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The Abs Diet
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The Abs diet is more than just a diet plan for what to eat and when, but has taken the whole thing a step further and added a new flavour and set of rules to follow that are intended to achieve more than just weight loss, but muscles and Abs to too. Just as you thought you had seen how every different plan uses food and diet to manipulate the body, this one comes along and adds even more to the equation. You better brace yourself for the calorie busting muscle building exercises that complement the eating plan. |
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The idea is fairly simple, the body has to expend energy in order to keep the muscles and internal organs alive and in shape. This means that every addition to the muscle mass will force the body to spend more energy. Therefore, instead of lowering the daily food intake in order to lose weight, this diet focuses on increasing the “energy bill” above the normal level. The extra muscle mass is supposed to absorb all the calories that would otherwise be stored as fat and also force the body to burn existing fat in order to keep up with the effort.
Every 1 pound of muscle added to the body costs the body 50 calories per day on top of everything else. It’s pretty easy to see that 10 pounds of muscle are going to keep busy 500 calories of your daily intake every single day. This is enough to make you lose 1 pound per week, which is not bad at all. It’s interesting to notice that the diet is based on achieving a snowball effect: the more you exercise, the more muscle you put on; the more muscle you put on, the faster you lose weight, which allows you to exercise harder and lose even more weight. Once you get the snowball rolling it will turn into an avalanche on its own.
The food users are allowed to eat consists of 12 nutrient-rich power foods. These are supposed to provide all the minerals, vitamins and fiber your body needs to stay healthy over the six weeks of dieting. The 12 foods are: beans and peas, spinach and a couple of other green vegetables, almonds, instant hot oat cereal, wholegrain breads and cereals, berries, eggs, low-fat dairy products, lean meats (such as turkey), peanut butter, olive oil and protein powder. All other foods are to be shunned during the diet.
Verdict
Both the food and diet side of the plan, coupled with the extensive exercise and muscle building part must be fulfilled for success with the Abs Diet. It therefore requires a lot more time and energy than most plans, so it is only for those with real dedication to get to that gym, pump that iron and do the required muscle building exercises that in turn destroy those calories. For this reason, vast numbers of people will drop off this regime. For those that can follow it through it will result in more than just weight loss, ending up with the body and Abs to die for. If you want to try this plan, you better go and renew your gym membersip!!!
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