Dukan Diet doer

mamadukes6
mamadukes6 Posts: 3
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Hi All,

Started Dukan Diet three days ago - many friends have shared amazing testimony on their weight loss and their ability to integrate the diet into a "life style" to maintain their healthier, stronger body and mind after weight loss. I am amazed at their transformation in mind and body. I want to get that back. Would love to 'meet' other members following the diet to share encouragement and support.

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  • LJMiller0587
    LJMiller0587 Posts: 5 Member
    Hi Mamaduke,

    I started the Dukan Diet today after my colleagues have had some really great success on it - how are you finding it? I have been enjoying what I've eaten today but I can see how it will start to get repetitive but then I think my usual diet was quite repetitive anyway just with the wrong foods!
  • SunofaBeach14
    SunofaBeach14 Posts: 4,899 Member
    Why? It's low fat and unnecessarily restrictive. Have you tried simply counting calories and failed?
  • ShellyBell999
    ShellyBell999 Posts: 1,482 Member
    Oops, I came in for donuts
    Darn old eyes :grumble:
  • Ophidion
    Ophidion Posts: 2,065 Member
    Is that like HADOUKEN!, because anything Street Fighter is badass!

    I mean Ryu's fireball defies physics...even those of the video game...
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  • Trechechus
    Trechechus Posts: 2,819 Member
    I thought this was going to be about doughnuts, too
  • Allterrain_Lady
    Allterrain_Lady Posts: 421 Member
    Please, don't do this diet. Kind of personnal fight here, sorry in advance for the rant.
    I did it, about ten years ago when M. Dukan just released his book called 'Je ne sais pas maigrir' ('I don't know how to lose weight')
    It seemed written for me. It was not. I lost about 19lbs in 9 months. Without eating any carbs, any fat, no fruits (I mean, SERIOUSLY, NO FRUITS?!).

    I was dizzy all the the time, I lost my hair, my smile and my social life.

    When I stopped the diet, overnight, because I couldn't stand it anymore, I put the weight back on twice as fast it came off. And then some. It took me a very long time to recover. Physically, of course, and emotionnally. I was complete mess, bordeline ED, scared of food.

    If I may add, about 10 days ago, Dukan got banned from the "Ordre des Médecins" (basically this is the Official Doctor association in France)
    He's not a Doctor anymore. He's facing several law suits for prescribing diet pills to his patients, for turning medecine into a business and because this diet sucks!

    Please, take an hour or so to read his book carefully. You'll see that he writes like a guru would.
    Everything he says is so supposed to be gold. If you follow the rules, all the rules, all the time with absolutely no window for when 'life happens' you'll succeed. If not, if you make ONE tiny step on the side, you'll fail and it's gonna be your fault.

    But, guess what, life happens! This guy is dangerous. Nobody and I MEAN nobody has succeeded in the long run. Even here in France, where is considered as a 'miracle worker' (that being less and less true, thank God!)

    I can't believe how I got stuck in this mess. He takes credit for everything good (short time good, I insist) and finds a way to blame his patients for EVERY fail!

    GET THE HELL OUT before you metabolism is so screwed up, you'll have a lot of trouble trying to be healthy again. You can't cut out whole groups of food from your life for such a long time.

    Feel free to rant, to tell me I'm a hater and I should rut in hell or add me as a friend to say 'thanks' but please don't do this to your body!
  • Adriennrus
    Adriennrus Posts: 9 Member
    I just started Dukan yesterday, I love the concept although I will add my twist to it to make it a bit healthier!! I started a blog to inspire anyone if they are dreaming of the beachbody for this summer just like me!!!

    http://sweatluv.wordpress.com/

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