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Dukan – Day 16 – Day 8 Cruise

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Today was a PP Day

Daily Loss: 0.3 lb/0.14 kg
Total Loss: 16.6 lb/7.55 kg
Wt. to go: 93.4 lb/42.5 kg

Small weight loss from yesterday to today, but it’s a loss, and that’s all that matters. Still a bit knackered from the 28 hours of no sleep, but recovering.

Food today:
Breakfast: Yogurt w/ splenda and oat bran
Lunch: about 5 oz. of sliced roast beef, WAY over cooked 😦
Dinner: Chicken and shrimp stir-fried in a teeny amount of olive oil with a whole onion cut into wedges and lots of rosemary and pepper and a wee bit of salt.

No time for snacks today. Meetings at work all morning until lunch, then the media came for interviews about the birth and information on water birth and then another meeting in the afternoon.

I did get my water in and my other drinks were 2 coffees and a diet coke. I took a nice long walk tonight, picking up my pace with the sound track from G.I. Jane… kick ass sound track!

Now off to bed to start it all over again tomorrow!

Ciao!

Dukan – Day 15 – Day 7 Cruise

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Sunday was PP Day
Monday is a PV Day

Daily Loss: 0.4 lb/0.18 kg
Total Loss: 16.3 lb/7.41 kg
Wt. to go: 93.7 lb/42.6 kg

Well, I didn’t get a chance to blog yesterday because I went in to work on my day off (at 8 a.m.) to do a practice drill and we ended up with a real patient in real labor… our first! I left this morning… 27 HOURS LATER, completely shattered, but happy that I didn’t go off my program AND I even got a 30 minute walk in with the pediatrician at 300 a.m.! BTW, it was STILL 97 degrees Fahrenheit at 3 a.m.!

I did manage to get away for an hour or so last night and had dinner at the StoneGrill. OMG was that yummy, yummy food! I asked for the chef to come out and explained my Dukan program to him and he brought me out 3 GORGEOUS sirloin medallions for me to cook on my own Stone Grill hot plate along with a bowl of sliced onions for me to grill, as well. Yeah, that was YUMMY! I was in heaven.

By the time I got home this morning I was starving. What I love is that the girls in the coffee cafe inside my hospital now make my coffee with the Fat Free Coffee Mate and still give it a steamy feel by using the machine to “fluff” it for me. That sustained me enough to drive home!

So now, I’ve had a 2.5 hour nap (wouldn’t sleep tonight if I slept too much) and I’m up and blogging. I’ll be back to my regular blogging tomorrow night, with an end of the day food round up!

Now off to finish eating the smoked salmon with FF fromage frais and onion bits on top… trying to ward of the cat 🙂

LOL… I am so tired I forgot to title my blog 😀

Dukan – Day 13 – Day 5 Cruise

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Today is a PP Day… Pure Protein

Daily Loss: 0.0 lb/.0 kg
Total Loss: 15.9 lb/7.23 kg
Wt. to go: 94.1 lb/42.8 kg

I weighed exactly the same this morning as I did yesterday morning 😦 First time that has happened, but I’m cool with that. I’m sticking to the program and that is what counts. What makes me the happiest… my panties aren’t so tight 😀 hehe  They’re my barometer for weight gain and loss!

I had an AWESOME day today. Went to Abu Dhabi and my friend Karen and I went out on my friend Islam’s boat to LuLu Island, we swam, sun-baked, took a long walk and had a wonderful BBQ of pure meat for me! Steak and chicken kabobs… YUMMY!

Breakfast: Salmon with Fromage Frais and onions + 1 boiled egg

Snack: Pot of Yogurt with oat bran and splenda

Then nothing else until the BBQ which just about did me in. I went 6.5 hour without food and it was tempting to taste the pastries and jelly beans being passed around, but I didn’t!! YAY ME 🙂

Off to bed I go… I have happened to have 9 days off in a row because of the Eid holiday following Ramadan, gotta get back in the groove of work!

Ciao!

Weekly Photo Challenge: PATH

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WordPress has this nifty daily & weekly photo challenges to get your creative juices flowing. I haven’t participated before, but this challenge is one that brought back some awesome memories of my walk across France and Spain last year… Enjoy!

You can start by seeing part of my awesome PATH in my header on each blog page ↑

The long, uphill climb out of Orisson, France…

 

 

My Path… outside Roncesvalles.

 

Walking the Path

Hope you enjoyed 🙂

Dukan – Day 12 – Day 4 Cruise Phase and a Celebration!

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Today is a PV Day… Protein + Veggies

Daily Loss: 0.4 lb/.18 kg
Total Loss: 15.9 lb/7.23 kg
Wt. to go: 94.1 lb/42.8 kg

First… a pat on my back. SIX YEARS AGO TODAY I QUIT SMOKING! I feel like a superhero! It was the single most hardest things I’ve ever done in my life and I am so, so, so much better for it! So now I think, if I can quit smoking, I can quit eating bad food! And I am!

