Right, just 10 minutes left of Friday 13th and I have avoided trap doors magnificently well, all day one! Don't like to tempt fate, but I think I'm safe now.
Cruise day 31 (31? How on earth has that happened. I'm meant to get to TW in 13 days? That Dukan fella is a slave driver.) PV day.
Still feel like eating everything today, can't believe how hungry I've been compared to the first few weeks. Am hoping it's down to TOTM rather than too much sweetener which I think some folk have said can make you hungry. Think I'm going to start limiting the white powder again just in case. (No funny comments please, you know I mean stevia. I hear cocaine is awfully high in carbs.)
B: 150g total 0% + stewed rhubarb
S: 2 chocolate muffins
L: fennel, cucumber, cherry tom salad with 1 tsp oil, rollmop herring, 4 seafood sticks, 100g tofuchoc with yoghurt
S: cottage cheese with smoked salmon and gherkins chopped through (not my greatest ever idea but I was at work until 9pm and desperate), 4 seafood sticks,
D: roast butternut squash, onion and peppers, round courgette stuffed with TVP and 35g light mozzarella from Lidl which just sneaks in under my cut off point for fat...a right treat.
Had lunch out with a colleague and the place we went to was not very Dukan friendly so I just had a fennel side salad. Was a bit sad really, sitting there picking at leaves while she tucked into to a massive plate of food. Just felt a bit anti-social and she probably thinks I have an eating disorder now. In fact, on the way back to the office I'd been saying I was feeling tired and she asked if I was eating enough carbs. She's so switched on, I felt completely busted!
Spoke to the insurance people and they will give me £740 for the room, minus the £250 excess so just under £500. I'm happy with that and very relieved it happened before, not after I redecorated! Also had an email back from the pub chain, inviting me to meet them in another one of their pubs. Yeah right guys, as if. Asked them to meet me somewhere near my work - it'll have to be in a weeks time as I'm away with work next week. Just want it over with, not really looking forward to having to speak to them.
Been wondering today why the 'establishment' is so against Dukan. Did you guys read about how the British Dietetic Association voted Dukan it's worst celebrity diet of 2011? (
Weight Loss Plans | Duchess' Mother's Dukan Diet Tops List Of World's Worst Weight Loss Plans)
Worse than something called the Alcorexia diet where you don't eat, you get all your calories from alcohol. I mean really? Really? A diet where you eat oat bran, low fat protein, unlimited veg every other day and plenty of low fat calcium rich dairy is worse than existing mainly on booze? Do these people actually read the books they are slamming? They clearly never try them.
Since starting, apart from the notorious day 2, I've felt great. I've not had blood sugar spikes and dips and my skin's improved. I just don't believe it would have done if the diet were all that bad.
I really can't fathom where all the animosity towards low carb diets has come from. I can't help feel it's like Galileo when he started saying the earth was round. It's just so far away from what dieticians are taught that they can't even let themselves consider it.
Dunno why that suddenly annoyed me so much. Just strikes me as ignorant. I'd love to see some research on the long-term effect of Dukan - not just how it compares to traditional low fat, high carb diets in terms of weight loss, but how well people are able to stick to it long term.
Well, that was a very serious diary! Here's a cheese joke to cheer us up. It's in honour of my mozzarella treat and the fact that I've been feeling a bit cheesed off. (Groan.)
Q: What did the cheese say when it looked in the mirror?
A: Halloumi!
Night all.
Jx
