My Name is Masha and I am a PR professional of British Russian origin living in Spain and a Mother and wife with a family who have supported my diet from the beginning...

My Dukan Story

I first found out about the diet through a colleague on Facebook.
I was desperate to lose weight and all my life have been on and off diets and when I lost weight it always went back on.

The least I have ever weighed was 55 kilos and the most, nearly 90.
Being a woman in her early 50's who loves to eat, especially sweet stuff, and with this track record I knew I had found my diet when I registered on the Dukan website.

• My favourite support Dukan food: Oat and yoghurts

• My Dukan treat:Home made meat loaf

• My favourite form of exercise: my daily hour-long power walk with my husband and my dog Norah

• The best compliment someone has paid me: "You look like a model!"

• What keeps me going: looking good in clothes and being able to fit into everything again

• The advice I would give to other Dukanians: persevere and the efforts will pay off

On 24th September (at 1.64cm) I weighed 78 kilos and was told I would be 64.2 kilos on Christmas day which I found hard to believe.

What made me persevere was losing weight almost every day and I suddenly realised, gosh this diet really works. I began to lose interest in food and gain interest in clothes, something I hadn't done for a long time as nothing ever fit.
Exercise was no problem for me, because even in my fat days, I always went for an hour long power walk every day with our dog.
There were times when my weight stagnated but I refused to give up and eventually it always went down.

My life changed so much for the better. I was enjoying losing weight and didn't care about the food that was not included.
 
I achieved my true weight over Christmas, even though I broke the diet on the most festive days.
I am now on the consolidation phase and was worried stiff that after a week I would put on weight. Well you know what?
I actually lost half a kilo. I know now that the consolidation phase which in my case will be for 155 days is going to work.
I also know that thanks to the amazing Dukan diet, I have the will and the power never ever to be fat again but with little sacrifice.
I don't know how to thank you guys enough and am telling everyone around me, through my blog and on Facebook and in person, the wonders of this diet.

I feel on top of the world at 63 kilos now, nearly the same as my 25 and 26 year old daughters. We now share clothes, something unthinkable of a few months ago.

I have gone from a size 48 (18) to a normal size 42 (12) and feel like a young woman again.