Giveaway – The Mayo Clinic Diet – Ends 1/21/10
The Mayo Clinic Diet
by the weight loss experts at Mayo Clinic
Eat well. Enjoy life. Lose weight.
isbn 978-1561486762
Pub. Date 1/1/10
The Mayo Clinic Diet Journal
isbn 978-1561486779
From the press release: The Mayo Clinic Diet emphasizes foods that are not only healthy, but also taste great. Part 1, the “Lose It!” phase, is The Mayo Clinic Diet’s two-week quick-start plan. “Lose It” is designed to help dieters lose 6 to 10 pounds in just 14 days. After dieters complete the “Lose It” phase, they move on to Part 2, “Live It.” This phase is designed to help dieters continue to lose 1-2 pounds each week until they reach their desired healthy weight. “Live It” offers a customized guide to using the Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight Pyramid.
To make it possible for dieters to keep track of their goals and succeed with weight loss, The Mayo Clinic Diet Journal is available as an essential companion to The Mayo Clinic Diet. Like the Diet itself, The Journal includes both a “Lose It” quick-start section to monitor habits and a “Live It” section to record daily eating and exercise.
The book and journal are very impressive and filled with practical information that is easy for ‘regular’ people to follow – lifestyle changes big and small that can help you lose weight and then maintain your healthy weight. The book’s 3 sections are easy to follow and have easy to follow illustrations:
- Lose It – Add some good habits and get rid of some bad habits. The quick start weight loss is a great motivation to continue with the plan.
- Live It – This is the long term plan which allows for continued weight loss and weight maintenance when you hit your healthy weight.
- Extra Stuff - Recipes, charts and lots of helpful technical information, nutritional information and encouragement.
The companion journal is very helpful. Normally, I think a blank spiral notebook makes a good journal, but in this case I think the official one is worthwhile. The charts and planning tools make it very easy to keep track of things throughout the initial Lose It section and the long term Live It section. If you’re doing this with a friend or family member, you may want to share the actual book and get a separate journal for each of you.
The book makes sense to me. They’ve done the medical research and the practical ‘human nature’ research to come up with a plan that people can follow!
For those of you not familiar with Mayo Clinic: Mayo Clinic is the first and largest integrated, not-for-profit group practice in the world. Doctors from every medical specialty work together to care for patients, joined by common systems and a philosophy that the needs of the patient come first.
(I will not include a long winded speech with my views on healthcare at this point – but I will say that Mayo’s non-profit status and their philosophy of putting the needs of patients first has my seal of approval – only wish that other clinics shared and practiced these same philosophies – and in the spirit of full disclosure, my brother is a Mayo doctor and I have personally used their emergency room services…)
HOW TO CONNECT – You can fan Mayo Clinic on Facebook and learn more on the Mayo Clinic Diet Blog.
DEAL ALERT - The Mayo Clinic Diet Book and Companion Journal are available at a discount on Amazon.
PRIZE ALERT – The publicist would like to give 1 of you a The Mayo Clinic Diet book and companion journal (ARV $40)
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Giveaway ends on January 21, 2010 at 8pm Pacific Time. Giveaway is open for US mailing addresses only. Winner will have 48 hours to respond to notification with shipping info – if no response, another winner will be chosen . Subject to the official rules. No purchase necessary – void where prohibited by law. Disclaimer/Disclosure: Review product was provided to me.
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The Mayo Clinic has always had great information about health and nutrition. They have a lot of great recipes there also. They really stress learning how to eat properly. They have great online support.
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Would find this most interesting. Thanks for the wonderful giveaway.
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The Mayo Clinic has a wonderful reputation so I think this book would be filled with plans & Menus for a healthy weight lose program.
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This sounds like a wonderful book. The Mayo Clinic is well-known and well-respected, so I am sure their suggestions will be accurate.
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I would love to read this book as I really need to change my diet for a healthy life.
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The Mayo Clinic Diet is a habit-based approach, you work to reshape your lifestyle by breaking unhealthy old habits that sabotage your weight and adopting healthy new habits that will lead you down a path toward better health.
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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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These books sound like great resources to lose weight and to lead a healthy lifestyle.
I learned that The Mayo Clinic Diet does not require expensive ingredients.
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I wonder if this is anything like the South Beach diet. I’d love a life-long plan that’s easy to follow. Count me in!
If I would put my faith in a “diet” book…the Mayo Clinic book would be one that I would trust to have my health in mind. After having three babies in less than three years, my goal this year is to lose those last 40lbs so that I can be a healthy role model for them.
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I like it that this book emphasizes a diet that really addresses the needs of the individual patient.
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