Dr. Pierre Dukan - The Dukan Diet Made Easy: Cruise through Weight Loss--and Keep It Off for Life!

Copyright 2011, 2014 by Dr. Pierre Dukan

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Published in the United States by Harmony Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York. www.crownpublishing.com

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Originally published in France as La methode Dukan illustree by Flammarion, Paris, in 2009, and revised as La nouvelle methode Dukan illustree by Flammarion, Paris, in 2012. Copyright 2009 by Flammarion, Paris, pour ledition originale. Copyright 2012 by Flammarion, Paris, pour la presente edition. This translation originally published in Great Britain as the Dukan Diet Life Plan by Hodder & Stoughton, an Hachette UK Company, London, in 2011, and appears here with additional material from the 2012 French edition.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Crown Archetype, a division of Random House LLC, for permission to reprint the recipes Smoked Salmon with Scrambled Eggs, Tuna Tartare, Curried Turnip Soup with Crispy Ham, Zucchini Pancakes, Green Chili Shrimp, and Shepherds Salad from The Dukan Diet Cookbook: The Essential Companion to the Dukan Diet by Dr. Pierre Dukan, copyright 2012 by Dr. Pierre Dukan. Used by permission.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.

Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-553-41811-8
eBook ISBN: 978-0-553-41812-5

Cover design by Nupoor Gordon
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For over forty years, every day in my work as a doctor I have been fighting weight problems. Starting out on my own, I first crafted my skills by working with individual patients in consultations. While still a very young doctor, I was fortunate to devise the protein diet. As the years went by I improved it, adjusting it based on my patients feedback and needs. Gradually the diet turned into a comprehensive program, which was published in France in 2001 as Je Ne Sais Pas Maigrir(I Cant Lose Weight). Since then, and giving me the greatest rewards imaginable, more than 8 million readers in over twenty countries have read this book. Unfortunately, I do not know how many have followed the diet suggested and, even less, how many have attained their True Weight, consolidated it, and, most important, never put any weight back on.

However, I do know that every day I receive an ever-growing number of heartfelt messages from readers who, because they have lost weight using this book and its method, go out of their way to let other people know about it. My method spread simply by word of mouth, without any advertising to back it up. Nowadays, I am conscious that I am no longer the sole owner of my method; it also belongs to my readers who follow it and recommend it to others.

Who are they? Mostly they are well-organized women, writing from all over the Internet world. To date, over 500 sites, forums, and blogs have been listed where anonymous contributors and volunteers share their experiences of controlling their weight with my diet. It was these women who eventually named my method after me. I would never have dared do that myself.

This book and method are aimed at people who want to lose weight but, faced with the overwhelming choice of diets now available, do not know which one to choose. According to my records, there have been 210 diets developed since the 1950s, of which 72 have been published. Only 15 have any coherence, and they can be boiled down to 6 main programs:

The low-calorie diet is the oldest and, in theory, the most logical, but in practice the least effective diet.

Atkins was revolutionary and effective, but it leaves the door wide open to fats and cholesterol.

Weight Watchers meetings were very innovative, but its low-calorie diet does it a disservice.

The South Beach Diet is a good diet, but it lacks any proper stabilization.

The protein powder diet is sold throughout the world, but it is the most unnatural diet. Once dieting is over, it leads to a massive and permanent weight explosion.

The method that I suggest, aka the Dukan Diet

I have trouble writing this as it may appear immodest, but I really do believe that, to date, of all the diets put forward, my method is by far the best. It is set out simply; it provides a solid framework; it is effective; you start getting immediate results and these results last. Its 100 as-much-as-you-want foods are all natural foods, and its concept is simple; it is easy to follow, and it can tackle all weight-loss situations. For all these reasons, it seems to me to be the best way we have at the moment of losing weight and, most important, of not putting weight back on again.

Sylvia W.Lost 24 pounds

Go for it; it really is a wonderful, easy, enjoyable diet. You wont regret starting it.

I am campaigning for this method to become a standard benchmark in the worldwide fight against weight problems. Readers, I am asking you to judge how well it works. In this book, you will find my entire method, along with an introduction to physical exercise, which I now prescribe as I would medication, and a recipe section so that while you diet you can make all sorts of different dishes (this edition includes new vegetarian recipes). Recipes provide pleasure, and without pleasure our struggle against weight problems would be about restriction and nothing else.

So go off to do battle with these three pointers to encourage you: as much as you want of the allowed foods, fast results, pleasure in your food!

Are you up for it? Let yourself be guidedyour scale is shaking already!