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| The Abs Diet Eat Right Every Time Guide | 
 enlarge | Authors: David Zinczenko, Ted Spiker
Publisher: Rodale Books
Category: Book
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Pages: 176
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Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 1594862389
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.2
EAN: 9781594862380
ASIN: 1594862389
Publication Date: January 5, 2005
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Amazon.com Review
A portable companion to the larger Abs Diet: The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life, this friendly little guide fulfills several purposes. First, The Abs Diet Eat Right Every Time Guide condenses the "power foods" recommended by the diet--a nutritionally sound mix of lean proteins, whole grains, fresh vegetables, fruit and monounsaturated fats--into easy-to-read lists that will help with daily purchasing habits. Second, a number of "Abs Diet Endorsements" are included to help you make proper food choices, even if you're grabbing lunch from a vending machine or food court. Lastly, it offers up a tidy handful of new recipes for wraps, snacks and smoothies along with a short-n-sweet workout. In other words, it supplies everything you need from a diet book to manage the diet on a day-to-day basis. The casual hanging-with-the-boys style could be your favorite thing about it, or what drives you crazy. Phrases like "Skipping breakfast is like arguing with the cops; there's absolutely nothing good that can come out of it" can either help reinforce the basics or just make you want to get far, far away from the rest of the jokes, such as, "Oatmeal is the Bo Derek of your pantry--it's a perfect 10". The ultimate goal is uncovering your own six pack, and benefits like lower blood pressure seem less important than waist size. There's something to be said for to-the-point surface goals, but your attitude about image will likely determine your attitude about the book's usefulness. --Jill Lightner
Product Description
Smart Eating Choices – Made Simple!
TENS OF THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS HAVE CHANGED THEIR BODIES – AND THEIR LIVES – with the help of The Abs Diet, the New York Times bestseller from David Zinczenko, editor-in-chief of Men’s Health magazine.
The principles of The Abs Diet are simple: Eat more healthy food – six delicious meals a day – and crowd out the bad stuff that’s making you fat. The Abs Diet has been proven to strip off 10, 15, even 20 pounds of flab – from your belly first – in six weeks or less.
Now, Zinczenko makes eating smart and healthy easy with this eye opening portable weight-loss manual, THE ABS DIET EAT RIGHT EVERY TIME GUIDE. This on-the-go guide pinpoints the foods you should choose to burn away belly fat no matter where you are – at home, in the supermarket, even at the fast-food counter. And it reveals the hidden killers that are adding inches to your waistline and taking years off your life!
Discover these amazing weight-loss secrets:
Should you toast a bagel or an English muffin? Did you know that making the wrong choice will cost you 150 extra calories?
What’s healthier – a bean burrito or a taco salad? Would you believe the healthy salad will pile 130 more calories onto your plate?
Which will make you fatter – a Whopper or a Big Mac? You’ll be stunned to discover the shocking truth!
Learn why a hot fudge sundae is a treat you should eat, why potato chips are better for you than french fries, and why Swiss cheese is three times healthier than Cheddar.
You don’t have time for complicated plans or fancy recipes. In THE ABS DIET EAT RIGHT EVERY TIME GUIDE, Zinczenko tells you how to strip away belly fat in every situation – from the frozen food aisle to the deli, from a five-star restaurant to the drive-thru. On-the-go eating doesn’t have to end up on your gut.
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 This is the book I'm recommending to my patients and why... April 5, 2005
80 out of 84 found this review helpful
There are a few things that all my patients who lose weight and KEEP IT OFF have in common (all made pracitcal by following the instructions in this book). I'll list a few of them below (I specialize in metabolism, endocrinology (hormones), and sexual function and have treated several thousand patients for weight loss):
1. They don't count calories for very long. Maybe as an educational exercise but eventually the maintenance plan must be easier.
2. They spread their calories out over the day (most American's eat most of their food after about 2pm...a recipe for obesity)
3. They don't go hungry. they may experience hunger but usually eat as much as they want when they do feel hunger (not whatever they want). Most people don't do well with daily, persistent, hunger.
4. They eat at least 5 times a day (small, frequent meals avoid hunger and fat storage by keeping insulin levels low).
5. They get adequate exercise. This is more important than the diet. If you follow the instructions in this hand guide (better I think than the hardback book version of the diet) you'd be walking somewhere between 20 to 25 miles per week. Unfortunately, that's about what's required for most people (not starting but working up to). That's about 30 to 60 minutes per day depending on whether you walk or jog or something in between. Most won't make time...hence 70% obesity in this country.
