Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas everyone!!

Now, let me just say Dukaning has been ...... impossible. I have eaten to my heart's content and the scales have reminded me this morning... back up to 61,3

Tomorrow I am off with my parents to Tenerife for 6 days. Dukaning will be hard but as it is a relaxed holiday at home (no beach, no all inclusive, not a holiday) since my mom has a house there and in the city not the beach, I think i will be able to control the damage and even lose weight if I stick to my plan of not doing anything special. We will be at home, in our home, and everytime I am there I like having nice healthy food: fish, veggies... so hopefully by Jan 1st I will be at least down to 60, yes Sir!!! Only dangerous day: New Year's eve ofcourse. But I will let you know.

In the mean time, have a great week! I will not be able to post from there so see you January 1st!!

Confessions

Sorry to have been gone so long!! I have to confess I haven't been Dukaning.. AT ALL!
Last post was last Wednesday.. well since then it was downhill all the way! I've had carbs, sweets, pasta, wine, champagne... almost all the forbidden food! Even fruit (which sounds ironic as fruit is in most diets, but not Dukan)

Anyway during this week of forgetting about the diet I went up to 61,6 again, then down to 60,8 back up to 61,7 and supposedly today at B's - remember? the one whose scales weigh about a kilo more than mine???? - well on B's scales it was 61,4 which should be a 60,6 on mine.

Today I behaved... I'll admit to carbs at breakfast... but lunch was Dukan and tonight dinner will be extra light and extra Dukan. Let's see if tomorrow I can have a true weigh-in at my place as I'll be here tonight. I can't and won't say I will be "good" the next few days, with Christmas and all that, but I will try to limit the damage.

So, in case I don't pop in here before then.......MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! Will drop a note before New Year's i promise

Have a great Christmas holiday!!!

I'm weak!!

Quick post today as it is late and I'll be heading off to bed as soon as I finish this.

Today's weight 60,0 (-100 gr.)

I gues its normal after the previous 1,2 kg whoosh! However its still disappointing.

Today I was weak, we had a team lunch at an italian restaurant. I went down thinking Carpaccio is the way forward... but we were 13 people, starters to share were ordered and I slipped... so, what did I do? instead of carpaccio or a steak tartare I order PASTA ... yes, oh well. I had it with plain tomato sauce instead of the cheesy or creamy ones... Will let you know the outcome tomorrow!

Oh yea, and to make things worse Im having some wine, the remains from Saturday night. I could not let it go to waste!!! right??

I also feel good at 60 kg so it doesnt help with the cheating. But I am determined to go down to 57... I need to be strong!! I can do it!! Slowly, but surely!!

Whoosh!

I guess the holiday weight was … very … hummm… temporary! After only one day of PP attack I lost 1,2 of the 1,4 gained.
However, as on the Thursday before leaving my weight was 59,5 - lowest point – I will rephrase and say I gained 1,8 on the holiday… so still 600 grs to go. Wouldn’t it be perfect to lose them between today and tomorrow?? It would also be unrealistic, so I settle for losing them by Friday – better, right?

Today’s menu:
Breakfast: low fat latte and oat bran toast (with a tinsy bitsy bit of raspberry marmalade)
Snack: hardboiled egg
Lunch: 3 small homemade hamburgers (obviously no bun, no cheese, no salad, just the meat!)
Snack: Actimel 0%
Dinner: omelette with ham and cheese

Tonight is the first episode of season 2 of a great TV series, you might have heard about it, it’s called Downton Abbey, I am so looking forward to it! And it’s great that it’s on a Tuesday as it was one of the days where there is really nothing on TV!!! – I don’t really watch that much TV but its true I enjoy about an hour or so of TV in the evening – I don’t count the news as TV time…

Anyway off to watch my tv show and do my nails

Back to attack - 4 days - damage control

So, yesterday, Sunday I did not weigh myself and I had a transition day. Had lunch at my parents with their friends. Not Dukan but i controled myself.

today's weight: 61,3kg
gain on holiday 1,4 kg
last weigh in: 59,9
lowest weight before holiday: 59,5
Target this week... LOOOOOOSE THAT 1,4!!
how?: 4 days of attack PP days all the way!

So, today, back to Dukan. Breakfast: 2 low fat cafe lattes. Lunch: two small thin viel steak and two boiled eggs. No snak. 2 diet cokes. Dinner: one small hamburger. 1,5 liters of water so far, will have another half before bed time. I didn't manage to have the oat bran today and I don't feel like it now, but i have already prepared a oat bran toast for tomorrow's breakfast. It was raining today so no walk... tomorrow's goal: add oat bran and walking!

So, there, all seems to be bak in order. I havent heard from B and he is away in the middle east... hope he calls tonigh!

I had a sort of fight with a friend today, via email, which is always aweful, but we were both at work so it was the only option. Im sure we'll sort it out, but I'm feeling a bit disapointed now. Oh well.

And that's all folks. Hope the scales reward me tomorrow for today's efforts and good intentions!!

I'm Back from a week of too much eating!!!

Hi there!! I'm back. Its almost 6 in the afternoon so I am not going to officially weigh myself until tomorrow morning, obviously, but I did jump on the scales, fully dressed and after a kebab for lunch and I can say that despite the "oh dear God!" I also thought "It could be worse, or actually not bad if you consider its mid afternoon I'm fully dressed and I just had a huge kebab!!"... but really, I will wait until Monday morning for the official weight posting!!!

The week away was great, but I ate too much, drank too much wine and champagne and it was wonderful!! haha - Tomorrow I will have lunch with my parents and their friends, at my parents house, food on the menu is not too dukany, but will try to behave and have that as a transition into a 4 day attack PP phase. Hopefully that will bring me down at least to the weight before going away. I reckon that I've gained not quite 2 kg but almost!

Tonight I have dinner at B's and sleep there as he is leaving tomorrow for a week away for work. So that will also help to be 100% Dukan at least until Friday when we have the work christmas party!

This week PP and posts about my trip!! That's all for now....See you soon!! And welcome back Charlotte!!! Congrats Vicky on reaching stabilisation and for the rest who are still on the journey with me, I'm catching up on your blogging!! Good luck to all of us!!!

Chocolate

Today's weight: 59,5 - hit a new low

Buuuuuuuuuuuuut, there is always a BUT.

TTOM is almost here, and that means.... hungry, hungry, hungry aaaaall the time. Plus we have a client at work that every year sends us a Christmas basket full of .. yes, you guessed it Chocolate! the most amazing chocolates, black, milky, with almonds, with hazelnuts, filled with liqueur, ... i mean... incredible.

So, I had a few (too many) many chocolates today!

Anyway, no need to dwell on it... tomorrow I will be strong!! Today the basket got there, we all opened it in amazement and everytime I went to the printer... anyway... i need to forget about it!! Will have a extra light dinner and tomorrow will be another day. I hate TTOM for this!!

Other than that I had a perfect PV lunch.. so I'm happy. I hadn't eaten with my colleagues in a long time and it was nice.

I don't know if I'll be able to blog tomorrow and Saturday we're off for a week, so keep your fingers crossed for me to be STRONG during the holidays and hopefully I will only report a small gain when I'm back

Have a great weekend and week!!!!

Exam passed!! yay!!

Today's weight: 59,7

Yesterday being my 100th day I had sort of a breakdown. For some reason I could not stop eating!! Looking back on it TTOM is approaching, that's one reason, and I was having my exam the next day (i.e. today) - so, all that not being able to stop eating, obviously means: chocolate, cookies & potato chips (only had like 3, stopped just in time)... however since I felt guilty I did something you shouldnt do: went to bed with no dinner!! I wasn't hungry really, from pigging out... so today the scales stayed practically the same..

But last night in bed I thought: f** it! and thought that today I would just eat whatever I wanted, while falling asleep I planned having a delicious and carby breakfast and thought after the exam I would have lunch with my mom and have a nice pasta or something and thought... who cares!! BUT... Ladies (and maybe some unknown gentleman out there who might be reading), surprisingly enough this morning I had my oat bran toast (ok, yea, with a tiny bit of raspberry marmalade), my cafe latte .. went to my exam... had lunch out with mom: fish and very nice lettuce, onion and tomato salad, no desert... Then spent some time with my nephew and watched him eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwhich (i'll admit to a bit of mouth watering while watching him, but I resisted with ease!!!) and have not snacked at all!!! Incredible no? I decided and allowed my self to just eat whatever, but eating Dukan just came out naturally... it was not a conscious effort!! I'm having a diet coke now and will have a ham omelette and some low fat cheese later. I'm so proud!!

