17 Day Diet

Well Where do i start.......i have never had to seriously diet before. Not saying this to brag or anything i was just always of the slender build. And very active. I used to be a Camping safari tour guide in the outback of Australia, so that kept me quite fit. As ive mentioned before i have 5 children. Loosing the weight after number 1 wasnt even an issue, i just slipped right back into my old self after a few months. It wasnt untill 5 years later that i had number 2 and a size 8-10 was easy enough again, but number 2 and 3 came close on the heals of each other. So it wasnt until after number 3 that it got to be a little tricky. I suppose i wasnt as active, and i was one of those women that craved alot of food whilst i was breast feeding . So there you go i got to a size 12 and stayed there. It wasn't until i had my 4th and 5th child that i realized that, i had to do something different.
Ok ok so im not that huge and i know alot of people would like to be this size. And (drum roll please) im going to say it..............I am currently now a 12-14 sometimes 16 in my clothing sizes and i thought i weighed, using my $10 scales about 75kgs. And life is good, were not broke, i have a happy family, live in a wonderful country, but i just dont feel myself. So i watch a show here called A Current Affair and a while ago they featured a new diet called the 17 day diet. I looked it up and over the past month or so ive been really thinking hard about it. But as we know thinking about exercize and diet doesnt really equate to anything does it? So on Tueasday this past week i conned my husband into doing this diet with me (because he could loose a  too), and it wasnt until today that i decided to blog about it. So here we go


17 Day Diet by Dr mike Moreno

Day 1

Easy peasy just followed the plan. I didnt crave for anything and didnt want for anything. I was a bit hungry right before it was time to eat the next meal but then i could eat and it was ok. I had lunch mind you at about 11am i just couldnt wait any longer and i had the snack at 2 and then just loaded up on water until dinner, (which i served at 5 instead of 5:30). I actually had breakfast and lunch ingredients already at home so when Dean came home from work we went for the weekly shop together. And truthfully there wasnt alot of difference bewtwee shopping for this diet and my normal shop. I just had to get more fresh veg and more chicken! Turkey mince was on sale for half price this week so we loaded up on that too. Dean had to go away on Wednesday for overnight and so i made up all of his things and packed it up for him. As far as i know he didnt cheat, but who really knows!!!

Day 2

Ok today im hungry. We had yogurt and berries for breakfast, which i used my happy chopper to break down the frozen berries to put through the yogurt. BTW greek yogurt needs a sweeter fruit! I had left over berries and so for the kids afternoon snack i made berry scones. AND MAN it was so hard not to just have one they smelled SOOOO good!! The kids have been great though they were saying "NO mum" alot today. Actually the only thing that got me through was this little mantra i kept repeating to myself "you can make them again" and so yeah i didnt have one!! Not sick of veggies yet either!

Day 3

Today was hard. I dont know what is happening to my body but it feels sluggish. The diet says you can have as much chicken and veg from the free list for dinner and so i have been really loading our plates with mounds of veg just to keep the hunger at bay. But today my body wont work! I made a chocolate cake for Kealin because he likes them, and i needed a sweet to send to school with the kids. And yes i know what your thinking.....Im torturing myself. And yes in a way i am. But my chidren are far from fat and they are all really healthy and im not going to make them diet. I figure this is about self disapline aswell. Ok bend down i am going to tell you a secret. I have tried diets before! Atkins, the soup one, The CSIRO one. And i always give up on day 3. And there have been repeat attempts of these so i know my pattern. Day threee i am always justifying the end. Actually Atkins i stayed with for 5 days but again too restrictive. Dont know how i did it but tthere was no chocolate cake that passed these lips, and to be honest i wasnt really that hungry today!

Day 4

Today i feel wired!  i feel like i have a clear head, but every move i make i can feel it. Not saying that i feel sore or tierd, i can just feel it! I will describe it as this....i feel like my body is actually using something different besides Sugar and carbs from bread, potatoes, rice and pasta, to fuel itself! and you know my mind is feeling alittle more set. I mean, why give up today when i gave up fresh berry scones and chocolate cake right? But i will say when i did my 17 minute workout i got off the stepper and my legs were very wobbly and i felt a little sick. Ok, so Dean went to the shop and got us some $30 scales as my $10 ones broke about 3 weeks ago. I wighed myself........And after 3 1/2 days on this diet and to be truthful i feel like ive lost weight i was dicouraged to find out that i was 76.9 Kilos! which means i was heavier than thought when i started this : ( determind much to keep going YES!!

Day 5

Wow! Today i slept till 9am The Dr says that you should be able to sleep better. And i normally wake at 2am every night. Why? don't know just always have. But last night nothing! Being a Saturday my husband was up making eggs for the kids and was patently waiting for me to fix his breakfast. I don't normally do this but that was the trade off, you do this diet with me and ill fix ALL your meals. He normally can fend for his own breaky and lunch. I had it in my mind that i would go for a walk outside today and so after breakfast Dean and i went for a 20min walk. On our way back we stopped by the farmers market (which is literally across the road) and got the kids some kiss biscuits (which are commonly made in Tasmania and i will post a recipe later as i am going to make some today) and jelly cakes. Yep was tempting but im ok. Tonight is hamburger night (homemade of course) and dean and i will just have turkey burgers and no bread. That is how ive done this actually, the kids eat a similar variation of what we have. But like ive said before we don't actually eat that badly anyway. I needed to do this diet to get over this hump! Weight today 75.6 kilos yep!!!

