You have your ZOE results - what’s next?
Receiving results is an exciting milestone in your ZOE journey, these give you a personalized understanding of how your body responds to food, helping you make informed choices to support your overall health.
When your results arrive, your app looks quite different and many new features are unlocked. There's a lot of information to 'digest', so taking your time and reading through everything at your own pace is a great approach.
Getting your ZOE results can feel like a lot at first, but the Foundations Program is designed to help you get started with confidence. You'll find it in the Home tab, where you'll learn the fundamentals of ZOE: improving your diet quality using your personalized scores, mastering balanced eating principles, and creating sustainable habits to help you feel your best every day.
Metabolic results
When you receive your blood sugar and blood fat results, you can search for different foods and see how they score for you, try logging some meals and days and take a look at your meal and day scores from when you logged during testing.
You can browse through lists of foods in Food > Browse foods and search for recipes in Browse meals and elsewhere in the Food tab - all foods are scored for you, and based on your unique biology.
Microbiome results
When your microbiome results are ready, you can view your gut boosters and gut suppressors. You can learn more in this article: Gut boosters and suppressors.
Tips to get started
Take your time - read through your results and familiarize yourself with the app.
Make small changes - these are often more sustainable in the long term.
Focus on what to add - Start with adding a few 50+ scoring foods to your usual meals, such as more vegetables or beans. Increase variety by trying new plants such as pearl barley or bulgur wheat.
Don’t avoid all lower scoring foods - some foods with lower scores can be nutritious, and a valuable part of our diet. Instead of avoiding lower scoring foods altogether, combine them with other high scoring foods to form balanced meals.
Honor your hunger and fullness cues - Eat when you’re hungry and stop when you’re comfortably full.
Check out the Improve tab - If you think you’ve mastered all of the above, take a look at the Improve tab to find a new area of your diet to focus on. Remember, only work on one thing at a time.
Receiving your ZOE results marks the beginning of your personalized health journey. Your Foundations Program will guide you through each step, focusing on gradual, sustainable changes. As you progress, you’ll learn how to incorporate higher-scoring foods, build balanced meals and establish new habits, empowering you to make smarter food choices to improve your overall health.