Dieter John Z Succeeds on Plan Z

Plan Z, the Diet by Zola, is a plan for people who have tried everything from Atkins to Weight Watchers. Like John Z, a dieter from Madison, WI. John sent Zola his pictures and dieting records. Here’s his story in his own words:

John Z Signs Up for Plan Z

“I joined the Zola diet after hearing radio host Mitch Henck talk about it for nearly two years. I joined out of desperation. I had been diabetic for three years. My doctor told me last fall that I should start insulin shots.

"I was desperate when I contacted Plan Z by Zola. I was also skeptical."

First, I tried dieting on my own following what the diabetic nurse told me to do. That was useless. Then, I joined Weight Watchers, which turned out to be twice as useless. Next, I tried a ten week “extreme” kickboxing club and followed their diet. Get this, I beat myself up six days a week for ten weeks and gained four pounds. I felt better, but all my numbers got worse.

So I really had nothing to lose by joining Zola.

Using the ZR50 Reduction Spray was easy. Not exercising was even easier. I started Plan Z on June 24, 2011. I weighed 233 pounds and my waking blood sugar read between 150 and 160. The first two days are “binge” days so my numbers went up of course.

However, on Day 6 of the diet, my waking blood sugar dropped into the 140s.  On Day 9 I woke up and it was under 100. I stopped my diabetes medication altogether on that day. The numbers continued down until I woke up in the 80s and 90s, which is a normal level.

Think about it:  I went from taking maximum doses of metformin and glipizide to zero—no medication at all—in 9 days.

When I started Plan Z by Zola I was simply to stave off having to take insulin shots but here I was 9 days into the Plan Z on zero medication.

Needless to say, I was hooked.

Three weeks into the diet, my mother saw me couldn’t believe my quick results. Within two hours she was on the phone with Plan Z ordering the diet. At age 73, Mom lost 17 pounds after years of trying things like Weight Watchers and TOPS.

"Here I've dropped to 201# from 233 in 40 days. I'm not smiling because I'm not finished. But I am glad I found Plan Z by Zola."

Back to my story. Remember, I started on June 24th and I have done two ZReduction cycles. That means I have actually reduced for 74 days between late June and November 9th.  I weighed 233# on June 24th and was down to 201# in 40 days. I started my 2nd ZREduction on September 21st at 206# having kept within two or three pounds of my low weight until binging again.

On  November 9th, I weighed  188# and I am stabilized there. Like Zola says, the closer you get to your goal, the slower the weight comes off. But even so I lost 45# (19% of my body weight) in four short months!

"For the first time in years, I won't be making a New Year's Resolution to lose weight. I'm at my goal of 187 pounds."

And yes, I am still completely off all diabetic medications. They tell you when you start that 60% of the value of Plan Z by Zola is the education you receive. They teach  you how to keep the weight off as it’s melting way.  I have learned an immense amount about food, the food industry, the diet industry, and the powerful role of hormones in weight gain and loss.

For me, insulin control has been the key to my success. I’ve learned that insulin not only has a role in lowering blood sugar, but also that it’s the hormone that tell our bodies to store excess sugar in the blood as fat.

Without that knowledge, losing weight is extremely difficult. Plan Z by Zola promised to connect me to new information. And boy did they ever. And now, I’m angry about all the misinformation out there about food. For most of my 49 years, I lived the low-fat, high-carbohydrate lifestyle. It was that diet, recommended by the so-called “experts” that made me fat, depressed, and diabetic.

When my friends would order eggs benedict, I would order one plain boiled egg with six pieces of dry toast. When my friends drank egg nog, I drank beer. The whole idea was to avoid fat and replace those calories with carbohydrates. I would even eat extra spaghetti and skip the meatballs!

You see I followed the common wisdom and like so many Americans I got fatter, more depressed and diabetic.

Bad advice is everywhere

The diabetic nurse told me to eat 45-60 grams of carbohydrates at every meal. Now that’s 240 grams a day.

