One thing that you will find out about the Dukan Diet is that you will lose some weight. Or, you could just skip buying the book and just cut your calories way back. The Dukan Diet relies heavily on a very low calorie diet that doesn’t take much consideration about the problems of poor nutrition. You will be taking a daily vitamin but that won’t make up for the necessary nutrition that you’ll be missing out on.

Here is how the Dukan Diet plan works. The diet is broken down into three phases. In phase one, the goal is rapid weight loss with only protein allowed. You stay on this phase for 10 days and you should expect to lose up to 7 pounds just in the first 5 days. This is known as the “Attack” phase supposedly because it attacks your fat. Unfortunately, you’ll feel like you’re the one who’s under attack.

The plan under phase one of the diet is eat a diet completely made up of protein. Eat all you want of lean or low-fat meat, chicken, fish, eggs and soy. No lamb or pork is allowed because of the relatively high fat content. You are also required to drink at least 1.5 liters or water and supplement with a tablespoon of oat bran. Even though you can eat all you want of the protein in phase one, this is considered to be the hardest phase of the diet. Within a short time you feel the deprivation of not being able to eat any carbohydrates and another piece of steak just doesn’t do anything to satisfy your appetite.

The next three phases of the diet are a less restrictive than phase one but still limit carbohydrates. Phase two stretches out much longer than phase one and the length is determined by how much weight you want to lose. Even though phase two is less restrictive, you will still be on a very low calorie diet with a weight loss expected of two pounds per week. The holding phase comes in phase three and you won’t lose any weight but the goal is just to get used to the new weight loss. Finally, phase four is the maintenance phase with only one day a week of eating only protein.

Dieting generally involves some uncomfortable feelings. Somewhere between feeling hungry and mild feelings of deprivation are fairly common. The Dukan Diet also warns you to expect constipation, bad breath, fatigue and dry mouth along with the hunger. Some common sense might lead you to suspect that these symptoms may not be the trademarks of a diet that’s doing your body good.

Losing weight on a restrictive diet like this is a fairly easy proposition. Drastically limit your calories and you’ll lose weight. The hard part is what you do next. Maintaining weight loss when you still have the bad eating habits that caused you to gain the weight in the first place is much more difficult. Very low carbohydrates and high protein isn’t something you can easily make a lifestyle out of unless you’re Tom Hanks marooned on an island with nothing to eat but fish. Change your eating habits to include low calorie, high nutrition foods and you’ll lose the weight and keep it off, too.

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