I twisted my ankle once too many and need to waer a splint until December. So no sports, not too much walking and I have to take it easy 🙁 So I decided to go on a diet in order to fit into my Bridesmaids dress in December.I was never ever a diet person and never cared too much about food. I made my first diet last year and only started it to help a friend as a study volunteer for his bachelor thesis. My boyfriend and I took part in his study and did 6 weeks of a hardcore low carb diet – a hell of a trip…

I wanted to do Lowcarb or Atkins again, because I survived 6 weeks  last year and it worked ok for me (except for the moodyness…). So I went to the book store and looked for a recipe book, because eating the same stuff every day really made me go nuts last year. And I found this Dukan Diet Recipe book, that kind of caught me. I’ve heard of Dukan before and knew it was also a high-protein-low-carb diet like Atkins. The book was quite appealing so I bought the recipe book and some oat bran and started my diet on October 27th. The first days were easy, because it was weekend, I had the time to cook every meal and the fridge was full. With a list of allowed foods and with the help of the recipe book I went to shop for groceries. Dukan is a little different from the diet we did last year, because you are not supposed to eat much fat but you are allowed to eat low fat dairy products. I found it a little hard to figure out what other products I am allowed to consume that are not on the list, because some of them were mentioned in the recipes but I wasn’t sure how much of them was ok etc. So I had to do a lot of research on the web… Continue reading »