| Ab diets for women are important for a simple | | | | with bacon, really aren't the way to go if you are |
| reason: Even if you work out your abs every | | | | looking for effective abs diets for women. |
| day-and that's not a good idea-nobody will ever see | | | | 2. Your Current Diet with Four Nutritional Supplements |
| them if they are covered with fat. Here are three ab | | | | Many women report weight loss success by adding |
| diets for women that can provide the belly fat | | | | four supplements to the diet they already eat. These |
| buster you are looking for. | | | | supplements are: |
| 1. The Soup Diet | | | | R-Lipoic Acid (although alpha-lipoic acid also has |
| You've probably heard of the cabbage soup diet. You | | | | some benefits), up to 1,000 mg a day |
| eat huge bowls of cabbage soup for a couple of | | | | L-carnitine, also up to 1,000 mg a day, |
| days. Then you gorge yourself on beefsteak, | | | | Nicotinamide (be sure not to take more than one |
| tomatoes, and bananas. This soup diet has nothing to | | | | capsule a day), and |
| do with the cabbage soup diet. | | | | Biotin, taking 100 mg of biotin for every 1,000 |
| The soup diet that can actually help you lose weight | | | | mg of alpha-lipoic acid. |
| is a lot simpler, and it won't interfere with healthy | | | | This combination of nutritional supplements increases |
| nutrition. All you need to do is to eat a cup, or a | | | | the size and activity of mitochondria, the energy |
| bowl, of homemade soup before you eat your | | | | making centers in every cell. The lipoic acid also |
| regular meal. Over 200 clinical research studies, most | | | | reduces your body's need for insulin, which stores fat |
| of them led by Dr. Barbara Rolls of The Pennsylvania | | | | as well as transporting sugar. The less insulin you |
| State University and the University of Pennsylvania | | | | have in circulation, the less fat you store. Best |
| Medical School, confirm that starting lunch and dinner | | | | results, of course, are obtained when you reduce |
| with soup can help you 350 to 500 fewer calories a | | | | calories and increase exercise. |
| day. That's enough to lose a pound of belly fat just | | | | 3. A high-protein, high glycemic index diet. |
| about every week. | | | | Want to lose weight without counting calories? Eating |
| The way the soup diet works is that soup fills you | | | | small amounts of protein food throughout the day |
| up without costing you a lot of calories. Water just | | | | (1-2 oz, or 28 to 56 g), 5 or 6 times a day, helps |
| passes right on through your stomach. There's no | | | | control your appetite. Also helpful are fresh fruits and |
| need to digest it. Each and every one of the tiny | | | | vegetables eaten raw, the juicier the better. |
| particles in soup, however, has to be completely | | | | You don't have to completely abandon ordinary |
| digested, and the soup stays in your stomach until | | | | foods to make this plan work. If you ordinarily have |
| the digestion is completed. The longer your stomach | | | | a bowl of cereal for breakfast, for instance, fill half |
| is full, the less you want to eat. There are limits to | | | | the bowl with cereal and top off with berries. If you |
| the ability of soup to control your appetite, of | | | | ordinarily eat a sandwich for lunch, add lettuce, |
| course, but it's an easy way to lose a pound or more | | | | tomato, and crunchy vegetables to fill you up without |
| each and every week. It doesn't take so many | | | | adding a lot of calories. Just have to have a slice of |
| weeks before you begin to reveal your abs. | | | | pizza? OK, but eat more. Make sure your slice is |
| There are a couple of things you have to avoid on | | | | topped with vegetables. |
| the soup diet. One is MSG. The appetite is stimulated | | | | If you make a point of heating healthy low-fat, |
| by MSG, canceling out the benefits of the soup. Don't | | | | high-protein, fresh and natural foods, you can rely on |
| use canned soup that contains with MSG. | | | | your instincts to help you lose weight. Be sure you |
| The other is fat. Creamed soups, and soups flavored | | | | eat healthy foods and let pounds fall off naturally. |