Hi to you all. Come and join us on this final month of 2024. We are friendly but forthright, caring but cajoling, but always here for you. Lets have a final run up to the days before Christmas and do as much as we can to start the joyous season with a head start on our weight loss.
Everyone is welcome, oldies and newbies so jump into the conversation.
Don’t forget, we all care for each other.
Sunshine-girl, Wendleg and Sunny B.
Hello everyone & hopefully for me a more decisive December! Thank you S-G & I also watched Strictly last night & the standard seems so high & enjoyable to watch. I forgot to post that I weighed yesterday & lost 0.25lbs very little but at least I didn’t gain weight last week. I must admit losing any weight in December with all the eating out occasions we have lined up is going to be very challenging which is starting today with visiting our youngest son in his new flat & going out to lunch in a local Italian restaurant. I will try to stick to salad, protein & vegetables but will have some wine. Walking will be involved because we will catch a bus to the restaurant & weirdly I have been managing 5000 steps each day or rather limping 😂
However we must all keep taking care of our own well being as much as possible & enjoying social times with friends & family. Unfortunately for my husband & I this will include attending the funeral of a friend we were on holiday with on our Seine cruise earlier this year who shockingly was found dead at the bottom of her stairs. She had balance problems & must have fallen down her stairs & lived alone being found by her son when she hadn’t answered her phone. Very sad & unbelievable really that she is no longer with us but a lesson that as we age we must take care🤔🙁.
On a lighter note I am really looking forward to today & will be taking a book for my son called How to Hygge Your Home which is the Scandinavian word for creating & enjoying a well being feeling around us👍
I hope that everyone will have a safe & well being feeling December 🤞🤞🍀🍀
Margaret xx
Hello Margaret, sorry to hear about your friend, we should indeed take care of ourselves.
My sil is Danish so we know all about Hygge – except how to say it 🙂
Serves me right but I gained half a kilo after having 3 drinks last night. Cant say I enjoyed them and I feel pretty rough this morning. I never ever suffered from hangovers and would be dancing around the house while everyone else was holding their poor heads. Age has caught up with me, or maybe I have just got out of the habit and rarely drink now. I never understood how someone could have just one glass of wine (my husband does), I would always want another. Now I think one drink is enough just to be sociable. I also said not drinking for a month didn’t help with weight loss. Well maybe not, but drinking certainly adds the weight on.
We were going to go to the village Christmas fete this afternoon but the local hunt have partially blocked the lane while they flush out the wild boar and then they shoot them – or should I say cull them. They are a big nuisance around here and besides ruining the corps they can take lumps out of vehicles if they feel threatened. Hopefully we will get a big bag of meat in a couple of days. Anyway, we have been told to stay in.
Country life.
So sorry to hear about your friend, Margaret.
It really brings home how careful we all need to be. I have been trying to persuade a friend who lives alone to have one of the carried alarms that can be pressed in an emergency. However, like us all, there is a reluctance to admit that age is taking its toll! 🥴
I am determined to have a decisive December! Losing the last 2 pounds to get to my target 10.5 stones. I still feel it is unreal that I have lost so much in 6 months! (If you see me post a celebratory 🍾🎉🥳 don’t let it go to my head!!!)Then keeping my weight there without relapsing into the diabetic range!
I have never seen an episode of Strictly! 🤔🫣
Here’s to December!!
Well my weight is up by another half a kilo, so one in total. Hoping it is just a carb reaction and it will just drop off.
Pootle, I went for a field of vision test this morning and when she handed me my results the first think that caught my eye at the top of the page was AGE 71. Never, when did that happen.
Looks like I still have glaucoma i.e. it wasn’t a mistake. Next Monday I am having a brain MRI to make sure it isn’t a brain problem, especially after my surgery 2 years ago which affected blood flow to the brain. Then in the afternoon I am having a consultation with my lung doctor. Then the next day I am at the opthamologists for her to look at all my results and give a real diagnosis. There is a gap of about 2 hours between tests so we will be having lunch in Bergerac town centre. So I am still sticking to the diet and doing the best I can.
Have a good week.
