Day 31 - The Dukan Diet

Current Weight: 143.8 lbs           Lost Yesterday: 0.0 lbs
Total Lost:  16.4 lbs

Breakfast:
- Yogurt & Oats

Snack:
- Asparagus

Lunch:
- Thai Salad from McDonald's with a Chicken Breast

Dinner:
- 2 hamburger patties and asparagus


So I was not surprise this morning when I stepped on the scale and I hadn't lost anything.  Yesterdays number was so big that I feel like I won't lose anything for a couple of days.  So yesterday was day 3 of my protein+vegetable (PV from now and PP for pure protein) experiment.   With the results I was getting on PV I thought I should give it a whirl and if it worked for me, then I would continue with a higher rate of PV versus PP.  It looks like a 3rd day has no benefit.  I clearly didn't eat anything out of the norm that would have made me not lose weight, so I guess the PP days have their benefit.  Even if I am not losing when I step on the scale that morning after a PP day, it is likely that all that catches up once I have a PV day.  I am going to have a PP day today, and then two PV days on this weekend. 

We are going away for the weekend starting tomorrow morning, so should be interesting to see how I hold up.  The b/f has a baseball tournament about 2 hours south of home, so it will be an overnight trip, and I am not sure if there will be a fridge in our hotel room.  My main concern: Sunday morning yogurt.  I will pack the cooler pretty heavily with ice to ensure I have a cool, not gone bad, serving of yogurt for Sunday morning.  I don't think this weekend will be as tricky as last weekends BBQ.  With them being in a baseball tournament, I am more distracted and not around bags of chips and delicious white cake hehe.

The weekends without the scale are kind of nice.  As long as I eat well, and am somewhat active, the Monday morning weight loss is usually a nice treat after the weekend (not counting last weekends).  Every morning I have the same routine, wake-up, do my morning reports, go to the bathroom, then weight myself.  I am free of work from the weekend and kind of free of the burden of the daily weigh-in.  I am hoping to be down at least .8lbs this weekend to get to the 143 mark.  143lbs = 5 lbs away from my lowest weight ever. 

One of the weirdest parts of me losing weight, I can see my ribs.  Like obviously if you stretch hard enough you can see your ribs, but when I was chubby, they were not a frequent sight.  Now just a little stretch and I am at rib-visibility.  Has to be a good sign.  Means less fat between my outsides and my ribs.  I like it.

Let's hope this weekend goes off without any transgressions, and I come back a lighter person.