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The Mayo Clinic Diet: Eat Well, Enjoy Life, Lose Weight [Hardcover]

Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
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Book Description

January 1, 2010

From Mayo Clinic, a leading authority on health and nutrition, comes The Mayo Clinic Diet, the last diet you'll ever need.

Get a quick and gratifying start with Lose It!, the phase of the diet designed to help you lose up to six to ten pounds in just two weeks. Eat the foods you love - in moderation - in the Live It! phase, which is designed to help you continue to lose one to two pounds a week (and keep them off!).

Finally, here's the diet that helps you accomplish real and lasting weight-loss. This diet is no fad, but a solid, common sense approach brought to you by an organization that is an award-winning health information resource. Nor does The Mayo Clinic Diet require expensive ingredients (which can make a diet difficult to maintain in the long run.)

Through simple, healthy adjustments to your lifestyle, The Mayo Clinic Diet gives you the tools you need to achieve the success you want.

In two easy phases, The Mayo Clinic Diet helps you lose weight and keep it off for life.

In two simple phases, you'll be on the road to a healthy weight for the rest of your life. Packed with lots of extra encouragement - meal planners, recipes, tips for overcoming challenges, starting an exercise plan, and much more - The Mayo Clinic Diet gives you everything you need in one book.

Toss out the scales and calculators and pick up the foods you love. This is the diet you've been waiting for!


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Just in time for New Year's resolutions, experts from the Mayo Clinic present a well-rounded plan for dieting right. Editor-in-chief Donald Hensrud, chair of the Mayo Clinic's Preventive and Occupational Medicine division, packs this straightforward guide with useful tips, concise lists, charts, and color photos. Eschewing fads and quick fixes, the diet sticks to an involved, long-term, but indisputable plan for those willing to make significant lifestyle changes. Part one, Lose It, includes a two-week intro program designed to result in six to 10 pounds of weight loss, provided readers take up five new habits, including eating breakfast and upping their intake of whole grains, while quitting five old habits, like eating in front of the TV. Part two, Live It, modifies those techniques to sustain one to two pounds of weight loss a week. Part three helps readers with immediate and long-term challenges like behavior modification and stress, as well as meal planning and eating out. Efficiently organized with convenient reference points, this is a worthy guide for any determined dieter. (Jan.)
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I wanted a healthful, long-term plan, but I also needed to be bikini-readyin just six weeks. I gravitated to The Mayo Clinic Diet, the trusted hospital's first-ever weight-loss book, because it isn't a rigid eat-this-not-that meal plan, but more of a food-pyramid inspired puzzle.
-Amy Grippo, Marie Claire

"This diet is not a fad. You've had enough of those and know the results. Using clinically tested techniques, The Mayo Clinic Diet puts you in charge of making simple, pleasurable changes that will result in a weight you can maintain for the rest of your life."
-Donald Hensrud, M.D., diet expert at Mayo Clinic


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 254 pages
  • Publisher: Good Books; 1 edition (January 1, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1561486760
  • ISBN-13: 978-1561486762
  • Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.6 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (200 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,382 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Found this book to be very informative and an easy read. Bonnie  |  54 reviewers made a similar statement
I promise you won't regret spending the money for this book! Charles Davis  |  17 reviewers made a similar statement
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
557 of 572 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars 5-star and 1-star reviews are both right August 14, 2010
Format:Hardcover
Some reviewers give this book 5 stars, others give it 1. So how do you know whom to believe? I think I can help you.

This book is NOT for you if:
- You are looking for a magic weight loss plan, or a new theory of weight control
- You are looking for a lot of recipes

This book MIGHT be for you if:
- You subscribe to the old, tried-and-true formula for weight loss (eat fewer calories, exercise more), but need to know the details and need some help in getting, and staying, motivated.

The book is based on a version of the familiar food pyramid, and the diet can be summarized as: Eat a lot -- in fact as much as you want -- of fruits and vegetables (most of your favorites will be allowed, and you can eat them raw or cooked, and use fresh or frozen, and in some cases canned). Eat limited, though reasonable, amounts of carbs, protein and dairy, and fats. Exercise 30 minutes a day.

If you try it, good luck to you. I'm trying it, too; good luck to me as well.
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365 of 389 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars One Persons Journey Through A World of Books Thoughts: January 2, 2010
Format:Hardcover
I have read through this book and find it to be a fascinating easy to follow program that will produce results!

