The 4 Day Diet
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Dr. Ian Smith’s diets really work. America has lost millions of pounds following his Fat Smash and Extreme Fat Smash diets. Now, in The 4 Day Diet, Smith has developed a program that allows readers to avoid the normal (and fatal) pitfalls of dieting: boredom, no treats allowed, too much repetition, plateauing. The 4 Day Diet is an ingenious program of dieting modules lasting only four days each:
Induction (detox/cleansing)
Transition (to reintroduce all food groups)
Protein Stretch (to avoid plateaus)
Smooth (when you can have some formerly forbidden foods like pizza and French fries)
Push (the sprint just before the final stretch, back to a stricter eating plan)
Pace (a comfortable module for you to catch your breath)
Vigorous (the final module to lose those last few pounds)
You can follow The 4 Day Diet straight through for a month for stunning results. But Smith also designed The 4 Day Diet so you can customize your own program. After the first two modules, you can do the remaining 5 in whichever order suits your schedule or preferences or you can repeat the modules you like best. It also features over sixty delicious recipes for breakfasts, lunches and dinners and a complete snack list—food that will make you forget you’re on a diet.
Full of Ian Smith’s motivating tips and tricks and his smart, sensible eating advice that really works to take weight off fast, The 4 Day Diet is a diet you’ll be able to stick to, have success on, and even enjoy!
User Ratings and Reviews
2 Stars Mediocre
The text on the CD was repetitive and boring. I couldn’t concentrate on it because there was nothing new and fresh there. You must refer to PDF file to actually get the diet. What if you don’t have a computer? Wouldn’t suggest this as an option; get the book and be through with it instead of this two step process.
4 Stars good guidelines
This product gives you the basic guidelines on how to eat right and lose weight. The title is 4 day diet but it is made for you to build off that 4 days and continue eating properly and lose weight throughout the month instead of just for 4 days. I think the product is good because its not a scheme to just help you lose some quick weight for a special occasion. It will teach you how to lose the weight and keep it off.
5 Stars Another Great And Easy Diet
I like Dr. Ian’s diets. I lost 17 pounds on Extreme Fat Smash and have kept it off. I lost 4 pounds on Induction and will weigh myself again once I am done with all phases. This one has more variety and more food so you will be able to stick with most parts of it once the weight is lost. Someone commented that the diet is not 4 days as if Dr. Ian meant to decieve you. There is no deception here and you should never follow a diet that promises you will lose all the weight you want in only 4 days. The diet is broken up in 4 day modules because calorie fluctuation keeps your metabolism from stalling. It also helps psychologically because it is 4 days at a time rather than thinking about 6-8 weeks at a time. Another reviewer complained that the book doesn’t tell you what to eat – false, false, false. These are not sample menus, Dr. Ian tells you exactly what to eat each and every single day and the exact amount. I type up the menu for each module and post it on my fridge and pull them down as each day is completed. You don’t have to use the recipes in his book and he doesn’t say which recipe matches which module because they apply to ALL phases. Also I would advise that you read the entire book as it will help you stick to the diet and be able to maintain the weight afterwards. All that information is not fluff. I think that’s one of the main reasons people don’t do well on diets – they never read the information the author provides and just skip straight to the diet and then wonder why it didn’t work.
3 Stars Interesting model
I can pretty much do anything for 4 days. so breaking up this eating plan in 4 day modules is an interesting approach. I found the induction module very difficult to follow since it was so low on protein, I was really hungry. THe subsequent modules are more balanced in their approach. I continue to try it out.
4 Stars Common Sense meets modular eating!
Dr. Ian K. Smith is an awesome guy with a great approach to weight loss. This 3 CD set spends two and a half discs getting your mind wrapped around good mental images, and then starts talking about the four days at a time diet plan Smith has come up with. There is not a whole lot on the diet itself, but it is effective and an interesting concept to eat in four day modules where different food is allowed. Now the biggest thing is this is not a rapid weight loss plan. Four days is not the time period of the whole program, but rather the small part of an overall structure that should carry you across several months and on the way to a healthy lifestyle. Most of the program is pulled from common sense. Smith encourages five to six small meals a day, daily exercise, and eating small portions. He also encourages positive reinforcement from yourself to keep things rolling.
Smith claims dieting is 80% mental and 20% physical so what he really wants to do is make people set realistic goals, learn how to coach themselves, think thin, resist temptation, and even reward yourself now and then for progress. It all makes perfect sense, but you may already have known this. The diets are outlined more specifically in PDF files which contain the food plans found on disc 3 of the set.
Follow your brain and the food plan and you should be trimmer and slimmer four days at a time.
