Mayo Clinic Diet 4+

Excellent

I have tried so many programs to lose weight and none have worked and all take so much of my time. This one takes all of the work out of it for you and includes shopping lists and daily menus. The food is not weird and overall tastes excellent! If you choose to track your food, provided you are following their menu, it is a simple click of a button. I haven’t been tracking but eat according to the menu and I’m down 12 lbs in one month. I’ve chosen the “Simple” option, as I’m very busy. I can’t attest for the other options.

One con, which hasn’t been a con for me but I imagine it will be for some, the “Simple” option rotates through a few breakfasts, lunches, and dinners for the week. There are repeats for each. The following week is all new foods. I think this is to maximize easiness and the food purchased (one meal calls for a rotisserie chicken, I’m obviously not going to eat the whole thing in one night). But if you don’t like having the same dinner 2 nights during the week, and maybe some leftovers for one of your lunches, then this might not be the program for you. I have found enough lunch foods that I enjoy, if I don’t want to eat leftovers (I don’t like leftovers) then I just make one of the other lunches from a previous week.

It’s been a long time

Maybe 20 years since followed a diet. I looked through each one of the diets and I chose the healthy keto because as I read through it it’s close to the way I already eat. Then the next thing is the recipes are outstanding. They do not require counting calories but I’m counting anyway. I barely hit 1200 cal and I’m full all day long. I don’t know who developed these recipes but bravo! I’m in my third week and I’m down 10 pounds. No headache very little detox symptoms the food is outstanding. I feel confident I can make it. I have faith in the mayo clinic because the hospital saved my daughters life. That’s why I decided to give their diet a try thank you. I feel better. My blood sugar is not all over the road. I can’t say enough about how wonderful the food is.

Membership not worth the value

Overall the diet seems to work for most people. I reached out for support, but seems that they don’t save the data to provide proper support. I was on a keto plan for over 3 weeks, and wasn’t working for me. I reached out for support, and in the meantime, I switched to another meal plan to see how they compared to keto, and kept their simple plan selected. I received a response from the support team 4 days after, and it was based on the new meal plan selection, so their response was that I wasn’t following the meal plan. Of course I was following it! But the keto plan, not the recently changed meal plan. So the response was useless. Also, the person pointed out that I needed to be in caloric deficit, below 1,200, to be able to lose weight. Caloric burn by working out is not taken into account. This doesn’t seem right. This is frustrating, because the support team is not able to provide a response based on the data of the previous weeks and meal plan.
My advise to anyone is to not sign up for the meal plan and support subscription program. They do a better effort to provide support on the free Facebook group, working on weekends to approve posts.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for taking the time to post your review. I'm very sorry to hear you did not enjoy your experience or feel supported. We would like to learn more about your experience and work with you toward a resolution. Please reach put to our support team here: https://diethelp.mayoclinic.org/s/contactsupport