The 17 Day Diet (15 page)
Authors: Dr. Mike Moreno
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Review:
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Cycle 2: Activate—is based on “alternate day fasting,” in which you alternate lower-calorie days with slightly higher-calorie days. Here you alternate Activate days with Accelerate days.
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Alternating your diet days charges up your metabolism and helps prevent dreaded weight-loss plateaus.
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Additional foods such are natural carbs are re-introduced to your diet on this Cycle.
By the time you finish the Activate Cycle, provided you’ve done it without cheating, you’ll have enough of a weight loss that your clothes are starting to get too baggy and loose for you. Don’t lose focus now, because you’re doing great.
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Cycle 3: Achieve
Y
ou have been
on the 17 Day Diet for 34 days now. Yes, I’m counting. We should be seeing less of you, since French fries and candy bars are no longer homesteading on your hips. You’re looking great, fitting beautifully into clothes, and I hope, pleased with your progress.
Now is the time to start adding new food choices, including things like pasta. Pasta is not the archenemy of the human body, by the way. But portions the size of national monuments are. Every food group is represented on Cycle 3, and there’s still an emphasis on non-starchy vegetables and lean protein. Now you can enjoy some alcohol, unless you’re going to drive, you’re under 21, you’re pregnant, or defusing a bomb or working in a nuclear power plant.
On this Cycle, you’ll eat moderately, and continue to do some form of exercise that works your cardiovascular system, only I want you to step up the duration of your workouts.
There are fewer food rules on this Cycle. But yes, food eaten over the sink or stove, or otherwise while you’re standing up, still counts in your daily intake.
I call this Cycle Achieve because one of its chief purposes is to help you achieve good lifetime eating habits, such as portion control, regular mealtimes and the inclusion of healthy foods.
Some of you may have already reached your goal weight, particularly if you had just 10 or 15 pounds to take off. Congratulations. You may collect a Get-Out-of-the Achieve-Cycle-Free Card and go right to Cycle 4.
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Your Progress
I have lost a pleasing number of pounds.