Follow the Zone Diet Everywhere You go

The Zone Diet San Francisco style is really no different than anywhere else.

Your first job is to eat a balance of carbohydrates, protein and fat at each and every meal and snack. That's 40% carbohydrates, 30% protein and 30% fat.

Those percentages are of calories consumed, not the volume of food you eat. There can be quite a differences. For instance, fat is high in calories, so you relatively small amounts of those food to reach 30% by calories. If you eat a high glycemic carbohydrate food, then your carb volume will be very low. It takes only a small amount of bread or pasta to be 40% of the total. However, if you eat the recommended low glycemic index vegetables and fruits, then you can eat a large volume of them. Dr. Barry Sears suggests that one-fourth of your plate should be lean meat or fish (there's your 30% protein), and the rest vegetables. Even that may not be enough carbohydrates, so you can eat a few pieces of fruit for desert.

When the first Zone diet book came out in 1996, the only way to achieve this was to become with vegetables and fruit in the produce section of your local supermarket, along with the canned vegetables and fruit and even the frozen vegetables and fruit.

If you were lucky enough to have a local farmer's market in your area, you could go there. Or you could hit the stands of farmers and gardeners in your area selling their harvest. But of course availability of local produce varies with the season. If you were lucky, your local hippie-run health food store carried organic produce raised by local farmers and gardeners, or distributed by makeshift networks.

Now organic produce is available (more expensively, but it's worth it) at local supermarkets, and Whole Foods stores are spreading around the country, as are Trader Joes.

You can buy zone bars of various kinds in supermarkets and Wal-Mart. However, only Balance bars in the Original line are actually 40/30/30 Zone balanced. You can buy bars and many kinds of food directly from the website of Dr. Barry Sears.

But all of this forces you to do something I for one don't much like, at least when it's complicated and time-consuming -- cooking.

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So Now on the Zone Diet in San Francisco You Can Get Prepared Meals Delivered

My Chef by Request is one such service. They also prepare Zone meals that are vegetarian, gluten free and soy and dairy free.

In the Zone Delivery is its main competition in San Francisco. They too will deliver meals to your door, and accomodate all your special needs and tastes.

These services are not cheap, but they're not expensive either when you consider the cost involved in buying so many vegetables, fruits and lean cuts of meat and fish. And your time in cooking them. And that the meals will be gourmet quality, and so perhaps more delicious than the meals you could cook without resorting to unhealthy ingredients to make the food taste good.

And consider that you probably now spend a lot of money on unhealthy meals at fast food and sit down restaurants, and that's a minimum of $5, and a lot more if you have an appetitie.

And consider that it'll be easy and convenient for you to lose weight, have more energy and a healthier body in the long term, saving you lots of money on medicine and doctors -- not to mention not suffering pain and dying too young.

Considering the all the benefits of the Zone Diet in San Francisco, these services are incredibly cheap.

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