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…

The boys discussing their haul with a friend:

Candy!!!

Our sad attempt at a family picture.

So my goal (as I’ve probably mentioned) is to hit 30 lbs at least before I go to New York next week. Fingers crossed.