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The Abs Diet: The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life |  | Authors: David Zinczenko, Ted Spiker
Publisher: Rodale Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  237 reviews
Sales Rank: 4686
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.9
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.71
ASIN: B000RGSUK4
Publication Date: December 13, 2005
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Product Description
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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 I am a weight loss coach and I turn to this so much my book is dog-eared November 2, 2009
A. Chandler (Austin, TX)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While I was working on my Masters in Counseling I learned the phrase "It's not what you say but how you say it" and I think this book is a prime example of helping others make changes by saying it right, and backing it up with scientific proof.
As a weight loss coach myself I know that there has to be verbal keys that unlock whatever is holding someone back from making the changes they need to in their life to be healthy...but sometimes explanations fall on deaf ears that aren't ready for change. However, this book changed ME and how I help others. It is packed with proof, guidance, whys and hows and I can't imagine it not making a change for any reader.
I agree with the review that says don't get this in the Audio version. I have both a hard copy and a Kindle edition--the Kindle edition worked find but I prefer the hard copy because you do want to flip back and forth to the food groupings (you'll see what I mean when you read it) However, you can also do this by simply saving certain pages on your Kindle.
I recommend this book over the woman's edition...not enough changes in that one and this is just concise and clear.
I still limit caloric intake but if you pair that up with the way of eating that the abs diet goes into, you don't hit plateaus and your body works as a well-oiled machine to give you more energy and utilize fat stores for energy when you limit your caloric intake.
This is the healthiest way of getting fit and, ironically, a fast way to do it as well. It's not a good read you put down, for me it was a lifestyle change. Oddly, it had other effects aside from just healthy weight loss with no plateaus...my face has broken out since I was a teenager and I'm now 43. After just a few weeks of this style of eating I had flawless skin. When I moved into a new house and had no time to eat right, my old issues of lowered energy, skin breakouts etc. came back...as they have everytime since then that I've gone off track. I rarely do go off track, however...there just is not need to. This provides for excellent meals and healthy living for LIFE rather than just a short term interim diet.
Highly recommend.
 Haven't I read this before? September 5, 2009
Alain Moreau (Los Angeles, CA United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Caveat: I haven't read the book.
I HAVE reviewed the principles of this diet, however, on the Men's Health website. My initial reaction was that this seems to be a diet plan that was derived from the Oz / Roizen book, "You: On a Diet". So much of what this book recommends are the same as those that were outlined in very clear detail by Oz / Roizen, right down to the cheating and the use of nuts as an integral part of the program.
I must also add that having "six-pack abs" is indeed a function of desirable genetics, and a lack of belly fat. This book should help with the latter, but only providence could help the former. Admittedly, this book promises to help you flatten your belly - now THAT almost everyone can do.
Abs Diet book September 2, 2009
L. Johnson (wisconsin)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book was delivered in a timely manner and was in perfect condition. I would make a purchase again from this seller.
Awesome Abs Diet! August 28, 2009
Vance Baker (San Diego)
My son recommended this to me when I told him that I'd recently been diagnosed with Type II Diabetes. I took about a week to read it, and now I'm finishing up Week 2 of using the "diet." I've tried lots of diet/health plans over the years and yoyoed...badly. I found the book to be VERY WELL written and I find this program VERY easy to follow. I'm already feeling better. I highly recommend it!
Eat Less. August 28, 2009
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Book came fast and in great condition. Whether the diet book it self is good - well, eat less and exercise - and you will lose weight.
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