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New from the author of
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS
The Fat Smash Diet and Extreme Fat Smash Diet

THE 4 DAY DIET

IAN K. SMITH, M.D.
Diet expert on VH-1’s Celebrity Fit Club
and creator of “The 50 Million Pound Challenge”

Like his #1 bestselling Fat Smash Diet, Dr. Ian Smith’s new book, THE 4 DAY DIET, is sure to be the must-have book for anyone with a New Year’s resolution to lose weight.

What really sets THE 4 DAY DIET apart from other diets is Dr. Ian’s emphasis on the mental component of weight loss, or “Mind Over Fat.” As the diet expert on Celebrity Fit Club, the creator of the national weight loss initiative The 50 Million Pound Challenge, and through work with thousands of dieters across the country, Dr. Ian has learned that the most critical part of weight loss success is mental preparation. Losing weight is 80 percent mental and 20 percent physical, as Dr. Ian says, and people need to “train their brain” to take on one of life’s toughest journeys.

THE 4-DAY DIET program is broken down into 4-day “modules,” so it’s much more effective and easier to stick with. Here’s why:
• You can focus on just a few days rather than several weeks, which can feel overwhelming
• The modules allow you to work a variety of foods into your diet, so you don’t get bored eating the same food and you don’t feel like you’re on a diet
• Varying the types and amount of food you eat keeps your body off-kilter, requiring it to burn more energy, and preventing a much-dreaded weight-loss plateau

Dr. Ian designed THE 4-DAY DIET so you can customize your own program. After the first two modules—detox, to purify accumulated toxins in the body, and transition, to gradually reintroduce certain foods—you can do the remaining 5 in whichever order suits your schedule or preferences or you can repeat the modules you like best:
1. Induction (detox/cleansing)
2. Transition (to reintroduce all food groups
3. Protein Stretch (to avoid plateaus)
4. Smooth (when youcna have some formerly forbidden foods like pizza and french fries)
5. Push (the sprint, just before the final stretch, back to a stricter eating plan)
6. Pace (a comfortable module for you to catch your breath)
7. Vigorous (the final module to lose those last few pounds)

With charts, questionnaires, mental exercises, and more than sixty recipes, THE 4-DAY DIET helps anyone diet SMARTER, and stay motivated to achieve their weight loss goals and maintain them. With over twenty years of experience watching how and why dieters lose weight—and how they don’t—Dr. Ian has developed a remarkably effective program that anyone can stay on for life.
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Ian K. Smith, M.D. is the #1 bestselling author of The Fat Smash Diet and Extreme Fat Smash Diet. He is the diet expert on VH1’s “Celebrity Fit Club”, a medical contributor to many network news programs such as ABC’s “The View” and “The CBS Early Show,” and the creator of the national weight loss initiative “The 50 Million Pound Challenge”.