Unlike most diet plans, which are laden with complex, hard-to-follow rules and verboten foods you love but have to live without, the Abs Diet lets you eat the foods you love, keeps your cravings at bay, and helps you control stress -- all at the same time. Here's an example of how you can structure a week of eating. It's not written in stone, by any means: Mix up the meals. Substitute whenever you want. Heck, I don't care if you eat the same thing every day for a week. The purpose of this chart is simply to show you how to follow the principles of the Abs Diet. So enjoy!
Breakfast
One tall glass (8 to 12 ounces) Abs Diet Ultimate Power Smoothie; make extra for later
Abs Diet Ultimate Power Smoothie
1 cup 1% milk
2 tablespoons low-fat vanilla yogurt
¾ cup instant oatmeal, nuked in water
2 teaspoons peanut butter
2 teaspoons chocolate whey powder
6 ice cubes, crushed
Makes 2 8-ounce servings
Per serving: 220 calories, 12 g protein, 29 g carbohydrates, 4 g fat (1.5 g saturated), 3 g fiber, 118 mg sodium
Snack #1
2 teaspoons peanut butter, raw vegetables (as much as you want)
Lunch
Turkey or roast beef sandwich on whole-grain bread, 1 cup 1% or fat-free milk, 1 apple
Snack #2
1 ounce almonds, 1½ cups berries
Dinner
Mas Macho Meatballs
1 pound extra-lean ground beef
½ cup crushed saltine crackers
1 large onion, diced
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tablespoon ground flaxseed or whey powder
1 jar (16 ounces) tomato sauce
4 whole-wheat hoagie rolls
½ cup reduced-fat mozzarella cheese, shredded
1. Mix the beef, crackers, onion, garlic, and flaxseed or whey powder into golf ball-size meatballs.
2. In a nonstick skillet over medium heat, cook the meatballs until browned all the way around. Drain the fat from the skillet, and add the tomato sauce.
3. While the mixture is warming, use a fork to scoop out some of the bread in the rolls to form shallow trenches. Spoon the meatballs and sauce into each trench, and sprinkle with shredded mozzarella, and top with the top half of the roll.
Makes 4 servings
Per serving: 569 calories, 38 g protein, 65 g carbohydrates, 19 g fat (6 g saturated), 10 g fiber, 1,341 mg sodium
Stop dieting or starving yourself. Eat the foods you like to get those six pack abs - we reveal delicious foods that also burn fat. Click here to find out how.
The Fastest Way To Get Abs - It only takes know how!
Getting ripped abs doesn't have to be hard - it just takes knowhow.
So for most of us, getting ripped abs isn’t exactly easy. It does take a lot of work. But if you think the answer is doing a bunch of abs exercises day after day, then you are pretty far off base. The problem might well be that you are doing TOO MUCH – of the wrong things.
In fact, it might be said that getting six pack abs is 2/3 lifestyle choices and 1/3 exercise. Why is this the case? Because you can do all the abs exercises you want for month after month, and still not see a six pack. Of course, you might well have already tried this and failed.
So why don’t abs exercises work, and since they don’t seem effective, why do so many otherwise reasonable personal trainers and self-proclaimed fitness experts recommend them?
The answer lies partly in a lack of research and partly in the fact that abs operate differently from most other muscles in the body. The main difference is that they tend to get covered over is a layer of fat that totally hides them.
Burning off this fat is the real key to getting ripped abs and getting toned.
But how do you burn that fat? Is the answer in running, elliptical trainers, and other aerobic exercise? Surely these all must burn calories and by extension burn fat, right?
Strangely enough, while they most certainly burn calories, recent studies have shown that they are all but ineffective in reducing abdominal fat. Why? Because when you run, your appetite increases, you eat more, and you end up doing as much harm as good.
Surprisingly, even lifting weights isn’t as effective in reducing fat as once believed. The reason is that, metabolically, muscle simply isn’t a huge player. Compared to the brain, G/I organs, and liver, muscle burns a small fraction of your overall caloric intake. So adding muscle helps, but likely not enough to get a six pack.
No, to get ripped abs, you need to change your diet. The best plans I have used so far are all low carb plans. And recent studies bear this out. Eating low carb has now been around for decades, far too long to call it a fad. And the studies are piling up, showing it helps to reduce fat, improve blood lipids, and keep off fat over the long run.
So to get a six pack, you have to cut the carbs, especially if you want to build muscle and get totally ripped.
Stop dieting or starving yourself. Eat the foods you like to get those six pack abs - we reveal delicious foods that also burn fat. Click here to find out how.
So for most of us, getting ripped abs isn’t exactly easy. It does take a lot of work. But if you think the answer is doing a bunch of abs exercises day after day, then you are pretty far off base. The problem might well be that you are doing TOO MUCH – of the wrong things.
In fact, it might be said that getting six pack abs is 2/3 lifestyle choices and 1/3 exercise. Why is this the case? Because you can do all the abs exercises you want for month after month, and still not see a six pack. Of course, you might well have already tried this and failed.
So why don’t abs exercises work, and since they don’t seem effective, why do so many otherwise reasonable personal trainers and self-proclaimed fitness experts recommend them?
The answer lies partly in a lack of research and partly in the fact that abs operate differently from most other muscles in the body. The main difference is that they tend to get covered over is a layer of fat that totally hides them.
Burning off this fat is the real key to getting ripped abs and getting toned.
But how do you burn that fat? Is the answer in running, elliptical trainers, and other aerobic exercise? Surely these all must burn calories and by extension burn fat, right?
Strangely enough, while they most certainly burn calories, recent studies have shown that they are all but ineffective in reducing abdominal fat. Why? Because when you run, your appetite increases, you eat more, and you end up doing as much harm as good.
Surprisingly, even lifting weights isn’t as effective in reducing fat as once believed. The reason is that, metabolically, muscle simply isn’t a huge player. Compared to the brain, G/I organs, and liver, muscle burns a small fraction of your overall caloric intake. So adding muscle helps, but likely not enough to get a six pack.
No, to get ripped abs, you need to change your diet. The best plans I have used so far are all low carb plans. And recent studies bear this out. Eating low carb has now been around for decades, far too long to call it a fad. And the studies are piling up, showing it helps to reduce fat, improve blood lipids, and keep off fat over the long run.
So to get a six pack, you have to cut the carbs, especially if you want to build muscle and get totally ripped.
Stop dieting or starving yourself. Eat the foods you like to get those six pack abs - we reveal delicious foods that also burn fat. Click here to find out how.
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