The Mayo Clinic Diet Book starts out with a 2 week period of ADDING 5 Habits - BREAKING 5 Habits and ADOPTING 5 Habits. What I love about this method is that it is doable. That's right... it is simple steps that the journal (I love the journal!) helps you calculate and keep up on day to day.
The Journal has a Habit Tracker within it so you can put in your starting weight... and check off the habits you are applying each day. This is great for someone wired like me as I have to have the visual in front of me.... plus, I like goals... and challenges...
With great habits to remember like eating a healthy breakfast, fruits and vegies daily, eating whole grains, healthy fats - and my favorite habit: MOVE! That's right - get out there and well, MOVE! :)
In the two week period you will also be encouraged to break 5 habits and this is good to doccument as well - like no eating while watching TV (guilty!), No sugar, no snacks, only moderate meat and dairy, and no eating at restaurants.
Now this is just part of the journal habits to break. In the two week period if we focus on breaking these habits we are on our way to new and healthier ways to enjoy life... The back of the book has a break down of good carbs and healthy choices as well as recipes. This book will be one I can refer to again and again!

The book talks about what motivates us... find what will give you an ongoing, burning desire to succeed. For me - I love being fit. I feel better about myself, I have more energy and I am just better. I dont know any other way to describe it. In September of this past year I fell a little off my routine and have yet to get back into where I was. I started not eating as healthy and skipping some of my workouts. My time management became cluttered and now in January I find myself 7 pounds heaver than my usual 125 pounds.
So - in light of this review - a new year, a great read... I am starting this two week program today. I will probably do a recap at the end of the two weeks on how I did. This book has motivated me to do what I need to do to get back on track. Using the journal as a guide and the book to help me with those pitfalls I am looking forward to and expecting success.
I thoroughly enjoyed everything about this book and cant say enough about the journal. Having a workbook that I need to keep track of what I am doing daily is a great motivator for me.
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208 of 223 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars This really works! December 30, 2009
Format:Hardcover
My husband and I were part of the initial study for this book. I will tell you that it is a lifestyle change but once you figure it out, it becomes second nature. I lost 8 pounds in two weeks and my husband lost 14. The study ended after 2 weeks. I did learn a lot but it certainly took time to figure out what foods are approved. I highly recommend this diet and intend to give it another try, this time adding the maintenance portions.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars Make Mayo part of your diet
This book can definitely not be read in one session. It even begins by telling me not to start my diet until I have made certain decisions - and then guides me on my way. Read more
Published 22 hours ago by I. Harvey Poch
3.0 out of 5 stars mayo clinic diet
the book is good but i'm not sure if i'm up to that type of diet at this time! time will tell!
Published 1 day ago by ourfarm
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent and supportive book for training folks to eat sensibly for...
Reteaches people how to eat properly for a healthy lifestyle rather than yo-yo dieting. Very supportive throughout the book for those who have a tough time changing eating habits. Read more
Published 8 days ago by Debra Robison
4.0 out of 5 stars different and interesting thought processes to increase likelihood of...
The focus is more on the underlying decision making and intentional habits so that those wishing to get healthier might increase their chances of actually doing that. Read more
Published 9 days ago by grandmother
5.0 out of 5 stars incredible information
Wish it was in a spiral bound book, but love the information and it's "user-friendly" fun reading. Would definitely recommend to others.
Published 13 days ago by Nancy L Bringman
4.0 out of 5 stars Healthy Living
The Mayo Clinic Diet gives you a great guideline for healthy living. This is not a quick loss diet, but a way to eat healthy.
Published 13 days ago by chuckbakerisright
5.0 out of 5 stars Great focus
This is a great program. Its starts out with looking into the motivation behind what will help you loose weight. Read more
Published 13 days ago by Susan M Amsdill
4.0 out of 5 stars Just another diet book
But it is easy to read, easy to follow and you can skip around in the book and read what you want when you want very easily.
Published 16 days ago by Kimberly Tabor
5.0 out of 5 stars I lost weight in the first 2 weeks!
I chose this book after doing some research on various quick weight loss diets. I didn't want to lose weight only to gain it right back. This book is the best. Read more
Published 21 days ago by Zanzibar 1
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Although I haven't used it as much as I would like to , the book is filled of recipes that I'm sure will be greAt.
Published 25 days ago by CRS
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