The restart - Day 1 - attack

Day one - the restart

*haven't weighed myself yet*

Breakfast
1 x toast peanut butter and jam 
(this was before I went food shopping and decided to restart)

Lunch:
Pack turkey 
2 boiled eggs
Cottage cheese

Snack
Muller light 
diet coke

Tea
Steak
Cottage cheese 
Mullerlight 

Drinks 
Water and flavoured water

Exercise: 30 day shred

Verdict:
It's not been too difficult. Tomorrow most definately will be though as I've got a baby shower to go to which will have Krispy Kreme donuts, scones and clotted cream, cake... A dieters nightmare. Just gonna make sure I don't go hungry. Oh and tape my gob shut.

Cruise: day 3 (PV)

Day 7

Weight: 10st 13.4lb
Weight lost: 5lb 
Goal: 10st
Weight to lose: 13.4lb 

Breakfast:
Mullerlight + oatbran
1 boiled egg

Lunch:
Pack turkey slices
Cottage cheese
Cherry tomatoes 
Activia 

Tea:
Seabass + veg
Sugar free jelly 

Drinks:
Flavoured fizzy water, diet coke, water

Exercise: 20 minute walk

Verdict:
I'm more than a bit disgruntled that the weightless has pretty much stopped. To be fair it does warn you of it in the book when you start Cruise but I'm finding it so demotivating when I'm trying so hard! 

The book lied about cravings going away. They haven't. Infact all I do most days is day dream about the food I can't eat. I daydream about toast. 

As I said yesterday I'm having a weekend off dukan as my boy is coming for the weekend. I'm going to try not go mad as I'll be gutted if I've put the 5lb I've lost back on again!

I'm worried that once I have a day off it'll be hard to get back into again so please someone give me an ass kicking Monday morning! 

Cruise: Day 2 (PP)

Day 6

Breakfast:
Oatbran galette 
Activia raspberry

Lunch:
Turkey breast 
Chives cottage cheese

Snack:
Activia

Tea:
Salmon
2 x boiled eggs

Drinks: water, fizzy water, diet coke 

Verdict:

Tough day cravings wise, I've wanted pretty much everything I cant have.

Really missing my fruit smoothies.. And peanut butter.. And popcorn.. And toast.

I've not really been hungry though so my willpower of steel has held out. Just gotta keep chugging that water!

I'm hurting so bad from spinning though, my legs feel like they're made of wood today!

I'm staying strong cause I know I'm going to have to have a weekend off this weekend cause my man is coming to town ;) 

Gonna try be as dukan as possible (whole chicken at nandos anyone?)

Cruise - day 1

Day 5

Weight: 10st 13.5lb
Weight lost: 4.9lb
Goal: 10st
Weight left to lose: 13.5lb

Breakfast: 
Oatmeal galette 
Mullerlight strawberry

Lunch:
2 x boiled eggs (I think I'm going to turn into an egg!)
Salmon fillet and cherry tomatoes

Snack:
Activia raspberry
Diet coke

Tea: 
Seabass and actual VEGETABLES!
Activia raspberry 

Drinks: water & diet coke

Exercise: spinning class (30 minutes)

Verdict: 

Today has actually been my best yet. Starting with my morning weigh in - overjoyed to be back in the 10's! 

I've not really been hungry since starting the diet but I have had cravings here and there. Today hasn't been so bad though.

I was overjoyed to finally have vegetables in my life! Especially my
Home grown tomatoes, they've never tasted so good.

I also attempted a spinning class for the first time, oh my god I've never sweated so much in my life and it was only 30 minutes! It was hell but I'm going again.

Also discovered today I can have sugar free jelly! Hurray! 

Attack - Day 4

Day 4:

Weight: 11st 0.7lb
Weight lost 3.7lb
Goal: 10st
Left to lose: 1st 0.7lb (14.7lb)

Breakfast:
2 x boiled eggs
Mullerlight + oatbran

Snack: activia cherry

Lunch: (at grandmas)
Fish fingers, chips and peas
1 chocolate digestive

Tea:
Roast chicken and chives + onion cottage cheese

Drinks: tea, fizzy flavoured water, diet coke, water.

Exercise: body combat class

Verdict:
I felt bad for having to cheat at lunch but there really wasn't much option as I didn't want to offend my grandma by insisting on what I ate or taking my own food.

After my body combat class this morning I felt really drained though so it did me good to have a decent meal.

Combat burns around 600 calories a class and is very high impact. I found I really hard to keep up today, as I did yesterday too. I guess boiled eggs aren't as good fuel wise as my usual pre workout porridge. 

Thankfully I'm coming to the end of Attack now so I can begin Cruise and  start re introducing more food groups back into my diet. I'm absolutely dying to have fruit and veg again, sod chocolate! 

