One such program which is making its impact on the market is The 4 Day Diet (buy from Amazon) by Dr. Ian Smith from The Celebrity Fit Club on VH1. In his book he provides sensible advise, motivating tips and several recipes that can aid your weight loss efforts.

His ideas has helped Americans lose millions of pounds through his 50 million pounds lost challenge.

The tips given by him may seem to be pretty basic and all over the place. But they are all over because these weight loss tips work! These weight loss tips have been proven over and over by people who wanted to lose weight.

And the BEST part of it is that you can get started RIGHT AWAY without any special food or instrument.

Some of his weight loss tips include -

• Reduce the intake of salt : First of all, adding sugar to your food can become an awful habit. It an addiction. When you fall prey to this habit one thing happens – you add salt to the food that is perfectly OK. Been there done that. It can be VERY difficult to get rid of this habit. And besides salt increases the risk for high blood pressure.
• Don’t overcook vegetables : You’ve heard it a million times but here it is again. Don’t overcook your food. If you over cook vegetables the nutrients viz. minerals, vitamins start to evaporate. Tip: Try eating raw vegetables like tomatoes, carrots and cabbage. They don’t contain fats are very effective in losing weight. Read my post on Negative Calorie Foods.
• Try to get rid of fried foods : Fried foods are harmful for your body as they load your body with unnecessary fats and calories effectively hampering your weight loss efforts. Instead roast, grill or steam your food.
• Cut back on fats : Fats make food tastier but they also make you unhealthy. A gram of fat provides as much as 9 calories more than double as compared to the same amount of protein or carbohydrate. And you know that 3500 calories equal 1 pound.

I’ll post some more tips soon. In the meantime, please subscribe to Reduce Weight in the box to the upper right. Thanks!