Book Review: The 17 Day Diet By Dr Mike Moreno

by TOYS

The following is a book review for the book “The 17 Day Diet” by Dr Mike Moreno.
I am going to do this review in point form… hope you don’t mind.
#1. This is a weight loss book, and yes, if you follow its complex 17-day instructions to the letter you will lose weight.
#2. Most people don’t follow instructions. The more complex the instructions the less likely they are to really follow the instructions.
#3. The book does have lots of helpful nutritional and exercise advice, but its the sort of thing you could find for free on a website like Cardio Trek, a free nutritional / exercise website run by a personal trainer in Toronto. So while the advice is excellent, its nothing special.
#4. The book also has BMI charts. Again, something you can find for free online.
#5. The recipes in the book are okay, although some of them contain weird ingredients that most people wouldn’t buy. Again, you can find that online for free.
#6. The 17 Day Diet isn’t really “17 days”. It is really a 17 day cycle which is meant to repeated again and again… forever. So the title is really fake advertising.
#7. At the back of the book there is more information on dining out, holiday
eating and substitutions for “terrible” foods. Again, very helpful and
thorough information – but also available for free online.
#8. The 17-Day Diet works on a 17 day phasing cycle and the first cycle
is the most restrictive for accelerated weight loss. Then each
subsequent cycle introduces new food into the meal plot. If you have
not reached your goal at the end of all the cycles, you start again.Yes it is
not realistic to be on a diet for 17 days and expect serious results
anyway, but I really don’t like books that are wishy washy and promise instant results and then fall back on things that you can find for free online in the first place.
#9. The diet isn’t exactly revolutionary.
The Core Balance Diet and South Beach Diet have a very similar concept
in that the first part is low carb, high protein and vegetables with
carbohydrates gradually re-introduced. Same concept, ancient news.

#10. The
meals don’t easily work for a Vegetarian or Vegan diet, even though the book claims otherwise. It was obviously written by an omnivore who is clueless about veggie diets. Many of the lunches and dinners are chicken and
vegetables. Plain tofu (or high protein alternative) without seasoning
and preparation instructions just wouldn’t cut it for a Vegan. Using beans as a
substitute also wouldn’t work due to the high carb content. It would
defeat the intention of the initial phases of the cycle.
#11. The
diet claims that you will not be hungry. But most people couldn’t follow
this diet because either their activity levels are too high for the meal plot – or they would find the diet too restrictive. If you start this diet with very small energy output
levels, you could remain satiated in between meals. But if you exercise regularly (like the book recommends) then you will certainly end up feeling hungry between meals.
#12. He is trying to push his own brand diet – to make a name for himself. He wrote this book so he could become well-known, but while, yes, you would lose weight if you followed this diet, I guarantee if you are living an active lifestyle that you would be feeling starved and miserable by day 17.
#13. Many people need a diet which feels like they
are achieving a nutrition goal. Just find a healthy and balanced regimen with small parts that works for you and you will be pleased. Fad diets and crappy books like “The 17 Day Diet” will only result in wasted money and yo-yo dieting.
ZERO STARS OUT OF FIVE.
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