Protal Me

Let’s start straight with the facts. Dr Dukan advises to drink at least 3 litres of water per day when on the protal diet.

Now before you get all depressed with the sad visions of having to gulp down so much plain water, there is good news! Almost any drink will do when it comes to contributing to your daily intake.

Allowed are:

• coffee (even with milk, as long as it is low fat) – no sugar
• tea – no sugar
• mineral waters (obviously…)
• diet sodas (as long as they do not contain sugar it’s OK)

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A little clarification before we procede. We all know sodas, as well as their diet (or light) counterparts are not the healthiest thing on Earth. However if you are craving for something sweet, or a treat, or you’re just plainly already addicted to them, you can safely drink those. Just make sure there is no sugar in your drink of choice, and keeping the salt numbers low would be good too.

By now you might be wondering what all this fuss is all about. Well eating lots and lost of protein has the aim to put your body into ketosis. As proteins do not get fully processed a lot of by products need to be flushed out from the organizm. This is easily done by your kidneys, as long as your provide them with plenty of, you guessed it, liquids!

Jokes aside, be wary of dehydration especially in the protein phases. This can hinder your weight loss, and cause health problems, as well as give you traditional symptomes of dehydration like fatigue, dry skin, etc.