Dukan – Day 71

Posted on October 31, 2011 by flamidwyfe

Sunday was a PV day.
Daily weight loss: 0.4 lb/0.2 kg
Total weight loss: 39.8 lb/18.11 kg

I started out my morning with scrambled eggs with onions and garlic stems.

I had a great day out yesterday. My assistant Kitty took me to an amazing market that had TONS of art supplies! I got all this for $40 USD:

After the market we went across town to the “western mall” and had a yummy lunch at a place like Benihana’s, but it only cost me $14 for both of us!

Then we went grocery shopping… Lovely afternoon.

When I got back I painted… This is what I whipped up:

It’s my third painting… it is so relaxing to create something.

Dinner was a half roasted chicken with onions and asparagus.

I then chatted on the phone for a bit, caught up with the Abu Dhabi girls after that and then did a 30 minute walk-jog combo on the iPhone… Couch to 5k…

Home for a yogurt with bran and Splenda, and then off to bed. It was a very satisfying day!

Ciao!

Dukan – Day 70 – 10 weeks in!

Posted on October 30, 2011 by flamidwyfe

Saturday was a PP Day
Daily weight loss: 0.2 lb/0.1 kg
Total weight loss: 39.4 lb/17.91 kg

Was hoping to be down 40 pounds today, but alas, the body says no 🙂 no worries!

Breakfast: 2 tea eggs, water, coffee
Lunch: beef with cilantro
Dinner: steak, onion, garlic stems and LF cottage cheese

Didn’t get my bran in, but got nearly 2 liters of water in. I’m sleeping VERY well, which is awesome.

Short blog, as I’m getting ready to go to the art store with my assistant Kitty. I feel some painting coming on 🙂

Ciao!

Dukan – Day 69

Posted on October 29, 2011 by flamidwyfe

Friday was a PV day
Daily weight loss: -0.7 lb/-0.3 kg
Total weight loss: 39.2 lb/17.81 kg

Hmmmmmm, don’t know where the gain came from, but moving forward. I did start the Couch to 5K program this week (an app that has you go from sedintary (which I’m not) to being able to run a 5K in a few months), and I’m doing yoga, as well. I’m feeling great and seeing changes that I’m very happy about that.

So, off to work for a few hours. I hope everyone has a wonderful rest of your Friday 🙂

Ciao!

Edited in evening to include what I ate yesterday since I got 2 emails from people asking… Lol.
Breakfast: 2 tea eggs, water
Lunch: sliced beef and garlic stems
Dinner: veal and cucumber
Snack: pot of FF Greek yogurt with bran and Splenda and a sprinkle of cinnamon… Yum!

Dukan – Day 68

Posted on October 27, 2011 by flamidwyfe

Thursday was a PP Day
Daily weight loss: 2 lb/0.90 kg
Total weight loss: 39.8 lb/18.11 kg

Back on the downslide 🙂 I guess eating all that yummy food I posted yesterday I whooshed again. I swear by the water and the bran! You MUST, MUST do both each day to have continued success. That and the walking, which I’m getting plenty of that in.

I realized yesterday that I’m taking the stairs more and more and my poor knees aren’t yelling at me as much. My lungs aren’t either! Additionally, I started a program that’s been an app on my iPhone for 2 years, ignored 🙂 it’s called Couch to 5K and you are suppose to be able to run a 5K at the end of 9 weeks. My friend Connie, who is the same age has inspired me. She ran a half marathon this past weekend. We’re the same age… I’ll keep you posted on the progress.

Well, need to get ready for work, while my friends at home wind down their day and my friends in Europe and the UAE are still blissfully sleeping… I hope everyone has a magnificent Friday!!!

Ciao!

Dukan – Day 67

Posted on October 27, 2011 by flamidwyfe

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!

Dukan- Day 66

Posted on October 25, 2011 by flamidwyfe

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!

Dukan – Day 63 – A Little Cheat

Posted on October 23, 2011 by flamidwyfe

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!

Dukan – Day 62

Posted on October 22, 2011 by flamidwyfe

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!

Dukan – day 54

Posted on October 13, 2011 by flamidwyfe

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 🙂

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

Ciao!

Dukan – Day 52

Posted on October 12, 2011 by flamidwyfe

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