With so many fad diets claiming to trim down your waist line are nothing but a waste. The secret to long term and permanent weight loss is not about avoiding yellow foods or avoiding foods that initiate with the alphabet G and the list is endless. If you really want to gift your spouse with your trimmed down look, then the real and workable trick is to decrease your daily calorie intake by about 100 calories less than what you were having earlier. It will hardly be noticeable but you will actually lose up to 10 pounds in one year