DUKAN DIET (for those who have done / doing it)

I'm doing it and I love it 100%! I look and feel better, never have cravings and best of all, never go hungry! I've tried for over 10 years to lose weight and this diet is the only thing that has ever worked for me- in just 2 months! I wish I knew about it when I was 20... So many years wasted feeling insecure! Well I feel great now and once you get into it... Maybe about a month it's not hard at all, you don't even want to eat any other way.

Hope you find success with it good luck!

I agree! I have been following the diet since September last year and it's the most successful diet I have ever tried. The first phase is tough, the second, so much better as you reintroduce the vegetables and the third and four phase, easy! I lost over a stone in a month (no exercise at all) and kept losing all through the cruise phase. I have been maintaining my weight at 8st 12 and a size 8 (UK) since October. I think people assume that because the last phase says "eat what you like" that you can. I disagree! You certainly can have two cheat meals a week, but I think you have to stick to the principle of spacing out starchy meals and cheat meals for it to work. Pure Protein every Thursday isn't a problem for me, I don't mind it.

I have a dress that is so clingy and shows every bump. I bought it a couple of years ago and never wore it, it even had its label still on. On Friday I tried it on and thanks to Dukan it fitted like a glove!

Yes, it takes willpower but then so does eating healthily all the time. At least on this diet if you fancy an Indian takeaway you can have one knowing that by the end of the week, those scales wouldn't have moved! I think the idea of this diet is to change how you think about food and making the right choices. I know that if I have potatoes or pasta say for lunch, at dinner time I will have something without anything starchy like maybe a steak and plate of vegetables. I always have a pudding too!

How long is the first phase? What can you eat to get the fiber / can you eat a slice of high fiber bread? How long did it take you to get into the routine. All I think about is eating lately (well for months now) the more I want to lose weight the more I eat. It is a horrific cycle. My gym closed, was working out at home, lost weight now 2 years later I am at my heaviest ever. Can't fit in my clothes. Desperate to lose. Even my husband who was always like you are fine, etc., is finally saying yes, you should lose the weight, he isn't being mean he is being honest. Blech, I totally hate myself right now. I am hoping logging my food again will keep me honest and on track.

In 2010, 2011 and 2012 The British Dietetic Association named the Dukan Diet the number 1 diet to avoid!!!!!

I have lost weight two years ago on Dukan and due to a stressful incident at that time simply lost the ability to keep track and put the weight back on. I am back on it now and finding it the most successful diet for me and have tried several.

I did weight watchers for two months prior to this and lost 2lbs. I would have put on weight if I had eaten all I was allowed to on WW. The cruise phase is a long haul and predicted loss for me is up to 2lb a week. I am doing this through the coaching. It is then to be followed by consolidation whereby you add in 2 celebration meals a week and a protein thursday. This is the pattern for life. While non-starch vegetables form an important element of the diet, fruit is initially kept out of the diet and then limited. Fructose even from fruit and fruit juice in excess is implicated in type 2 diabetes so I understand this diet. I try to vary the protein and eat a considerable amount of fish, ie tinned fish, sardines, mackerel, oysters, mussels (if you are not allergic) and I do use eggs.If you have cholesterol, eggs are limited. Fat and oil are kept out of the diet, but oily fish is allowed. I also eat lots of yogurt, max of two flavoured small yogurt pots a day but unlimited plain yogurt with stevia to satisfy any sweet craving, and of course the two tablespoon oatbran galette, either savoury or sweet depending on my mood. So if you focus on these foods, I think this diet is healthy. If one ate red meat to excess it could be unhealthy, but this is not what the coaching diet would recommend.