[jderwin]

Hi...I am still a bit confused on what exactly the zone diet suggests. Is it basically a balance of carbs and protein for each meal? Could someone possibly give me a short summary of the whole idea of the zone diet?

If the balance thing is correct, I find this hard to do for breakfast. I am a student and need a fast breakfast...so I usually have oat bran cereal with fat free milk. Adding protein seems hard because I don't really have time to cook anything. Should I buy a protein bar or something? Well any help would greatly be appreciated.

Thanks!!!

Jessica

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I do not know much about the zone diet, per se. But I've been trying to do the protien/carb balance six small meals a day since the beginning of July. It is somewhat of a struggle (and of course I haven't been faithful the whole time). I've become to rely on protein bars and protein shakes (a little too much). I love the chocolate fudge protein shake. I keep it in the fridge (you do not need to) and have that as a small meal. Sometimes with a banana for the carbs.

I'm at this point trying to get the proper percentage of protein and carbs and fats throughout the day. I've realized that the protein bars have a little more percentage of fat than I want - even the zone bars. I'm still using them, but I need to offset with very to little fat foods during the day too. Maybe tuna???