Dukan – Day 55

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Today was a PV day!

No weight change at all! Stepped on, stepped off, stepped on, stepped off… took deep breath, stepped on, blew it all out, same same… LOL… It’s all good.

Exercise: Still walking every day to and from work… about a 17 minute walk, 1.5 km (9/10th of a mile) each way. It is often drizzling while I take these walks, that annoying drizzle where you aren’t sure if you need an umbrella or not… but it sure is a lot cooler here than in the desert! Low last night was 59F. I’m also taking a 20 minute walk in the evenings after dinner.

Breakfast: 2 boiled eggs
Lunch: Shaved roast beef, avoided the fat and some type of green bean (not sure of all the veggies here in China!!!) with these very spicy, hot chili peppers, sliced very thin… they definitely pack a punch! And some crumbly stuff that looks like teeny bits of ground beef, but I think it is tofu… again, not sure 🙂
Dinner: Steak salad… Steak, salad greens, cucumbers, sauteed mushrooms and garlic cloves… yummy.

I drank more than 1.5 liters of water today, along with 2 cups of coffee and 2 diet cokes.

Now I’m off to do a marketing event out in the countryside… should be a pretty drive!

Ciao!

Dukan – day 54

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Today was a PP Day

Daily weight loss: 0.4 lbs/0.2 kg
Total weight loss: 31.7 lb/14.41 kg

I find it funny that I don’t manage to get veggies in on my PV days until dinner. They are available. But there just isn’t the desire. And even on PP days, adding garlic and onion seems like such a treat!

I had Chiara over for dinner last night. When I was here in China in May I was blessed to be the midwife that attended her water birth of baby Alessaundro… all 4.2 kgs of him! She is working with me now, so after work we strolled the long way home 1.3 miles vs .9 mile, and I cooked us steak. For her a big salad, cucumber, garlic stems and garlic cloves. For me garlic stems and garlic cloves 🙂 it was nice cooking for someone!

I had a pot of yogurt with bran and Splenda for dessert.

Going to upload pic of my lunch, for Eric. It’s basically shaved roast beef with cilantro and some soy sauce. The plates are about 4 inches across and I get 2 to be able to pick out the fatty pieces and still get a bit of food, LOL You can see Vivien’s lunch in the background 🙂

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How has everyone else been doing? As always, thanks for the encouragement! 😀

Ciao!

Dukan – Day 52

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Today was a PP day.
Day 51 no change from day before.

Today:
Daily weight loss: 0.9 lb/0.40 kg
Total weight loss: 30.4 lb/13.81 kg
So back to what I was on Day 49… Yay!

Still a bit sore from the workouts, but getting better. When I said “first workout in a long time” the other day, that should have said first workout with other people. I have been doing exercises from my friend John Gerahty’s DVD and it’s so tough I only get through about 25% of it. You can learn more about John at Courageous Authenticity

My class yesterday was cancelled, but since I was up at 0545 and dressed I popped John’s DVD in and was able to get through about 40%… so I’m improving 🙂

Breakfast: 2 boiled eggs with awesome Trader Joes Everyday Seasoning sprinkled on (thanks, Barbara!) 2 slices of ham.
Lunch: See above… No one wanted to go to lunch, so I ate what I had in my backpack.
Snack: Pot of FF yogurt with Splenda and bran
Dinner: a poor excuse for a “filet” steak, that was fatty, grisly and gave me dodgy tummy 😦

My day ended late (haven’t been up past 11 in a while!) with a 2 hour Skype conversation with Lucy and Ethel, that was totally worth going to bed late for… And now, a long deserved pajama day!

Ciao

Dukan – Day 50

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Today was a PV day.
Daily weight loss: +0.9 lb/+0.4 kg
Total weight loss: 29.5 lb/13.41 kg

Well, a little disappointed that I gained nearly a pound, but knew it had to happen at some point! I woke up sore as hell from my first workout in 3 years! Actually almost to the day… But a good sore. A “oh wow, I forgot about THOSE muscles” sore. I work out again tomorrow 🙂

Breakfast: 2 boiled eggs
Snack: FF cottage cheese
Lunch: Tuna with an egg mashed up and Dijon mustard
Dinner: 2 small pork chops, salad, mushrooms and garlic stems

I ate dinner late and didn’t get my walk in after dinner. I did walk the 1.5 km to work and back, for a total of 3 km and 40 or so mins walking at a brisk pace.

I hope everyone has a blessed day!

Ciao!

