Healthy Living Weight Loss Mini Programs

For more than 35 years, we’ve been teaching people how to empower themselves to alleviate their pain from all chronic illnesses, regain their health, lose weight safely, and learn simple and practical ways to live a starch-based lifestyle. These lessons are now available in mini-courses to fast-track your education.

Learn directly from John McDougall, MD, how to improve, maintain and optimize your health.

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Mary’s Mini-McDougall Diet®

Mary’s Mini-McDougall Diet® is a simple starch-based weight loss program.

Learn the definitive version of Mary’s Mini-McDougall Diet® from the creators, Dr. John and Mary McDougall. This is a trimmed-down, fast-acting modification of the regular McDougall diet: it is starch-based with the addition of non-starchy vegetables. This diet is a simplified tool for people overwhelmed by the initial challenges of starting on the McDougall program and/or boosting their progress when they feel that changes are coming too slowly. Mary’s Mini-McDougall Diet® is a nutritionally sound program that you may want to follow for a long time, if not a lifetime.

Benefits:

Reset your weight loss journey and get back on track with healthy eating without counting calories or eating at specific times of the day
Curb sugar and high-fat cravings
Learn an easy way to start the regular McDougall diet
Get answers directly from the McDougall team as questions come up (within the online mini-course)

Plus so much more!

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Monotony is key. Choose one starch and one vegetable. Eat when you are hungry and until you are comfortably full.

"Mary’s Mini is basically a very simple starch-based weight loss program where you just choose one starch that you eat at every meal, the same starch every day for 10 days. Then you can add assorted green and yellow vegetables to the program, but you always eat the same starch, so if you choose potatoes that means you eat potatoes for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and any snacks in between meals, and to that you can add assorted green and yellow vegetables."

- Mary McDougall

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The Truth About Food

Alleviate the pain of chronic illness and start living the life you deserve.

The Truth About Food covers four main pillars of nutrition that are commonly misunderstood. After learning about these hot topics, you’ll know more about food and its effect on human health than most doctors, dietitians and nutritionists have learned throughout their years of professional training about these vital subjects.

The scientific facts about how much protein, fats, sugar and vitamins your body needs for optimal health
How osteoporosis is caused by excess protein and how to reverse it naturally
How fats and oils affect your heart health
The truth behind sugar and diabetes
The health benefits of eating starch
The best sources of B12 and vitamin D
How nature and whole plant foods provide complete nutrition
How to optimize your health with perfectly-packaged, nature-made foods

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Learn the science behind what makes Sweet Potato Beginnings an excellent example of delicious, easy-to-prepare food that can help heal your body.

Maximum Weight
Loss Program

Lose up to 15 pounds a month with a whole food, starch-based diet without going hungry or counting calories.

Learn the fundamentals of the McDougall Program for Maximum Weight Loss and specifically which foods to eat (and to avoid). This mini-course is designed to help you easily learn the most important aspects of how to lose weight in a safe and sustainable way.

Lose weight effortlessly by eating your favorite starch-centered comfort foods like potatoes, beans and rice
Never feel hungry again – as you may have experienced, diets that limit food and leave you hungry do not work long-term
Eat as much as you want of the right foods, when you want (with no calorie counting or time-specific eating windows)

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Our Fat Free Golden Gravy recipe over mashed potatoes is not only a community favorite, it's one of the many weight loss and comfort food ideas inside this course!

"If you haven’t eaten the best diet or lived a healthy lifestyle, now is the time to start. The body is very forgiving and has a tremendous ability to recuperate. You will be surprised and pleased by the results you experience on the McDougall Program for Maximum Weight Loss. Don’t waste another minute."

- John McDougall, MD

Aging Gracefully

The biggest fear we have as we get older is losing our ability to function – in particular, losing our mental functions. We want to make the best of – and ideally avoid – dementia.

The results of the McDougall program and McDougall diet have proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that you can make a difference as far as diseases that now take you in the prime of life.

Avoid Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia with safe, non-toxic, relatively inexpensive and effective treatments
Reverse common diseases like arthritis, heart disease and atherosclerosis, type-2 diabetes, kidney disease, osteoporosis, multiple sclerosis, depression and more
Preserve and improve cognitive health and gain additional benefits like lower insulin resistance, cholesterol, body weight and blood pressure

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Linda reversed heart disease, lost 50 pounds, and at 78 years old, lives a vibrant life and feels wonderful!

"We need to focus on the things we can control today, not our genes, good luck or good fortune. The information within these lectures are messages that every doctor should be providing for their patients."

- John McDougall, MD