The Zone diet allowed me to lose weight. I felt more alert mentally and physically and really happy with my meals. This diet emphasizes proportioning your food. It maintains that the right proportions of food encourage the production of eichasonoids (link to eichasonoids), which really balance out the rest of the body with respect to blood sugar, energy, mental focus and so on.
The caloric ratio of every meal should be 30% fat, 30% protein, and 40% carbohydrates. You are not counting calories but rather zone blocks. This method of counting is fairly easy to use. A necessary part of figuring the size of a zone block would be to calculate your body mass (link to body mass calculation and how to determine the right amount of protein). This allows you to figure out exactly how grams of fat, protein, and carbohydrates you should consume. Once have this information, counting blocks is quite easy.
Over time you become quite aware of how many zone blocks a particular food or meal would be. So it does involve some counting, which is not that hard and I think the benefits are well worth it. They definitely were for me. So, the Zone diet is my favourite diet and it definitely has produced the most results, all of which have been beneficial. I have been able to quite easily maintain my ideal weight without feeling so restricted and by allowing delicious meals.