17 Day Diet: Days One and Two

{17 Day Diet}

Earlier this year, my parents followed this diet and my dad was very successful. I’m starting to realize that if I don’t have strict guidelines, I will convince myself that a cheeseburger from Wendy’s isn’t really a lot of calories and would be perfectly ok to eat. So, yesterday I decided to start this new diet. I don’t normally like the word “diet” but after reading the book, I’m on board. There is no starvation, you are encouraged to eat yummy vegegtables, lean proteins, 2 servings of fruit and drinking lots of water each day. The way this is successful is that it never allows your body to plateau. In the first 17 days, cycle 1, you are limited to green vegetables, lean proteins, two servings of probiotics, and two servings of fruit. After 17 days, you enter cycle 2 which slowly starts integrating other foods into your diet including starchy vegetables and lean red meats. There are two more cycles after that and you can either choose to start over again or stop.

So far so good. Of course, when you can’t have something that’s when you want it. Chocolate cake….sounds so yummy. But instead I will eat an apple. That’s close right?

Got my next 5k this Friday at Silver Dollar City with my mom. I’m pretty excited about it. It’s the Run to the Lights 5k where we will get to play around the park and then once it gets dark, they throw on the Christmas Lights and we run/walk. If anything it’ll be asthetically pleasing. Haven’t been doing much training lately but I think it’ll be ok. Christmas lights make all things better.

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