One week and one day on Dukan. Again, no change on the scales, so I am still at a total loss of 8.5 pounds, which for me is acceptable. I fully expected a major stagnation after losing so much weight so quickly in the Attack phase. I am one of those people who is highly resistant to losing weight. My body seems to be very efficient at processing foods and gleaning the most calories possible out of anything I eat and holding onto them!

Considering my history with weight issues, family weight history, and vast experience with trying to lose weight, this is to be expected. I have struggled with being overweight since being a toddler. I was overweight throughout elementary school, only starting to manage my weight in junior high school. In high school, I was able to reduce my weight significantly to a healthy range, but it shot up again once I started college. Since then, I have gained and lost weight numerous times, being 100 pounds overweight at one point. I lost that 100 pounds using Weight Watchers' points (not Points Plus) program and managed to keep most of it off for five years. I frankly got tired and bored of restricted eating and being hungry with cravings all the time. So the weight started creeping back on slowly at first and then at an accelerate rate in the past few months. When I started the Dukan Diet I was 25 pounds heavier than I want to be, and now still have 16.5 to lose. Unfortunately, for me it will be a slow process because my body just doesn't want to give up that fat!

I can say that my clothes continue to feel less tight each day and I have more energy with it seeming to take less effort to move around. I do not have cravings on Dukan Diet at all so far, and only get hungry close to regular meal time, unlike what I've experienced with Weight Watchers' points and Points Plus programs.