This information is taken from DukanDiet.com and a Yahoo News article.

THE #1 INTERNATIONAL DIET COMING TO THE US IN SPRING 2011

The Dukan Diet.

The Dukan Diet has been getting a lot of attention lately because of royal bride to be, Kate Middleton. Too learn more about this diet, read the book The Dukan Diet which is coming out on April 19, 2011. The diet is the big thing right now. On the Cosmo radio show “Wake Up with Taylor”  Dr. Jen Wider said this week that she’s now learning about the Dukan Diet so that she can discuss it on the show. I’ve ordered the book and I plan on reading the book and keeping an open mind but from what I’ve read so far, this diet seems like the Atkins diet. Whatever works. You be the judge.

Devised by Dr. Pierre Dukan, a French medical doctor who spent his career helping people to lose weight, the Dukan Diet rejects counting calories and promises permanent weight loss while allowing its followers to eat as much as they like.

Originally introduced in France in 2000, Dukan Diet swept across France and remained the number one diet for the last 10 years. Since, Dukan Diet has grown to become an international phenomenon of unprecedented impact in over 100 countries.

The Dukan Method is a high protein, low fat, low carb diet. It proposes a healthy eating plan based on proteins and vegetables, 100 foods in total including 72 from the animal world and 28 from the plant world. And what’s best, it’s “EAT AS MUCH AS YOU LIKE.”

Here’s the skinny (pun intended) from the Yahoo News article.

The Dukan Diet –How does it work?

“[The Dukan Diet] is organized into four phases: attack, cruise, consolidation and stabilization. The first encourages dieters to eat as much as they want of non-fatty, protein-rich foods, including oat bran (a key component) washed down with oceans of water,” New York Times reporter Elaine Sciolino wrote recently.

“The second stage introduces vegetables, but no fruit; the third brings with it two slices of bread, a serving of cheese and fruit, and two servings of carbohydrates a day, with two weekly ‘celebration’ meals with wine and dessert (the diet is French, after all); and the final stage six days a week of ‘anything goes’ and one day of reversion to strict protein-only stage one — for the rest of your life.”

I’ve tried the Atkins diet. I think it can be great for inactive people who really need to lose a lot of weight. You can eat a lot of satisfying food and not have to deal with feeling hungry. I personally love the idea of Atkins but it doesn’t work for me. The reason it doesn’t work is because I have a pretty active lifestyle. I go to the gym 5 to 6 days a week. I work out with a trainer 3 times a week. Our sessions are hard core (as far as I’m concerned). I work out with heavy weights (for me). Some examples of what  I do;  I do squats with 85 pounds and I do push-up planks with a 25 pound plate on my back.

I tried to do an Atkins type diet. All that happened was that I was so weak that I could barely function. I wasn’t getting much out of my workouts because I didn’t have the strength to go through them. I looked and felt terrible. I think it’s great to stick with a low carb diet but some good carbs can make a huge difference if you plan on working out a lot. That being said, I do not believe in a one size fits all diet plan. That’s the reason I’m always telling you guys about different approaches to dieting.

If you have any thoughts or comments about the Dukan Diet or Atkins, I’d love to know what you think. Either comment on this blog post or send me an email at tracy@tracystanley.com.