Colin McNulty.com: CrossFit, Nutrition, Health & Safety
My humble blog about fitness, health, diet (paleo and zone), CrossFit, PDR self defence, weightlifting, general life musings and occasional jollity.
The Zone Diet was created by Dr. Barry Sears. It’s a more “balanced” diet than modern day “balanced diets” that seem to consist of a lot of carbohydrates and not a lot else. The zone diet in a nut shell is simply this: for every meal the calorific content should be 40% carbs, 30% protein, and 30% fat. Try the zone diet, I think you’ll find it’ll change your life. Oh, and virtually nothing is banned, you eat what you like…. in moderation and proportion.
The Paleo diet however, teaches that you can eat as much as you like, so long as you eat the right things. Simply put, the right things are any food that wasn’t invented in the last 10,000 years, so yes, that means bread is out! Paleo also out laws diary, but like many people, I don’t go that far and dairy is in for me.
Put the 2 together and you get a potent combination of eating the right food, in the right proportions. Which is why I describe my diet as Paleo Zone + Dairy.
