Dukan Diet, anyone trying it

[uggmum]

Hi, I have started the Dukan Diet. Managed to get thru day 1. Anyone else trying it? What do you think ?

have chicken breast strips marinating in fat free creme fraiche mixed with penang curry paste, and raw prawns marinating in green thai curry paste with FFCF.
Mouth is watering..............

Day 6 and not bored yet although tired by this time of day.

very wobbly bit under boobs feeling tighter

Marsha/anyone - where did you start to shrink
first?

I'm still on this. To be honest I am not finding it too hard, I think because you can have so little choice in what you can eat, if I was on weight watchers I would cack and binge on 8 weight watchers choclate bars or something. You can't binge on chicken!

Still not weighed myself (am going to boots tomorrow) but have slimmed a hell of a lot, DP says it is very noticeable. 2 inches gone from my waist which is fantastic.

TMI alert - but does anyone have really dark and whiffy urine?

my urine is very clear - I went 7 times this morning I am drinking so much water

Much better today. I'm going to do five days pv and five days pp.

I think it was the combo of stress, lots of coffee and very little food. Not good.

Much better today. I'm going to do five days pv and five days pp.

I think it was the combo of stress, lots of coffee and very little food. Not good.

Jen it was quite funny dh said your face is smaller, you have a shrinking head (well funny at the time, but sounds a bit harsh here!).

My waist has been such a pain after dc2 (6 months) and it is FINALLY going. And top of arms, which always used to be sticks in 20s but now need help. So I think it's most noticeable on the parts that normal diets are hard to reach.

getorf, are you drinking enough?

No loss this morning

GetOrfMoiLand - please make sure you are drinking at least one and a half ltrs a day - this diet is pretty rough on the kidneys if you don't have enough fluid.

I am still hanging in there. I am now six weeks in and have lost 21lbs.

I am feeling so much better in myself, my confidence has grown and I really get a buzz when friends and family make positive comments.

I am not finding things too difficult - was out with friends last night, stuck to diet coke when they were guzzling wine and cocktails and had chicken tikka and a green salad when we ended up at the curry house - I even managed to avoid popadums (?sp)

Football tonight and have lots of friends over to watch - we are having a BBQ so supper is fine but think I will struggle not to eat all of the lovely nibbles I have bought.

Does anyone know if we are allowed olives on pv days? I know they are often marinated in lots of oil, but if I could find some that had no oil, or if I dried them out with kitchen roll, do you think they would be ok?

Hi, diet still going well, didn't put on any weight whilst on holiday.

Bit fed up with the dryness of food, therefore, have made a lovely tomato sauce today. I have struggled to find shop bought sauce due to all the sugar they add to it. Even the low sugar ones are high.

I have made one with cherry and plum tomatoes, garlic, paprika, cayenne pepper, basil, oregano, artificial sweetener.

I have simmered it and thrown it in a blender.

Lovely!

Had yummy food at a Japanese Canteen today. And realised I could quite happily eat Japanese every day on this diet. Those yummy egg things they do for breakfast, sashimi for lunch and chicken teriyaki without the rice for dinner. mmm

(although probably a fair bit of sugar in some of those).

Still no loss but haven't managed to poo for 3 days I am drinking loads already so have taken a gentle laxative, anyone else?

Hi, Bratnav, I have started having 2 fat free activia yogurts each day and it seems to help on the pooh front

Thanks Ugg

I have had major stomach cramps all day today - think I'll have to give the activia yoghurts a go.

this is for uggmum. I started this diet last week. Started to have really bad dreams: horrible violent dreams that have disturbed me. I usually never dream anything (or remember nothing in any event). It was too much of a coincidence, so I did research, and found the attached link.

You mentioned in an earlier post that you were having strange dreams on the diet, so I thought you'd be interested. Are you still having the dreams (I'm not sure if this will wear off on me or not: not sure I can put up with it long term, my sub-conscious seems to be pulling out some truly awful pictures in my sleep).

It talks about the atkins diet but the key point is the same of course - high protein low carb

www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/752/atkins-diet-causes-bad-dreams?page=1

Thanks, I am still struggling with sleep. Have very vivid dreams. Very disturbed sleep.

Thanks for the article. x

Hello all. I am used to low carb through Atkins but find I lack the motivation to keep up keep it up. I like the sound of the vegetables being unlimited pretty early on with this one.

