The 17 Day Diet

17 Day Diet:
1. This won't be a pleasure diet. You've got to stop eating unhealthy crap. You've got to eat vegetables, fruit and lean meat.
2. Keep your portions down, cut your intake of fatty, sugary, salty foods, and move your butt.
3. Anyone can do anything for 17 days.
4. Excess weight is always a sign of nutritional and metabolic imbalance. It's not strictly a question of what types of foods are eaten, and how they are digested, assimilated and metabolized.. If any of these components of good nutrition are compromised, then the body will not be adequately nourished at the cellular level, metabolic function will be impaired and toxins will accumulate.
5. Tubs of ice cream and bags full of chips are not worth shortening your life over. We're already in so much trouble with trans fats, cheap sugars, excess sodium, and unpronounceable additives jazzing up junk food.
6. So if you find yourself saying, "I didn't have time to prepare healthy food," let me ask you this: would you have found time if your life depended on it? Well, it does.
7. You need to eat vegetables if you want to get thin. Vegetables=thin. No vegetables=flabby
8. Having too much fruit can sabotage your diet (pineapple, watermelon, bananas)
9. You can go overboard on carbs, even the good kind, and this can be devastating to your natural metabolic process.

Cycle 1: Accelerate: to promote rapid weight loss by improving digestive health. It helps clear sugar from the blood by boosting fat-burning and discourage fat storage.

Eat unlimited protein. (salmon, tilapia, light tuna, chicken, turkey, ground turkey, eggs (2 egg=1 serving) (4 egg whites=1 serving)
Eat unlimited vegetables. (celery, cucumbers, green beans, green leafy vegetables, mushrooms, onions, spinach, tomatoes, watercress)
Eat up to 2 whole eggs a day. Unlimited egg whites, No more than 4 yolks a week
Eat 2 servings/day of fruit (berries, apples, oranges, peaches, pears, plums, red grapes)No fruit after 2 pm.
Take 3 grams of fish oil supplements daily.
Drink 8 8-oz. glasses of water daily.
Drink 3 cups of green tea a day. (negative water)
No white bread, potatoes, pasta, rice, chocolate, biscuits, sugary desserts, and sweets.
Drink 1-2 cups of coffee a day. (negative water)
No alcohol and sugar
2 servings of Probiotics daily (greek yogurt, kefir, low fat acidophilus milk, Liveactive cottage cheese
1 to 2 tablespoons of healthy fats (olive oil, flaxseed oil)
Exercise at least 17 minutes per day.

Cycle 2: Activate: To reset your metabolism through a strategy that involves increasing and decreasing your caloric consumption to stimulate fat-burning and to help prevent plateaus.

Cycle 3: Achieve: To develop good eating habits through the re-introduction of additional foods and move you closer to your goal weight.

Cycle 4: Arrive (ongoing: To keep you at your goal weight through a program of eating that lets you enjoy your favorite foods on weekends, while eating healthfully during the week.

The 17 Day Diet is based upon lean proteins, fruits, vegetables, and small amounts of grains.

Inspiration Desperately Needed...

and here's what came to me today.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

– Orison Swett Marden