Today wasn't too hard...although i did have a chocolate from the Butler's Chocolate cafe-you get a free one with coffee. How can anyone resist?
made dukan 'hamburger' buns today for my steak, tomato, lettuce, fried egg and caramelised onion sandwich tonight...had this last week and it was the BEST dukan meal so far...i miss things like that!
had the pikelets again, they were yum. PP tomorrow-might do Asian sticky chicken perhaps?
i think the key for me is to be making things that are yum all the time. i don't mind spending ages in the kitchen to prepare-if that's what it takes ill do it!
i confess last night hubby wanted chocolate so i said if he got the sugar free one it would be ok...we ate a whole block-but bear in mind these no sugar ones are much smaller than normal choc blocks. if i was going to have the munchies then at least it was sugar free! and wasn't just me!
my mousse i made yesterday was FAB too, that recipe is a keeper!
missed Pilates today but ran a total of 70mins, so not all bad...45mins walking also. i did a few Pilates exercises before as well just to keep strengthening the abs (or lack of them ;))
went grocery shopping today and it was soooo expensive buying all this Dukan food...i felt so guilty. hubby said 'it is what it is' and he's right...but it so angers me that buying diet food is so much more expensive! Unfortunately i don't think there is a budget way of doing this diet, i wonder how many people it prevents from continuing on...

I hit the 2 week mark today and think i have done reasonably well. I haven't weighed myself yet but some previously tight clothes are looser and that to me is a result!!!
i am coming into 'that time of month' which for me is a whole two weeks out of four...which is why last night i battled with my Willpower when the cravings for M&Ms hit...i was so tempted to send hubby down to get some...it was a battle but i finally overcame it by eating the last of my sugar/carb/fat free choccy :( which is why today i have spent the day doing loads of Dukan type baking. I made a caramel pavlova which came out slightly chewy but nice nevertheless- and a batch of oat bran cream cheese pikelts flavored with my new fave essence-caramel- and i am about to make a mini chocolate mousse for my dessert tonight as i ate the last of my guilt free ice cream last night also. Whew! What a day...but you need to do it to get through!!!
i have a feeling last night is not the only night i will grapple with temptation...
Bought myself a pair of exercise tights today as well as kind of a reward! Hope i don't look like an overweight orca whale in them...
counting down the days till our holiday. Cant wait to be on the plane on our way to sunshine and good food...beaches and theme parks...oh and family of course!

Today wasn't the best day i've had this time around-in fact it was the worst as i ate a half a piece of peppermint slice and had a handful of my sons cassava chips.....in my defense the peppermint slice is the nicest thing on earth and i have long been in love with this particular one! A man sells it at our local market and he hadn't made it in weeks...but today i was lucky...well it depends how you look at it!

Anyway i have 'sinned' and i feel suitably bad about it so i ran and extra 25mins and that's about all i can do.

Today's menu apart from my indiscretion has been amazing....eggplant tomato bake topped with low fat cheese for lunch and dukan chicken fricassee served with cabbage is simmering on the stove. 

Although i feel bad about the slice i feel good knowing that in the past i would have used it as an excuse to binge the rest of the day or weekend but this time it is a one off and i have carried on with dukan as i should. there will always be tough times-it's all in how we deal with them!!!!!!

Here i am 5 months later after a roller coaster ride of weight gain and loss. Cant believe my last post was so long ago! to be honest i thought this blog would have been deleted by now, but no, its still here!

Well...i guess now i have to explain myself. I made it to my goal for my brothers wedding...54.8..and i looked fabulous!!!! One uncle even asked me if i had stopped eating!

Two days later we went on a week long holiday in which i completely did NOT diet. when we got home i went back on it, and then few weeks later it was mine and my sons birthday, then weeks after that it was our wedding ann, there was always an excuse.

 Then my hubby and i had a few arguments over food...he seemed to think i was horrible on a diet and he preferred me not on one! So i kind of let that be my excuse to stop. Plus i  was doing way too much exercise and it was kind of obsessive...so i vowed to eat manly protein but have a few carbs if i wanted, then cut down the exercise too. I didn't put too much weight on- my clothes got a tad tight....this carried on until a week and a half ago when i realized it wasn't long til my trip to Oz and man i better lose a few!!!!

