Joodle
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Day 18 - Cruise, PV
There's something wrong with me when it comes to weekends. I'm managing pretty well during the week but without the structure of a working day, I seem to lose the plot a bit.
So I ate far too little this morning and nearly passed out on my way back from the gym, then started doing ironing and cleaning the flat and other glamourous things like that and ended up having dinner far too late (which is, I think, the main reason I'd been gaining weight in the first place). I need to get my act together. Anyway, here's the day;
B: 1 egg,
S: 3 crab sticks
L: 50g smoked tofu, 1 tbsp mackerel pate
S: 60g smoked salmon wrapped round 4 spears asparagus
D: raw veg, 1 tbsp quark + 0% total yoghurt mixed up as dip, veggie sausage, roast peppers, asparagus, 50g Thai stir fried prawns, 2 tbsp frozen yoghurt (1tbs weightwatchers strawberry yoghurt mixed with 1 tbsp quark)
Exercise: 20 cross trainer, 15 min run, 60 mins walking
WW pro points: 20
Bit concerned I may be eating too little (incredible as it seems, having eaten uncontrollably for much of the last year) and my body is freaking out and refusing to shed any weight. When I look back at my weight watchers points over the week, I've been under my allowance of 26 points pretty much every single day and I've not touched my weekly allowance of 49, nor had to use any of the points earned through exercise. When I was actually doing weight watchers properly this would never have happened - once I started straying into my points allowance that was usually it and I'd be eating everything in sight. I've just found it so easy to eat less with Dukan, but if things slow down too much I may need to try to eat a bit more and a bit more regularly.
And dang, just realised I forgot my oat bran today. Took a cookie with me to they gym, intending to stop off afterwards to have it with a coffee but had to hurry home instead. Oh well, tomorrow's another day.
Did some interesting Dukan shopping today though. Was in Chinatown so picked up some of those spooky sounding noodles made from some weird substance I've never heard of which are carb, fat and calorie free. As a result, they will presumably taste revolting! Will report back. Also realised that my favourite range of Thai curry pastes are all fine for Dukan. Maybe a tiny bit salty but as you only use a small amount, not too bad. I'd assumed they had some oil or sugar in them but no, nothing off limit at all. Very exciting discovery as I usually cook loads of Thai dishes and this will make my menus way more interesting. Made a great stir fry with prawns and red curry paste which I can share if anyone likes that sort of thing. I thought it was delish. Bit of a cook-in today, making loads of fat free roast veg, veggie sausages, Dukan friendly frozen yoghurt and the prawns. Seem to have a ton of stuff in the fridge waiting to be cooked so think more cooking is on the cards for tomorrow. Want to try some of the indulgent sounding desserts now that I've released myself from worrying about the artificial sweeteners!
Ooh, and I went crazy last night and ordered 4 small bottles of flavouring extracts from the web. Got peanut butter, butter, melon and pistachio. Could be horrible but if they're not, it will be very exciting! Which reminds me that I did something very odd today. Walking back from the gym I decided to go into a shop called Cyber Candy, which imports all different sweets and chocolate bars from over the globe. No idea what I was thinking - maybe wanted to test my willpower. Anyway, I wondered downstairs and was happily resisting everything, when I saw a whole section with sugar free gum. They had loads of different flavours of Extra, like apple pie, mint choc chip and key lime pie, which is what I went for. Clearly, it's not the same as tucking into the real thing (!) but I had half a stick on the way home and twas pretty nice! They do have 2g carbs per stick but half a stick was loads.
So that's the end of week 3 of Dukan. Have moved my weigh in to Monday in the hope that it will keep me on the straight and narrow over the weekend so will report weekly result then.
Main observation from this week is that it's still feeling very easy to follow the diet and I've certainly been eating a shed load less than I used to. What worries me now though is that I have deliberately shut myself away a bit these last 3 weeks, only been out a couple of times since starting (mainly to avoid the booze temptation) and that this isn't going to help me in the long run. Not going to beat myself up about it but I do need to find a way of eating and drinking less while having a normal social life.
Saying that, I've felt no pangs at all for red wine, which is a miracle! The two main cravings I've had since starting have, much to my surprise, been for fruit - once when walking past a stall selling some lovely smelling strawberries and then once when I saw boxes of those gorgeous honey mangos in the greengrocer. They're seasonal and I'm gutted I'll have to miss out on them until next year...but it'll be worth it :fingerscrossed:
There's something wrong with me when it comes to weekends. I'm managing pretty well during the week but without the structure of a working day, I seem to lose the plot a bit.