And yes, I passed my exam!! Its taken at a examination center (the examening body is in the UK but they have exam centers all over) and it is computer based, so you have 50 questions + 5 trial questions that don't count towards your score, and at the end it prints a certificate saying you've taken the exam and it tells you "pass" or "fail" saying it is a provisional result and you need to check after 72hrs on their website for the score! But for me, that "pass" is more than enough!! haha!!!

So, now, in January part III of the certificate... this thing is endless!! Two down, one to go!!

So, tonight I am happy for having stuck to the diet even after giving myself permission to break it... having passed my exam.. and B is coming back, but I think I won't see him tonight as again he travels early tomorrow morning but just for a return in the day trip...

Tomorrow, after two months of tupperware lunches at work so I could study at lunch time, I will go out for lunch to the menu place with my colleagues, I hope I am able to order dukan food and resist as well as I resisted today. Saturday B and I go away for a week so I must resist tomorrow and Friday since I know that away it will be more difficult!!

Have a great evening everyone!!!!

Day 100 !! wow!

*** editing *** Today's weight: 58,8 - 4,3kg lost on Ducan with a loooooot of cheating going on. - Obviously it is 59,8 and not 58... yea, I wish! still, very close to my goal.

Like I say in my introduction or "about me" section, my goal on Dukan is not to lose a huge amount of weight but to lose those kilos gained since my 20's. 7 in total. Not much, so I really don't mind if it is a slow process. I have cooked with olive oil, had sugar in my coffee at least once a day (the rest with sweetner) I do a celebration meal so to speak at least once a week when with family or friends, and the ocasional glass of wine. A Gin and Tonic every once in a while if I go out... so all in all I am quite happy with my loss. And I will continue until I reach 57kg even it it takes me another 100 days! :o)

Christmas is approaching and I find myself with two Danger zones. Next week we have 2 bank holidays almost in a row: Tuesday and Thursday. So yes, I am taking Mon, Wed, and Friday off and going away for a week. Last time I was away for a week I gained 1 kilo. Second danger zone.. Christmas!!

So, it will be hard, but I am sure I will manage. wont think about it now. All I know is the days which are not in the Danger Zone I will behave and leverage the damage... we shall see

Not much more to say on this 100th day except: KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED TOMORROW!!! I have my exam!!

Glass of wine

Got home at 9 from studying after work in the office, just had a soft bolied egg, a few slices of ham and i might have a yogurt while I watch one of my favorite series... but I must admit i am sipping on a nice (small) glass of wine!! Yes, I know, not good, but i am beat!! i deserve it!! it was a long hard day of work followed by studying from 6.30 to almost 9!! Anyway, i know its an excuse.

Today's weight 59,9 so +300 grams on the weekend. Not bad, considering. Last night I cheated a bit as B came back from the weekend and we had a nice dinner. Quite dukan friendly but not Dukan strict. Oh well. As long as I don't see that 60 again!

Going to chill now, so have a great evening!!!
C!.

Study study study

Today's weight: 59,8
Saturday's weight: 60,2
Friday's weight: 59,6

So, as you can see Friday night I did not behave as well as I had promised to. Had 3 glasses of wine and some picky food. So Saturday morning weigh in was half a kilo up!!! WTF! Obviously it was the empty calories of the wine ... or something like that!! Yesterday I ate out with a friend and did not break the rules, no snacking and then a dukan bread sandwhich and a coke for dinner while watching Black Swan! Today, back down so that's good ... crisis averted!

Both catch-up with friends Friday evening and yesterday' lunch were great! They were also the only two highlights of the weekend .... + B's return tonight!! ;o)

Other than that its been studying studying studying... and getting optic fibre installed! Now I speeeeed through the internet and have HD channels on my TV! Yay!

Anyway, B is going away for work Monday through Wednesday so I will be able to study and diet without temptations!! But i will miss him, dont misunderstand me - haha

Got to go back to the books! Have a lovely Sunday!!

PS: Still not doing enough excercise, but will try to fix that after wednesday's exam. Still smoking, but have cut down quite a lot. And still drinking lots of water - which I never mention but always drink the prescribed amounts!

Weight update!! Back on track!! Yea!!

Don't have much time and not at home. Just to share my excitement about this week's progress

Last Friday I still had the extra kilo gained during business trip and then I had the sushi day and many cheats, however the weekend I lost 100 grams! Then...

Monday: 60.7
Tuesday: 60.5
Wednesday: 60.0
Thursday: 59.7 - back to weight of the 8th of November - yay!
Friday: 59.6

So, I better behave this weekend. B's away, my parents are away, I have to study ... So keeping away from temptation should be easy enough!!! Tonight I'm meeting a friend but she's dieting too so I'm safe!

Have a great weekend everyone!

2nd post today - Dukan Bread and Dukan Nutella

Just thought while i was doing my dukan bread to share the recipe (i posted it on a comment in Viki's blog once) and also a recipe of what I did with the left over yolk - NUTELLA!

so here it goes

DUKAN BREAD
ingredients:

2 Tbsp oat bran
1 Tbsp wheat bran
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 egg white
1 Tbsp fat-free yogurt or quark-type cheese
Seasonings/spices(e.g., garlic powder)- optional

1) Mix the dry ingredients in a microwave-safe, rectangular container (so that it comes out like a thin slice of bread), then add the egg white and the yogurt. Mix everything well, and add a pinch of salt.

2) Cover with plastic wrap, then punch a couple holes in it with a fork. Microwave (on max power) for 3 minutes.

4) After 3 minutes, take it out, flip it over, cover, and put in the microwave for 1 more minute. Then take it out and leave it on a grill-type surface (so that it has air all around it) until it cools down.

5) Toast it before eating.

DUKAN NUTELLA!!

I used the egg yolk after using the whites for the bread

1 Egg yolk
1 Tsp of powder fat free milk
1 Tsp of fat free cocoa powder
1 Tsp of liquid sweetner
Hazelnut Aroma - one drop - optional

Mix the egg yolk with the teaspoon of cocoa - the mixture will be very thick but you just need to continue mixing. Then mix the powder milk, same thing, dont despair and keep mixing even if very very thick. The mixture will start to become dark dark brown. Add the teaspoon of liquid sweetner this will help a bit with the thickness. If too thick add a drop of milk. Add the drop of hazelnut aroma (optional)

Leave in the fridge a couple of hours or until you eat it!! yummm

With these amounts you will get very little amount of Nutella, but enough for at least two slices of your Dukan bread.

Enjoy!!! (will add picture tomorrow when i prepare my nutella toast in the morning!)

This is dedicated to those that like Moonday lick the nutella off their fingers when they prepare it for someone else ;o)

Tuesday and Wednesday - mini attack phase

So, finally yesterday I found the strength to do a PP day with no cheating! And today must be the same.

Monday’s weight: 60.7 – (food wise a disaster… see post from Monday evening)
Tuesday’s weight: 60.5 – (big surprise as Monday was a big carb cheating day! – scales of tease??)
Wednesday’s weight: 60.0 – (yay!)
(all this in B’s scales, so its approximate. Tomorrow my scales will tell the full truth!!)

So, Tuesday I took the bull by the horns and completed a perfect PP attack day – oh wait, no, actually I had toast for breakfast at B’s because I was going to donate blood in the morning and thought I might need the extra energy. The Red Cross comes to our office building twice a year for a campaign on blood donations, and I always go donate. I find it is a huge contribution and since I don’t mind needles and blood at all I have been a Red Cross blood donor for years. So, despite the toast in the morning and the normal Coke (with sugar, yes, the red can) after donating blood I still managed to whoosh half a kilo with this attack day. So more today and hopefully I will be back to the 59 point something by Friday, which was my weight before the Luxembourg trip.

Menu: Coffee and toast for brekko, full sugar coke after donating snack, carpaccio and half a dukan bread ham + philly sandwich for lunch, the other half of the sandwich as a snack, scrambled eggs with a bit of a Spanish sausage which is not too dukan friendly but has plenty of protein (a bit too much fat but B thought he couldn’t let it go to waste)

Today I will concentrate on the PP day again, I have not prepared a proper lunch, but I have ham, a boiled egg, some of my dukan bread, crab sticks and Fat free yogurts in the office, so lunch will be a bit weird but then I will be home tonight as B is having dinner at his brother’s and there I will have a proper protein yummy dinner! – normally I have a big lunch and small dinner, but today will have to be the other way around and will prepare a nice protein Tupperware lunch for tomorrow and will cook more dukan bread.

One thing I have not been doing is exercise. I’ve been staying at B’s all week so from his place I need to take the Metro to work, and the walk to and from the station is barely exercise. Plus it has been raining nonstop. Sun is out today so (although it will be night time when I leave work – so it would be more appropriate to say there is a clear sky) I will walk home today (3.5 km) and will walk to work tomorrow in the morning and hopefully get back into the habit.

