A Brief Overview of the Dukan Diet

The Dukan diet is designed for losing weight naturally.  The initial weight loss is fairly rapid. Even more importantly, the goal of the diet is to stabilize weight loss so that, unlike in many other diets, the lost weight doesn’t come back with a vengeance!

The Dukan diet is basically comprised of four phases:

• THE ATTACK PHASE: This phase kick starts the diet, and you should rapidly lose weight in this phase.  The emphasis in this phase is on protein-rich foods.

• THE CRUISE PHASE: The Cruise phase adds vegetables to protein, and is designed to have you lose further weight, but at a slower rate than in the attack phase.  A diet of pure protein is alternated with a diet of protein and vegetables.  On average, the weight loss here is designed to be about a pound every 3 days.
• THE CONSOLIDATION PHASE:  It is critical that you prevent your body from gaining back the weight that you have lost in the first two phases. So this phase is designed to prevent the rebound weight gain.  In this phase, previously forbidden foods are gradually reintroduced.  Two “celebration” meals per week are allowed in this phase  You should still lose some weight in this phase as well, at a rate of about a pound every 5 days.
• THE STABILIZATION PHASE: Now it is important to keep all that weight off — for the rest of your life!  There are three simple rules that you have to stick to: eat a small quantity of oat bran every day, implement a protein day once a week, and try to take the stairs whenever possible.  Not too bad, right?

Now you know briefly what the phases of the Dukan Diet are, and what each entails.  We will shortly put up some Dukan Diet reviews, so that you can hear from people who have tried this diet, and see what they think of it.