Zonedietsolutions.com

“Zone Diet Solutions helps to make your life incredibly easy. We offer you the meals you need to be successful in your fitness goals without the daily headache of meal time. Our meals are perfectly balanced by the Zone and Paleo Diet standards, and are hand crafted by professional chefs. Make your life easier, throw out your measuring cups and scales, and forget about shopping.

Zone Diet Solutions gives the freshest, healthiest, most delicious gourmet meals available. Unlike most other diet plans, we shop daily to bring you the freshest food possible. You will never get a block of food that has been frozen solid. Our program gives you the best food to help you meet your fitness and health goals.”

They have several options available from single meal placement orders to a weeks worth, to a recurring weekly order. You will select the Forever Strong logo as your pick up location and then place your order in the appropriate box.

We will be having a tasting event on Sat. the 21st from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm. Chef Christopher will be bringing down several menu items and allowing us to sample the food before you decide. If you decide to order your delivery will begin Monday the 23rd.

  If you plan on attending please post to the comments section so that we can plan for how much food to provide.

The contest will be a Paleo Challenge. All participants can pick up a sheet of Paleo Diet rules so there will be no question of the rules. It will start on Feb. 1st. All participants must declare their participation in the comments section of this post and pay the $20 buy in by the end of the week. This contest will be run on the honor system so that should tell you how much we trust all of you.

This will be a last man standing contest. What that means is that beginning Feb 1st all participants begin eating strictly Paleo. If you cheat or fall off the wagon then you have to log back in and post to the comments that you are out. Last person to cheat wins all the cash. It’s that simple.

If you are participating in the contest please post to the comments section of this page and post again when you are out. More People More Money…

That box will change everyday as it pulls a new recipe from a variety of websites. Most of the recipes are pulled from Paleo or Primal style sites. Although they may not all be perfect they are a great addition to your nutritional arsenal. You can click on the recipe or on the link directly to the site from which it was pulled. starting to do that and bookmarking those blogs and pages will begin to give you an infinite resource list for food needs.

Thefoodee.com however is where I truly believe the magic and genius has happened. This site was developed by Matt Lucas who owns CrossFit Free Range. Spend some time and go to the site and look around. I encourage you to register for the site. Once you do you will have access to the best resource it has to offer which is the menu planning and grocery list.

When you click on the recipe it will give you the option to add it to your grocery list. You can continue to look at recipes and add things to your list. When you are done you will have a grocery list containing all of the items you need to make each of those recipes divided into what sections of the grocery store you will find them in.

If you choose to take this challenge the only mandatory part is No Bread, Grain, Pasta, Rice, Oats, and NO SUGAR (real or artificial). The optional parts are food logging and weigh ins. It doesn’t matter if you do Zone or Paleo or something else. There are no penalties, no chastising, and no burpees if you cheat.

Read the ingredient list on everything. Be aware of your foods and choices. make smart decisions and plan ahead.

I want you to use this post to communicate with each other ask for recipes and help. I will post some recipes and links on this site as well as I will try to post a video or recipe every day of the month to help you out.

I want everyone who is doing the challenge to post their name to the comments section of this post and let us know that you are in. If you quit at some point post that you are out.

Who Is In?

paleofood.com
thepaleodiet.com
mypaleokitchen.blogspot.com
zonediet.com
the-zone-diet-recipes.com
433zonediet.com

Extra Work: For those concerned that they need extra work above the workout that we do in the gym there is no need to worry these workouts are meant to be sufficient along with an active lifestyle and possibly some recreational sports on the side, however since many of us don’t play sports anymore maybe we need a boost. If I receive enough interest in it I will begin to post 3-4 separate workouts designed around cardio training including at least one hike each week. I’d like to think that the people who express interest in this extra programming will help hold each other accountable to doing the work and will begin to meet up with each other to do the runs and hikes together. We all know that we work better and harder when we work together…Who’s in for the Cardio / Hike Programming?

Zone / Nutrition: I am thinking of a few ideas regarding this. I’d like to have a few Zone Classes at the gym. We will be able to cover in more detail The Zone, the conversions, favorable and unfavorable Carbs, Paleo, and any other questions that come up. I need input from people on best times to be able to attend. Obviously when Workouts are not running would be preferable so throw some ideas out at me for what works for you.

A second idea that has been brought up to me is a private class for groups of up to 3 people at a time. This class would be about 2-3 hours in length. It will involve sitting down with one of us and writing a very specific meal plan tailored around you and your schedule, lifestyle, food likes and dislikes. After that there will be a grocery list made and a trip to the store to teach you how to shop, what to read when looking at foods, staples to always have on hand, and best choices in a pinch. After the grocery shopping you are invited back to our house where we will show you how to prep and prepare all of your meals for the following week and will leave our house with your meals and plan in hand. The private classes would be on either a Sat. or Sun. and would be an extra cost due to the amount of work that it would entail on our part. Cost is still an issue that we are working out. Your input on this idea is welcome.

These make a fantastic snack by them selves and with the higher fat content they won’t require the addition of a carb source if you are looking to zone it. There is a ration of replacement of carb blocks with fat blocks and this fits within those ratios.

2 Hard Boiled Eggs
1/2 Avocado
1 tsp Hot Sauce (More or Less to taste)
1/2 tsp Lime Juice
Salt and Pepper to taste

Peel and halve the eggs, combine all ingredients except the egg whites in a bowl and mix thoroughly, Refill the egg Whites with the mixture and enjoy.