I haven't been writing for a couple of days because I was kinda busy and I wanted to give the diet a couple more days to have more effect and see effectively how it was working in the semi-long distance. And I have to admit it was a good idea.
I found out that on the proteins + vegetables' day the weight doesn't go down and stays stable (or just minimal lost) while on the pure proteins' days it goes down quite well. In the last four days I've lost 1.8 kgs, wich is amazing if you think that I've lost alot since I started, but this diet keeps kickin' and givin' me results that I would expect just from something like starvation. Hunger is not an issue, and in general I'm almost never hungry, I eat when I need/want too and I have a decent amount of quality food that I can choose my meals from. My old clothes are lookin' bigger day after day, great! Here's yesterday meals and updates on my weight.
Meals:
Breakfast: 100 ml semi skimmed milk and coffee + 2 tablespoons of Oatbran
Lunch: Salmon cooked in a broth made of spices and a veg. cube
Snack: Same as usual, I have lunch at work and with just one break per day I can't have snacks, but honestly I didn't feel hungry at all.
Dinner: Turkey breasts cooked in oven with quark cheese and spices
Weight:
Actual Weight: 94.8 kg
Target Weight: 85 kg
Starting weight: 105 kg
Kgs lost so far: 10.2 kg
Mood:
Satisfied as the diet keep going well. Feeling better in general.
8.8.12
4.8.12
Disappointment
Yesterday I haven't wrote anything because I was a bit disappointed. I don't know if it's the scale or what but I've seen my weight growing for no reasons. Then I understood that maybe it's just my body trying to react to the absence of certain food it was used to receive. My weight passed from 96.2 to 96.7 in one day. How can that be? I haven't eat anything not included in what the book says, but i found myself with 500 gr more in just 24 hours. I thought that's ridiculous, how can that be? My meals were made of oatbran + semi skimmed milk, chicken brests with spices (absolutely NO oil) and bresaola. Anyway, I know that I cannot keep on losing 1 kg per day, but I've found demotivating this gain of weight, in this amount, in just one day.
I didn't give up though, I've kept following the diet and today I've 200 gr less on the bodyscale, good in one day, but still annoying if I think that I've already lost 300 more 2 days ago. But I won't give up. It's between me and the scale now!
Meals:
Breakfast: 100 ml semi skimmed milk and coffee + 2 tablespoons of Oatbran
Lunch: Chicken breasts with rosemary, salmon
Snack: Unfortunately I was working and I had nothing during the day
Dinner: 100 gr Bresaola (I wasn't hungry)
Weight:
Actual Weight: 96.5 kg
Target Weight: 85 kg
Starting weight: 105 kg
Kgs lost so far: 8.5 kg
Mood:
A bit disappointed by the gain of weight but still focused on this diet. Still motivated. Death to the scales!
I didn't give up though, I've kept following the diet and today I've 200 gr less on the bodyscale, good in one day, but still annoying if I think that I've already lost 300 more 2 days ago. But I won't give up. It's between me and the scale now!
Meals:
Breakfast: 100 ml semi skimmed milk and coffee + 2 tablespoons of Oatbran
Lunch: Chicken breasts with rosemary, salmon
Snack: Unfortunately I was working and I had nothing during the day
Dinner: 100 gr Bresaola (I wasn't hungry)
Weight:
Actual Weight: 96.5 kg
Target Weight: 85 kg
Starting weight: 105 kg
Kgs lost so far: 8.5 kg
Mood:
A bit disappointed by the gain of weight but still focused on this diet. Still motivated. Death to the scales!
3.8.12
Cruise phase started
Today was my first day on the "cruise phase". Called this way because it has been created to litterally cruise you to your ideal weight, it's not very different from the attack phase for two reasons:
1) You just add vegetables to the pure protein diet (and add half a spoon of oatbran)
2) You alternate it with the pure protein one.
It means that I'm not free to eat vegetables everyday, but I have to alternate a period of veggie-allowed diet with a pure protein period. In his book Dukan gives various alternatives, depending on how many kilos you need to lose or just your preference. You can choose for exemple to eat vegetables + proteins for five days and then to eat pure proteins for the next five days.
Personally I chose another way suggested by the book, the 1+ 1. It means that I'm gonna have vegetables every two days. I think it's the best way, because after a long period of pure proteins like the attack phase, I need to give my body (and mind) a break, feeding it with something different, with a different taste and consistance. The only thing is that the losing weight factor is slowed down respect to the 5 +5 choice. On the other side the 1+1 it's more "safe", I mean that it's easyer to give up if you make the pure proteine phase last longer and your body will try harder to make you give up with the diet, also your mind would be bored by the same food everyday. Here's this morning weight and today's meals.
Meals:
Breakfast: 100 ml semi skimmed milk and coffee + 2 tablespoons of Oatbran
Lunch: King prawns and Surimi (seafood sticks) in a souce made with vegetable cube,water,salt,spinach, zucchini,pepper,parsley,garlic and red hot pepper.
