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Last Updated on January 7, 2021
Your kitchen should be stocked with a wide range of meats, vegetables, fruits, and starches (rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes, etc.). When you cheat, make sure it’s food you have to go out to get, such as ice cream, and finish it that day. Don’t store any leftovers. I don’t trust you, and you shouldn’t either.
Start The Day Green
An often-neglected aspect of abs is getting enough green vegetables. They have essential nutrients that your body wants to make sure it gets, and if you don’t provide the necessary nutrition, you’re going to find yourself rooting around in the cookie jar looking for it. To ensure you’re fully loaded, make a fresh juice crammed with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants with a minimum of calories. That means vegetable juice (not fruit juice, which is packed with lots of sugar and not enough of the fiber that whole fruit provides). Green juice is like a salad in a glass (only tastier, I promise). This recipe is one of my favorites. Juice the ingredients and pour over 1/3-cup of water and half a cup of ice:
1/2 cup cucumber
1/2 cup celery
1/2 cup spinach
1 tsp fennel seeds
1/2 green apple
Parsley and ginger, to taste
In addition to providing valuable nutrition you may be unable to get from whole foods during the day, a green juice can also act as a detoxifier.
Measure Portions Size
I’m not going to tell you to turn your kitchen into the set of Breaking Bad, but a little measuring will keep you honest. Measure your proteins in ounces and your carbs in cups (most of your fat should come as part of your protein foods; add any other fats sparingly). You can use the palm of your hand to approximate three ounces of meat and your fist for a cup of rice or potatoes. The length of your thumb works well for measuring fats; it’s about the size of two tablespoons of oil or peanut butter.
This makes keeping a record of your food intake much easier, and eyeballed estimates will be close enough until you get very lean. At that point, you may want to invest in a food scale to make more precise measurements. The sharper your abs get, the more important the difference between one cup of rice and one half cup becomes.
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