CRUISE- PP- Day 2

VERY happy that there was a tiny weeny ickle wickle teeny little LOSS on my scales today.
Rather have a 0.2lb loss then stay the same, or worse still- gain!
I was really expecting to be exactly the same or have put on a little bit, but nooo- things are going in the right direction. Hurrah!!!

TOTAL LOSS:- 4.2lbs in 5 days!!!






So, time for a little incentive for myself. I lose 14 lbs and these beauties shall be my reward..

Drooooool!!!

Only 10lbs to go! :-)
From now on my weigh in is going to be weekly. I mean- I probably will have a peek everyday- but these 0.something-of-a-lb(s) are a pain in the bum and I want to see loss of actual lb-age..


ooh- I ate a tiny squeeze of ketchup today and it made my life!!! :-D

CRUISE- PV- Day 1

WOW- I can't believe it- I've lost all of my weight overnight. I mean literally- ALL OF IT. I weigh NOTHING!!!

I think this causes for a Celebration- best get in touch with Linford Christie- this is clearly a Guinness World Record!


Or not.


May as well have weighed nothing/ lost nothing for all the weight I did lose.

Nah- still chirpy :-D

Loss- 0.4lbs
TOTAL LOSS: 4 lbs in 4 days!!!




Now- I'm gonna eat me some veg!

PV= Protein & Vegetables Day

Food Diary:-

Cup of tea

Fried egg & mushrooms

Kipper fillet, cucumber and cherry tomatoes

Crabsticks

Yeo Valley 0% fat vanilla yoghurt (waayyy too much considering the carbyness of it all)

Can Pepsi Max

Kipper Ragu (garlic, onion, mushrooms, yellow pepper, tinned tomatoes, mixed herbs, KIPPER) with a dollop of creme fraiche stirred in at the end ;-)

Cup of tea

Mood:- Good

Exercise:- TWO HOURS of walking!!!

Small portions, healthy feeling and welcomed the change in flavour and textures.

Cruise is the way forward.

Expecting to stay the same weight wise tomorrow. Or go up a little. Apparently this is to be expected when transitioning from Attack to Cruise, and particularly on Protein & Vegetable days as the veg retains water.

Despite my disclaimer I know this will discourage me somewhat. Be prepared.

Dukan ATTACK- Review

Well...

What a rollercoaster this couple have days have been.

Although this diet does what it says on the tin- 4lb loss in 4 days
There is a lot to be said for the baggage that comes with it.

At some points the MASSIVE HEADACHES (Day 1 & 2), extreme nauseousness/sickness/BLERGHHH-ness (Days 1-3) and the uncomfortable feeling of constipation (Day 2) left me wanting to to fight the attack instead of succumb to its charm and wit. (Ok, not fight, run away like a sissy and sit in the corner and stuff cake until you hate yourself.) BUT, I worked with it, and here I am.

I think ATTACK is a very appropriate word for this phase. By lasting the 4 days I feel that I've shown my own body-lard that I really do mean business.

TIPS:-

DRINK THE WATER  - helps with sickness, fills you up, gets rid of all the waste-age

EAT THE OATBRAN - helps with sickness, fills you up, gets rid of all the other waste-age

Use sweetener and 1 calorie fizzy drinks to perk you up - make you feel like you're having a treat.

Seems silly- now that I'm through the other side - to have let this phase affect me so much, but my emotions and god the sickness- ughhh! Made me all over the place. Think its getting used to NO SUGAR.

I'm ready to embrace the CRUISE phase of the diet now. 40 (ish) days of Pure Protein days and Protein & Veg days. There are loads of fab recipes online to help me get through this. I think being inventive with what you're eating is the way forward. Of course you're going to feel sick and miserable if you eat the same breakfast every day and it tastes of nothing and feels like the contents of a cement mixer (cement- that is).

I'm also not silly, and realise that this section too is NOT going to be easy. I'm off on my hols in 2 and a half weeks and I'm not going to not eat fruit and potatoes and drink boozeywoozey- but maybe I'll manage to do this moderation, or consider the importance of proteins and exercise more, or..well...we shall see. I'm not going to let Dukan take over my life and stop me doing these sorts of things (unbelievable how much of social-life involves gorging!!!) But I'm also not going to let FAT take over my life, and cannot wait to feel comfortable getting into a bikini!!! :-D

ATTACK- Day 4

6:30am

LOSS- 0.6lbs

Possible factors as to why the loss is so low today:-

Quorn sausages for dinner (CARB)

Activia snackpot for pudding (CARB)

Didn't do my 20 minute walk

I'm nearing the end of my attack phase, and have lost all of the water I need to lose.

