17 Day Diet

haven't tried it but it sounds like another gimmick to me... if it were that easy, we'd all be skinny

It is basically a low carb diet. You are able to eat any amount of foods from a list; for example, lean meats like chicken, fish and turkey. You can also eat all the low startch veggies. Cabbage, cucumbers, stuff like that. He also wants you to eat 2 servings of probiotic milk or yogurt like acdiphilus(that is spelled wrong) and 2 serving of a low carb fruit like berries, or an apple. And those carbs cannot be eaten after 2 pm. If you can handle low carb you can handle the diet. After the 17 days you introduce some carbs and you alternate days from cycle 1 and cycle 2. I never completed the full 17 days Good luck. You can find the book cheaper on amazon instead of running out to the book store.

It's a DIET. How many have you been on and gained the weight back? DIETS work temporarily. LIFESTYLE changes are what's needed for permanence.

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Exactly!!! I have been on many many "diets"...I believe "for me" it needed to be a complete lifestyle change...change in eating habits & exercise incorporated daily into my life...

Comitt to being fit. Find your root, your reason. And make it a life term reason.

I see brides out there going "I need to loose it fro the dress".

What happens after the dress?
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tessa681 - I look at the 17 day diet as a jump-start to a lifestyle change. It has you eating plenty of fruits and veggies from the get go, so I see it better than most low carb diets. It also begins putting in rice and other carbs in Cycle 2 - again, unlike most other low carb diets. I just started yesterday and decided to give it a try because it is about eating healthy. I was doing WW and just found too many reasons to eat anything as long as I was within my points.

Anyhow, if your interested there is a group us us that have just started, restarted and a few that have been on it for awhile that are collaborating here:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/6330-17-day-diet-plan-challenge-jun-2012

Good luck with your choice.

Its a good jump-start and does introduce a lot of foods back as you go through the stages. Also stages (cycles) only 17 days long. It does teach a lifestyle change.

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tessa681 - I look at the 17 day diet as a jump-start to a lifestyle change. It has you eating plenty of fruits and veggies from the get go, so I see it better than most low carb diets. It also begins putting in rice and other carbs in Cycle 2 - again, unlike most other low carb diets. I just started yesterday and decided to give it a try because it is about eating healthy. I was doing WW and just found too many reasons to eat anything as long as I was within my points.

Anyhow, if your interested there is a group us us that have just started, restarted and a few that have been on it for awhile that are collaborating here:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/6330-17-day-diet-plan-challenge-jun-2012

Good luck with your choice.

This.

I have been doing the 17 day diet since Jan 9 of this year, and I have lost a total of 52lbs (since I started it) so far. I have really been enjoying it, and I really do think that over the 5 months, I really have learned to eat better.

Feel free to friend me or ask me other questions, if you have any.

I have witnessed people do very well with this "diet". It is a "diet" but over the course of the 4 cycles it actually teaches you how to eat for a lifetime. it odes this in steps. Like any other "plan" you have to work the plan and really take the changes to heart. If you want to read about people who have worked through the plan, try reading the message boards here: http://thedoctorstv.com/group/The_17_Day_Diet_Club

Lots of great info there.

I had not found the right frame of mind to get on board yet. I am trying to refocus and get started learning to take better care of myself. I plan to use a lot of this plan to relearn how to eat.

Good Luck!