“More Food = More Muscle = Less Fat”
That is a saying outlined in the Abs Diet by Dave Zinczenko. His theory is that if you eat the right food at the right time you will simply turn on the fat burning machine that your body is. Your body wasn’t meant to be fat, it was meant to take good food and turn it into muscle. However after years of stuffing Twinkies and hot wings down your throat and going on low intake diets your body has seen times of famine and stores fat for when it needs it. The Abs Diet says forget reducing calories or dropping certain food groups from your life. What you need is to find the foods that are good for you, the foods that reduce health risks, the foods that will help you burn fat and create muscle and eat them in combination with an easy full body workout.
This is the 3rd day of my diet and the second time I am reading the abs diet book. After just three days I already feel better. I wake up not feeling as groggy, I am hydrated and don’t always have cotton mouth, and I am willing to bet that I have already lost weight. Although I won’t weigh in until Monday.
In the logs from my first 2 days you will notice that I am eating 6 times a day. Seems like a lot huh? This is only going to be further proof that more food = more muscle = less fat when my next weigh in does come. Dave states in the book that just by adding 1lb of muscle you will burn an extra 50 calories a day to maintain that muscle. Talk about a diet, if just by eating right I can help turn fat into muscle my body is working off more calories than it was before. And all I did was eat more than normal.
Oh and the food is good by the way how can you argue with salmon, chicken, turkey, smoothies, fresh veggies & fruits?
Day 3 June 11th, 2008
Age: 25
Height: 6?11?
Weight: 218lbs
Body Fat: 24%
You will notice that my weight and body fat counts will not change during the week. I will weigh in on Mondays and you will see the updates on Tuesday.
Breakfast
1 Cup Kashi Flakes Cereal with Blue Berries
1 Cup Skim Milk
1 Banana
1 Cup Coffee Black
Snack 1
2 Tablespoons All Natural Peanut Butter
Baby Carrots (AYCE)
Lunch
6 0z. Crab Meat (Artificial)
Salad - Spinach Leaves, Green Pepper, Red Pepper, Cucumber, Low Fat Italian Dressing
Snack 2
1 Cup Blueberries (Frozen)
Dinner
Tacos - 94% Lean Ground Beef, Salsa, Shredded Lettuce, Low Fat Cheese, Onion & Unfortunately Flour Tortillas (which aren’t really on the diet, I just didn’t have and Whole Wheat ones readily available)
Snack 3
Smoothie - Vanilla Yogurt, Skim Milk, Peanut Butter, Banana, Raspberries, Ice
Excercise Routine
15 Pushups
20 Squats
30 Minutes of Brisk Walking
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