Nutritionist Barry Sears has developed an amazing zonal diet, which allows you to cleanse the body of toxins and help him to effectively lose weight. Fortunately, this system does not require strong restrictions and is based on a combination of proteins, fats and carbohydrates in a special percentage. The daily diet should include 40% carbohydrates, 30% fat and 30% protein. If you want, you can eat this way constantly, because this combination of carbohydrates and proteins is very harmonious and well perceived by the body.
Limitations: the level of insulin in the blood
A stable level of insulin is the most important condition of this diet, which allows you to eat normally, without experiencing bouts of hunger that trigger low levels of insulin in the blood.
It is for this reason that a single restriction is introduced in the diet: the refusal of sweets, since it is the sweet which causes the insulin level to rise too high, which leads to excess weight.
Fats, proteins, carbohydrates: combination
According to some scientists, such a diet is scientifically unjustified, since in the traditional view, food should consist of 60% carbohydrates, 10% protein and 30% fat, which is quite difficult if you eat meat, eggs and dairy products every day. However, it is the lack of carbohydrates that give fast energy, such a diet is effective, because the body can not get all the necessary energy with food and begins to actively split the already stored as fat reserves.
Zone diet: the menu
To observe such a diet is quite simple, it is enough just to eat approximately within the framework of this recommended daily diet:
- Breakfast . A cup of fresh green tea or natural coffee and a glass of oatmeal, boiled with boiling water for 10 minutes under the lid.
- Second breakfast . A small handful of almonds, half an apple.
- Lunch . Baked quarter of chicken breast, salad of fresh vegetables, a slice of hard cheese.
- Snack . Stewed vegetables (with a pronounced hunger feel add a handful of walnuts).
- Dinner . Portion of chicken boiled meat with lettuce and garnish.
- Before bed : with a pronounced feeling of hunger, you can drink kefir or eat fruit.
The most convenient way to do this is to keep a food diary, which many Internet services offer for free. There you just enter products, and the system itself counts calories and the ratio of proteins, fats and carbohydrates.