Tomorrow will be the first day of cycle 2 for me. I've lost 13.8 pounds in the first 17 days. Anyone who thinks this diet doesn't have some sort of boredom in it is VASTLY overstating things....I was bored on day 3 w/ the eggs or yogurt/fruit combo. The rest of the meals aren't nearly as bad but after 17 days and over 4 dozen eggs later....I'm kinda done w/ eggs....but oh boy....more eggs tomorrow
Having said that, the rest is doable. Unlike the portions set out in the 17 days the book suggests, I took the outline of what they say you can eat in a day and did with it what I wanted within those rules. I didn't measure anything which is one of my gripes about calorie counting (I could do a whole paragraph on that but for everyone's sake I'll stop it right there).
I'm spending more money on food, I don't know if that's an issue for people. I did actually eat a lot of the foods before but never in the quantities the diet requires. Basically instead of filling up on pastas or rice, you increase your intake of the proteins and cleansing vegetables. The other benefit is that nothing is so fabulous tasting that I want seconds all that often. I know this sounds like a negative but it's not for me. Part of my difficulty with food is I want to put away more because it tastes so delicious. I still have cravings after the 17 days, but I know it's just my brain twitching so I've been successfully ignoring it. And another thing about it is that I wasn't absolutely starving and was rather full at the end of the day.
I've seen a bunch of people on this thread talk about cycle 1 obviously but I'm interested in knowing more about how people feel about the next cycles. This week my whole planning went out the window on account of adding carbs. It was like i couldn't process the idea that now I CAN HAVE A POTATO!!!!! It's left me w/ a short circuit in my brain, with all the other meats that I can have tomorrow I picked turkey WHAT WAS I THINKING.