So I ate far too little this morning and nearly passed out on my way back from the gym, then started doing ironing and cleaning the flat and other glamourous things like that and ended up having dinner far too late (which is, I think, the main reason I'd been gaining weight in the first place). I need to get my act together. Anyway, here's the day;
B: 1 egg,
S: 3 crab sticks
L: 50g smoked tofu, 1 tbsp mackerel pate
S: 60g smoked salmon wrapped round 4 spears asparagus
D: raw veg, 1 tbsp quark + 0% total yoghurt mixed up as dip, veggie sausage, roast peppers, asparagus, 50g Thai stir fried prawns, 2 tbsp frozen yoghurt (1tbs weightwatchers strawberry yoghurt mixed with 1 tbsp quark)
Exercise: 20 cross trainer, 15 min run, 60 mins walking
WW pro points: 20
Bit concerned I may be eating too little (incredible as it seems, having eaten uncontrollably for much of the last year) and my body is freaking out and refusing to shed any weight. When I look back at my weight watchers points over the week, I've been under my allowance of 26 points pretty much every single day and I've not touched my weekly allowance of 49, nor had to use any of the points earned through exercise. When I was actually doing weight watchers properly this would never have happened - once I started straying into my points allowance that was usually it and I'd be eating everything in sight. I've just found it so easy to eat less with Dukan, but if things slow down too much I may need to try to eat a bit more and a bit more regularly.
And dang, just realised I forgot my oat bran today. Took a cookie with me to they gym, intending to stop off afterwards to have it with a coffee but had to hurry home instead. Oh well, tomorrow's another day.
Did some interesting Dukan shopping today though. Was in Chinatown so picked up some of those spooky sounding noodles made from some weird substance I've never heard of which are carb, fat and calorie free. As a result, they will presumably taste revolting! Will report back. Also realised that my favourite range of Thai curry pastes are all fine for Dukan. Maybe a tiny bit salty but as you only use a small amount, not too bad. I'd assumed they had some oil or sugar in them but no, nothing off limit at all. Very exciting discovery as I usually cook loads of Thai dishes and this will make my menus way more interesting. Made a great stir fry with prawns and red curry paste which I can share if anyone likes that sort of thing. I thought it was delish. Bit of a cook-in today, making loads of fat free roast veg, veggie sausages, Dukan friendly frozen yoghurt and the prawns. Seem to have a ton of stuff in the fridge waiting to be cooked so think more cooking is on the cards for tomorrow. Want to try some of the indulgent sounding desserts now that I've released myself from worrying about the artificial sweeteners!
Ooh, and I went crazy last night and ordered 4 small bottles of flavouring extracts from the web. Got peanut butter, butter, melon and pistachio. Could be horrible but if they're not, it will be very exciting! Which reminds me that I did something very odd today. Walking back from the gym I decided to go into a shop called Cyber Candy, which imports all different sweets and chocolate bars from over the globe. No idea what I was thinking - maybe wanted to test my willpower. Anyway, I wondered downstairs and was happily resisting everything, when I saw a whole section with sugar free gum. They had loads of different flavours of Extra, like apple pie, mint choc chip and key lime pie, which is what I went for. Clearly, it's not the same as tucking into the real thing (!) but I had half a stick on the way home and twas pretty nice! They do have 2g carbs per stick but half a stick was loads.
So that's the end of week 3 of Dukan. Have moved my weigh in to Monday in the hope that it will keep me on the straight and narrow over the weekend so will report weekly result then.
Main observation from this week is that it's still feeling very easy to follow the diet and I've certainly been eating a shed load less than I used to. What worries me now though is that I have deliberately shut myself away a bit these last 3 weeks, only been out a couple of times since starting (mainly to avoid the booze temptation) and that this isn't going to help me in the long run. Not going to beat myself up about it but I do need to find a way of eating and drinking less while having a normal social life.
Saying that, I've felt no pangs at all for red wine, which is a miracle! The two main cravings I've had since starting have, much to my surprise, been for fruit - once when walking past a stall selling some lovely smelling strawberries and then once when I saw boxes of those gorgeous honey mangos in the greengrocer. They're seasonal and I'm gutted I'll have to miss out on them until next year...but it'll be worth it :fingerscrossed:
