Can someone tell me if they can stay in the Zone eating greek yogurt? I've tried adding more fat, but that doesn't seem to help. I generally eat the berry or fruit variety (i.e. blueberry, peach, etc).

You should treat low-fat greek yougurt as your combined 1C + 1P block. Complete your snack by adding 1/2 tsp of peanut butter or 1 tsb of flaked almonds.

Jennifer, I would advise checking the label for added sugars. Flavored yogurts generally have a lot more unfavorable carbs added to the yogurt. That may be impacting your ability to stay in the Zone with these products. :)

I eat the 0% fat yogurt, and double (or have even tripled) the 1.5g of fat/block to try to compensate for the hunger factor. Someone suggested (on another site that I posted on) to try the plain variety and add my own fruit. I'll give it a try! Thanks so much for the input!

YW!

cranberrycat, that did the trick! I ate plain, greek yogurt this morning and mixed in some canned peaches. I still wasn't hungry at lunchtime, 4-5 hrs later!

Jennifer, be careful with yogurt + peaches. Yogurt already contains carbs from milk, in fact it is usually equal blocks of protein and carbs. So if you add extra fruit you should also be consuming extra amount of protein (e.g. mix appropriate amount of protein powder). And add appropriate fat blocks as well. My usual breakfast is a sort of smoothie made of yogurt, cottage cheese, protein powder, blacberries and 1/3 banana, spiced with cinnamon, turmeric an cacao and peanut batter as my fat content. It keeps my hunger in control for 5 hours until my lunch

Bozena, don't forget that Jennifer is using greek yogurt, and so the carb content is closer to the same as cottage cheese.

But, good point about the fat, in case Jennifer forgot to add it.

I am new this .........could you put down the measurement in cup or ozs.......for what you are having......
Would like to eat yogurt as a snack and then also have it as a meal.......
But don't know what measurements to use........thanks.

Claire.. You should look at a high quality greek yogurt as they have a higher level of protien. Use the http://www.zonediet.com/portals/0/r..._guide.pdf and feel free to contact our Zone coaches at 800-404-8171

Favorite snack is 1/2 cup frozen blueberries, just a 1/4 cup greek yogurt and 3 chopped up almonds. I look for the highest amount of protien in the yogurt.

Thanks for sharing! Love to have yogurt in morning!

currently my favorite snack is plain lowfat non-greek yogurt, a bit of homemade vanilla, a bit of chopped almonds, a dash of splenda, and a sprinkle of cinnamon. Yum. But I love the idea of getting greek yogurt so I can add some blueberries. My favorite smoothie is lowfat plain yogurt, frozen blueberries or strawberries, almonds and some splenda blended. but that was low in protein (I hate protein powder) It is like eating ice cream--not a drink at all, but something I have to spoon up to eat.Now I'll make it with greek yogurt.

Go for it!
Its been proven that Blueberries and Yogurt work synergistically (sic?) together.
Both work better than either alone or eaten separately.
I posted the info a while back, maybe last year.
If one wanted to do a search for the article with references.

One of my favorites is blueberries with cottage cheese, topped with almonds!

OK, so now I have a question regarding greek yogurt as well. If I am trying to make a one block snack (something quick and light before heading to the gym first thing in the morning), and I am using greek yogurt with 0g fat, 9 grams of carb and 23 grams of protein per 1 cup serving, would I use 1/2 cup yogurt, 1 tsp peanut or almond butter (because there is 0g of fat in the yogurt so I need to double the 1 block amount of fat) and then about a half block of fruit since carbs are on the low side (4.5g for half cup serving), or just call it close enough with the yogurt and peanut butter?

Thanks!

shouldn't it be 1/3 cup yogurt (ca 7g ~ 1 block P)? Top it up with blueberries (less than 1/2 cup) and peanut butter or almonds

Mary,
I would agree with Bozena, you would use 1/3 cup of the Greek Yogurt, and you would have about 3g of carb in that serving. Then, there is room to add just about a block of carb (and your fat, of course).

Ahh, OK. I was using the block guide which says 1/2 cup plain yogurt is a 1 block mixed serving of protein and carbs. I guess that is not correct since the protein content is so high?

Yeah, Greek Yogurt is not the same as plain yogurt, because the nutrient make-up is balanced differently.

If a product comes with a label, I use the label to calculate from

So a one cup serving would be 3 protein blocks and approx one carb block. So for a 3 block meal, you would add 2 blocks carb and 3 blocks fat, right? This is often my breakfast and I like to do a 3 block breakfast. This allows just enough blueberries and 9 almonds chopped up. Add vanilla, cinnamon, maybe a tiny splenda, and you have yourself a meal.

Sounds right to me, just remember to double the fat if the greek yogurt is fat free (so, 18 almonds, chopped up).

Unflavored is great stuff, just watch the unfavorable carbs in the flavored varieties!

Wanted to add my 2cents on Greek yogurt! I eat it everyday! I was searching trying to find how much non-fat greek yogurt equals how many blocks.
I use greek yogurt and add ranch seasoning to it and use it as a veggie dip. So the greek yogurt is my protein and 2 carb then I eat celery and baby carrots with it as my other carbs. Now I'm just going to hvae to remember to start adding fat. (Getting back on the zone diet!) But greek yogurt is a great, light, quick protein. I Love it! I use it in place of sour cream on anything.

Read the label every brand and/or product us a bit different.
Just read the amount of Protein per serving and equate to the size of your serving, then divide the Protein grams by 7 and you'll have your number of blocks.