Dukan diet

Yep I'm on a diet.

I've been debating whether I want to blog about it

because what if I fail and don't reach my goal?

or, as I usually do,

am heading in the right direction

am totally losing weight but

get a little confident

and pile it back on?

Then those of you who actually see me

will know that I've tried and failed.

The only person I really have these conversations with is Dae

and that's cause I feel she gets it.

I know that you all do understand this insecurity

because we all have tried and failed

but wearing it on your sleeve???

But what the heck, let's bare my soul

and tell you I weighed

(yes already past tense)

103kgs.

I'm 5 ft 6 and carry my weight well

in that I am an apple shape

so carry my weight mostly around my middle.

Yes I have had that awkward moment with Thomas Te Hira

who aged four as we were grooving at Jessie's wedding asked,

"Aunty, are you pregnant?"

It's that kind of fat.

Narrow looking from behind, wide as from the side.

But a couple weeks ago I decided this is it.

Summer is coming and I have things I want to look good for,

be fit for, enjoy happily in the sun in my togs.

I want to do stuff and not feel tired,

I need to get back to a gluten free diet that I should be enjoying

and bouncing off the walls with energy.

I read about the Dukan Diet in the Woman's Day

(I always hear the ad song in my head when I think of Women's Day)

so when in Wellington last week

(yes again and most excellent trip thanks to the

Wellington Young Farmers Club's great Primary Industries Cocktail Function - awesome night)

I went to a bookshop,

actually I tell a lie I was in Masterton having been in Wellington

and was on my way back to Wellington.

Anyway I went to good old Paper Plus

got the Dukan Diet book and started reading.

I'm in the attack phase,

 which is the theory of jump starting my metabolism.

So far it's working.

I'm 98.2kgs

so have lost 4.8kgs

and it isn't water

cause I drink three litres a day.

I'm not hungry.

I'm motivated

and it's working.

Five more days of the attack phase and

then I start introducing low GI foods

so I can start eating vegetables.

Hello veges.. I miss you, not long now xx