Day 7- of Phase Two - Dukan Diet

Down one pound! Yay! That's 11 lbs lost now!

Even with some cheats this weekend, I managed to still loose a lb.

No Breakfast
Lunch: Omelet with Ham and Asparagus, coffee. Water
Dinner Oat bran, Water, meatstick

Day 6- of Phase Two - Dukan Diet

Weight same  no change.

 No Breakfast
Lunch: Oatbran, two hard boiled eggs. cofffee, Water.
Dinner: Ham Water

Day 4- of Phase Two - Dukan Diet

Cannot weigh today as I spent the night at my sisters and want to stick with my own scale. Will wait until tomorrow.

Dinner out was good with two orders of salmon last ngiht only with flavored vodka/club soda drinks. I actually like it.

Breakfast: Oatbran pancake, turkey bacon, coffee, Water
Lunch: Cottage Cheese, Skinny Latte
Some tastes of candy filling Easter Baskets. (just had to)
Two Hard Boiled Eggs

Day 5- of Phase Two - Dukan Diet

Easter Sunday
Weight same no change.

Late Breakfast: Eggs & Bacon, Coffee, Water
Early Dinner:  Ham, sm portion homemade mac & cheese, Baked Beans, Salad Water

Day 3- of Phase Two - Dukan Diet

Lost another pound! That marks 10 lbs lost in two weeks on this diet! WOW.

2 malted milk eggs didn't sabotage the whole diet thank goodness...whew!

I got my Dukan Diet book yesterday. Yay! Read first two chapters last night.

Lily and I had a pancake and turkey sausages for breakfast. WATER!
Lunch: 2 Skim milk lattes out with friends from work. There was absolutely nothing carb free and Biggby that I could eat. Even the 0 sugar syrups I asked to look at and saw has 4 g carb so I stuck with splenda. They were YUMMY lattes really!

Out tonight for dinner with friends so this will be interesting. It's a no veggie day and it's meatless Friday, so hope the cooks at Smokey Bones are ready to make lots of Steamed fish for me. :)
Also going out to the comedy club tonight and against what the diet wants, I am going to try a drink of either vodka or gin (0 carb drink) with diet pop or club soda. Will be interesting since I am more a wine/beer person. I do like Gin and Squirt but they will need to have diet or I can't have.

Day 2- of Phase Two - Dukan Diet

No gain or loss on scale again.

Breakfast: coffee & water. Not hungry.
Lunch: Veggies and dip (ff 0 carb) turkey sausage and Canadian bacon
Workout day (shh, on way I sneaked 2 malted milk eggs)
My Trainer asked how much I have lost b.c he noticed the loss he said in my neck under my chin. I asked him to workout my low abs since this is an area of issue for me with that incision combined with so much fat there. I got what I asked for immediately! He made me lay with my legs together up one foot off floor and my head off floor while I draw in the air the alphabet letters with my toes.  :LARGE FONT then small font size. OMG! I did this 3 times each. This is a killer. Also rubber bands instead of weights are killers I found out!
Dinner: 2 Oat Bran Pancakes. Water, green beans with spray I can't believe it's not butter and carb free, ff balsamic vinegar dressing and Parmesan cheese. YUM!

Received Dukan Diet Book today from Amazon!

Day 1-of Phase Two - Dukan Diet

No loss or gain on scale.


Breakfast: Hot Oat Bran cereal, coffee, water

Lunch: cottage cheese, left over steak strips,  turkey rollups, string cheese, water
Dinner: sneaked 1 malted milk egg I have out in a dish for Lily and others. YUM.
3 egg omelet with parmesean, Canadian bacon, with turkey sausage. Water
Flavored Sparkling water 0 carb calories.

Day 7 Dukan Diet - Phase Two

Back Down 2 lbs. Think the eating late Sunday night interfered with the scales yesterday.

Breakfast: Oat Bran cereal, coffee, water
Lunch: cottage cheese, pickles, 2 turkey burgers with salsa

Dinner: Steak Fajitas minus the tortillas
Desert: oat bran pancake with favorite topping as before. (fixed one for Lily too and she loved it) Water.

Day 6 Dukan Diet - Phase Two

Up two lbs today. Not worried. Sure its from eating late at 10:30 last night. Plus I have not walked for 3 days. TOO cold and was too busy to get to the gym this weekend. Pants I wore last week are quite roomy today. I think I am fine.

Tomorrow my Dukan Diet book and cookbook should ship! Yay! I am excited to read more, learn more and have some new recipes.

