The Abs Diet: The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life

The Abs Diet: The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life | David Zinczenko, Ted Spiker | The first book that worked for me

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	The Abs Diet: The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life David Zinczenko, Ted Spiker Rodale Books, 2004 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 225 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

It's working!

I started to read this book at the beginning of March and I weighed 246 pounds (height: 6'5''). I've never been super fat but I don't remember seeing my stomach muscles since the 6th grade. I followed this book's principles pretty well. It is now May 12th and I weigh 227. More importantly, I feel better. This is not a gimmick diet. I'm not a huge fan of the title because it sounds superficial and the word diet doesn't do it justice. A lot of people lose weight but keep the same shape. This plan really helps you lose belly fat and it is practical enough that you can do it for life. I recommend this to everyone. I'm still a couple months away from seeing my abs but I'm still motivated.

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The first book that worked for me

This is truly the first diet/nutrition/exercise book that worked for me. I went from weighing 132 to 109. I first started in the fall of 2005 and now May of 2008 and I'm still at 109! There's no starvation because he encourages you to eat small meals often. He'll tell you the really bad stuff to avoid like high fructose corn syrup but none of the food you'll be eating will be voodoo/hard to find in the grocery store items. It's really about combining foods to keep you full (like apples + peanut butter)

I didn't follow the nutrition part to the T but I took the basic principles and applied it to myself. I really enjoyed the exercise plan and it made a big difference. Some people say the title is misnomer but honestly even though it's not just about abs, it's a comprehensive plan (how can you really only focus on just abs without strengthening and toning everything else?) and it only took a few weeks before i started seeing tone and definition in my abs. I highly recommend this book if you're looking to jumpstart your body.

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Changed My Life

My weight (& waistline) had always been a struggle for me. I had read other books about getting in shape, but I could never stick with them. Then I read this book, recommended to me by a co-worker, and it has changed my life forever.

What blew me away was the importance of what you eat. Sure, exercise is important, but think about it: you eat more times a day than you work out, so shouldn't you be paying just as much attention (if not more) to what you eat than going to the gym?

Other books I read stressed diet as well, but this book gave the WHY, not just the WHAT. And now, I do not look at food the way I used to. Foods I used to love, like pizza and fries, I now limit myself to them just once a week--if that.

I cannot recommend this book enough. I just hope it works you like it has for me. For me, it took three weeks before I began noticing the changes, so this is something you will need to be patient with; this is a marathon, not a sprint.

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Like this book needs another review...

I just finished reading this book, and I have to say this is unlike the other diets I'm familiar with -- it's actually something I can see working! I love eating, and the Abs Diet promotes even more of that to help raise your metabolism. The foods it suggests are quick and easy to prepare, and it gives you several recipes if you would like to get into that part of it.

What I like best is the simplicity and sensibleness of this program. I am a single mother and I don't usually take the time to take proper care of my health. There are simply too many other things that take priority over eating healthy, and spending 2 hrs every day preparing food. The author understands this and works with it. It takes a whole 45 seconds to make a smoothie, 10 seconds to grab a fruit and a handful of nuts, or about a minute to make a bowl of instant oatmeal. Eating often makes sense, eating healthier makes sense, and even the exercise program he suggests makes sense (tho I haven't gone that far yet).

I really like his approach, and I am anxious to see if I can actually make it work. If it does I will certainly plan to come back w/ an update and change this to a 5 star review.

PS. Oh, and one more thing.. I've been raving about the plan, but I really did enjoy David's writing style and odd names for his recipes as well.

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Very Good

I would really recommend it for eveybody.

it is not a diet, it is more of a lifestyle. So it is not about eating less like any other regular diet, it is about eating what's right.

I think the book looks too big! the concepts are easy and the author didn't need to repetitive!

buy only this book and one of its workout dvds, and do not bother buying the other abs diet books (same info over and over again!)

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