Anyway, got to do some work now.
Have a wonderful day and watch out for an update on the big whoosh tomorrow ha ha ha (cross your fingers, anyway!)

Very Quick triple update

Don't have much time, but have three updates to give.

1- i did not manage to do a PP attack day today. Long story, low will power.
2- despite the non-dukan weekend my weight has not changed either way - i was expecting a gain but got a minus 100 grams!! incredible. I think today might have ruined that... but i am determined to restart tomorrow
3 - still smoking but by far not as much as before. Also linked to the long story and low will power.

So, tomorrow diet, non smoking and propper blogging!!
By the way my exam is on the 30th of November.. 10 days away .. yikes!! That might have much to do with all of the above!

Cheers everyone and thanks for the lovely comments!!!!!

Sushi and smoking

Happy Sunday everyone!

No weigh in today, this week like I reported on Friday has been baaaad, bad in all senses. Work was crap and frustrating. Diet even more... I had great days that ended with wine and picky food for dinner. I was not able to concentrate. Quitting smoking has been postponed until I feel better with myself.

Food wise. Saturday I had my traditional Sushi day with 3 friends. We meet every two or three monts taking turns with whose house we meet at - although this time it had been almost 5 months - and we make home made sushi. Its so much fun.... we buy everything, the rice, vinegar, algae, wasabee, 500 gr of salmon, tuna and butter fish... we use also cucumbers, avocado and crab sticks. We mainly make rolls, which is the easeast and funnest.. who makes the tastier roll, the better looking one.. we also make nagiri, of course and by the time we sit to eat we are so full because of trying it while we make it and eating the bits that fall out.. its great fun. Needless to say there is also a lot of drinking going on while we make it. Anyway, that was my saturday meal...

So, no weigh in today, first because i was at B's and since his scales weigh one more kilo than mine it was going to be depressing to see such a high number even if you know you need to substract one!!! And second because i am so afraid to see the actual numbers!!! ainssss

Today are the presidential elections. B went to his home town to vote (I voted by post a week ago as i would need to go to Tenerife to vote...) The political and crisis situation in Spain is very very bad at the moment. Our socialist government is in a very bad spot right now, and im not saying a change would solve things, but it is one of those times where weather you want it or not a change is in order. I just hope that everyone goes to vote and votes wisely, in Spain abstention rates have always been high, but hopefully not this time.

Anyway today as I already voted, its raining cats and dogs and B is away i will have a quiet dukan perfect day!! Lets see what the scales have to say tomorrow. And this week i need to jump back on the dukan wagon 100% get back to the lowest weight of 59,8 (if i reached 59,5 would be even better) so, that is my mini goal for the week!!!!!! A 3 day attack is my plan for the begining of the week! Yes sir!!

I leave you know with a few pictures of our sushi making and a happy Sunday to everyone!!!

Bad week... Next one will be better!!

Quick update to say the week has been tough. A few issues at work, have finished quite late except for today as I have taken the afternoon off. Just got a much needed haircut and I'm having a coffee in a terrace, with those mushroom heaters that are so in vogue now that they banned smoking in bars in spain.

Smoking wise I supposedly quit yesterday, did very well until the evening when I smoked a couple after dinner with B. And ofcousre I'm smoking one now. *sigh*

Dukan wise bad week as well. Came back from the week away with one kilo. Did two attack days with a couple of cheats (wine) and went back down to 60.4 - i.e. Minus 400 gr. Yesterday PV day and some cheats... Back to 60.8 - Arggg. Weekend is here so no motivation for dukan or non-smoking so I will chill, relax, enjoy with limits - can't loose all control...- and next week will be better!! Work wise, dukan wise, and ciggie wise!! Deal? Deal!!

That's all for now. Going to B's and I will enjoy the weekend! Sunday are the general elections so it's a very very important day for Spain!! Wish us luck with the results!!

Cheers all! Enjoy your weekends!!

Day 87 I think - PP attack to regain control

So, Tuesday's weigh in after the business-pleasure trip was 60,8 exactly one kilo gained... Ok. It could have been worse, I actually deserved worse!! So, back to work, and like Moonday says, work puts me back into dukan mood.
Yesterday was a PP day, ruined it a bit at dinner but still managed to lose 100 grams! Today, PP again for a couple of days see if I can whoosh a bit and get back to my lowest of 59,8 ...
Not much more to report, have my tupperware with chicken ccooked in a bit of sofrito and my dukan bread sandwich with light Philly and turkey, a couple of yogurts.. That's my menu for the day and then dinner will be either eggs (soft boiled or omelette) or carpaccio.. Not sure yet.
I should quit smoking this week as planned, tomorrow might be a good day.. We shall see!
Cheers from the bus!! Have a great day!!!

I'm back!!!

Back from my trip. Dukan wise it started well but as the days went along non-dukan food started to appear, ending with McDonald's (full menu with burger and fries!!) Today I was supposed to get back on PP but my flight was cancelled, so airport lunch and sancking all day till 6 when finally my flight left!! tonight just a yogurt.. and tomrrow me & my scale will have a long chat!! Hope the news it gives me are not too bad - will let you know tomorrow!!!

As for the trip itself, the training was good, two full days of "class" has helped in my studies, now, just three weeks and it will be over! The weekend there with B was great, i was happy to show him where i have spent 6 great years!! Meeting my old friends was great, but like i said, plenty of Non-dukan dinners and lunches.. but so much fun!!!

Tomorrow back to the office.. not looking forward to it at all!!!
Have a nice evening everyone, and will let you know how the weigh in goes tomorrow!

Monday Monday

The Mamas and the Papas... great (couple of) songs!!

today's weight: 60,5
yesterday's weight: 60,3 oooops going in the wrong direction here...

Anyway.. i admit the weekend was terrible food wise, too many cheats, and what happens when you cheat..?? we know the answer. BUT today i have jumped back on the wagon, had a great PP lunch and will have a light PP dinner.

I finally bought the oat bran and I just made a big loaf of dukan bread so i will make a sandwhich for tomorrow evening, when i will be travelling. My flight is at 8.20 pm so I will have my dukan sandwich during the flight!

From Wednesday to Sunday will be hard. I will be away, staying at hotels, seeing friends and co-workers from the Luxembourg office, and B will be joining on Friday. I already have a couple of dinners at restaurants lined up... humph! it will be very hard. At the canteen at work I'll have salads from the salad bar which is what I always used to have.. dinner... is another story...

Yesterday I spent the day with my nephew, McDonalds included... i had nuggets and stole a frie or two from his happy meal.. yup... i did, they were awesome and i am NOT a McDonalds's fan!!!!

Tonight is the debate between our two presidential candidates and since I cant vote directly (don't live in the city where i am censored) i will vote tomorrow by post, so off to pack my suitcase before the debate as I leave straight from work!!! don't think I'll blog the rest of the week and I wont have scales ... so... i might give an update on blogger for Iphone, but if not: see ya next Monday!!!

Saturday night

Last night was fun! rained all night which wasnt as fun.. but thankfully it does not rain inside bars!

Today I spent the day in town with B and two friends that are visiting him, it was fun, and we walked a lot !!! Lunch was light but not totally Dukan. I need to concentrate again!!!

Weigh in was ok this morning: 60,1 a bit down from yesterday...

Tomorrow I spend the day with my nephew, he's 6 and a half and so much fun to be with.

Anyway, got to run, I'm having dinner with B and his friends, restaurant we wanted to go to is full, so I also need to think of an alternative... oh well!

Cheers and I hope you are all enjoying the weekend!

I got a feeling

That tonight's gonna be a good night... :0)

Feeling happy, its Friday!! and so what if scale said this morning 60,3 ???- I think it's due to it being TTOM and I'm not going to let that ruin the Friday feeling, also who cares if it is raining?? I walked home from lunch with two excellent friends (3km) and I feel grrrreat. And who cares that today I skipped the diet?? - must say that i did not over indulge, I just ate with some non-dukan ingredients but I did not eat like a pig, I ate ... how can i say it... "normal"

So, that said... its Friday and tonight I am going out with some dear friends. I'll be careful as already at lunch I had what would be a "celebration meal"

And that's all for today as i need to get ready for tonight!! (ill take a pic for a possible "before and during" picture post!

Cheers everyone!!

I've got the Power

I already used this song title before, but today its actually referring to THE POWER as in electric power! Light's are back!!

No weigh in this morning as I finally decided to sleep at B's - lights were still gone at 11 and the thought of a cold shower in the morning ... so although he had to leave very early in the morning on business i prefered an early morning with shower than an hour more in bed but no shower! logical, no?