So here i am and i am not weighing myself just yet but i can tell by my clothes i am pretty much the same as i was at my smallest...just need to shift those few more and i'll be away!

Counting down 25 days till we fly out, that's more than three weeks to lose it...come on i can Dukan it surely!

I have found a FABULOUS website that has helped keep me motivated the last week and i fully intend to keep perusing the awesome recipes (dukanitout.com) but i thought i would modify some etc and start posting my own...made some delish choc croissants today that dont have a scrap of carb, flour or butter in them, will def have to post this one!

Anyway welcome back to me, i will bookmark this site so i DONT FORGET to post regularly!!! I want to be able to read these posts the day before i leave and know i made it to my "goal" before i went!!!

See you tomorrow!

PS this is a pic of me (i'm the blonde one) at my brothers wedding 5 months ago...i'll be back there and beyond very soon!

down then back up again

This is totally all my fault, yesterday i was trying to have a dukan friendly 'nice food' day because i was all alone, so i had a quarter piece of my fave peppermint slice, then at dinner i had tandoori chicken and i made baked falafels. Big mistake, obviously chickpeas are banned from the Cruise phase for a reason, i totally failed. While they were nice they so weren't worth the 600g gain!
Yesterday i weighed in nicely at 55.0kg with hopes of at least staying there. but no, i have jumped up 600gms overnight despite going for FOUR runs yesterday totalling 2 hours of running-it didnt help!
So the dreaded 55.6kg. Not cool! Very disappointed in myself actually. Such a big gain-i didnt even have bread! i wish i had, then i would have enjoyed it. All i can do is learn from this- chickpeas belong in the next phase, and i'm not ready for that yet.
I was actually, then i had a thought creep into my mind slowly, what if i just kept going til i hit 51 or 52? i reckon at that weight i could totally wear my size 8 bikini comfortably. Yes i'll always have stretchmarks but they are a badge of my children and if i ever want a chance to wear a bikini in public it will be before i'm 30 and i'm never gonna get rid of them I may as well do it now! I'll never look like all those tanned slim Aussie chicks but it may be my only chance. I have 2 size 8 bikini, black and then a yellow and white polka dot one lol. I might have to buy more! I'm just so sick of always wearing the singlet and shorts swimming, its cold and bulky. In Tahiti i hated every second of that, no one else covered themselves but they didn't have to,they were all perfect model types.
So maybe a plan....to hit that weight and maintain it nicely until June...and beyond of course. that gives me a positive picture in my head for the day. i need to be focused to lose this pesky 600g!

wooohoo again!

Yusssss down to my lowest again, well this was my weight two days ago before i went out for dinner, which by  the way was Turkish food!
55.7kg, yay! think i have decided on a new goal....with any luck i will get to 54.8kg before Matt and Shar's wedding...less than 2 weeks away...
There are no more dinners etc between now and then so its totally possible...although i kind of wanted to stop at 55.5 i think i should keep going. Especially because we are going away a few days after the wedding for a long weekend and dieting on holiday is just too stressful as i found out! Much better to just enjoy it and deal with the consequences when you get home, which werent too bad for me last time.
My friend is starting the Dukan today...good luck to her but i know it works! She will love it i'm sure.

A week on...

A week on and i am back to 56.0kg. yay!
It was a hard week, with Mum's birthday last Saturday and gorgeous food galore. I thought i did pretty well following the diet that day but i must have snacked on a few more chippees than i realized...which resulted in a 400gm gain. But i did not let it deter me, getting up at 6.30 for a 45min run the next day.
i did well the next but on Tues it was Mum's actual birthday and she wanted to go out for brunch before they went home, and i had made a peanut butter cake with cream cheese frosting (was delish by the way) so that combined with a steak sandwich and chips and i was lagging again! But since then i have tried hard and got back down to 56.0 which is the second lowest my weight has been, beaten only by 100gms when i weighed 55.9kg on New years eve morning.
So cracking back into it. Except tomorrow night it is my sis in laws Hen's night dinner at a Mexican/creole place. Eek! There's always something. Luckily after that there's nothing until the 28th of this month to distract me. Anyway i only have 1kg to lose before i start on consolidation! So excited.
In other news a friend has bought the Dukan book, she started reading it yesterday. Yay i have a Dukan Friend! Hope she likes it and doesn't think it's a load of bollocks lol.