Training of the abdominal muscles has recently been subjects of more misinformation and mythology than any other part of the human anatomy. A crash diet is a diet which is extreme in its deprivations, typically severely restricting calorie intake. In other words a Crash Diet forces your metabolism to not burn as many calories as are required to maintain your energy level. Thus a crash diet differs from outright starvation only slightly.

Such diets are typically unhealthy and are rarely - if ever - recommended by doctors or dietitians. Crash diets can lead to malnutrition, and are not a recommended means of weight loss. This causes a person to eat far more than normal, causing them to regain even more weight than before. It is possible to lose weight at weight loss centers and clinics but problem is these not only very costly but do rarely show desired results. They make it imperative on you that you join their centers on regular basis; which is near impossible in this fast modern age. So all the effort for losing weight is yours not theirs. And no sooner you will stop going to weight loss center, you will regain weight. These weight loss centers and clinics are meant for rich people, middle class simply cannot afford this extravagance.

In a study reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, "Muscle Hypertrophy with Large Scale Weight Loss and Resistance Training," subjects took off fat while gaining muscle. Fourteen women followed an eight hundred calorie, high protein diet with seven of the women lifting weights for thirty to forty minutes three days a week and the other seven women simply following the diet without exercise. The key to successful weight loss is weigh training not walking, or any other low intensity cardio program - and a high protein diet.

In the study, forty percent of calories came from protein, as opposed to most fat loss diets that call for only fifteen to twenty percent protein. Now, let's get a few things straight. This is not an endorsement of severe calorie restriction. Even if you get results initially, eventually your body will rebel with a lower metabolism, muscle loss and fat gain.