Ground Zero!

Day One of the Dukan Diet: I knew what I needed to do.. eat protein and then more protein..it sounds easy but deliverance was another story entirely...Lets do some background stats before continuing shall we.

I am 38 years old. I currently weigh(ed) 230 lbs I had Lapband surgery 2 years ago and have lost and gained 60lbs with it but have only been able to maintain 30lbs loss in the two years. Can you say AGGRAVATED and HOPELESS! I was sooo excited about the Lapband. Surely that was my ticket to weight loss success! But *sigh it was not.. I found myself still eating garbage like Cheetos and my beloved sunflower seeds and just throwing up if I ate to much...I have been on that cycle as I said for almost two years and am just tired ...probably malnourished and DONE.

So when I read about the Dukan diet in a magazine I thought....HEY eat as much as I want, no calorie counting or journal keeping. no points, no weird foods.. sounds like I can do this! So I started looking up what I could find.

Dr. Dukan's website is very informative. http://www.dukandiet.com/The-Dukan-Diet and you can convert your weight into the pound system we use here in America instead of the kilo system used in Europe. But I could not find allot of recipes that sounded good to my taste buds or a "day-in-the-life" tracking system so here is mine. I hope you enjoy!

Day One: The Morning

So if you are anything like me you LOVE coffee..well maybe not coffee itself but the caffeinated surge that races through your veins in the morning to help your eyes crack open..but also add LOTS of scrumptious coffee creme like Cinnamon Vanilla and a little Soy Vanilla Milk and you have a creamy concoction that makes you purr...

I knew this was going to be the hardest to change so I made the mistake of simply having NO coffee yesterday morning (more on this later)

Instead I made eggs. Lots of eggs. I personally do not like the taste of eggs so I cracked 5 eggs and just used the egg whites (MUCH better taste if you to do not like the taste of eggs) and used 1 whole egg for a little fat and flavor. I added LOTS of salt and pepper and some garlic salt and a touch of olive oil also approved on the Dukan diet but in very tiny portions for cooking only and ate it at 9:00am with a diet Coke (allowed on the Dukan Diet)

By 10:30am I was hungry again so I ate a Hebrew National Hot dog with Mustard and was craving something sweet and discovered you can drink Crystal Lite so I made the Fruit Punch kind and drank and drank

After this I went back to sleep, not a good idea but I am currently a horrible sleeper and was up late last night and without that beloved coffee surge I was so sleepy.

Day One: The Afternoon

I awoke at 12:00pm astonished that I had slept that late and got up to do some dishes and cook. For lunch I made lemon pepper chicken. I cut up chicken breast and added lemon juice to them in a frying pan with lots and lots of black pepper and just a touch of soy sauce. I researched and discovered if it has very very low sugar content its okay to use and soy sauce has less than 1 gram. I added some water in the pan and cut up some red onion and added it. I also discovered you are allowed 1 onion a day in all phases of the diet. I simmered the chicken until cooked, took off the lid and let it fry to get brown and crispy and ate.

By 2:00pm I was hungry again so I had 1 cup of 2% Cottage Cheese.

By 4:00pm I was hungry again so I has a cup of 1% milk with Cinnamon on top. Can I tell you HOW lovely it was to smell something sweet by then. Ahhh the smell of Cinnamon lifted my spirts like only chocolate covered donuts did before. I highly recommend the use of Cinnamon on any treats or sweets you try to create.

Day One: The Evening

By 6:00pm I had attempted to make deviled eggs to eat along with our family dinner of carne asada (skirt steak marinated in its own meat juices and lemon or lime juice usually)

For the deviled eggs I mixed non fat, non sugared Greek yogurt from Costco to a blender with green onions and just one teaspoon of low fat feta cheese and the eggs yolks. I mixed it all up with a Cuisinart but you can mash it all up easily with out one too and lots of salt and pepper. UGH lets just say it was less than desirable!

 My sweet husband ate several of them but I think more out of love and hungry that out of joy. My 5 yr old ate 1 but she too did not enjoy them. If anyone knows of a better recipe please let me know. I am going on a hunt for fat free sugar free mayo today so I will report back on my findings.

Unfortunately the Carne Asada we purchased (Costco) was already salted and my hubby added more so it was was too salty for me to enjoy so I did not eat much dinner.

We went on a 20 min walk which is required daily on the Dukan diet and I was just miserable by the time we got home. Hot, sweaty my head was pounding from the lack of caffeine today and that walk I wanted to just crawl under a rock and die but I thought to myself, if this is the worse that it gets, I can do this for today. We got home and put the little one to bed, thank you my husband! and I broke down and ate a bit of cheddar cheese and a glass of milk creme.

 Let me explain my milk creme though.. YUM! Pour 1% milk and low fat soy milk in a blender and add ice, vanilla extract  and cinnamon to it and blend and enjoy, creamy, frothy and delicious. It was my saving point. I was still hungry though so I made three eggs and added just a pinch (really) of cheddar cheese and a pinch of olive oil with salt and pepper and scarfed it down. I AM A NIGHT EATER. Anyone else????

 I crawled into bed at 9:30 with a head-ache and fell asleep. So here is my 1st day of food recap:

Breakfast:
5 egg whites 1 whole egg lots of salt and pepper
1 Hebrew National Hot dog (not recommended on the Dukan Diet because it has high fat) and mustard
Diet Coke and fruit punch crystal lite

Lunch:
Chicken Breast no skin, lemon juice, soy sauce, red onion, garlic salt lots of lack pepper and 3 glasses of Crystal lite

Snack:
1 cup 2% Cottage Cheese, a glass of 1% Milk with Cinnamon

Dinner:
3 oz Cane Asada and 1 deviled egg

Nighttime Snack:
2 oz cheddar cheese, glass of Cinnamon vanilla milk and 1 egg white 2 eggs with a pinch of cheddar cheese and olive oil.

Alright Ciao my friends, read my next blog to see if anything worked!