[SIZE="5"]So, here is a chuckle for all of you: I make my galette's with cinnamon each day. A couple days ago I added chili powder by mistake!!!! NOT recommended.
Hope you are all doing well...stay away from the chili powder!!!
lolol!!!
I use a ton of cinnamon in mine, or when I make porridge. Supposedly cinnamon is good for your metabolism and since I love it, I figure it can't hurt to go a little overboard.
But I think I will be double checking the jar every time now!
Any ideas for the constipation? I didn't get it the first couple weeks but now I am...
I drink about 66oz of water a day and walk 30 min. I have been eating a lot of lettuce salad this week too so I don't know what's doing on. Tried Metemucil but that isn't helping either.
I feel good but it still "bothers" me...it can't be healthy to NOT "go"!!
If you are not uncomfortable, it is not really an issue and just getting used to a different pattern. I think that could be why the metamucil didn't do much, there was not a lot in there for it to help push along!
you can also try Colace (softener rather than laxative) if necessary
Hi all,
This is not only my first ever forum to join, but my first ever diet (Dukan). So far, so good. I was inspired to actually join in order to thank you ALL for the fantastic recipes. My husband and I are both on day 5 of the cruise after a 7 day attack. The lack of variety was really the biggest challenge for both of us. In 24 hours, I've tried the flatbread and the oat bran muffins. Both are wonderful!
Glad to be among you all.
welcome Larva!!!! Glad you and your hub are doing well on Dukan. I do thnk you have to work at it a bit to get the same variety, although at this point, just under 3 months in, I find that I don't need as much variety - it's almost easier for me to spend even less time thinking about food. Don't get me wrong, I like what I'm eating but I just don't think about it so much. I used to get to work in the morning and start thinking about what I would have for lunch that day! lol!
April, I second that...I rarely think about food where I seemed to all the time before...I think it's that -yes I can have it or no I can't that we have discussed before.
Yesterday I switched from Attack to Cruise ie. PV day. I tried not to go to crazy with them since I've read that you can overdue it. (I just love this forum! It really helps out alot!)
For over a year, I was on the Ideal Protein Plan. I was able to loose 30lbs which was great. The only thing is that I was yo-yoing continuously. Just like Dukan, it has 4 phases. When I would transition to Phase 4 (ie. Rest of your life way of eating), I'd baloon!!! That happened twice, which was very frustrating! It was understood that you would add a few lbs (adding to your glycogen storage), but my gain was always about 10lbs! I followed the Phase 4 eating to a tee! I don't know if anyone knows about I.P. but you're allowed a day off here and there. All you do is eat Phase 1 foods (packages) the following day only. What I found is that I'd have to stay on additional days to get back down to my weight before the "blowout". IMO, going back to Phase 1 so often is not a healthy way to maintain weight. I also found out (reading the I.P. forum on this website actually) that some people in Phase 4 aren't eating the carbs that the diet says we are allowed to have. What the heck is the point if you aren't 'following the diet' the way the diet developer states?? Isn't that the whole reason??
I saw Dr. Dukan on the Dr. Oz show and this intrigued me, so I bought his book. I started the Attack phase and lost 2.8lbs after 5 days. I see this as a victory b/c I'm actually eating dairy (which was only allowed in Phase 4 of I.P.).
The only thing is: Is anyone in the Stabilization Phase? I'm interested to see if anyone gains weight while eating the 2 pieces of whole grain bread and cheese . . . This is when it all went to pots for me on Ideal Protein. Anyone started the Stab Phase??
Also, I'm a nut-oholic. I've been ok thus far but am intermittently missing peanut butter and nuts. Would this only be consumed as our 'celebration meal'?
Thanks and happy Duking!!
Would you mind IM ing me? I am losing very slowly on IP compared to what the coach said I should be. I would be interested at how your losses were. Thanks. I have not cheated once.
April, that is a relief! Not so much about the lack of variety and not missing it, but about the required planning/cooking spent on this thing!! I never would have imagined that such a limited (or straightforward) menu would take so much work.
I definitely am pretty minimalist. I keep oat bran, cinnamon and sweetener at my office, bring in a small container of milk on Mondays and make my serving of oat bran porridge for breakfast. Weekend days, I usually make the gallette.
I also batch cook as much as I can. I hard boil a dozen and a half eggs over the weekend and take a couple as snacks (sometimes I only eat the white, depending on how hungry I am). I usually make a small pot of chicken soup on Sunday - 3 servings worth. I divide that up into 3 containers, and then cook up 3 nice big portions of broccoli, and take all of that for lunch. (My office is very cold so even in the summer,it's nice to have hot soup!) Other days, or if I haven't made soup, I usually end up getting low salt deli meat for lunch and/or a late afternoon snack.
Suppers are usually grilled chicken or a salmon burger. I also will cook an additional veggie disk to have for my PV days - roasted veggies, grilled eggplant or zucchini in marinara sauce are the most common. I do a pattern of 3 PV days followed by 3-4 PP days to make the cooking easier.
So it's pretty boring - instead of the Dukan 100 foods, I probably eat about 20 different foods at most. But being able to be on auto pilot as much as possible makes it much, much easier for me to stick with in a logistical sense, and I also find that the limited menu helps to reduce the time I spend thinking about food, shopping and cooking - so fewer opportunities for temptation to go off plan.
I am with you April...the less time I have to think about eating the better. This is working very well for me. I have always eaten the same foods over and over.
Even WWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY back in High School....every morning for 4 years - peanut butter toast...and now that I write this I have to say that at that time I weighed about 120.
Plus I have very busy days and with Dukan I don't also have to find time for cooking and measuring.
I went out to breakfast today with a friend. I ordered an omlet and she ordered a CARMEL ROLL.... WHAT is the deal....ANOTHER Carmel Roll....jeez...enough already.
I've been fine at restaurants - I get something like grilled salmon and veggies or a salad with grilled chicken and I make sure they don't put on croutons or cheese or things like that. I get dressing on the side and just dip the tip of the fork in for a tiny amount for each bite.
I don't go to restaurants too often at this point, so I decided not to worry about the small amount of extra oil in the dressing or veggies. If I went more often, I might worry about being a little bit stricter.
I agree with what April has said. I'll be strict in that I'll order something grilled, but as long as I don't eat platefuls of sides and dressings I figure that my body can deal with it. I just remember that any gain is water
I'm back on PP after my PV weekend, and looking forward to getting into the 150s this week! I only lost 1lb last week so I am desperately looking for a good loss this week.
Skipping w3D3 of c25k and going straight to w4d1 today--see if that shakes things up a bit *fingers crossed*
Larva225
That happened twice, which was very frustrating! It was understood that you would add a few lbs (adding to your glycogen storage), but my gain was always about 10lbs! I followed the Phase 4 eating to a tee! I don't know if anyone knows about I.P. but you're allowed a day off here and there. All you do is eat Phase 1 foods (packages) the following day only. What I found is that I'd have to stay on additional days to get back down to my weight before the "blowout". IMO, going back to Phase 1 so often is not a healthy way to maintain weight. I also found out (reading the I.P. forum on this website actually) that some people in Phase 4 aren't eating the carbs that the diet says we are allowed to have. What the heck is the point if you aren't 'following the diet' the way the diet developer states?? Isn't that the whole reason?? 
