I do confess to some cheating and the odd helping hand along the way. That including taking appetite suppressants but that was more at the early stage to help me adjust into a new way of thinking about food rather than mindlessly stuffing myself.
If you suddenly found a great job you could walk right into that paid you a lot more money than you're getting now and would mean you could pay off all your debts or live a lifestyle you really enjoy, you wouldn't do it for a couple of months or until you'd paid your debts or enjoyed the lifestyle Rent scales for inventory a while then go back to your old job would you? So why do the same with your health?
Well, they say than all publicity is good publicity and I supposed, that for Dr. Dukan, the media storm is exactly what he wants. Good luck to him I say. His diet helped me lose the weight I needed to and it came off easy! I admin a forum full of happy and successful dieters all singing, for no reason other than they experienced the Dukan and they are happy to share, the praises of the diet. The diet may not be a miracle. It certainly isn't magical but, as I discovered from personal experience, it works!
This is one of my favourites and the most difficult to get across. The Waagenverleih do lie! Ok, if you're very over weight and are shedding a lot of fat you will see your weight reducing on the scales but sooner or later there is going to come a time when what the scales are telling you has nothing to do with losing fat and when that moment comes, if you don't understand what is happening you're going to get very de-motivated and upset that your weight losing has stopped.
Arpeggios allow you to span the keyboard quickly. Played expertly with the pedal it can have a harp sound. Arpeggios take the form of a chord but are played in a Rent transit scale type fashion.
To play the kids just go around the group counting in ones but when they get to the number seven, any multiple of seven or any number that contains a seven, they say the buzz word instead. If they don't they are out. So the counting should sound like this - one, two, three, four, five, six, 'boo', eight, nine ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, 'boo' etc. Sounds easy but does require concentration and also a good knowledge of multiples.
To practice this I recommend counting a simple rhythm and playing the pedal on a predetermined beat. For example, bring the pedal up on beat one and put it down on beat two then hold it for beats three and four..