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Oct 23 '04
Pros: Large servings, no special foods needed, no gimmicks. . .and the diet works!
Cons: Using the block method can be confusing.
Summary: I was in search of a way to shed the last 10 pounds of post-pregnancy weight when I stumbled upon the Zone diet. Post-pregnancy weight loss is a journey I’ve taken many times, and I’ve never followed an established diet before, because I have ...
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Jun 12 '06
Pros: Weight loss, mental clarity, improved blood work
Cons: Two week adjustment to really learn the Zone method
Summary: I started the Zone diet in August 2005 after reading "A Week in the Zone". I had tried many diets in the past, including one that forbade flour and sugar. I tried that one for a while, felt great and lost some weight, but the fear of taking the "first ...
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Oct 30 '01
Pros: great idea for healthy bodies.
Cons: Nothing everyone shouldn't already know.
Summary: The Zone Diet is pretty muck just a book that will tell you what you should already know. Eat right and exercise.
While living with one of my mates, he started The Zone Diet and got me into it as well. It's based around a high...
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Mar 15 '05
Pros: It's a lifestyle.
Does more than just lose weight.
Cons: You can't just 'kind of' follow it.
Summary: For me, finding the book 'Entering The Zone' in 1997 led me to one of the most important changes in my life! I had just finished my college football career and was about 300lbs before I started The Zone. I already knew that I wanted to lose weight, as ...
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Jul 06 '00
Pros: Increased energy, weight loss
Cons: none
Summary: I must be honest and admit that an article attributing Jennifer Aniston's weight loss to The Zone Diet inspired my sister and I to try it. We bought the book 'A Week in The Zone'. We each read it and then talked about how we could do it. My sister is...
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Aug 21 '00
Pros: Good loss, great energy
Cons: Like any diet - a program to follow
Summary: I have fought with excessive weight gain for about 15 years now. I have never seriously tried any dieting until the last 5 or so, because what I call excessive, others may call just a few extra pounds. I call it excessive because I'm in the military and...
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Aug 09 '00
Pros: It really works
Cons: You should be very precise about balance of food
Summary: I was thin...when I was five years old. By the time I was seven my mom would tell me "You'd look just like Sleeping Beauty---if only you'd loose weight." I lost weight.
At least four times I lost forty pounds on diets. As I teen, I...
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Jul 30 '01
Pros: Satisfying, healthy, true weight loss, will cure carbohydrate addiction
Cons: Severe acidosis should be avoided.
Summary: I've been following a low carbohydrate diet for the past three weeks now and am very pleased with the results that I've been getting. I'm also satisfied with my food choices and am not hungry all the time like I was before I started this diet. I'm...
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Nov 22 '00
Pros: Sensible, easy to learn
Cons: You have to put away your previous beliefs about food
Summary: Two years ago a business associate and I were discussing the changes we were both experiencing as we reached middle age. My complaint was that, for the first time in my life, I had gained a significant amount of weight. I had always been able to eat...
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Oct 19 '00
Pros: loss of weight, more energy, clearer skin, sleep better
Cons: at first, when you are becoming accustomed to the Zone, you must plan ahead...must eat every five hours,
Summary: I decided to try the Zone diet because I needed to lose some weight that I had gained during recovery from an injury. Recovery took a few years and consequently, I gained about 30+ extra pounds. I also felt tired all of the time, no matter how much...
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Sep 19 '00
Pros: Perfect program that works perfectly with the body's systems
Cons: none
Summary: I am a 44 year old female that has been watching my weight since I was a child. In the course of my life, I have done every diet or at least read about it. I was in a book store many years ago and just stumbled upon the book, "The Zone". Over...
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Jan 23 '04
Pros: The diet encourages healthy allowances of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. Not a high fat diet.
Cons: One should be careful not to severely limit carbohydrate intake and induce ketosis.
Summary: The Zone Diet is one of the many diets available today that emphasizes a need to reduce carbohydrate consumption, in particular simple carbohydrates like sugar and white flour. The popular diet was developed by Barry Sears, who holds a PhD in ...
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Sep 26 '02
Pros: Lose weight fast
Cons: Impossible to follow
Summary: I tried the Zone Diet after having a baby and gaining lots of weight. As a teen, I lost alot of weight on the Atkins diet, and never gained it back until I had the baby. Unfortunately, cutting carbs wasnt working for me anymore, so I started looking...
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Jul 03 '02
Pros: Steady, healthy weight loss without hunger pangs and feeling restricted.
Cons: Must think ahead and plan meals.
Summary: Since graduating college and beginning a desk job, over 3 years I gained about 15 pounds and was feeling very unhappy about my appearance. I had read some articles on various weight loss programs, and thought the zone made sense and sounded like the...
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Sep 15 '03
Pros: Balanced, sensible, effective
Cons: A bit complicated to do exactly by the numbers
Summary: According to the National Institutes of Health and the infamous body-mass index calculation, I'd been overweight for a number of years: 205 pounds on a six-foot frame. I always meant to try to lose the weight but never quite got motivated to do so. It was ...
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