HOW THE ABS DIET WORKS

IN THE CRUDEST FORM, THE WAY IN WHICH
food travels through your body
seems simple. There’s one way in
and one way out, and anything left
behind snowballs into a mound of
fat on your gut, over your hips, or under your chin. In reality,
the travel patterns of your breakfast, lunch, and
dinner flow more like a Los Angeles interstate system
than anything else. You’ve got the traffic jams (clogged arteries)
and the occasional drive-by shootings (indigestion),
but you also have a complex network of roads that shuttle
nutrients to and from vital organs and tissues. Your
ability to lose weight and gain muscle largely depends on
how and when you fuel your body to work in that system.


In the previous chapter, I showed how the key to effective
weight management was concentrating on your body’s calorie
burn—not on how effectively you burn calories while exercising
but on how effectively you burn calories when you’re not exercising.
Additionally, I explained a little about how the foods you eat
can affect your body’s daily calorie burn. Before I explain the howto’s
of the Abs Diet, you should know the most important substances
and nutrients that affect the way your body processes food.