Years ago… before Atkins was the thing to do when it came to low/no-carb diets, there was this… The Mayo Clinic Diet. I titled this “So Called”, because this never had anything to do with the Mayo Clinic, and the Clinic has done a lot to make sure people know that, in fact they now have their own actual “Mayo Clinic Diet“. The stuff below is basically a no-carb, high protein diet that promises you will loose 50-55 pounds in 10 weeks.
I followed this plan about 10 years ago, and I did lose weight.. 40 pounds in about three months, and then I stalled out for the next 2-3 months and decided if I wasn’t going to lose weight I wanted my potatoes back.
This appealed to me at the time because I could eat as much as I want, until I was full. Yea, I’m losing weight on this 1500 calorie a day thing… but I’m never full (unless I cheat… which I have a few times). And the two days off thing… that was kind of appealing as well. Though after no potatoes for over a month, I had some McDonald fries… and they just tasted… off. Anyways, there’s a variation of this out there too called the 12-Day-Diet or sometimes the Grapefruit Diet. Same basic premise, but it’s about eating like this for the long term, not just for 10 weeks.
