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by Marshall Brain<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Here is my journey so far with the Dukan Diet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n And today I am reporting on my twenty second week (days 151 through 158) on the Dukan diet. This week had moments of brilliance and I reached a new low of 176.6 (51.0 total pounds lost). But then I gained a bunch of water weight for reasons that are not entirely clear, and I ended the week up 2.0 pounds rather than losing weight. Here is how the week unfolded:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Day 151 –<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Day 152 –<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Day 153 –<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Day 154 –<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Day 155 –<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Day 156 –<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Day 157 –<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Day 158 –<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n So what can we say about this week? It was kind of a roller coaster, and a little baffling. I hit a new low of 176.6 (51.0 total pounds lost \u2013 yay!) and felt really optimistic on that day. I was thinking I could get really close to 175.0 this week. And then it all collapsed. From that low I gained 3.4 pounds to end up at 180.0 for the week, and all of that appears to be water. I don\u2019t quite understand where all that water came from \u2013 in the same way that I have no idea how a day of strong exercise can result in weight gain the next day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But what I do know is that it will work itself out. Yes, I ate too much on day 157. But if you average it with day 156, I ate about 2,000 calories per day. The average for the whole week looks pretty good too. I got a good amount of exercise for the week. Besides the nuts there were no significant transgressions, and if I am going to transgress, nuts are a relatively healthy way to do it. Salt yesterday was way out of line, but what can you do? The good news is that BP is OK \u2013 it was 125\/80 this morning. That\u2019s pretty amazing to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So next week I am going to try to be better, and expect that all the water I gained this week will work itself out. In theory, if it does work out, I should be very close to 175.0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let me close with a note from Drew Carey, who is getting more press this week<\/a> for his amazing weight loss:<\/p>\n\n\n\n But then Carey followed the cone [his first ice cream since January] with an entire pepperoni pizza and a cupcake. The next day, he ate another pizza, leaving him a few pounds heavier and feeling sick. He learned a valuable lesson from his relapse which he posted above his bathroom mirror: \u201cEating crappy food is not a reward\u2013it\u2019s a punishment.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Or as Kate Moss would put it, \u201cNothing tastes as good as skinny feels<\/a>.\u201d I\u2019m a lot more like Drew than Kate, but it is still a good quote. Onward!<\/p>\n\n\n\n [[Click here to find out what happened next…<\/a><\/strong>]]<\/p>\n\n\n\n by Marshall Brain Here is my journey so far with the Dukan Diet: I wrote an article on the Dukan diet: How the Dukan Diet works \u2013 The French diet that is supposed to end the obesity epidemic I started with a 5-day \u201cattack phase\u201d: Yesterday I finished a five-day \u201cAttack Phase\u201d on the Dukan Diet and lost … Continue reading Dukan diet Cruise Phase (Phase 2) week 22 \u2013 Yikes! I gained 2.0 pounds rather than losing weight<\/span> Dukan Table of Contents<\/h2>\n\n\n\n