Breakfast: Two boiled eggs and 2 slices of salmon with fromage frais and onions on top… Yum!
Snack: pot of yogurt
Lunch: 3 slices of turkey
Snack: Pot of yogurt with splenda and oat bran
Dinner: Chicken breast with sauteed mushrooms and a whole big onion cut in wedges

After dinner settles (I’m eating it while I’m typing), I will go for my walk. I’m raising it to 24 minutes. It’s 9 p.m. and it’s still 100 F here in the desert… ugh. I’ll take a 1.5 liter bottle of water and use it as weight and as rehydration 🙂

I’m grateful for all of the support I’m getting from everyone! Y’all are awesome!

 

Dukan – Day 10 – Day 2 Cruise Phase

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Still enjoying the program. Haven’t wavered a bit, which is awesome for me! I’m down 13 pounds and feeling GREAT!!!

Yesterday I had the usual high protein fare, but had 3 asparagus spears with dinner… YUMMY! I miss veggies the most, especially salads and I am REALLY missing putting sesame seeds on everything. But I’m hanging in there. To see a bit of weight off every single morning, gives me enough incentive to make it through another day.

I am walking 22-25 minutes a night… late, since I live in the Middle East and it is still 100 degrees Fahrenheit at 9 p.m.! I’m also getting in my 1.5 Liter of water per day, which is so necessary here in the desert. I am feeling more hydrated!

Today I had eggs for breakfast, a couple of slices of turkey for snack, and then again for lunch with a cup of yogurt. Afternoon snack was another cup of yogurt to which I added 2 splenda and my 1.5 TBS of oat bran. Dinner was sirloin steak and shrimp… today was a pure protein day, so no veggies… but there is always tomorrow! 🙂

Here’s the ticker from this morning’s weigh in:

Dukan – Day 8 Attack Phase

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I was going to start the Cruise phase today, but I decided to give it two more days of the Attack Phase. I’m sailing along, and happy with how things are going. I was out of town for 3 days and didn’t go off the program at all 🙂

Breakfast: 2 hard fried eggs (no oil or butter used). 2 beef sausage links and 3 slices of turkey bacon.
Snack: Yogurt
Lunch: 2 slices of turkey, 2 boiled eggs
Dinner: Shrimp sauteed in a teeny bit of oil and onions.
Snack: Yogurt with splenda and oat bran

Drinking lots of water, meeting my 1.5 liters + per day and then a couple of diet cokes and a cup of coffee… Here’s the updated ticker 😀 11.5 pounds in 10 days… WOOT!

Dukan – Days 6 & 7 Attack Phase

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I’ve been out of town these past 2 days, but I’ve stuck to the program!

As of this morning I was down another 1.5 pounds. I didn’t bring my laptop, so know ticker update until tomorrow night 🙂

Tomorrow I start the Cruise phase! Adding veggies, however appealing, makes me wonder if I’ll continue with this awesome weight loss!

Total weight loss so far 11.5 pounds.

Dukan – Day 5 Attack Phase – 10 pounds lost in ONE WEEK!

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Had a very productive day, got lots of stuff done, showed some newbies to Al Ain around the city, went to Bawadi Mall, had lunch (protein only!) at a Brit pub and did a couple of loads of laundry! SO MUCH ENERGY!

Most exciting… I LOST 10 POUNDS! 10 POUNDS!!!!! As of this morning’s weigh in! AND… I’ve lost a full point on the BMI!

Breakfast: 2 eggs, coffee, water
Mid-morning snack: 2 slices turkey breast, water
Lunch at the Hilton: 2 fried eggs (no oil or butter!), bacon and sausage, diet coke
Mid-afternoon snack: water
Dinner: Stir fried pork with onions and garlic and a pot of yogurt with 1.5 TBS oat bran and 1 tsp of Splenda.

Have lots of energy now and still in ketosis!

Dukan – Day 4 Attack Phase

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What a liberating day I’ve had! I’ve lost more weight, I’m in ketosis, I cut off all my hair and I had the challenge of having a dinner in a restaurant and got through it just fine!

Breakfast: 2 eggs, 500 mL water, coffee
Mid-Morning snack: slice of smoked salmon, water, coffee
Lunch: sauteed chicken breast, egg and yogurt with bran, sip of “diet coke” wasn’t sure it was, so stuck with water.
Mid-Afternoon snack: missed
Dinner: was an Iftar dinner at the Rotana. I had grilled chicken and steak, water, diet coke

All in all a good day! Here’s the ticker from this morning: