Product DescriptionGreat-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.
What Others Say
THE REAL DEAL!!!
After years of yo-yo weight loss/gain through my 20's, I managed to drop 40 lbs last year on Weight Watchers Online. It taught me proper portion control (more on that in a min). By April of this year I had hit a serious plateau with my weight loss, and even 6 days/wk of exercise and what I thought was careful eating could not shake it (P90X workout by the way, you KNOW that is some stubborn fat!!). Then I picked up The Abs Diet: The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life...
I am just shy of 2 weeks into this program and I am down 5 lbs!! I feel like a million bucks, and I can tell its very close to habit by now to eat in accordance with these guidelines. If I haven't eaten in the last 2 to 3 hrs, I can now FEEL my body telling me to refuel. I look forward to going ... Read More
Refreshingly for MEN
I'm getting back in my fitness kick so I figured I'd add The Abs Diet: The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life while I was at it. I'm going through the Abs Diet book right now, I read this several months ago and it has some pretty good stuff in it. Being the editor in chief of Men's Health magazine, he's seen a bunch of diets, seen a ton of different workouts, so David Zincsenko decided to put together things that work really well to make his own system: The Abs Diet.
The thing about diet books is that they don't really tell you much more than what you probably already know: eat less, more frequent meals. Stay away from high fat and high sugar food. Excercise frequently. Drink a lot of water, eat a lot of fiber and protein. You'll find these suggestions here too but the difference ... Read More
Good advice, but maybe not enough for a true "6 pack"
A lot of the advice is good, but I found that I already knew and was implementing over half of it already (such as eat multiple small meals per day). The book is too wordy for its content. Also, it is more geared towards people who are overweight, instead of people who are fit but just want to become more fit. It would work better for those people b/c they are not following some things which people who are fit are already doing (weight training and cardio, eat protein, eat fiber, etc).
Lastly, he never discusses the timing of cardio and timing of weight lifting as it relates to eating, other than to say you should eat protein after weight lifting, which everyone knows. Should you eat anything before weight lifting or before cardio? Never ... Read More
Worked for me!
I love the eating plan outlined in the Abs Diet book. I have relied on Jillian Michaels for the exercise parts of my weight loss plan, but the diet plan in her Making the Cut book was way too restrictive for me. It left me feeling hungry and wanting to cheat. I have always been way too attached to counting calories and relying on the number on the scale to feel good about myself. Diet plans that focus on calorie intake are detrimental to me because I continually want to try to eat fewer and fewer calories and I end up eating more instead. With the Abs Diet, I completely let go of counting calories. I combined this diet with Jillian Michaels' workout videos (30 Day Shred, Banish Fat and Boost Metabolism, and No More Trouble Zones) and I lost 25 pounds.
Great Book
This was a fantastic book. I don't like to call it a diet because it's really more of a lifestyle change.
What's great? The recipes and what to eat and how to eat.
What's even better? The excercises.
Why is The Abs Diet: The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life important? Diet alone is not good enough. The wrong excercise are good, but will not get you there. Follow this program and you'll be amazed.
My biggest problem is my spare tire... I don't need to focus on arms and legs, those are easy to build up. I also had no idea how much strength one can generate from their core. Understand that and you will do everything better - from sports to sex.
PS - You'll be amazed how tasty and filling protein shakes are. Speaking of which, ... Read More
