Day 16 - Cruise Phase

Day 16 - Cruise Phase

Stats: Not giving stats today

I am not getting on the scale for a few days.  I have a feeling I'll do this every Monday.  Weekends are very difficult on the Dukan diet.  Travelling is VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE.  You'd really have to be disciplined and search high and low to have a pure protein day while travelling.  I am not the type to go in a restaurant or someone's home and make ridiculous food demands, so I had to compromise on several occasions.

Friday we left town and ended up stopping at McDonald's for dinner.  I have a 3 and 7 year old.  McDonald's has salads so I had one of those with grilled chicken, and ate salsa on it instead of dressing.  However the salad had crushed tortilla chips on top of it...my hunger got the best of me and I ended up eating them on the salad.  We brought plenty of snacks but I still had a weak moment.

When we arrived at our destination my friends were drinking wine.  Another weak moment and I had at least 3 glasses.  After the wine I had a few handfuls of m & m's...now I know the reason why you can't have alcohol on this diet...because you end up giving in to temptation because you lose your inhibitions!!

On Saturday my friend had made all sorts of yummy breakfast things and I felt guilty for refusing them.  But I stuck to the plan and had eggs and oat bran that I brought.  I snacked on lunch meat, tuna and yogurt during the day, ended up eating a piece of provolone which I know is not on the diet but it was another weak moment...

We took all of our kids to a rodeo in the evening and that's when I fell off the wagon, rolled around in the dirt, and layed there for a while.  The 7 kids between three adults started getting to all of us so when we sat down in a Mexican restaurant, all we wanted to do was have a margarita.  And it was BIG.  And I had TWO.  I ate some chips and salsa (not nearly as much as I normally would).  My dinner was pretty healthy, grilled shrimp and veggies.  Luckily the food was not very good.  Then at the actual rodeo performance I had two beers. 

Yesterday I was pretty good, had a protein breakfast, salad at lunch (but all they had for dressing was ranch or honey mustard...hey I live in Texas and it's not exactly the picture of health in most places).  I used as little ranch as possible, maybe a Tablespoon.  For dinner we went to a Chinese buffet where I only had non-breaded meats and veggies.

I am at a standstill on my weight loss because I keep falling off the plan.  I'm not doing anything crazy but obviously this diet is very sensitive to ANYTHING off the plan.  I can't believe the guilt I end up feeling over the tiniest things that normally I would not worry about.  I must say it's starting to get on my nerves and I'm tired of it.  I just wanted to lose 5 more lbs and a whole week has passed without any progress.  I really do feel like giving up.  When I say give up, I don't mean just go hog wild and eat anything and everything.  I'm just talking about having veggies and protein and forget these all protein days.  They are really taking it's toll on me and my husband.  Hubby got sick on Thursday and I can tell it's wearing down his immune system.  He actually seems depressed to me.  His weight loss has been very impressive, over 10 lbs, and I am trying to convince him to move on to the consolidation phase without me.  He's slim enough right now, he just needs to maintain.

I haven't talked to my mom lately, not sure how much she's lost now.  I might switch to her plan of two protein days per week.  This 1/1 schedule is too much for me.  I started taking a multi vitamin today, I'm worried about my immune system because common sense tells me it's not healthy to eat all this protein and hardly ever poop. 

I'll probably weigh again on Wednesday.  I need some encouragement to stick to this but I'm not getting it!