The Dukan Diet

[anthony]

I must add... today is a protein + veg / salad day, so the other 70 odd foods are allowed today. Thought to myself this morning... you beauty, I'm gonna pig out for breakfast. Well... made two pancakes, poached 3 eggs and sliced a some thin, low fat ham and fried that... ate half and was feeling quite sick. The rest ended up in the bin. Lesson learnt this morning...

It certainly has lessons within it if you can see them, being the start shrinks your stomach and also the type of food and the way which you have to eat it, really is filling. A small amount bloats you, thus eating less yet feel completely full.

Now we have day on, day off, between protein only (30 foods) and protein + veg / salads (100 foods). Have to get pretty creative in some food preparation at the same time... another good thing... being it makes you think outside the box.

Can use pretty much any dried flavouring, ie. nutmeg, spices, herbs, etc... even some wet, ie. mustard and low fat tomato sauce.

 

[KP the nut]

The rest ended up in the bin. .

You throw good food away:eek: . My dogs are totally disgusted with you. :roflmao::roflmao:.

 

[Toria]

Oh... been there, done that... passed out on day four and went back to Weight Watchers!!!!!

 

[anthony]

Made chocolate chip oat bran cookies last night... was interesting making the chocolate chips, being egg yolks, sweetener powder and low fat cocoa powder. Mix it all together into a paste, roll it, then freeze it to make healthy chocolate chips. Cut it up and put it in the dough.

First batch... disaster. Second batch, better.... still soft and mushy though.

Never cooked a biscuit before, so this will take some trial and error. Finding unique things to eat in this diet with allowed ingredients is the key it seems.... mixing things up and trying new things.

 

[Nicolette]

Oh... been there, done that... passed out on day four!

Why Toria? Why did you have such a reaction? Did you actually eat properly & follow the diet? What is different between the two in your opinion?

 

[anthony]

There is certainly no shortage of food, being 100 foods you can eat as much as you want, though the issue I am currently tackling is to be creative with the foods and make yummy dishes. Been slowly viewing recipes and such, trial and error cooking at the moment. Some success, some failure thus far, though only day four now.

 

[Toria]

Hi Nicolette - I think it simply didn't suit my body or my lifestyle. I don't exercise as such but my job is fairly active some days and I'm out walking the dog for a couple of hours most afternoons. I just didn't seem to be able to get the amount of energy from the specified foods that I needed to do the activities I needed to do. Plus as you've both said, the sight of food was making me queasy, which didn't help as it meant I are even less. I was on the first stage for four days though - calculated from the Dukan website - which probably also didn't help.

I originally lost a stone with Weight Watchers last year and it's been creeping back on a bit - but I find the WW points a real pain in the a***!!! I now have the My Fitness Pal app on my phone - it has a library of tens of thousands of foods and the calories for each one. You can manually input your food by searching for it or scan the barcode with your phone. It's free to download and a HUGE eyeopener to me. For example 2 croissants for breakfast on a weekend is almost my entire daily calorie allowance :eek:

Best of luck to you both with the diet - I'm sure you both look great already though... :)

 

[anthony]

Finding it better by the day... slowly as I learn and experiment. We're on a protein day today, so dinner is chicken. Made this really nice recipe that has chicken strips browned, then seasoned with parsley, garlic, ginger, greek yogurt, salt, pepper and apple vinegar. Absolutely amazing to eat...

I actually think the beginning phase is meant to make you ill, so it does just that, it literally turns you off food. It certainly did for me... I stuffed myself the third day, bacon and eggs for breakfast, roast beef and salad.... and more. Protein days are annoyingly boring though....

I think I will have my weight stripped within weeks, then I get back to eating more regular food, with a few protein days and more yummy delights. Running is stripping it away with the diet. The website said it would take me two months to lose 10kg... well, I reckon it will be nearly all gone within 2 - 3 weeks the way its impacting me.

I think that part you mention Toria... will also be interesting for me, being the management to ensure it doesn't go back on. I know weight falls off me when I run regularly... so I am hoping that once at my ideal weight, then combined with regular running now we got a treadmill, I should be able to eat just about anything I want, based that I stick to my exercise schedule. If that falls by the wayside, then my eating will have to change again I believe.

 

[Nicolette]

I have already obtained my ideal weight - I unfortunately sit for hours upon hours working each day. I am more focused on getting Anthony to find other alternate foods to eat when bored. I like that he is trying different & healthier foods. I like that he is in the kitchen trying recipes and thinking about what he eats.

Anthony can drop weight quickly but IMHO needs to learn how to manage what he eats so that if there is no treadmill for a few weeks he doesn't put the weight straight back on. I would like to see him be stable at a lower weight without extreme management of having days when he is bored & depressed & over eating then snapping out of it, starving himself & going from no exercise to extreme.

I still worry about his thinking reading this thread when he sees exercise as the solution, as while important, if he maintains what he eats better combined with mild/moderate exercise as a long term lifestyle change then the yoyoing that he does may cease.

 

[Toria]

I'm part of a group on FB that's a diet group - nothing serious, just a group of fellow dog owners that need to shift a few pounds! Between us I think we've tried every faddy diet going - Dukan, Atkins, Cabbage Soup, Fasting, PX90 (actually looks good!) and Rosemary Connely. We've reached the conclusion that the best way forward is to simply reduce calories (to whatever extent is needed personally), try to eat more fresh fruit and veg, less processed food and take more exercise that we do now. I also joined a group on there called 100 Days of Real Food - a lady in America who tried to cut out all processed food for 100 days. Doesn't necessarily translate from country to country but quite inspirational.

I think changing the way you eat needs a whole change of mind-set. Husband will quite happily grab a packet of biscuits out of the cupboard if he's peckish and eat the lot. It's stopping that "grab" in the first place and also having an alternative in the house in the first place... :oops:

Ooh! New similies!!! YAY!!!

 

[anthony]

Yer, I think that processed foods and pretty much taking out anything in a box is a sound way to diet.

 

[Nicolette]

We have not been dieters in the past Toria. I just want Anthony to subsitute the box of biscuits and teaching him to eat when hungry and not out of boredom. Having to cook/make himself something versus grabbing an easy fix processed food is the key. I am not finding the diet hard at all since passing the first two days and in less than 5 days have got to where I am already happy. The problem is Anthony cooks dinner normally, as I'm out working, so I eat what he makes and I would like him to change some of those meals for both our sakes.