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At the moment – 73.1
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 
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* 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?
Hopefully this will be the month when I surpass my minimal adult life weight - 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:
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!!!!!!!!!!!
A lovely recipe for something I have been making a lot lately and losing a lot weight without hunger:
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)
As in the post before… I’m still only maintaining the weight I got to, but not gaining is still an accomplishement. My New Years resolution, as probably a lot of people have – get to my goal weight. It’s really not THAT far away. I just need to get a grip. My shortterm goal motivation is – Fashion Week London in February
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’m sorry I haven’t been updating much lately. I had my graduation show, I moved to Reading, I had diet ups and downs, but most of all – I haven’t lost anything pretty much since Easter, but I’m maintaining the weight I got down to
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
Sample menu:
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
Ingredients:
4 chicken breasts
1 carrot
1 knorr stock pot 
1 tin of chopped tomatoes (400g)
1 tablespoon of green peas (if you like to live on the edge, like me
1 medium red onion
Spices: salt, black pepper, piri piri, parsley, italian herbs, chicken spice
Chop the chicken breasts into pieces, sprinkle the meat with chicken spice and salt. Spray a big pan 3 times with spray oil (or use a non stick pan, OR one drop of olive oil). Put the chicken on the pan and let it fry for a couple of minutes.
Put the rest of the spices, half of the carrot pieces, stock pot, onion pieces and chopped tomatoes into a food processor and mash it up into a vegetable purree. If the chicken if getting nice and golden, pour the vegetables onto the pan. Add a few more carrot pieces and simmer it all under covering for a good 15 minutes (stir from time to time). Add the peas at the end as a final touch . VOILA!
I’m super-stuffed and I’m definitely doing this again.
It a portion for about 3 people, or 3 meals if you store it in the fridge.
I cooked for a friend of mine. I made her an omelette, chicken muffins. She liked them a lot. It’s good to see that it’s actual good food, not some diet awfulness which no one other than the person on the diet would eat.
Sample menu for the week:
Breakfast: Chicken muffins, hard boiled eggs, coffee with skimmed milk
Snack: Turkey slices
Lunch: Steamed haddock with joghurt
Dinner: Chicken marinated in yoghurt and curry
Desert: Quark with cocoa powder and sweetener (YES pls!)
My dream lingerie for when I can actually fit it and look good 
You can get them at:
http://www.lamagia.co.uk
I’m afraid that when I slim down, I might have to become an exhibitionist. I guess I believe in: “When you got it, flaunt it!”
On one of the days I bought a big amount of chicken, eggs, ham and spent over 2 hours in the kitchen but prepared a LOT of ready food, that went straight to the freezer, so it’s there when I need it It’s a really good way to save time – making in bulk.
Tomato Soup
BIG POT
2 knorr chicken stock cubes
2 litres of boiling water
Into that, put half a big onion shred into pieces.
Add some salt, some pepper, parsley, Italian herbs, pieces of carrot. Let it boil for about 10 minutes.
Add 2 tins of shred tomato pieces (2x400g) and two spoons of tomato concentrate. Let it boil and stir. After about 10 minutes, check the taste, if you wan to add any spices. At the end you can add some dried vegetable pieces.
And that’s it. Very nice, especially for cold evenings. Very filling, good with other dishes. Mmm. Nice and thick. What I also do is, sometimes I mix all the vegetables in a shredder, do it’s really small bits and the soup seems even thicker.
Once I also added sweet peppers and it was really nice, a bit like goulash.
Weight loss this week: 0.7kg – 86.6kg
Sins: Chocolate WW mousse x2
It might seem silly but I started eating on a small plate. It always seemed to me like a really stupid idea, but I can say that it does actually work. It’s easier to resist another portion of something than leave food on the plate.
I have this sense of calm on this diet. I know that when I get to my goal weight I will not suddenly go back to my old eating habits. I don’t feel like I’m just on a diet. I am changing my life FOREVER! Stage 3 of this diet already sounds like a good eating plan in general and I am sure it will get me on the right path. I’m also not freaking out about food or think about it obsessively like I used to. When I get to my goal weight, which is about 40kilos from my start weight, I will start phase 3. For about 400days. That’s over a year. And I’m not upset by it. I am HAPPY! I feel safe that someone planned it for me and guides me through the process. I know I couldn’t do it on my own plan, I tried many times and failed miserably. Even now, I eat very well and I think the next phase will be a welcomed relief, a nice and good way to eat. With a piece of bread, a fruit, with 2 fabulous meals of my choice in a week . Superb.
Sample menu from the week:
Breakfast: Oven baked chicken, pickles and eggs
Lunch: Tomato soup and chicken muffins (with curry spice)
Snack: Chicken slices
Dinner: Bran cake and mackrel with tomato sauce
Desert: Cheesecake
I hate eating early in the morning, but when I’m going to work for many hours, I know I will be hungry and I just need to stuff my face with whatever, to avoid that . It’s better than being hungry and getting tempted by free sweets at work.
At one point I had a really busy day, so I was hoping to get some roasted chicken breast from a butchers close to my house. Of course the one day I needed it, they were out. With a bit of panic I bought a box of beef, asking for the leanest bits. The salesman offered me some gravy. I think he got the point when I looked at him all terrified. Such preposterous ideas! Gravy!
So I had some takeaway beef. It’s not as good as chicken breast, a bit dry, but it was still good to try something new.
I started planning (or dreaming of) a holiday in Sicily in September. I want a bikini body!!!! I don’t know if it will work out, but it’s good motivation
I started THINKING about working out I guess it is a step forward…
Also – in day 58 (!) I achieved the weight loss of 20 kilos!! AMAZING <3 I’m thrilled.
Sins: Chocolate mousse
Weight loss this week: 1kilo – 87.3kg YESSS!
I’m still not bored with the diet
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