Monday, January 30, 2012

Eating in The Zone 2






Here is a picture of the scale we are using to put "The Zone" into practice.  It is really cool figuring out exactly how I should be fueling my body.  Here is The Zone chart where you will determine your blocks.  More to come on how to bring it together into a meal...

 


Sunday, January 29, 2012

Eating in The Zone 1

Well I'm looking forward to putting The Zone Diet into action.  I spent this weekend shopping for a food scale and measuring cups. Thanks to Mark T for guiding me to the Taylor Nutritional Scale with the Tare capability.  I got it at Target for about $38.00. 
Buying a digital food scale is a great idea since it makes measuring blocks fast and easy. Use “tare” to make it even easier, and you won’t have to use math at all!  Put your plate on the scale and hit the tare button. It subtracts the weight of the plate and makes the scale read zero. Measure out one of the items. Hit the tare button and again it starts you at zero once more for the next item. Finally your plate will be full of all your foods, all measured individually, but all on one plate. This makes it easy and kind of fun!
I have been playing with the scale over the weekend by weighing everything I am eating.  I believe this is going to be a great tool to eating right.  I will keep you all posted....