Beginning Stats:
Weight: 165.4
BMI: 22.4
Fat %: 25.6
Water %: 53.4
My husband and mother want to lose about the same amount. I don't have a ton of weight to lose, just enough to make my clothes fit better and also to get in shape for my upcoming 20 year reunion and trip to the Bahamas! So if you have a little to lose, this blog is for you.
A little background on this...
A couple of weeks ago my husband heard that Watie Katie (who is no longer waiting!) was rumored to have been on the Dukan Diet. I had never heard of this before. But, we bought the book on our iPad and began reading it. Hubby said that if I wanted to do it, he'd do it with me. Then we also decided to drag Grammy into the mix and she decided to do it, too.
I think the initial attractiveness about this diet was the fact that you truly can eat as much as you want of the recommended foods. In the past I had done the South Beach Diet to lose my baby weight, and found it to be difficult because the amount of food was restricted. Snacks of 30 pistachios just doesn't do it for me...in fact it's more like torture because I could literally eat 30 pistachios in one handful!
So here we are on Sunday, Day 1. We took 1 week prior to "prepare". Preparation included the following:
- Read the book
- gorge ourselves on all carbs in the house to get rid of them
- go out to eat and pig out numerous times
- drink wine at least 3 out of 5 days
- Stock up on Attack Phase foods
In the morning I made my first Gallette pancake, the recommended way to eat your required 1 1/2 TBL of Oat Bran (I accidentally used 2 TBL! The horror!). It was actually very good and easy to make. Along with that we had egg whites with Ham in it. All in all a very tasty breakfast that we really enjoyed. We felt like we could do this! One negative thing I noticed right away is that I'll be dirtying a lot more measuring utensils, cooking utensils, pots and pans with this diet. But if you already cook a lot, this won't be anything out of the ordinary for you!
For lunch my hubby suggested we go to a BBQ place. Yes, this is meat heaven in Texas. It was very appetizing and not too difficult to pass up the "sides," which could possibly be the most unhealthy foods on earth. Hubby bought 2 lbs each of brisket, ham and turkey and we've been eating it for several days now as snacks and along with eggs. It was a strange sensation to only buy meat at a restaurant and just sit around eating meat like barbarians. But it was good and I had tea with sweetener along with it.
Dinner that night was a shrimp boil! We invited the parents over and we all ate big delicious seasoned shrimp. After a while I needed something to dip it in so I squeezed a little lemon juice in a bowl and dipped in that. It was surprisingly good. In between these meals I had cottage cheese mixed with a little sweetener and vanilla. I think I had that twice. Hubby was eating more meat in between meals.
After dinner I had planned to have the "Vanilla creme" recipe but didn't realize it took 3 hrs to set! Plan ahead on those desserts people! So it was getting late and my parents didn't want to wait for the creme to set. We said we'd just eat it the next day...well I had to sneak a taste and then I lost control!! Note, I doubled the recipe for all of us to eat, which had 6 egg yolks in it...next thing I knew I had eaten the entire thing of runny creme. It was true desperation and I really couldn't stop! It was the best thing I had tasted all day and I just kept going until it was gone. So obviously I went over my limit on egg yolks. But I don't have high cholesterol so it wasn't THAT bad...just a very weak moment.
As far as water, I don't have trouble drinking the 1 1/2 qts. But I HAVE to drink diet Cokes and tea sweetened with artificial sweetener. I also have to have my coffee! I also had to have the cottage cheese/sweetener/vanilla or yogurt/sweetener/vanilla thing at least a couple of times a day to get over the sweet urges.
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