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Useful Tips and Hints for Success in Zone Diet:

• Drink at least 64 ounces of water per day (eight 8-ounce glasses). Your body is composed of 70 percent water that can be easily lost.

• Eat more fruits and vegetables, and less pasta, breads, grains, and starches (no more than 25 percent of the total carbohydrates consumed at a meal) during the day.

• Eat more frequent meals with fewer calories.

• Eat small amounts of low-fat protein at every meal and snack.

• Control your ratio of protein to carbohydrate at every meal.

• Add some extra monounsaturated fat to every meal.

• Drink 8 ounces of water thirty minutes before a meal.

• Do not let more than five hours go by without eating a Zone meal or snack.

• Always eat a Zone breakfast within one hour after waking up.

• Always have a small Zone bedtime snack before you go to bed.

• Always have a small Zone snack thirty minutes before you exercise.

Recommended Reading:

• Zone Diet - Tips & Hints for Success •
• How to Stay in the Zone Diet •
• Keeping You in the Zone Diet •