet made simple and easy.

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