What I’ve learned after 5 weeks on the Paleo/Zone diet
From Phillyburbs.com:
Sunday morning, when the hubby and I were lying in bed, happily contemplating how we just scored a bonus point apiece in our Wrightstown Health & Fitness Paleo Challenge — for adequate sleep; what did you think I meant? — an infomercial came on TV.
Shocking, right? No, and neither is the fact it was for a weight loss program. What’s interesting is, this program, called “Food Lovers” because Infomercial Rule No. 1 is you have to sound stupid and gimmicky, is very similar to the Zone diet we’re doing right now.
Meaning, it’s based on keeping a certain ratio of carbohydrate to protein to fat in your meals. Zone mandates that 40 percent of calories should come from carbs, 30 percent from protein and 30 from fat, which ostensibly will keep your body “in the zone,” or, at its fat-burning, energy-producing and athletic-performing best.
At WHF, we added Paleo to the mix, meaning the food we eat in those 40-30-30 Zone proportions is the kind that sustained our hunter-gatherer ancestors. That would be meat, veggies, fruit, nuts, seeds, water and tequila. (My ancestors were lushes. I looked it up.)
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