The Mayo Clinic Diet is a healthy diet plan that teaches you to eat right so you can lose weight, maintain your weight loss, and greatly improve your overall health.
About the Program
This diet program is based on clinical research conducted by the Mayo Clinic. It focuses on more than weight loss, it focuses on your overall health.
You’ll follow four vital components:
1. Eat Well using the food pyramid used for the plan.
2. Move – You need exercise whether it is adding more physical activity to your life or a fitness regimen.
3. Goal Setting – Recognize your important goals and keep them realistic to help you stay motivated and successful.
4. Motivation – Staying motivated will require focusing on positive things, getting your priorities in order, and surrounding yourself with people that will support and encourage you.
Foods You Can Eat
This plan lets you eat well and you’ll follow the visual food pyramid created by the Clinic. You read the pyramid form the bottom up for the healthiest foods.
Daily Servings
– Fruits unlimited – minimum of 3 servings
– Vegetables unlimited, minimum of 4 servings
– Carbohydrates – 4 to 8 servings
– Protein/Dairy – 3 to 7 servings
– Unsaturated fats – 3 to 5 servings
– Satisfy your sweet tooth with a treat – you’re allowed up to 75 calories daily.
Exercise
Regular physical activity is a necessity. You can walk, shop, climb stairs, do yard work or gardening, or a regular fitness regimen. You need to move and to get thirty to sixty minutes of exercise daily.
Costs
The Mayo Clinic website provides the pyramid on their site and tips to follow. However, they are coming out with a book. At this time it’s in the “preorder stage” (as of December 2009) which is nice because that guarantees the price will remain the same if you purchase it now. They also have a journal that is in the “preorder stage” to accompany the book.
The books are: The Mayo Clinic Diet 
Pros
– Developed by professionals based on clinical research
– Healthy foods you can buy at your local grocery
– Promotes exercise
– Provides tips to help you stay motivated
Cons
– None noted
Summary
Combined with healthy eating, exercise, goal setting, and tips to overcome negatives to promote motivation, The Mayo Clinic Diet is an extremely healty diet plan. Following their plan will promote weight loss and a lifestyle change that will maintain that weight loss and improve your overall health.
