TF and the Zone

[nicolelynn]

I saw one or two Mommas on here mentioning the Zone Diet and TF. My Mother just got the Zone and the Zone Inflammation book (she also has NT). She says when she follows it she feels excellent, no cravings. And she does a modified version, still enjoying butter, etc.

I am reading the Inflammation book and alot of what he has to say is really good, about silent inflammation and cholesterol NOT causing heart disease...you NEED fat at every meal....and fish oil being a miracle food. Ofcourse, he is short-sighted when it comes to quality saturated fats, but I'm imagining he hasn't researched how factory farmed animal products and pastured products are two totally different foods.

So what say you, if you have experience with both? I already decided I didn't need as much fat and calories as NT said I needed (though I am still all about using and enjoying my butter, cream and coconut oil), and am trying to cut down on grains anyways. Some recipes in NT are carb overload.

So what do you pick and choose from both?

[quietserena]

I have been on the Zone and with PCOS it was the one thing that would consistently straighten my body out and bring my ovulation regularly.

I slowly fell out of it because I had fallen into the rut eating that way.

The way I eat TF is close to the Zone in many ways actually - easy on sugar, easy on bread, things like that. The Zone broke me of my bread addiction actually. I grew up in a culture where bread is eaten at every meal with everything so some part of me was always 'hungry' if I hadn't eaten bread. Took me a long time to get over that but I'm freeeee!

I think it's really easy to eat TF on the Zone.