Dukan – Day 49 – 7 weeks in

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Today was a PP Day.
Daily Weight Loss: 0.9 lb/0.40 kg
Total Wight Loss: 30.4 lb/13.81 kg

30 pounds!!! I couldn’t be more pleased! This program is really working for me!
Just a little bit about my daily routine. I work 0.9 miles (1.5 kms) from where I live. Every single morning for the last couple of weeks I’ve walked to and from work. I’ve been doing a brisk walk, getting my heart rate into the 140’s.
This morning I started a thrice weekly cardio/core body class… at 630 a.m.!!! So, I got up, went to class, was able to do about 40% of the stuff in the class and then walked home, listening to the soundtrack of GI Jane. Demi inspires me 🙂
I’m giving a lecture this afternoon, so I’ll walk back to work and home again. Nearly 4 miles of walking + a cardio/core workout… Hope my body doesn’t get mad at me!
What have YOU done for exercise this week?
Ciao!

Dukan – Day 48

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Today was suppose to be a PP day but turned out to be a PV day. I had so many leftover veggies in the fridge, that I didn’t want them to go to waste. It turned out that it was OK, because I still lost weight, which is a good thing. The other good thing…
my BMI is under 40! YAY!

Daily Weight Loss: 0.7 lb/0.30 kg
Total Weight Loss: 29.5 lb/13.41 kg

I want to post this again, because it’s been SO helpful! Charlotte is a fellow Dukaner who created this amazing spreadsheet… I love it and recommend it to anyone doing a diet program…. http://charlottesdukandiet.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/the-progress-tracker/

The one nice thing about having so many parameters to watch is that as long as you are losing, every few days there is a new milestone. When I read Dr. Dukan’s book, I didn’t think weighing in everyday was a good idea. I am totally converted on that now. It is a great idea for many reasons:

  1. You see on a daily basis whether you’ve gained or loss. This helps you get back on track. I was worried while in Shanghai this week that I wouldn’t be weighing myself everyday. That “worry” made me stay on track, because the only person I’m doing this program for is ME, and I sure don’t want to disappoint ME 🙂
  2. You see milestones hit every week, as long as you’re losing. Last week I hit 25 pounds gone AND 2 stone! Today my BMI is under 40… YAY for me 🙂 These little milestones make the small sacrifices worth it!
  3. In combination with blogging, it keeps you accountable. If not to anyone else, to yourself. Blogging is like journaling, but making it public. The benefit of blogging is that your mom and your friends and your Dukaners and your cyber-friends can check in on you and cheer you on. For me, this cheering has made a WORLD of difference. Because even though first and foremost I want to make ME happy, it is so nice to see other peoples enthusiasm for what you are doing. We all love receiving positive feedback… and at least for me, it has made this journey much easier!
Now, for my worries… I worry that I’ll hit a plateau, I mean seriously, how long can the losing go on before my body says… “um, we’re taking a break here”. I still have A LOT of weight to lose. My cynical side says that it’s going to happen. But, as I lie in bed at night and read Dr. Dukan’s book, I realize that even though there may be some small bumps in the road, the program is sound. If you eat frequent, small meals, that are the prescribed foods for the day, you may not plateau too much for too long. Why? Because your body doesn’t think you’re starving it like it does when you fast or seriously reduce calories. It takes those meals and uses up the calories for energy and you keep losing weight.
For now, I’m going to just try not to worry about it. Keep sticking to the program and see day by day what that scale says. So far, so good. And thanks to all of you that pop in and read and leave messages… they help… A LOT… especially this girl who is so far from home, in a country that eats lots of RICE 🙂 heheh
Ciao!

Dukan – Day 47

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Today and the previous 2 days were PV Days:
3 Day Weight Loss: 0.7 lb/0.30 kg
Total Weight Loss: 28.8 lb/13/11 kg

Well, I have to say I’m not surprised or disappointed that I only lost 0.7 lb over the 3 days in Shanghai. It’s SO difficult to know what’s in the food you aren’t eating. For example, I had some yummy street food 2 mornings in a row. There were fried eggs and some fatty pork (I left the fat) but it was in brown, thin, sauce… soy sauce? I think… which is on the Dukan, but can’t be 100% sure… what to do. Additionally, I had veggies all three days and forgot my bran! Argh! But I did get my water in and walked and walked and walked!

Got some new clothes (3 pants, 3 tops) to get me through the next few months. Didn’t buy a lot because I plan on losing a lot more!!! I’m down 2 pants sizes, yippee!

Let’s see what happens when I restrict my body to pure protein for a couple of days 🙂
Keep ya posted 🙂

Sandi

 

Travel – Three days away from scale

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I’m in Shanghai for 3 days of shopping (new clothes… Not too many, but my pants are falling off!!!) and a few days away.
So, no scale for 3 days.
I was very good today.
Breakfast: 2 boiled eggs, lean ham, 1/2 liter water and coffee
Lunch: Burger and salad greens, diet coke
Dinner: Shashimi and a plate of cucumber, cut up so beautifully I almost didn’t want to eat it! Green tea.
I’ve walked well over an hour tramping about the streets of Shanghai… Didn’t get my water all in… I’ll make up for it tomorrow 🙂

Dukan – Day 43 – Down 2 stone!

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Today was supposed to be a PV day but ended up a PP day.

