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 :)