You'll find a few more tips listed on my review of the original hard-back version of the book. This is the diet of choice for now. No one does it perfectly. But, persist with increasing walking about 10% per week and keep learning more about application of the diet and you will eventually find your best weight.
--Charles Runels, MD
Author of "Anytime...for as Long as You Want: Strength, Genius, Libido, & Erection by Integrative Sex Transmutation (A 15-Day Course for Men to Improve Life and Sex)
I've lost thirty-two lbs. of fat in ten weeks. May 12, 2006
74 out of 74 found this review helpful
I wholeheartedly and enthusiastically recommend this book. If you are overweight, and want to do something about it, this book has the information you need to change your life for good. Know though that this is not a "diet" - it is a dietary strategy. A way of life. One which - if you embrace it, will change your life forever in very positive ways.
My personal testimony: I am 6' 2" tall and 35 years old. My weight has been over 250lbs for the last few years. But I have a large frame, and my body type is primarily mesomorphic, with a strong endomorphic influence. This means I have a good deal of muscle mass and definition, but have also always carried a significant amount of fat. Anyway, my BMI was about 31 and my body fat was over 30%.
That is technically obese, though I neither felt nor looked it. I would tell people how much I weighed, and they never would believe me.
So I carried the fat well, thus I didn't particularly care. I idly thought about doing something about it. I bought the main book of this series (to which this book is a supplement) last year, but it sat on my shelf collecting dust.
Until two months ago. On March 2nd 2006, I went to the doctor's for my checkup. I got on the scale. It tipped. 263lbs. Then my blood pressure: 200/100. That's right. 200/100. Nice round numbers. I've had slightly high blood pressure for years. Always 140/80 or less. Nothing too dramatic. This new reading blew my mind. I wasn't scared, just astonished. I had it taken again that afternoon, and it came out at 169/90. I was officially suffering from hypertension.
The old clich?d wake-up call. I had been eating a lot. Not poorly, I hardly ever eat junk or processed food. But richly. Lots of cheese, desserts, bread, salt, sugar, second and third portions... no breakfasts. And wine. And gin & tonic. And bourbon. All very yummy stuff.
I was - to put it bluntly - a fat gluttonous hypertensive lush.
I went home that evening and resolved to change. I took the main book of this series off the shelf, and read it. I went out and bought a small notebook, which I christened my food journal. I recorded everything I put in my mouth for about a month. I began simultaneously phasing the principles in this book into my life.
I eat five small meals a day, 3 or at the most 4 hours apart. Each & every food choice is a deliberate one. I make the best possible choices I can, every time, knowing that each thing I put in my mouth is making me healthier and leaner. I've stopped drinking alcohol & most other caloried drinks all together. I bought a blender and have begun drinking smoothies. I eat loads of good, substantive food. Tasty food. Whole grains. Vegetables, berries & fruit. Nuts. Lean proteins- fish, chicken & beef jerky. Healthy fats like olive oil and avocado paste.
And my bodyfat has simply melted - metabolized - inexorably away. Very gracefully. I counted calories, protein, carb & fat percentages for a few weeks (which this plan does not recommend, but I felt was important for me, just so I could get a sense of what I was eating) - but did no formal exercise at all. I have been active - walking a lot (I always take stairs, do a lot of yard & house work, etc.) but have not gone out of my way to exert myself. No running. No lifting. None.
It's been just over two months on the plan. I've bought a very good scale and blood pressure monitor, and have kept daily track of my progress.
Today is May 11th, 2006. I weighed in this morning at 231 lbs. That's a loss of 32lbs, to date. My blood pressure is 127/80. It hasn't been over - or even really near 140/90 - in weeks. I'm still losing fat at a rate of about two pounds a week. I can feel my body burning it away. I feel so much better - almost euphoric at times. And I'm eating all the time. Several small portions of simple but tasty food, every three hours or so. I drink water and lightly sweetened iced tea all day. I am rarely hungry, and when I am it means it is time to eat.
I am not doing this for aesthetic reasons, but people have noticed - particularly girls - and I got to admit it's gratifying. When I finally cut my six-pack - which I expect to do by the around the end of the summer, with a little exercise - it is going to be sweet. I still have about 30lbs of fat to lose.
So, this is the deal: if you want to know how burn fat without destroying your metabolism and losing muscle, buy this series. It will require significant permanent changes in your life, probably, but the results will more than compensate. You will like what you eat, you won't starve, and you will lose fat and become healthier. It is win win win, requiring just a bit of self-awareness & discipline. Anybody can do it.