Sorry to hear your news Margaret. Sounds like you have a difficult week coming up with the funeral.
How fantastic to be so near your target Pootle. Congratulations! Such an achievement.
I’m starting my third week now. Bit of a blip at the weekend – out shopping with my daughter on Saturday and I tore straight through my 50g carbs in one meal. Overall calories for the day came in at 1100, which I wasn’t so worried about as I’m actually finding it difficult to keep the calories up to 800 most days. Never mind, I’m not going to stress about it, days like that are important to me and don’t happen all that often, so I’m going to have to work round them.
Back on it since. Just had a nice tuna and cucumber salad for lunch, and chuffed with myself to have had a real mix of leaves to pad it out – lambs lettuce, red chard, pea shoots and spinach – rather than reaching for the toast as I would normally have done. I’ve always had a restricted diet which has been part of my problem with food (I’m a bit of a child when it comes to most stuff) and white carbs have always been the easy option for me. Trying to gently widen what I can eat is part of my hope for making this change too. Still hoping the scales get the message too though!
Margaret sorry to hear about your friend. Yes it’s so important to be mindful as we age. I’m sure that lots of the problems happen because we aren’t concentrating on doing one thing at a time. We are all guilty.
Thanks for setting this thread up s-g and hello everyone. My week has been topsy turvy. After putting on weight every day this week this morning I dropped it all apart from 0.4lb! I have no idea what’s going on but have to look on the bright side. Although I didn’t meet my goal of 1lb a week for November I did lose 2lbs! Not much but better than a gain. Note to self: must do better this month!
Just had an appointment with my dermatology consultant. I have a rare auto immune disease and he said I shouldn’t eat foods with sulphites, red wine for example! Or foods that ‘open up my blood vessels’ so I shouldn’t have cheese, chocolate, spicy food or alcohol, amongst other things! I will listen to him BUT can’t imagine life without spice, dark chocolate and wine! Think I may just have to take a little more care with my diet but at my age life’s pleasures are few enough! Anyway, apart from that I’m ’under control’.
Hope December is a decisive month for all of us. I just want to end the year at a lower weight than I started and so far I’m on track.
Hi everyone! I was here a few years ago and had great luck but over the pandemic my routine slowly fell apart—I’m sure a not unfamiliar story to many of us! I also started getting perimenopause symptoms in the last year that have thrown me for a loop and truly messed up my body’s metabolism in a new and awful way. So I’m back and excited to make progress again with this lovely group of people.
Hi Everyone
New to this forum but looking to join people who believe that this works. I’ve just weighed in and I have lost 14.8lbs in 4 weeks and feeling great and still motivated. Energy levels have increased and after first week no headaches. I am hoping to do it for the full 12 weeks as I’ve put on a bit of weight during perimenopause. Does everyone just have 2 meals in 800 cals?
Hello,
I do mostly 2 meals and stick to an 8 hour eating window each day starting just before midday. The only exception to the two meals is to have an occasional snack, but still within the 8 hours. I’m sometimes struggling to get up to the 800 cals, so if I’m a way off after dinner I sometimes weigh a slice of cheese to nibble on. Keeps me within my cals without pushing up my carbs, and stops me from thinking about toast and crisps!
Amazing progress LC! And Sleekly I’m sure you’ll soon be where you want to be 🙂
Hi everyone, I would like to welcome Sleeky, LC75, and Casey who I have seen on another thread. Everyone can join us here we are a good mix of oldies and newbies and some returners so don’t worry, you will get all the help you need here. Let us know if you have any special requirements, medical conditions, and hi to the perimenopausal.
My weight has dropped back down – carb fluid retention – but not quite back down to the 70.8, hopefully I will be back there in a couple of days. I will definitely be fasting (TRE) tonight as nurse is coming first thing in the morning to do my 3 month bloods.
Got the chiropodist this afternoon and it is an appointment I hate – she is lovely but we have 25 to 30 mins of silence as she speaks no English. I do try to have a conversation with her but after about 8 years I have run out of things to talk about. She asks about my blood results, my holidays, my family etc but it is the same thing every month. So, looking forward to an awkward silence, I will let her take the lead.
