Day 16

Yayyyyyyyyyyy Hoooooooooooooooooo!!!! I was down a full 2 pounds this morning!!! I'm so happy!!! All week I was up a bit and getting a bit worried but Carol's words stayed firm in my head. Stick it out girly, the weight will start to come off again. I knew I'd never win if I quit, but I really never had a desire to quit, I was just worried that it would be yet another failed diet attempt and frankly I'm tired of failing!! I'm ready to be a winner!! :o)  So I keep at it. I like this diet more and more by the day. For me at least, it's very doable and even enjoyable! So now it's on to day 16, a veggie day!!!!!!!!! Yahoooo!!! Love my veggie days!!

Breakfast this morning was 2 breakfast sandwiches made with my cheese bread recipe and egg and turkey bacon. Oh yeah and a sprinkle of FF cheddar cheese too. It's almost 2pm and I'm still not hungry! Those things are soooo filling!! Not sure what's for lunch yet.

Lunch was some yummy beef stew that the rest of the family had last night. Boy did I ever do a good job on that pot of stew! Not sure about dinner.

I just finished up dinner. Had half of a pan seared chicken breast with a wedge of LCL chipoltle cheese and some steamed broccoli. Will have some jello with ff cool whip here in a bit for dessert.

Day 15

Well I was down a few ounces this morning, but I feel so good! I keep putting on clothes that I was going to donate or sell on ebay because they either didn't fit right or didn't look right. This morning I put on a pair of shorts that I wouldn't wear before because the pockets on the side would bulge out. Now they not only don't bulge out, but they are very loose! How does that happen with only 7 1/2 pounds lost?? I don't care, I love it!!! Not a minute too soon either because all of my other shorts are literally falling apart! I've worn them so much that you can see right through the back side of them!! LOL!! So I'm wondering if I have the nerve to try on my jeans yet. They aren't anything special, just a pair that I used to wear that were way too tight to wear this past fall and winter. I had to literally live in my sweat pants because I had nothing else to wear that fit!! I also notice that I'm really really sleeping better! I love that because I"m not exhausted all dam day like I used to be! Well I made an omelet for breakfast but I put too much parsley in it so I only ate a few bites. Sooo I guess I should go make something else cause I'm still hungry! My check engine light came on taking Brandon to work this morning. I sure hope it's nothing major! We can't afford anything major right now!!! Well on to tackle the rest of the day!!

Good grief I'm zooming right now!! I love it!!!! LOL!!! At any rate, I decided not to worry about eating anything else for breakfast. I ate a little bit of jello while I was working on lunch, but that was it. Lunch was meatballs that I made with a piece of cheese stick in the middle and dipped in the jalapeno jelly. They weren't fabulous by any means, but they were different and I'm full so that's really all that matters!

Dinner tonight was a pan seared chicken breast that I had flattened out a bit and seasoned with a touch of season salt and pepper. I ate it with ff cream cheese and jalapeno jelly. A bit like a deconstructed stuffed chicken breast. It was really good and I"m so stuffed! The family got some yummy beef stew but I took out a bowl and put it in the fridge for tomorrow! I have some cherry jello setting up in the fridge for dessert. I keep trying to get the hubby to go up to cold stone and get me some sinless sweet cream ice cream (ff and sugar free and delicious!!) but I haven't been successful yet! LOL!! I did buy some blue bunny sf fudge pops to keep on hand for those ice cream cravings but I think I've actually enjoyed the SF popsicles even more!! LOL!!

Day 14

Well today marks 2 weeks! It doesn't seem like it's been that long! Today is a protein and veggie day, yaaaa!!!!!  So I think I'm going to go to the farm stand after I take Brandon to work and see what they have. The birds are doing a number on my tomatoes so I don't have all too many right now, although there are a lot of them green on the plants so I"m not giving up just yet, but I would love some fresh zucchini!! Well see what they have. I also have to go to Walmart and get some coffee creamer, dog food, blister band aide so I don't end up like yesterday and some more of that yummy Mio for my water! I think tonight I will make a pot roast for dinner. That way it's something we can all eat unless I end up feeling like eating something else. Well time to get this day movin'!!

