Day 21 - The Dukan Diet

Current Weight:  147.4 lbs          Lost yesterday: 0 lbs
Total Lost: 12.8 lbs


Breakfast:
- Yogurt & Oats

Lunch:
- Chicken breast from McDonalds grilled chicken sandwich

Snack:
- Cup of yogurt

Dinner:
- Steak & half a hamburger patty


So I am officially done 3 weeks of the Dukan diet.  Having lost almost 13 lbs, I can say I am MORE than satisfied with the results.  I am kind of getting used to the somewhat low weight loss numbers during the week.  The days when I am pure protein, I seem to virtually stay stable, then the vegetables days, I am losing.  That is okay with me.  Also, if I can continue to have weekends like I had this past weekend, I am content with not huge numbers coming up during the week.   Weekends allow me more time to exercise, eat a little more food & be more prepared for my day.

To say I am visibly skinnier is an understatement.  Last night I officially slipped into my 'skinny jeans'.  There was a picture taken on St. Patrick's day 2007 of a friend & I, and I always look back at that picture & wish I was able to wear the jeans in the pictures.  My thighs look lean, my stomache is not bulging, a double-chin is non-existant, so I look at this picture often of a reminder of my once smaller self.  The jeans I am wearing in that picture are the ones I wore last night.  On the weekend before I threw a load of laundry in, I saw the jeans (as I had pulled them out on my clean out last week in hopes to fit into them soon) & decided I was going to throw them in the laundry, give them a fresh wash & hope to fit into them soon.  As I was getting ready to leave for baseball, I thought "I should try them on", so I did.  A rush of joy overcame me when I could zip them up - with ease.  After a couple squats to stretch them out (...*ahem* I had just washed them), they fit perfectly with no bulging over.  By the time we got home from baseball, they were already baggy around the waist.  I don't think words can describe how someone feels inside when they can fit into a pair of old jeans that they had tried to get into for the last 3 years since they stopped fitting.  It really made my spirits sore. 

So I have this new obsession, well its more an observational obsession & I think my recent weight loss is causing this.  I am really beginning to notice how many people are overweight.  It could be that I want to stand at the top of a building & tell everyone about the Dukan Diet, so they to can feel the way I am feeling, but every person I see that is remotely 'chubby', I want to stop them and tell them about the diet.  Obviously I'm not a complete a-hole & would never do that, but I just want people to know.  Everytime I order my chicken breast from McDonald's, I am surrounded by people ordering Big Mac's and it makes me kinda sad.  Granted, these people could be 'happy' eating to their hearts content & being overweight, but in my experience 9 out of 10 people don't want to be that way and just have a severe addiction to food.  I really wish every person I walked by knew my 13lb heavier self, so they could ask me 'how did you do it?' so I can rant & rave about the Dukan.  I am no where near finished my journey on this diet, but already, I know this is going to work.

To say this diet is going to change my life, is an understatement.  Hopefully by changing mine, it can change others as well.