Hopefully, I will be back tomorrow with some great results.
Ooooh big excitement. Just looked out of the window and someone has left a big bin with a yellow lid at the gate. We are getting a new black bin as well. As new system and no-one is happy about it – but thats another story.
Just gone to drag it into the garden and a smaller black bin is inside it. The things that give us joy in the countryside 🙂
Russian doll wheelie bins Sunshine-girl! I could get excited over that!
Have faced the scales – Down 1kg in just over 2 weeks. Will not be disheartened… I repeat…
Jeans are baggier so will hang on to that!
Thank you for the welcome. Yes I’m eating over an 8hr window and likewise find it hard to get to 800. I need to stock up on the chocolate pennies yum
Hi everyone, hung on to make a comment as I had bloods taken this morning and I was waiting for the results. Then we had to go out so I have only just seen them. Yeah!!!! HbA1c 6.0 down from 6.3. Total cholesterol 2.1 and triglycerides down to 0.90. So I guess not drinking for a month does do some good even if my weight didn’t benefit – or maybe it did with that drop a few days ago.
Casey, you will be as excited as I am that tonight we went to the local Mayors to listen to a talk about what to do with our new bins. I think even the French left scratching their heads. Didn’t help improve my French as we couldn’t hear half of what was said. Oh well, at least we know the first date so everything will follow from there.
Have a good evening.
Hi all, was going to report the person who has put a gaming app on our thread but it doesn’t seem to be here now. Maybe admin got to it first.
Well, my good news continues and I am back down to just under 71kgs JUST 70.9. So the diet continues for as long as I have and not going to eat at a restaurant on Monday after my brain MRI. Will have time to go home, have lunch then go straight back into Bergerac for my other medical appt. Tuesday I have the doctor and he will be pleased with all my blood results so I hope my weight will also be well down. Think I was 72.4kgs at my last visit.
Our local supermarket have a Christmas special on. Saturday if you spend €80 you get four vouchers to spend in store for€20 each. So you spend 80 and get 80 as a gift. They have to then be spent over the following 4 weeks or you lose them. We are away for one of the weeks but will gain €60s worth of vouchers. Will just have to get up early as it will be packed.
Good morning S-G & I also noticed the gaming ap message that looked weird & out of place on here. Congratulations you are doing brilliantly with your weight loss 👏👏
I fasted on Tuesday which I haven’t done for awhile & it was fine. We were out to our first Christmas social meal & I ate prawn cocktail then a salty fish pie which had too many potatoes bulking it up & a salad followed by a very small portion of Christmas Pudding with some very thin custard. However I also had a large mulled wine. Not ideal but not too appalling for me plus a vodka & orange.
I’ve just seen my GP with some minor progress in that he is writing a letter to MSK attaching my surgeons letter asking them to expedite my own self referral🤔. It is now only possible to get referrals to orthopaedic surgery through MSK services. I am therefore still in limbo since we can’t really afford to pay £18000 for private surgery.
Lunch is going to be scotch egg & lots of salad & supper a beef stew with lots of vegetables.
Keep on going everyone the BSD is the most healthy way to eat! 🍀🍀
Margaret xx
Just quickly, the new Tim Spectre book The Food For Life Cookbook was discussed on Jeremy Whine (joke) this morning and I looked it up on Amazon and it has been reduced from £28 to 14.
Great news on your numbers SunshineGirl!
Alas I have never experienced a bin meeting… in a language I understand or otherwise!
I’ve had a bit of a bleh day. Dizzy this morning, but improved after lunch. I grabbed an early snack too so my eating window will be more than 8 hours today.
Coincidentally, maybe?, I have dropped 0.4kg since yesterday. Which is great but I don’t like the dizziness. I’ve kept my fluid intake up so I don’t think I’m dehydrated. Anyway, will see what tomorrow brings.
I once read something by Tim Spectre. It kind of left me irritated at the time, with references to allowing his favourite’s – manchego and Rioja -purely it seemed because they were his favourites.
