Any success stories with the 17 day diet plan?

I know this reply is wayyy later than when you posted this lol but I have a great 17 day diet sucess story. My mother introduced me to this book August of this year *2013*. We started the middde of August. I followed the book EXACTLY! I did everything that was instructed and everything he speaks about feeling as a result of following this diet was EXACTLY what happened to me! By the time I made it to the 4th cycled I had lost 35 pounds! Then I lost another 12 pounds during the 4th cycle which was the phase learning how to maintain your weight! I did not excercise AT ALL during all of this weight loss. It is nowDecember 25th 2013 (Merry Christmas) and I am not tempted to go crazy on holiday food! I have decided to apply this 17 day diet book to my life FOREVER! I do not see it as a diet, but a way of life. The good thing about this book is it doesn't just leave you like "yeah eat chicken, fish and vegetables, lose weight, and good luck!" lol NO it reintroduces all types off foods through each cycle! It helps you to take healthier approches to carbs and fat. Basically if you stick to it (if eating poorly was your weight issue) instead of eating ALOT of fat food and a little bit of healthy food, you will learn to eat ALOT of healthy food and a little bit of fatty food! AWSOME BOOK! I highly recommend it. Now that I have dropped most of the weight, I am now strength training two-three times a week! YASS! Get this book!

In April of this year I got a job working with 3 women who were doing this diet. They were all overweight but two were obese, the third simply overweight. They were losing like 7 lb per week on the diet. They were miserable witches but I have no idea if it was all because of the diet ;-) I doubt it. Anyway...I quit that job at the beginning of July, while they were still doing 17 day cycles and losing like crazy.

I have seen all three of them recently (in the past month) and all THREE of them are heavier than they were in July. Like way heavier.

Obviously I have no idea about how much they adhered to this diet, which frankly sounded pretty crazy to me at the time with so many foods eliminated from one's diet (even if temporarily).

Meanwhile they all thought I was "crazy" for using MFP and counting calories because they thought it A) didn't work, period or didn't work fast enough. I have gone from a size 22 in April to a size 16 right now. Sometimes size 14. So I'll stick with MFP.

One word of caution...while I see several others here seem to be using MFP in conjunction with the 17 day diet, one of those former coworkers claimed the two do not work together as she was logging her 17 day diet foods and MFP said she should be gaining weight or losing much more slowly than she was. So FWIW you might expect some discrepancies there if you do that diet.

I did the first two cycles of the 17 Day Diet last spring and lost 20lbs. I agree with what so many of already said here... if you go back to your old ways (and I did this Fall) you WILL gain your weight back. Why? Not because of this plan... but because you are making bad choices again. For the naysayers that say "I don't know anything about it, but it sounds like a gimic." I have to urge you to reserve your opinion if you don't know anything about it until you've tried it, because 1. it shouldn't be called a "diet." It should be called a life plan for learning to eat correctly. 2. It absolutely is about making the right "healthy" choices 3. It absolutely works, when nothing else had worked for me, and I shouldn't have needed a book to learn how to do this. I am jumping back into this book again to take the 8 pounds I gained back off again (100% my fault for eating crap that I knew I shouldn't be eating and neither should you) because I know this works and I know it's a healthy way to live. There are no special products you need to buy, just good healthy food. You will be so proud of your shopping cart and there won't be anything "diet" about what's in it.

I also want to add that I use MFP alongside of this diet very well. I use it just so I can see the nutrients I'm consuming and be accountable to myself and my friends so I don't get lazy. You will still lose even if your calorie count is off because you're not eating the kinds of foods that cause your body to store fat (i.e., dead carbs with no nutrients).

I promise that if you apply this book to your life with no cheating, you WILL see weight loss, you will feel good, you will see healing in your body. I had been plateaud and nothing was moving my weight until I found this book and I really feel I owe so much to the Doctor that wrote this book for giving me the tools to take back my health.

Goodbye back and joint pain, goodbye heartburn, goodbye sleepness nights, thank you Dr. Moreno for writing this book.

Not kidding... this book is the answer... and everyone of us need to know this stuff well.

Folks don't gain the weight back because they return to "unclean" eating - they regain the weight because it is simply not possible for a human body to oxidize 20lbs of fat in 17 days - except under morbid obesity. That 20lb weight loss is mostly lean - muscle and water.

Me! Did this diet about 2 years ago and lost 12 lbs on it. Kept it off, and then some. I wouldn't necessarily call it a diet either; it's a healthy way of eating. It changed the way I eat.

I've done this diet before, as well as the South Beach diet, Fast Diet, even "7 day quick weight off Oriental diet"! This is the one I go back to because it's the simplest, I know I'll lose a lot of weight in the beginning, and that motivates me to stick with it. I know losing a pound a day is not sustainable, but eventually you will begin to lose fat if you stick with this. The initial weight loss makes you feel a lot better, not bloated, and energizes you to continue. As others have said, it has 4 7-day cycles, which gradually get you to eating a normal, maintenance-type of diet. You can gain the weight back easily after any diet if you start eating too much junk. I don't think rapid weight loss in the beginning makes you gain weight back faster, unless you only had the equivalent of that water weight to lose. Anyway, I've lost 7 pounds so far and am really excited!

I have started this diet 3 days ago. I am a nurse, and a couple Dr's I work with had success on it, so I am trying it. The first day I had a headache and was a witch. I was also soooo freaking hungry. I am using MFP in conjunction with the diet, and limiting my calories to 1200 a day. This is only for a very short time while I am detoxing off the sugar, and detoxfying my body. ( the first 17 days).I am eating so many veggies and lean protiens, so even though 1200 doesn't seem like a lot- after being on it for 3 days my body is adjusting and not being hungry. I was living off fast food and drinking way too much. I am excited!!!!!!!!!!! I will update this after the 17 days is over.

i have done the 17 day plan 3 times...first time I lost 50 pounds in about three months, I did cheat with butter, some chocolate, and sauces BUT I KEPT up with the Green tea (24 ounces )and water....I did not follow through to say on the Maintence Part, so here I am back at it again....its NOT A GIMMICK....it works, its budget friendly and easy to follow....getting ready to start again....any one want to join me and we can be accountablity partners?

The 17 plan is SAFE and Works Quickly, the first 17 days....you feel good and they incorperate most of your favorite foods as you go along building your eating plan every 17 days...but YOU NEED TO GET THE BOOK...and just follow the plan, you can mix it up if say one day you don't feel like the breakfast lunch or dinner they are setting up for you....you can go to another day in that cycle and say Yes I want that instead......its the best diet Ive ever been on....can't figure out how to post a picture i guess ill have to sign in under my phone....:)

I tried.