I started with the Dukan diet innocently enough. I had read about the diet and wrote an article about it on my HowStuffWorks blog:

- How the Dukan Diet works – The French diet that is supposed to end the obesity epidemic

It sounded really interesting, and after a week I decided to try it out. I had nothing to lose, and I have been trying to lose weight for years. So I started with the "attack phase", as described here:

- Yesterday I finished a five-day “Attack Phase” on the Dukan Diet and lost 6.6 pounds – here’s a report on how it went (days 1 to 5)

That worked incredibly well, so it was completely natural to stick with the program and enter Phase 2, the Cruise Phase. Here is a week-by-week diary of my experiences:

• Week 1 (I lost 2.8 pounds)
• Week 2 (I lost 5.4 pounds)
• Week 3 (I lost 2.6 pounds)
• Week 4 (I lost 2.4 pounds)
• Week 5 (I lost 3.0 pounds)
• Week 6 (I lost 1.8 pounds)
• Week 7 (I lost 2.6 pounds)
• Week 8 (I lost 2.2 pounds)
• Week 9 (I lost 2.6 pounds)
• Week 10 (I lost 1.6 pounds)
• Week 11 (I lost 1.2 pounds)
• Week 12 (I gained 1.0 pounds on vacation)
• Week 13 (I lost 3.2 pounds)
• Week 14 (I lost 0.4 pounds)
• Week 15 (I lost 2.8 pounds)
• Week 16 (I lost 2.0 pounds)

I have learned so much in the process of using this diet. Here are some other articles I have written during the last few months:

- How much does the Dukan Diet cost per day?

- All the dire warnings I have gotten about the Dukan diet have turned out to be wrong

- Very cool calculator for calculating dietary needs – Protein, carbs, fat, vitamins, etc.

- How Carbohydrates Don’t Work – in fact, carbs are probably causing the obesity epidemic. If you are overweight, it is probably the carbs.

- What if everything that we are taught about carbs is actually propaganda?

- Why do we feel like we are entitled to carbs? That we cannot live without them?

- How Treadmills and Exercise Bikes Don’t Work – if weight loss is your goal, High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is a better option

- What is your “ideal weight” if you want to be healthy?

- When a person is fat, how is the fat distributed in the body (amazing x-rays)?

- How Seitan (also know as Wheat Meat) Works - a vegetarian form of protein made from wheat gluten

- How to make tofu

- How to make Greek yogurt at home and cut your yogurt costs in half

My goal is to hit a target weight of 175 pounds. I started at 227.6 pounds. It is my great hope that sometime in September I make it to my goal.

More to come... Stay tuned...

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