November 16, 2009
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.
October 23, 2009
Dieting alone is hard. No praise for your efforts and no cold water bucket when you make wrong choices.
I’m not your typical diet-obsessed-chick. Just the thought of “rabbit food” like salads and the supposedly healthy options is a turn off. At the same time I’m not all that bad – never been addicted to crisps or fizzy drinks.
A big turning point was when my weight started to get dangerously close to 90kg, and that sounds like almost a hundred, at least to me.
I’ve tried diets before but they were either ineffective, or I would slip really quickly, or the weight loss would not last. None of these makes starting yet another diet easy.
I was secretly wishing for some magic solution that would not involve crunching salad and jogging all day long. If I had time to exercise several hours a day, I wouldn’t have a problem in the first place, would I?
And then I was told about the Dukan diet. In short it is a variation of the low carb diet type. But what is really special about it is the promise of a normal life at the end of the trial. It’s not a quick and easy solution, and it has quite strict rules, however it holds you by the hand and deals with the yo-yo effect.
The main ingredient is proteins, which means plenty of meat, as well as no feeling of being starved to death. Thus inspired by my sisters’ results (she’s doing Protal too) I’ve decided to start too, and now that I have actually managed to stay on it over a week I thought of documenting my journey. On one hand to motivate myself and add one more reason not to quit (oh, the public shame…), and on the other hand to maybe help others who want to follow this French diet.
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