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 227 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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The best HEALTHY LIVING guide out there

I started the Abs Diet shortly after New Years. After a rough holiday season, and a year and a half of college eating nothing but junk, it took my body about a week to adjusting to eating healthy. Since then I have lost 35 pounds (it is now April 4), and packed on several pounds of muscle. This book is clear and consise, and offers a way to lose weight by being healthy rather than following some fad diet. The diet is easy to follow. I am rarely hungry and love the foods I eat. No matter what I am craving I can find a power food to meet my needs. I seriously recommend this book to anyone who wants to lose weight and start a healthy life.

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A Practical, Common Sense Diet with An Easy-To-Follow Plan

A Note About the Kindle Edition:
First off, I should say that I read the Amazon Kindle edition of this book and it's worth mentioning because there are a few typos and strangely formatted areas as it pertains to the version. For instance, the segments that highlight success stories seem to be broken up awkwardly in such a way that the segment text and chapter text, although clearly distinct, interrupt each other. Perhaps this works well in a book, where a reader can see two pages at once, but it's disruptive to the way things are read on the Kindle.

Thankfully, the errors are few and forgivable.

The Book:
When I first saw The Abs Diet, I thought to myself "great, another gimmicky diet. This one probably has you doing sit-ups every day or something until you have rock-hard abs," or some other silly, psuedo-science-based diet. Of course, being the always gullible overweight man that I am, I downloaded it right to my Kindle and tried to control my gut-instinct to place on top of the 4 ft. tall pile of diet books gathering dust in a corner of my house.

I would say a good portion of the book (around 90%) has nothing directly to do with the diet and is instead dedicated to the crazy state of our health in America, the devilish food manufacturers and their sneaky ways, why other diets just don't work, and why this one will (and there are many instances where Zinczenko is just repeating himself in case we didn't catch it the first three times); however, mixed into that is quite a lot of useful information, especially about food, nutrition, and the health benefits and ailments gained from eating the right and wrong stuff.

Thankfully, Zinczenko has a good wit about him and keeps things moving briskly. The only issue I had the book itself is that while the author cites dozens of studies, no citations to those studies are ever given (which is pretty common in diet books).

The Diet:
As for the diet itself, I am happy to say that it is not based on psuedo-science, as I feared. Much of what Zinczenko had to offer has been well-known for years, but Zinczenko has placed it all in a format that he hopes will be accessible to most if not everyone in the form of practicality. Gone are the days where cooking elaborate meals, counting every calorie you've consumed, or going hungry until you're next meal. Zinczenko's diet is based on the principle that says "if it's too hard, you won't do it."

The plan is two-fold, first there is the nutritional aspect. Zinczenko wants you to eat six times a day (three meals, three snacks) with foods based on what he calls the "ABS POWER 12" (capitalized because it's an acronym for the 12 food types that are really healthy to consume). He wants you to eat even if you're not hungry. To help maintain your sanity, the diet allows you to eat anything you want (a slice of pizza, deep fried chicken, etc.) for one meal a week.

The second part of the plan is the exercise. Yes, he wants you to exercise, but he doesn't want you to spend a lot of time doing it. Instead, three times a week he wants you to do a quickly paced circuit routine that focuses on building muscle (especially your abs). The routine usually doesn't last me more than 20 minutes to get through, and I'm a pretty slow poke when it comes to weightlifting. Also, don't worry about getting a membership at the gym (although it really helps), you can do all the recommended exercises with a pair of dumbbells and some steps.

That's all there is to it, exercise and eat right, and you've got the Abs Diet. Maybe you don't really need a book to tell you this, but if you're like me you'll appreciate having a plan to go with the principles.

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nothing new here

The abs diet does on bring anything new to those interested in a healthy lifestyle. Eat six times a day, nothing new with that statement. Eat nuts and healthy fats, nothing new here. I find the book to be a collection of common practices you can pick up in any health magazine today. For a healthy and active person I feel this book does not add any new or creative techniques to obtain a better body. I may be bias becouse I have subscribed to health magazines for many years now.

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