However:-

"Any weight loss, no matter how tiny, will be your very best incentive"- Dr. Dukan..

sooo...

A LOSS IS A LOSS RIGHT?! HURRAH FOR ME!!!

3.6lbs in 3 days!!!

Breakfast

Just had a lovely sweet omelette for breakfast served with Rhubarb and Vanilla Fat Free yoghurt. Was my mums idea.

Twas real easy. 

2x eggs mixed with a splash of skimmed milk. Add cinnamon and sweetener to taste.

Wipe a tiny bit of oil round the pan with kitchen roll so that the omelette won't stick, but you won't actually be digesting any oil and cook both sides for a few minutes until piping hot all the way through.

YUM.

Fingers crossed for a successful day...

Later...

GREAT DAY GANG!!!

Food Diary-

Sweet omlette with yoghurt (see above)
Cup of tea
Can of diet coke
Activia Mandarin yoghurt
Crabsticks
Cottage cheese & Quorn slices
Activia Vanilla yoghurt
Crabsticks
Quorn slices
Glass semi-skimmed milk (cheat!!! should be skimmed)
Mackerel fillet
Activia Vanilla yoghurt

(no Dukan galette today- oops!)

Stuff-

Really good day. Thought it was great of my colleague to buy me a can of diet coke (HUGE TREAT) when she bought everyone else in the office chocolate muffins. It was nice not to feel deprived. I hate that feeling on diets. There's no point if you feel sorry all the time.

Mr. Dukan said that "euphoria" would kick in on Day 3. He lied. Day 4 is definitely the one for me!!!

NO SICKNESS!!!

= enjoying crabsticks. The smell doesn't make me wretch. This is a HUGE plus as they're great for snacking on- personally I find them tres stinky in the office- but the others don't seem to mind.

= 45 minute walk to Tesco and back during lunch was more brisk. Last time all the joggling around made me want to heave.

= chirpier mood. When I feel ill my thoughts go a little like this "oh-my-god-i-feel-so-sick-ugghhh-i-feel-sick-why-do-i-feel-so-sick-what-if-i-am-sick-i-feel-so-sick-im-going-to-be-sick-i-feel-sick-i-feel-sick-i-feel-sick" and this is NO exaggeration. It takes over. None of that nonsense today.

LOVED my mackerel tonight. Soooo tasty and chewy! And I was full up after the one fillet which means to more for me to enjoy at a later date (not too late or I'll get food poisoning and then I really will lose weight!)

Think the glass of milk was a bit baddd- but you only live once right! Ha!

*In other news- I got offered a permanent job today where I work. I've been there as a temp with an agency for 6 months and finally sealed the deal today.*

Soo...I'm losing weight, feeling chirpy, and employed!!! Hurrah for me! :-D

Bring on the veg tomorrow!!!

ATTACK- Day 3

6:49am

Couldn't resist posting this morning...

LOSS:- 1.2lbs
Total Loss- 3lbs in 2 days!!!


Here's hoping for a good day... :-)

7:00pm

Ughhhh...what a terrible terrible day.

The day itself had is troughs and I think my mood/queasiness/exasperation wasn't helping.

This morning when I got to work I felt so soo sick. That stayed most of the day.

Then there was general cruddy work stuff and the way I reacted to this stuff was not usual. Frustration mounted into certain behaviour which I can only blame on the lack of carbs and sugar? Just my body adjusting obviously- but whether or not this affects your mental health...today says yes- it does.

Anyway I just got in from work and stuffed my face. Semi Dukan attack- not sure really.

Food diary

Dukan Galette with  hard boiled egg and cottage cheese

Cup of tea

Activia Vanilla yoghurt

TOO MANY CRABSTICKS -UGHHH

Cottage cheese and quorn slices- smoky ham & chicken flavours

Activia Mandarin yoghurt

MORE CRABSTICKS

Fried egg & 2 quorn sausages (this is my pig-out!!?)

Cup of tea

Activia strawberry snackpot (picked out most of the fruity bits)

I'm not feeling sick anymore though. Just feel normal. This worries me as it might mean that my dinner has counteracted things. I realise its still protein- but the sausages and the yoghurt were quite carb heavy- well compared to the other things I've been eating.

Only the scales can tell tomorrow...

I miss chirpy, happy Kimberley :-(

ATTACK- Day 2

Just a quickie as its very late and I was up very early again.
(This will probably be the longest yet, now I've said that).