Well crap! I took Bran to work and then we drove out to Pungo to my favorite farm stand and picked up a few goodies. I never did get to Walmart though. I'll go when David gets home. I had to take the kids to McD's because they started giving out the Smurf toys today! They are sooo cute!!! Boy it was so hard looking at those little burgers and not eating one! I LOVE those little burgers! Probably one of my favorite foods of all time!! But I was good! I think it was harder because it was so late and I hadn't eaten anything at all yet. So now here it is, just after noon and I just finished eating for the first time today! I just LOVE veggie days!!!

Brunch- 3 hearts of romaine filled with some precooked, packaged grill chicken strips, chopped tomato, onion, home made ricotta salada, a hard boiled egg and drizzled with some of my jalapeno jelly that I warmed up to make it a little easier to drizzle. YUM!! YUM!! YUM!! Yeah it really was "3 YUM's" good!! LOL!! I also had a bowl of cream of broccoli soup. I am sooo stuffed and completely satisfied!! I have some lime jello setting up in the fridge and I'll have some of that a bit later on!

Ok so I'm weird I suppose, but little things make me really happy most of the time! I was making my favorite stuffed peppers for dinner tonight but I hadn't had lunch yet. I had some of the filling meat left over so I cooked it up in a skillet like a patty and ate it with my SF jalapeno jelly (which I am in LOVE with) and it was sooo good!! I will have to mix some of that meat mixture up and keep it in the fridge for sure!! Can't wait to eat the peppers in a while too!! I didn't even miss not having bread crumbs in there. In fact I used my serving of oat bran for the day and a tbsp of wheat bran and it worked perfectly!! I just love when things work out just the way you hope they do!!!

Dinner- stuffed peppers, salad and a few baby carrots. Too full to eat anything else. Later on I'm going to have a SF fudge pop that I bought tonight!! Yum!!

Thought process update.....

From time to time I really want to talk about my journey with this diet and how it's not only working, but effecting my life as a whole. I have really noticed many things about this way of eating and I'm quite pleased to say the least! First of all I would recommend this diet to anyone. Yes anyone. Even if you don't have alot of weight to lose or any to lose for that matter! Even if you can't get passed the initial attack phase, it does so much good for your body that I wish I could make everyone give it a shot! For me personally it's been a bit of a "detox" if you will. I am a couple weeks into it and while it did take getting used to, I now love it! I feel fabulous, my skin and hair looks great, my belly bloat has gone down so much that all of my pants are lose in the waist and they are elastic waists!! But most importantly, I have NO cravings anymore! NONE!! I do not crave sugary treats, I do not crave bread or carbs, ice cream, cake, cookies, pizza, bread, NOTHING!! Do you know how liberating that is?? It's flat out amazing to me! I'm never starving, in fact most often I have to remind myself to eat and force myself to stop and eat. This is a HUGE deal to me because before my life revolved around food. I love food. I love to cook and bake. It makes me happy and it relaxes me. Unfortunately I've also always loved to eat! The other day I made home made chocolate chip cookies for the family and I didn't eat a single cookie. Not a crumb, no licking the spoon, no licking the fingers. Nothing! Did they smell good? Hell yeah they did, but I did not give in. They are still sitting on my counter in a ziplock bag and they don't bother me. Now that may not be such a big deal for you, but for me, that's HUGE!! I've actually managed to get to the point where I can cook and bake for the family or for fun and I don't feel the need to eat it! In a matter of a couple of weeks??!! Yeah for me that's a pretty big deal. Now when I crave something, usually it's a veggie! LOL! Now I realize that since I have a thyroid condition, my weight loss will be slower than the average person, but that's ok with me because I know eventually I will get there. It helps that along the way, day by day, I feel so much better. Not just on the outside, but on the inside too. I have friends that are also following this diet plan, which makes it so much more fun! We have a little support group and support one another and it really helps alot. At least this is true for me. Along the way I've noticed that most of us are experiencing the same stages along the way at about the same times. All of us pretty much started on different days and have different amounts of weight to lose. I had over 60 pounds to lose and a few people only have the last few to lose. Yeah I say "only" but I realize that those are always the hardest to lose and hardest to keep off!! The stages seem to go about like this:

Day 1- You're starving! You want to eat quite a bit and you drink like crazy!

Day 2- You're still starving and wanting to eat everything that's not nailed down or frozen! On top of this your really tired. Like your arms and legs feel like they're weighted down with bricks and you don't feel like doing much of anything. The only exercise you will feel like doing today is your gazillion trips to the bathroom!

