New to Dukan?

The Dukan diet is great (well diets really, as there are a series of four of them).
I was never hungry and it was fast and easy.

I read about the diet in the Sunday Mail in May 2010, started The Attack diet in June, and reached goal weight on The Cruise diet (1 day PP, 1 day PP+veg) in September. Since then I have been on The Consolidation diet and helping others. I should be on The Stabilisation diet by April.

I have found it to be the easiest diet to stick to, providing me, a regular dieter, with my fastest weight loss diet ever. It has worked for me when all my other tried-and-tested diets (e.g. Weight Watchers, Optifast, CSIRO, Slimmm) began to fail. I didn't have cravings like on other very-low-calorie diets. It has also worked for lots of my friends and family, but not all. The allowed food groups do upset some people, but I have never felt better.

It you want to make a start, first, get a realistic prediction of your true weight and how long it will take to get there http://www.dukandiet.co.uk (you need to give ypur email only - no need to buy coaching unless you want to). Print this graph and make a start.

Get a good pair of scales and a tape measure and record your weight and waist measurements.

Consider buying the Dukan book and the Recipe book. I confess I only bought these after I had lost the weight, but they would have been great before hand.

In the mean time read this which has the three links to the equivalent Sunday Mail articles in a UK paper, as well as a blog from a dieter:

1) The ultimate diet:The French have kept it a secret for years. Now the protein rich Dukan Diet is coming to Britain
2) The Dukan Diet: Put your fat cells on a revolutionary weight-loss plan
3) The Dukan Diet: Want to stay slim for ever? Eat whatever you want – except on Thursdays

My typical PP day
Breakfast: 1 cup forme yoghurt and 1 1/2 - 2 tablespoons oat bran, (or porridge, or gallette) multivitamin capsule, coffee, water, pepsi max  or slim tea
Morning tea:  Jellylite and forme yoghurt, instant coffee (skim milk and sweetening tablets)
Lunch: 100g Huon Smoked Salmon, instant coffee (skim milk and sweetening tablets).
Afternoon tea: a few slices of pastrami or chicken thigh and  instant coffee (skim milk and sweetening tablets), pepsi max on way home
Tea: Poached Salmon, Chicken thighs or lean beef served with Farmers Union Light Greek Yoghurt, 2 glasses water
After tea: 30 minutes stationary bike ride
Supper: baked custard / mousette dessert / spice cream, water
Anytime: Chicken thighs, sliced roast beef or mini meatballs (500g beef, 1 egg, Moroccan seasoning), cup of yoghurt, Farmers Union Feel good milk, Jelly and yoghurt.


My typical PV day
Breakfast: 1 cup forme yoghurt and 1 1/2 - 2 tablespoons oat bran, (or porridge, or gallette) multivitamin capsule, coffee, water, pepsi max or slim tea
Morning tea:  Jellylite and forme yoghurt, instant coffee (skim milk and sweetening tablets)
Lunch: 100g Huon Smoked Salmon, instant coffee (skim milk and sweetening tablets)
Afternoon tea: a few slices of pastrami or chicken thigh and  instant coffee (skim milk and sweetening tablets), pepsi max on way home
Tea: Poached Salmon, Chicken thighs or lean beef served with Farmers Union Light Greek Yoghurt, 2 glasses water, salad (lettuce, cucumber, snow peas, spring onion with vegetable bouillon dressing) or steamed broccholi, cauliflower, asparagus mix) and/or mushrooms cooked in Philadelphia extra light cream cheese
After tea: 30 minutes stationary bike ride
Supper: baked custard / mousette dessert / spice cream, water
Anytime: Chicken thighs, sliced roast beef or mini meatballs (500g beef, 1 egg, Moroccan seasoning), cup of yoghurt, Farmers Union Feel good milk, Jelly and yoghurt. 

No alcohol, occasional Birrell beer, glass Edenvale Sparkling Cuvee or Edenvale Rose (dealcoholised wines)

Good luck!