The end of a long weekend

What a great weekend, time with friends and family, sunshine, laughter, perfect!

Yesterday I was entertaining people both at lunchtime and at dinner. Lunch went brilliantly, chicken salad with bread rolls for the others and dukan bread for me. Perfect.

Dinner went well too, home made burgers (using extra lean mince) and salad. Slice of cheese on top of one of the burgers. Perfect.

Bottle of wine, not so perfect.

3 Chocolate cornflake cakes, not so perfect either!

I intended to limit myself to one cornflake cake but they were so good and I had drunk a bottle of wine! All in all not a bad attempt at a weekend of socialising with the dukan diet.

Today I have had to go in to work and so took the left over burgers with me. Somebody else was there and had brought some hot cross buns with them, I ended up having one of them but not tooooo bad all things considered!

Tomorrow is Monday and the beginning of another week of dukan and hopefully weight loss!

I expect that by tomorrow I will be weigh in a bit more than I did on friday morning but I am not too worried about it. I managed to treat myself without going off the rails completely and so am feeling in control which is the best place to be when on a diet.

As predicted….

….the scales showed a weight gain this morning :(.I’ve only myself to blame but it is annoying to have gone up a pound again. Part of that will be because of the vegetables but mostly it will be because of the biscuits!

Today was a PP day and a relatively successful on at that, I had:

Quorn sausages for breakfast

Chicken sandwich (dukan bread) with philly xl for lunch

Fat free fruit yoghurt

Jelly

Chicken and spices

2 little squares of chocolate

I know it is naughty but in the big scheme of things the 2 little squares aren’t that bad, are they??

Tomorrow I have a day of entertaining. I have people coming over to eat at lunch time and then others coming for dinner so I can dictate the meals and so I am feeling confident.

Lunch will consist of roast chicken and salad and dukan bread (normal bread rolls for the others)

Dinner will consist of home made burgers and salad (bread for others) and butternut squash chips

I have brought some chocolate and cornflakes to make crispy cornflake cakes so will limit myself to one of those and some wine (naughty I know but hey, life is for living even on the dukan diet!!!!!)

Have a good weekend dukaneers 🙂

Get a grip

Another weight loss today but I did go off target today when I hit the biscuit tin at work and had 6 ginger nut biscuits plus 2 chocolates (milk tray style).

Today I weighed in at 9 stone 9.4 pounds, a pound loss! Whoppeeeeee!

Today was a PV day so I had:

Quorn sausages for breakfast

Dukan bread with marmite and philly xl for lunch

Jelly

Fat free fruit yoghurt

6 Ginger nut biscuits

2 Chocolates

Stir fry of chicken breast, pepper, onion, mushroom and courgette with spices

Um, feeling regretful about this afternoons binge but glad about the weight loss and the rest of the day. Expecting a weight gain tomorrow given my misdemeanors and the intro of veg but tomorrow is a PP day so hopefully will come down again at weekend.

Come on now Holly, time to get a grip……..

Success…

is a food diary that Monsieur Dukan would be proud of coupled with a weight loss on the scales!

I can tick both of those boxes today…….yayyyyyy!

This morning I weighed in at 9 stone 10.6 pounds when yesterday I weighed 9 stone 12.4 pounds. Almost a 2 pound loss. Result.

My menu today was:

Dukan bread for breakfast (just warm out the microwave with no topping, delicious!)

Dukan bread with marmite and philly xl

Jelly

2 fat free fruit yoghurts

2 x Chicken breasts with sweet sour sauce

Dukan chocolate mousse

The secret to todays success……..I think it was because I was so busy at work I just didn’t have time to go to the vending machine, plus, there were no biscuits/ goodies in the office today. Result.

Feeling positive and focussed and on track.

Now I must get my food ready for tomorrow.

Cringe!!!

Ok, so I have just spent some time reading back through all my old posts and I am cringing in to my fat free fruit yoghurt! Not just because of the badly written and poorly edited posts but because of my journey so far. There is a clear pattern of:

Successful weight loss

Binge eating

Weight gain

Period of reflection

Fresh start

Successful weight loss…….

and so on, and so forth!

I know I am no different from any other dieter in the land, this is the diet cycle we read about in every magazine article, and lets face it in most blogs, but there has been something rather chilling about reading my story and seeing that this is a reality for ME! I think I have always known that this is my usual cycle of dieting and it will end up with me saying ‘sod it, I am thinner than I was when I started’ regardless of whether I still have two or three stone to go to reach a healthy weight. In fact, that short cycle represents my whole life of dieting, successful dieting (ish), bingeing, weight gain, back to dieting. All too familiar and all too depressing.

I am loath to say it but this has been a good bit of ‘reflection’ (more cringing) for me and I am feeling pretty focussed right now. How am I going to change my diet cycle from now on…..well I guess I need to break that cycle! How will I do that???? Well that is going to take some more reflection thinking!

It has been a successful day for me.Lets hope it is the start of many more.

NB – it has taken all my strength not to write the words ‘fresh start’ but you know what I mean!

The price I pay…….

As I stood on the scales this morning with a throbbing headache (I will come on to the headache in a minute) I felt well and truly p*ssed off with myself! Why oh why did I do it?! YES the food was delicious, YES it was fantastic company and YES it was a brilliantly lazy sunday but was it worth it…….this morning the answer was NO!