Day 3- Today you really don't even want to look at another piece of protein even if it's a freakin' lobster! This in turn makes you really not want to eat and you have to force yourself to eat. BUT you will want to drink all day. Like you can't quite get enough to drink.

Day 4- The tiredness starts to go away and you start to really feel energized and amazing! You're used to what you have to eat at this point and it's no big deal. You just eat what you're supposed to to fuel your body and you go about your day.

After this will all depend on how many days you have the attack phase. I had it for 7 days. I couldn't wait to be able to eat veggies again! Funny enough, the day I could add them in, I really didn't eat that much! I figured I'd eat every veggie in sight but it just wasn't the case. I've had 2, what I would consider "cheats" since I've been on the program, the first was one day wasn't a veggie day but I had about a half a cup of cream of broccoli soup. It's my diet soup, so it wasn't a calorie killer, but still, it wasn't a veggie day. The other was last night when I had meatloaf. I made the family meatloaf and usually it's not a huge favorite or anything, but it got really late and for some reason it just sounded so good! It WAS really good!! The only thing in it that's off limits is the little bit of bread crumbs so I'm not going to beat myself up over it, but now I know that I need to make a legal version of meat loaf to keep on hand!!

Another thing I seem to be battling myself with is exercise. It's always the hardest thing for me to get into the routine of doing. I really need to do it though. I know it will help me feel even better and make my weight loss faster! So I will continue to work on making that a part of my day! I think I will start right now in fact and then hop into the shower!

So if you need to lose some weight, or just feel sluggish and have that belly fat that you can't seem to get rid of and have no energy to get through the day, I HIGHLY recommend giving this diet a shot! You can get your true weight and diet profile on www.dukandiet.com and go from there. Even if you only do the attack phase, you will feel so much better!! Yes I will be one of those annoying people who recommends this program  to anyone and everyone! Everyone loses at their own pace so not everyone will lose a bunch of weight right out the gate, but some will! Give it a shot! What have you got to lose? It's cheap and it's easy!!

Day 13

Today is a protein only day so probably a bit boring.

Breakfast- so far I had an omelet with one egg and 2 egg whites, 2 slices of turkey bacon in it, some of the home made ricotta that I made and some of the SF jalapeno jelly that I made. Boy do I love that stuff!! I made a hot cereal out of the oat bran but I hated it and can't eat it so I'll go in the kitchen and whip up something else using it. I'm thinking I'll make a big ol lemon muffin or something like that. Yup I made a modified version of my zucchini bread recipe and made it into lemon flavor. It wasn't bad. Needed more lemon flavor though so I adjusted the recipe to include more lemon extract. Those things are so filling!!!

YAYY finally got a workout in!! Well I got on the treadmill anyway! Pretty soon I'm going to have to start adding in the weights again and get up the nerve to bring out the ball again perhaps??!! At any rate, I'm proud of myself because I got on the treadmill and with about 8 minutes left to go I could feel a blister starting and my heel really hurting even though I put on band aids first. Typically I would have got off the treadmill and said ah well I was almost done, but instead I hopped off real fast, kicked off my shoes and got on that sucker bare foot and finished it out and then some!! :o) Yayyy me!! LOL!!  Now it's after 2 and I need to hop in the shower and think about what's going to be for lunch and what I"m going to make everyone else for dinner!!

I didn't realize that I forgot to post lunch! I had a couple slices of the turkey loaf that was left in the fridge and a left over pork chop. Oh and one LCL cheese wedge.

Dinner was 2 swai fish fillets in a lemon, wine and butter sauce. I wish it would have been a veggie day because I would have loved to have some more cream of broccoli soup, but there's always tomorrow!

Day 12

The darn scale just won't move for me lately! I'm hanging in there though because I feel fabulous and I'm about to start my period soon which will help as well! I should also note that I haven't been working out either so I really can't complain too much!!  I also was just thinking about it this morning and realized that I'm constipated as well having not gone to the bathroom for more days than I can remember, so I guess I should take something for that as well. Luckily today is a veggie day! A good friend of mine was telling me yesterday to hang in there no matter what too. She was talking about a time where she went for like a month with no loss and she was working out an hour a day on her tread climber as well as dieting!! That really inspired me to keep at it, because of course the scale DID eventually start to move again. All those times in the past where I gave up when the scale stopped moving, if I would have just kept at it at least I wouldn't have kept putting on the weight and I'd have a hell of a lot less to lose now!!

