Explains how women can lose pounds quickly and dramatically reshape their bodies, while maintaining the principles of a safe, healthy, and nutritionally balanced diet, covering such topics as preventing osteoporosis and managing menopausal symptoms.

Includes index.

Strip away fat, strip away trouble -- Why the abs diet? And why now? -- Burn fat day and night -- How the abs diet works -- A flat belly in 6 weeks -- Shocker : how low-carb diets make you fat -- The abs diet nutrition plan -- The abs diet power 12 -- Abs diet dishes --Abs diet meal plans -- Abs diet adaptations --What's on your mind? -- Fitting the abs diet into everyday life -- Turbocharging the abs diet -- The abs diet workout -- Targeting your abs -- The secret to lean legs -- The abs diet and your hormones -- The abs diet for moms -- The stress-busting workout.