started the 17 day diet yesterday

I am going to start it in June (I am going away soon and will be drinking on holidays).
I have been reading the book and I am concerned that some of the food will be boring. It's good to know that you haven't found this even if you are only a day or 2 into it. I plan on making a mass vegie casserole with red kidney beans before I start it so I have some dinners already set outside.
Any advise you have for some one about to start it would be appreciated

i thought it would be boring too, but so far the food has been delicious! i made a super good tomato sauce and threw in some ground turkey and ate that over steamed cauliflower (so good). today i had blackened salmon and broccoli sauteed in low sodium veg stock with red pepper flakes (so good). i chopped up a ton of veggies like carrots, tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, and 1/4 of an apple and made a huge veggie salad with a couple tablespoons of italian dressing, which was really really flavorful and delicious. today i added some portabella mushrooms cooked in veg stock and balsamic vinegar to give the salad more substance. just make sure you read carefully because when you start the diet beans aren't allowed, you can eat them in cycle 2 i believe but not at first.

i've lost 2 lbs in 2 days which i realize is mostly water weight, but hey for me that's huge as i have been exercising 6 days a week for 6 months now and haven't lost a single pound! and i can just feel it that with my diet as clean as this and if i keep exercising, i think i'm finally going to lose those annoying 10 lbs i've been trying to lose for months

the best thing you can do if you're starting this diet is to mentally prepare for it. like i said i've known that a diet like this is what i needed to do for a long time now, but i just didn't have the will power to not snack on junk and eat too many fats (healthy fats, but still, too many). so i just read the book and told myself "ok, on monday i'm starting this and i will eat EXACTLY what the book says to eat." so until that monday came i kept eating my normal food, and kept reminding myself that on monday that stops. and i wasn't sure that i'd be able to do it but so far it's been really easy and i feel SO much more satisfied eating the food this book recommends than i did eating what i wanted to eat.

on day 1 i only took in about 800 calories as well... but yesterday i was able to get a lot more cals in, i made my food diary public if anyone wants to check it out to get some ideas. eating salmon really helped i think, there's lots of good calories in salmon and it's one of the freebie foods for cycle 1. i'd suggest exercising a little but more than the book recommends, just to make sure you're hungry enough to eat enough calories.