Ways to Take Off Weight With the Zone Lifestyle System
The Zone diet is a diet plan that pays close attention to calorie intake and physical exercise to achieve results. It is a lifestyle-changing plan to get people to shed weight and get in better physical condition. The main part of this diet plan is the food plan developed by the scientist, Dr. Barry Sears.
The theory of the diet looks at the impact of carbohydrates on the body's insulin levels. Consuming too many carbohydrates causes blood sugar levels to rise sharply, which in turn causes the body to produce insulin, a hormone that reduces blood sugar levels by storing the sugar as fat. It is believed that by consuming the right foods, blood sugar levels can be regulated to keep insulin levels in "the zone," a range where the body burns more fat and stops storing excessive fat.
The plan balances protein and carbohydrate consumption in a three to four ratio, meaning 40% of your calories will come from carbohydrates and 30% from protein (another 30% typically comes from fat). It is important to monitor calories on the Zone plan, with most meals not exceeding five hundred calories each and snacks around one hundred calories each.
Under the program, you eat five times a day (three meals and two snacks), never letting more than five hours pass without consuming food. If you sleep eight hours each night, this means having breakfast within one hour of waking, eating lunch within five hours of breakfast, a snack within five hours of lunch, dinner within two or three hours of snack, and a final snack just before bedtime.
The majority of foods consumed on the Zone diet plan include lean cuts of meat, like chicken or fish and other sources of protein, lots of vegetables and fruits, and a small amount of carbohydrates. Sugar, potatoes, breads, cereals, and rice are the types of carbohydrate rich foods that dieters should avoid eating, but can enjoy occasionally. Dieters must also stop eating pre-packaged foods and high sodium foods.
Exercise is another key aspect of the Zone diet. The program recommends moderate intensity physical exercise for thirty minutes a day, six days per week. Physical activity is supposed to enhance the effectiveness of the Zone program. Other enhancements to the diet include taking nutritional supplements and vitamins.
The Zone program works well for many people, but it requires a lot of dedication. The reason why this program and most other diets fail to work is because many dieters stop before they are able to see results. Many people struggle to stay on any type of diet program because of cravings, uncontrollable appetites or eating habits, or a lack the motivation to lose weight. Hypnosis is perfect for solving these problems and supplying the motivation to stick to a diet like the Zone diet program.
Hypnosis is frequently used with dieting because it does many things to increase the effectiveness and success rate of weight loss programs. Among the many things that hypnosis programs do is help promote positive thinking, especially to counter negative thoughts. Hypnosis is a powerful stress reducing tool as well, helping us cope with our stressful emotions and relieve tension. As a stress reducing tool, it calms the mind, helps you come up with strategies to manage stress, and boosts your self-confidence to motivate you to shed weight.
Weight loss hypnosis can also be used to treat the mental obstacles that keep people from losing weight. Take for example people who cannot control their food cravings and appetite because they have a problem with "emotional eating." People who are emotional eaters compulsively eat food in response to their feelings, such as when they are angry or sad. Hypnosis can be used to break the associations in our unconscious minds between eating and our feelings. This way, people are freed of their compulsive eating habits and able to stick to complex diets such as the Zone diet program.
Motivational hypnosis weight loss CDs have become a popular and successful technique to use with diet 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 train our thoughts on maintaining a healthy lifestyle. These programs help dieters remember their reasons for wanting to diet and exercise so dieters automatically feel motivated to stick with their diet. Hypnosis is an effective motivational tool that will help you "stay in the zone," exercise, and experience natural weight loss. Through using hypnosis, we can think positively and focus on improving our health.
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