July 11, 2011-Day 1 of the Dukan Diet

For those of you that are reading this blog, thank you. As this is my first try at blogging so it should be interesting to say the least!

Day 1 of the Dukan Diet
This past weekend was very busy for me in getting prepped for starting this new diet called the Dukan Diet (www.dukandiet.com), the what you say?! I know it definitely has a weird name and I probably never would have heard about it if I had not watched sooo much coverage (too much as my husband says) of the Royal Wedding back in April!

Apparently, this Dukan Diet is quite popular in Europe and is a mainly protein based diet that reduces the amount of carbs that you have daily but does not completely cut them out except for at the beginning..... this will be a major test for me at the beginning :-( So yes, no carbs means no wine until the very last phase of the diet, UGH!

However, Day 1 is going well so far and not feeling hungry or having any cravings.. I got up early worked out on the Elliptical Machine for 30 minutes and hope to go biking (we got new bikes this weekend) for at least 30 minutes after work (if it doesn't rain)! Tonight for dinner it's Grilled Chicken with Tarragon and Lemon, I know that sounds real filling doesn't it?! The one thing that I will be eating a lot of it seems is yogurt! Who knows, maybe I'll beat Michael Westin out in who can eat most yogurt?! LOL...

But seriously, hopefully with keeping this blog up it will help give me that motivation to work even harder at the diet and getting into an even healthier lifestyle! So, please keep your fingers crossed for me :-)

Over the Weekend
So back to the bicycles.... we bought these on Saturday afternoon and thought that besides us getting more exercise, we could also get Bailey out running more with us. Yeah, that grand thought went up in a puff of smoke LOL Bailey is scared to death of the bicycles, so scared that she won't even go out in the garage period! I can only imagine what her little mind must think of those Big, Mean ole' bicycles!! We are hoping that the more she sees them the less scared Bailey will be of them. Any ideas?!

So after, the whole scary bicycle introduction to Bailey we come back in the house for a few minutes. As I am coming out of the bedroom along with trying to keep Bailey from grabbing the dryer sheets (aka crack sheets as we call them), I start to walk into the kitchen to thrown them away, when my husband yells STOP! and has the horrible look on his face. He says don't come in here there is a huge bug on the wall.....so I of course run in the opposite direction as I detest bugs. So I'm asking him what is it, no answer...what is it?! Finally, my hubby yells "I don't know its freaking huge and mutant"...I"m sitting there like ya right...I barely turn the corner and this huge, disgusting, freaky bug is on the wall of my kitchen! I'm yelling at hubby to kill it as I run out the door of the house grabbing Bailey on the way! Finally, about 5 minutes later hubby walks out the front door and says, "I won its dead!" The worst part is we still don't know what kind of bug it was, eeeek!!! But one thing I know for sure, the pest control guy is coming to my house first thing this week!! So that was part of my wild weekend!