The Zone : Revolutionary Life Plan to Put Your Body in Total Balance for Permanent Weight Loss

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Summary: This is NOT a fad
Review: Having tried EVERYTHING, I approached this with caution. While I can't verify all the technical, scientific claims Dr Sears makes, I can say this. I lost 12 lb in 4 weeks. It was hard at the beginning, but now, I don't feel hungry between meals at all, even though I'm eating so much less. This is the one diet that I really can imagine being a lifestyle rather than a diet.

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Summary: Too hard to follow
Review: I read the book and I agree with the diet, but I couldn't stick with the diet. There were too many rules to follow for someone with a busy schedule and as wierd as it may seem, it was actually too much food for me. I switched to the Atkin's Diet and it's much easier and the weight loss results are faster. The only upside to the Zone diet is the amount of energy and mental wellbeing I felt. If that's what you're looking for go for it. If weight loss is what you want use the Atkin's book.

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Summary: Haven't I heard it somewhere, someday?
Review: Looks like plain old low-calorie diet to me, just wrapped into lots of scientific blah-blah. But - as I am just-this-type-of-food person, I like it quite well, even if I don't know whether my fairly good results have something to do with eicosanoids or with the fact that I'm half-hungry all the time. You can try, if you want, but - if you are not neo-paleolithic man (as am I, by the looks of it), you'll be not only hungry, but constantly craving something forbidden to eat (as am I - even being basically a caveman). By the way, can someone tell me how much exercise has a full-time mother of two (2,5 and 1 year)? Maybe I should be eating like triathlete, not as a very mildly exercising person, and maybe that is the main reason I'm so hungry...

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Summary: Enter The Zone: A Dietary Road Map...
Review: A Canadian Diabetic has obviously not even read this book. Please don't let his/her review disuade you if you are Diabetic and considering The Zone. Read on to more intelligent reviews.

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Summary: Bad News For Diabetics
Review: Research has shown that the diets that work the best are the ones with the least palatable food. Having said that, I view with serious alarm the amount and kind of protein, fats and carbohydates that the diet recommends. Diabetics would crash on this diet and since there are over a million undiagnosed Type I and II diabetics in North America, ASK YOUR DOCTOR if he approves of this diet. AND get your sugar checked while you are at the doctor.

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Summary: An incredible find
Review: The theories and wellness plan presented in this book do one thing that is, promise what they deliver. My level of wellness and that of my family and friends continues to improve so that we are shedding medications as well as pounds and feeling better than we have felt in years. It is truly amazing and I highly recommend the Zone plan to anyone who seriously wants to take control of their health without using often dangerous and often untested expensive over the counter potions and pills.The proof for me lies in the results of improving overall health and energy without the miserable cravings and weak run-down feelings of dieting.

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Summary: It made me eat more vegetables
Review: Great diet. I changed my diet to eating many more vegetables than I used to. Instead of having my dinner on the dinner plate, I had a big salad on the big one, and my carbs and protien on my salad plate. Lost alot of weight and felt better.

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Summary: Life Changing
Review: My wife and I both began eating in The Zone after being introduced to the concept by my wife's doctor and reading Dr. Barry Sear's books. Over the course of the past eight months I have dropped from over 220 pounds to 166! My wife has also just passed the fifty pound weight loss milestone! We are no longer hooked on the carbohydrate fix as we used to be because of the work Dr. Sears has done in explaining how food really works in our bodies. We eat exactly what our bodies need and want. We are also more fit than we've been in twenty years. Excellent stuff.

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Summary: protein g vs. actual weight of food
Review: A.D.J. Lee isn't making a distinction between protein content and the actual weight of what you eat. 1 oz. of chicken contains 7g of protein. The chicken is not pure protein, it contains some water, some fat, etc. So the actual amount of food you eat in a day to get your protein isn't that much - on the Zone diet, most of us would only be eating 4 oz. of chicken - that's 4 blocks of protein or 28g of protein - in one meal, along with your carbs and fat. That's smaller than your average restaurant grilled chicken dinner. Hope this helps.

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Summary: suspicious
Review: if the amount of block of protein is 7 grammes, then why is the suggested weight of a block of (skinless, fat free)chicken 27 grammes (1 oz). That is four times as much protein in the suggested meals than the blocks call for. If I am to eat 6 blocks of protein three times a day (for my height and fitness) then he has me on over a pound of chicken (or 18 egg whites, etc..) a day. I have never eaten this much protein per day in my life. And as far as my medical records show, I'm neither overweight nor unhealthy. The book is compelling, but doesn't make sense with my experience.