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The Mayo Clinic Diet
By the weight-loss experts
at Mayo Clinic
Eat well.
Enjoy life.
Lose weight.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What is unique about The Mayo Clinic Diet?
- The main emphasis of The Mayo Clinic Diet is a two-phase approach to weight-loss. Get a quick and gratifying start with Lose It!, the first phase, designed to help you lose six to ten pounds in two weeks.
- Then eat the foods you love, in moderation, in Live It!, the second phase which is designed to help you lose one to two pounds a week—and keep the weight off.
- There's one more piece—The Mayo Clinic Diet offers strategies for overcoming the common obstacles that often get in the way of doing what you know you should. It takes seriously the problems that interfere with eating right and exercising enough—and it offers constant and practical help.
2. Why did Mayo Clinic decide that now is the right time to develop a diet?
Because people want it. Bogus Mayo Clinic diets—based on everything from cabbage soup to grapefruit to bacon—have been circulating for decades.
These diets have no connection to Mayo Clinic, but their popularity told us that people, now, more than ever, are hungry for a diet based on Mayo's trusted research and clinical experience.
3. If The Mayo Clinic Diet is a sensible and long-term approach to weight-loss, why does it include a two-week quick-start phase?
It's easier to stick with a diet when you know it works. The two-week quick-start allows people to see progress quickly and healthfully without any gimmicks. No special foods, no strange supplements.
Using clinically tested techniques, this Diet puts you in charge of reshaping your life by adopting healthy new habits and breaking unhealthy old ones.
When something that simple is also that successful, why not stick with it?
4. This book spends a lot of time talking about motivation. Why include "pop psychology" with this Diet?
Odds are, most people already have a good idea of what they need to do to lose weight—eat less and move more.
But if you're struggling with your weight, then this "simple" equation hasn't worked for you. Why?
The most critical element of weight-loss is what you bring to the effort—your own personal will to succeed.
The Mayo Clinic Diet is packed with the advice of Mayo Clinic weight-loss experts and strategies for succeeding at healthy weight-loss.
Finally, there is help for dealing with this huge issue, which so often derails weight-loss.
5. Doesn't this Diet undercut Mayo Clinic's image?
No. Preventive care is a large part of Mayo Clinic's mission. We all know that sensible weight-loss makes a big difference in people's total health by significantly lowering risk of disease and other health threats.
The Mayo Clinic Diet cuts through all of the fads and nonsense and provides a reliable, comprehensive approach to weight-loss from the variety of experts at Mayo Clinic.