The makers were kind when they gave me a robust and (I must admit) strong body, but with these qualities came some disadvantages… like the amount of exercise I need to stay fit, and the amount of food I have to consume to fuel my engine.
For many years I have struggled with extra weight, since I am not an exercise addict I always have something extra on me, and I have never been a fan of extreme diets. I have always made fun of people who gave up lots of things to stay fit and failed miserably; Many years ago my mother started reading a book by Barry Sears about The Zone, and for many years she experimented around with it. It was not until I turned eighteen that I accepted an offer (my mother’s) to start The Zone diet. I never expected what happened.
The way The Zone diet works is simple: Carbohydrate and protein blocks (Sears’ unit to measure food/energy/etc) have to be completely balanced (X=Y) and consumed in a certain measure. Following a very simple formula any person can calculate how many blocks per day he/she must consume, this may sound simple but the results are actually frightening. During my first week with the Zone diet I was busy eating most of the time, I easily ate twice as much as I usually did and lost a lot of weight and body fat. Unfortunately I had to drop it because I moved… to another country.
No more high school: No more afternoon activities, breaks spent playing basketball, chasing people around campus, running around just because, and no more P.E. I progressively started gaining weight, and then more and more and more. It took me over a year to grow some balls and take care of myself, and a couple of weeks after I started, I also started the Zone diet.
Three weeks into the diet and I have built muscle, lost 15 pounds, 4 waist inches and 4% of my body fat percentage. I have been eating like a beast, too.
A real happy meal.
My only piece of advice?
