17 Day Diet Review
Created by the now famous Dr. Mike Moreno, the 17 Day Diet has been featured on all the big shows (which is why dieters love it), and of course, the name, the 17 Day Diet, makes you think that you can get fast weight loss results in just 17 days! Who doesn’t like that idea?
But while initially created to help you to avoid holiday weight gain, the 17 Day Diet actually encourages you to change your weight loss plan every 17 days, which is where you get the name. Some have called it “metabolic confusion”, others “muscle confusion”, mostly depending on if you’re talking about a diet plan or exercise plan or for that matter both. The most famous product to bring this idea to the light is P90X. But it’s also the concept behind “cheat days” or “cheat meals.”
The 4 Stages of 17 Day Diet
• Cycle 1: Accelerate: This cycle encourages rapid weight loss, cleansing, and burning, which most stage 1 diets do. Some do it by putting you on a fruit/vegetable cleanse while others use a low carb approach. Nobody technically says for sure. But the 17 Day Diet seems to be a low carb diet.
• Cycle 2: Activate This cycle supposedly resets the metabolism. But again, I’m not entirely sure how this diet is supposed to help you to do that. There are several different techniques most companies use. But you never really know.
• Cycle 3: Achieve Cycle 3 is mostly meant to help you to get into a normal rhythm, establishing normal eating habits, healthy approaches, and a combination, teaching you more about carbs. This is where we get the assumption that 17 Day Diet is a low carb diet.
• Cycle 4: Arrive This is the cycle that you stick to once you have achieved your weight loss goals. You can “cheat” on the weekends, you have a good grasp on what you are supposed to do, and hopefully, it will help you to keep it off in the future.
The Workout Plan
This is one reason why I have a major problem with 17 Day Diet. The rest of the diet sounds good, and by good I mean that I assume that the 17 Day Diet offers a balanced low carb diet with plenty of fruits and vegetables. But the 17 minute workout plan is just ridiculous. Unfortunately, there’s no way to really burn fat without at least 1 hour of cardio per day, and then you can lift weights if you want.
Should You Buy This Book?
That’s right, the 17 Day Diet is a book, not a diet pill or a diet plan like Nutrisystem for example. It seems to have the right idea behind it. But then again, you can’t really tell for sure unless you buy the book. I am not a fan of small and unrealistic workout plans, even with the best diet plan. But there is a certain amount of hope.
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