Hi everyone! So excited to have started on the Zone a week ago. I feel great.
I hope somebody can help me in regards to milk (skimmed) and how many cups is a block of protein? Also, I like to have Kashi Go Lean for breakfast so how much of it +mil+fat should I have to make a zone meal?

What about quinoa? I will search this one as it may have been mentioned already.
Thanks so much.
alexandra

Hi Everyone,

The previous post is an older one, but in case anyone else has the same questions, here are some answers.

1 cup of skim milk contains 1 P block and 1C block. Be sure to add an extra fat block for every block of skim milk (or other fat free protein)you eat).

Kashi cereals are not Zone favorable. A better choice would be Zone granola (either flavor) topped with milk or yogurt.

Quinoa is an unfavorable carbohydrate.

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Lost 100 lbs 15 yrs ago, off BP meds, thanks to
the Zone diet and Zone fish oil. ZoneFast 1-2-3 is the best!

Wow, Sue! You dug up a dinosaur!

Kashi Go Lean is not favorable, but it is balanced. Even though some of the carbs are not favorable carbs, there are some favorable grains mixed into the blend, as well.

In a 1 cup serving, there are 30g carb and 10g fiber, which nets out to 20g of insulin-stimulating carb. In addition, there's 13g of protein. This balance works out to 2 blocks of protein and carb. Add one cup of milk and toss on some sliced almonds, and this is a well balanced 3-block breakfast. So, that is 1 cup cereal, 1 cup milk, and 6 tsp of sliced almonds for a rounded 3-block meal.

As for hormonal control, I think that would have to be up to each individual. Myself, I find that this is a good satisfying breakfast. I don't eat it very often, but there are times in which I find it necessary to have a cold cereal.

Another cereal alternative is Zone Cereal, and it is available in stores (unlike most other zone products). Unfortunately, not widely available, but I have seen it.

Just out of interest, I thought I would google the glycemic load of Kashi Go Lean cereal to see what comes up. I didn't find it, but I did come across a thread on a message board/forum on livestrong.com where members were discussing Kashi Go Lean cereal.

There were a multitude of responses regarding how well people responded after eating Kashi Go Lean for breakfast. There was a comment from a diabetic who said that this cereal did not negatively impact her diabetic control at all.

Sometimes I think that diabetics are a really good measuring stick for glycemic control, since they have an impairment and have a ways/means to measure it. Most healthy adults would not notice a spike in blood sugar, but a diabetic definitely will.

Here's the link:
http://www.livestrong.com/forums/vi...&sk=t&sd=a

No digging necessary. It was highlighted in "Top Posts" (see right hand margin). :-)

That is crazy! How does this thread become a "top post" when there was only one post and no one responded to it until today?

I have tried clicking on some of those posts, but the links don't work for me.

I also noticed that quite a few of the posts in "top posts" are very old. Maybe that is why the links don't work for you Cran...I was checking the "top posts" only to be left disappointed and stopped checking this section out.