Breakfast: Coffee, hot oat bran cereal. Water.
Lunch: Two chicken breasts, two turkey sausages, hard boiled egg, yogurt with butterscotch flav. Water.
Dinner: Turkey burger with mustard and moz cheese melted. Cottage Cheese. Water.
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Day 5 Dukan Diet - Phase Two

Lost another lb. That's 9 lbs in 10 days. :) My stomach has not been this flat in a long time. Love handles disappearing. What I love about this diet is the instant visible results.
I split up the cookies from the event. Some for this week in container for Lily. Rest in freezer bags. The broken pieces in one for cookie crust baking to give to Anna for some kind of desert making recipe. I didn't even eat a crumb!!! Amazed at the strength of my willpower. I didn't know I had any before this diet.

Breakfast: scrambled egg whites, turkey sausage. Coffee & Water.
Lunch:  Chicken Breast with Taco sauce. Cottage Cheese. Grapefruit flav Sparkling water
Water
Dinner: Fajita beef, Turkey burger patty with salsa, peppers & onion.
Desert: Oat bran pancake with creamcheese/yogurt topping.

Day 4 Dukan Diet - Phase Two

Down 2 lbs from yesterday day! So not only did I get back where I was but I lost a pound. So that makes total 8 lbs lost so far on the diet and today is the 9th day! I have to say I feel this diet is really great! I looked in the mirror today and I can see less of my fat. Its now visible and feel it in my clothes.

Worked our Department picnic today with BBQ food. Only thing I could have was protein and mustard. No problem. The fruit sure looked good though. I took enough left over chicken breasts to serve me well for days and also lots of left over cookies I thought I would freeze for my kids.

Breakfast: Coffee, Hot oat-bran cereal
Lunch/Dinner: chicken breasts, hamburger, beef hot dog.Water
Late snack: Cottage cheese, string cheese, roast beef pieces.

Day 3 Dukan Diet - Phase Two

Well was a little disappointed to see the scale be up by a pound. I think it was all the jerky? More carbs and higher fat? Not sure. Also worked out upper body last night a lot so could that make a difference? Well sticking to it today regardless.

Made a large Veggie platter for meeting at work today. BEAUTIFUL!
Breakfast: Coffee (no time for breakfast)
Lunch: Veggies FF dip 2 hard boiled eggs  WATER
Snack: Hot Oat-bran WATER
Dinner OUT: Fish Market - had steamed salmon with ginger, on large bed of cooked spinach. NO OIL. VERY Good and liberating to be out to eat and ask for specifics on no sauce, and way to cook. Water.
Late Desert: Chocolate yogurt.

Day 2 Dukan Diet - Phase Two

Lost another 1lb Total 7 lbs. in one week! WOW!


Breakfast: Had oat bran hot cereal and coffee. WATER,
Lunch:meat sticks, string cheese, Cottage Cheese.
Snack: Turkey Jerky on way home
Workout
Not really hungry for dinner but ate anyway
Dinner two fried eggs with turkey sausage.
Desert Chocolate Almond yogurt

Start Day of Dukan Diet - Phase Two

Zero Weightloss from day 6. 
Today I can begin to incorporate 28 listed vegetables (mostly green) into the 72 protein list. Days will alternate from PP (pure protein days) and PV (protein veg days). This is the start to the weightloss phase Phase Two - now that the Attack phase is over.

Breakfast: Brewed coffee, splenda, ff almond milk. Water. Two tablespoons oatbran cooked with water and almond milk, splenda.
Lunch: Roasted Chicken Breast. chocolate, banana, yougurt (cocoa, ff yougurt, banana extract, splenda).
Hard Boiled Egg. Water.

Day 6 of Dukan Diet - Phase One - Attack Phase

 Lost another 1lb from the 5th day which makes a total of 6 lbs lost so far.  I am on target. 

Breakfast:  Fresh Brewed coffee, splenda, ff almond milk.  Scrambled egg whites w ff cheese, turkey sausage,  1 tbsp oat-bran with ff almond milk, splenda & drop of vanilla, butter, nut imitation flavor. Yum. VERY Full.
WATER. Staying away from Crystal Lite...it has something in it that your body thinks is like natural sugar. That may be part of no weightless from day before. Can't fool your body that's for sure!
 Lunch: Turkey FF cheese rollups and Roast Beef FF spiced feta rollup & one left over turkey sausage round.  Hard boiled egg. Yogurt with banana flavoring. Water.
Snack before workout Beef stick and string cheese. Water. Prepared and put dinner in oven. Made desert.
Workout was tiring. Trainer night, at the gym. More water.
Dinner: Roasted Chichen (ate late after late workout) and a fantastic galette with coconut cream and drizzled chocolate sauce. AWESOME! I have to say I am amazed at how creative one can get when the desire for something they want badly is there. I made up this desert using only what I am supposed to eat and it was sooo good. Photo:

Ready for first day of PHASE 2 tomorrow. I get to have Vegetables from 28 veggie list on alternate days.

