13th September Cruise day 11

Weight loss: 0kg
Total weight loss: 4.5 kg
PP

Weight stayed the same today but will persevere, as before. Am wondering if I will fall into a pattern of losing more after a PP day than a PV day.

Still feeling pretty crappy but trying to stick to the diet. Main deviations have been the sugar in lemsip. I know Lemsip wont help with a chest infection, I should stop taking them.

There is a massive box of chocolates sitting on my dining table, which has been there for a few days. Craig bought it as a present for a special friend of ours and so it sits there until we can give it to her. I haven't been massively tempted by it, but today I decided to make my own chocolates to treat myself.
Again, mydukandiet.com gives recipes for dukan pralines and for meringues, which I've been wanting to try for ages. Luckily I have the joy of a food processor to make these with, otherwise I just wouldn't bother, the way I've been feeling. I can just dump in the ingredients and leave it to do it's thing.

So, I had to use egg yolk for the pralines, which gave me left over whites - hence the meringues. The meringues tasted great, but still there was that sweetener after taste. I think I'm going to get immune to it eventually. I made two lots of pralines, about 30, in a cute little rose chocolate mould that I pop in the freezer. I had some mixture left over, so I thinned it out with some milk to make a chocolate sauce.

I later made a dessert with the sauce, vanilla yogurt and meringues. It was lush. Dear Hubby agreed (there was enough for two) and we talked about how I should take pictures to put on the blog. Sadly we had this conversation as we were staring at the empty glasses and we didn't think that would make much of a helpful picture for you!!!!!
I am going to make picture taking a bit of a mission from now on, starting with dinner.

I had breaded pork escalopes. Okay I know pork isn't dukan friendly, but it is protein and I'm on a PP day. I coated each one in egg and then in the rest of the breadcrumbs made with the dukan bread, mixed with a few herbs. Yum yum yum. And when I say 'I', I mean Dear Hubby, following my instructions as I coughed my little heart out lying on the sofa.....


Cooked up quite nicely in the george foreman - yeah, you're getting the idea that I like things that I can just shove food in and leave alone. The slow cooker is another favourite, but I haven't tried any Dukan recipes in that yet.

Despite being poorly, BGs are still low, whereas normally they would be high when I'm not well and that's mainly all I care about. Sure, the weight loss is brilliant, but if I can stave off organ damage, blindness and loss of legs for a few years by keeping BGs low, then I'm going to keep doing the Dukan thing. It's very similar to Dr Bernstien's diet for diabetes, so it's all good.

Breakfast: Didn't have any (couldn't face it)

Lunch: Ready roasted gammon from supermarket

Dinner: Pork escalopes; dessert without a name.

And I've just learnt that adding photos wrecks all the formatting - I'm sorry for those reading who now have to scroll and scroll. I've done my best to fix it!