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Shrink Your Female Fat Zones: Lose Pounds and Inches--Fast!--From Your Belly, Hips, Thighs, and More [Paperback, Bargain Price]

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Fitness guru Denise Austin helps you "zero in on your personal trouble spots" while increasing metabolism with this 6-week exercise and eating program. Her formula includes toning workouts that target the waist, thighs, abs, buttocks, hip, lower back, and upper arms; regular walking and stretching; and eating strategies (not dieting). Her tips are refreshingly sensible: Avoid chronic dieting (it hurts your health and makes you fatter), stretch to decrease stress, fill up on high-fiber foods, eat a balanced diet, build muscle to increase calorie-burning, and walk almost every day. Austin's clearly illustrated and varied exercises use body weight, dumbbells, resistance bands, or a stability ball. A sample exercise schedule takes 15 to 60 minutes a day. For especially busy days, she offers a series of exercises that work two or more muscle groups at once. Austin's "Shrink-Fat Eating Plan" emphasizes portion control, 1,400 to 1,800 calories, and a nutritional breakdown of 24 percent "good" fat, 20 percent protein, and 56 percent high-quality carbs. Whether you just want a foundation to get started or you need a structured, daily program (including menu plans, shopping lists, and daily logs), you can find it here. Profiles of happy and successful followers of the program add interest. Highly recommended. --Joan Price

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Grab your workout gear, Denise Austin fans! The fitness star helps you conquer those problem areas-female fat zones like the hips, thighs, and tummy. Her program offers a fun, easy way to tone up, lose fat, build muscle, and rev your metabolism in just 10 minutes a day. -Remodel your body with a four-pronged, progressive program that adjusts to your current fitness level. -Zip through fast, efficient workouts that counteract surprising changes in body shape, tone, and composition that women experience at major milestones like post-pregnancy and pre-menopause. -Fat Zone workouts zero in on the trouble spots of three common female body types: the Pear, the Apple, and the Inverted Triangle. -Fat Zone eating program includes 6 full weeks of menu plans developed with a top nutritionist, complete with shopping lists, quick tips and hints, and dozens of Denise's favorite delicious, low-fat recipes. -An interactive 6-week workbook helps track individual progress with measurements of the targeted fat zone, a detailed food diary, and workout plans based on goals, fitness level, and personal schedule. -Inspiring stories and before-and-after photos from Denise fans who've seen major results from her workouts. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • ISBN-10: 1579547346
  • ASIN: B000E1KPUU
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.5 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #967,409 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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repeat until fatigue, small diced apple, female fat zones, using canned chili, iio calories, microwave enchilada, shoulder blades hover, cup light ice cream, zone workouts, lift your upper torso, small sliced apple, whole grain toaster waffles, tighten your abs, meatless pasta sauce, other takeouts, large stability ball, teaspoons chocolate syrup, preferably balsamic, ounces light beer, zone routines, endurance walk, cup canned chickpeas, hunger record, order the steamed vegetables, toning workouts
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Nutrient Booster, Midsection Workout, Herb Sauce, Chicken Waldorf Salad, Light Cheddar, Minimum Time Try, Quick Veggie Pizza, Midsection Today, Uncle Ben, Domino's Hand Tossed, Taco Bell, Kellogg's Complete Wheat Bran Flakes, Success Snapshot, Daily Averages, Egg Beaters, Fantastic Foods, Feelings Log, Kashi Good Friends, Nutri-Grain Multibran, Perdue Short Cuts, Shrunk My Female Fat Zones, Try Wendy's Grilled Chicken, Dijon Oil, Caesar Salad Dressing, Del Monte Fruit Naturals
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123 of 124 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Four-pronged approach for a lifetime of fitness, July 23, 2003
By DNP "marmalade-cat" (Framingham, MA United States) - See all my reviews
This book features a comprehensive approach to fitness...cardio, strength training, stretching and healthful eating. Each body type has a slightly different recommendation, in order to target (with toning exercises) particular problem areas. Denise's manner of writing is informative, friendly and encouraging.

What I liked best:

The cardio workout recommended is walking, which is nice because it can be done any time, anywhere. There are four walking workouts per week: an endurance walk, an interval walk, a walk with toning exercises incorporated and a combination interval/toning walk. Every two weeks the length of the walk is increased so that if you follow the schedule you will be walking 45 minutes/walk four times a week at the end of six weeks. There is a modified schedule for those who are quite out of shape, starting out. The fact that there is variety in the workouts makes it more interesting and less likely to result in a fitness plateau.

There is a wonderful chapter on emotional eating. Basically, Denise's suggestion is to keep a "hunger" journal...noting down what time you eat, how hungry you were (on a scale of 1 to 5) and what the surrounding circumstances were. I have tried this myself and keep going back to it occasionally as a touchstone. I've found this a very helpful tool as far as modifying my habits.