Attack - Day 3

Day 3

Weight: 11st 1.1lb
Weight lost: 3.3lb
Goal: 10st
Weight left to lose: 1st 1.1lb (15.1lb)

Breakfast:
2x boiled eggs
Mullerlight + oatbran 

Lunch:
2 x boiled eggs 
Pack of turkey

Snack:
Activia fat free yoghurt

Tea:
Roast chicken and cottage cheese
Fat free fromage frais + cinnamon 

Drinks:
Diet coke, flavoured fizzy water and water water water..

Exercise: body combat class

Verdict:

Today and last night have been a battle of willpower. It's PMT time AND the weekend and as such I want to eat bad bad things.

Thankfully I haven't caved, largely because of the blooming brilliant weight loss and also because I so want to be back in my 'skinny' jeans.  They do up, but there is a definate muffin top going on.

I had a bit of an egg overload today as I was scared of passing out in my body combat class! I did feel a bit weak at times, probably from the lack of carbs but I managed to soldier through and will be going tomorrow morning too.

I'm going to my grandmas for lunch tomorrow. Shes a veggie. Maybe I should take my own food! 

Excited that I could wake up tomorrow and be under 11st again! Reading up on Cruise just in case :)

Attack - Day 2

Day 2:
Weight: 11st 2.1lbs
Total loss: 2.3lbs
Goal weight: 10st
Weight left to lose: 1st 2.1lbs (16.1lbs)

Breakfast: 
Oatbran galette 
Strawberry mullerlight

Snack:
Scrambled eggs (1 egg + skimmed milk)

Lunch:
Roast chicken & black pepper cottage cheese

Tea:
Steak + cottage cheese 
Activia cherry yoghurt
Sparkling flavoured water

Drinks: mini can diet coke and enough water to sink a ship.

Verdict: I've eaten pretty much exactly the same as yesterday! If I'm to stay interested variety is needed - time to get googling recipes.

It's friday today and therefore fish and chips day. Its the law and I'm laughing in the face of it! Might have a nice seabass tomorrow to compensate.

Very pleased on the weightloss, though I know it's mostly water. 

Onwards and downwards..

Attack - Day 1

Starting weight: 11st 4.4lbs
Goal weight: 10st
Weight left to lose: 1st 4.4lbs (18.4lbs)

Breakfast:
Oatbran Galette
Mullerlight strawberry yoghurt

Lunch:
Roast chicken and cracked black pepper fat free cottage cheese

Snack: mini can diet coke 

Tea: beef steak medallion and more cottage cheese
Activia fat free cherry yoghurt

Drinks: LOTS of water.

Day one has gone so well. I am infact surprised at how easy it's been. But then it's only day one and I'm at the peak of my motivation.

I've not once felt hungry or sick or tired or weak, nor have I craved any bad things i used to love so much. Today's food has been delicious, and I'm confident I'll have no problems at all in sticking to the strict rules of attack.

According to the book I should do attack for around 3 days as I have less than 20lbs to lose. I'm going to see how I go though as I really want to get under 11stone before moving onto Cruise. If it takes a couple more days I'll do 4 or 5.

Along with starting the Dukan Diet I'm also going to combine it with 30 day shred. Its a brilliant exercise DVD by Gillian Michaels (America's Biggest Loser Trainer) 20 minutes a day, 3 levels, 30 days. I've done it before and it's great. I've also done 2 school runs today so 60 minutes of exercise. 

Roll on day 2! 

And so it begins..

My name is Eve and I'm feeling rather chubby of late.

And now? I'm going to do something about it.

I stumbled across the Dukan diet on twitter. A couple of ladies I'm following have been doing it and had brilliant results and do I thought I'd give it a whirl.

I've ordered the book off amazon, and whilst I impatiently wait for it to arrive I've been googling like a mad woman. Lots of information, reviews and blogs out there.

Readers of my other blog will know I've recently acquired a new man in my life. He's seriously hot, so hot he's got me wanting to look hot too.

He's not the only reason I want to lose weight, I've pretty much constantly been on some sort of diet since I had my first child and though I'm about the same weight I was before I got pregnant (thankfully! My youngest is 3!) I'm still slightly overweight according to my BMI.

I'm 5ft 5inches tall and currently weigh around 11st 4lbs (will do an official weigh in on day one of the diet) and a size 13. Bigger than a 12, smaller than a 14. Not massively huge but not skinny either.

My mission is to get to goal (10st) by my birthday on 3rd December. According to the Dukan website I should be there by 11th November if I follow it to the letter.

I've started this blog to track my progress which will hopefully keep me on track.

Comments, questions, support very welcome!

Wish me luck :)