You win... you always do.

I didn't think it would really work, so I did it prove it wrong.
Well, I was wrong.

We bought the book entitled The 17 Day Diet. It promises you that in just 17 days, you will lose between 10-15 pounds. So we bought the e-book on our Kindle App, and went grocery shopping to buy lots of chicken, tilapia, salmon, turkey, lunch meat, yogurt (lots), eggs, and a hefty amount of fruits and vegetables. You can eat an unlimited amount of lean meats (chicken, turkey, salmon, etc.) and an unlimited amount of vegetables. You can have fruit (besides bananas) until 2pm and need to eat 2 probiotics per day--we chose yogurt. Oh, and tons of water. It's not a terrible diet. If anything, it's incredibly healthy. Here's a sample of what I would eat:

Morning: Omelet with mushrooms, onions, tomatoes, red/green peppers. Yogurt. Strawberries. 100% juice.

Snack: Orange

Lunch: Spicy Grilled Chicken salad with steamed vegetables on the side and a few sprays of Wishbone Ranch. Delicious.

Snack: Carrots and cucumbers

Dinner: Grilled Salmon with lemon and dill weed served with garlic green beans and steamed carrots. And a diet Dr. Pepper.

Dessert: New and awesome Dessert Yogurt Parfait- Grasshopper (it even comes in a clear parfait cup). They're about 50cents each if you buy in bulk at Sams.

*If you're on your you-know-what, you can have 1 oz. of dark chocolate. that's almost a 1/4 cup of dark chocolate M&M's. Or dark Chocolate Dove squares.

Now I'll admit, my first 4 days made me angry. I have never taken sugar out of my diet before. Apparently I had a bit of an addiction. But after that, I was fine. And really, today it doesn't even sound good. It's also very "cleansing" with the yogurt and vegetables and water... which is an objective of the diet.

So what are my results?
Now keep in mind I'm only 5"1. I started this diet weighing 132 (which according to the book puts me about 27 pounds overweight. yeah right. I'm not 11 anymore.), I ended it 17 days later weighing 122. Yep, my pre-marriage weight. First time in 6 years.
10 pounds!!!!!!! or 8%!!

And you're probably right, it's probably all water weight or something and I'll probably gain it all back almost instantly. But... it has been 4 days since I went off the diet, and so far so good. I'm definitely being more cautious at my portions now though.
Traditionally, in this diet there are 4 phases, 17 days each. With phase 2, you slowly add in brown rice and whole grains, and so on and so forth. If you don't get to your desired weight, after completing phase 2, you go back to phase 1 and continue on your journey. You really should do all 4 phases. However, because I feel absolutely fine at where I was before, I'm only doing 1 phase. It was really just an experiment.

Oh and did I mention... there was no exercise involved? Just a strict diet! Boo-Ya!!