I am so excited! I am 1.1kg away from a normal BMI

For quite a while now, I’ve been following my own plan, loosely based on the Dukan 3rd phase and incorporating all the good habits that I learned on the looong time on the Dukan diet. At the beginning of the year I tried to go back to strictly Dukan and just couldn’t keep it, what ended up in binging :/ But there is so many good things I took from the Dukan diet All the protein foods that help me feel fuller for longer, a massive cut to fats I’ve been eating a long time before.

Even though, when I was fat, I would eat fast food all the time, I kept feeling guilty for that anyway. Now, I still have cravings, but I’ve learned to control them most of the time, and the very important – YOU CAN indulge from time to time. I guess that is exactly the point in the 3rd phase feasts . So if I choose to have a piece of chocolate, it’s not going to kill me or my diet. I try to keep to a daily calorie amount of about 1500, but from time to time I do go to the restaurant, eat popcorn at the movies… AND I keep losing weight, feel good, relaxed etc. What more can you want!?

But I think the biggest struggle is to begin something like that when you are very big, as you have to give time for the stomach to shrink a bit. I used to be able to eat two TWO sets of meals at KFC. Now I barely get trough a Twister haha. It’s not will power, I just got through the part when my stomach was still shrinking.

My plan at the moment is:

* About 1200-1500 calories a day (I keep a diary, weigh food etc. It might seem hard, but after a while you know the nutrition of your favourite food by heart)

* I look at the Dukan rules as a sort of a compas (60gr of wholegrain pasta, not a lot of bread – a wholegrain roll or two slices of bread, minimised oils in cooking, a lot of lean protein, oat bran, non starchy vegetables, low fat dairy products)

* 6 days a week an hour or more hula hooping (It’s not only about how much, but the routine. It raises the heart rate and metabolism, but also, I do give myself one day off, so I don’t go obsessive )

* I give myself the odd treat (Chose a low calorie pizza, put half in the freezer, so it doesn’t tempt and indulge in the favorite foods, my guilty pleasure are Malteaser bunnies . I track the calories, so it’s not over the daily allowance and, more rarely, I bin the rules and if I go with someone to the restaurant – I chose my fav food and go cold turkey protein the next day ;D )

It has really been working for me well. I feel more relaxed about foods since they’re not all banned and most of all, the scale is the proof, since January I lost about 9kilos I now only have about 8 to go .

Disadvantages:

* The risk of buying too much and eating it just because it’s there and tempting. I try to fight that by freezing all the tempting foods hehe and only buying/making one portion at a time

How are the other long term dukaninans out there doing? Following the plan as it is or finding any little cheats?

72.9kg

At the moment, after losing 8kg in two months on a mix of Dukan good habits, adding whole grain pasta and an odd treat, while keeping an eye on calories I’m at 74.5 and very proud.I really hope to reach my goal of losing about 3kg a month and reaching 65kg for the summer holidays.

How I look now -

And my look from visiting London Fashion Week:

I’ve been having these as a treat when I was trying to be reeeally good and stick to Dukan rules

http://mydukandiet.com/recipes/cripsy-almond-biscuits.html

Crispy almond cookies… mm… YUM!
I’m still hula hooping about an hour a day with this baby:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001EBFE50?ie=UTF8&tag=httpglamedupw-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=B001EBFE50

It really works on the waistline!

Ah! And one more diet super filler food:

http://mydukandiet.com/recipes/smoked-salmon-pancake.html Salmon fish cakes MMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!

I put it on:  http://www.mydukandiet.com/recipes/omlette-with-pasta.html

Soooo good!

I managed to lose a stone in January and though I know now it will be slower, I really hope to keep it up and lose a kilo a week. That’s my goal. But I think I’m really having quite a good balance lately. And I’ve been hula hooping every day, so my metabolism is up. Ah… I’d like to finally get to that weight that has been my goal since the start on dukan – about 65kilos and I actually think I might go to phase 3 of the diet then ( http://www.mydukandiet.com/dieting/consolidation-phase.html ) even though I’m no longer on ‘proper’ dukan. It’s a great guidance. Something you can always think about while choosing your foods.

(And my weight for now is – 75.6kg. From 82 at the beginning of January)

My winter look:

It’s snowing outside, so it’s time to dress up warm. No reason to lose style though!

I LOVE my cosy winter hat! ^^

New Year party dress

I also got myself a very nice corset!

It’s sort of weird because I’ve been interested in corsetry for years and I’ve tried on many corsets but uptill now I never actually had one of my own. I don’t even know why. Nothing just ever satisfied me, or I didn’t have enough money, or I didn’t feel I’m slim enough, but now, finally I got myself one, and I love it already.

I thought the first one I will get will be black, to go with everything, but there was just something about this one. I have a lot of gray stuff and black will go with it too. Aaahh… I’m just so happy with it!

I found photos of me from last September on my sisters camera and they’re horrid! : O I simply have to show you my before and after!

107kg – Sept 2009

June 2010 – 74kg

My new experiments in the kitchen are based around a mix of an omlette, the bran cake and a frittata. The one above is something I consider the Dukan Pizza

Ingredients:

2 eggs

2 tbspoons of yoghurt

2 tbspoons of oat bran

1 tbspoon of cornflour

1 tspoon of baking powder

100g precooked chicken or chicken ham etc.

