Diets

I need to get this out of the way before I write another word: I hate diets.  Most diets work, if followed, but I think they're also so restrictive as to be terribly counter productive.  I'd rather apply a liberal dose of common sense and moderation with what I eat combined with regular exercise.  I've done it before and it's my own damn fault I gained the weight back.  Paying $20 for a book to tell me what I can and can't eat is pointless for me.  It's my own willpower that will help me get back to where I should be.  Being denied a what I want to eat because Dr. Hunky McAbs says I can't have carbs after 2 just pisses me off.  If anything, all the denial is going to make me more likely to slide off it and toss that Skor bar from the checkout down my pie hole just to spite the damn diet.

With all that said, why am I going on the 17 Day Diet?  Because I recognize that, for some people, having everything dictated to you is the only way they're going to lose weight.  My wife is one of those people.  And if she wants to try this diet out, I'm not going to let my own preferences get in the way.