Not having a problem with manchego or Rioja, but struggling to overcome the pull of a packet of hula-hoops winking at me I felt a bit out-classed and decided to be annoyed by him instead! I guess I entirely missed the point he was making but still 🙂
Margaret – I’m shamelessly nicking your scotch egg idea. That’ll make a nice change next week sometime. Thank you!
Hello. Just popping in to say sorry I’m not really posting at the moment.
Welcome to all our new members. Best of luck on your journeys. We all take a different path so always lots of helpful tips if you need them.
Margaret hope you get a date soon. Don’t know which part of the country you’re in but in the North, Wrightington in Wigan, or the Orthopedic hospital in Oswestry charge maybe two thirds for private surgery. Still a lot but maybe a thought? But don’t forget you can also opt for any hospital on the NHS so you don’t have to rely on local services.
So far this week I’m repeating my pattern of last week …… up a few ounces, up a few ounces, up a few ounces. Hopefully tomorrow it will be down a few!!!
Last night I steamed cauliflower and celeriac and whizzed the two together and I have to say I ended up with a really silky smooth purée. So tonight a ‘no cook’ meal of cauli/celeriac mash, tuna /salmon fish cakes (home made so know what’s in them) and petite pois. Maybe not the lowest carb meal but still pretty good.
Have a good evening and as good week.
It’s an interesting first week back. I started tracking everything on Monday. I haven’t made the calorie goal quite or the macros quite but I’m on the right track and have lost already. I’ve kept the cals below 1000 and the grams of carbs below 50. I seem to remember we used to do weekly weigh-ins if people wanted to share? On a certain day? Or was this post an example of that, ha.
I’ve had headaches and been sluggish but I seem to remember that at the beginning from doing it before. Today, the fourth day, I started to feel better midday. I remember this wonderful clarity of thinking from last time. I was tested for ADHD last week. My son was diagnosed and it opened the door for me. I find out at the end of the month. My son is medicated now and has special therapy and it’s helped him so much. I have some hopes for that for myself.
I enjoy reading about everyone’s lives and experiences.
Hi everyone,
Casey – you obviously haven’t lived – bins forever yeah :). The dizziness should pass once you are back in the swing of things. If you need a small yoghurt or something just to bring up your blood sugars and count in your allowances. I dont think you are diabetic so it shouldn’t be a problem. I think he adds … cheese within your allowance i.e. not too much. I would be more worried about a scotch egg but then it depends on the breadcrumb coating and if it is deep fried. You can make your own without a coating a cook in the oven. We cant get decent sausage meat here – it is all very fatty and gristley – is that a word? I suppose I could tear apart the sausages I buy from Ireland but they are so precious and expensive.
Margaret, sorry you are still having to wait. I cant comment on the NHS except to say you would have had the operation within weeks here in France – ask Wendleg about that.
Sleeky, you have to start on a path that you can manage and then see how or where you can cut back if you want to be within 800 cals. I can never really get below 50g carbs without upping the calories. You are right, we did used to do a weekly weigh in but that was when this thread was weekly. It became a bit of a chore setting up a new thread every week so we moved to monthly. Many of us still have a specific day we weigh in. For me it was always Tuesday and our weekly thread ran from Tues to Tues. I think historically when Verano and I first started and opened up threads we (or at least I did) at the start prepared over the weekend, writing menus, clearing out cupboards etc and then I did a fresh shop on a Monday as all my fresh food was a few days old. So it was always Tuesday and that is still my day. Although, I also get weighed daily to keep an eye on my BG and insulin doses and also sometimes mention weight on any day if I have good or bad news. Do whatever you want. We are all here to cheer you on or cheer you up 🙂
Weekend is approaching so hope it is a good one. On Saturday our local supermarket is having a spend €80 get €80 in vouchers, so 100% refund, so we are going to get up early and be there when it opens at 8.30am. The vouchers are pre-dated and can only be spent each week one at a time. As we are going away we will lose out on one €20 but can gift it to our housesitters, we will still earn €60. Then in the afternoon we are going to a chateau near Bergerac for a Christmas Fete – hope I don’t get tempted by food or mulled wine.
