World’s Heaviest Man Loses Weight on Zone Diet
July 30, 2007 by Claire
Filed under Women's Health
This story has been in the news wires recently – Manuel Uribe, who was in the Guinness Book of World Records for World’s Heaviest Man (weighing over 1200 lbs) has lost over 400 pounds since he began the Zone diet a year ago.
The Zone diet is a controlled-calorie diet (ideally no meal over 500 calories, or snack over 100) that has a ratio of 40-30-30 of fats to carbs to protein. It’s considered a low-carb diet, even though carbs make up 30 percent, higher than on low-carb diets such as Atkins. It encourages eating fresh fruits and vegetables, plenty of protein, and monounsaturated fats (the kind that are good for your heart).
It’s no surprise to me that such a large amount of weight could be lost on a low-carb diet, particularly when he has so much to lose.
Uribe is working with a doctor who hopes to eventually bring his weight loss to 1,000 pounds. Amazing!
Do you have a weight loss success story? Post it in the comments!
Claire
(Image from Carbwire)
don’t you think he also could have lost a lot of weight on weight watchers, atkins, south beach, or ANY DIET on which he was consuming fewer calories?
Of course! But the particular diet he was on was the Zone, and I was just giving readers an idea of how it worked.
hi nice post, i enjoyed it
Thanks Deangelo!
Just to clarify – it looks like there’s a typo in your post. The Zone diet prescribes a 40:30:30 ratio where it’s 40% carbohydrate, 30% protein, 30% fat (not 30% carbohydrate as you mention).
i cant believe it