Well, like my Dukan buddy Kath, no loss, no gain.. I’m cool with that 🙂
I want to share 2 pics from food this week to show you that dining Dukan can be yummy! Both meals are PP ( pure protein) meals.
Lunch of beef and spicy tofu. Yum!
And dinner… Talapia, onions, garlic stems and cottage cheese (low fat).
I’m satisfied, and usually can’t finish my 9″ plate of food!
Hope you all have a great day!
Tuesday was a PV Day
Daily weight loss: 2.4 lbs/1.10 kgs
Total weight loss: 37.9 lbs/17.21 kgs
Well, it appears I’ve had a whoosh! It’s a term Dr. Dukan uses for a big noticeable change on the scale. Yesterday I really noticed change in the mirror. It’s hard when you see yourself daily to actually “see” the loss.
Breakfast: 2 boiled tea eggs as I dragged myself out of the hospital from being there all night. My weigh in yesterday actually occurred after eating those eggs, but also after walking a mile home from work.
Slept for three hours then…
Snack: pot of FF Greek yogurt with bran and Splenda.
Lunch (late): tin of tuna, sliced cucumber and 2 Tbs LF Cottage cheese
Dinner: small steak and soy beans
I have no veggies left in the house! Good thing today is a PP day!
Now off to work while the other side of the world sleeps!
Ciao!
Monday was a PP day!
Daily Weight Loss: 0.7 lb/0.30 kg
Total Weight Loss: 35.4 lbs!!!!!! / 16.11 kg!!!!!
So, this will be a short blog because I’ve been up for 23 hours, just as I was getting ready to go to bed last night, I got called back to the hospital to birth a couple babies…. in fact, I drank so much coffee to stay awake, I’m actually downing a liter of water before I go to sleep… BUT………
I’ve lost 35 pounds in 7 weeks and 2 days and that totals 16.11 kgs… I couldn’t be more pleased. A cool thing that happened today that I wasn’t expecting is that I was able to take the extender off of my bra 🙂 The sad part about that is my bras are too big in the cup, but hey… I’m not complaining 🙂 The hard part about it is that I live in China, where they have itty bitty titties and I can’t find any bras to fit me… LOL
Breakfast: Pot of Fat Free Greek yogurt with Splenda and bran
Lunch: 2 boiled tea eggs
Dinner: 1 smallish sirloin steak, garlic stems and 2 Tbs. Low Fat Cottage Cheese (it’s all I could find!)
So off to bed I go… happy… it’s nice be happy! I hope all of you have a happy rest of your day!
Ciao!
Sunday was a PV day (two in row, I was traveling)
Daily Weight Loss: 0.2 lb/0.1 kg (actually that a 2 day weight loss)
Total Weight Loss: 34.8 lb/15.81 kg
So, I guess I didn’t blow my diet by eating blue cheese, but I won’t do it again. I’m very dedicated to losing this weight. I’ve set a few goals for myself and plan on meeting them. I haven’t figured out how to make the “goal” bar on the side of my blog, so I’m going to list them here and revisit them every 2 weeks:
1. Lose 5 pounds by my holiday to Thailand with Cathy, Karen and Dominique. Date to meet this goal: November 8. So, that is 15 days from now, and I think that is attainable. This will bring me to a total weight loss of 40 pounds.
2. Lose 10 pounds by my 48th birthday on December 3rd. That is 41 days from now, and I think that is attainable. This would be 45 pounds weight loss.
3. Lose 20 pounds by my vacation to home on January 13. That is 82 days from now, and I think that is attainable. That would be a total of 55 pounds lost.
That is 1.6 pounds a week between now and January 13. I know it’s attainable… no thinking about it 🙂
So, because of my indulgence over the weekend, I’m going to do 2 PP days in a row and kick my body back into weight loss mode… I want a good head start to meet these goals. And if any of my fellow bloggers can give me an inside tip on how you do those cool goal things on the side of your blog, I’d be grateful for the info 🙂 I am so close to the 35 pound mark… hoping it’s tomorrow!!! I hope you all are having a blessed week!
Ciao!
Saturday – A PV Day
No scale to weigh myself as I am in Hong Kong on a border run. I arrived in the morning and checked in by noon.. Put my walking shoes on and hit the pavement! Hong Kong is a lot like San Francisco, very hilly!
After a good two hour walk up towards the peak I made my way to Ryan’s Chicago Steakhouse. This would be where my first cheat in NINE weeks on this diet happened. Not earth shattering mind you, but a cheat, nevertheless. I ordered their burger (bun less of course) with blue cheese AND bacon… AMERICAN BACON, like what I make for breakfast when I’m in America… OMG, it was so yummy 🙂 I refuse to look up the nutrition facts on blue cheese, I don’t want to know. I then walked an hour back to the hotel and hung out online for a bit.
