PP & PV vs PP,PP,PV,PV

Sooo...
Toying with the idea of having a little mix around with my PP and PV days so that it fits into my lifestyle a little more.

Yesterday (Sunday 17th June) was Fathers Day in the UK.
I was due a PP day but found out I was going out to eat with my grandad and my family so thought I'd change it to a PV day as its always difficult eating PP at a restaurant- particularly as I don't eat meat.
As it happens the menu was diabolical. They didn't even have a salad!
I chose vegetable curry.
WRONG WRONG WRONG
salt
sugar
fat

I left the rice but ate the naan and the poppadom and mango chutney.
And then shared a MASSIVE sundae with chocolate brownie, ice cream, squirty cream, chocolate sauce. The lot.
Then I felt really ill.
Then I had a fish burger from McDonalds.
My god.

Anyway...

So today is PP and then tomorrow will be PP and then I'm back into the cycle.

Now- apart from the going nuts and pigging out "it is fathers day afterall" - (theres always an excuse.)
I think that perhaps this could be the way forward. Its sooo much easier to do PP at work and then at the weekends I can do PV.
Might give this a go for a little while. Not strictly- but if I know theres an event, function, or I just feel like it I'm going to swap my days. Making sure that in a month I'm having at least 15 PP days which is what I would have if it was every other day like its supposed to be.

Now- I need to stay on track.

Not amused- GAIN after PV

Its me again.

Today is official weigh in day.

I'm 124.6lbs.
Not amused.

I was 123.8lb on Weds and on Thurs and today I've somehow managed to put on a pound. Nice.

Positives:-

Its a 0.4lb loss compared to my 125lb of last Friday
A loss is a loss
I cheated in Belgium and STILL lost

Negatives:-

NOT AMUSED!!!


So..
I've decided to make an executive decision and move my 'official weigh-in' to tomorrow.
I knew that after a PV day there's always going to be issues. So I will have to alternate my official weigh in between Fridays & Saturdays so to obtain the most satisfactory results.
Although this seems like I'm massaging the numbers a little I'm doing this for good reasons.

Now that my weigh in is tomorrow:-

I shall be on my BEST behaviour today
I will drink lots of water
I won't get the negative attitude and think "I may aswell eat pizza and cake as I'm not losing weight anyway"
And so on and so forth.

So tune in tomorrow and lets hope for a more chirpy and sane Kimberley.

Dukanize your life

Thought I'd share a few of the foods that I have stumbled across on my journey.

Things like Cottage Cheese "Ice-Cream" and Cauliflower "Mash" all help to vary the menu whilst following Dr. Dukan's strict rules and regulations.

One thing that was killing me was the lack of takeaway on a Friday night.

So I made Pizza!

I used a Dukan Galette- which contains the daily allowance of oatbran for the base.
Mix some herbs and chopped onion with tomato puree and a splash of water and spread as far to the edges of the base as possible. Then I grated onto it a light mini babybel (1 a day is tolerated on Cruise).
Pop under the grill until the cheese is melted- and hey presto we have pizza!

Obviously its not like the real thing. My favourites being the vegetarian supreme from Dominoes or the pesto and mozzarella Ristorante pizza by Dr. Oetker. But I'm not going to lose 7.8lbs in 17 days by stuffing my face with either of those am I!
This made a lovely little snack anyhoo- I even used a pizza slice to cut it and live out the fantasy- even though it is smaller than a side plate!!!

Next up for the weekend is...

Curry

This was a courgette and king prawn curry that I found in a Slimming World recipe book. 

I used:- 

1 red onion- diced

2 garlic cloves- peeled and crushed

1 tsp grated ginger- was really hard to get a teaspoons worth

1 tsp mild chili powder- think I used cayenne pepper instead

2 tsp mild curry powder- I used masala powder

200ml chicken stock with bovril- I used half a vegetable oxo cube

1 large courgette- I had half of a small one

1 tin of tomatoes

prawns

Other ingredients in the recipe which I didn't use:-

6 cherry tomatoes, halved

200ml passata

200g very low fat natural fromage frais

6 tbsp very fine coriander

2 tbsp chopped mint leaves

salt

Method according to Slimming World:-

Place the onion in a medium sized non stick saucepan with the garlic, ginger, chilli powder, curry powder and stock. Bring to the boil over a medium heat, cover, reduce the heat to low and cook gently for 3-4 minutes.

Cut the courgette into thick matchsticks and add to the pan with the tomatoes and passata. Bring back to the boil and simmer gently for 10 minutes, stirring often to prevent sticking.

Stir in the prawns, fromage frais, chopped herbs, season with salt and remove from the heat.

Serve immediately with steamed green vegetables.

My way (or the highway):-

I bunged the prawns in at the beginning with the stock because they were frozen and I'm terribly paranoid about food poisoning. I made wayyy too much stock because I was guessing and as a result things were rather runny. So I ended up with a soupy brothy curry which still tasted lovely. I didn't add the fromage frais because I only had creme fraiche (not sure if they're the same) but have had a terrible experience with it splitting and curdling which isn't what you want when you're dying for indian takeaway and trying to make-do.

All in all. Yum.

Tonight I've had a favourite British dish..