Well today is a veggie day as I said, and I have no idea what I'm going to eat today! I got my home made ketchup made yesterday and today I"m going to make some sugar free jalapeno jelly. I think I'm going to try to make a zucchini bread out of my bread recipe I did yesterday. But I"m not sure because I'm just not sure it will turn out like I want.  Well see, I'm not really hungry yet and I have to take Brandon to work at 9:30 so I will probably be eating late again!

Brunch- Made a new recipe today for a zucchini bread so I ate half of that. I also had a couple slices of turkey loaf, a small salad, a sliced up radish, a couple of small sliced up garden tomatoes and a small bowl of cream of broccoli soup. It was a wonderful smorgesboard of yummys!!! LOL!! I'm so stuffed!!!

Lunch- ate a really late one! I finished eating at just before 5!! I had similar to what I had earlier. Turkey loaf, slices tomatoes, cream of broccoli soup and the other half of the zucchini bread. I finally got the jalapeno jelly made it it's sooo good! I'm a happy camper!!! At this rate dinner won't be until close to midnight!! LOL!

Dinner- as I figured, I didn't actually eat until midnight! Aw well. It's was a wonderful food day as far as really enjoying every bit of food that I ate. I had a bit of a cheat for dinner being that I had meatloaf for dinner. Yeah I know meatloaf is allowed, but I had the meatloaf I made the family so it had a little bread crumb in it. I didn't have much though and it was sooo good! I've really enjoyed my veggies and salads today too . Tomarrow is an all protein day so it won't be quite as exciting, but it's just another day and it's only food. It's amazing how different my outlook on food is now. I'm also quite happy that the constipation ended today! Yayyyy!! Ok well my dog is driving me nuts wanting up in my lap so I'm going to close for the night. I hope tomorrow is as great of a day as today was and I hope that the dam scale goes down some more!!!

Day 11

WOW I can't believe it's day 11 already! I'm getting really used to this now and that makes it much easier. I worked on that bun this morning and I'm really happy with it! It came out so big that I was able to cut it in half twice and make it so I can make 2 sandwiches out of it! I made it a rye bun this time by adding caraway seeds to it and used the first half to make a breakfast sandwich. I'll either use the other half with lunch or dinner. It's fabulous toasted up which is what I did for the breakfast sandwich. I topped it with an egg, turkey bacon and ff cheddar cheese. YUM!!

Lunch-Turkey roast, LCL cheese wedge, and I cheated and had a small cup of cream of broccoli soup (diet of course but it's not a veggie day)

Dinner-Grilled pork chop (lean white meat) other half of bun from breakfast and 2 egg whites. This has also been a jello day! I'm having a horrible sweet tooth and I'm trying soooooo hard to stay away from anything chocolate or sweet!!! I sure hope this passes tomorrow!!

Day 10

Today is a protein and veggie day! I really look forward to these days, although yesterday was pretty easy. It seems to get easier with time which is nice! Breakfast this morning was sooo good!!! I found a recipe for a cheese bread online that was for the plan and I added a tbsp of parmesan cheese to it. It came out good, but I want to tweek it a bit because it was kind of big. I probably could have divided it up into 2 meals for heaven's sake! But it did make a fabulous breakfast sandwich!! I'd like to make a rye version since I love rye bread and I'd love to also make a zuchinni bread since I love it so much too! The variety would be really nice!

Breakfast- Sandwich made with an oat and wheat bran bun, egg and turkey bacon.

No lunch today, was playing Let's dance on the wii with the kids!

Dinner was some cream of broccoli soup, hamburger patty and a salad. Dessert was a bowl of sf jello. 

Day 9

Ok so today is an all protein day. No big deal. I have alot to do today anyway and there's alot less to think about and do on all protein days. I got on the scale this morning and was back up a couple pounds. I know there's no way I ate 2 pounds worth of food so I'm not going to let it stress me out, however, I'm not going to become a slave to the scale either! I've decided to only weigh myself once in a while. Maybe when it looks or feels like I've lost a bit of weight, I'll hop on it just to see, but other wise, I know I look better and feel better so I'm going to keep at it and trust that in due time I will get this weight off! SO here we go with day 9! It's a Sunday and I have alot to get done. Time for some breakfast!