Dinner was at a different mall where the H & M store is. I am so stoked! I bought 2 shirts and a sweater and they are all size ‘L’ !! There was no choice on what to try on because XL does not exist here… LOL. I reluctantly took them in the dressing room and was shocked that they fit… I let out a woo HOOso loud that it brought the try-on girl down to make sure I was OK 🙂
To reward myself I went to get shashimi. I had 2 big pieces of tuna with wasabi and soy sauce, and was full.
I then caught a taxi back to the hotel and did the 15 min. climb up the big hill behind the hotel and 15 mins. Back down. So, I’m hoping that 3.5 hours of hiking up hills makes up for the sin of the cheat. No regrets!
This morning I had 3 pieces of meat for breakfast, that was the only non-carb in the hotel buffet 😦
Back upstairs for some online time and a nice long Skype chat 😉
Lunch back at Ryan’s and same same as yesterday’s lunch 😀 So 2 cheats in a row, I feel happy that I allowed myself this treat! I walked there after a 45 min. hike (so 1.5 hours total) and now I’m sitting in a Starbucks having a venti latte with skim milk and Splenda writing my blog.
It’s been a FABULOUS weekend… I am happy and life is good 🙂
Ciao!
Yesterday was a PV day
No change in weight loss, which was a little disappointing because I’m right at the crux of reaching a goal and I thought I’d surpass it, maafi mushkila or as the say in Chinese ma watea (no promblemo).
Still felt a bit crappy in the morning, but had that lovely birth so it balanced it out.
Breakfast: boiled tea egg
Went home at 900 am to try to sleep from being up all night, not happening… Construction in flat above me, kid screaming in a neighboring building, new business must have opened because fireworks going off outside (this happens day & night, in fact it happened at 545 this morning, thank God I was up preparing for my flight!), then the kids at the school were outside doing calisthenics and marching. So, I got up and did laundry.
Lunch: Kath’s bran crepes x 2 eggs.
Back to work to teach class to nurses… Exhausted to the point of nausea 😦
Snack: boiled tea egg
Finished office work at 430 and walked home, stopping at halal Chinese restaurant to pick up dinner, shaved beef with cilantro and green beans and mushrooms with red hot chili peppers. They have finally stopped offering me rice 🙂
Up early for this mornings flight to Hong Kong.
So now I’m on a flight to Hong Kong on what is called a border run. I’m on a 6 month visa to china, but have to exit every 30 days until I get my residency visa, so I have to do an overnight stay and fly back tomorrow. Plan on doing some hiking in the hillsides of the city both days and will have pics to post in my next blog.
Ciao!
Today was a PP day.
Daily Weight Loss: 0.4 lb/0.2 kg
Total Weight Loss: 34.6 lb/15.71 kg
I had a great day. Nice day at work, chatted with Lucy and Ethel on google chat, chatted with other friends on facebook, lots of emails (accept one that I would really like to get!!!) and then came home and fixed a nice PP dinner and off to bed at 1015 pm for me. Except at 1040 pm I get a call that one of my patients “may” be in labor… just a heads up. I roll back over and go to sleep… then I get up 10 mins. later and throw up 😛 I hate throwing up! I’d rather have brain surgery than throw up, and now what everyone else has had at work for days is inside me!!!! Ugh.
I then go back to bed at 1105 and sleep and at 1145 my assistant calls and says that a different patient is in labor and I need to come… I tell her to give me some time… I set my alarm for 100 and roll back over, and get up and throw up… yuck!!!!! Up at 0100 and walk the 1.5 kms back to work and patient definitely in labor… had a gorgeous baby boy 2.9 kgs at 0558…. birth heals me… I didn’t have any gastronomic issues during the labor or delivery!… Here’s a pic of cuteness…
It's a Boy!
Then I ate an egg and feel yucky again… not gonna eat for a while… lol
So now I’m off to bed… I hope the banging upstairs stops 🙂
Ciao!
