So my first day on the diet was supposed to be March 22, 2012, but I felt really unprepared. I didn't have the proper foods in the house and I was having my friends, Deanna and Christa for breakfast that morning. If you read the first post, Deanna is my cheerleader who got me to check out the diet. Soooo...I decided to wait until Friday and stock my fridge. We had a great breakfast-I made Deanna a piece of Salmon for her attack meal and Christa and I had Ham, Egg and Cheese Breakfast Bagels on Whole Wheat bagels-Yum! Deanna's little sad piece of salmon looked so lonely on her plate with no grilled asparagus! The night before I had made an Apple Crisp for our small group meeting and enjoyed 'The Last Supper' which was a recipe for Jalapeno Popper Grilled Cheese sandwiches from a Pinterest recipe. On Wednesday morning I weighed 246...after my final supper I weighed 248.4! After breakfast Deanna and I went shopping and picked up some essential ingredients; such as: low fat Greek yogurt, non fat plain yogurt and some Turkey Bites which are small turkey pepperettes. Deanna was really ready to eat again so she bought a package of sliced Turkey breast and ate it out of the wrapper holding the plastic like a bun...I dug into my bag of Turkey Bites! When we got to the self checkout the machine couldn't read the empty packages! I had lost 50 lbs in 2003-04 doing a healthy Atkins Diet and I knew that my O+ blood type loves protein so I figured this was something I could easily manage.
Friday morning: first day of Attack Phase and I woke up with a terrific toothache! Back molar-so painful that I could think of nothing else. I took Tylenol and it did nothing. Contemplated calling the dentist but decided to wait. I have suffered from TMJ in the past and thought I might need to see my chiropractor. So my husband Dolph, who has 20 lbs to lose, and I made breakfast together. We made the Oatbran Galette, which is the 1 1/2 TB of oatbran Dr Dukan recommends that you consume daily mixed with 1 1/2 TB of low fat Greek yogurt and 2 egg whites. It all fries up into this tasty little French pancake called a Galette! Now if you try this diet, you will soon discover that on protein days, that little Galette is a LIFESAVER! There are all kinds of things that you can do with it which you can read about here. You can also use your daily requirement of oatbran as breading or to make little muffins...your choice! So we had our galettes with eggs and were quite satisfied.
My husband, Dolph is 6' 2" and large framed and works in construction, so he really needs to eat quite a bit. I packed him with a lunch pail full of sardines and fish. For lunch I had chicken breast cooked in my Lean Mean Fat Grilling machine which leaves them nice and juicy. I season most meat with Seasoning salt and Onion powder and add seasonings from there. We both had Turkey Bites as a snack. For supper I made a roast and we had just the beef with Au Jus while the kids cleaned up on corn, mashed potatoes and gravy! Dolph weighed himself before supper and had already lost 3 lbs! Men! We had Vanilla yogurt for dessert that I made by adding Sugar Twin and vanilla to plain yogurt. I'm not sure if it was in my head but I felt tired and lethargic all day, but it may have been the lack of sugar. My toothache slowly went away mid morning-thank God!
I must say here that this diet will mean quite a bit more time in the kitchen for me. We have 7 children-5 of whom are still at home. I homeschool and work with my husband in his construction business although to a lesser degree after my concussion and resulting post-concussive syndrome. I put my 2 oldest boys in high school last fall in order to reduce my stress levels. My schedule now is: I get up at 5:30-5:45, make coffee and try to get in 15-20 min of Bible reading and prayer. The oldest 2 boys get up at 6 and catch the bus at 6:45. I'm available to help them but they have their own little schedule worked out for having their showers, breakfast and packing their own lunches. Around 6:10 I start cooking breakfast for Dolph and I (before the diet, he made his own and I ate later). He gets up at 6:30 and we eat together. We get the rest of the kids up at 7:30 and I usually spend until 9 am in the kitchen cleaning up and getting them fed and onto their chores and schoolwork. Our family eats a fairly healthy diet. We have always made a point of having lots of fruit and veggies in the house, eat as much whole grains as we can and I cook from scratch 90% of the time. I make a meal plan and grocery shop accordingly. We have drug-free beef in the freezer and are planning on raising chickens this year. If I can do this diet and cook 2 separate meals for every meal and cook for seven...then anyone can do it! I was Googling and checking out some blogs of women who had done the diet..some single with just themselves to look after and when I read things like: "I'm craving a cupcake and trying to find away to make a Dukan Cupcake"... or "I didn't feel like going to the store so I stopped on the way home and picked up a cheese bun." How disheartening is that? If you are planning to fail...please don't blog about it! Marshall Brain, the Mastermind of Howstuffworks has some very interesting and entertaining posts on his blog about his Dukan Diet experience.