There are three eating plans along with suggestions for which would be most appropriate: a 1,400-calorie-a-day plan, a 1,600-calorie plan and an 1,800-calorie plan. Denise also has suggestions for modifying them. As one example, Denise explains why some women might find it most successful to alternate between the 1,400-calorie plan and the 1,600-calorie plan.

The food on the included menus has lots of variety and is delicious. I don't think anyone would feel deprived. It's also quite flexible, making it user-friendly. For instance, the shopping lists note which foods not to buy if you're planning to eat out on a given day during that week.

Finally, following her three-times-a-day stretching routine has been one of the best things I've done for myself. I've always stretched before and after workouts, but never throughout the day, every day. In the past month or so, little aches and pains that I used to have by the end of a day in the office have melted away.

As I get older, I find myself less concerned about a number on the scale, per se, and more concerned about maintaining strength and flexibility so that as the years go by I will continue to be able to do with ease the activities I love. I found Denise's advice in this book fit right in with my goals for a lifetime of fitness.

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67 of 67 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A pleasant surprise, August 21, 2003
By Sparkle Reed "smartmouth" (MILWAUKEE, WI USA) - See all my reviews
I had always dismissed Denise Austin as nothing more than frothy beauty queen fluff. Usually, I would ignore her books and videos - I am just not one who likes those perky cheerleader types. How could a workout coming from someone that peppy and cute really work? But boredom with my current routine caused me to actually pick up this book and give it a real glance over. Wow.....was I ever wrong about her. I haven't put this book down since I bought it. The information is written in an intelligent and user friendly way - the pictures are clear and the instructions are easy to understand. And the workouts......let's just say I am feeling the burn big-time! They work, plain and simple.

I like the fact that she includes specific workouts for your trouble spots (my abs!), but she also encourages you to work your other parts for a completely toned body. The walking information was excellent - I usually walk every day but don't think much about it. Her tips are making my daily walks more effective and fun too! And the nutrition information is solid and well researched. She doesn't advocate dieting - just making good choices and developing good habits.

Could it be that I am now cheering for Denise? You bet! But don't call me perky just yet!

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50 of 51 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book for New Moms, October 20, 2003
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I'm 5'4" and have always weighed 115-120 lbs. After giving birth to my daughter, I weighed 147 pounds. I didn't exercise during my pregnancy, and I didn't start trying to re-gain my pre-pregnancy figure until after my 6-week postpartum check-up. The first time I went to the gym, I came home crying, because I was very much out of shape, and unable to accomplish anything on familiar weight machines. Instead of heading back to the gym, I ordered this book, and now I'm back down to 115 lbs. My friends and family keep telling me how great I look for someone who just had a baby three months ago.
This program has been great for me, as a new mother. 1) The exercise program includes a lot of walking, which my baby loves!
2) The recipes are quick and easy to prepare. 3) Denise has written out grocery lists which save me tons of time.
This book is great for busy new moms who want to shed pounds from pregnancy.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of my all-time favorite diet/exercise books
I am a big fan of Denise and I happened to see this at a thrift store and figured I would buy it at such a great discount. I am very impressed. Read more
Published 21 days ago by Carmen Brown

4.0 out of 5 stars I like this book
There are some really smart workouts to try in this book. I wish that people who made workout books would make corresponding wall charts, because it is hard to do some moves and... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Delaney

5.0 out of 5 stars Effective and Easy
This is a great book by Denise Austin. I am following the walking and exercise routines. I haven't tried the diet part yet. Read more
Published on August 21, 2007 by Lisa A. Demars

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent For The Beginner
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I found this book to be helpful in my understanding of the female body.Given that I work with many female executives,I found this information to be very useful in designing my... Read more
Published on March 24, 2006 by Eric O. Odera

3.0 out of 5 stars Shrink Your Female Fat Zones: Lose Pounds and Inches--Fast!--From Your Belly, Hips, Thighs, and More
If you want a book to give you lessons on what exercises are the best for you and a few meals to use this book may be for you. Read more
Published on March 1, 2006 by Naomi S. Marko

1.0 out of 5 stars Only good for an absolute beginner
If you know ANYTHING about eating properly already, don't purchase this book. This book is meant for beginners only. Read more
Published on February 4, 2006 by J. Sheers

5.0 out of 5 stars I was skeptical, but it really works!
I'm the first to admit that dieting makes me grouchy. Additionally, I am not a morning person, so the idea of getting up early and power-walking for 30 minutes four times a week... Read more
Published on November 22, 2005 by Jennifer Bachman

5.0 out of 5 stars Back to the Basic
Denise has been around for almost 20 years and is still going strong (you can't say that about too many other fitness veterans). Read more
Published on July 18, 2005 by A Book Lover

5.0 out of 5 stars From lazy to sleek
This book is amazing. I am normally a lazy "non-exercising" kind of person and this has helped me off the couch.

I love each set of 2 weeks. Read more
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