Our Minneapolis friend, Margarette, has dropped weight (35# and counting!) and gotten fit on the 'protein is your friend,' Dukan Diet, created by French doctor, Pierre Dukan. We bought the book, filled with easy to follow rules, and a pretty Tiffany blue cover.
Obviously, the carb-filled diet we've been on hasn't worked. We're not fit at all. Bloated, in fact. Not only are our clothes tight, my hands are so puffy I can't get rings on and off!
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Saturday Feb 1st:
Our Last Supper yesterday was a gourmet affair at Pi Phi pal, Mo Merhoff's, lovely Carmel, IN home. She and husband, Paul Reis, invited us over since we're currently Carmel residents. It was a fun night, and we ate everything with gusto! Cheese & crackers, wine, salad, asparagus, delicious & tender medium rare steak on the grill from Joe's Butcher Shop & Fish Market on Main Street, cute light green cone-shaped baby cauliflowers on a bed of parmesan cheese - and then dessert! We had Oberweis dairy home-delivered vanilla ice cream with home-baked apple pie from Long Grove IL confectionery. Wowwee!
http://joesbutchershop.com
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Sunday Feb 2nd: SUPER BOWL SUNDAY & DAY 1
This is a new journal format, and we have a complimentary excel spreadsheet, to easily track our diet successes! ;) The big part I'll need to remember is One Day At A Time. If I have a craving for something not allowed during Dukan phases, then I'll just say, "I'm not having that TODAY. If I still want it tomorrow, then maybe." That plan certainly worked for me when I stopped drinking - Oct. 1, 1985, 28+ years ago, thankyouverymuch! That gives me confidence. It's also *really* good that George & I are in this together.
We have a trip planned to Reynolds Plantation in a couple days, so that will be a challenge. But for today, Day 1, it's going well! No oil. No sugar. No cheating.
It's 10 p.m., but I haven't walked my 20 minutes yet, so downstairs I go to the Carmel City Center treadmill...
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