
But you can have only one serving of each item. Here’s a chart to help explain things.ġ serving of fruit every day (excluding grapes, figs, cherries, and bananas)Ģ servings of fruit every day (excluding grapes, figs, cherries, and bananas)ġ 1/2 ounces of hard-rind cheese per weekįYI: Celebration meals include one appetizer, one main dish, one dessert, and a glass of wine. You can also slowly add certain carbs and fats into your routine.īTW, you have to follow a set of rules when reintroducing foods to your diet. You can eat a base of 100 foods that make up the first and second phases - mostly lean animal proteins and non-starchy vegetables. You also get to add a single teaspoon of olive oil and 2 tablespoons of oat bran to your diet each day. But you can eat veggies only every other day. Is your mouth watering yet 😬? Cruise phaseīuckle up - things are about to get weird.ĭuring this phase, you continue to eat Attack phase foods with the addition of 32 types of vegetables. You also get 1 1/2 tablespoons of oat bran each day.

It’s extremely restrictive, and you can eat only lean proteins from an approved list of foods.

This phase is meant to kick-start the diet. Here’s a step-by-step breakdown of the phases: How much time you spend in each phase depends on how much weight you lose, your age, and the number of diets you’ve done in the past.

Phases 1 and 2 are for weight loss, and phases 3 and 4 are for maintenance. But still, this plan is pretty darn difficult to follow.

Was Avril referring to the Dukan Diet when she asked, “Why you have to go and make things so complicated?” Prob not.
