17 Day Diet

[DisneyMomma81]

This HCG lady is awesome ~ lots of great info and you can see the pounds melting off her - she's got a lot of informative youtube videos.

 

[Skatermom23]

I started this diet this past Monday and so far I am loving it! I am down 6 pounds in 4 days and feel great. Personally, I like being restricted from eating certain foods. It is a great motivator for me to know that in the next stage I get to add them back in. I was always a big WW fan but at this stage in my life, I need something to jump start things. The 17 day diet seems to be working.

 

[DisneyMomma81]

i'm going for a full 40, maybe longer since i'm using the Homeopathic HCG drops this has to be the easiest diet I ever done!

This is my opinion *I've never used homeopathic HCG - but my sister's MIL did and starved the whole time she was on it. My mom had some but I got the "real" stuff for her - mamaclock *who I mentioned previously and is the HCG queen* says this about homeopatich HCG in response to someone asking about it ~

"Hi, Mamaclok: Thank you, you are the reason I stard in hcg but it is drops homepathic. I am very frustrated and disappointed today is my sixth day of hcg and my birthday, and I did not lose any pounds, if tomorrow I do not lose any pouns I going to eat 6 apples, my headache are bette.

biuxi2 2 months ago
@biuxi2 You haven't lost ANY lbs.??? Then its not working! Homeo hcg has no real hcg in it! I would start over using real hcg.

mamaclok 2 months ago


Taken from *here*

 

[njmomtoone]

I just started the 17 day. I'm a 'diet veteran' who has struggled with weight all my life and have done it all - atkins, zone, south beach, nutrisystem, WW, jenny craig. Let me say this - all diets work if you follow them properly. I've lost weight on all those diets I listed. The problem with people not being able to lose weight it sticking to the diet. This plan has it's advantages there with it's maintenance phase.

For me the easiest and best was JC - i've kept all that weight off. It was expensive though, so I had to quit. I've noticed through the years I've dieted that low carbs suits me best. This plan is a modified low carb - not as restrictive as atkins, which I wouldn't call a fad diet. Science has proven that carbs make us gain weight - WW has paid attention to this as well since they've modified their program. So, i think it has great principles. It is a bit restrictive in the first phase but it's not really that bad for those of us who are used to restricting carbs.

I say if you know your body, and know that you're a carbaholic, try it. It really helps cutting out the cravings for me.

How do you feel so far on it?

 

[njmomtoone]

I started this diet this past Monday and so far I am loving it! I am down 6 pounds in 4 days and feel great. Personally, I like being restricted from eating certain foods. It is a great motivator for me to know that in the next stage I get to add them back in. I was always a big WW fan but at this stage in my life, I need something to jump start things. The 17 day diet seems to be working.

I am going to get the book. Does the plan just tell you what foods to eat? Do you have to measure food like Weight Watchers or just eat the right foods like South Beach?

 

[3disfans]

Lisabarr,
Could you PM me with your experience with hcg? I don't have enough posts to pm you

Are you changing your diet or just using the product?
Thanks!!

 

[TnTWalter]

That Adkins Fad diet you just talked about, is pretty much what you are doing, after the first 2 weeks. It isn't Fad, and if it is, I will be sure and tell my and my DH cardiologist that it is, they don't think so.

Everyone thinks Adkins or South beach is a fad eat all bacon and meat you want, that is not true. The first 2 weeks are very limited to meat and veggies, you must eat your veggies and shockingly, they actually discourage processed meat. After that you slowly add back in good carbs, to find the magic number that your body can handle and still lose weight and then finally to maintain your weight.

maybe that's what my friend did....just the first 2 weeks of adkins but i remember her gaining MORE weight when she quit.

I do think South Beach is more like how I eat but I've never read it. I was just trying to explain how she tried them all. Sorry to have offended you. I edited my post... i really meant more of the quick fad type stuff...

 

[rubato]

If you are doing something to lose weight that you can't keep up for the rest of your life, it's not a good idea. Portion control, calorie counting and smarter choices, along with exercise are the way to go. Cutting out processed foods and refined carbs are both good, but it has to be realistic and teach you how to stay thin after you've lost the weight. Just my 2 cents.

 

[DisneyMomma81]

If you are doing something to lose weight that you can't keep up for the rest of your life, it's not a good idea. Portion control, calorie counting and smarter choices, along with exercise are the way to go. Cutting out processed foods and refined carbs are both good, but it has to be realistic and teach you how to stay thin after you've lost the weight. Just my 2 cents.

I concur.

 

[mhsjax]

maybe that's what my friend did....just the first 2 weeks of adkins but i remember her gaining MORE weight when she quit.

I do think South Beach is more like how I eat but I've never read it. I was just trying to explain how she tried them all. Sorry to have offended you. I edited my post... i really meant more of the quick fad type stuff...

Really you didn't offend me, I hate chatting on the computer, things don't come out right. I just know that so many people don't know how to do Adkins and they think that they can just go eat a pound of bacon and a pound of cheese and call it Adkins.

Also you are right in that it is easy to gain weight if you stop doing it. YOu can't lose the weight or some of it and go back and eat processed junk and bad carbs , and you are taught to slowly add back in certain foods and see where your body can tolerate and not gain the weight back. What you are doing is probably more South Beach. I think the biggest difference between the 2 is that Adkins allows for more fatty protein than South Beach does.

