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The Ultimate Diet: The French have kept it a secret for years. Now the protein rich Dukan Diet is coming to Britain
The Daily Mail in the UK is serialising extracts from the English Dukan Diet book over the next few days.
If you want to see how the diet works before the book is published in May, check out the link above.
That sprat in the photo on the left doesn't look so good, but lets hope the diet catches on.
Readers may like my blog:
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Hi. Found your blog through finding out about this diet on the Daily Mail site.
ReplyDeleteSo how is the weight loss going?
I'm 6 ft 2 and 14 stones, and I'm wanting to shift all my excess weight for good. I'm thinking 10 1/2 to 11 stones would be ideal for me, and once I'm very lean I can concentrate on building up some muscle in the gym.
The problem I have is binge-eating. I don't know whether it is physiological or psychological, but whenever I get down to around the weight I am now, after 1-2 weeks of dieting I get intense cravings and go on high calorie binges, eating anything and everything.
What I would like to ask you is if you ever get cravings like this on this diet. Also, do you feel like a lot of the weight you're losing could be muscle? It's only that when I tried Atkins a few years back (and I was a lot more muscular then), it made me so ill and tired, and I didn't have any energy to go to the gym and lift weights.
Regarding binges:
ReplyDeleteYes I get them. The best is not to have anything in the house that is too bad. Chips, sweets, cakes, buscuites, cerials etc.
Keep a good supply of cooked chicken or get some low-fat chicken ham. I binge on that, adding a tiny bit of mustard or Sharwood's Tikka Masala for flavour. After 4 or 5 slices I'm OK.
Get your whole family to go on the diet with you - that way you can get rid of the junk food in the house. We did it. My wife lost some kilos and my kids (who didn't need to loos any weight) didn't even notice. We would add some pasta or potatoes for them when we were cooking the meat and veg from the diet.
I'm totally in agreement about not having binge foods in the cupboards. Trouble is, on Saturday I came back from my cardio sesh at the gym, and I just flipped out with food - ended up driving to the supermarket and buying ridiculous amounts of junk and made myself ill. I can eat so much in one binge that I can undo a month of dieting in 2 hours.
ReplyDeleteI don't know whether it's physiological (e.g. low blood sugar) or psychological, or both.
Perhaps there is a physiological aspect to it.
ReplyDeleteGet a diet buddy - someone to do the diet with and who hopefully will help you stay on track.
Once started, there is such a feeling onf elation that you get very motivated in the fist few months. The difficulty comes later when the rate of weightloss decreases.