Your Diet plays a huge roll in how your body will look. If you want to show off those abs that you worked so hard to get, then your diet plan must be top priority. You can do cardio all day long, but if you don’t control your appetite then, you will never see results.

In this article we will discuss …

• What you should eat
• How much you should eat and
• When you should eat.

Remember it takes 3500 calories to lose one pound of fat. That means you will not lose body fat in the course of a few days but, with will power, you should see major results in a matter of weeks.

This diet will help you lose a safe and healthy amount of calories each day. The first thing you need to do is eat smaller meals. No, you will not starve yourself because you will be eating more meals throughout the day. Instead of your usual three big meals, you will be eating 5 to 7 times a day.

Breakfast, The Most Important Meal Of the Day

Breakfast should be the time when you load up on carbohydrates. This will give you the energy to start your day and since you are waking up from a good nights rest, you will need plenty of energy to get your body going again. Your breakfast meal should consist of some form of fruit with the combination of oatmeal or egg whites, and a glass of fat free milk.

You also need protein in the morning since your body will be running low after your nights rest. Breakfast should consist of around 300 to 500 calories to get you started.

Your one to two snacks in between breakfast and lunch should consist of vegetables or fruit. Remember to drink plenty of water throughout the day. You should be consuming 120 ounces of water a day, which equals about 15 glasses. Also, if you have the luxury of a protein shake, take full advantage of that. But be cautious of the protein bars. Most of them are just glorified candy bars.

Lunch

Your lunch meals should be around 500 to 700 calories. You should eat foods that have complex carbohydrate such as pasta or grains. Combine these foods with grapefruit or broccoli, which have been know for fat burning acceleration and you will have yourself the perfect lunch.

Your small snacks before dinner should consist of vegetables or a protein shake. Getting your protein in is very important and vegetables have low amounts of calories with plenty of nutritional value.

Dinner

During dinner time is when most people make their biggest mistake. They love to eat high calorie foods, not to mention all kinds of snacks after dinner such as cakes and pastries loaded with sugars and other fat packing ingredients. All consumed hours before going to sleep. This is exactly what you need to do if you want to get fat. Sugar slows down the metabolism and helps store the calories into fat instead of being used throughout the night.

Make sure you eat dinner after your workout and do not eat too much. The protein from dinner will go right to your muscles while you are sleeping which will help lose weight as you sleep. Dinner should consist of foods that are low in carbohydrates and high protein such as…

• Skinless chicken
• Skinless turkey
• Lean cuts of beef, pork and lamb
• All types of fish
• All types of seafood
• Milk

This is just a small list of foods that are rich in protein and low in calories. Having a small snack around 100 calories before going to sleep is okay.

Here are a few point to keep in mind

• This diet plan is designed to lose the maximum amount of weight in a healthy way.

• You should consume more calories in the morning when your body will use them up during the day.

• Consume protein during dinner when your body needs it the most and since your body is running low on calories at night, it will use the stored energy, which are the fat cells.

• When eating large meals at night and little to nothing in the morning, the body will not use the stored calories. If the body has an excess of calories at night from a big meal, the extra unused calories turned into fat instead of being used.

Habit and Routines can be Good or Bad

The hardest part of this diet will be changing your ways by getting rid of all the sugars and non nutritional foods and eating less calories then you are used to. You will also have to change eating bigger meals in the morning and less at night. This will be hard because of Habit. All dieting is, is Habit. Gaining weight is just a system and routines of bad habits being repeated every day. Once you learn how to change your bad habit into sensible and healthy habits, you will see results.

Now that you have the diet down, your body needs to burn those calories off. Of course you will see results just by eating right and lifting weights but, if you want to see shocking results quickly, then you need to add the final part into this total body transformation. That is High Intensity Interval Training which we will discuss in part 3 of this 3 Part Workout Program For Abs.

Henry Chervenka