19th September Cruise day 17

Weight loss: 0.0 kg
Total weight loss: 4.6 kg
PP

Still not feeling well and if I'm honest, just don't feel up to going shopping for food or cooking. Thank heavens for Dear Hubby, who spent much of the day looking after me as best as he could. Didn't feel much like food, but managed to eat a boiled egg for breakfast, some roast gammon slices for lunch and a lamb korma for dinner. Hmmm quite a few cheats there I suppose, but at least I'm eating something.
BGs are up and I don't know what to do about it other than take some more medication and pray that I don't hypo. They are making me feel even worse.
And that is all for today.

14th September 2011 cruise day 12

Weight loss: 0.0kg
Total weight loss: 4.5kg
PV

Still feeling rotten, so happy that there's no weight gain. Turned out the dukan pralines that I made yesterday from the recipe on mydukandiet.com. Normally I make these exactly to the recipe and they turn out like perfect little roses. This batch has a scoop of protein powder in as an experiment. On sitting, it made the mixture very thick - almost setting by itself without the need to put in the freezer. That made it harder to get the mixture in the mould but they seem to be a bit longer lasting and almost bubbly in texture.

Breakfast this morning was a courgette fritter. Grated the courgettes, squeezed out all the water in a muslin, added a little cheese and a beaten egg and grilled. They were nice, but I made 3 and just couldn't eat them all. The recipe needs a little adjusting before I can use them as a replacement for hash browns in a cooked breakfast. I should have had these with turkey rashers and poached egg, but, meh, feeling poorly and it all seemed too much effort.

BGs are finally responding to me being poorly and have gone up. Not sky high yet, but not the low figures that I've gotten used to since starting dukan - and, my whole reason for being on this crazy diet in the first place. So I'm back to juggling medication to try to find the right dose which will have an effect. I can cope if it's just for the short term. Hoping the antibiotics kick in soon and I start to feel better and then I can go back to being just a little bit more carefree.

Dinner was A-MAZING! On a whim at the supermarket last week, I bought one of those packets of spice mixes. I usually disapprove of them as I usually put together my own mixes at a fraction of the cost. So it was odd that I picked it up. It was Saag aloo mix by schwartz. I used slices cauliflower instead of potatoes -so I know it wasn't saag aloo - but it was just gorgeous. And totally vegetarian, which I have to admit was a blessed break from the protein, protein, protein.

It was so yummy I forgot to do my injection beforehand. Which means I also forgot to take my antibiotic and hour before the injection..... Dammit.

Still poorly, and really right now all I want to do is sit and eat, so if I manage to not do that, I'll be happy!

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!

9th September Cruise day 7

weight loss: 0.6kg
total loss: 2.0 kg
PP

Another loss again, so keeping my fingers crossed for an ongoing downward trend.

Started to feel pretty grim at dinner last night and ended up going to bed with a raging fever. Really, really don't feel like eating today so am cutting myself a little bit of slack and eating whatever I do fancy. Now I'm not talking ice cream (had that last night :S) and chocolate, but if I want to eat vegetables on a PP day them I'm going to. And a spoonful of sour cream and some sprinkles of cheddar on my chicken fajitas wont hurt me.

Normally when I'm sick BGs spike massively but have managed to keep mine down. They are a little higher, but nothing to worry about, especially seeing as through my fog of feeling awful, I forgot to take pretty much ALL of my medication for the day.

I have to say, I'm quite enjoying taking boiled eggs to lunch at work this week. They come in their own wrapper and remind me of picnics when we were kids.

Breakfast: Boiled egg
Lunch: Chicken strips, onions and peppers cooked in fajita dry mix; wrapped in lettuce leaves, with spoonful of soured cream and few sprinkles of cheddar cheese. YUM.
Dinner: Struggled to want anything, ate few spoons of savoury mince with couple slices of Dukan bread.

(Bread was quite yummy by the way, am going to try it toasted tomorrow. Then I imagine I will regret the decision I made against buying low fat spread in the supermarket last week. I DO hate margarine.)

8th September Cruise Day 6

weight loss: 1.0kg
total loss: 1.4kg
PV
Finally!!! Back to losing weight again and this time I know it's fat rather than water. The perseverance has paid off - hope weight loss continues and this isn't just a blip, but right now am totally relieved that I haven't been wasting my time.

Well, I hate to admit it, but tonight was a pre arranged meal out with two friends. Okay listen, this blog is starting to make me sound like a right foodie solcialite, but the truth is that Tuesday's dining out experience was a necessary evil to spend some time with a friend who needed a chat. Tonight's is just, well, to get together! And it's okay to go out to eat, right?
On this occasion, tried to pick something with few carbs and not deep fried for starter, no carbs for main and declined pudding, as did my fellow diners. Feeling SO rightous and quite pleased with myself until the manager popped over with complimentary deep fried ice cream for us all.... Well it would have been rude not to eat it! But you have to love that customer relations exercise!


Breakfast: boiled egg
Lunch: slices of ham; fat free yogurt
Dinner: Meat dumplings; Beef with vegetables; deep fried ice cream :S