Musings on Dukan (and our weekend)

Let me tell you about weekends on this diet. They’re not too bad, but I inevitably wake up on Monday morning to some kind of gain. As long as I know it’s going to be there, I’m okay about it. And know that I can get rid of it over the course of the week, plus some. Saturday I was down almost 28 lbs, but then today I was down only 26.2. (Hey! A marathon!) I gained 1.6 lbs over the weekend. Better than the weekend prior, when I gained 3 lbs. Yeesh.

See, with Dukan, you alternate Pure Protein (PP) days with Protein-Vegetable days. And for whatever reason (the prevailing wisdom is the water and fiber in the vegetables) your weight is almost always up a bit after a PV day. And to make life easier, I generally make weekends PV days and most weekdays PP days. So it makes sense that on Mondays, I’d be up a bit. But it doesn’t make it suck any less.

(Yes, I weigh myself every day. I do keep a graph with my daily weights, so the general downward trend makes me happy, if the small wiggles in the line don’t.)

(The yellow diagonal is the line I need to always stay below if I want to hit my goal weight this summer. Gulp. I’m a little close to it today!)

I should admit here that vegetables or not, I wasn’t perfect this weekend. I was darn good, though. Saturday was our annual Easter egg hunt with the triplet group. I was one of the hosts, and while I brought the drinks, everyone else brought food. I brought my own turkey pepperoni and ate some of the veggie tray. (Goood!) But while I successfully resisted the cupcakes, donut holes and noodle salad, the corn salad was too much to resist. So I had a little corn salad. That might or might not have had crushed up Fritos in it. (!!!)

And then on Sunday, while I managed to stay away from the pizza and cupcakes at a child’s birthday party, I may have later helped myself to just a few of the Hershey’s miniatures from the boys’ favor bags.

I know intellectually that a cup of corn salad and 4 tiny chocolates didn’t make me gain 1.6 lbs. It wouldn’t be possible, even if the corn salad was made with lard. (I hope it wasn’t.) I mean, my friend Steph and I walked five and a half miles in the disgusting heat Sunday morning. So I just have to make sure I don’t let these small fluctuations get me down. It’s so much easier for me to stay on track during the week, at work. So I just need to keep on keepin’ on.

Some pictures from the Easter egg hunt…

Some (not nearly all) of the kids lined up to find eggs…