So, I cheated.. big time. As I left his place so early and arrived at work more than an hour early i went to Starbucks... and yes! I had a Wonderful chocolate chip coockie!! I don't know what happened.. but it did. To make up for it i was good the rest of the day, had more water than usual and although it is raining i walked home, me, my backpack and my umbrella!!

Oh well! I have decided not to regret it, as it was the most wonderful breakfast!! and i say this as a person who likes toast with olive oil and a fresh squeezed tomato!! so its not like i use to have sweet for breakfast!!! - this is a pic of bread with olive oil and tomato - its a very spanish thing!!

Work was long today, and studying afterwards was .. blah. Some TV now and i might go out for a drink later.. meaning i will have a coke light, of course!!

Seeing some of you post before and after pictures has made me think about posting as well... maybe this weekend i will take a nice pic and find another from this summer to see if you see the difference!! its not much, 4 kilos, but I actually can see the difference myself in the mirror daily... so ill give it a thought and do it this weekend!

Til then... have a nice evening and a nice Friday!!!

November Rain

Today’s weight: 59.8 kg
Monday’s weight: 60 kg
Friday 28th: 59.8

It's raining today and I have no electric power! So blogging from iPhone

So, despite the long weekend as yesterday was a holiday and despite that I had a couple of meals out and a couple of cheats and that when I did not cheat the meals were PV, I have been able to maintain Friday’s weight which was my lowest since Dukan.

I have an upset stomach today which has been “good” as since yesterday I’ve been going to the WC quite often which as we all know is wonderful! (in a sense.. and sorry for the topic) that probably helped with the returning to Friday’s weight after the weekend exceses. So I need to be extra good this week, get to 59.0 consolidate this weight and hopefully never see the high 60’s again!!

Next week Wednesday I am going on a Business trip back to Luxembourg where I used to live. It will be a busy 6 days, with catching up with everyone, seeing all my friends and coworkers….the actual business trip, so actual Work is only 2.5 days but then I stay for the weekend and B will join me on Friday. So I know there will be a lot of going out a lot of eating and a lot of drinking… as much as I am looking forward to the trip, at the same time I am dreading the not being able to resist and eat and gain weight!! This is actually a good feeling, hopefully it will keep me loyal to the diet!!! Oh well. We shall see

For the rest, all is good. Lots of work, which now a days is so important!!

Today I ate out with my boss and an excolleague, we went to the Italian restaurant downstairs. I had pasta with arrabiata sauce so a light extra PP dinner no heating dinner - no power, remember? - is in order, and I’m not going out or meeting B or anything so it should be perfect! Good thing I have some mince with tomato in the freezer , which is now defrosting against my will for tomorrow - extra super duper PP meal for tomorrow it shall be!

Cheers and have a great evening. For me it will be a candle light boring one!!

Zucchini (thick) soup - The making of.... with photos

In the previous post you have the full recipe, here is the step by step picture recipe...

editing: the following makes for a very large amount of soup!! and you can freeze it, I have now enough for a whole week so i left out two servings for Monday and Wednesday (plus a plate for today) the rest goes to the freezer!)

Ingredients: (used two onions, but only one's in the photo)

Cut the zucchini in not to big no to small pieces removing part of the skin only as the skin gives it the green color and the vitamins!!!

Add the onion in slices and let it simmer in a covered pan with a Table spoon of olive oil - i only did it to stir fry a bit (and for those that don't have a food processor that also cooks) because normally I just let cook in the processor at temperature 100º speed 4-5 for 20 minutes with the milk and the bouillon. When done, I press the Turbo button a couple of times to totaly liquify it

Let it cool down for 15 minutes and add the laughing cow cheese and mix it all a bit again... - if at this point it is too thick... add more milk... salt to taste...

and VOILA!!!

Enjoy!!! Later on this week.. pumpkin and carrot thick soup!

Zucchini (thick) soup

I do it in a food processor that cooks at the same time, sort of like the Thermomix, but you can do it also with a stand up hand mixer type

Ingredients:

3 large size zucchini
350 gr. skimmed or low fat milk
1 Tbs of olive oil (to slightly fry the onion and zucchini)
1 bouillon cube (chicken or meat, up to you)
1 onion
3 light cheese triangles (laughing cow type)
salt and pepper to taste.


I remove part of the dark green skin of the zucchini, if you remove it all the soup will be very light green-white color.. with more skin, it will be dark green... i remove it sort of like leaving it in stripes... slice it not to thick, not to thin
and let it simmer in a covered pan with the onion.

If you don't want to use olive oil you can boil the zucchini and onions... your choice. Either way once they are cooked add the milk, and the bouillon cube and mix in the mixer until creamy, if it is too thick add milk until you get the consistency you want. Add a pinch of salt and pepper to taste.

Let it cool for about 10 minutes and add the cheese and mix again.
Et voila!!! I'm doing it tomorrow so i might post again with pictures of the making of.. been wanting to do that for a while

No weigh in today, i ate too much last night and dind't dare... and today i had an ok lunch dukan wise, minus wine and minus a couple of potato chips (oh dear!!) but dinner was very light ham omelette we'll see what happens tomorrow, but its TTOM so... im a bit scared.. we shall see!

Danger Zone

Today’s weight: 59.8 kg (whoohooo)
Daily loss: -0.2 since Wednesday – slowly, but surely….

How I love the 50’s… they make me feel good. Today is Friday, the weekend is dangerous!! Tonight B and I are eating out… danger zone! (that reminded me of the Top Gun original soundtrack…) We are going to a nice romantic French little bistrot where they have many nice meats, a wonderful steak tartar that I am actually looking forward to. I do not want to see the 60’s anymore!!!!!!!!! I guess the weekends are the danger zones anyway I know I’ll drink wine tonight and I know I will probably have a G&T… but, on the other hand I’ve been a good girl, so I guess I deserve it. B was going to go away, so the plan was to be super good this weekend.. stay home, rest, not drink, not eat forbidden stuff.. but if B is around I enjoy my time out with him and going out – I think it has been established beyond a shadow of a doubt that I am a cheater, but I admit it and I assume the consequences!

After that confession here’s today’s menu:

Breakfast: Starbucks Café Late + dukan sandwhich with light phily chease and ham
Snack: boiled egg
Lunch: “pasta-less bolgnese” – yup, minced meat with onions and a tiny bit of tomato sauce – yogurt
Snack: coke light
Dinner: French restaurant - will edit tomorrow …

Tomorrow I am having lunch with my mom… so I know it will stay on the diet side as she is always watching what she eats. She doesn’t like Dukan, and I keep reassuring her that it is fine and tell her that I have adapted it and that I do eat some bread once in a while (my dukan bread, but she doesn’t need to know that.. hehe) and some fruit – which is actually the only food I don’t cheat with… curiously enough, anyway with her I have to do PV days or she gets all nervous!

I also want to go shopping – and take my nephew to the cinema to see Tintin movie in 3D!!

Have a great weekend everyone!

4 down 3 to go!!

Slept at B’s so no weigh in, but realized that it is TTOM in 3 days… so it’s better that I did not weigh myself b/c it could so be that I will stagnate for a few days… no worries, everything is under control. Oh and I’m still having the Antibiotics… so I don’t know what effect that could have (as a general thought.. does anyone know??)

B took me shopping and as we had his car and his help to walk up to my apartment with the bags I got plenty of stuff. After shopping and leaving everything at my place we went to B’s and had carpaccio with rucula and parmesan for dinner. Very yummy!

I did not get fresh vegetables as I prefer to buy them when I need them in the shop on my street that sells only fruits & vegs. And, this weekend I am going to buy pumpkin and courgettes and I will make vegetable purée – cream? – don’t know what you call it but it is not soup, its thicker. I have a wonderful food processor and I was so looking forward for the cold weather to make them!!! Its great to bring to work, its nice and warm and comfy for winter and very very healthy.

Today I am having lunch with 3 girlfriends from school! We’ve known each other 20 years!! One of them is on Dukan and I cant wait to see the change!! Its been over a month since I last saw her and already her profile picture in FB (just her face) shows the weight loss!! And she is of the strict dieter kind of person, doesn’t use oil at all for cooking, and never cheats!! So I am sure she has lost quite a lot. She started 15 days or so before me. So its been about 80 days or so… so excited! Will edit later. - she's more than 10 kg down! and you can really tell !!

As she is so strict we are going to a restaurant with those daily menus – starter, main course, coffee or desert, + a drink for 12€ and its normally always very healthy Mediterranean food. So Dukan PV day is safe today!! Plus tonight B is not in town so I will have my usual soft boiled egg, ham and yogurt which I love as they are 3 things I love, very light, very dukan, very PP…. J

Today is actually PV again as I decided to do 2PP/2PV from now on, but if I have enough veggies at lunch, I can do a PP dinner. Yum!!