Last night-

Ate tuna with vinegar. Was ok. In bed exhausted by 10pm (maybe because I was up at 6am- not used to it). Woke up to use the toilet (No. 1) twice in the night. TWICE!!! (Been peeing like a good'un!)

Weigh in this morning:-

Thats a LOSS of 1.8lbs!!!

Food diary:-

Cup of tea
Boiled egg & cottage cheese
Activia mandarin yoghurt
Crab sticks x4 (deja vu, much?!)
Tin of sardines
Dukan Galette
Activia vanilla yoghurt
Cup of tea
Quorn Smoky Ham slices x3
Quorn Chicken slices x2
Plate of king prawns with lemons (at a restaurant- embarrassing!!!)
Pint of diet coke x2  (At the restaurant for over 2 hours)
Cottage cheese (after I've written this, even though its 23:19)

Other:-

45 minute walk to Tesco and back at lunch
45 minute walk to restaurant and back in evening
LOTS OF WATER
Headache this morn- took 2 paracetamol.
Got round to reading phase 2 of the diet and feeling pretty apprehensive.


Fingers crossed for another positive result in the morn- and a longer entry is a must.

ATTACK- Day 1

My podgy-footed self on the scale at 6am. Day 1.

For those (myself) who just want a food diary, I'll start with that.

Cup of tea

Hard boiled egg and cottage cheese

Mandarin yoghurt (Activia- 0% fat)

Redbush tea

4x Crab sticks (Youngs- 79p at Tesco)

Tin of sardines

Vanilla yoghurt (Activia- 0% fat)

More crabsticks (total of 10 today)

Cottage cheese - straight out the tub!

Small glass of Pepsi Max (1 calorie; no fat)

Weird king prawn, yoghurt concoction (wouldn't recommend- see below for picture- YUK)

Dukan galette

Emotional/ Wellness-ness

Woke up positive. Got on scale- well ready for the mission.

Breakfast- interesting affair. Too much of the same texture. Not disappointed- dealing with it.

Trip to Tesco before work for yoghurts- smell of fresh, warm bread wafting throughout the store. Aware of the smell. Thinking about it as though I should be bothered, but not actually.

Early at work 9am- starving. Mandarin yoghurt. Sicky feeling.

Light-headed-ness. Not unbearable but verging on uncomfortable.

Start stuffing crabsticks- stink out the office. Paranoia. Rather be munching on biscuits.

BANGING HEADACHE- drink more water, drink more water.

Tin of sardines- tasty but HATE the way the look- all veins and scales and guts and shudder. Don't think- just eat.

Drive home- starving. Stuff more crabsticks. Stinking out the car- difficult to unwrap whilst driving. Groan!

Get in- shove some mouthfuls of cottage cheese in my face. Enjoyable. Mushy thickness akin to a fatty naughty treat. Not unhappy, not dizzy, not headachey. Just meh.

SMALL GLASS OF PEPSI MAX- joy, elation. Very happy moment. "This diets great." Lets get started on dinner shall we?

Take dinner out the oven- greeted with a mushy mess. Yoghurt separated from liquid. Lumpy and gross looking. Pick out the prawns- they're tasty- the texture of the yoghurt- not so nice. Gag-zilla.

Not hungry- but remember the oats. Conjure up Dukan's galette. Not hungry- must eat oats. Very filling and heavy. Content. Not happy, nor sad, just meh.

The scales better show good things tomorrow!!!

And the rest of it...

My God this has been a strange day foodwise! The thing is with me- I love food. Tasty food, and usually thats bad. What I've eaten today wasn't necessarily baddd or gross as such, its just that I'm stubborn and make things difficult for myself. Because I have to eat it, I don't want to eat it.

I want to want what I eat.

But at the moment I want to lose weight more, so yea. Shushh!!!

Some marriages of ingredients aren't ideal. The egg and cottage cheese was too much of the same thing.  Mush up some egg- its like cottage cheese and vice verca (ewww- imagine balling up some cottage cheese into an egg shape!)

The sardines really grossed me out. For those of you who eat tinned sardines, you'll know exactly what I mean. I had to push the black mushy innards to the edge of the tin where the top was still attached so created a shadow in the corner where I couldn't see so good. I worked quickly and efficiently and ate as much as I could. WAYYY too squeamish for this shizz!

The yoghurts are YUM! The vanilla one- god its to die for. I'm happy to eat those. Think I'll spread those out between the not so favourable dishes.