How did I do? When I woke up on Saturday, I had lost 3 lbs!! Yeah!
Friday morning: first day of Attack Phase and I woke up with a terrific toothache! Back molar-so painful that I could think of nothing else. I took Tylenol and it did nothing. Contemplated calling the dentist but decided to wait. I have suffered from TMJ in the past and thought I might need to see my chiropractor. So my husband Dolph, who has 20 lbs to lose, and I made breakfast together. We made the Oatbran Galette, which is the 1 1/2 TB of oatbran Dr Dukan recommends that you consume daily mixed with 1 1/2 TB of low fat Greek yogurt and 2 egg whites. It all fries up into this tasty little French pancake called a Galette! Now if you try this diet, you will soon discover that on protein days, that little Galette is a LIFESAVER! There are all kinds of things that you can do with it which you can read about here. You can also use your daily requirement of oatbran as breading or to make little muffins...your choice! So we had our galettes with eggs and were quite satisfied.
My husband, Dolph is 6' 2" and large framed and works in construction, so he really needs to eat quite a bit. I packed him with a lunch pail full of sardines and fish. For lunch I had chicken breast cooked in my Lean Mean Fat Grilling machine which leaves them nice and juicy. I season most meat with Seasoning salt and Onion powder and add seasonings from there. We both had Turkey Bites as a snack. For supper I made a roast and we had just the beef with Au Jus while the kids cleaned up on corn, mashed potatoes and gravy! Dolph weighed himself before supper and had already lost 3 lbs! Men! We had Vanilla yogurt for dessert that I made by adding Sugar Twin and vanilla to plain yogurt. I'm not sure if it was in my head but I felt tired and lethargic all day, but it may have been the lack of sugar. My toothache slowly went away mid morning-thank God!
I must say here that this diet will mean quite a bit more time in the kitchen for me. We have 7 children-5 of whom are still at home. I homeschool and work with my husband in his construction business although to a lesser degree after my concussion and resulting post-concussive syndrome. I put my 2 oldest boys in high school last fall in order to reduce my stress levels. My schedule now is: I get up at 5:30-5:45, make coffee and try to get in 15-20 min of Bible reading and prayer. The oldest 2 boys get up at 6 and catch the bus at 6:45. I'm available to help them but they have their own little schedule worked out for having their showers, breakfast and packing their own lunches. Around 6:10 I start cooking breakfast for Dolph and I (before the diet, he made his own and I ate later). He gets up at 6:30 and we eat together. We get the rest of the kids up at 7:30 and I usually spend until 9 am in the kitchen cleaning up and getting them fed and onto their chores and schoolwork. Our family eats a fairly healthy diet. We have always made a point of having lots of fruit and veggies in the house, eat as much whole grains as we can and I cook from scratch 90% of the time. I make a meal plan and grocery shop accordingly. We have drug-free beef in the freezer and are planning on raising chickens this year. If I can do this diet and cook 2 separate meals for every meal and cook for seven...then anyone can do it! I was Googling and checking out some blogs of women who had done the diet..some single with just themselves to look after and when I read things like: "I'm craving a cupcake and trying to find away to make a Dukan Cupcake"... or "I didn't feel like going to the store so I stopped on the way home and picked up a cheese bun." How disheartening is that? If you are planning to fail...please don't blog about it! Marshall Brain, the Mastermind of Howstuffworks has some very interesting and entertaining posts on his blog about his Dukan Diet experience.
How did I do? When I woke up on Saturday, I had lost 3 lbs!! Yeah!
