sarafvrm
Gold Member
Hi Trudy, Sid, Ellie, Chris, Pauline and all! I can't afford to be away from Minimins for 3 days again - it's taken me all morning to catch up!
Camping was fun, but the mud!!! I missed the walks becauseI had to come into town on Saturday morning for my son's music and on Sunday morning for his cricket, but it was so lovely to catch up properly with old friends again, around the campfire late into the night.
The food and drink situation was really tough, however. I had made some muffins to take with me but they were absolutely disgusting! Like chewing on cardboard. Cooking on an open fire is a very slow process and while others were able to snack on bread and cheese, cake and cookies, or even fresh fruit, I was STARVING! I o/d-ed on tomatoes, olives, beetroot... And when the sun was over the yard-arm everyone else tucked into crisps, nuts, etc while I just drank! Bacon and eggs for breakfast would have been fine (even though they were fried) but I missed out on both Saturday and Sunday because I had to leave with DS before they were ready! Various families had brought vast cauldrons of bean stew, beef and potato casserole, pea and ham soup, etc, none of which was entirely dukan-friendly but I had to pick my way through them as best I could. I finished the weekend starving, weak, and with no weight-loss because of all the 'tolerateds'.
I'm still absolutely starving today. Can't stop eating. I suspect it's going to take a while to get back in the zone again. One up-side though (apart from the fact we had lots of fun!) was that one of the other women had followed a dukan-style programme for several months after seeing her mother in hospital after a quadruple-bypass operation and finding she herself had raised blood pressure and cholesterol. She had eaten Dukan apart from a carbohydrate breakfast, cut out alcohol, taken up exercise and lost 2 stone and cured all her health issues. She looked great, drank moderately, ate a little of everything, and said she understood that the exercise had to be a part of her life from now on. It was truly inspiring to see how she has turned her life around at 50.
So here goes! I'm embarking on the second half of my weight loss, and saying good-bye to alcohol and hello to exercise (the latter 2 easier said than done, but do-able, I know).
I've also now understood how important Consolidation is going to be, to long-term success. I've got to be able to eat bread, cheese, etc regularly without going mad. I realise I'm going to have to exercise the same discipline as I have done in Cruise - it won't be harder, or easier, just more of the same. I'll need to trust the plan implicitly and not try to outwit it.
Nice to be back in your company, fellow dukaneers. Have a great week! xx
Camping was fun, but the mud!!! I missed the walks becauseI had to come into town on Saturday morning for my son's music and on Sunday morning for his cricket, but it was so lovely to catch up properly with old friends again, around the campfire late into the night.
The food and drink situation was really tough, however. I had made some muffins to take with me but they were absolutely disgusting! Like chewing on cardboard. Cooking on an open fire is a very slow process and while others were able to snack on bread and cheese, cake and cookies, or even fresh fruit, I was STARVING! I o/d-ed on tomatoes, olives, beetroot... And when the sun was over the yard-arm everyone else tucked into crisps, nuts, etc while I just drank! Bacon and eggs for breakfast would have been fine (even though they were fried) but I missed out on both Saturday and Sunday because I had to leave with DS before they were ready! Various families had brought vast cauldrons of bean stew, beef and potato casserole, pea and ham soup, etc, none of which was entirely dukan-friendly but I had to pick my way through them as best I could. I finished the weekend starving, weak, and with no weight-loss because of all the 'tolerateds'.
I'm still absolutely starving today. Can't stop eating. I suspect it's going to take a while to get back in the zone again. One up-side though (apart from the fact we had lots of fun!) was that one of the other women had followed a dukan-style programme for several months after seeing her mother in hospital after a quadruple-bypass operation and finding she herself had raised blood pressure and cholesterol. She had eaten Dukan apart from a carbohydrate breakfast, cut out alcohol, taken up exercise and lost 2 stone and cured all her health issues. She looked great, drank moderately, ate a little of everything, and said she understood that the exercise had to be a part of her life from now on. It was truly inspiring to see how she has turned her life around at 50.
So here goes! I'm embarking on the second half of my weight loss, and saying good-bye to alcohol and hello to exercise (the latter 2 easier said than done, but do-able, I know).
I've also now understood how important Consolidation is going to be, to long-term success. I've got to be able to eat bread, cheese, etc regularly without going mad. I realise I'm going to have to exercise the same discipline as I have done in Cruise - it won't be harder, or easier, just more of the same. I'll need to trust the plan implicitly and not try to outwit it.
Nice to be back in your company, fellow dukaneers. Have a great week! xx