People that eat the Adkins way and also the South beach way are forever having to defend this way of eating, when if you think about it, it is how we ate from the beginning. We didn't have processed crap, white bread, white flour, and we also didn't have the obesity epidemic. There has actually been research that supports the rise in this epidemic after the introduction of low fat items. Next time you are int he store, pic up something low fat and check the carb levels, you would be amazed at how high they are.

 

[Ladybugsy]

Really you didn't offend me, I hate chatting on the computer, things don't come out right. I just know that so many people don't know how to do Adkins and they think that they can just go eat a pound of bacon and a pound of cheese and call it Adkins.

Also you are right in that it is easy to gain weight if you stop doing it. YOu can't lose the weight or some of it and go back and eat processed junk and bad carbs , and you are taught to slowly add back in certain foods and see where your body can tolerate and not gain the weight back. What you are doing is probably more South Beach. I think the biggest difference between the 2 is that Adkins allows for more fatty protein than South Beach does.

People that eat the Adkins way and also the South beach way are forever having to defend this way of eating, when if you think about it, it is how we ate from the beginning. We didn't have processed crap, white bread, white flour, and we also didn't have the obesity epidemic. There has actually been research that supports the rise in this epidemic after the introduction of low fat items. Next time you are int he store, pic up something low fat and check the carb levels, you would be amazed at how high they are.

I agree with this. I did lose alot of weight on Atkins. But if I never lose another pound...this is the kind of eating that makes me feel the best. I admit I am intrigued by the HGC diet, or whatever it's called, and a doing a little research...btw, if anyone can help with that I'd be grateful. But people have totally the wrong idea about what Atkins is. I have never eaten as many veggies in my life as I do when I'm on plan. Plus, who doesn't like to lose weight eating butter and cheese on those veggies. I find I eat so much less, because I'm so satisfied. And my blood pressure, and cholesterol numbers got so much better, my doctor couldn't believe it. I haven't had a migraine since I started. I used to have 2 or 3 a month. There are other countless benefits, but I won't go into them now.

I'm not against any way of eating, IF it's right for YOU.

 

[leahjade]

Can you sum up the 17 day diet? I've never heard of it?

 

[lori123]

If you are doing something to lose weight that you can't keep up for the rest of your life, it's not a good idea. Portion control, calorie counting and smarter choices, along with exercise are the way to go. Cutting out processed foods and refined carbs are both good, but it has to be realistic and teach you how to stay thin after you've lost the weight. Just my 2 cents.

 

[Planogirl]

Can you sum up the 17 day diet? I've never heard of it?

It's not that dissimilar to other low carb diets except it is more about when you eat certain things rather than cutting them out altogether. It is all about low fat too and allows most vegetables and a lot of fruit. It's also important to eat probiotics and to exercise and of course drink lots of water.

It's called the 17 day diet because it is fairly strict for the first 17 days and lightens up the next 17 days since you are allowed to switch daily between the stricter phase and a less restrictive phase. Then the next 17 days are even more easy going. After that you start over on the original 17 day plan and so on until you are done. The doctor planned this out to keep people from hitting plateaus or from going nuts eating the same things constantly.

You also have a basic lifetime plan once you get to where you want to be. After reading the book, the lifetime phase just seems to be based on good sense and is in no way impossible to stick to.

This is not a fad diet IMO. I think that those who keep saying that most likely have not read what it's all about. I don't know how well it works yet but I think that it is nutritionally sound and really quite easy to stick to, assuming that you don't have dietary restrictions of course.

 

[stephbillalec]

DH and I are starting the 17 Day Diet tomorrow...looking forward to it.

 

[CTdiznymom]

I've been lurking here and am interested int he 17 day diet plan. First I've heard of it, and it sounds doable. However, I saw somewhere that it isn't recommended for diabetics. Can anyone that has experience with it explain why? TIA

 

[Planogirl]

I've been lurking here and am interested int he 17 day diet plan. First I've heard of it, and it sounds doable. However, I saw somewhere that it isn't recommended for diabetics. Can anyone that has experience with it explain why? TIA

I would read the book and see if the doctor talks about this. Plus be sure to ask your own doctor. The author is a family practitioner but I don't know if he addresses this or not.

 

[mrsklamc]

I've been lurking here and am interested int he 17 day diet plan. First I've heard of it, and it sounds doable. However, I saw somewhere that it isn't recommended for diabetics. Can anyone that has experience with it explain why? TIA

All those whole grains would be too many carbs for a diabetic.

 

[Dr.Girlfriend]

My ex-MIL keeps telling me to try it, but I lost the remainder of my weight with Medifast (28 pounds with them in about 8 weeks, 110 pounds total) and my hubs just started Medifast a week ago. He lost 15.6 pounds in a week on it.

(and yes, I'm a blogger, and Medifast is sponsoring my husband and I to try it out, so I write about it)

 

[Crazy4Disney06]

I would gain weight on this diet! Too many carbs for me. I do better on high protein low carb.

Me too! What I have discovered though my weight loss (lost over 120 pounds) is that any diet can and will work, as long as we work that plan! I am a low carb supporter, but have been successful on Nutrisystem as well.