Dukan Diet Week3

Day 15 Monday 5th July

Weight: 70.7kg (+0.1)

Phase: Protein + Veg

A small gain this morning but I'm not concerned, I still have a cold and suspect that it's a natural reaction to not loose weight when your sick. I'm going to measure myself today because I see a dramatic change in my body that doesn't necessarily show up on the scales.

Breakfast: 2 spoons of oatbran porridge, 1 boiled egg.
Lunch: Pumpkin soup, beef steak with mushroom sauce, roasted pumpkin skins and green beans.
Dinner: Corned beef, broccoli, cauliflower, white sauce.
Snacks: 2 coffees, left over veggie & beef casserole
Dessert: yoghurt


 

Day 16 Tuesday 6th July

Weight: 70.8kg (+0.1)

Phase: Protein

Ok now I'm frustrated, another gain, I guess I am one of the few who are resistant to diets because of the amount I have attempted before. I want to give up today, but I'm giving it one more day before I hoover a pizza! I'm going to up my exercise, measure my water more carefully, no sauces or Desserts and if there is a loss tomorrow I'll get my head back on track.  So what do I think went wrong? I ate out at a families house so even though the meal looked safe there could have been extras added, I know my stomach blew up like a balloon after lunch and that happens with something in Carbs. I suspect the curry powder used in my pumpkin soup.  I was enjoying my flatter stomach but I relived the old days last night. *Sigh* onwards we go...

Afternoon update: My cravings are out of control, I feel like pizza, garlic bread, ice cream, chocolate all at the same time! I've just made an extra sweet coffee to calm down but if I make it through today without cheating it will be a miracle! This is the only time since the first day of attack that I have craved things, must have something to do with not loosing weight, my brain is searching for a way to give in... well brain I have some news for you, I wont! I hope this time of plateau is a sign than my body is adjusting to the new weight and it wont come back. I also think that because I was doing more exercise before I started this diet the shock of the food has worn off. I've been working on getting fit since January, and I have improved my cardio fitness heaps, I was just not dropping any significant weight. Today I have done over an hour of exercise and I'm hoping that will make the difference on the scales tomorrow. *fingers crossed*

Breakfast: oat bran porridge, boiled egg, coffee
Lunch: 1/2 chicken breast with herbs and cream cheese
Dinner: 1/2 chicken breast in 1 yolk, 3 whites omeltte with 1 tablespoon of low fat cheese.
Snack: coffee, green tea
Dessert: 1 tablespoon of diet chocolate mousse.

Exercise: 40 mins Zumba DVD , 20 mins walking


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Day 17 Thursday 7th July

scales Weight: 70.1 (-0.7kg) WHOO!
Food Phase: Protein + Veg
Entry

Hooray a loss FINALLY! I was back on Attack yesterday to try and get this weight and/or water moving. I had been 4 days without a loss and almost gave up. I also discovered a few things, the Nestle Diet mousse I was eating is too high in carbs so I can only have a half serving a day, which is fine, most of the time I only need a chocolate fix and I'm good. I also watched my salt intake and added very little to my meals, I avoided beef yesterday as well. 

Also I found that 30mins of walking is not enough for my body because I was already doing that and more before the diet, so lucky me needs to do about 1 hour a day to make a difference! Lucky I work from home and have the opportunity to do that type of exercise, I would much rather a nice leisurely walk around the park but I think I will need to do a bunch of aerobic style dvds to keep my weight-loss train chuggin'. 

We've just hit a major business milestone today in my company and we are celebrating tonight with some champagne, this could throw me back into a plateau but celebrating means more to me and I have plenty of time to make up for it.So today is a bit of a break from the diet and I'll be back into it tomorrow.

