17 Day Diet

I'm starting the 17 Day Diet on Monday!!!

I've never done this diet but a friend of mine did last year. She didn't read the directions correctly anout eating second helpings of chicken, etc, when you are still hungry so she was only eating about 900 calories a day, even with exercise. She lost 6lbs the first week but it kind of stalled after that and she felt dizzy and lightheaded sometimes. So, just be careful to eat enough. She stopped after about two or three weeks and hasn't been back to it. On the plus side, the power cookies are really yummy!

I started yesterday. I requested the book from the library. I'm going to pick it up today.

I started today and downloaded it to my Kindle. Im impatient and wanted to start asap. Im also going to purchase the hardcopy as well.

I am starting too! Love the sign on the fridge LOL Good luck.

That's actually what lead me here. I'm pre-diabetic and started it to manage that. It was wonderful for teaching me a better way to eat. My carb cravings died. I can't thank Dr.Moreno enough for that. How I got here....I was about to crash from how restrictive it was. I had no clue why I felt so horrible. I read that my calories may have been too low, found this site to track them and realized I was eating about 600 cals a day. So, I think it's great on one hand, dangerous on the other. Just use MFP to track cals. You're allowed unlimited lean protein...eat it! Get as many cals as you can within the parameters of phase one and you should do fine.

i just read up on this diet and wanted to know in the first cycle is it simply just lean meat fruit before 2pm and the vegetables mentioned i keep getting confused! can you have milk iin your coffee? and if you can eat unlimited meats won't you go over calories? its all really confusing!! id appreciate the help.

It's a diet broken up into 3 17 day cycles. It is a book written by Dr. MIKE MORENO. I have been doin the diet for 5 days and lost 3lbs. I like the diet. It is restrictive and not for everyone.

I tried this diet a little over a year ago. Barely lasted a week, I was so hungry and felt light headed. I may not have followed it properly though but don't think I'd try again

Diet experts believe detox diets are dangerous and don't really "cleanse" your body. By the way, that's what the liver does - it cleanses the toxins right out of your system. Please read the current research on it. Based on what I've read here, the REAL reason you're losing weight isn't the "detoxifying", it's the calorie restriction. 600 calories a day? Of COURSE you will lose weight. But only until you start eating more.

Diet experts believe detox diets are dangerous and don't really "cleanse" your body. By the way, that's what the liver does - it cleanses the toxins right out of your system. Please read the current research on it. Based on what I've read here, the REAL reason you're losing weight isn't the "detoxifying", it's the calorie restriction. 600 calories a day? Of COURSE you will lose weight. But only until you start eating more.

600 calories/day? You don't want to go below 1200 calories. It's easy to, though, because you feel full -- even at 600 calories. Even though you don't have to "count calories", I recommend you do it for the first week to make sure you're getting a *minimum* of 1200 calories per day -- others require more. Whenever I started, I failed to count calories and the scale wasn't moving. I logged my calorie intake and realized I was only getting around 700 calories. Now, I've upped my calorie intake and am down 6.3 lbs. You NEED to eat on this diet in order for it to work. You shouldn't feel hungry at all.

I am on Day 10 and have lost 8 pounds already!! I feel healthy...I don't feel deprived of food (except junk food!) Lol.

What happens after 17days?

After years of trying Jenny Craig, different programs, Atkins, cleanses, etc...I really never found anything that stuck. Dec of 2010 I went to see a D.O. I was taken back by his first question to me. Every time I went to my old doctor, his first question was "How are you feeling? Are you still taking your meds regularly?"

My D.O.'s first question was.. "What are you eating?" I was floored when he explained how we are going to change my health with my food and get me off my meds if my Blood Pressure comes down and my Cholesterol comes down. I thought he was off his rocker, heart disease runs in my family.

I hit the scale at 210lbs. After his visit, I met with his dietician who worked with me on what I eat and how I eat. It took me 2 years to lose 40lbs (it took me 7 years to gain it). I have been maintaining my weight over the 2 years and also incorporated cardio and weight training at the gym along with bike riding to work and on weekends.

I know what I was eating before that made me gain the weight, I no longer eat that way. I say do what works for you, but really, you should get a doctor/dietician that monitors your health throughout the weight loss cycle. I go to my doctor every 3 months for a blood work up.

Oh, and the meds...well, I no longer need them. BP and Cholesterol are perfect.

Good luck to you

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”
― Hippocrates

I had great results with the 17 day diet! I did it for about 6 months starting last June and lost 25lbs on it (16 in the first month!). I've taken parts of the diet and incorporated it into my every day life, like now I just eat minimal grains/breads and lots of lean meats and vegetables. When I felt like my metabolism needed a kickstart, I did the first 2 cycles over again (even though I think I'm not supposed to do that..llol)

Also, this was doing almost no exercise (outside of what I was already doing, which was just some walking/occasional tomfoolery with friends)

I did the 17 day diet this winter and lost 20 lbs and did great, I felt great!! Starting it again next week to get these last few lbs off!!!