My Dukan Diet Journey: Tired of being fat!

I have been hesitant to write about this on the blog, maybe because I did not know if it was going to work or if I was going to be strong enough to follow through. But the fact is that I am tired of being fat, of not being able to buy clothes and enjoy the experience, of not having the energy to play soccer with my boy or do gymnastics with my girl, of not being able to wear a bikini…. Shall I keep going?

The fact is that I was always a thin person growing up, sometimes too thin, and I was thin by nature, I truly did not work for it. I ate a lot and did not exercise and was still thin and with a nice figure. Then a few things changed in my life that made me put on the pounds:

• We moved to the US:
• Huge portions of tasty food that are very bad for you!
• We go by car everywhere – no need to walk to the train every morning.
• I had 2 kids

Since then, I have not been able to get the scales to go down, they seem to always go up! In my head I am still thin somehow, which makes my losing weight very difficult indeed. I tend to conveniently forget my size while faced with a nice pizza, and very sadly remember it again in the changing rooms of department stores when buying new pants because my old ones did not fit anymore.

I have made a few feeble attempts to lose weight, losing a few pounds here and there and always putting them back on and some more!

This situation was obviously not helping my normally happy self. This summer I lost all my pants to crazy seemingly unrelated “broke pants” incidents. No kidding, I am now left with only 3 pairs of pants, and I for once said that I would not buy anymore until I could get into all the nice ones I still have that are just a size or two too small.

But it wasn’t until October this year in where I stepped on my scale and saw a number I have not seen before. I had officially moved up to the next “tenth”. I have never been this big in my life, not even when pregnant! So that was it. I needed to do something or I was going to lose myself and get to the point of no return in where nothing matters because you don’t care anymore. I do not want to fall into that roller coaster of misery. So I changed!

I stumbled upon an article about the Dukan Diet at my doctor’s office and decided to give it a go. This is my journey through the Diet. I do hope to have the strength to see it through the end!