Breakfast this morning was 2 slices of crispy turkey bacon, scrambled eggs and the Oat bran galette. I'm stuffed and ready to take on the day!!

Can't decide what to have for lunch yet so I just ate a bowl of sf jello with a dab of ff cool whip on it.

Lunch today was some green curry chicken that I made and topped with crispy turkey bacon bits.

Dinner was grilled chicken and deviled eggs. The chicken was thighs and even though I took off the skin it was still kinda greasy so my stomach is not very happy right now!!

later on in the evening I was starving so I ended up heating up a hamburger patty with some onions on it.  (PMS means I will be really hungry for a good week or so and then once I start I won't want to eat at all!)

Day 8- Adding in the veggies today!!

So today I can finally have veggies! Who knew you'd ever get so dam excited to have veggies!! LOL!!! So I went shopping last night to get some things and I"ve been thinking of what to make today. I think I'm going to go with some tacos on hearts of romaine "shells" for lunch and some beef stew for dinner. Now I just need to figure out breakfast!!

Breakfast was soooo good! Just turkey bacon, 2 fried eggs and 2 small garden tomatoes sliced.  Sigh..... who knew veggies could be so darn good!!

Lunch was Hearts of romaine tacos. Love those!!

Dinner is beef stew.

Day 7

Good morning!! Today is a great day!! I woke up this morning to begin the last day of my attack phase (YYYYYaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa freakin hoooooooooo!!!) and I'm down a total of 7 pounds!!! I'm so happy!! Now granted for someone who has over 60 pounds to lose, 7 pounds in a total of 6 days isn't all that great really, BUT...for someone who is 41 with a hypothyroid it's awesome!!! I would recomend this program to anyone, but especially someone who is battling thyroid issues!! It's not easy to stick out all these days of just protein, but take it one day at a time and realize that it's just food to feul your body and you can get through it. At this point the hardest part is eating at all. It helps to not make the same thing over and over again too!

Breakfast was some Turkey and Cheese mini bites and a chocolate mocha shake.

Lunch was some Chicken Egg Drop Soup

For my late dinner I just grabbed 2 of the low fat or ff I can't remember which, kosher beef hotdogs that are only 40 cals a piece and a light cheese stick. I'm still looking for the ff cheese sticks.

Face Book Support Group

Well I decided to start up a Dukan Diet Support Group on Face Book. It is a closed group so no one can see the posts except for the members so it will enable open conversation about day to day life and personal things we encounter while dieting. It will also contain lots of information and recipes. If you are interested there is a link over to the right in the favorite links section!

Day 6

I'm back to it this morning. I had an oatbran galette and a little egg beaters with some ham and onion. I ate about half of what I usually do for breakfast. Just got full.

Alrightly, lunch is over and I actually managed to eat it all!!! I heated up a hamburger patty and put a small ammount of ketchup on it and some slivered onion. I also made a chocolate mocha shake. Boy did that shake ever hit the spot!!! So now I"m full and I'm glad that's one more meal down and done with!  :o)

Ohhh dinner was so good!! I had 2 swai fish fillets that I cooked with some wine, lemon, pepper and some butter spray. Man was that ever good!!! One more meal down and one day to go on the attack phase!!! Whoooooooo hoooooooooooooo!!!!

Day 5

Well today was pretty well a total wash. I had a friend come out with her kids and I just didn't plan well for my eating. We went to the beach with all of our kids and I ended up not even getting anything to eat until about 5pm. By then I didn't care what I ate, I just needed to eat something! I ended up eating 2 hamburgers and a little bag of cheetos. I was absolutely starving!! So tomarrows a new day. Hopefully the scale doesn't beat me up too much in the morning. I wouldn't think it would be too bad since that's all I ate all day. We shall see!!

Things I've noticed after a few days....

The good and the bad....

Well the good of course is the weight loss and how much better I feel. No bloating or swelling! That's awesome! I noticed starting yesterday (day 3) that I was actually having a hard time eating at all. I just didn't want to eat and when I would make something I would almost gag when trying to eat it. Very strange for me! I would eat because I knew I needed to eat something and figured if I ate it would calm my upset stomach. Morning time is the one exception. It's always been one of my favorite meals and I'm really hungry in the morning so I look forward to it. I think I will look forward to lunch and dinner more when I can have veggies. I LOVE protein, but it very quickly gets hard to eat nothing but protein. You have to really want to stick it out to keep going. Of course the weight loss is the best motivation! Another down side for me personally is that for the past 2 days I've had diarreah and that's not fun. I totally didn't expect that! It's not so bad when you're staying at home, but when you have to go out it's pretty scary!! I've also gotten a really dry mouth. Mouthwash has become my best friend! I go rince every time I eat just to get the taste of the food out of my mouth. Other than those minor things, all has been well. I was very tired the first few days but today I feel great!

