The Mayo Clinic Diet is a diet created by the Mayo Clinic that focuses on long-term sustainable weight loss and healthy habits.

Instead of extreme short-term calorie restriction or accurate calorie counting like other diets, the Mayo Clinic Diet is about developing new healthy habits and breaking unhealthy habits. It also emphasizes frequent exercise, sets achievable goals, and helps you find your own motivation to lose weight.

The Mayo Clinic diet is also sold as a weight loss program created by experts and medical professionals with a lot of experience in helping people lose weight. Here’s a YouTube video they created:

How does the Mayo Clinic diet work?
The diet has two main phases:

& “Lose It!” – A 2-week phase with a variety of rules and restrictions on what to eat, where to eat, and exercise.
& “Live it!”: The rest of the diet where you use what you learned during “Lose it!” but they are allowed to break some of the rules.
During the “Lose It!” phase there are a variety of rules, recommendations or guidelines including:

• Eat foods at the bottom of the Mayo Clinic Healthy Weight Pyramid. In particular, you should eat a lot of fruits and vegetables. Also, unlike other diets, there are no restrictions on what fruits or vegetables you should eat.
• Eat foods on the Mayo Clinic Superfood List.Alcohol and sweets are restricted.
• Eating in restaurants is not recommended.
• Portion control and caloric intake are monitored.
• 30-60 minutes of exercise per day is recommended.
• Eating while watching television is also discouraged.

What’s Good About the Mayo Clinic Diet?
We really like the Mayo Clinic diet and overall we think it is one of the best fad diets available. In particular, we like:

• Their emphasis on long-term weight loss compared to diets that focus on unsustainable short-term results. Rapid weight loss often leads to rebounds of weight gain. Extreme calorie restriction can also cause a variety of health complications.
• His emphasis on breaking bad habits and building better habits. A lot of weight gain is related to the underlying habits that trigger it.
• Its emphasis on 30-60 minutes of movement per day without requiring a specific type of exercise. Even taking a 30 minute walk is much better than not exercising. It is also much more enjoyable and sustainable than more intense exercise programs.
• His emphasis on portion control and eating lots of fruits and vegetables, avoiding alcohol and sweets.
• His emphasis on personalization. We believe that there is no one-size-fits-all diet that works for everyone.