Dr. Sear's Zone 1-2-3 Diet Review

As a health care professional, I have always tried to eat healthy. However, let’s face it, with the hours I already have, eating properly really isn’t an option sometimes. Plus, I love staying fit and losing some excess weight is also part of the plan.  I stay as active as I can, playing tennis and other sports whenever I get a chance or taking my dog for a brisk walk or run. Unfortunately, that just doesn’t cut it. I absolutely despise working hard to lose weight and then becoming utterly disappointed when I gain it right back over a period of time. This is when I learnt about Zone Diet created by Dr. Barry Sears, leading authority on the dietary control of hormonal response.

It’s a diet and I still get to eat my carbs! Yay! The Zone 1-2-3 Program is a combination of 3 things. 1) Essential amino acids that are balanced with the correct carbohydrate amount in order to decrease hunger which helps to cut down on how much you consume in one day. Zone foods also provides enough protein in your diet. 2) Essential omega-3 fatty acids are important in order to decrease inflammation in your fat cells thereby allowing you to properly burn fat faster. 3) Polyphenols, the chemicals in fruits and vegetables that give them their color, are key in inhibiting cellular inflammation and therefore prevent weight gain. Crazy fact: 1 capsule of Zone Polyphenols = 10 servings of vegetables

Zone Diet sent me 2 weeks worth of food supplies from their Zone 1-2-3 Zone Fast Weight Loss Program for every meal in the day. Furthermore, to keep the food fresh, they sent me 1 week’s supply of food at a time. Using the Zone Diet was easy enough. All I had to do was substitute in their food into whatever you are regularly making. So, if you’re making pasta, just use a portion of their pasta instead. If you plan on having a sandwich for lunch, sub in their bread. What about a snack? There were granola packages packed in so that you could mix it with yoghurt. They even included a schedule and a menu that you could follow if you wanted. The great thing was that the menu varied each day and the meals were all slightly different. Even if there were bagels on different days, even the bagel flavor provided was different!

Now, if you’re wondering how the food tastes, I’ll tell you straight up what I thought. The bread, bagels, rolls and pasta were good incorporated to what I was cooking or having for my meal that day. I loved the granola for the yoghurt. Absolutely delicious! Pizza was fun and yummy too. My absolute favorite: Cinnamon Swirl Bread. The only thing I really wasn’t that into was the cookies. For some reason, they were really sweet and I just did not like those. Other than that, it was great. Definitely enjoyed the fact that a large variety of choices were available so that you would never get sick of what you were eating. I definitely did notice a decrease in hunger and ate less than I normally would during meals as well.

Want to try it? Purchase the Zone Fast Weight Loss Program online and it will include 2 weeks worth of food, a personal zone coach to work with you every step of the way, daily essentials (Convenient 1 pack per day nutrients that amplify Zone Foods’ anti-inflammatory effects), Healthy Recipe Guide, and a Zone living easy 1-2-3 booklet. All for $179. Or, you could try your luck out here! Zone Diet has been generous enough to offer 3 of Whirlwind of Surprises’ readers a Zone Fast Weight Loss Program of their own. That’s 3 grand prizes worth $179 each! Win it!.

Disclaimer: The product/s mentioned above have been provided free of charge from Zone Diet for the purposes of this review. No other form of compensation was received. Opinions expressed belong to Whirlwind of Surprises and are NOT influenced in any way. Please view my full disclosure.

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