Day 59 a PV Day & Day 60 a PP Day
Day 59:
Daily Weight Loss: 0.4 lb/0.2 kg
Total Weight Loss: 32.4 lb/14.71 kg
Day 60:
Daily Weight Loss: 1.8 lb/.80 kg
Total Weigth Loss 34.1 lb/15.51 kg
So… turning the scale to the West and exhaling every particle of oxygen in my lungs… WORKS!!! Really should be published so other dieters know the trick 😀
Yesterdays Meals:
Before 1.5 kg walk to work… 500 mL water and cup of coffee
Breakfast: 2 really big eggs that I got from the hospital canteen. They are called “Tea Egg” because they are boiled in strong tea and soy sauce… the flavor seeps in slight into the egg shell and they are pretty yummy! 330 mL water
Lunch: Shaved roast beef with cilantro 500 mL water
Afternoon snack.. not hungry, but 250 mL water
Dinner: Stir-fried tofu with garlic stems and garlic gloves… so yummy! Coke Zero
Stir-fried tofu with Garlic stems and cloves
I think one of the things that kicked me back in to weight loss mode was making sure that I got the water in… it really is so important and I re-read that section in the Dukan book last night… it’s on my nightstand and the last thing I do before I fall asleep. He states that without the additional water, your body can’t get rid of the uric acid built up by eating such high amounts of protein. It is ESSENTIAL with this diet to get in your water! I’ve been very good about it, shockingly, because I’ve never been a water drinker, but there are days when I simply don’t take the time to drink enough… that and the bran… the bran is a must! It adds fiber and helps all that extra protein that your body doesn’t need, flush out… so I made sure I got both in… and viola… progress!
A big shout out to all the support I get from my fellow Dukaners… hearing from you nearly daily, is wonderful! Sharing your tips, trials, triumphs and recipe ideas is making this journey so much easier!
And of course thanks to my family & friends… who love me however I am… and whereever I may be.
Ciao!
Today was a PP Day
Daily Weight Loss: -0.9 lb/-0.4 kg
Total Weight Loss: 31.9 lb/ 14.51 kg
Well, shuhada… I have no idea how I gained a pound, but it’s all good. I did all the tricks my Dukaner friends have taught me… 1. step on scale 2. step off 3. turn scale towards the north 4. step back on 5. shake scale 6. step back on and exhale every ounce of air in your lungs… none of it worked… 😀
The funniest thing about the gain is that it could not have been from the day. Just FYI, I write on Tuesday about Monday’s diet and include my Tuesday morning (after I pee) weigh in. So yesterday, and really today, I haven’t felt that great. I’ve had a headache just enough to feel it there and a low-grade fever. So I really haven’t been hungry. Here’s what I had:
Breakfast: 1 boiled egg
Morning snack: another boiled egg
Lunch: 1 plate of shaved beef with cilantro on top and a teeny bit of soy sauce
Dinner: 4 chicken wings and a skinny steak (that cuban kind… had it at a Mexican restaurant here in China).
That was it. Additionally, I am totally in ketosis. In fact, I suspect it may be part of the reason I’m having these annoying headaches. But yesterday I could taste the metal in my mouth and asked the lab tech for a dip stick to check my urine (she ended up giving me TWO BOTTLES!!!… score!) and sure enough I was spilling large ketones… which, although I want my body to burn fat for energy, I don’t want it burning at that rate!
After dinner we took a long walk back, about 45 minutes in the nice cool fall air. It was lovely. So I got my morning 20 mins. to work walk in and a 45 min. after dinner walk. I do have to say that I did not get in Bran or 1.5 L of water. I probably got about 750 mL… might be part of the problem…
Well, now I’m off to make tonight’s dinner… not real hungry, but I think my body might slow down it’s weight loss if it thinks I’m starving it… gotta feed it some energy 🙂
Ciao!
Today was a PV Day
Daily Weight Loss: 0.4 lb/0.2 kg
Total Weight Loss: 32.1 lb/14.61 kg
Well, the day was suppose to be a PP day, but I had to travel out of the city to do some community education and didn’t prepare well enough. Alls good, I still lost nearly a 1/2 pound.
Breakfast: On the go… 1 boiled egg and 3 slices of ham
Lunch: At the elementary school I was teaching at… Boiled cabbage with some type of meat crumbles in it 😀 and green beans with red hot chili pepper pieces in it. There were snails, but I didn’t partake (1. not sure if they are Dukan and 2. I love escargot… from a nice fancy restaurant, smothered in garlic and mozzarella!)
Snack: Some lamb on a stick… teeny pieces of lamb, cooked on a long toothpick type thingy over charcoals… street food (let’s just say I’m not constipated anymore!!!)
Dinner: I made the tofu fries recommended by fellow Dukaner, Kath. Her recipe calls for baking them, but I only have a hot plate and a fry pan… so they were fried in the one thing I refuse to give up for Dukan… OLIVE OIL… just a tad, mind you. I coated them in Trader Joe’s Lemon Pepper and a teeny bit of sea salt. I also stirred in some garlic cloves and asparagus… YUMMY! You can find Kath’s recipe here: Kath’s Tofu Fries
It was a delicious dinner! And I went to bed feeling very satisfied!
I hope everyone has a fabulous day… I have, and I’ll write about it in my next blog… for now, here’s some pics of my kitchen and my Tofu Fries Dinner!
My Galley Kitchen
My hot plate!
Yum! Tofu Fries with the Garlic cloves added in!
Dinner, tofu fries, asparagus and garlic cloves... YUM!
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