Getting started: the Dukan Diet

My husband, Erik, and I have finally decided that our gradually expanding waistlines need action.  After seeing Princess Kate (we are from the US but currently staying in England for a few months) at her wedding with her tiny tiny waist and beautiful dress, I was inspired to take the action we need.  I saw an article that mentioned she had used the Dukan diet to slim down before the big day.
How do we start?
After looking for the general idea on line we learned that the diet is broken down into 4 sections:

Section 1: the Jump Start
During this phase you will lose weight fast which should get you excited enough to feel good about your progress and want to stick with the diet.  (This is the section my and I are currently in.)  You can only eat Protien during this phase of the diet. What does that mean?  Can we only eat meat all day?  For how many days? 
Section 2: Rolling along
You can now add vegetables to your diet and you will alternate between protien days and protien + vegetable days.  Again there were many questions left unanswered by the net and I was loath to pay the 100 pound coaching price offered on teh diet website.
Section 3: Gradual Stop
At this point in the diet you are now at the weight that you set out to be at and also at your most likely to give up and start pigging out again (face it, that's how we all got to where we are!)  During this time you start to introduce other foods back into your diet and you even get one or two normal meals a week.  More questions: which foods, how much, etc, etc?
Section 4: The Promise
Now there are a few (easy when compared to having to diet again) things you need to do to keep the weight off for good.  You there would be, you just don't know what it is yet!

Knowing that day 1 was a protien only day, Erik and I ate the hard-boiled left over Easter eggs for breakfast and we set to the store to find protien meals and hopefully the Dukan diet book.  We found the book: The Dukan Diet by Pierre Dukan, the french medical solution for permanent weight loss.  Would this book have the answer to our questions?