Hash-m runs everything, and my wife is a great enabler, but if you are actually doing the diet, you might want to hear from the dieter’s perspective. So here are some experiences that I found on the road to losing 45+ pounds.
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Watch the Scale, but Expect the Bounce.
It was great to see the weight loss right away in the attack phase, and I think that was a very good motivation to keep up the diet, especially as the weight kept dropping in the cruise phase. Seeing a day to day weight loss is a great reinforcer. But when Shabbos, Yom Tov or a Simcha come along things don’t always work so smoothly and my weight would bounce back up. So I found that that is perfectly ok, I would just go back to what I was doing all along and let it sink down again.
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Matzah – The Secret Shabbos Solution?
After we went away to a family member’s home for Pesach and, although my wife would try to throw in some Dukan friendly recipes into the meal planning, surprisingly my weight stayed pretty much the same. I thought maybe it was the matzah and switched to matzah for Shabbos with some of my wife’s Dukan dips that are here on the site. As long as I didn’t binge on something really fattening, I found the Shabbos bounce was a lot more under control.
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Don’t Be Afraid to Modify (a little)
Although Dr. Dukan is very strict and scary in the book about deviating from his plan in the least, I found that I could be a little flexible and still lose those pounds. I had constipation problems, so I added an apple or fruit a day already in the cruise phase, I still lost. From time to time I would sneak in a square or two of chocolate, it didn’t ruin the diet. My wife got me some whole grain sugarless cookies, also less than a kazayis here and less than a kazayis there was ok.