>>I've looked into it, but it doesn't look like it's anything I haven't already been doing.<<
Knighty, you've been taking 2.5g epa/dha per day? what brand?
you balance your protein, carbs and heart healthy mfats at every meal?
i mean *every* meal.
you eat no more than 35g protein at any meal?
i mean *any* meal.
you get most of your carbs from fruits and veggies?
you add heart healthy fats to make your 5 block meal contain 15g of total fat?
what do you use for additional fat and how much equals 5 blocks?
you don't cook with vegetable oil and minimize eating out to minimize your vegetable oil intake? you avoid sugar soda like the plague? you pretty much avoid gatorade unless you balance it with protein and good fat?
how about sharing your three most frequent meals and i'll provide feedback as to how zone friendly they are.
i'm not saying you aren't eating zone friendly meals, but i will say that 2 folks who tried to tell me they understood the zone had no clue what it really was.
i'm down to 157.5 lbs from 178.5 8 months ago. i was only able to do cardio about 4.5 of those months due to fires, tender nerves, two back injuries and a foot injury - so that's a 21 lb net drop during a time frame where lots of things went wrong.
157.5 is a low i hit back in december - but i can feel when i'm losing fat and i'm total fat burning mode now. i'm expecting pretty tight wash board abs within 10 weeks when i'm pushing 150 lbs (i've never had wash board abs in my life, my old diet wouldn't let it happen, my current diet allows it easily).
my bench press has gone from 135 lbs x 4 to 155 x 7 since mid september. again, my workout schedule was interrupted by a sore nerve so i only was able to life about 60% of the time. i expect to be benching 170 8/6/4 when i begin my assault on 150 lbs and tight wash board abs.
i expect my rate of progression will slow as the admittedly light weight gets heavier. having said that, i'm coming of 19 years of muscle atrophy due to my nerve injury.
truth be told, it is a miracle i can work out at all, let alone gain strength and lose weight faster than anyone else at my gym - even the guys around 300 lbs. i'm down over 25 lbs of excess fat since june (again, i was out of the gym a lot due to the aforementioned reasons).
my nerve hasn't deteriorated significantly - which is obviously *extremely* nice.
the funny thing about diet is that everyone thinks they know everything about diet. it is kind of surreal having people who never lost 25 lbs of fat in their life, let alone doing it and feeling better than ever and literally enjoying it, trying to act like they have a clue about what they are talking about.
dara torres and the italian national basketball team that won the silver have made ultra refined fish oil a staple in their diets and it is part of the reason they blow minds with their performances and, frankly, over achieve what should be reasonably possible. a 40 year old swimming the fastest 50m free in american history? the national team, deemed at the time the worst in europe, whooping the unbeaten in olympic exhibition nba pros (19-0) by 17 and eventually taking home silver? are you kidding me?
also, since 1992, zoners have *owned* the oldest swimmer to make the olympic team record and not a single other diet has been able to edge in during 4 olympics and, with dara poised to make the olympic team at 41, you can bank on that extending to 5 on out to eternity (and no, dara was not the oldest to make the olympic team in 1992, it was a stanford swimmer who was 28. dara broke that record and took home 5 medals in 2000 at the age of 33).
anyway, i look forward to seeing a few meals so you can be sure your meals are truly zoned.
btw, Harvard Medical School's Joslin Diabetes Center now recommends what is essentially the Zone Diet to all diabetics and pre-diabetics.
joslin.org
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