17 Day Diet (Any cycle): Faux Apple Pie
This tastes just like apple pie without the calories from the crust. This is an easy dessert to make anytime (but keep in mind on the 17 Day Diet you can only eat fruits before 2pm, so this is a great after-lunch dessert).
½ – 1 Apple
Cinnamon
1 Zero Calorie sugar packets
- Slice apple into small bite-size chunks and place in microwave or oven safe dish (1/2 a large apple per serving is usually plenty)
- Sprinkle cinnamon and 1 sugar packet over apples and stir until mixed.
- Place in oven or microwave and heat until just soft
- Serve while warm!
Nutrition:
Apple (varies depending on type of apple, around 50-75 calories for ½ an apple)
Substitution Suggestions:
- Try baking apples or red delicious apples
- Get local apples in season for the richest taste!
17 Day Diet (Any cycle): Lemon Meringue Pie
Yes! I said Lemon Meringue Pie. After a week on the diet we were craving a dessert and found this one on a 17 Day Diet Forum. It’s simple, quick and really low in calories! This is my absolute favourite dessert recipe to date!
½ – 1 cup Greek, Plain, or Vanilla yogourt
2 Zero Calorie sugar packets
Fresh Lemon
2-3 Egg Whites
Vanilla
- Put yogourt in an oven save bowl.
- Add 1 packet of sugar and a few squeezes of lemon juice. Mix. Put in fridge or freezer while preparing the meringue (so it doesn’t get too watery)
- Add 2-3 egg whites, 1 packet of sugar, and splash of vanilla to a bowl.
- Whip until meringue.
- Add meringue to top of yogourt mixture.
- Put bowls in over under broiler until just browned (a Crème Brule torch works too).
- Serve right away
Nutrition:
Egg whites (about 35 cal per egg)
Yogourt (varies between 80-150 cal per cup depending on yogourt)
Substitution Suggestions:
- Instead of Greek yogourt, try a flavoured one
- Instead of lemon, try another natural or bottled flavouring like coconut or strawberry
- For fun, add a few drops of food colouring or flavouring to the egg whites (it’s just fun!)
The 17 Day Diet: Weight loss that’s working!
It’s been a while! Since my last post I’ve been focusing on my career, moved into a new house, got a puppy, and even got engaged! The one area I haven’t focused much on is my health…so that’s what’s brought me back to blogging.
My fiance and I started the 17 Day Diet to lose weight and get in shape before our wedding. It’s been amazing and it’s been working wonderfully!
The premise of the 17 Day Diet is learning the basics like portion control, healthy eating habits, and also tricking your body. Often when you eat the same types of foods your body adjusts to how it uses the energy it these foods. By changing up your eating habits every 17 days you keep your body on its’ toes so it doesn’t have time to adjust.
The diet has four 17 day cycles:
- Cycle 1 focuses on riding your body of excess sugar, water, and fat. It’s where you are expected to see the most rapid weight loss: The book says to expect 10-15 pounds within 17 days. This cycle focuses on high lean proteins, unlimited vegetables, a few other food rules, and 17 minutes of exercise each day.
- Cycle 2 alternates between cycle 1 days and cycle 2 days where more lean proteins and natural starches are added to increase caloric intake slightly, to start fooling your body into burning more fat.
- Cycle 3 adds more healthy foods, allows moderate alcohol intake and encourages you to increase your exercise.
- Cycle 4 is a maintain cycle where you add more foods to your diet and are allowed 2 “cheat days” a week so you can enjoy your favourite foods.
I’m currently almost done cycle 2 and I lost about 8 pounds in cycle 1, and another 4 pounds so far in cycle 2. The foods and recipes we’ve made have been making have been amazing and I’m going to share some of my favourites on my blog.
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