I can tell you after many years of zone, eventually it becomes second nature, and you don't have to be so OCD.

Performance-wise, I find it takes only one day of true zone eating to experience a marked performance increase: I tightened up my diet in preparation for the Master's event on Saturday and I easily rowed a 1:40 as my warm-up. It was quite surprising, and, I would say, a direct result of my sticking to meat, veg, fruit, egg, dairy, nuts, seeds and steel-cut oats the last few days. Steel-cut oats, by the way, are the only grain I really advocate. A real power food.

Great article Daniel. I like your saying at the end of your post. Fundamentally this is all about health and well being. I remember looking at CFOs site and they were plugging some women's book who did an interview, where she said that one should strive to be healthy before thinking about thinking about dieting and losing weight.

Mmmmmm... For breakfest I have 2/3 cup steel cut oats, cinnamon, a chopped up apple, and some almond butter for fats. Of course I have eggs with this ;o)

I am going to be dreaming about waking up tomorrow and eating this for myself.

"Show me someone with a 2x bodyweight deadlift and a sub-six mile, and I'll show you someone who looks good naked."

Well said. Anybody get a sub-six mile yesterday?

I ate meat, vegetables, fruit, egg, dairy, nuts, seeds and steel-cut oats the last few days. Yesterday, I rowed good 500m time. Therefore, a diet of meat, vegetables, fruit, eggs, dairy, nuts, seeds and steel-cut oats results in rapid improvements in athletic performance.

He ate meat, vegetables, fruit, egg, dairy, nuts, seeds and steel-cut oats the last few days. Yesterday, he struggled in a short metcon. Therefore, a diet of meat, vegetables, fruit, eggs, dairy, nuts, seeds and steel-cut oats rapidly reduces athletic performance.

While breakdown of either of the two statements makes for an interesting exercise philosophical taxonomy it does nothing to advance “fitness”. Examination of the above statements with basic philosophy principles exposes their lack of credibility; respectively, the above represent affirmation of the consequent and denial of the antecedent logical fallacies. There are some instances where I get great pleasure in calling out such reasoning. For instance for short durations I can enjoy picking apart for profit nutritional guidance (i.e. Sears, Taubes, Cordain, Wolff, et al); seriously, skim through their writing and play spot the formal fallacy. Their major works would serve as single source nearly comprehensive examples for a philosophy class.

I appreciate and enjoy Daniel’s writing in particular, his refrain in not using the same playbook of so many others; for instance, see the current post wherein he actually concisely posits non-exclusive advice without stating the caveat that comprehensive understanding of this exclusive knowledge will cost $150 per hour. It should be noted that although I consider your writing technique to be ideologically justifiable, you may want to consider taking a few plays from the charlatan gravy train if you really want to cash in on your work. That being said I look forward to the end of Zone Month as these days the reasoning commonly associated with such dieting makes me fly into a judgmental rage while puking in my mouth. I would like a return to my non-judgmental self and anyone that knows me is aware that I need to keep down all the calories I can.

In conclusion, apparently I look good naked. Recently, I have been consuming more than 2000 calories a day of 2 percent milk and protein powder. Therefore, everyone should consume more than 2000 calories of 2 percent milk and protein powder so you look good naked; like me.

Nice, the above screed contains multiple grammatical errors, a semicolon in three of five paragraphs, two semicolons in one paragraph, and general poorly tied-together bloviating. Clearly, the broken pelvis, head impact, and associated pants crapping resulted in brain damage. But hey, at least no uses my name synonymously with half-assing.