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Alcohol is dehydrating and interferes with fat-burning. The liver works overtime to metabolize the alcohol, so its job of burning fat gets less priority.
Once you get to Cycle 3, it’s fine with me if you have one drink a day. Now, I don’t recommend keeping it at your desk (at least for daytime use), but I do recommend it, especially red wine. One of my hobbies outside of work is enjoying fine red wine. To pursue my passion for drinking and collecting fine red wine, I enjoy attending wine tastings with my friends.
Red wine contains resveratrol (a powerful antioxidant found in grape skin). It turns off a gene for certain inflammatory proteins. These proteins ride around in your bloodstream. When there’s a foreign body, like a toxic molecule from an infection or a toxin, the proteins attach it to your arterial wall. This attachment stimulates inflammation. Inflammation can lead to clogged arteries, blood clots, impotence and even a heart attack or stroke. One glass of red wine a day may help prevent these things. So, cheers.
     
    How Much Should You Weigh?
    As you begin the 17 Day Diet, have a specific weight goal in mind. In other words, shoot for a weight at which you feel you will look your best. Keep in mind that there’s really no such thing as the “perfect” weight because we all come in a variety of body shapes, heights and bone structures. There are, however, “ideal weight ranges,” so there is a simple equation I tend to follow:
    If you’re a woman: Take 100 pounds for the first five feet of your height, and add five pounds for each extra inch to get the midpoint of what should be your ideal body weight range. Then you need to factor in your body structure. Some people are smaller boned; others are big boned. If you’re small boned, I subtract 15 percent from the normal-frame weights; if you’re large boned, I add 15 percent to the normal-frame weights. For a lot of people, that’s too much math. So I did the math for you:
WOMEN

Small-Boned Frame

5’ = 85
5’ 1” = 90
5’ 2” = 94
5’ 3” = 98
5’ 4” = 102
5’ 5” = 106
5’ 6” = 110
5’ 7” = 115
5’ 8” = 119
5’ 9” = 123
5’ 10” = 128
5’ 11” = 132
6‘ = 136
Midpoint

5’ = 100
5’ 1” = 105
5’ 2” = 110
5’ 3” = 115
5’ 4” = 120
5’ 5” = 125
5’ 6” = 130
5’ 7” = 135
5’ 8” = 140
5’ 9” = 145
5’ 10” = 150
5’ 11” = 155
6‘ = 160
Large-Boned Frame

5’ = 115
5’ 1” = 121
5’ 2” = 127
5’ 3” = 132
5’ 4” = 137
5’ 5” = 144
5’ 6” = 150
5’ 7” = 155
5’ 8” = 161
5’ 9” = 167
5’ 10” = 173
5’ 11” = 178
6‘ = 184
     
    If you’re a man: Take 110 pounds for the first five feet of your height, and add six pounds for each extra inch to get the midpoint of what should be your ideal body weight range. Allow for being small or large boned, as explained above.
    How Often Should You Weigh Yourself?
    Not too many people like to weigh themselves. Doctors know this. After patients step on the scales, they think it is giving them the weight of a completely different person, like Hulk Hogan. Since we won’t let them weigh naked, they tell us to subtract two pounds for their shoes, one pound for jewelry and three pounds if it is after the Big Mac and fries they had for lunch. Some people strip off this stuff faster than a Lexus left on a city side street at midnight and step on the scale again. But doctors’ scales do not lie. Patients have to accept the truth. Their bodies, without consulting them, have been converting doughnuts, pizza and ice cream into fat.
MEN

Small-Boned Frame

5’ = 94
5’ 1” = 99
5’ 2” = 104
5’ 3” = 109
5’ 4” = 114
5’ 5” = 119
5’ 6” = 124
5’ 7” = 129
5’ 8” = 134
5’ 9” = 139
5’ 10” = 145
5’ 11” = 150
6‘ = 155
6’ 1” = 160
6’ 2” = 165
6’ 3” = 170
6’ 4” = 175
6’ 5” = 180
6’ 6” = 185
Midpoint

5’ = 110
5’ 1” = 116
5’ 2” = 122
5’ 3” = 128
5’ 4” = 134
5’ 5” =