Eat: "Dukan do it" - DD

Oh, another fad diet. Blah, blah. Yes, well, I'm jumping on this one simply because I really need to be bikini ready pronto and am not willing to go the starvation route. Instead, I will go the low-carb-put-your-body-in-a-tizzy route. Generally, I am quite satisfied with my body--that was until recently when someone snapped some casual photos and the result made my eyes widen. "My arms look like THAT?" Now I think twice before putting on a sleeveless shirt. So enough about me and more about the "diet."*

Hello, "Dukan Diet." It's pretty much a modified South Beach diet so everyone tells me (I wouldn't know since I've never researched the latter). Supposedly it's all the rage in Europe.  Handily, the Daily Mail has summarised all the key tenets of the diet in the following articles. Tomorrow I start. I've already loaded the fridge with chicken, seitan, turkey breast, eggs, non-fat yogurt, and other goodies.

1. Introduction
2. Attack and Cruise Phase
3. Consolidation and Stablisation Phase

Honestly, at the end of the day, these fad diets are just one way of limiting your caloric intake. I mean of course I will eat less if all I can eat (for the attack phase of 3 days) is lean protein and non-fat dairy! There just isn't that much choice of what to eat when those are the only options presented. But there is definitely something to be said for the low/no-carb diets. After all, there is a difference between a calorie of protein and a calorie of sugar. Anyway, wouldn't recommend a strict protein diet for the long-term. Wouldn't want your body to become ketotic!

* If you aren't in a rush, I'd say to do what everyone tells you to do: eat, not too much, mostly vegetables... and exercise. However, I am in a rush and so we must whip out the big guns: adios carbohydrates.