But being a fairly dyed in the wool Atkins person I am struggling with the idea of fat-free yoghurts and so on. Are they not just full of sugar instead? I was reading the carb counts on them in Tesco this morning and some of them are pretty high. Or does it not matter?

And is he basically saying that this diet has to be fat free because you are using up your own fat which is like eating high cholesterol fat? Surely certain fats are a Good Thing and the body needs them. Also Dukan is recommending reduced fat spread later in the book, which presumably is transfat type stuff?

I am finding it hard to reconcile the high protein /low carb vibe with Dukan as he seems so keen on fat-free things which I don't believe are particularly healthy. Nor is aspartame.

Don't know whether to switch to this or not really.

Katisha I'm not eating the low-fat dairy and I would always choose real butter if I needed it. I'm probably doing half Dukan/ new Atkins as I'm not keen on altered food. I do want sugar in black coffee and switched to splenda which is fairly awful in taste. Do you put anything in coffee. Or actually does Aktins rule out caffeine?

Am now at a good size/weight but obv want to avoid putting back on.

Hi Marsha. Atkins does rule out caffeine but I always rather ignored that! I don't take sugar in it so that's not really a problem, although again, can't see the point of totally skimmed milk. I am too Atkins ingrained! And skimmed milk seems worse than black coffee anyway.

Yes - I am pretty anti-processed food in general. Although I suppose if it gets you through the initial stages of the diet then it's OK. I just don;t really understand Dukan's draconian fat-free rationale as low-fat tends to equal high other crap.

Yes I agree (also I did a spell in the US for a while and everyone loved eating non fat icecream etc. Terrible for the figure!). I think I might be a non-cream/bacon/lard-free 'new'-Aktiner afterall.

hello all, after doing a few half hearted diet attempts I'm back on the dukan to try an shift the last half a stone. On my 2nd day today.

Hi katisha, I'm not doing the full on fat free stuff, just finding the Lowest fat stuff that doesn't have any additives etc. I'm not particularly keen on muller lights etc, so I've had live yogurt with vanilla pods an cinnamon etc. And i intend to chuck a little butter in my soups, when I have them. So sort of doing a half dukan diet. I can't quite shift my mindset from the harcombe diet when it comes to dairy!

Quattro was right - you can't drink alcohol on this diet. I had 3 glasses of wine this weekend and was absolutely plastered, complete memory loss drunk and apparently was wheeling about all over the place, talking shite. 3 glasses! Felt like I had had 3 bottles. Plus the hangover yesterday was indescribable. Plus couldn't sooth myself with 8 rounds of toast like I normally would.

So bloody sick of chicken now.

However, I measured myself. Have lost 4 inches from my waist! 1 inch from each thigh, 1/2 inch from upper arm, 2 from hips.

I am drinking more now - I really have to force myself to drink water but have a pint glass at work which I am drinking 4 of eaCh day, with 1/4 berocca in each to give taste.

I don't know if olives are OK to eat, but I have been eating quite a lot of them and still lost weight, so they can't be that bad.

I'm down 8kg now so two thirds through my planned weight loss in 8 weeks!

I did have a wobble with eccles cakes and scones but now back on track and eating more tofu than I ever wished to.

I'm snacking on prawns and DH snacks on olives and we are both losing weight.

Well done Miggsie, that's amazing. How do you prepare tofu? Never made it as have decided I hate it without giving it a fair try.

Have bought some low fat low carb brussels pate from morrisons. On a pp day - what can I have it with/on? Answers on a post card...?!

Getorf, I had wine last night - had driven 50 miles and back to a bbq where everyone was drinking and got home and thought f$*k it. I had a whole bottle of sauvignon blanc (completely steaming) and feel like death warmed up. I think a hangover is the ultimate test of this diet so well done for resisting bread - I can feel the hovis calling me from the kitchen!

Tofu: buy the maniated or smoked stuff, the other is vile.

DH fries it down and serves it in stir fries or with a dip.

Tofu sausages come ready made and are almost bearable.

Basically tofu has no flavour so is perfect for soaking up soy/ginger/chilli and other eastern flavours.

I do a chickpea, yellow split pea and TOFU stew with chillis and curry paste stirred in. It is almost bearable!