The crazy kickboxing diet was six small meals a day–protein the size of your palm and carbohydrates the size of your fist. I argued that it was way too many carbs a diabetic. They assured me, ”Don’t worry, your body will use them.”

And don’t get me started on Weight Watchers. Their  Weight meetings work like AA . You discuss food for forty five minutes and then the salesperson tells you to buy their special low fat, high carbohydrate food.

I followed the low-fat high-carbohydrate formula for years, so I have it down cold. Want to lose weight?

  • Eat a baked potato (no butter)  before bed.
  • Cheerios for breakfast.
  • Three glasses of skim milk per day.
  • Snack on granola bars with a handful of raisins

When my stepfather got his diabetes diagnosis, the doc prescribed Cheerios and half a banana for breakfast. Insanity.

How could a smart guy like me have gotten it so wrong?

Before Plan Z by Zola, I skipped the fat and felt holier than thou. Now I can see that all of those carbs were causing my insulin to skyrocket and then come crashing back to earth.

The Plan Z by Zola educational component exposed me to new ideas that quite frankly I did not believe. At first. It took 4-1/2 month, a forty-five pound weight loss and my new found ability to eat 3000 calories a day an maintain my weight loss.

Today, I’m a believer.

Why don’t you just go ahead and call me a Plan Z by Zola Zealot, because that pretty much describes how I feel.

Here’s what I believe today that I would never have suspected before:

  1. The USDA is not a trustworthy source of information on food, nutrition and diet. It’s mission is to sell our country’s commodities. Think it through: The food that stores the easiest and longest is carbohydrates. The most profitable food is carbohydrate: Food processors can take ten cents worth of wheat or corn and with 50-cents worth of processing make and sell a $4 box of cereal.
  2. Insulin control is vital.  You get hungry when your insulin level drops. So keeping it low to begin automatically controls your hunger. And Plan Z’s emphasis on whole foods means that insulin levels stay down naturally eliminating my need for medication. As you recall that was one of my goals.
  3. The conventional wisdom about about fat and cholesterol is just plain wrong. The fastest way to fatten a pig (and a person) is to feed it corn.
  4. The Japanese know how to make a man fat enough to be a Sumo wrestler. I finally connected the dots. Skip breakfast. Work out hard all day. Eat an unlimited amount of rice and beer for dinner. It’s a low fat diet that creates very fat men.
  5. Exercise is not the key to weight loss. I tried the exercise it off route and it failed. Exercise can improve your mood, increase your bone density and muscle mass, too. All good things. But exercise also increases your appetite. It was counterintuitive to quit exercising while trying to lose weight, but it worked.
  6. Your body will regulate its weight as long as you feed it the right calories. Here I am down 45 pounds and and maintaining that incredible and incredibly healthy weight loss. But I’m eating MORE calories every day than I have in years—3000 calories a day. And my weight is stable. How can that be?  My brain (my hypothalamus) gave me a set new point at 3000 calories with my very low insulin level. Turns out that cutting back calories and eating a low-fat, high carbohydrate diet is what made me fat in the first place. And kept me hungry, depressed and diabetic again.

So you see Plan Z by Zola has transformed my body and my brain just like they said they would on their website www.planzdiet.com

By the way, I’m a lawyer by profession. The very first time I spoke with Zola I demanded the Skeptics Guarantee figuring I would try the plan for 9 days and fail. I only took me four days to come to the conclusion that everything Zola promised was true.

Plan Z by Zola is real. It changed my life. And it was easy. I enjoyed my ZReduction phases. I was never hungry. I was one of those who didn’t want it to end. But the ZReboot phase is fun, too. I am shocked at how much I can eat. I can eat steaks and hearty soups, peanut butter, eggs and cheese, anything I want actually without fear of gaining back the weight.

I am over oatmeal, Cheerios and toast.

My doctor is on board with it too.”

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