Day 5 of Dukan Diet - Phase One - Attack Phase

Zero weight loss from day 4. (based on scale this morning). Wow, it must have been the ff cream cheese? I need to re-read the list of 72 items again today to be sure its not something else as well. Realistically though, I have lost 5 lbs and there are two more days to this phase which they say you can loose from up to 7-10 lbs. So I think I am still doing ok. Looking forward to Wednesday where I can actually start alternating days with some veggies besides onion.

Breakfast: scrambled egg whites, canadian bacon, coffee w splenda and ff almond milk.
UPDATE: Fresh Onion is not on the 72 foods list for phase 1. Only onion as a spice is! Well I have only had it twice but could be reason for Zero weight loss yesterday.On filp side, FF dairy products is on the list so that means my ff cream cheese was ok. (would rather have that than onion anyway!)
Snack: hard boiled egg, water
Lunch: Leftover meatloaf with mustard (picked out cooked onion inside since I just realized I am not supposed to be eating onion!), water. Very full. Will have to wait to eat yogurt snack.
Snack: FF Yogurt mixed with cocoa, vanilla flavor & Splenda.
Note:
Forgot to mention I pre-ordered on Saturday the Dukan Diet Book and also the Dukan Diet Cookbook online at amazon. It will be available on April 19. Its been interesting finding out how to do this diet from various sources online. Will be nice to finally have the books.GOT MORE of the 0 fat 0 carb yogurt in 24 oz tubs. White Fish and treats for the kids for Easter. I am proud that I never touched any for myself. Normally I would have to sample on way home.
Went for a chilly 20 min walk at 8:30
Dinner:  Was not hungry for dinner (still full from so much meatloaf earlier) so snacked on meat/ff cheese roll-ups while making lunch for tomorrow. I then realized I had not had much oat-bran today so I fixed a small bowl of hot cereal with FF almond milk, splenda. All I needed.

Day 4 of Dukan Diet - Phase One - Attack Phase

Lost one lb from 3rd day on diet. Think I ate considerably more carbs than supposed to yesterday eating some things off the 72 food item list.  Still loosing is the main thing and not starving at all. Just have cravings to have sweets sometimes still.

Got up late then kids came over so we had breakfast for lunch. Egg omelets, ff cheese, turkey sausage, Canadian bacon, coffee. WATER. Its 80 degrees and sunny. Walk outside is in order.

Walked 25 minutes. Finished first liter of water. Before dinner I had a "cocktail" Faygo grapefruit sparkling water and some lemon crystal lite added which has 0 everything so figured okay. Needed some flavor. Fixed a meatloaf with chopped onion, mustard, egg, spices, and oatbran. Ate that with mustard to dip with second liter of water. Actually only had half of it. But, I had lots of coffee and sparkling water earlier. Then, I was bad and had more of that yogurt/ ff cream cheese with coconut flavor mixture again. I really still crave sweet...especially late afternoon or after dinner. The ff cream cheese is not on the list of 72 things in phase 1 so not too sure how it will effect me even though it was only 2 oz. mixed in. Like yesterday it may be why I only lost 1 lb. Not sure.

Day 3 of Dukan Diet - Phase One - Attack Phase

Okay got on the scale...2 more lbs lost from my 2nd day.  4 lbs total!

Best part is that I am actually loosing my muffin top around my waist! Sure its all water pudge. Hoping the next thing to go is the shelf-gut.

One thing you need to get used to is there is no quick grab something and go unless you plan ahead for meals/snacks and have cooked in advance. Very apparent to me why I have packed on pounds over time with my lifestyle. So used to a snacking out of a bag/box and when you can't do that it's like taking a pacifier from a baby. Waaaah!  Thank you for oat bran in this diet. I could not go without the carb fill feeling.

Was really ready for breakfast and happy I went to the store and bought egg whites in a carton and pure protein 1 fat 0 carb soy bacon strips. I made an omelet and bacon. Two cups of decaf coffee (Gano) with splenda and unsweetened almond milk. (like skim milk) plus one oat bran muffin. Ok...good for now. Going to be sunney and high of 62 today so going to walk outside instead of going to the gym.

Lunch baked herbed chicken lots of water.

