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.

so day 3 is complete and i honestly can't get over how my cravings have just disappeared completely. maybe it has something to do with the way they suggest certain foods at certain times of the day.... but either way i have not had a single snack or anything sweet in 3 days and i'm not even tempted! my biggest problem was always the mountains of unhealthy snacks at my job - i teach preschool and the parents are just always bringing in crap for the kids. even foods like pretzels are just terrible for you, all that refined flour and no nutrition at all. so i'd constantly be snacking and it really hurt my weight loss attempts, and i guess eating all that junk along with the healthy food i would pack really made me crave more junk all the time. now that i cut out sugar completely the cravings aren't even there, it's amazing.

AND i just got back from the gym and ran my fastest mile ever! 8 minutes!!! i feel like i have a ton of energy on this diet. i'm gonna weigh in tomorrow or the next day.... i only want to lose 10 lbs so i dunno how quickly that will come off, but i'm pretty convinced this is finally a way of eating that will actually work for me.

C1D3 here and down 6 pds! My biggest problem is getting in enough calories. It's really difficult to get to 1200 with this diet and I am not hungry at all. Day 1 I was just over 900 and yesterday I was just over 700. Today I am going to just make myself eat more....

congrats on that 6 lbs - i'd be thrilled if i lost 6!

down 3 more lbs today, a total of 5 ie more weight than i've lost in 6 whole months of exercise alone!

i just did an hour of spin then an hour of yoga... it was definitely too much. i barely had any energy or balance to do yoga. i don't think i'll be doing another spin class while in cycle 1 of this diet. this week i ate a lot of steamed cauliflower with tomato sauce and ground turkey, eggs for breakfast with an orange, a huge veggie salad every day with carrots, red peppers, apple, cooked onion, cucumber, and 2 T of dressing. i grilled a ton of asparagus and sauteed 3 heads of broccoli with garlic and red pepper flakes and ate that yesterday and today. tons and tons of veggies basically. it feels so good!