hi
can any one tell me if there is a way to incorperate CHOCOLATE into the diet,and also what us UK ers call crisps ( americans say fries )we have may low fat crisps on the market now ,and is there an up to date version of all the fruits and veggies that are favourable ????? there are so many fruits that have not been added to the books ie BILBERRIES ,SHARON FRUIT , MANGO AND MANY more .i do have a couple of the books ,both have the same lists in them ,and i have also looked on here,so perhaps dr sears could do more listd for us to give us even greater variety
thanks
lynn
ps
why do we have to drink so much water ????

We have been zoning about a month (bf & I) and really hitting it with favorable items, but he loves choclate syrup, so today I made a zoned version:

2oz unsweetened choclate melted over very low heat. Add 1/4 cup of 1% lowfat milk & 3 TBSP of Agave Nectar (recommended in the books-a little hard to find but SO GOOD!). Melt choclate add milk slowly and keep stirring until smooth, add agave nectar. Makes a little over 1/2 a cup, so we got 1 1/2 tablespoons for 1 carb block and put it over a cup of raspberries for dessert. Yummm. We had LOTS of veggies for our other carbs, so it was a special treat.

PS He has lost 10 lbs, I'm behind with only 4 (I have a lot more to go too). I also travel a lot for work which makes it harder, but we feel SO GOOD it is hard to imagine going back to eating junk.

Chocolate, love it!

Here's how I fit it in:

Zone Bars (chocolate fudge and chocolate raspberry!)

Chocolate Zone shakes

chocolate soy milk (West Soy Unsweetened Cocolate has moslty no insulin stimulating carb...great poured over Zone Cereal!)

Dagoba's higher cocoa content bars (their best varieties for low carb and good taste: Ecilpse, New Moon and Xocolatl)

raw cocoa powder (put it in my breakfast smoothie)

Belgian Chocolate gelato from the gelato bar at Whole Foods

thanks
to both of you , i never thought of soy milk and we can get that here , as for the zone bars yes i saw those on the site here ,and i am going to get some when i come back from hols , i also found whey protien in different flavours ,including chocolate so went and got it ,and now i can have my chocolate smoothies ,
thanks again
lynn

I did the zone a few years ago, tried weight wathchers for a while and now I'm back! I love the zone bars b/c they're a treat and snack all in one. I forgot how many blocks the zone bars are. Can you help??
Thanks, Katie

Hi Katie!

I love them, too! They're delicious, aren't they?

One Zone Labs bar contains 2 fully balanced blocks of P, C, and F. 1/2 bar is a 1 block snack, 1 1/2 bars for a 3 block meal, 2 bars for a 4 block meal.