The Diet You Enjoy Rather Than Endure

The Diet You Enjoy Rather Than Endure

By: Chris Lytle
VP of Anger Management
Plan Z Diet




I have been married to Zola for almost 30 years. I have seen her endure a variety of diets; even extreme ones. The Plan Z Diet is a diet you can enjoy rather than endure.

I have the privilege of taste-testing all of the dishes Zola creates for each phase of the diet. Since there are more than 800 recipes on the Plan Z Works site, I enjoy a much wider variety of foods than the average dieter.

I also get to interview successful dieters for our 2nd Tuesday call. The most successful dieters always have several favorite go-to recipes from ZReduction and they continue enjoying an occasional ZReduction meal even as they “graduate” into ZLife.

On the other hand, we occasionally hear about a client who doesn’t like to eat vegetables and won’t eat fish. These kinds of dieters “endure” the Plan Z Diet until they can get back to their old favorite foods—and sometimes they gain weight back. It’s inevitable if that is to be their approach.

These are the folks who go through the whole 50 days eating a few of the foods on the list and never enjoy the amazing variety available to them. One lawyer ate lunch at Subway every day and had a chicken breast on top of Subway vegetable.

It worked. He lost weight.

But there is a larger point.


The Plan Z Diet can actually expand your eating horizons rather than limit them.

The way it works at our house on the Plan Z Diet is Zola asks me, “What kind of style of food would you like for dinner?”

One day, I might say Tex-Mex. Another day I might have a hankering for French Bistro. The next night it could be Indian food. Then Zola creates a meal from there.

I have always enjoyed being her sous chef. In that role, I prep vegetables or work on the side dishes while Zola prepares the more elaborate main course.

Cooking is Zola’s “thing.” She enjoys the process of throwing a dinner party. She enjoys “Zolafying” or making our clients’ favorite recipes Plan Z Diet ready so they can enjoy them on ZReduction or ZReboot.

If you look at cooking as a chore or another thing to get done so you can do all of your other work, it will make the diet more difficult to enjoy.

Maybe you can enlist your family members in the project of putting a meal together instead of doing it for them and hoping they like it.

Eating simple-to-prepare, delicious meals every meal makes the Plan Z Diet by Zola, an enjoyable adventure instead of another diet endurance test.
Stay Angry My Friend,

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