Redsazzle
Full Member
I have lost weight in the past and have managed to keep a good deal of it off, my heaviest weight was 19st 2lb..... my lowest since then is 13st 7lb........ I am currently 15st 2lb.
Over the past year my life has taken some difficult turns and I have struggled to stick to any diet for long and the weight I did lose soon returned.
I look back at my heaviest and then look at the scales now and think 'you done good girl', but it's not enough.
My family is rife with diabetes, high and low blood pressure and heat disease, I myself have an under active thyroid.
So a few weeks I was chatting to a lovely man via a dating site(!) and he told me about this diet, next payday I bought the book!!! I spent a few days reading it to learn as much as possible before I started...... I also had a boozy weekend planned....lol.
Monday morning I started...........
Over the past year my life has taken some difficult turns and I have struggled to stick to any diet for long and the weight I did lose soon returned.
I look back at my heaviest and then look at the scales now and think 'you done good girl', but it's not enough.
My family is rife with diabetes, high and low blood pressure and heat disease, I myself have an under active thyroid.
So a few weeks I was chatting to a lovely man via a dating site(!) and he told me about this diet, next payday I bought the book!!! I spent a few days reading it to learn as much as possible before I started...... I also had a boozy weekend planned....lol.
Monday morning I started...........
Being a bus driver must make this whole thing difficult - I was running to the bathroom every 45 minutes during attack. But the water is really important to making sure that your kidneys are able to flush out all of the protein buildup, I would worry about doing a longer attack (5-10) days if you can't keep up the water intake. I am guessing that you are shooting for a 7 day attack because we are about the same size and that is what the Dukan site recommended for me. For the foods, read the menu threads I found them to be much more inspiring than the recipes in the book - there are some really great creative cooks on this board. I do chicken curry, meatballs, meatloafs, poached fish, sauteed shrimp, roasted chicken, and roast beef - that's seven nights worth of dinners and I always make extra so I can have leftovers for snacks and lunch. Breakfast is always a gallette, it took about a week of practice to get them right - the fool-proof gallette recipe in the menu section gave me the key - you have to cook them slow! DO the walking - it really does slim down the hips and tummy quicker than you would think. 