Day 4

Down one pound this morning! Drinking my coffee now and getting ready to take Brandon to work!

Ok just had breakfast. Same thing as yesterday- the oatbran galette pancake and the egg scramble with the onion and turkey. I couldn't eat it all! Now I will spend the rest of the morning cleaning the house because I'm having company tomarrow and going to the beach! I'm still trying to think of what to take to the beach to eat since we're doing lunch there. I'm making fried chicken for everyone else. Hummmm I'll have to think about it and figure it out!

Lunch today was difficult. Nothing tastes good to me anymore. It' just so weird! So I had 4 of the immitaion crab legs which actually tasted supprisingly good! I think it's because the texture is smoother and they are a little sweeter (as apposed to chicken or beef or pork). I heated them up and sprayed them with a bit of spray butter. I also had 1 hard boiled egg white. I tried to make a shake with the peach jellp powder but I hated it so I gave it to the kids! They are so happy when I don't like the shakes I make!! LOL!  Guess I should have made a chocolate one! Can't go wrong there!

Day 3

HOLY SHIT!! I'm down a total of 4.2 pounds as of this morning!! I can't believe it! I truely can't! I didn't get in my treadmill workout yesterday and I was really fearfull that I didn't get in all my water so I totally dreaded getting on the scale this morning! I just knew it was going to go up. I'm still in shock that it not only went down, but went down that much!! I'm soo happy I could cry! Truely cry! Since I have been diagnosed with hypothyroid I have not been able to make that scale move down for nothing. I'm cautiously hopeful that this time is really going to be it!! I know I can stick to the plan, I just hope it will keep on working!!! WOW I'm just so happy right now!!! :o)

Breakfast this morning was the oatbran pancake and a usual egg scramble. Boy that pancake is really good! I added cinnamon and vanilla to it.

Lunch is a chicken salad and a cherry shake. The chicken salad is soooo good! I replaced the mayo with greek yogurt and once you mix in the dijon mustard and the dill relish and onion and spices it's just awesome!! I added in celery seed, dill, and red pepper. I also added in a hard boiled egg. I never would have thought it would turn out so good!! Yayyyy!! The shake I made with ff milk, ice and some cherry jello powder. It really takes away the cravings for something sweet and fruity!

Dinner tonight was just hum drum at best. I really didn't have any desire to eat at all and it was like 9:30 pm when I finally ate. I made a custard shake and I grilled a hamburger patty. I'm discovering as time goes on that I'm just not in to eating so much anymore. It's pretty weird, but I'm finding it really hard to eat anything. Well except breakfast, I always look forward to that meal! LOL!! Ah well , it's just food and as long as I can lose weight I frankly just don't give a shit if I want to eat it or not! I do know that I greatly look forward to saturday when I can have some veggies and salad!!!!! I wonder if the scale will move again in the morning? I realize that the day is going to come that it won't. I know taht over 4 pounds in 2 days is awesome, but I also know I have a long way to go and I'm in this for the long haul!

Day 2

Well I hopped on the scale this morning and was down 1.8 pounds from yesterday! I'll take it!! I was peeing like crazy yesterday! I have to say, other than being a bit tired which could have also been from poor sleep the night before, I felt outstanding yesterday!! If anyone can tell me how to get my weightloss ticker to post on here, please let me know!! I've tried all of the codes and none of them seem to work! I'm going to try one more time here this morning. Yayyyy I think that worked!!!

Breakfast this morning was pretty similar to yesterday. I made a scramble with 2 egg whites, egg beaters, 2 slices of turkey lunch meat and a little onion. With it I had my greek yogurt with my 1 1/2 tbsp of oat bran mixed in. 

