Protal Me » Diet diary http://protal.me The Dukan diet & me Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:48:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 New beginnings http://protal.me/2011/07/06/new-beginnings/ http://protal.me/2011/07/06/new-beginnings/#comments Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:48:22 +0000 ProtalMe http://protal.me/?p=288 Oh my, what a year it has been!

My last post was about  getting back on the diet and being strict and so on. Well it didn’t work out. Maybe if I chained my mom to my kitchen table and have her cook my meals all the time things would have turned out differently ;) Unfortunately she went home, which being abroad meant bye, bye home cooking.

The new job has been a mixed blessing. A career changer and a personal experience in some ways worth the dietary and health issues. On the other hand my weight crept back to just under what I had when I started the diet. Hey, could be worse…

But the good news is after plenty of ups and downs at work I’m now working from home 3 days a week. Yeah – I can get back to home cooked meals, which has been my main problem. I neither had the time to cook them nor much of an option to carry the rare stuff I did cook with me. 2 days should be easier to prepare for in advance :)

So with this new found energy, expect some new recipes and a better looking progress update! I promise ;)

]]> http://protal.me/2011/07/06/new-beginnings/feed/ 0 2 weeks of dieting http://protal.me/2010/05/31/2-weeks-of-dieting/ http://protal.me/2010/05/31/2-weeks-of-dieting/#comments Mon, 31 May 2010 15:28:31 +0000 ProtalMe http://protal.me/2010/05/31/2-weeks-of-dieting/ A visit from my parents promted two weeks of solid dieting – my father joined the dukan diet and it was nice to have everyone eat the same things.

Managed to shift 2.5kg in those two weeks. Considering my longterm and recent health issues it is actually a good result. And this is something that I struggle with – accepting the fact that I’m not loosing the weight as fast as I would like. However slowly I’m starting to be more happy with this slow but steady success.

]]> http://protal.me/2010/05/31/2-weeks-of-dieting/feed/ 1 One of the good days http://protal.me/2010/04/27/one-of-the-good-days/ http://protal.me/2010/04/27/one-of-the-good-days/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:15:03 +0000 ProtalMe http://protal.me/2010/04/27/one-of-the-good-days/ Still being a bit flakey with the eating habits. But a good day basically gets rewarded with 0.6kg less. Very motivating if only didn’t have so much stresfull things going on at the moment. But things should stabilize soon.

Breakfast:
Ham and cream cheese (5% philadelphia) dukan sandwitch (dukan bread from oatbran, really easy to make)
Kefir (0% dairy drink)

Lunch:
Grilled chicken breast and pastrami

Dinner:
Chicken curry

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Decided to try 1/1 for a week to see if it might be easier to stick to, especially as I qualify under the female with hormonal problems category ;)

Today I had
- oat bran muffins
- roast chicken leftovers
- fried chicken leftovers with mushrooms and peppers and onions
- diet coke, tea & water

I found that roasted (well, cooked in the oven) whole chicken is a great dish and can save you some money too. You can first have the roast chicken, then you can use the bones for soup, and the leftover meat can be used for 1-3 more meals (and that’s two people eating…) depending on the corpus size.

These leftover bits work great as a diet stir fry with veggies or filling for oat bran pancakes.

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Food

Ham slicesHam for breakfast

Chicken breast with fajita spicesLunch -  chicken breast fried with fajita spices.

Chocolate bran muffinsDiet muffins! Check out the recipe for these really nice chocolate bran muffins.

Chicken byrianiChicken breast with byriani spices.

Activity

9276 steps

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Sugar free gum

Sugar free gum

Lunch

Babybells and grilled chicken breast piecesBabybells and some grilled chicken breats pieces.

More gum.

Dinner

Leftover chicken from yesterday.

Steak

Desert

Mini-bran-cheesecakes.

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Soft cheese & hamSoft cheese & ham

Lunch

Chargrilled chicken breast chunks

Dinner

Fajita spiced chicken breast

(I swear I took a photo – but it is nowhere to be found, the phone must have ate it…)

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Chicken brest fried with fajita spices

Snack

Oat bran biscuits

Bran cookies

Lunch

Scrambled eggs with a bit of sausage

Dinner

Beef stew

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No matter how muc you know about the diet. Doesn’t matter that you know it works, getting back after a break was really hard. Adhering to the schedule and denying yourself the little treats. However updates are coming and I’m behaving well again.

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Ham slices

Ham slices

Lunch

Chargrilled chicken breast chunks

Chargrilled chicken breast

Dinner

Roasted chicken thighs with paprika spice and tiny bit of onion

Desert

Oat bran biscuits

Oat bran biscuits

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Very low food day. Work is horribly busy and watching CSI till late does not help my breakfast habits…

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Ham slices

Ham slices and babybells

Lunch

Chargrilled chicken breast chunks

Chargrilled chicken

Dinner

Chicken with sausage and onion

2 diet cokes

Chicken breast with little bits of onion and sausage flavaoured with “Jamaican chicken” spices

Desert

Chocolate bran cakes

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If the numbers do not add up do not panic. I have reverted to my actual diet length day numbering. I also need to shift the phases slightly do to Christmas, as protein+vegetables will make my life way easier during the holidays.

It can be quite depressing when one Christmas meal (company party) can put you back by a kg or even two – so it looks like all the time till Christmas I will spend catching up on my weight loss. Really need to start doing more exercise, as without it the pace seems to be dreadfully grinding to almost a halt.

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