The Zone diet is a weight loss program that pays close attention to food intake and physical activity to achieve weight loss. It is a lifestyle plan to help people shed pounds and be in better shape. The key part of this diet program is the set of eating guidelines developed by the biochemist named Barry Sears.
The reasoning of the diet looks at the influence of carbohydrates on the body's insulin levels. Eating too many carbohydrates causes blood sugar levels to spike, which prompts the body to release insulin, a hormone that lowers blood sugar levels by causing the sugar to be stored as fat. It is thought that by eating the right foods, blood sugar levels can be controlled to keep insulin levels in "the zone," a range where the body is supposed to burn fat more efficiently and stop holding onto excessive fat.
The diet program balances carbohydrate and protein consumption in a 3:4 ratio, meaning 40% of your calories will come from carbohydrates and 30% from protein (another 30% typically comes from fat). It is important to count calories on the Zone program, with most meals not exceeding five hundred calories each and snacks around one hundred calories each.
Under the diet program, you eat five times each day (three meals and two snacks), never letting more than five hours go by without having a meal or snack. If you sleep eight hours every night, this means having breakfast within one hour of getting up, lunch within five hours after breakfast, a snack within five hours after lunch, dinner within two or three hours of your snack, and a final snack right before bed.
The majority of foods consumed on the Zone diet plan include low fat meats, such as fish or chicken and other healthy sources of protein, plenty of fruits and vegetables, and a limited amount of carbohydrates. Rice, sugar, potatoes, breads, and cereals are the types of carbohydrate rich foods that dieters are to avoid eating, but can enjoy once in awhile. Dieters must also try not to eat pre-packaged foods and food with a high sodium content.
Exercise is another fundamental aspect of the Zone diet. The plan recommends moderate intensity physical exercise for thirty minutes per day, six days a week. Exercise is supposed to raise the effectiveness of the Zone diet. Other things that are supposed to increase the effectiveness of the diet include taking nutritional supplements and vitamins.
The Zone plan works effectively for many people, but it takes a big commitment. The reason why this diet and most other plans do not seem to work is because many dieters quit before they are able to see improvement. Many people fight to stick with any type of diet program because of food cravings, uncontrollable appetites or eating habits, or a lack the motivation to lose weight. Hypnosis is ideal for overcoming these issues and providing the motivation to stick to a diet program such as the Zone diet plan.
Hypnotherapy is frequently used along with dieting because it does many things to increase the effectiveness and success rate of diets. One thing that hypnosis programs do is help promote positive thinking, especially to counter negative thoughts. Hypnotherapy is a powerful stress reducing tool as well, helping us cope with our stressful emotions and relieve tension. As a stress reducing tool, it eases the mind, helps you develop strategies to cope with stress, and increases your self-confidence to motivate you to shed weight.
Weight loss hypnosis can also be used to directly treat the mental obstacles that keep people from successfully dieting. Take for instance people who cannot control their food cravings and appetite because they struggle with "emotional eating." People who experience emotional eating compulsively eat food in response to their emotions, such as when they are angry or sad. Hypnosis can be used to break the associations in our unconscious minds between eating and our emotions. This way, people are freed of their compulsive eating habits and able to stick to complex diet programs such as the Zone diet program.
Motivational hypnosis weight loss CDs have become an extremely popular and successful technique to use with weight loss programs because motivation is the key to success for most dieters. A good hypnosis CD program works by tapping into the power of the unconscious mind to naturally focus our thoughts on maintaining a healthy lifestyle. These programs help dieters explore their reasons for wanting to lose weight and exercise so dieters automatically feel motivated to stay with their diet program.
Hypnotherapy is a powerful motivational tool that works to help you "stay in the zone," get physically fit, and experience natural weight loss. Through using hypnosis, we can think positively and focus on having better health.
Alan B. Densky, CH is certified by the NGH. Visit his hypnotism website for Free hypnotherapy newsletters, videos, and downloads. He offers several ways to lose weight, including NLP to lose weight DVDs and lose weight self-hypnosis CDs.