This book - almost a booklet, really - is the core of the plan. It details the dietary rules, and provides very quick & simple, good tasting recipes. I would say that you could buy this, and not bother with the other, main book and you'd have all the information you need. This book has far more recipes, and all the essential nutrition information. It's also much smaller, and so very portable - easily slipped into a glove compartment, book bag, purse, or even pocket. What it doesn't have is the workout plan. But the workout is secondary. Nutrition is over 80% of the game here.
Upshot: Buy them both, but this is to my mind the more helpful of the two.
So go, learn the principles & eat with deliberation. You will not regret it. Good luck.
Addendum: November 13, 2006:
After a summer of partial laxity during which I hovered in the low 230's (never exercising, and thus not cutting that six pack) I re- engaged fully in August, began sporadically exercising and lost another fifteen pounds, weighing in now c. 218 lbs. I've been lifting three days a week the last three weeks- the differance has been pretty immediate & dramatic.
This plan really is simple, and easy. Like I say, simple good choices, consistently made. Your reality today is just an accumulation of millions of choices. Make 90% of them well, and you will get good results. Forgive yourself for your failures, choose to be decisively slack, re- affirm your goals, and you will progress.
An Informative portable SUPPLEMENT! January 2, 2005
54 out of 75 found this review helpful
First, if you have a choice between the hardcover OR softcover of this supplement (I'm not sure there is a choice anyway)...get the softcover...the book is small in size, low priced and, therefore, portable...
Second, this is NOT a diet...it is a common sense, researched based, way to live and eat healthier...
Ok, this book is NOT meant to be THE "Abs Diet" resource but A resource which is a PORTABLE supplement to the original book. Judged for what it was meant to be it is an excellent resource. Interestingly while I didn't buy the first book I've been following nearly all of its philosophy for three months and I've lost 25 pounds (215 to 190)...(I'm a long time subscriber to "Men's Health" which basically outlines this philosophy in each edition)...and with no anguish associated with the other so called "successful" diet programs such as Atkins which really aren't successful in the long run (research based)...this program is meant to be realistic and permanent...and I have absolutely loved what I've learned about food AND what I eat...
As for this supplement, it was exactly what I needed to focus my efforts and the sections on the travesties and/or health risks of High Fructose Corn Syrup & trans-fat should be required reading for all parents and politicians. (Just as an aside, I remember seeing Bill Maher being laughed at by conservatives on his HBO show for saying that high fructose corn syrup was a greater health threat to our nation than drugs...he was absolutely correct...just take a look at the connection between when our nation became obese and when HFCS was widely introduced into our food system...take a look at the resulting costs to our health care system...once again, the conservatives miss the point and misdirect limited resources to solve the wrong problem...but, dang nab it, it sure makes us all FEEL like we're accomplishing something doesn't it?!).
Bottom line...this book can be a very nice portable resource for those who understand the Abs "Diet" and for those who would like to be introduced to its core philosophy. Enjoy!
Very Helpful January 28, 2005
25 out of 27 found this review helpful
I almost did not buy this book because the reviews I read said it didn't have much info in it. I totally disagree - it has more info on exactly what food to eat while doing this way of eating. I certainly recommend it!
 First Book a Necessity, This One Isn't January 1, 2005
21 out of 27 found this review helpful
I received both the Abs Diet and the Eat Right Every Time Guide as a gift. I found the first book to be very valuable, jam packed with information on the Abs Diet program including exercise, nutrition, comparison programs, etc.
However, there didn't seem to be much content in the Eat Right Every Time Guide that was original. It offers more recipes but once you're familiar with the "Powerfoods" philosophy then you can adapt most any meal to the program and the recipes in here were pretty basic. The recommendations about which meals to eat when dining out were pretty easy to figure out based on common sense and I don't see myself eating at most of these restaurants anyway because of the nutritional pitfalls that exist there to begin with.
I'm hanging on to the Eat Right Every Time Guide because it was a gift but I wouldn't have purchased it on my own. If you're interested in the Abs Diet then you definitely need the first book, but save your money on this second one and use it instead to by some protein powder. I think Men's Health was looking for a way to promote the Abs Diet program for the New Year by releasing this booklet and the next Abs Diet contest at the time that everyone is gung ho with resolutions to get back into shape.
I have had great success with the Abs Diet and following the principles in the first book. Their forums provide a great support mechanism for the books and the people going through the Program. The only pitfall is that Men's Health is a business and their marketing strategies can be misleading and deceiving when promoting the Program through their web site and the Abs Diet contest. You cannot expect to read these books, follow the program, and get results such as the ones displayed on their web site or in the winner of their contests.
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