I Lost 46 Pounds, Lowered My Risk! :

Over the last few years, Stephanie Y. has been through a lot. Five members of her family died. She gave birth to her third child. And her oldest child was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. The stress only made her attempts to lose weight and get healthy more difficult than ever.

“I felt like I had the world on my shoulders,” she said. “I came to this fork in the road, and I knew I had an absolute decision to make: I was either going to keep going or just kind of fall apart.”

At 5-foot-4 and 164 pounds, Stephanie said she decided to commit to losing weight. She found help through Mayo Clinic, which recently developed a new weight-loss plan that is a lifestyle instead of a temporary program.

The Mayo Clinic Plan focuses on educating people about proper food choices and developing a way of living that can be maintained for life. It emphasizes foods that are filling but not high in calories -- foods that are low in “energy density.”

eDiets is proud to offer The Mayo Clinic Plan , the first weight-loss program designed and endorsed by the acclaimed Mayo Clinic. It promotes a lifestyle that will lead to healthy results.

" The Mayo Clinic gave us the nutritional information we needed to make it happen,” Stephanie said. “They took us in their hands and said, ‘We’re going to teach you how to live with this, and we’re going to teach you how to live good and strong.'”

For her part, 35-year-old Stephanie made her best effort to better understand nutrition and exactly how she was going to adopt a new healthy lifestyle .

The effort paid off. She lost 46 pounds, and she says her body feels much firmer than it did before adopting The Mayo Clinic Plan . Her motivation was her daughter, who was forced to adopt a new lifestyle after being told she had diabetes.

“I had this little girl who had this lifelong disease,” she said. “…If she had to live a certain way and eat a certain way, (everyone in the family) would.”

The nutritional guidance provided by The Mayo Clinic Plan helped them do that, she said. This new plan is the first to be developed and offered to eDiets members by the acclaimed medical center. The clinic is teaming up with eDiets to offer their plan to a wide, online audience.

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