The only way is ..... Down!!! Baby

Today’s weight: 60.0
Daily loss: -0.2

Yay! 60 again! So happy! I need to keep it up. My lowest weight since starting Dukan was almost 3 weeks ago at 59.9 – then a weekend with friends, my birthday and a little bit of getting too relaxed made me go up to the 61 point something – even a one day 62.2 appeared on the scale – and I almost abandoned… but no!! I know I can do it! And im going to do it. Only 3 kg to go!!!

Yesterday’s almost perfect PP day got ruined by a glass of wine.. but still -0.2 is good. Not all days can be whooshes!!

Today is PV I did not prepare anything but I had one of the scrumptious salads from the take away place. It was the Rucula salad - Lettuce, Rucula, cherry tomatos, chicken bits grilled with soya sauce, onion, laminated parmesan cheese, sesame seeds I had the parmesan since the amount in it wasn’t that much. I need to get the oat bran somewhere in the afternoon or evening… but I think I will be going home quite late so it will need to be at dinner… maybe with some yogurt but I’m going food shopping with B so I guess we will get something nice for dinner….

As the weather has turned cold all of a sudden and very rainy I don’t use my vespa anymore and I need to do grocery shopping so B, who is a darling, is going to pick me up from work and go with me so I don’t have to take the bus and under the rain with all the bags… so cute!

Editing: back from grocery shopping, we are having carpaccio with rucula and a bit of Parmesan for dinner, yogurt for desert... Did not manage to eat my bran... Oh well!

You cant always get what you want...

Today’s weight: 60.2 (scales of tease… since I stepped back on saw a 60.0 but then 60.2 again.. oh well no biggie!!)
Daily loss: - 0.6 kg (whoosh)

So, back on track after this mini attack!!


Yesterday’s menu:

Brekko: Café latte with 1/2 a Dukan turkey and cheese sandwhich
Snack: coke light + the other half of the dukan sandwhich
Lunch: prawns as a starter + chicken done with a bit of garlic, onion and fresh tomato diced very small
Snack: crab sticks
Dinner: tuna steak and some ham (confession: I had one glass of wine… )

So, I was so happy with the loss. If we ignore my confession, the rest was 100% dukan and 100% PP (the tomato was more a condiment as it was very small and diced into the sauce) however in terms of amount of food it is much more than I usually eat. But I wanted to make an effort and eat 5 meals, which is what all specialists say is what you need to do. I walked half the way home as it was very cold and windy, so instead of taking the two buses which would be door to door -I walked a bit further to take another bus that leaves me at about 1km from my place, better than nothing!!!

Today I have prepared mini hamburger patties with a bit of light cheese on top and my Russian salad (see previous post about this – its dukan mayo with tuna and hard boiled egg – no roasted peppers today as it is PP again – and obviously not all the other ingredients of the real Russian salad) and I had a dukan bread sandwich with ham for breakfast and snack. This mid afternoon snack will be yogurt.

Today is Tuesday so we got our weekly fruit basket at work… everything looks so yummy!!!!! Oh well… I really never was a big fruit person, but now that it is there and I can’t eat it… you know, you always want what you can’t have! And on that line of thought, today’s title the song of another of the best rock and roll bands, ever….

Have a nice evening!!!

Buckets of Rain

Week 10
Day 64
Cruise day 60 – PP
Daily weight: couldn’t resist and I weighed in at B’s - his scale said 61.6 so that must be something like 60.8 in mine – it’s about a kilo difference so,
Daily loss: -0.7kg (not bad)

Yesterday I did a PP day minus 3 white asparagus that were going to go to waste. I read in a blog from a Northamerican guy (can’t remember the name) who used asparagus as his secret weapon as they were very diuretic and helped him in his “whooshes” – maybe that helped in the big 0.7 loss!

Today full PP day again – I am doing a mini attack phase of 2 days to help start moving the loss. I am determined this time not to cheat so much. Thursday I am having lunch with some friends and one of them is doing Dukan. We started more or less at the same time, she had a LOT to lose, and she’s been very strict. I’ve seen a couple of pictures (only her face) on her Facebook profile and already just her face you can tell a big difference!! I’m really looking forward to seeing her.

I re-read parts of the book yesterday and saw that indeed the less you have to lose the slower the process is, in my case add all the cheating and voila! Total disaster. So… no more cheating, I will allow myself a small deviation once a week if I cannot help it, but that is all. I’m only 3.5 kg away from my goal!!!!! I can do it!!! And I have to be strong, especially since now that I am going to quit smoking I need to get the habit of Dukan-snacking when I get cravings for ciggies and no cheating to make me feel better or as a consolation for the unsmoked ciggie like last time. So, I am stocking up on crab sticks, ham and turkey dices, low fat cheese etc… things that I can nibble at at work- I might even give the different Dukan muffins a try!!! And ofcourse water.. lots of water!

Anyway, lets hope for a perfect PP day, which together with yesterday’s and maybe even tomorrow will bring me back to where I was two weeks ago –

Today is the first real autumn rainy day… until last week we had 25 degrees and sun…. today… 15 degrees, rain, grey sky, when I left the house it was pouring!!!! …. So today’s title is another Dylan song

See ya!!

Quick update from iPhone!

Quick update just to read some blogs and to admit I did not behave, but i did not eat junk food, but did have some rice with sea food on Saturday - so yummy- and some wine... This morning 61.5 - yikes!!
Today I did a PP day and same for tomorrow. Like I said, Monday is back to being serious. I'm at B's tonight so no weigh in tomorrow.. Bit actually that's good as the results will be better after two attack days!
I'll keep you updated!
G'night!!

decisions

Happy Friday everyone!

One day a long time ago my ex boyfriend asked me… what’s your favorite day of the week. I said Saturday, of course! And he said… you are lying, because every single Friday morning you wake up and say: Im so happy today is Friday, or Thank God its Friday, or something of the sort, and I never hear you say that on a Saturday. Funny.

Anyway, so its Friday, I have started my antibiotics. I’m taking the afternoon off and having lunch with B…. hummm C, behave!! Tonight I’m going out for a bite to eat (not proper restaurant dinner, but rather tapas- which is so dangerous on a diet…) with my parents, my brother + sister in law, and a couple of family friends that are visiting. It will be hard not to have wine … *sigh*

I won’t stress about the diet this weekend… so, ok, let me say that it’s not that I have given up, no, BUT, I am at 61 kg, which has been my weight for so many years… (every time I went up to 64 I always got back to 60-61, and this forever and ever since I can remember… ) so, I have a tendency to think..“I’m fine like this, don’t get to obsessed with losing more, follow a healthy Mediterranean diet and eat sensibly and it will be fine…” but then I always end up back at 63-64, but now that I am back at 60-61this is why I am being so lax about it lately, its my little ritual of 4kg up, 4kg down. However, I am determined to lose another 3-4 kg this time and I know I can do it. So, I will get back on track soon. Monday – I am being realistic and the weekend is not going to work as PP days but I will be sensible, I promise!

Also, I need to lose those 4 kg because yesterday I took another very important decision: on the 13th of November I will quit smoking (again!). Last time I quit smoking I gained 4 kg. I allowed myself to gain those 4 kg in order to fight against the urge to smoke, as comfort and to make the withdrawal process easier.. in my head I said, eat away and when you reach 4kg STOP eating. And it worked, and I quit smoking and I even lost 2 of the 4 kg. I didn’t smoke for over a year… But Alas! Some issues early this year made me restart smoking, not as much as before, I actually don’t smoke that much anymore, but smoking a little or a lot is still smoking and this needs to stop. So, I will not allow it to happen again and by “it” I mean gaining weight as a consolation price for not smoking AND re-fall in the ugly habit of smoking.

So, as of the 13th of November the blog will be twofold… dukan and cigarette withdrawal.. yes sir!

Happy Weekend!!!

Beautiful Day

So, yesterday’s weight was a nice gesture from my scales, but I prefer honesty! Today 61.3 – however I have to say there are several reasons for this. I will not kid myself… two restaurant dinners in a row, with wine, and last night’s being sushi (helloooo, rice??? Bad girl!) might have 80% of the fault. But in my defense I have to say that I might be retaining a LOT of water weight because I’ve been suffering from cystitis. So, first I feel I need to go to the toilet but then nothing comes out, plus it hurts!!! Ouch! and I drink the same amount of water that I normally do, even more, hoping this will help get rid of the virus or bacteria or whatever is causing it. I am a positive thinker so, the “good” thing is that since im going to the doctor’s today I will be prescribed antibiotics, so this is good in the sense that: it will keep me away from alcohol and it will reduce my appetite as antibiotics always do…. So I will Dukan-behave all the way these next few days. The 61 something is probably due to last night’s dinner and will disappear as quickly as it arrived if I stick to the diet the next few days.

