Cheer up! There’s good reason to get happy. A hot new plan promises to lift your spirits and whittle your waistline. It’s The Good Mood Diet, the brainchild of renowned nutritionist Dr. Susan Kleiner, who’s helped transformed professional athletes, busy executives and thousands of other men and women. Drawing on more than 25 years experience, Dr. Kleiner has assembled a program that will boost your mood, build endurance and increase weight loss along the way.
Having worked with clients such as the Seattle Seahawks and Supersonics, the Cleveland Browns and Cavaliers and others, Kleiner knows the importance on being at the top of your game both on and off the field. Kleiner sits down with Choose Your Diet and reveals the secrets for getting your body and your mind performing optimally.
Is The Good Mood Diet the same approach you use for the Seattle Seahawks?
It’s a tapered down version. Many athletes eat 2,500 to 3,000 calories or more. The whole concept has a scientific basis of what we’re doing to enhance mood, mental focus and mental energy, as well as enhancing physical energy and endurance and cutting fat. That’s the basis of the diet. It’s the best of sports nutrition and what we understand about food and mood. It’s not just food and mood but great health. Combined together, it’s very much what we do with athletes except it’s for la less active person.
Where does weight loss fit in?
Weight loss is built into the program. The concept that I have learned from over 25 years in working with people is that weight loss is a motivator to get people on a diet. But it’s not enough to keep people on a diet when a diet makes them feel lousy. Most diets eliminate many foods. They’re calorically restricted and having a negative approach makes people feel lousy. It’s inherently depressing. People go off diets because they feel lousy. The ultimate motivator is a diet that makes you feel great and then you’ll stick to it.
With The Good Mood Diet, you notice changes in how you feel physically and mentally, as well as having more energy. The weight loss part is built in as the combination of food and timing of eating and the recommendations of exercising work together. You have to have energy to do all of these things.
