Mayo Clinic Grapefruit Diet

Just FYI this has nothing to do with the actual Mayo Clinic.

http://www.diet.com/g/mayo-clinic-diet-fad-diet

...Details are vague about how a grapefruit-based diet became known as the Mayo Clinic fad diet. Not even the Mayo Clinic knows how its name became associated with the popular diet, according to the medical facility’s web site. The Mayo Clinic fad diet is believed to date back to the 1930s, when it was known as the Hollywood diet.

...It may be that promoters of the high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet thought that using the Mayo Clinic’s name would lead dieters to believe that the food plan was medically sound. The Mayo Clinic disputes this label and refers to the fad weight-loss plan as a ‘‘diet myth.’’

The reason I wouldn't do this is simple: What then?

You can lose weight on any of a huge number of diets, as long as you stick to them. So you lose the weight, then what? How has this taught you anything to use for maintaining that weight loss?

If you don't have a plan for maintenance, and just fall back into your pre-grapefruit habits, you'll just regain what you lost.

Calorie counting is a sustainable plan for not only weight loss, but weight maintenance as well, so the strategies you learn to adhere to this are useful for a lifetime.

lcthatsit wrote: »

You are welcome to remove the name mayo clinic from the title. Just know the diet, fad or not works & works well.
It's basically a caloric controlled diet that increase vegetable intake.

Any calorie controlled diet will work, I prefer to replace the word "grapefruit" with the word "chocolate" and log my intake, but that's just me.

lcthatsit wrote: »

Once you are at the desired weight increase or decrease calories and exercise to maintain the desired weight.
Anything you do is a diet, it doesn't matter if it's calorie counting, surgery or whatever, bottom line it's dieting.
It's your choice which diet you choose, Fad or long term.

Well what are the calories associated with this diet? You say it's calorie controlled, but nothing in your initial post supports this statement. The only portion size given was for the grapefruit. "Any meat" is also especially vague and could definitely contribute to weight gain, per this diet I could have a thick juicy ribeye twice a day since it says "any meat" and does not give portion sizes. If I were to eat in that manner I would certainly not lose weight.

kshama2001 wrote: »

Just FYI this has nothing to do with the actual Mayo Clinic.

http://www.diet.com/g/mayo-clinic-diet-fad-diet

...Details are vague about how a grapefruit-based diet became known as the Mayo Clinic fad diet. Not even the Mayo Clinic knows how its name became associated with the popular diet, according to the medical facility’s web site. The Mayo Clinic fad diet is believed to date back to the 1930s, when it was known as the Hollywood diet.

...It may be that promoters of the high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet thought that using the Mayo Clinic’s name would lead dieters to believe that the food plan was medically sound. The Mayo Clinic disputes this label and refers to the fad weight-loss plan as a ‘‘diet myth.’’

This was what I was going to post as well.

If you had to go back and do it again then it wasn't an effective diet.

lcthatsit wrote: »

Breakfast: 2 eggs, 2 bacon & 1/2 grapefruit or 2oz grapefruit juice

Lunch: Any meat, any green or red vegetable & 1/2 grapefruit or 2oz grapefruit juice

Dinner: Any meat, any green or red vegetable & 1/2 grapefruit or 2oz grapefruit juice

This is a great diet for eating out and it works. I've lost plenty of weight on it before and am on it now.

In other words, you're eating less calories than you were eating previously.
And if you're on it now, what happened to staying on it before? If it's not sustainable for life, how do you plan to not regain weight unless you stay on it?

All diet plans work if people stick to them and the calories are correct. Truth.

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lcthatsit wrote: »

Once you are at the desired weight increase or decrease calories and exercise to maintain the desired weight.
Anything you do is a diet, it doesn't matter if it's calorie counting, surgery or whatever, bottom line it's dieting.
It's your choice which diet you choose, Fad or long term.

Correction, surgery is NOT a diet. It's a physical procedure to reduce the stomach.
Might want to get your information correct if you expect people to take your advice.

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Kickboxing Certified Instructor
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Grapefruit Diet

No thread on a Grapefruit Diet is complete without a little Weird Al.

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2012/11November/Pages/Prescription-pills-and-grapefruit-a-deadly-mix.aspx

"Prescription drugs and grapefruit a 'deadly mix'"

I like to lose weight by finding a suitable calorie goal, and eating to it with a variety of interesting foods.

This diet had been around since the 70s, and has to lie about an association with the Mayo Clinic for legitimacy. You lose weight because you eat less than you burn, and the restrictive menu is unnecessary.

If a diet has to rip off the name of a respected medical establishment in order to gain credence, that should tell you it's highly lacking.