Snack: Unfortunately I was working and I just had 3 bottles of diet coke during the day
Dinner: 100 gr Bresaola (I wasn't hungry)
Weight:
Actual Weight: 96.2 kg
Target Weight: 85 kg
Starting weight: 105 kg
Kgs lost so far: 8.8 kg
Mood:
More confident and still focused on this diet. Happy.
1) You just add vegetables to the pure protein diet (and add half a spoon of oatbran)
2) You alternate it with the pure protein one.
It means that I'm not free to eat vegetables everyday, but I have to alternate a period of veggie-allowed diet with a pure protein period. In his book Dukan gives various alternatives, depending on how many kilos you need to lose or just your preference. You can choose for exemple to eat vegetables + proteins for five days and then to eat pure proteins for the next five days.
Personally I chose another way suggested by the book, the 1+ 1. It means that I'm gonna have vegetables every two days. I think it's the best way, because after a long period of pure proteins like the attack phase, I need to give my body (and mind) a break, feeding it with something different, with a different taste and consistance. The only thing is that the losing weight factor is slowed down respect to the 5 +5 choice. On the other side the 1+1 it's more "safe", I mean that it's easyer to give up if you make the pure proteine phase last longer and your body will try harder to make you give up with the diet, also your mind would be bored by the same food everyday. Here's this morning weight and today's meals.
Meals:
Breakfast: 100 ml semi skimmed milk and coffee + 2 tablespoons of Oatbran
Lunch: King prawns and Surimi (seafood sticks) in a souce made with vegetable cube,water,salt,spinach, zucchini,pepper,parsley,garlic and red hot pepper.
Snack: Unfortunately I was working and I just had 3 bottles of diet coke during the day
Dinner: 100 gr Bresaola (I wasn't hungry)
Weight:
Actual Weight: 96.2 kg
Target Weight: 85 kg
Starting weight: 105 kg
Kgs lost so far: 8.8 kg
Mood:
More confident and still focused on this diet. Happy.
2.8.12
2 amazing days in Rome
My last post was written from Rome, where I've just spent two amazing days. I wasn't able to find a body scale so I had to check my weight just now as soon as I got home. Usually I jump on the scale as first thing in the morning when I wake up but just for today I've done it at 11.45 pm and of course it wasn't the same thing. In fact we should all check our weight in the same moment of the day everyday. The result hasn't been bad and not even splendid but, still was good enough if I consider the fact that I took it at night after a day in wich I've had several (Dukan diet approved) meals: -100 gr.
During this two days I've had fish and meat (no oil or forbidden dressing at all) and I was able to enjoy the quality and freshness of the food without compromising the path I've decided to follow. The only thing I couldn't avoid was to eat some sheep meat because I didn't want to be rude to the people that have been so nice to me and tried to support me doing their best. Today I won't include yesterday's meals because I wasn't able to check my weight and I prefere to have at least that information before I can say anything about the effects of what I'm eating. Hopefully tomorrow morning my weight will give make me smile again.....finger crossed.
Meals:
Breakfast: 100 ml semi skimmed milk and coffee + 2 and a half tablespoons of Oatbran
Lunch: Boiled Codfish + lemon; Sardines (cooked in the oven) + lemon and parsley; 50 gr Bresaola
Snack: 4 slices of Bresaola
Dinner: 100 gr Bresaola + Cottage cheese; 3 salty pancackes (made with low fat greek yoghurt, eggs, oatbran, rosemary, salt) and light ham.
Weight:
Actual Weight: 96.5 kg
Target Weight: 85 kg
Starting weight: 105 kg
Kgs lost so far: 8.5 kg
Mood:
Relaxed, happy for the results I'm getting daily and because it's not that hard but sad because I had to leave Rome.
During this two days I've had fish and meat (no oil or forbidden dressing at all) and I was able to enjoy the quality and freshness of the food without compromising the path I've decided to follow. The only thing I couldn't avoid was to eat some sheep meat because I didn't want to be rude to the people that have been so nice to me and tried to support me doing their best. Today I won't include yesterday's meals because I wasn't able to check my weight and I prefere to have at least that information before I can say anything about the effects of what I'm eating. Hopefully tomorrow morning my weight will give make me smile again.....finger crossed.
Meals:
Breakfast: 100 ml semi skimmed milk and coffee + 2 and a half tablespoons of Oatbran
Lunch: Boiled Codfish + lemon; Sardines (cooked in the oven) + lemon and parsley; 50 gr Bresaola
Snack: 4 slices of Bresaola
Dinner: 100 gr Bresaola + Cottage cheese; 3 salty pancackes (made with low fat greek yoghurt, eggs, oatbran, rosemary, salt) and light ham.
Weight:
Actual Weight: 96.5 kg
Target Weight: 85 kg
Starting weight: 105 kg
Kgs lost so far: 8.5 kg
Mood:
Relaxed, happy for the results I'm getting daily and because it's not that hard but sad because I had to leave Rome.
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