Chicken
Food Diary:
Breakfast: coffee, weight watchers cereal with oat bran (I know bad! but I need something crunchy!), green tea
Lunch: Teriyaki beef salad
Dinner: Roast beef & veggies
Snacks: 1 corn cracker with philly and vegemite (also banned), green tea
Dessert: Champagne & vodka with diet pepsi, 3 squares of chocolate, 1 diet moose, 3 weight watchers cookies
Exercise none

Well you could say I took my break day a little crazy, I ate most things I wasn't allowed and it was obvious I am not ready to come off this diet. Hope the scales are kind to me tomorrow :/

 


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Day 18 Thursday 8th July

scales Weight: 70.1 (0)
Food Phase: Protein
Entry Ha Ha how funny is that, I didn't gain any weight after all that I ate and drank yesterday! Want to know my secret? Green Tea, it's a natural diuretic, it helps your kidneys flush out the extra fluid your body holds onto when eating salt or drinking alcohol. I had one after breakfast and one before bed yesterday amazing!
Chicken
Food Diary:
Breakfast: coffee, oat bran porridge
Lunch: Left over roast beef, pumpkin soup (yeh bad on a protien only day)
Dinner: Paprika Chicken
Snacks: 1 Egg, sliced of leftover roast beef, coffee
Dessert: Oatbran pancake with cinnamon and sweetener
Exercise 40mins Zumba DVD , 20 min walk

 

 


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Day 19 Friday 9th July

scales Weight: 70.7 (+0.6)
Food Phase: went nuts
Entry Well lets just pretend today didnt happen.
Chicken
Food Diary:
Breakfast: 2 pieces of toast, vegemite & butter lets make it worse and have orange juice... the worst part, I didn't even enjoy it, too salty, soggy bread and sour juice yuck
Lunch: behaved here had leftover paprika chicken
Dinner: Pasta then pizza, oh yeah I went for gold
Snacks: Movie Ice Cream lol
Dessert: vodka & pepsi, chips, spring rolls
Exercise dancing

 


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Day 20 Friday 10th July

scales Weight: 70.7 (0)
Food Phase: Protein
Entry Back on the wagon today, feel better after eating pasta yesterday, now I can move on without dreaming about it. Sadly my cold is back and my nose is running like a tap, so hard to get the momentum going when I keep getting sick.
Chicken
Food Diary:
Breakfast: Yoghurt, coffee
Lunch: Chicken breast with moroccan spices
Dinner: Beef steak, pepper sauce and an egg
Snacks: oatbran porridge, 1 egg, 2 slices of weight watchers bacon
Dessert: 1 forme sticky date flavoured yoghurt
Exercise none, the cold is back

 


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Day 21 Saturday 11th July

scales Weight: 70.7 (0)
Food Phase: Protein + Veg
Entry The day started well, but I'm obviously struggling to stay on track, I wish week 3 was as easy as week 1 & 2 were. The excuses I am giving are the head cold is making me tired and I don't feel like cooking, my partner scraped the side of the car so I ate chocolate to cope. But there are no excuses, if I wanted it bad enough I would behave. I am going to re-read the book and hopefully relive the 'ah hu' moment where I recommit to this fully or not at all.
Chicken
Food Diary:
Breakfast: oatbran porridge, 1 egg omlette with mushrooms, tomato, asparagus sprinkle of cheese
Lunch: sushi (bad)
Dinner: Chicken & a few chips
Snacks: malteasers, lemonade
Dessert: ice cream
Exercise none, the cold is back

 

Week 3 Round Up

Well week 3 was certainly a less than perfect week, I had illness, I gave in to temptation and put on weight (0.5kg). I am still 1.2 kg away from my first goal of 69.9kg, I keep getting within a few hundred grams and just can't get under 70kg. Hopefully this week will be my week. Motivation is low, but I will keep trying hard, once I crack into the 60s I think the motivation will go back up and I will feel I have really achieve something great.

Comments
  1.  lol just reading your food diary yes you did go for GOLD, but you no all of us that are on this dukan ride have slip ups and we just get back up and keep going... so good luck :)


  2.  I love to read your food diary as it not only gives me ideas on meal choices but its nice to know we all go through the same emotions and cycles.


  3.  Hi, your food diary helps me a lot, now i am realizing i am not the only one craving for carbs


  4.  Oh no! I was on my second chocolate mousse when I read your blog. It's only my second day so I'm not doing very well am I? I'm not much of a meat eater and felt physically sick eating just chicken for dinner. Bluh.


  5.  im in day 3 of said diet doing ok considering i havn done any exercise yet plan on going back to the gym this fri which will be a full 5 days on attack weight loss to date is 1.2k. I have really enjoyed reading your blog and have been very worried with the weekend coming up because i know i will need wine this is the longest that i have gone without in a longtime!!! great tip about the green tea i am going to buy some tomorrow :)



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