Bangers and Mash

So here I have 2 veggie sausages- dry fried with peppered swede "mash" and 2 spears of asparagus.

I read somewhere that asparagus helps with water retention and as I PUT ON WEIGHT last time I weighed after a PV day I thought I'd give it a go.

I also had reduced salt and sugar ketchup with my bangers- although I'm not a fan and it will NEVER beat good old fashioned Heinz. And I added a dollop of extra light philly to my mash so that it was creamy and yum. 

I realise that the meals I have shared cannot compare to or replace some of the fatty treats that we are used to. But it IS possible to Dukanize your favourite meals and enjoy food.

Cooking is so therapeutic and I find that I am constantly experimenting now that I have rules. In fact- now that I can eat LESS types or categories of food, I find that I am eating MORE of a variety because I'm always trying something new.

Win.

PV WEIGHT GAIN?!!?

Groannn!!!

So I was just getting my head around the idea that after a PV day my weight will stay the same.
Now a whole new world of information to digest has slamdunked into my life.

WEIGHT GAIN!?!

So you're telling me I can't eat crisps, sweets, bread, FRUIT!, pizza, pasta, alcohol, cheese, ice-cream, biscuits, ANYTHING and I STILL put on weight?! Nice.

Ok, ok- a tad dramatic. I put on 0.2lbs today. This is the first time- on my 14th day- that the scales have gone up! And I'm not pleased.

To be fair I lost 0.6lbs yest after a PP day. But still!!!
Fingers crossed for tomorrow...

Well well well...

7am

Someone should have had a little more faith in Dr. Dukan...

Hurrah, yippee, woohoo!!!

0.8lb Loss this morning!!!

I must remember from now on that the scales will fluctuate after a PV day. I already knew this, but was nervous that that was going to be it. Forever at the dreaded 132.0.

If at first you don't succeed....

STS

Groan.
STS means Stayed the Same in the dieting world.
Thought I should make a point of noting it down as this is the first time- on my 10th day that the numbers on the scale did not go down.

The dreaded 132.0

I'm annoyed.

Maybe not annoyed- thats sort of an angry feeling isn't it. I'm more disappointed really.

Points of consideration:-

• The numbers didn't go up- good thing!
• It was a vegetable day yesterday- and they retain water
• I ate THREE GODDAMN PARSNIPS YESTERDAY!!! (I knew they'd come back to haunt me).
• I now can't update my little weight loss ticker :-(
• I still have lost 5.4lbs all together
• I'm going to put even more pressure on myself to lose more tomorrow
• I need to up my game
• I haven't had a bowel movement in 24 hours (sorry- but every little helps)

Its going to be a long day...

Update- Day 9 - Cruise Day 5

Coooeyyy!!!

Don't worry I've not disappeared. I do log on every day but try hard not to type type type my life away. But things are going good y'all!!!

Soo...

Start weight:- 137.4lbs

Current weight:- 132lbs

Total Loss:- 5.4lbs

Weight left to lose:- 13lbs

The scales have been going down (touch wood) EVERY day. Even when its 0.2lbs I'm happy.

Today was my second PV day so I do expect it to go up or stay the same tomorrow, although it didn't last time. But I'm prepared if that happens (so I say).

Some of my cooking:-

Dukan Galette's- made in bulk. Each contains my daily oatbran and they keep fresh in the fridge for up to a week.

 

Dukan Muffins- both sweet and savoury. Again containing daily oatbran allowance. I've enjoyed this as a "cake" with a vanilla yoghurt, and this morning had an "egg mcmuffin" with reduced salt and sugar ketchup :-)

Dukan Lasagne- The courgette's are my "lasagne" sheets. I scrimped a bit hence the gaps on top. My "ricotta" was tofu- and it was bloomin lovely! All the flavours and vegetables. Mmmm...!!!

CRUISE- PV- Day 1

WOW- I can't believe it- I've lost all of my weight overnight. I mean literally- ALL OF IT. I weigh NOTHING!!!

I think this causes for a Celebration- best get in touch with Linford Christie- this is clearly a Guinness World Record!


Or not.


May as well have weighed nothing/ lost nothing for all the weight I did lose.

Nah- still chirpy :-D

Loss- 0.4lbs
TOTAL LOSS: 4 lbs in 4 days!!!




Now- I'm gonna eat me some veg!

PV= Protein & Vegetables Day

Food Diary:-

Cup of tea

Fried egg & mushrooms

Kipper fillet, cucumber and cherry tomatoes

Crabsticks

Yeo Valley 0% fat vanilla yoghurt (waayyy too much considering the carbyness of it all)

Can Pepsi Max

Kipper Ragu (garlic, onion, mushrooms, yellow pepper, tinned tomatoes, mixed herbs, KIPPER) with a dollop of creme fraiche stirred in at the end ;-)

Cup of tea

Mood:- Good

Exercise:- TWO HOURS of walking!!!

Small portions, healthy feeling and welcomed the change in flavour and textures.

Cruise is the way forward.

Expecting to stay the same weight wise tomorrow. Or go up a little. Apparently this is to be expected when transitioning from Attack to Cruise, and particularly on Protein & Vegetable days as the veg retains water.

Despite my disclaimer I know this will discourage me somewhat. Be prepared.