Next mini goal – back to the low 60’s - even see a 59.9 like two weeks ago?- by this time next week. I think it is totally feasible.

Today unfortunately I have a lunch date with a good friend, sushi (yes, sushi AGAIN) but this time I will avoid the rice!! I am a bit worried also that B and I might probably go away for the weekend, for my b-day –we agreed that would be my present, don’t know where we’ll go or if we actually will as it is Thursday now and nothing is planned…. We will see. Eating wile away is always complicated dukan wise.

That’s all for today! Have a Beautiful day!

Day 55 of cruise – PV and sushi

Day 59
Day 55 of cruise – PV
Today’s weight 60.5
Daily loss -0.6 (yay!)

So despite birthday celebrations, which included mini pastries for Breakfast and Wine with dinner and TWO Gin&Tonics I managed to lose 600 gr. As food wise I did grrrreat! However this I believe might be “dehydration loss” from the alcohol OR I have been misscalculating my weight according to B’s scales which I know weigh more than mine and I was being too modest. In any case I’m glad to be in the 60’s again because the 62 on Sunday really freaked me out!! Haha.

Today I did not prepare a Tupperware for lunch so I’ll be ordering a salad from the awesome salad place – will take a picture later and post it. They serve these great salads, plus they come in these great carton boxes, the fork and knife rolled in the napkin with a little bow, a small little pack of bread (will not have that!!!) and the dressing in a little container… it just looks so pretty when it arrives … they are quite expensive (almost 10€) but the salad is huge and has very good and fresh ingredients. As I am on Dukan I will not have the pasta salad which is the most wonderful salad ever! (so sad!) And as it is PV I will have the Rucula and turkey salad – it has 3 illegal ingredients: Parmesan flakes, raisins and black olives – I always ask for it without olives but I will eat the other two, if not the salad would be actually quite… … boring! I took a picture, and I did NOT eat the bread!! :-)

So, last night I had for dinner boiled octopus as a starter and I don’t know the English name of the fish (ok, looked it up Gilthead sea bream????) anyway that fish on the grill with green asparagus. Had no dessert (yay me!) and the sinful part was the wine and the G&T. oh well, it was my birthday after all!!

Tonight I’m celebrating my birthday (again!) with two very good girlfriends, one of them had her birthday last Saturday, so out again to a restaurant… tonight will be trickier as it is a Sushi – which I looooove - restaurant!! Will try to stock up on the sashimi pieces and leave the sushi to the girls! (haha – who am I kidding *sigh*) they are not big wine drinkers so that area should be safe.
Plus today I didn’t bring my bike, so I took a cab to work (was running late) After work I will walk to my mom’s (2km) and then later walk to the restaurant (1.5 km) and then cab home. I just saw that next week we should be expecting rain (finally!! After over a month without rain!! ) so no bike…and as long as it doesn’t pour.. walking + umbrella

Cheers all!!

Happy birthday to me!!!

Today’s weight 61.1
Daily loss -0.3

(weight is according to what I think B’s scales should read)

So, this morning I had mini pastries for breakfast… It is my birthday so they are allowed. I will have a light lunch and a healthy restaurant dinner.. Meat with vegetables or maybe a nicely cooked fish, which is what normally I feel more lazy about cooking myself!

I am getting so many calls and messages for my B-day.. it feels so great!! In the last few years, thanks to Facebook and other cool apps for smart phones everyone is reminded of your birthday, nobody relies on remembering birthdays anymore.. which is sad – I am THE BEST at remembering birthdays without cheating but on pure memory – so I find it sad in a way that we don’t use our memory anymore, but on the other hand its great cos you get so many more birthday wishes!!!

Anyway.. I am taking the afternoon off from work and going shoppinggggg yay!! Auto-birthday present for me today!! If I had lost more weight it would have been clothes, BUT as it is not the case I might get myself a handbag or some nice beauty care products!

Have a great day!!

One more cup of coffee

Today’s weight: 61.3 (at B’s so I’m calculating more or less considering his scales weigh around a kilo more than mine)
Daily loss: 0,7 kg (Sunday morning was mostly water weight I guess)

After yesterday morning’s shocking 62 in the scales I was obviously an A student yesterday (minus a glass of wine) and this morning most of the water weight has come off. But I’m still over 61 which is terrible terrible terrible.

Today I’ve been good. Dukan turkey sandwich for breakfast with my low fat Starbucks café late (love it!!) For lunch I had Chicken cooked with onions and a tiny bit of roasted peppers for lunch (huge plate that I couldn’t finish) yogurt for afternoon snack and no clue about dinner as I am going to B’s place. Told him it has to be LIGHT!!! And no bread!! :o)

Tomorrow is my Birthday so already I have ordered mini-pastries for colleagues at work. I know I will eat at least one… like Vicky said.. birthday calories don’t count!! Then for lunch I will have to have something very light and very dukan and then for dinner I guess I will go out with B to a nice restaurant, I will choose one with good meat or fish! But wine will be present that will be my second birthday treat! So really today I have to be good all the way!

Bad thing about birthday week is all the celebrating with friends … Wednesday night I have drinks with two girlfriends, Thursday lunch with a friend near work and we are doing suschi, ill see my parents at some point for lunch or dinner, and so on… so this week will be challenging!! Wish me luck!

Another Dylan song for today’s title…

Up...... argg

Quick update just to say...I've been bad and I've been punished by the scales!! 62!!! that is just so.... oh well.. mea culpa. This weekend has been nothing but eating!!! Lunch with my parents, dinners with B, drinks... oh well. Tomorrow I will re-attack... again!!! Dear oh dear.

Today B is with his family, I saw mine yesterday, so I am alone and i must admit, quite bored, so, after this post I will go cook a bit. PP menu for tomorrow, might even prepare tuesday's already - by the way Tuesday is my Birthday so i know i will sin somewhere along the way, so today and tomorrow need to be "lose-all-that-water weight-days"

I found a cool Iphone App called "true weight" where you input your daily weight and it takes care of doing an average of the true weight taking into account fluctuations, so, despite the almos 1.5 kilos gained day by day in the last three days the "true weight" gain is only a couple of hundred grams. Anywaysssss, here's a graph of my true weight (thick line) vs. real daily weight (dotted line) - it's only of the past month. I started Dukan on 64.1 mid august
Somtimes its discouraging, look at that dotted 59.9 - at that point the true weight was still 61 - but other than the true weight calculation its a good place to track my daily weigh ins.

Ho hum! Ready to re-attack!!

Cheers all!!!

Thursday & Friday

Day 52 & 53
Cruise day 48 and 49 – cheating and PV
No weigh in either day


Checking my diet spreadsheet I see that I should have finished my cruise phase today… but still have 3.5 kg to go!! Oh well, no worries, this is what happens when you are not 100% true to the diet. In the beginning I did the calculations according to the 1kg per week loss and then added one more along the way… so, I will now add 4 more see if after the lesson learnt last weekend I can keep up the will power and leave those 3.5 kg behind me in a month or so! (secretly, deep down, as long as I get there by Christmas it will be fine) then 70 days of consolidation should take me to a new 2012 version of a new me!

The reason I don’t mind going slower is that already with the -3.5 kg lost a lot of people tell me that you can see I have lost weight, and some of my work trousers feel very loose and those two things are just so… awesome! It’s been so long since I’ve been under 60kg (more than 10 years) that I cannot imagine myself with 57 again.. or how I will look!

Yesterday was a bad-girl-all illegal foods day. My mom and her best friend who is visiting came over to have lunch with me near my office. It’s an Italian restaurant and I had pasta with arrabiata (spicy tomato) sauce – I really couldn’t resist!!! and then in the evening I went out and had a couple of illegal things including 2 glasses of wine!!! *sigh*

I’ve slept at B’s the past two nights so no real weigh in – well actually I did weigh myself on his scales this morning, which weigh about a kilo point something more than mine… so if I translate to what I think mine would say, I’m up again to 61.1 which is 1kg more than last Friday – aww well. So, this is what I’ll do: It’s not that I have given up this week, BUT, since it is Friday and the weekend is always tricky, I am going to relax, eat sensibly even if non-dukan items sneak in, but keep it as light and reasonable as possible, give my body a break from Dukan, and Monday it will be BACK ON TRACK!!! Today’s lunch – salad: lettuce, tomato, cucumber, boiled egg and ham! (with a bit of balsamic vinegar + olive oil) I will try to do a perfect PV day.

Have a great weekend everyone!!!

