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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 41

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Today was a PV Day… although I didn’t get my V’s until dinner 🙂

Weight loss: 0.2 lb/0.1 kg
Total Loss: 26 lb/11.81 kg

Had a good day. Drank all my water and then some. Walked a total of over an hour and got some grocery shopping done… Found organic eggs, which eggcited me more than anything!  😀

Breakfast: 2 boiled eggs, 1/2 liter water, coffee
Lunch: 6 oz. of roast beef with a smidge of soy sauce and cilantro on top, 750 mL water
Snack: Boiled Egg, 1/2 liter of water
Dinner: Backed chicken, skin peeled off, asparagus, garlic stems and mushrooms, all cooked together, yummy!!! Diet coke

I’m having to be careful to make sure I get enough food in. My buddy Charlotte is at a standstill right now and I have a sneaky suspicion that might be why. My appetite has definitely diminished and I’m not thinking of food all the time.

I think a big part of it is that I’m not being an emotional eater which is so typical of me. More about that in the next blog!

Ciao!

Dukan – Day 18 – Day 10 Cruise

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Well… no time to weigh myself this morning… cuz the Dulcolax woke me up. I didn’t want a result that wasn’t accurate, so I bypassed the weigh in. In regard to the Dulcolax, it worked… somewhat. I’m still feeling quite constipated. I’m still deciding what my next step is!

Today was a PV day. I didn’t eat as much as I should have. It’s been a shit week at work, not enough sleep, an overnight laborer (those of us in the birthing industry refer to it as “Death by Primip”) due to the fact that it takes FOREVER and a day to have the baby. I haven’t had time or energy to go to the market to pick up essentials, so my meals went as follows:

Breakfast: 500 mL water, cup of coffee (BAD SANDI!)

Lunch: Two little steaks cooked by the chef at work… he always surprises me. Now if I could get him to make it a little pink and not so well done 🙂 He also inquired whether veggies were on my diet today and I told him yes, so he sent up a gorgeous plate of steamed broccoli, cauliflower and squash… the chef rocks! I also had a diet coke, and about 250 mL water.

Afternoon snack: Big coffee made by the cafe girls special just for me. The cafe is in our atrium at the hospital and I watched over the railing as they made it. I love that they stir in the FF CoffeeMate and then “whir” it in the machine thingy. Makes me feel special that so many people are on board with my weight loss!

Dinner: At StoneGrill… again. Yummy, tender, moist meat. Had the tenderloin, that you grill on your own hot stone in front of you…. YUMMY!!! I had steamed broccoli and cauliflower with this meal, as well. If I’m not moving things through after all these damn veggies… I’m going to be a mighty grumpy girl!!!

I’m lacking a bit on the water… I sipped more through the day, but I’m going to down 250 mL before I go to bed to make sure I get it all in. No walk tonight… I’ll do it in the morning and then again in the evening. I have NO ENERGY LEFT!

Ciao!

Dukan – Day 17 – Day 9 Cruise

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Today was a PP Day (I’m doing 2 PP and 1 PV alternatively)

Daily Loss: 0.0 lb/0.0 kg
Total Loss: 16.6 lb/7.55 kg
Wt. to go: 93.4 lb/42.5 kg

So, I didn’t have a weight loss today, but I’m not discouraged, because I didn’t have a weight gain either 🙂 I am pretty sure that after I take the Dulcolax tonight before bed, I’ll have some weightloss in the morning 😀 It’s been 5 days and I’m a bit uncomfortable to say the least!

Breakfast: Yogurt with splenda and oat bran (obviously not working!!!!!) and before that I drank 500 mL of COLD WATER and then 250 mL of HOT COFFEE and still nothing 😦 LOL
Mid-Morning: a cup of coffee with splenda and FF CoffeeMate, made special by the baristas down in the cafe at the hospital I work at… they are the BEST!
Lunch: A plate of roast beef, less cooked than the day before, a diet coke, 500 mL of water.
Mid-Afternoon: another cup of my special coffee and another 500 mL of water
Dinner: Mixed grill from the Lebanese restaurant, beef and chicken grilled over the fire… yum! They also threw in a yummy grilled half onion, slightly blackened on the outside… mmm, mmm!!!! Diet Coke.

I then walked for 28 minutes… FAST and drank another 500 mL I’m just cooling off from the walk in 97 degree heat and then a quick shower and bed… I’m hoping for some good results in the morning 😉

Ciao!

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 11 – Day 3 Cruise Phase

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Today is a PP day… Pure Protein.

Daily Loss: 2 lbs/0.91 kg (not sure why it was so much!)
Total Loss:  15.5 lbs/7.05 kg!!! and over a stone (for my British friends!)
Wt. to go: 94.5 lbs/43 kg

 

I had a really good day. Started out with an egg and 2 turkey slices. Snack of a pot of fromage frais. Lunch of a small sirloin and shrimp. Dinner a lovely perch and some left over sirloin bits. Snack was a pot of yogurt with oat bran and splenda… yum.

I got lots accomplished today which gave me even more incentive to keep going.

And to top it all off, I got a fabulous spread sheet from a fellow Dukaner named Charlotte who ROCKS! So… no more tracker. 🙂 I’ll post the info at the top of each blog.

You can follow Charlotte’s progress here: http://charlottesdukandiet.wordpress.com/

 

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 3 Attack Phase

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So, today I did not eat enough!  I just couldn’t seem to find the time. I was off today and had a million errands to run. No excuse for not eating enough. I didn’t go off the program, I ate the foods I was suppose to, just not enough. Funny that, when you’re on a “diet”.

Breakfast a cup of coffee, then out the door to drop Lucy off at work. When I should have been having my mid-morning snack I was at the bank. I did have a guzzle of water, but that was about it. Lunch was good. A nice big organic chicken breast… boneless and skinless, that I cubed and stir fried with a handful of onions, a cup of non-fat yogurt with 1.5 TBS of oat bran stirred in and a bit of Splenda to sweeten. Mid-Afternoon snack was 2 slices of butterball turkey breast (a huge score at the super expensive grocery store!). Then it was off to Iftar (break fast) dinner at work to celebrate Ramadan. Well, there was no grilled meat which is typical Arabic food fare! WTF? Argh. So, while everyone ate some yummy looking food, I had a diet coke… I was quite pleased with myself 🙂 Then I had 2 more slices of the turkey breast just now.

I did treat myself to a 1 hour massage tonight. And I am in ketosis! YAY! While the Thai massage therapists (yes, there were 2 of them!!) were massaging me, I was imagining them activating the fat cells to mobilize out of my body!!! If I think it, it will happen!

Here’s my weight loss from this morning… 8 pounds in 5 days! WOOT!