Dinner- now I have no idea what the hell happened there.

Looks like puke in a bowl doesn't it. As I said before, picked the prawns out and they were fine. Can't be bothered to give this "dish" more time than necessary.

The Dukan Galette, however- lets talk about that.

Interesting concept. Smells porridgey- obvs- its oats.

Looks like a pancake. Goes sort of hard and firm when cooked. Like you can pick it by one edge- its not floppy like a tortilla, more rigid like toast.

I found it quite eggy. I think I will put half of one in next time.

I ate it with cinammon, quark and sweetener. Because I was full and it was filling I didn't really enjoy it. Not as much as I may have done this morning when I was hungry.

Having said that I do feel hungry now. Not hungry. I can't explain it. Its as though I should eat but don't really want to. Not sure whether my stomach is trying to gurgle or trying do digest all this protein.

Just don't know.

Anyway, galette, yes..

Was thinking that it might make good "soldiers" to have with dippy egg.

It was quite large really.

You could cut it in half and have a smoked salmon and cream cheese sandwich. Oooh yes- that would be lovely. 

If I eat again tonight I have decided it will be a tin of tuna with pepper and maybe vinegar (?)

I've drank loads of water.

I walked for 20 mins (not in one go, but hmm...I wonder if that will make a difference actually..)

The scale BEST show positive results tomorrow. OR ELSE!!!

Oh yes- just quickly, back to emotions- keep spontaneously welling up- over adverts, Eastenders, just anything really. That could just be me to be honest...or the lack of fatty treats!!! Sighhh!!

Pre-diet nerves

My name is Kimberley, I am 23 years old and I weigh A LOT (actual weight to be decided by scales tomorrow after my morning pee).
I first gained a considerable amount of weight when I travelled alone to Australia and New Zealand at the age of 18. I put on 5 kg in 6 months. It didn't suit me. I am only 5 foot and looked like a brown space hopper upon returning to the UK.
At my heaviest I BELIEVE I was 62 kg.

I lost a lot of weight and continued to do so when I started University. I went through a break up and lost more weight.

And then yo-yo'ed for the rest of the 3 years, depending on holidays, exams, whether or not I was going to aerobics and so on and so forth. Not really too much of a problem- everyones overweight at uni.
As a graduation "present" my mother booked herself and I into "Fitfarms"- one week of vigorous exercise combined with regular, small meals. I was very very unhappy. I missed my uni friends, was unemployed and did NOT want to be there. I lost a few lbs that week but partied at my graduation shortly afterwards and remained unhappily unemployed for a few months, which involved laying in bed feeling sorry.


(Don't worry- this isn't all sob-story)


So...I have now been employed for over 6 months. I love my job as an administration assistant for a big Logistics company. My colleagues are fab, my work is varied and full on, my mind active- and my body. Well. Sedentary.


I wake up at around 7am, shower, eat breakfast, sort lunch. Leave at 8:10am. Drive to work. Start work at 8:30am, sitting at a desk where I remain until 5:30pm. In this time I may have to go upstairs twice, and do one lap of Tesco during my lunch hour. If I'm really getting into my quota of 2000 steps a day I might put the kettle on once or twice. I drive home and eat dinner at around 6pm. I then sit and watch tv. Simpsons, Hollyoaks, Channel 4 News, Corrie, Eastenders then a film or some docu. I go to bed at 10pm at the latest, and repeat.


So basically- I wake up and sit in a car, sit at work, sit at home, lay at home and sleep. Thats my life.


Somethings gotta change.


I've stumbled across the Dukan Diet and tomorrow is the day the challenge begins.




ATTACK
4 days of pure protein. ONLY.
I don't eat meat but I eat fish. I've done the reading and the research- am already feeling queasy at the thought of all that protein and have decided that the way I can monitor all of this is to talk to myself in the form of an online blog. Hmmm..


There was a lot of "about me"- essential contextual information I feel and as my hard-boiled eggs have probably exploded (oops- literally just remembered putting those on) I feel its time I move on.
Stop talking start doing.




This dialogue from Monty Pythons 'Life of Brian' says it all:-


so we've got to get up off our arses and stop just talking about it!
Hear! Hear!
I agree. It's action that counts, not words, and we need action now.
Hear! Hear!
You're right. We could sit around here all day talking, passing resolutions, making clever speeches..
So, let's just stop gabbing on about it. It's completely pointless and it's getting us nowhere!
Right!

Wow. I'm really going to post this aren't I.