Quick update from iPhone

Today's weight 60.5 (after breakfast)
Loss 0.6

Today was Spain's national day! Missed the parade as I slept till 12.30!! Had a coffee and half a muffin (not dukan) and then B and I went for a walk to the new area close to the river a 7 km park along the river, where we were going to rent a bike but finally decided to walk. We did in total 8.5 km... Not bad!! I guess I burnt what we had at lunch which was Chinese food that I tried to dukanise as much as possible although some illegal ingredients snuck in.. But I feel good about the walk!!

Sleeping at B's tonight so no weigh in tomorrow!!

Have a nice evening everyone!!! Viva España!!

Glass of Water

Day 51 – Cruise day 47 – PV
Today’s weight: 61.1
Daily loss: -0.3

Ok, back on track. Yesterday I ended up having a glass of wine (it’s too much of a temptation when B and I have dinner we like to enjoy a glass of wine, I can usually keep away from it during the week but we had a hard day yesterday so … ok, no excuses I know!!!) I’m sure if I hadn’t it would have been -0.5 instead of -0.3 as part of yesterday’s gain is water weight.

Today Tupperware lunch, leftovers from dinner: chicken breast and roasted red peppers. Don’t know what I will do tonight.. tomorrow is Spain’s national day, so no work (yipiii) but I might go out, don’t know yet. It will be hard this week getting back to my 59.9 but I will definitely try!

Yesterday I walked to work (3.5 km) and walked part of the way back (1km) – today I came with my bike (if at least it was a bicycle-bike… but nope, it’s a motor-bike) but I will try to go home early and take a nice walk in the park. Also, I did not have any oat bran yesterday, had some today. I realized that last week I had my oat bran every day, exercised (although not much) and behaved very well – result 1kg down. So, it’s not like I don’t know what I have to do… shame on me!

No more to say today… I’m trying to buy tickets for a Coldplay concert, so today’s title one of their songs that fits our wonderful new habits!

Monday post from iPhone - cruise 46 - PV

Day 50 – Cruise 46 – PP turned into PV
Today’s weight 61.4 (yikes!!!!)
GAIN since Friday 1.5 kg – (OMG!!!)

So, this weekend was a disaster!! I started off well.. trying to dukanise my eating.. but it was impossible and at one point I just let myself go!! Oh well, no need to dwell on it. But a punishment is in order, so, this week I will be a perfect A student. Wednesday is a National Holiday, I will need to behave. My plans are to sort out my winter/summer clothes so I won’t be to tempted to go out and indulge … lets see how it goes.

The weekend was extra fun! I loved it! It was the first true autumn day, very chilly, but very sunny. We went away to this gorgeous town about 140 km away. Two couples of very very very old friends, we’ve known each other 22 years!! (oh dear I’m getting old) One of them turned 39 on Friday, his wife and me are next in 15 days we’ll be 38. B will be 39 in a couple of months.

Today a colleague from work brought Lemon chicken (following my recipe) for us to try… a few bunch of us eat tupperware luches at work, I usually eat with 2 girls and this one said we could once a week cook something nice for the other two… So she started the idea by making my lemon chicken that and she made some rice to accompany it and I had a little bit… I had told her about my diet, but as always she insisted today “its just one bit of rice, it wont hurt to have it just one day!” hummmmm hate that! And between you and me, it wasn’t even that nice….

Tonight.. more chicken, as I took it out of the freezer and now it has to be eaten. B’s coming over, I already told him dinner would be Dukan, for him we will do PV though, he’s fine with it as he has put on as many pounds as I’ve put off… he he he.

Cheers everyone!

Friday's forgotten post - One more weekend

Today’s weight: 59.9 – into the 50’s!! yay!!! – PV day
Daily loss: -0.4 kg
Total lost: 4.2 kg
Distance to Goal: 3kg
I am at 59.15% of my weight loss!!

First of all a big Thanks to all that have commented on my posts! I love that people actually read me.

So last night I behaved so well!! I did have a glass of wine, and a small portion of this meat pie my mom brought. The rest was all dukan friendly. Plus friends that came with my parents, who are like family to me, well she has the same birthdate as me, so I bought two mini cakes (we are all watching our diets, so I was sure no one was going to have more than one taste, so they were really really mini cakes) one candle each, we blew the candle and I had……. Nothing! Nada! Zero! Sooo proud. And as I suspected everyone else just had one bite, so I even threw some away when they left.

Today I am taking the afternoon off and going to B’s for lunch, haven’t seen him all week!… we might go out, in which case I will stick to PV. The weekend might be hard. Going to meet some friends and I doubt it will remain all dukan friendly... we will see..

I’m so happy for seeing the 59’s that I am extra motivated, even if it is 59 point NINE. I know by Monday even if I behave I might be up to 60 point something, but like I said, I won’t lose sleep over it!

Im still giving song titles for my post by the way, and today’s song is from another one of my favorite all time classic artists!

Might not be able to post during the weekend, but I’ll try… but just in case.. have a nice weekend everyone!!! --- SUNDAY NIGHT EDITING

Went away with B and another couple of friends to a beautiful town about 140 km away. Slept at a very cute hotel... however.. food wise.... big ZERO for me. Tonight light dinner and lets see what the scales will say! as long as i dont hit the 61 again i'll be happy!

The Power - Snap!

I'm at 50% of my goal!! PP day today (minus a bit of red roasted pepper in my salad)
Today’s weight: 60.3
Daily loss: 0.7

So this week I’ve had what Charlotte calls a WHOOSH!! A Full kilo!! Granted it was TTOM weight that I had put on during the weekend, but just seeing the 60’s today has made my day.

Yesterday I finally went grocery shopping, but I bought a big pot of yogurt and I did not realize it was sweetened! So, my dukan bread is now sort of sweet, and the dukan mayo I made as well…

The bread is fine, it actually tastes better! The mayo.. not bad as I went a bit too heavy on the mustard, so actually the bit I tried when making it was kind of nice. Blogging from work again so I have not yet had my food, ill edit tonight and tell you how it was!

Breakfast: Low fat Café late + dukan sandwich with 0% fat cream cheese and turkey (@10)
Snack: we’ll see if I need it
Lunch: Tuna steak + what we call in Spain a “Russian salad” – normally it has baked potato, tuna, boiled egg, roasted red peppers, peas, carrots, olives (and whatever you want actually) – all mixed up with mayo (pic below of how it would look like nicely decorated) but I only used today tuna, peppers, egg and the dukan mayo.
Snack: slices of ham
Dinner: Tonight my parents and some friends are coming to my place for a drink. There will be wine and some mini sandwiches for them, but I’ll also put out some cold cuts which will be what I eat! I can’t promise I won’t have a glass of wine, but I will try to have a diet coke and that’s it!

Its incredible how much will power I had this week. Yesterday we had the bi-annual meeting with the big big boss so it was a sandwich lunch, I excused myself claiming to have an urgent call with a client and ate my Tupperware lunch. Then in the evening we went for a drink, the whole team to celebrate that all went well and some picky food was ordered, nothing dukan except for mini burgers. I had 2 diet cokes and the mini hamburger without the bread, and left feeling Grrrreat for it. Let’s see if tonight the willpower is still there!!

Cheers fellow dukaners!

Strawberry Fields Forever

Cruise day 41 – PV
Today’s weight: 61kg
Daily loss: -0.5 kg

This morning I woke up with a craving for strawberries!! plus The Beatles are also one of my favorite bands..

I guess that’s TTOM weight gone + a perfect PP day yesterday. Today I will have little time to post in the evening so I am writing this at work and then I’ll just copy/paste.

Brekko: Cafe Latte (non fat) + dukan bread sandwich with 0% fat cream cheese + turkey slices
(no snack, not hungry)
Lunch: “pasta-less Bolognese” (yeah, just the mince with natural home made tomato sauce)
Snack: Actimel 0%
Dinner: don’t know just now, but maybe ham + cheese omelet – me likey!!

Today I have to go grocery shopping, I’m almost out of everything!!! Last night I did my dukan bread with a Pineapple yogurt instead of the plain one… it was quite nice actually, it even had tiny pieces of pineapple in it! And since I love to mix sweet and sour (like my ham + orange marmalade) it was quite nice… anyway today I’ll buy a bit of everything and as the day is quite calm in the office today I have already planned tomorrow’s menu and its going to be yuuummmmy!! Fish on the menu, I realized that its been quite some time since I’ve had it…

More to come!!
Cheers!

Cruise day 40 – PP

Today’s weight: 61,5
Daily gain/loss: none
Total weight loss: 2,6 kg.

