The Unofficial Dukan Diet Blueprint

By Patricia Duk

Discover how the number one diet in France that has helped millions of people to lose weight and keep it off, can help you shed unwanted pounds without a lifetime of denying yourself your favorite treats.

It is the diet that has helped celebrities such as Kate Middleton, Jennifer Lopez and Giselle Bundchen to lose weight and keep it off.

While its status as the celebrities secret weapon in controlling their weight has helped expose the diet to the general public, it is the fact that it gets results and fast which has meant that its popularity has remained.

One of the key distinctions of the Dukan Diet which separates it from other popular types of diets is how simple it is. There are very few rules with the Dukan Diet, no complex meals to prepare, no calorie counting and no rigorous exercise programming.

It may seem difficult to believe but in exchange for giving one day over to eating delicious high protein meals you can enjoy the foods that you like and maintain a slim physique. The key however is following the four phases exactly as they are laid out in the "The Unofficial Dukan Diet Blueprint".

Achieving your ideal body weight does not have to be painful or difficult. The Dukan Diet has a scientifically proven system to take you from where you are now to your ideal body weight. Discover now how the Dukan Diet can change your life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Patricia Duk
• Release date: Jul 29, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301222902

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The Unofficial Dukan Diet Blueprint

The Complete Guide to Losing Weight and Keeping it off with the Dukan Diet

By

Patricia Duk

Smashwords Edition

The Unofficial Dukan Diet Blueprint

Copyright 2013 by Patricia Duk

Smashwords Edition

Contents

Introduction to the Dukan Diet

Who is Dr Pierre Dukan?

Benefits of the Dukan Diet

The Dukan Diet and Diabetes

Good Fats vs. Bad Fats

Why Our Modern Diet is so unhealthy

What are Carbohydrates?

Why Carbohydrates Make You Fat

The Benefits of Oat Bran

Fat Cells the Relationship to the Dukan Diet

Adding Spice to Your Dukan Diet

The Four Phases of the Dukan Diet

The Attack Phase

The Cruise Phase

The Consolidation Phase

Stabilization Phase

Conclusion

Introduction to the Dukan Diet

If you have struggled with losing weight in the past you should not feel that you are alone. Worldwide over 1.4 billon adults are classified as overweight and every year these numbers continue to rise.

So what is the prime culprit of this obesity epidemic? The answer is quite simply the food that we eat. Over the last 150 years the type of food that we consume has changed radically. If you are consuming what is the typical modern western diet of high carbohydrate and high fat foods it is virtually impossible for you to maintain your body at a healthy weight.

Calorie restriction which has long been offered as a solution, quite simply does not work. Counting calories is both inaccurate and an unnecessary way to evaluate your food.

That is where the Dukan Diet comes in. The Dukan diet offers a weight loss solution which not only provides fast, short term results which can see you lose up to 12 pounds in the first ten days of the diet, it also offers a long term solution to weight loss.

As you will see the Dukan diet offers very little in the way of long term restrictions of the type of food that you can eat. If you can commit to having one day a week where you consume only protein then the Dukan diet offers a plan to keep you at your ideal body weight for the rest of your life.

So you might be wondering at this point what exactly the Dukan diet is? The Dukan diet is a high protein low carbohydrate diet that has four distinct phases which help to move you to your ideal body weight and then ensures that you stay at that weight for the rest of your life.

It was designed by Dr Pierre Dukan a French nutrition and dietician who had grown frustrated with the result that his clients were getting with traditional weight loss methods. Even if his clients lost weight using these techniques they would soon put it back on.

After extensive study and testing he formulated what would