Well, it's very nearly a case of me growing gills and being able to breathe under water with the amount of fish and seafood I have eaten this week - good job I LOVE the stuff! In fact, I have realised this 5 days how much healthy food I do actually LOVE - oh the thought of crunching on a granny smith and tucking into a 5 leaf salad is just soooooo desirable. So, how the hell did I end up this size? The only "excuse" is cost, my weekly shop price has doubled this week and it's only because I am buying so much protein.
So, Day 4! I lost 1lb 3/4. Hurrah taking my total loss since Monday (Day 1) to 4lbs 3/4. Food wise I ate: a pack of crab sticks, a tin of mackerel, Muller light yoghurt x 2, homemade extra lean mince burgers with chillipowder and quark and chive sauce, beef jerky and oat bran porridge. I drank tea and water and diet coke (but can't remember how much of everything). Was an easy day as I was so so busy.
Day 5, I woke this morning and had lost a further 1lb 1/4 so that's a total of 6lb lost since Monday! Which is a lb more than my Dukan chart indicates I would lose in my 5 day's of attack and I still have tomorrow's weigh in to go. Today I have eaten: oat bran porridge, tin of mackerel, kippers and scrambled eggs, muller light yoghurt, bowl of seafood and crab sticks and I'll probably have a yoghurt later.
I am really looking forward to tucking into a chicken breast and tonnes of veg or a bowl of lovely crisp salad to go with my seafood mix, BUT I am going to stick on attack for a few more days. You can do it for up to 10 days, as long as you're still losing and are taking multi-vits (which I am). I also haven't fully got my head around the next phase yet, but more importantly for me I am currently 2lbs into the stone and if I can lose a further 3lb I will have dropped into the lower stone bracket, which would be a massive achievement for me - I will also have lost 9lbs which would also be fantastic!
So, I'm going to plod on with attack until I either crack and eat a veggie or stop losing weight or get down into the next stone bracket!
I think I also need to give myself "mini" goals, as 22nd December seems such a long way off - even though Lydia is already putting together her mental Christmas list :) It's Valentine's Day on Tuesday and I'm already wanting to "deviate" from the Dukan way for the evening meal, if I am feeling like this after 5 days imagine how it will be after 5 months!
We have a wedding on 21st May and I won't be following Dukan that day, but will follow it with a week of attack, I will need to have met a mini goal by then though in order to feel "OK" about the rebellion!
Here are my mini goals:
1 stone off before returning to work on 7th March.
10% of my body weight off by the wedding (21st May) - I remember from Slimming World that 10% of your body weight lost is a "significant" marker for health reasons etc.
I want to be back to my wedding weight by our 5th wedding anniversary (22nd July)
I want to be back to the weight I was when I met James by Lydia's 4th birthday (23rd October)
That'll then leave me with a couple of months to get to the weight I should be and to allow us to start the 3rd baby journey in the new year. I am certain that *if* we have a 3rd child I do not want to be overweight and pregnant for a 3rd time. I want a waterbirth, I might even want a home birth and my BMI is the determiner for those (well, for an "easy" agreement to those). Then it'll just be a case of keeping it off while pregnant - as my "true weight" would still put me in the "overweight" category for the NHS weight charts, I won't be expected to gain any weight during pregnancy.
Well, there you have it: my longer term plan. Ooooh I do love a plan :)
You are doing SO well Liv, that is great going. Yes you can do up to ten days with those exceptions, so see how you go. Personally I was going crazy for veg by end of day 5 but that was all I'd planned to do anyway. Boy, did that first tomato (homegrown and still warm from the sun) taste good :-)
ReplyDeleteYou say you'll follow the wedding in May with a week of attack. Dr Dukan advises against this, as it is actually counter-productive and can halt your weight loss. At most, after a lapse or holiday, he recommends THREE days pure protein, along with drinking extra ICED water and increasing your walking to an hour a day.
What I do definitely agree with is setting yourself mini-goals, along with a reward (haircut, massage, cinema trip, whatever floats your boat) for reaching them.
I can see you are very determined, plus you like lots of the allowed foods, so it's going to be fun watching your progress and I reckon you'll beat your target dates. We'll see :-)
Hope you don't mind me commenting?
Wahey! Way to go Liv, you're doing fabulously...one thing that sprung to mind though is that isn't beef jerky quite salty? Dukan allowed foods should be low in salt...if it is, ignore me, but I was reading through the forum my Mum uses and I'm sure someone on there had said about it...?!
ReplyDeleteAnyhoo, I am thinking the exact same as you...if I'm 'dreaming' of deviating after such a short period of time, despite being spurred on by initial weightloss, how can I last the whole slog...I think it's just going to be a case of those mini goals and everyone spurring each other on!
We can sit and eat our funny food together on the 28th (maybe I can sneak a try of some of your seafood mix to see if I like it, I really need more variety!) xxx
Comment away ladies :) it all helps - ooh I thought dried meats were ok - sure it says that in my book (it seems a bit contradictory sometimes!) Just checked the packet and it's 0.7g of sodium - I don't even know if that is high!
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