The Mayo Clinic Diet: Eat Well. Enjoy Life. Lose Weight »

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.

Lose It! a two-week quick-start program designed to help you lose six to ten pounds simply by:
• Adding 5 habits
• Breaking 5 habits
• Adopting 5 bonus habits

Live It! continue to lose one to two pounds a week until you reach your desired weight and then maintain it by:
• Using the Healthy Weight Pyramid as your guide to the most nutritious food groups and serving sizes.

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

Publishers Weekly

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.)