Most people who yearn for that sexy chiseled-ab look know that they'll never get it by eating junk food or pigging out at every meal. Swilling six-packs of beer will never result in six-pack abs!
Few people, though, seem to realize just how important diet is in realizing a goal of a trim, sharply defined abdomen. I will go out on a limb and state my belief that 80% of the work needed to achieve a taut tummy takes place in the kitchen and at the dinner table, not in the gym.
Your abdominal muscles are there, just waiting to be discovered beneath the belly fat. Lose the flab and you're much of the way home. Once you do that, then you can get down to exercising those abs to bring out the maximum definition of which they're capable.
For anyone wanting to lose weight and trim down, including around the middle, I highly recommend the various "caveman" diets that are becoming the rage. You have probably heard of so-called paleo or primal diets; these are the ones I'm talking about.
Although the details vary depending on which book you pick up, the idea behind all of these diets is that we should stick to eating what our human ancestors had access to -- meaning meat, vegetables and fruit. Above all this means minimizing grains or avoiding them altogether.
Latecomers to the human diet historically (and prehistorically) speaking, grains aren't processed very well by most people. They pump up our insulin levels, which leads to overeating and obesity. So, cut down on, or cut out, the bread, cereal and pasta -- if you're serious about getting healthier as well as developing those abs.
I know a man who is 59, who went on one of these caveman diets beginning six months ago. He has dropped about 15 pounds, but more impressively, his tummy area is starting to show the distinctive outlines of those underlying ab muscles. He accomplished this entirely through changing his eating habits.
Now that my friend has started to add exercising to his regimen, I expect that he'll soon have a chiseled abdomen that many 30-year-olds would envy.
Washboard abs can be yours. Just remember that they really do start at the dinner table, and with that in mind take a serious look at what you're eating -- and be prepared to change.