Lunch- Ok so I'm starting to get bored with eating the same thing so I need to get a bit creative I think. Not sure what I'll make just yet, but I don't want to get burned out on chicken and yogurt. I heated up a roasted chicken breast from last night and I'll make a shake here in a bit. I need to make sure to get on the treadmill at some point but I also have some housework to get done. It's going to take getting used to having more things to do durring the day. I'm having company in a few days and I have so much to get done around the house. It's a total mess because I've been trying to spring clean and declutter. Unfortuantly in the process it's left me with stuff everywhere in piles! Some for donation, so to give to friends and some to throw away. Well talking about it, isn't getting it done so I better get moving!!

Finally got around to making a shake! I need to go to the store and get some more milk and some cottage cheese. Cottage cheese makes the shakes taste soooo good and I don't have any! I'm so happy that David went and got some propane so I can grill my stuff now!!! I love grilled food so it will help to break up the monatany of eating the same few things. Maybe tonight I will have some fish on the grill. I love the Swai fish and I've read that some people lose even faster when they eat alot of fish. The shake I made today was like a custard shake. I used ice, milk, splenda and pumpkin pie spice which just tastes like custard to me! Not too bad!

COOL FACT!!! I read this in the book! If you take a 77 degree shower on the parts of your body with the most heat (chest, arm pits, torso, legs, etc...) for 2 minutes then it burns about 100 calories!! No shit! I guess your body has to work hard to get your temp. back up! Gotta love that!! It said not to do it on your had or back because it wouldn't feel very good and it isn't as effective. I'm gonna have to give it a shot! It said the water should feel about like a dip in the ocean in the summer (or something like that!)

Was not in the mood at all for fish so I ended up grilled some lean pork loin chops (the bonesless white pork) and made a little sweet and sour sauce to go with it. It was quite good! Didn't look anywhere near as good as everyone else's burger and fries, but I didin't even pluck a fry! I'm proud of myself! The only down side is I haven't gotten on the treadmill today. I'll try to get on it but I'm so tired so I'm not sure.

Day 1

Alright day 1 under way! I made a weightloss tracker but for some reason it won't show up right on here, so once I get that figured out then I will update that daily as well. I read my book last night until I fell asleep. I learned a couple of interesting facts! Like 1 quart of water weighs about 2 pounds and 2 tsp of salt is enough to retain this water in your body's tissues for a day or two!! YIKES!! Needless to say, I made my breakfast without salt! Suprisingly I didn't even miss it! I made a breakfast scramble with 1 whole egg, 1 egg white, a splash offf milk and some egg beaters. I used 2 slices of ff turkey lunchmeat that I get at Walmart (their brand) and a bit of finely diced onion. I put the diced onion and turkey in a skillet for a few minutes until the onions were translucent and then added in the egg mixture and cooked it through. I also had about a half a cup or so of Dannon FF Greek yogurt with splenda. I really like their Greek yogurt! It's nice and smooth and not so acidic. It feels good to be full but not bloated and yucky feeling. I always get bloated and yucky feeling after I eat carbs. Ice cream makes me feel that way too. I love it, but it doesn't love me!! I usually drink decaf iced tea with splenda all day, but I'm switching back to drinking mostly ice water again. It's cheaper, easier, and no added calories at all. I have to drink atleast 1 1/2 liters of water a day. That should be pretty easy since I always keep a big jug right with me all the time. I also have to do 20 minutes of walking a day so I will get on the treadmill after I get home from the store. I have to buy my oat bran and I need to get some chicken and a couple of other meats since I have to do the all protein phase for 7 days.  It's very weird not eating any veggies for sure, but I really feel like I can do this! I just hope that my body will cooperate and drop this dam weight already!!!


Lunch was really yummy! I butterflied a chicken breast and fried it in a non stick skillet sprayed with cooking spray. I sprinkled it with ground corriander and pepper. While that was browning I chopped up some cilantro and put it in a small bowl. I zested a lime and added that along with the juice from the lime. I sprinkled in 2 or 3 pkts of splenda and stirred it. I microwaved it for about 15 seconds to blend the flavors and then put it over the chicken. It's a variation of a dish I do but I usually use a good ammount of honey in the sauce. I really didn't miss it honestly. It was still good! I also had about a 1/2c ff dannon greek yogurt that I sweetend with splenda and added in my 1 1/2tbsp of oat bran. I really like that stuff. It has a nice flavor to it. I wish I would have tried it sooner! It wasn't bad at all in the yogurt either! Now I'm stuffed. I'm on my second jug of water so I'm sure I"ll get in plenty of water. I wish I could remember how much water this cup holds. I think I'll get a 2 liter bottle and fill it with water at the beginning of the day and keep it in the fridge so I can keep track. So far I'm loving this eating plan!!

