Sean is a friend of mine, an excellent triathlete. One February evening in 1996 he described his new "Zone diet" to me. He flaunted how little he was eating yet how much energy he had. His enthused account convinced me to read the first Zone book: Enter the Zone. I did so within a week, started immediately, and within another I was hooked for life.
I thought I ate quite well before, I didn't need to lose weight, neither did Sean. I thought my constant hunger and my afternoon drowsiness and my common common colds and headaches were all merely symptoms of my active twenty two year old lifestyle. But straight away it was obvious that all the cereal and pasta and bread and orange juice that I loved to stuff myself with were the real culprits. Straight away it was clear just how bad my diet really was.
So my Zone crusade began.
For two years I preached to family and friends, all the while becoming more frustrated with the nutritional advice we receive and the health problems that result. My need to get the message out grew till eventually I decided to leave my job and start teaching and preaching the Zone professionally.
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