Dieting

It seems the French do get Fat after all. It also seems as though they are getting fatter and obesity is becoming a big problem.  Every other French person seems to be on the Pierre Dukan diet. This Doctor Dukan is the god of diets with thousands of followers including some of my friends. If you look on Google you will soon see how popular he is.

As I seem to have tried every diet known to mankind I have been reading his book and am now going to try  to lose those four extra kilos which always follow me around. It is a mixture of various ideas, starting with an attaque for the first week or so when only protein is allowed along with oat bran and yogurt for breakfast. This is followed by the addition of green vegetables to the protein for a number of weeks and then the re-introduction of pulses and fruit and even bread. People swear it is successful and easy to follow although there are critics who maintain it is not healthy or sustainable. One has to go on the attaque,  the word for getting started with a bang, and the holy grail of a perfect weight, is only a few weeks or months away depending on your starting weight.  After reaching the goal weight, one is obliged to keep up the two spoonfulls of oatbran for breakfast forever and return to a protein only day each  Thursday. This is to ensure  you do not relapse. In French if you fall of the wagon so to speak it is a craque. 

So I am about to attaque and hopefully not craque!!!! Should I include a before and after photo of me??? Maybe a photo of my cat Matilda and some croissants is a better idea.