20 minutes on the treadmill- DONE!

YUM! This is so good and so simple! I have a thing that's like a majic bullet that I got at Walmart. In one of the cups I put about 3/4 of the way up with ice, about 3/4 way up with ff milk, add 2 or 3 pkts of splenda (to taste) and maybe a tsp or so(I didn't measure it) of SF jello powder in the flavor you like. I used cherry. Whiz it up and yummy! You can't have fruit on this plan for quite a long time, but this totally tastes like you're drinking a fruit shake. I would have put ff cottage cheese in it too to thicken it up but I don't have any. Of course you can do chocolate or mocha, etc... but the fruit is very refreshing in this heat!! Just thought I'd share!

Rounding out day one, I had a roasted chicken breast for dinner. Later on I had some of the chicken egg drop soup that I had simmering on the stove and a chocolate mocha shake for dessert. It's been a great day! It was nice to not feel bloated and sluggish. I got hungry at regualr times but since we're allowed to eat as much from the protein list as we want, it was ok. Now I'm off to pick up Brandon from work and probably to bed. I'm pretty tired since I didn't sleep real good last night and it's been a busy day!

Scale woes...

Really?? Again?? I have bought countless scales over the years and I'm so tired of them messing up! Everytime I get a digital scale it will weigh you different everytime you get on it and even more so if you move it around the floor. What the hell? How am I sapposed to know what I weigh and be able to keep track of it?? I swear the next time I get a scale I'm getting a cheap ol dial one!! I weighed this morning and I must have gotten 4 or 5 different weights and they vary a few pounds and when you're dieting that's a pretty big deal!! So to be on the safe side I guess I will just go with the heaviest weight. You'd really think when you spend 40 or 50 dollars on a scale that it would work properly for heaven's sake!!

Got my book!!

First of all, thank you so much for all of your support! It is so nice to know that people are routing for you to succeed!

Well I went up to Walmart and got my book! I was pissed because it's 23.49 at the store which is about 10.00 more than online!! But I didn't have to wait for it to be shipped and I figured this is an investment in me so  bought it! If I had a Kindle I would have bought that version, but I don't, so I got the book! Ill be reading it from cover to cover after dinner I'm sure. I'm really excited because this looks really do able and pretty darn simple to boot! No counting, no measuring, just a bit of common sense. I can deal with that. It's also not going to cost me a fortune which I love because since I lost my side job, money is super duper tight! Another thing I really like is that I really don't have to change much from what I eat to what the rest of the family eats. There will just be some things that they eat that I won't. That will make it pretty easy for me to handle. I also LOVE protein and veggies so I just don't see this being really hard for me to follow or deal with over the long haul. I will do the dreaded weigh in and beore pictures tomarrow.

I should note.....

I should note that this blog will be raw and at sometimes graffic. If this bothers you or if foul language bothers you, then you may not want to read what I write. I find that when I write daily about how I'm feeling and what I'm eating, etc... that I do better overall and I don't want to have to curtail what I say so that I don't offend anyone. Just a little disclaimer I sappose!!

Here I go again!

Well years ago I was very successful on the Nutrisystem plan and lost almost 80 pounds. Kept it off for over a year with minimal effort. It was great! I looked great, I felt great, life was good!! I also managed to quit smoking. Then I got pregnant at the age of 36 with my son and the weight packed on at an alarming rate. 25 pounds in the first month!! YIKES! Years down the road I finally get a doctor who will listen to me and he checked my thyroid. BINGO!! So I figure once I get on the meds the weight will just melt away! Yeah, NOT!!! I finally gave up. It seemed like nothing I did would work and I settled into a pretty deep depression and failure mode. I have spent the good part of the past year just packing on weight and feeling sorry for myself in the process. I didn't discuss it with anyone and that's never a good thing to keep it all bottled up inside. Well finally I let it out to some friends and I got the loving kick in the pants I needed from a dear friend (thank you Carol!) and she told me about the Dukan Diet. I read up on it and I think I really have a shot with this. So in a few minutes I will be off to Walmart to buy the book and I'll start tomarrow! I will keep track of my progress as well as my feelings and ups and downs along the way here. This just has to work for me or my next option will be weight loss surgery. Here I go!