Grocery store for more protein! Walked for 20 min outside. Drank rest of 2 liter water. Fixed  Steak with steak rub under broiler. Meat stick string cheese for snack and Faygo grapefruit sparkling water for cocktail time. Made a dessert with some carb no fat...(cheated a little). 4oz of cream cheese, 10 oz ff greek yogurt 3 packs splenda. (split mixture in half). Flavored one half with banana imitation flavor and the other with coconut flavor. (had one saved the other). YUM! Later was hungry and had 1 tbsp. oatbran cooked and  a Gano caffine free coffee with ff almond milk.  Totally full!

Day 2 of Dukan Diet - Phase One - Attack Phase

My scale told me this morning I lost 2 lbs from my first day on the diet! WOW!

Woke up with a headache that will not quit. Bet its a sugar withdrawal!! took Ibuprofen. Don't want the extra caffeine from exedrin since I will be having regular coffee. 
Breakfast was water, Starbuck's regular black coffee, a hard boiled egg and one oat bran muffin. 
Lunch was water, two servings of salmon, one oat bran muffin and another hard boiled egg. Water.
Still have a headache. Feeling kinda light headed. More water...
Read more of the recipe book and you can have skim milk in the attack phase which I didn't realize. So that's a luxury. Whew!
On way home from work stopped at Better Health Foods and got several protein products.
Had a massage and chrio adjustment to deal with the headache. Went home and cooked fantastic chicken & onions on stove and baked chicken for tomorrow. After fixed what I call an amazing chocolate yogurt dessert of Plain Greek Yogurt, splenda & sprinkle of cocoa. That definitely saved my craving of something sweet.
More water....

Start Day of Dukan Diet - Phase One - Attack Phase

Today I have started this blog to track a new and hopefully the last diet of my life. This is called the Dukan Diet from Dr. Dukan a Frenchman whose diet has been known in Europe to end obesity and will soon be hitting the American mindsets this month.

His books can be found on Amazon.com. A diet which makes the most sense to me of anything next to my grandson's diet one that of a type one diabetic. Actually this is really more for those that are type 2 - no or low carb is where it counts. More about my success on day one later this evening and meanwhile, I will post a link to a success story blogger who spells out the diet phases and experience.

http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2011/02/09/an-update-on-the-dukan-diet/

My goal is to loose 50 lbs. (this sounds extreme, but I weigh 188 lbs and am only just under 5'5") By starting today, my diet calender will go as follows:

Phase 1 Start April 7 will end on Tuesday April 12
Phase 2 Start on Wednesday April 13
Phase 3 Start on  August 22 (weight loss goal 50 lbs achieved just in time for my B day gift to self on 21st!)
Phase 4 Start on February 23 

The diet will include 20-30 minutes of walking or equivalent exercise each day.

I will be blogging my daily efforts to combat my terrible habits/addiction to SUGAR, FAT and FLOUR and hope to share success of weight-loss as well. If you are interested in how I got started and how you can too for free I'm happy to tell you. This in no way endorses anything for money. This blog and my own diet effort is purley a way for me to track my progress based on the information I have read about this diet and want to share my experience with others of what I hope to be the best thing I have decided to do in a long time. Time will tell. Here goes, wish me luck!

Today I did this:

Had 1 cup of black decaf coffee (Gano) . This was tough since I like sweetened and creamy coffee. I bet my taste will change llike any habit does. No breakfast food since I didn't prepare night before. UGH! grabbed dry oat bran 5tsp for day in case I wanted to pop in microwave at work. Took one liter of water with me. Bit of advice: be sure to prepare all food needed to take with you to work the night before for your next day.

Went to Grocery store at lunchtime (1:30 late luncht so was ravished). Bought Smoked Turkey lunch meat and Roasted Chicken hot from the deli. Ate lunchmeat rollups in car then chicken back at office then for snack ate dry oat bran (all) with my water. Accidentally left smoked turkey in bag in my office...darn will have to pitch in am if rodents don't get it first. Drank rest of liter water on way home.

Grabbed another liter of water while changing at home then 35 minutes on the arch trainer at the gym then dinner (two chicken legs) at daughter Mollie's house. At home finished second liter water and started on third while preparing two servings of salmon for tomorrow's lunch and thawing chicken for tomorrow's dinner and breakfast for Saturday. Also decided to try pure protein oat bran muffins recipe from the Dukan cookbook I could view on amazon. I felt like I was cheating although it was items on the list including egg whites, oatbran and an ingredient called fomage frais a French fresh white cheese that we don't really have around here or hard to find. I found list of substitites for it online. Well since it was 8:30 and I was midway of mixing ingredients,  I used what I had which was unsweetend almond milk. Lowfat and low carb. Figured it would be like Skim milk. I flavored batter with cinnamon, orangepeel and splenda. Sprinkled top with orange peel and also splenda. GLAD I DID, they were good! Made 6. Ate two, with more water.

Ready for tomorrow.