Why This Ripped Abs Diet Works (And Others Fail!)

This ripped abs diet will work. It'll get you ripped, so that you can show off that muscular torso you have right now. 

So, here's how to get ripped…

The Truth: Any Diet You Like Works

Yea, that's the truth: calories count. If you can do it eating lots of veggies, that's great. If you can lose weight eating just a few chocolate bars each day, that's great too. Or if Atkins is more your style, go with steak and butter.

What this means for you is that you need to customize your diet, to a certain extent. No diet book out there will get it perfectly right for you - you'll need to write your own diet book, in a sense.

Now, the best ripped abs diet that I use allows me to feel full and satiated by eating lots of vegetables like squash and leafy greens, with a lot of chicken, roast beef, and lean meats as well. I still feel peckish for some chocolate, but because I can eat a ton of vegetables without eating many calories, I find this allows me to eat less and feel good.

Go Slowly

When you're close to getting a ripped stomach, that's not the time to go on a kamikaze ripped abs diet. It won't help you.

It might feel good to stop dieting down and 'sprint' to the finish line, but in reality that will only sabotage you. When you drop your fat to lower than around ten percent (where guys abs start showing), your body defends its fat very well. After all, it thinks it's starving!

If you try to lose weight faster than about one pound a week, you will be able to lose weight. But, the weight you lose will be about half precious muscle and half fat, which is a horrible ratio of weight loss.

It might be infuriating, but go slowly. The extra week or two you invest now in a well designed and intelligent ripped abs diet will pay you back by making you look great.

Plus, you won't feel crappy and ravenously hungry. You'll feel good, and look good!

Why Eating 'Healthy' Helps

Eating lots of vegetables and lean meats will help you lose weight. Not because of some mythical 'healthiness', or more vitamins, or because the antioxidants will make freaky magic happen.

Rather, you can eat a lot of vegetables (by volume and weight) without consuming a lot of calories. Most vegetables are primarily fiber and water and indigestible cellulose, rather than calories. So you can eat a huge salad and a chicken breast and it's only about 400 calories (or less!).

If you can diet down in relatively happy manner eating a few candy bars or diet drink each day, do that. But eating real food is much more filling, and (in my experience) will make your diet much more enjoyable.

And if your diet is a death march, you won't stick with it. Really.

Why Diets Fail…

All diets have a horrible adherence rate. Why? Well, people don't like permanently changing their eating habits. And it's hard to give up food you really like, which virtually every diet asks you to do.

So, you really need to find a diet that works for you, and is flexible enough for you. This will probably mean trying a few, finding out what works for you, and finding out how much control you want to exercise over your diet in your life.

Adhering to any ripped abs diet is difficult, but it's certainly possible. If you need more tips or want to learn more about the diet techniques and tricks I use to keep a ripped stomach, check out the links below.