What do you think of the zone diet?

Question

so many people that I work with are doing it and have lost so much weight. It is the medical zone where the doctor gives shots and you follow the zone diet. you have very few calories. and you start off only eating protein for like a week. then you slowly add veggies and then fruit. One girl has lost like 90lbs in 6 months!! It seems so unhealthy, what do you think?

Answer 1

They positively will gain it back (the majority of them). What changes are they making? What are they learning? Eventually they will stop going to the doctor. They will stop following a laid out plan. They will be on their own and that when the bad habits will creep right back in.

For someone that has to lose 90 lbs I can perhaps understand a rapid approach. (not really) Diets do not work. You have to trust me on this. I have seen thousands of people from all walks of life flow through my gyms. The ones that go whole hog, lose weight rapidly and exercise to much all drop out. I see them at movie theaters, in the supermarkets etc.. still as fat and as out of shape as ever.