A month and 10 days after I stopped the diet

This is amazing. The last time I wrote in this blog (9th of July 2011) was the last day I actually did the diet as I kind of got so excited about me looking so much better and needing to buy new clothes because my clothes were too big I just kept on eating normal and "breaking the diet" everyday...as we call it eh?
Well I have good news, I have even lost 1 kilo since that day so now I am 69 kilos, but getting back to the diet is an every day fight.
Every morning now I wake up thinking "Today I will start the diet again" and sometime during the day I "break" it.
I am not sure what it is, but I have been meditating about it so I can share it with you.
I think when you have lost enough that you are now "normal" not fat anymore, you get comfortable as I will call it, is like when you have enough money to live decently so you don't kill yourself anymore to make money and then you wonder why other people are so rich, because they keep the fight all the way to the top , never get "comfortable". You need to have the "need" to be motivated, and I had the need to "not be fat and look slimmer than I was, in a way that its obvious" and as soon as I lost enough so I am "not be fat and look slimmer than I was, in a way that its obvious" I am not motivated anymore to sacrifice and do the diet.
The bad part of it is that I still need to loose 15 more kilos, or I should say want to, because if I needed it I will be motivated, but at the moment lost all type of motivation.
The good news... in a month and 10 days that I kept "breaking" the diet I have not gone back to my weight or put any kilo on at all, I have actually still lost 1. This is the most amazing diet I have ever done, because any other diet I ever tried as soon as I stopped or "broke it" I put the weight back or at least some kilos back.
So I am not sure what is it but it is not as easy to put the weight back.
I think I know what is it, you are not as hungry as you used to be, kind of like the stomach is smaller, you get fuller faster and you are less hungry, you are now educated to eat a different amount and the feeling of eating something all the time I used to have is pretty much gone.
as everyday I say, "I will start the diet again tomorrow" (just called for a delivery of a pizza Dominos tonight ) and I will keep you updated .

Day 20 of the diet

I am now on the second Phase of the diet and I have to say I have never tried such an easy diet ever. I am now 70 Kilos. In the second phase you supposed to loose 1 kilo a week but I have lost 2 kilos in 10 days and you know what is the best? I eat a lot, of course only the things that I am allowed to eat but a lot. You get so used to eat this way that it is apart of my lifestyle now so no cravings. I have to say I have cheated twice since the second phase started in the last 10 days, I have had ones some chocolate sauce and some dulce de leche as I was preparing desserts for my daughters school's fair and 2 days ago that a friend brought biscuits and I had 2. So I don't suffer or kill myself about it. AWESOME!!!

10th day The last day of the Attack phase

I am today 72 Kilos, in 10 days I have lost 1 stone so that is for sure not bad! I used to be 12.5 stones I am now 11.5 awesome!
How I feel?
I can't stop thinking about beef tomatoes and celery with Humus, but well tomorrow I will be able to eat vegetables, that means I will have tomatoes with cottage cheese, mmmmm
I feel tired and I have headaches but it was all worth it, now introducing vegetables will put my body in balance and it will feel better I am sure.
This works and I am live proof of it!
I still have 2.5 more stones to loose as I should be 9 stones (56 kilos) but that seems just so reachable like never before.

My 7th day today, I went to buy a scale, how much I weight? 73 Kilos...
This means I have lost almost 5 kilos in 7 days. Incredible!
Today was a great sunny day so we made BBQ the perfect thing for someone in her Attack Phase of the diet.
Seriously I am used to what I eat now and even though sometimes I feel tempted I am used to it now.
I will do this phase for 10 days so I have only 3 more to go and in 3 days I will tell you how much I lost, it is really amazing.
Going to sleep now, it has been a long day.

Day number 6

Yesterday I went to my daughters kids party and all the parents where there.

The one hosting put so much food in front and offer champaign, They all looked at me really bad when i refuse drinking or eating so i took a glass of champaign, after they all ate so much they all really took wrong me not eating so i took a roll of spinach and ricotta and a lice of salami. I felt so bad of braking my diet that I was really upset. I hope this will not affect my diet, but what is really really good is that after day 4 you don't have cravings and even if you have food in front you don't feel like eating it, at all. I actually was happy that I was not tempted to eat and i did it forced by society which is not a good excuse either but not having cravings and not been tempted is almost the best you can achieve in any diet.

Now going panting in the river Cam :-)

Great News on Tuesday I weight myself in the Gym where my daughter goes to swimming classes and I already lost 2 kilos on Tuesday.
This is my 5th day...
The last 4 days all I had is:
Non-fat ALPRO Yoghurt
The Oat-Bran Gallette
Salmon, Chicken and Beef
oh I have prepared some Flan with vanilla, chocolate and coffee ones
with the recipe showed in the book: very little of cornflour, Egg Yolks, skimmed milk and vanilla, chocolate or coffee, very easy to make and delicious.
The first day was really hard, the second day my cravings of sweet and carbohydrates were terrible, the third day I was quite used to it, the forth day no hunger, and today...
I just started with an omelet with salmon and a chocolate flan, for lunch i will have an oat Bran Gallette.

The How, Why and First Day

The only diet that has always worked for me was the county calories Diet (which I believe it is not a diet it is taking control of what you eat) and it has worked every time I have done it but obviously you need to keep in control of the calories you eat for ever and that is where my problem has been, because the type of work I do doesn't makes it very difficult to keep doing that as it is very hectic and I get really hungry or I don't eat which is really bad to because your metabolism will slow doing and you don't burn as many calories as you should.

I have never believed in diets only in changing you lifestyle and habits because ones you stop the died you will put on weight again. What you need if you want to loose weight is to change your eating habits and move more that is all. Whether it is to go more for green, healthy and raw food, or just not eat more calories than you burn or do more exercise in balance of how much you eat, but there is something I have realized lately and it is, people actually do not know what is good or not for them, many things we have been told since we were kids that they are good for us and they are actually not. So before we decide to start eating healthier do not follow your instinct or knowledge but do a bit of research on what is good or not for you.

There are few books I can recommend like The pH Miracle by Dr Young. which is a great book to guide you into what is good and what is not actually for your body and what you need and what you don't. He is well known and I recommend to have it as a reference book.

Last weekend I found a book that I was recommended by someone that used this diet and lost an amazing amount of weight in a short time. So I thought of buying the book just to read about it. After reading it I was very intrigue and decided to test it so...

After telling friends and family about the book many of them have decided to do it to, so we all went shopping last weekend and bought all we need for the diet.

Meat, Fish, Chicken, lots of eggs, Cottage cheese none-fat Yoghurt and oat Bran, this is what you need for the first part of the diet, yes it is a protein diet at the beginning and the effects, I will be sharing them with you too.

Basically the Dukan Diet seems to be a variation of Atkins, lets say a better and healthier Atkins. But we will see. You supposed to loose a lot of weight as always at the beginning and then slow down but still loose...

Today in the morning I was 77 Kilos and this is my first day.

It is 4:33pm and this is what I have eaten...

7:30am 2 boiled eggs
8:00am went cycling to the school with my daughter (4 miles return)
9:00am a bit of Yoghurt with 1 1/2 spoons of oat bran
10am 2 slices of chicken breast with 1 more egg
1:00pm 2 half fillets of salmon marinated with Dill and Lemon
3:30pm went to pick up my daughter (4 miles return)
1 Camomile Tea
2 glasses of water

I will keep you updated.