The Abs Diet: The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life
David Zinczenko
Language: English
Pages: 304
ISBN: 1594862168
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Great-looking abs are more than just a way to support the mirror industry. In fact, strong abs and flat stomachs are the ultimate indicator of overall health-for both men and women. Great abs will help you live longer, sleep better, prevent back pain, and significantly improve your sex life! (And, hey, they don't look half-bad in the mirror, either.) Unfortunately, you could spend years on starvation diets and extreme exercise programs that never unearth those elusive stomach muscles.
Or you could spend just six weeks with David Zinczenko, Editor-in-Chief of Men's Health magazine, on THE ABS DIET-an easy and effective program for everyone that is helping thousands of people lose weight, flatten their guts, banish post-pregnancy bellies, and become healthier than they ever thought possible.
What's more, once on this revolutionary new diet you'll look and feel better than ever without deprivation dieting, counting calories, measuring foods, worrying about confusing phases-or ever feeling hungry!
Sound impossible? Let David Zinczenko prove it to you. As editor-in-chief of the world's most important men's magazine, Zinczenko has devoted his career to helping people improve their lives through the latest and most well-researched health, nutrition, and exercise information available.
Now, in the national bestseller THE ABS DIET, Zinczenko reveals his infallible formula that works for both men and women:
- The ABS DIET POWER foods: the 12 best foods (all part of an easy-to-remember acronym) that will naturally boost your metabolism so that you can strip away fat, build muscle, and look and feel great for life. (Bonus: Many of the Abs Diet Powerfoods are even-gasp-carbs!)
- SIMPLICITY: This low-maintenance program is easy to follow because there are no scales, no phases, no calculus-like formulas to compute, and no recipes that take a culinary degree to make. (One of the secret weapons: Satiating smoothies.) In fact, many of the dozens and dozens of delicious meals you can make take no more than a few minutes to prepare!
- INCENTIVE: The plan never leaves you hungry. Instead, it encourages you to eat (a whopping six times a day!), stokes your metabolism, and even lets you cheat now and then.
ENERGY: Designed to help you build the lean muscle that and melt away that pesky belly fat, this full-body exercise program can be done at home in only 20 minutes, 3 times a week, with nothing more than a set of dumbbells!
- LONGEVITY: An easy-to-remember maintenance plan will help you maintain your flat stomach forever.
Thousands of people are on THE ABS DIET, which can help you lose up to 20 pounds in six weeks-all while gaining pounds of muscle!-because it's easy to follow and even easier to stick to. THE ABS DIET also describes some of the stories of people who went on the program and had amazing successes. In those cases, these people ended up changing their waistlines-and their lives.
THE ABS DIET is the best, last and only diet and nutrition plan that you will ever need.
Read about how low-carb diets are making you fat, about how the food industry is putting secret fat bombs in your favorite foods, and about how you can fight back. You'll find out why 95 percent of all diets fail, and why THE ABS DIET is different.
So how about joining on for a six-pack? Yours.
- 12 "superfoods" that will change your life.
- A simple maintenance plan to keep your abs from disappearing
Six weeks to superior strength and sexy symmetry every man-and woman! -lusts after. Men's Health can show you how.
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layer it with a couple of tablespoons of fat-free, sugar-free whipped topping. My life is all about smoothies now. It’s my snack of choice—really my meal of choice. If I could have a blender in my office, I’d have them three times a day.” Shea lost 19 pounds on the plan and now has made the Abs Diet his regular eating and nutritional plan as he strives for his goal of 165 pounds. “I look great, or so my wife tells me. My pants are much looser, and I need a new belt. I tuck in my shirts now. I
teaspoon of olive oil 1 tablespoon grated Parmesan cheese 1 tablespoon ground flaxseed 1. Chop the chicken into small pieces. 2. Mix all the ingredients together, and store in the fridge. Eat on multigrain bread or by itself. Makes 1 serving. Calories per serving: 248; Protein: 16 g; Carbs: 33 g; Fat: 8 g; Saturated fat: 2 g; Sodium: 875 mg; Fiber: 10 g Guilt-Free BLT (number of Powerfoods: 3) ¾ tablespoon fat-free mayonnaise 1 whole-wheat tortilla 2 slices turkey bacon, cooked
over to your right knee. 8 repetitions to each side [ Beginner to intermediate ] STICK CRUNCH Targets both the upper and lower abs Lie on your back, with your feet raised off the ground and your knees slightly bent. Hold a broomstick behind your head, with your arms extended and off the ground. Crunch your torso up, and draw your knees up so that the stick extends past your knees. Pause, then return to the starting position. 12 repetitions [ Intermediate ] BICYCLE Targets both the
(mcg) 58 Vitamin B1 (Thiamin) (mg) 0.40 Vitamin B6 (mg) 0.50 Folate (mcg) 116 Vitamin C (mg) 79 Vitamin E (mg) 2 Calcium (mg) 189 Magnesium (mg) 65 Potassium (mg) 548 Selenium (mcg) 23 Zinc (mg) 2 Plum (1) Vitamin A (mcg) 21 Vitamin B1 (Thiamin) (mg) 0.03 Vitamin B6 (mg) 0.05 Folate (mcg) 1.45 Vitamin C (mg) 6 Vitamin E (mg) 0 Calcium (mg) 3 Magnesium (mg) 5 Potassium (mg) 114 Selenium (mcg) 0.30 Zinc (mg) 0.07 Popcorn (1 cup) Vitamin A (mcg) 0.80 Vitamin B1 (Thiamin)
Grape Nuts Flakes cereal 17 Instant oatmeal 17 Rice cakes 17 Sweet potato 17 Total cereal 17 Brown rice 18 Fettuccine 18 Angel food cake 19 Cornflakes cereal 21 French fries 22 Jelly beans 22 Macaroni 22 Rice Krispies cereal 22 Couscous 23 Linguine 23 Long-grain rice 23 White rice 23 Bagel 25 Baked potato 26 Spaghetti 27 Raisins 28 Macaroni and cheese 32 Instant rice 36 Index BOLDFACE PAGE REFERENCES INDICATE PHOTOGRAPHS. UNDERSCORED REFERENCES INDICATE BOXED TEXT.