Yesterday’s pasta and chocolate potential gain were equaled out by a very light dinner. Happy about the 0 move on the scale, it could have been worse. Today I’ve stuck to a perfect PP day so I’ll be disappointed if the scales don’t go down at least 0.300 gr as it will also be 3rd day of TTOM and water weight should be leaving me!

Breakfast: Coffe with Non-fat milk @ 7.30
Snack: coffee with a dukan bread ham sandwich – or late breakfast (@10.45)
Lunch: Meat with onion and garlic sauce - I added a beef bouillon to the onion and garlic +water and then put it thru the blender..mmmm very nice…
Snack: crab sticks
Dinner: 2 Soft boiled eggs + yogurt

I have now become an expert in doing my dukan bread.. its better each time. Now I let it settle before putting it in the microwave so that the oat and wheat bran expand and become fluffier with the yogurt and the yeast, so I get thicker slices of bread that I can cut in two to make the top and bottom loafs of the sandwich. Yummy.

I have to say that I admit I cheat a lot, but I am losing weight, very slowly, but losing. I don’t have that much to lose and I prefer doing it this way, I believe that slow weight loss helps the body adapt or consolidate that loss, and it makes the diet much more “doable” for me. I am sure many wouldn’t agree and I actually envy all of you that don’t cheat at all!! For years I weighed around 60 (kilo up, kilo down) and was comfortable with my weight / figure, but if I can reach 57, even if it is slowly then I’m happy. I guess I’m just trying to justify my cheating..

No song today.. couldn't think of any.... :)
But i found a parking space (garage) for my vespa... (its not the one in the pic)

Happy Days...

Remember a TV show called Happy Days? opening theme was ... Sunday, Monday, happy days, Tuesday, Wednesday, happy days... anyway, that's my song for today as this is a summary of.. yes, you guessed it Sunday and Monday .. and yes, they are happy days for the little devil sitting on my left shoulder.. i did not follow the diet.. boo hoo, or at least not to the letter.

Sunday 61,1
Monday 61,5 - TTOM and a bit of cheating
daily GAIN +0,500

Saturday and Sunday i behaved, both days weight was 61,1 - but today... well its TTOM and I felt like poop (sorry!) and I had Pasta for lunch!! But at least it was with plain tomato sauce, no cream, no cheese, nada! just tomato sauce. Also had a couple of those great "celebration" chocolates... oops!! But really, i gave myself the good excuse of TTOM and my tummy ache! Tomorrow its back on track. Tonight yogurt and Ham and I am about to start cooking my full PP meal for tomorrow!!!

Nothing more to say for today... just... oh well! Tomorrow will be another day

October

Today's weight 61,1 (+0,1)
total lost 3kg

Today is a PP day, but being Saturday, i will PV it as I'll be eating with my parents ... last night's wine an tiny piece of bread translated into a tiny gain, it was expected, i won't dwell on it.

October is my favourite mont of the year, it's the month I was born, and its the Autumn month with nicest weather... still warm, but chilly mornings and evenings... first leaves start turning brown and start falling... just love it! Its also one of my favourite U2 songs (huge U2 fan i am!!)

Its noon, and I'm now having the most wonderful capuccino done with my Nespresso coffee machine, my Nespresso machine thingy that makes the frothy milk, and a tiny bit of unsweetened cocoa...yummy!

Anyway, hope you all have a wonderful weekend!!

Friday I'm in love

Day 40 of fast.. I mean.. diet ;o)
Cruise day 36 – PV
CW: 61.0 (ok, not the 60’s but almost)
Daily Loss: 0.1 kg
Total lost: 3,1 kg
Distance from goal: 4 kg


Ok, so the scales of “ungratefulness” decided not to show me that 0 after the 6… so frustrating, come on, what’s the difference between 60.9 and 61 !!! nothing!! 100 grams!! So ungrateful !! I was an A student yesterday with PP and I walked my 3km home from work. Well, weight wise its nothing, but psychologically it would have been a great accomplishment. The reason I am “angry about it” is that I always gain a little on the weekend. I am so going to try to behave this WE.

It’s Friday, which is always good news. Today’s menu (I was meant to go out… danger zone!! But B and I are staying in and having a nice diner - I will behave so maybe I can see the 60’s tomorrow?? (hum, doubt itI'll probably have a glass of wine, i desrve it)

- Brekko: non fat latte + mini dukan sandwich with a hint of olive oil and ham – after today’s scale disappointment I added a tiny little bit of Orange marmalade to it (if you’ve never tried it the best is: cooked ham + orange marmalade sandwich in nice soft sweet bread … delicious!! But today it’s the dukan version…)

- Lunch: 4 mini hamburger patties + red peppers
- Dinner: not sure yet but it will be Dukan friendly + tiny glass of wine

Humm just realized TTOM is just in a few days.. maybe that’s the reason for the tiny -0.1 kg loss… I’ll encourage myself thinking so!

Have a great weekend everyone!!

Down Slow

Day 39
Cruise day 35 – PP
CW: 61.1 kg
Daily loss: 0.4 kg
Total lost: 3 kg (yay!!)

“Down slow” is a song by Moby – veeery relaxing and very representative of what’s going on… finally the scales are moving DOWN, yet SLOW (the “slowly” part is my fault as I seem to cheat quite a lot, but no worries… I’m not in a rush!) Hopefully tomorrow I can enter the 60’s but I will need to really behave during the weekend.

Today I have a full PP day planned, planning is essential!!

Breakfast: coffee + dukan toast with a slice of ham
Snack: coke light and ham
Lunch: Tuna stake + hard boiled egg
Snack: crab sticks
Dinner: soft boiled egg and turkey

Tonight no temptation of going out, not even for a coke light and a chat, because one of my favorite shows is on TV (a Spanish series) and I want to watch it!! The new season started last week. So I’ll be home, alone, with my eggs and my show! AND I also planned tomorrows lunch to take to work – min burger patties and red peppers(oven baked)... yummy!

If I see the 60’s tomorrow I will have reached the next mini-goal!!! Woo hooo!! (fingers crossed!!)

C U 2morrow!!

Wishing and Hoping

Day 38
Cruise day 34 – PP
CW: 61.5 kg
Daily GAIN +0.1 kg
Total lost -2.6 kg

So, yesterday’s dinner went quite well. My friend had cooked Beef skewers with onion and red & green peppers, a very nice salad and……. mushroom risotto (oh no!) I had some, I did not want to be rude, but it was the only transgression I did. I did not eat any of the delicious bread, or dessert, but now that I think about it, I did have a couple of glasses of red wine. Anyway… scale this morning +0.1 which is not bad considering…

I got home late and did not prepare food for today. So big challenge.. what to eat today… because of yesterday turning into PV I want a PP day today but it’s so hard when eating around work… So I might go for a salad, or might just buy some ham and yogurts at the shop and eat just that… but it’s so sad!! I’m writing this as a draft at work.. will update tonight!! - editing: Chicken breast with salad.. PV'd the day but proud of myself

Today, Thursday and Friday should be great days for sticking to the diet.. nothing social in my agenda, have to start studying and I am 100% motivated to behave this week, I really really reaaaally hope that by Friday (which is the day I use for weekly comparison) I will see the 60’s on the scale!! Even if it is 60,9 I would be happy!!

I read a lot in Charlotte’s blog and now in Little miss Contray's blog about Flaxseed and had no clue what it was, I looked it up in Spanish and now I finally know what it is!!! and I will defo buy it tonight!! Ive read about its qualities and I’m convinced!

That’s all folks!

Walk on water

Day 37
Cruise day 33 - PP
CW: 61.4 (yay!!)
Daily loss - 0.7 kg
Total lost -2.7 kg (come onnnn 3!!!)

Despite the pastries yesterday morning the rest of the day went great and today was a surprise. I guess yesterday’s 62 figure was mostly water weight. I managed also yesterday to get some walking done, so that helps as well. I’m going to start taking the walking thing seriously.

Tonight im eating at a friends house, so not the best day for PP - I WILL behave! promise!

Also, I want to point out that I never speak of the water intake because I have always have (not just now on Dukan but since forever) 1.5 L at work –every day! – plus a pint glass of water when I wake up, plus one when I go to bed which I take with me and sometimes drink in the middle of the night, plus whatever coffees or coke light or other liquids that I might have. So, bad days at least 2L, good days more than that!!

Grey’s anatomy is one of my favorite series, and I thought last night while watching an old episode, that I am going to name the subjects of my post like in this show, with a song.

You might know or not know, that all episode titles for this show are either a song title or part of a song, … except for one!!! ( I love a little bit of trivia ) so, from now on, song titles to my posts! I already did one a few days ago ;o)

As I guess every once in a while I will not find a song to match my post I will also use the usual “Cruise day xx”

Cheers !!