The Mayo Clinic Diet: Eat Well, Enjoy Life, Lose Weight
- ISBN13: 9781561486762
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
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!).
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Price: $14.35
Rating: 4.0 (33 reviews)
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.
Rating: 5 / 5
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.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book was helpful in many areas but also has a few pitfalls. I liked the book because it was extremely practical and I could actually use their recommendations in my everyday life. It was simple, easy, and they gave actions steps so I could actually apply the principles to my life. The bad part about the book was much of the nutrition information isn’t the best. For instance, they recommend drinking lots of low-fat milk which is highly allergenic and highly processed. They also push eating processed grains like breads, cereals, and pasta. My favorite part of the book was the change 5 habits section. It is simple and I can see it can radically change my life. They recommend: Adding 5 Good Habits, Break 5 Habits, and Adopt 5 Bonus Habits. Also, they had a section that helped you lay out a plan and set goals that was extremely helpful. So here is the simple breakdown.
The Good:
Helps you break bad habits and add in healthy ones
Helps you strategize a plan to reach your goals
Has Recipes with pictures
It’s realistic and works
The Bad:
Nutrition advice is little bit off in my book (they still adhere to the low-fat trends of the 1970′s)
I recommend this book to anyone who wants to make simple and realistic changes.
Rating: 4 / 5
The Mayo Clinic does most things well and this is no exception. I like the book and find the information helpful.The changing habit thing is worthwhile to consider. The price is right so I say take a chance.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is the first time I bought a diet book (or actually went on a “diet”). FYI: I’m a male. What drew me to this book was that it was published by the Mayo Clinic and is not a fad diet. The concepts in the book work. I actually lost about 8 pounds in the first 2.5 weeks on the diet and about another 2 pounds in the following week (my goal is to lose 15 pounds). The book motivated me to start to eat right and exercise (which I do for about 1 hour every day; burning between 300 and 500 calories on the oliptical + some light weight exercise). I became somewhat obsessed with eating the right foods as suggested in the book and got into an “exercise rut” (no matter how tired I was I exercised). The book is laid out fairly well and easily readable; although I find that it jumps around a bit – I would suggest reading Part 3 first (like I did) to get a basic understanding of eating and exercise and then go full bore into Lose It (Part 1). And read Part 2 and Part 3 (again). I saw results and that motivates me to continue to eat healthier and exercise. Good Luck!
Rating: 5 / 5