Forget the fad diets, where you’ll gain back weight as soon you stop the diet. Mindy Weisel tells you how to reach and maintain your long term weight goals in her book "The 7-Day Color Diet."

“The lowdown: Overall, the diet is well balanced, according to Tammy Baker, R.D., a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. ‘Plus, it promotes weight loss in a fun way,’ says Baker….The bottom line: “I’d recommend it for someone who is already exercising every day,’ says Baker.”
Fitness, November 2003 issue

“Enjoyed the different approach to proper nutrition in this easy to remember format.” Cheryl McCann, www.review-books.com

The 7-Day Color Diet:
The New Way to Health & Beauty
Mindy Weisel, Carolyn Weisel Miller, M.S., R.D., and Jessica Weisel Courtney, L.E.
May 2003     ISBN 1-931868-08-5    $24.95

Dulles, VA: According to the American Dietetic Association, “Obesity has reached epidemic proportions and health care costs associated with weight-related illnesses have escalated.” Many people site uninteresting diet plans and the inability to eat favorite foods as reasons they are unwilling to start diets or unable to maintain lower weights once the diet is complete. Most of the fad diets that are popular today focus on short term solutions, causing dieters to return to the diet regularly as they gain weight again after the initial loss. Mindy Weisel, an acclaimed artist and author of Daughters of Absence, and her daughters Carolyn, a registered dietician, and Jessica, a licensed esthetician, provide a long term lifestyle change, not a short term diet, in their 2003 book "The 7-Day Color Diet: The New Way to Health and Beauty."

Like seven days at a lovely spa––The 7-Day Color Diet offers you a healthy color-a-day diet plan that will help you reach your weight loss goals, one color at a time. From White through Red, Green, Orange, Purple, and Yellow and into Rainbow Day, savor the rich spectrum of nature’s colors as you lose unwanted pounds and gain the healthiest of complexions. By the end of the first week, you’ll be slimmer, more energetic, and glowing with health. The 7-Day Color Diet is easy, fun, and colorful. It tastes good, looks good, and is good for you. Due to the diversity in foods allowed in the diet and the interested format, dieters are more likely to stick with the diet and continue with it as a regular way of eating. Mindy Weisel’s nutritionist daughter, Carolyn Miller, has ensured the health and weight loss benefits of this color-by-color diet.

One of the biggest problems for dieters is how to maintain weight after the initial weight loss is completed. The American Dietetic Association says, “Clearly, preventing regain of fat losses is the major challenge of weight maintenance. Among the limited numbers of programs that do long-term follow-up, many find that losses are completely regained within 3-5 years.” With its more than 100 recipes, the 7-Day Color Diet continually adds foods and dishes as it progresses, emphasizing long lists of permitted foods and stimulating even the most novice of chefs. Carolyn and Mindy also provide a maintenance place to help dieters continue their success long after the initial weight goal is reached.

    Besides teaching you to get slim and stay that way, Mindy’s esthetician daughter, Jessica Courtney, offers you a 7-day color-by-color skin care and beauty treatment plan. “Color is an inspiring way to organize a week devoted to health and beauty,” she says. Just as the diet adds new foods, color-by-color, so the skin care program adds a beneficial skin treatment to go along with the color theme of the day, including recommended products and their application.

Mindy Weisel’s art hangs in museums and institutions around the world, including the Smithsonian, Hirshhorn Museum, National Museum of American Art, Israel Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, and the U.S. Capitol. Her work has been reviewed by the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, Art News, and more. She is the author of Daughters of Absence and Touching Quiet. She lives in Washington, D.C. Carolyn Weisel Miller, M.S., R.D., is one of New York’s hot, young, clinical nutritionists, working with Midtown Nutrition Care. She has been featured in articles in the New York Post and Glamour, and will appearing in Newsweek, Fitness, and Cosmopolitan. She graduated at the top of her class from New York University’s School of Nutrition, and at 3l is a bright new voice on the latest in science and nutrition. Jessica Weisel Courtney, a licensed esthetician, is the founder of Hydra Skincare Studio in Miami, Florida.