My name is Nadine, I’m 31 and I have two little girls Lillian and Flavia who are 3 ½ years old...

My Dukan story...

In May I went away to the seaside for the weekend with some friends and when I got back and saw the photos this sent shock waves through me. I couldn’t go on like this any longer, I hated myself and I hated my husband whenever he tried to give me a cuddle as I was so ashamed of all my fat....

• My favourite support Dukan food: Cheese Cake

• My Dukan treat: Cheese Cake

• My favourite form of exercise: Walking and weight lifting

• The best compliment someone has paid me: "Mummy, you’re really beautiful" (my twins) "Mummy, you’re not fat any more" (Flavia)
"You look completely different, you are gorgeous" (my friends and colleagues)

• What keeps me going: My new clothes and how I look in the mirror now

• The advice I would give to other Dukanians: To keep yourself going don’t forget to use the forums and blogs, they really help! And as you lose weight give your clothes away to charity!

A neighbour had done the Dukan diet and had lost over 3 ½ stone. So there I decided to give it a try, with my fridge and cupboards stocked up with supplies for Pierre Dukan’s method, I set out on my quest to get slim. I braved the scales only to find out that I weighed 14 and a half stone! 

Almost 5 foot 8 with a bmi of 31, there was only one conclusion - I was obese!
The attack phase and then the cruise went well, the biggest support being the Internet forums which I’m addicted to and of course my blog... 

95 % of my success is down to them and the rest is down to my motivation and the thrill of shedding the pounds quickly! For any of you that are interested my forum pseudonym is ‘papillonnette38’...

And the tasty recipes on the Internet also had a lot to do with it!

Another thing I did was keep an on-going photo album of me as the pounds dropped off that others could see. This was a real challenge as I couldn’t lie to myself and even more so because I was letting other people look at me! I get lots of encouragement and people congratulate me but the best thing is that a few people are following my example and doing the Dukan diet too! And that has been a real therapy. I’ve turned from being a compulsive eater into a compulsive forum contributor! 

So in 5 months I lost just under 4 stone, I had set myself a goal of 4 stone 10 but then I had to go into the consolidation phase a bit earlier than intended, I had lost 4 stone 4 pounds, so on 11 November 2010 (5 ½ months later) I weighed 10 stone 3 pounds with a nice bmi of 21.97!

And to reward myself I had breast reduction surgery on 14 October 2010 so that once and for all I could kiss goodbye to all my complexes!  I am happy with my lovely, firm 34c bust and I have dropped from a size 18 down to a size 10/12! 
I am in consolidation until 7 August 2010 and that suits me fine. I am not ready to stop now as I love this new way of eating!