{"id":2977,"date":"2012-01-13T10:18:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T10:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2012-01-13T10:18:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T10:18:23","slug":"a-week-of-dukan-cruise-recipe-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/2012\/01\/13\/a-week-of-dukan-cruise-recipe-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"A week of Dukan | Cruise recipe ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"
Well, I’ve made it seven whole days on the Dukan diet without once, at least to my knowledge, buckling. There has been the odd vodka and slimline tonic, though I think that, like counting cards or masturbating on an airplane<\/a>, is merely frowned upon. It’s not verboten. I’ve lost 9lb and still have at least a portion of willpower left to see this through.<\/p>\n At this point I should perhaps state that my opinion of diets hasn’t really changed. I still think they’re silly. I think they make one unhappy – or in this case a vacillating combination of deeply miserable and giddily chipper – and I think broadly speaking they are, as the detractors say, doomed to fail.<\/p>\n Everyone loves to give their tuppenceworth about diets (or in the case of this blog a platform to chuck in at least a fiver). The most consistent suggestions goes something like: “if you want to lose weight just eat less and exercise more.” I’ve said it myself. It is of course true. But it is also like saying to an alcoholic, “just have one glass of wine a day.” People don’t work that way. If you have the self-discipline to follow the eat less\/exercise more approach, then good on you.<\/p>\n I don’t, and for all the\u00a0mood swings, the self-imposed ostracism, the denial, the strange guilt-ridden dreams, and the shadowy sense that this is all a bootless vanity, the ephemeral shortcomings are worth it if the end result is a healthier, happier human being. Furthermore, and as I have said before, I think it is no bad thing to deny oneself some of life’s pleasures from time to time.<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n The first day of the ‘Cruise’ stage – involving alternating protein only days with protein and veg days, not becoming a Scientologist and hiding in a closet<\/a>\u00a0(although at times hiding in a closet is quite appealing) – brings such elation you’ll think the smallest bean the greatest morsel to ever pass your lips. Balls to seasonality, you just want fresh, crunchy greens.<\/p>\n