17 Day Diet

My Kick Start week fell apart a little thanks, for a change, not to my falling off the wagon but a moderate dose of pneumonia. So I've lost 5.5k in a week through an unsustainable combination of fatigue, nausea and anorexia instead of the ideal combination of healthy eating and physical exertion.
I'm now two days into a five day antibiotic course and starting to feel better but I think it's going to be a while before I'm able to do anything more exciting than z light walk without having to stop for a breath, and today's the first day I've even felt up to that.
I can, however, watch what I eat. I'm flying back to the UK in just over a month, and I want to get there thinner and fitter than when I left a fortnight ago, and maintain a healthier lifestyle while I'm there, despite a disrupted routine, new (and tempting) food and no kitchen. I decided while away that I'd spend this time between the Kick Start week and my flight doing the first two stages of the 17 Day Diet. See my review for details on the program, but essentially it's a low fat, low carb program that's high in animal protein, low GI fruit and vegetables, with an emphasis on probiotics.
The Kick Start diet's actually been quite a good introduction to a low carb program as, with the exception of yesterday's bowl of cereal, I've had nothing significant in the way of grains in the past week.
I'm not anticipating following this long term, but I think I need something to re-initiate the progress I was making until I got to the magical scary weight that triggered a frightened reversal. I've lost 18 kilos in twelve months, which is certainly a start, and sustainable, but I want to lose another twenty plus in the next year.
So, back to the Moreno program! I started with scrambled eggs mixed with a smidgen of mustard, followed by an orange, which slipped quite nicely down my sore throat. Lunch was a huge bowl of salad with iceberg and mixed leaves, celery, capsicum, raw cauliflower and tomato, topped with a can of drained tuna and drizzled with a tablespoon of olive oil with 2 of vinegar. It was crunchy, fresh, quite filling and surprisingly tasty.
I should have finished the day with steamed vegies and chicken, another piece of fruit and some yoghurt, but all I could manage was a Yakult, but it's a start and I feel quite content. - Alex