Lets start with the scales, they showed a 1 pound 2 ounce increase, very annoying when the general trend last week was downwards.

I am pretty sure I had a carb hangover today as well. I have heard the phrase batted around a few times but never really knew what it meant until I was half way to work and it suddenly dawned on me that I had a hangover…….not even I could get a hangover from one glass of wine so it must have been the carbs. I really, really struggled to get up this morning and stayed weary for most of the morning, until I had a tin of diet coke. I also had a really bad headache, I must have had way too much sugar and complex carbs yesterday. I also had stomach pains and my ‘movements’ were very random, (skip down to the next paragraph if this is too much info) I had some runny movements and some more ‘explosive’ movements. It was very strange.

I just don’t think my body knew what to do with all these carbs and fat.

Yet another wake up call for me today, but how many do I need before I finally get myself slim! A friend from Australia announced she is coming home in April for a few weeks so this is a good target for me to get my weight down by a stone, I think this is achievable if I stay strong and stick with it from NOW on!

The good news is that it has been a good-ish day. I went for the meal after work and managed to convince a friend to share a pizza and salad with me so the damage was as limited as possible. I think I will show a weight gain again tomorrow but I have a clear run now for at least 10 days so I am hoping tomorrow will be a fresh start…..yet another ‘fresh’ start!

My weak spot……

Oh dear, eating with friends has always been one of my favourite past times but sadly one of my biggest weak spots when dieting. I went with every intention of being good, I had some dukan bread before I went hoping this would keep me satisfied and therefore stop me from bingeing from whatever was put in front of me.

My aim was for damage limitation but in the end there was so much damage and so very little limitation!

The crisps, dips, nuts etc were put out when we arrived. I had one handful of crisps and nuts and then filled up on diet coke and sat away from the nibbles so as to stop myself. A good start for me.

Then came the starter – salad of rocket and balsamic vinegar topped with baked mushroom topped with spinach…..all good so far I hear you say……..and cheese! Beautiful, ripe camembert……whoops!

Not the end of the diet I thought and carried on drinking lots of diet coke. I’ll fill up on veg and meat and stay away from carbs when the main comes I thought to myself.

So, then came the main……. a beautiful lamb tagine with cous cous and spiced potatoes. So, so lovely but totally carby and with the exception of the tin tomatoes in the tagine everything in that dish was off limits! This was Pierre Dukan’s worst nightmare on a plate!!! I did a quick review and decided that it was better to eat more of the meat dish, even though lamb is forbidden on the dukan, and so just had a spoonful of the cous cous and potatoes.

By the time I had polished that off…..with a glass of wine, another oops, I had given up.

Pudding came…..a choice of chocolate cheesecake or sticky toffee pudding……I’ll try a bit of both I said!! Double, treble, whoops!!!!!

I am now feeling so full I could pop and those skinny jeans my friends were complimenting me on are now bursting!

Tomorrow night I am going out with some friends from work to an Italian for a leaving do, it is somebody I get on well with so can’t miss it. Just checked out the menu and there is literally pizza or pasta, not a salad or steak in sight.

Oh dear, oh dear, this is going to be a long week………..

 

Going good

Another good day in the dukan journey. I weighed in at 9 stone 10 pounds and 4 so a pound loss from yesterday, excellent. One more pound down and I will be back to where I was pre holiday.

Had a massive lie in so have only had two meals today:

Dukan bread toasted with marmite and philly xl

Activia yoghurt snack pot – raspberry flavour

Roast chicken

Shape yoghurt – strawberry flavour

Experimental choc pudding

Lots of squash and diet coke

I was planning on having a PV day tomorrow but I am now going to a friends for lunch so I am hoping that it wont be too damaging. I am feeling positive and in control at the moment and I am determined not to ruin this roll I’m on. Wish me luck peeps…….

Whoosh!

Today has been a good day, almost perfect as far as the diet is concerned but not quite!

The scales showed a 2 pound loss this morning! I am now 9 stone 11.4 pounds so heading back to where I was two weeks ago before my week off work. I decided to celebrate by having another PP day! So I had:

Fat free fruit yoghurt with oat bran for breakfast

Quorn sausages for lunch

Sweet and sour chicken (dukan friendly of course) for tea

An experimental chocolate pudding!

Lots of tea, diet coke and water

Mini bag of mini eggs…..whoops!

All in all it has been a good day and I am now feeling comfortable with being back in the diet, with the exception of the mini eggs but it is almost easter and mini eggs are my absolute favourite chocolates!

Here’s to a succesful dukan weekend………

Back in the game…..

So today has been a ‘fresher’ day!

Turkey bacon for breakfast

Dukan bread with marmite and XL philly for lunch

Jelly

2 fat free natural yoghurts

Salmon fillet and a cod fillet and cottage cheese for dinner

Lots of diet coke and water and tea

I feel much more in control and positive and I hope this will be the start of a good week if not longer! I have a quiet weekend planned which is much needed and I hope to stick to PP tomorrow and Saturday and then treat myself to a lovely roast dinner on sunday, minus the roast potatoes of course!

Charlotte and I have been doing some experimenting with recipes, we are trying to create a dukan friendly Chocolate pudding, see her blog for more details!