1 tspoon of sesame seeds

1 tspoon of grated hard cheese

4 cherry tomatoes

1 Babybel light

Spices: salt, pepper, parsley, italian spices and oregano

Instructions:

Put the eggs, yoghurt, oat bran, cornflour, baking powder, half of the chicken pieces and spices into a bowl for mixing. In the meanwhile put the other half of the chicken pieces on a non stick (big – it will allow the ‘pizza’ to be nice and flat) pan to let them crisp a bit. Mix all the ingredients in the bowl and pour it out onto the pan, covering the chicken. Put a lid on the pan and let the mix crisp a bit at the bottom. When the bottom is done, an the top still a bit liquid, on top, put tomatoes cut into pieces, thinly sliced babybel cheese, sprinkle with grated hard cheese and sesame seeds. All of that needs to be put under a grill (I just put the pan under the grill, with the handle sticking out, so there is no worry that the liquid top will spill) and just watch it get nice and brown on top. There isn’t a lot of cheese, but enough to give a fab aroma and crispiness on top.

And that is just one variation of it! You can make it without the bran, so it’s more of an omlette (you can add milk instead of yoghurt for extra fluffiness) or add spinach and the babybel directly into the mixture, to make it more like a traditional frittata. It is really a nice, rewarding meal in the evening.

I also love to make it with smoked salmon.

I had a lousy time at a Christmas party though. Everyone was eating and drinking, and I was just sitting there . I promised myself a bit of loosing on the diet for Christmas Day, but I didn’t want to brake the diet before that . Too loud to talk in the stupid pub and all this food. Gah. Sucks.

Sins: Chocolate mousse, half a Bounty, chocolate buttons…

Weight loss – week 12: 0.6kilos – 84.1kilos

Contains only 215kcal!!!

Ingredients: 100g of Wall’s Soft Scoop Vanilla light Ice cream

(140kcal, 3g protein, 19g carbs, 6g fat)

Over that, pour a 125g, fat free, peach yoghurt Activia or a taste of your preference (6g protein,  11g carbs) and sprinkle a bit of cinnamon over it.

YUUUUUUUUM!

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Chicken fried with egg + tomato soup

coco

Bran cake with chicken slices

omlette with tuna

Sins: Chocolate Santa head

Because of the affair with the Santa head, I got quite frustrated with myself. Obviously, a slip up is NOT a reason to quit the diet, but it definitely does make you think. I do still get sweets cravings, especially working in a shop surrounded by Christmas sweets!

So in the evening I went food shopping, to get the same, standard boring things I’m already used to, eggs, meat, cottage cheese. I started walking around the isles and shelves full of things I can’t have. I started looking at them and realised that for the past two weeks I do cook, but it’s the same boring recipes over and over again. I got very lazy, so I figured I have to refresh my kitchen, try new things. Maybe my body was just craving something new. So I bought some things, I will explain:

1oog of ground almonds

100g of grated parmesan

200g grated coconut flakes

Diet ketchup

100g of sesame seeds

Ketchup and sesame seeds are allowed in moderation.
Almonds, coconut, parmesan – all have over 50% of fat, so it’s generally a no-no, BUT that’s why I bought them all grated of ground or something like that. They can magically make your cooking more interesting and it’s enough to use them like a spice to get their aroma – a bit, a flat teaspoon is enough.

If you do go down my path, you must know that it IS unorthodox! But I’m in day 213 now and it hasn’t hurt my diet, I still have the fist packet of almonds and coconut I bought, which means I don’t really use a lot of it, but at least I feel that I can if I want to, and it’s there . Especially the grated hard cheese, with an omlette ifs plain luxury! Those little additions won’t kill you or your diet but will definitely allow you to enjoy food more. Just stick to using a teaspoon every now and then.

So I also decided to try and cook more interesting things again. For dinner that evening I had: A bran cake with a teaspoon of sesame seeds, on that I put some tuna with tomato sauce and a bit of parmesan on top.

Of course it’s all in my head, but I felt a lot more satisfied

So for a lovely new recipe:

Mild chicken curry with sesame and coconut!:

Ingredients:

about 400g of chicken breast

1 egg

2 tablespoons of mild curry spice

A bit of piri piri (or chili)

salt, pepper

1 teaspoon of sesame seeds

1 teaspoon of coconut

5 tablespoons of fat-free yoghurt

Dice the chicken breast, put it in a bowl, add the spices, coconut, sesame and the egg, and mix it.

Put the mix on the hot non-stick pan. Keep in under a lid for about 10 minutes, mixing from time to time, when it gets nice and golden, put the yoghurt on top and simmer for another 5-10minutes.

There isn’t a lot of the coconut, but it really adds a flavour to the whole dish!

If I was on PV I would have added some cherry tomatoes

Another important note is that this is NOT a recipe for the beginning of the diet. This is for when you really feel tired, when you want to break the monotony! Because, at the end of the day, if you get miserable on the diet, you will not last!!!

And the scales reacted really nicely to all of this !

Weight loss week 11: 1.9kg – 84.7kg

What I love about this is that it shows you : YOU CAN DO IT!

And you don’t just have to be a bit less fat, you can get slim and fit. At the beginning of my weightloss I thought… “Oh, maybe I will manage to lose 10 kilos… that would be amazing…” Now I’m not timid like that. I want to be the best I can be! I’m not really a sports fan and I don’t have dreams of ABS of steel, but I can definitely be a regular, slim size.