One of the big messages in Dr Dukan’s book is: if you don’t want to do regular exercise, don’t bother with my eating program.
At home in Sydney, Bill (my hubby) and I walk heaps and I go to the gym four times a week as well. Combined with the Dukan regimen of eating, we lost the weight we wanted to and have maintained our goal weight now for 12 months.
We have always exercised and somehow gradually put on weight over the years. Eating the Dukan way while doing the same exercise made all the difference. And importantly, how to keep the lost weight off is an issue. I know it’s a problem with most diets because there is no provision to ‘train’ the body to adapt to the new lower weight. That’s why I think the Dukan Diet works – but it is important to follow the program through to the end.
In saying that, we have found ways to modify the Dukan Diet to fit our lifestyle. The main principles we embrace – exercise and one day protein only a week – and it has worked. And we still can have our skinny bitch vodka and sodas after a strenuous day at the office. The office for us at the moment is a ski hill. Writing articles for ski blogs – is that really a job? Yes, it is. And it’s exercise that I can really get used to!
