4 Day Diet Review

What You Should Know

The 4 Day Diet combines a varied eating plan with mental focus. It’s founder, Dr. Ian K. Smith, has also authored the “Fat Smash Diet” and appears on the “Celebrity Fit Club.” He offers a staged diet plan that control types of foods eaten. The details of the diet are published in Dr. Smith’s book, The 4 Day Diet.”

Unlike supplement plans or portion control diets, the 4 Day Diet takes the dieter through a series of diet stages. It combines four-day eating patterns. This teaches mental discipline for dieting, not merely food rules, according to Dr. Smith. When it comes to successful dieting, eighty percent is mental focus and only twenty percent is actually eating and exercise.

The 4 Day Diet book is available with online book retailers.

List of Ingredients

Not applicable – the 4 Day Diet consists of specified habits for eating normal foods.

Product Features

The 4 Day Diet is a seven-stage diet plan. Each four-day stage focuses on certain eating habits at varying levels of strictness. The first two stages (purge and transition) must be completed in order, but the dieter is allowed flexibility in the order of some of the other stages. The 4 Day Diet also combines exercise with the eating rules, making this program more of a fitness regimen than a weight loss diet.

The stages are restrictive purge, transition, protein stretch, normal foods, push restriction, paced lighter restriction, and vigorous restriction. Basic descriptions of the 4 Day Diet stages are available online, but to see the details of the restrictions, you need to purchase Dr. Smith’s book. Exercise is also part of this diet.

Pro’s

• There is a variety in allowed foods.
• There are no pills, supplements or special foods to purchase regularly.
• The author is a diet expert.
• This diet plan fits any other dietary limits (vegetarian or food allergies).

Con’s

• Strict food restrictions may be difficult for busy people or people who struggle to maintain strict discipline.
• While some stages allow freedom, most are quite restrictive.
• It does not take advantage of any natural metabolism helps.
• It is a month-long eating program that may be unrealistic for some dieters.
• It offers little advice for keeping weight off after the 7 stages are done.

Conclusion

The 4 Day Diet seems to be a helpful and useful weight loss plan for people who have enough free time and particularly strong personal discipline. For the average person, it may be too strict or too time-consuming to put into practice.

The 4 Day Diet is a no-nonsense personal trainer type of weight loss program. Its month-long regimen of eating and exercise will certainly be a challenge to those who use it.