So if anyone is actully reading this....you may have noticed that i havnt updated it in a few days. so you may be thinking ive cheated or stopped. But alas to my own amzment i have not!.

Day 5

One word to decribe today ENERGY! its really wierd but i feel really energetic! I had to make some cakes for our luncheon today at church, and i wasnt even tempted until................it came time to set everthing out at the chaple to eat. That is when i really started to doubt myself. But i got throught the afternoon with the support of my husband. I packed some left over chicken soup that i made from the night before and so i ate that, and all was well. What did i make for the lunchoen that got me all worked up well..i made pizza, white chocolate and passion fruit muffins, passion fruit cake, choc chip cookies and chocolate cake. now you see the problem?

Day 6

So today i woke up as normal and went to go have my greek yogurt and pear breakfast. I was half way through it when i realalized that i didnt even taste the bitterness of the yogurt this time. Weird!!!! today went on without a problem really and not much worth writing about. Oh except it was the last day of the week and i only had iceburg lettuce left and, well, yuck! but i ate it still with the only tomatoe i had left and a grated carrot. Yes poor me, 75.8 kilos today whoop whoop!

Day 7

Well due to my husbands job i have a box full (25 bags) of jersey caramels. I know right!! so i was forced to serch the net for some recipes.I settled for something called Butterscotch caramel brownies. I know right!!! yummo! I dont know how i managed to get throught the night really. I did find myself taking really long sniffs of the childrens slices. As to how im feeling? Well to be honest today i feel sluggish and unmotivated. I did go for a walk to pick up the kids though and before i started i really thought i was going to feel more weighed down than i did i was quite rejuvonationg : )

Day 8

So today i feel like ive fallen into a nice pattern. I actually came up with a recipe on my own using the list of foods we can have for mine and deans dinner, it was turkey meatballs with fresh basil rolled in them, cooked in passata with some veggies. It was so lovely. Anyway it wasnt until i finished eating that i realazed that i made the recipe up and did it quite natuarally. But it is alarming you want to know why? well it scary because it seems this diet is actually working in more ways than weight loss!

Day 9

So today i think is a flow on from yesterday my wieght is 75 kilos yeah me!! and although i am loosing weight and at a nice pace i suppose, I actually feel normal. No more wierd i feel like im on energy pill moments, or sluggishness. And whilst i was preparing my food today it actually didnt feel like i was preparing diet food. Although i am, i havnt cheated or anything not even a lick of cake batter for me. So what does that mean? I actually felt Like i wasnt doing myself any good by eating the normal amount of food i have been because it felt too natural. Anyway im going to bed tonight dicaouraged.

Day 10

74.6 kilos. Discouraged? i think not. Wow how can i actually be loosing weight and still feel as though im not dieting? You know there have been plenty of times in my life where things that are being taught to me i put into practice. I do not know what is wrong with me but i just am simply not tempted to cheat on this diet. I always thought i was quite good and changing bad qualities in my life. Im quite stubborn when it comes to that sort of thing. But this is weird. Last night i made chocolate brownie loaded with caramels and it wasn't even a challenge. The 17 day Diet does say that i will start to crave other kinds of sweet tings, and today i sat down to a bowl of yogurt and, you will not believe it, BERRIES!! yes i am tamed and the berries were really quite sweet!. Ive had a hankering to make beef meat pies for the kids for a few days and today i made up the filling and even had my mother taste the mixture!! oh AND!!!! i got out of bed at 6am today and went for a jog to the beach! yep if i do say so myself something is changing in me. OH and by the way Dean is down to 99 kilos he has lost about 6-8 kilos or more, we will never be sure due to the no scale to start with thing. But he is stopping now and going straight to the 4th stage of the diet. My hubby is well over 6 foot and doesn't want to loose mass, but he has lost his muffin lol

(BTW i always do some sort of work out but only up until day 10, for 17 minutes just like the diet suggests)

Day 11
Day 12
Day 13
Day 14
Day 15
Day 16
Day 17

Ok Ok so its been a awhile! but this is how i roll really, im a bit scatty with everything. So if anyone out there is reading this besides Anna : ) you probably think i dropped out of my self inflicted strict diet regime. But you will be surprised to hear this i think.......But i actually stayed on track. I didnt waver once from the diet for 34 days. See you do the 17 days in groups of 17. so i was on day 15 of the second round of 17 days and i broke my diet! WAIT there is a good explanation : ) On day 15 i caught a plane to Sydney for the Australian leg of the international tour of A Time Out For Women. Which by the way was excellent. But alas, as per my goal for that weekend i ate whatever i wanted for the weekend. Leaving the shores of Tassi as a 71kilo weighing women and returning as a ....................... ha ha ha lets just say i have to start all over again : )