Daily Weight Loss: 2.0 lb/0.90 kg
Total Weight Loss: 28.2 lb/12.81 kg . but most importantly I hit a milestone.. 2.01 STONE!
I know… you guys are saying “what the hell is a stone!?!?” … well it’s an imperial weight, mostly used in England and Ireland  equal to 14 pounds. It is used mostly for personal body weight measurement. So, “I’m down 2 stone”… Sounds nice 🙂

Yesterday was a pretty emotional day for me. I resigned from my job in Al Ain, UAE, I had to write emails to some pretty stunned people, but I had great relief from just doing it and moving on from what had become a nightmare for many reasons.

I had the bad news from my amazing friend Amanda that her sweet 4 year old Gavin was probably not going to survive graft versus host disease from a transplant he received to heal him from not one, but two different types of leukemias… Gavin, who I was honored to receive into my hands and hand up to a mommy who deserved and got a 2nd chance.

I had the elation of finally sitting down and typing up the itinerary for the trip to Thailand next month with Cathy, Karen and Dominique… up and down all day!

And what do I USUALLY do when I’m on a roller coaster emotionally? Especially the downside of it… EAT… comfort EAT… comfort EAT CARBS. What did I do instead? WALK, WALK, and more WALK. And drank a crapload of water! What a difference! I don’t feel even worse (emotionally or physically) because I downed a bag of chips. As tempting as that might be.

Late Breakfast: 2 eggs fried (by the way I’m still using olive oil to cook with) and 3 little pork rashers… like bacon, but smaller and rounder. 1/2 liter water, coffee
Snack: a couple of bitefuls of that Fat Free Cottage cheese… YUM
Snack: the leftover 3 rashers from the morning
Dinner: 3 slices of ham, 2 boiled eggs with a schmear of Fat Free
Philly’s cream cheese that tasted yucky! 750 mL water
Snack: Pot of FF yogurt with bran and splenda 1/2 liter water

It wasn’t so hard not comfort eating. Made easier by the fact that there is no “old” comfort food in the house. I’m comforting myself on boiled eggs and water 😀 and that is making all the difference in my weight loss!

Ciao!

Dukan – Day 42… 6 weeks down!

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Today was a PP day 🙂

Daily Weight Loss: 0.2 lb/0.1 kg
Total Weight Loss: 26.2 lb/11.91 kg

So today is the celebration of 6 weeks on Dukan. Wow! I can’t believe how fast time has gone by. Technically, I started the program on Monday,  Aug 22nd, but I did my initial weigh in and did all my shopping for the first week on Saturday, Aug 20th, so when I count my days, I do it from there. Funny, instead of eating all my faves on that Saturday and Sunday, I actually ate better, and by Monday had lost a little bit 🙂

I hesitate writing this next bit, because I don’t want to be called a jammy git by my Brit friends. But I am proud of myself. Even though I’ve been traveling for most of this 6 week Dukan journey, I have NOT, to my knowledge, eaten a single thing NOT on the program. No bread, no rice, no potatoes, no pasta. It hasn’t been that difficult actually. No sweets, either. Tempted, somewhat, but I’ve got that big ass picture from my class reunion where it’s easily accessible (desktop of lap top, desktop in iPhone, it’s own file in my iPad photos) and if I even think of it… I yank that picture in front my eyes 😀 To remind you of that picture, here it is: https://flamidwyfe.wordpress.com/2011/08/19/i-can-dukan/  While rereading that initial blog I got such a happy feeling with the positive feedback I got from those that commented… I think it is SO important to have that encouragement. To empower one another and cheer each other on! Isn’t that what life SHOULD be about, supporting each other!

So here’s my day:

Walked 1 hour 8 minutes… yup… I’ve got a timer. Did it in 2 different segments, one in the early afternoon, one in the evening.

Breakfast: 2 boiled eggs, 1/2 liter water, coffee… funny note here. I’m making sure I get my water in by drinking it BEFORE I allow myself coffee or diet coke. I’ve actually found that for most meals, I don’t want the coffee or diet coke because the water has satiated my thirst and filled up my tummy… my consumption of such beverages has diminished considerably in the last 6 weeks!

Lunch: 4 slices of ham, pot of yogurt w/oat brand and splenda, 1/2 liter water

Snack (eaten while shopping for more food) 1 boiled egg. People look at you funny when you peel and eat a boiled egg from your backpack 😉  Sipping water while shopping.

Dinner: Sirloin strips with onion and garlic, sauteed with some herbs on top. I only ate half of this… just not as hungry as I used to be… this would be a good thing 😀

Snack: AND THE BEST PART OF THE DAY!!! I found FAT FREE cottage cheese at the market… WOO HOO!!! Had 1/2 a pot, savored it, swirled it around my mouth like a fine wine… it was YUMMY! Actually, divine… a divine little snack and a 1/2 liter of water.

I want to thank those of you that comment consistently and infrequently… it is a HUGE encouragement to me… keep it up… I go back and read them nearly every day!

Ciao!