Thank you everyone for your good wishes & I saw my GP who did examine my knees & because I have already self referred will write a letter attaching my surgeons letter to expedite my appointment with MSK.
I’ve just weighed & more or less stayed the same weight except for 0.2lb? gain is that a quarter of a quarter pound?
Today I’m hosting a neighbourly lunch so drinks with all the Christmas type nibbles from M&S of filo prawns, duck & vegetable spring rolls, Indian nibbles then for lunch loads of different salad leaves tomatoes, red peppers, with accompanying salad pesto pasta, potato salad, nutty couscous, coleslaw with various quiches plus for hot a vegan MM Keto black bean & mushroom chilli with wholewheat couscous & creamed spinach. Puddings are tropical fruit salad & a traditional Scottish sherry trifle, no jelly! with mixed berries in the base. Then various cheeses on offer & grapes. I haven’t done this for years but it was always my family tradition to have an open house buffet on Boxing Day with a large bowl of punch & bubbly on offer. So an early Christmas happening.
One neighbour is bringing some Prosecco😀& prawn nibbles.
I probably won’t eat much as hostess because I’m too busy seeing everyone else is ok but afterwards tend to hoover up some leftovers but will try to have lots of salad avoiding the carby stuff 🤞🤞
I hope you all have a good weekend & are keeping safe from the high winds & rain today!!
Margaret xx
Hi everyone, was up early this morning but oh boy does hubby take his time getting ready – he is nearly 80 so I have to be patient. Got to the supermarket at 9am and it was heaving – never seen anything like it in France, not even at Christmas although we didnt go to the event last year. Kept putting things in the basket and came away with a decent shop. Made up the €80 with things like meat and fish but we still overspent at €126. At least we wont have much to buy in the coming weeks and it is all stuff that keeps and we have money towards it. We managed to get the €80 of vouchers and also a loyalty voucher of €9.00.
Our visit to the chateau is not going ahead as the weather is terrible. Not quite as bad as the UK but still lashings of wind and rain. Saves me from the temptation of snack food and mulled wine so I will be able to stick to the diet until 13th. I am lucky in a way that we don’t have a lot of socialising and we can please ourselves – but a bit sad in other ways.
Margaret, hope things start moving for you with the doctor. Sounds like you are going to have a lovely day hosting and the food sounds wonderful. I am sure you can find plenty to suit your diet and, yes, you will be bobbing around looking after other people. If the left overs keeping winking at you, remember the freezer – so many things can be frozen including cheese, sandwiches, just be careful with prawns, they are a bit risky as you don’t know whether they have been frozen before. Just enjoy, I envy you the fun.
Well, I have quite a bit of stuff to sort for the freezer now after that shop and I was trying to run the freezer down so we have space for our sitters to put food. Will just have to pack it very carefully.
🎉🥳🍾😁
Target weight this morning! GP blood test tomorrow for Hb1Ac 🤞 🤞
I couldn’t have done it without the support and advice of everyone on these forums!
Thank you all! xxxxx
Pootle, cant wait for your blood results and the reaction of your doctor. Blood Sugar Diet forever. So glad you found us.
Well done Pootle & good luck for tomorrow 🍀🍀🤞🤞
Margaret xx
Great news Pootle! I’m sure your HbA1c will be fine.
Congrats Pootle! That’s fantastic!
Congratulations Pootle! That’s awesome x
Hi all, just to report that I had my MRI this morning. Very efficient – walked in at 10am, on the scanner by 10 past and 40 minutes later all done. Not painful or even uncomfortable but have you ever had a jackhammer, a telephone ring, a fire alarm and a meat slicer inside your head. All the different sounds and you cant move for 40 mins. Had to have a Co-codimal when I got home. Quick lunch of a low carb Ploughmans and straight back to a different hospital to see my lung specialist. She is very pleased with my results and I don’t need to see her now for 2 years. Looks like next December I won’t have anything to do 🙂
Cant even think straight as I had nearly no sleep – bloody cat walking up and down my back – and the exhaustion from appts today, so will just say goodnight to you all.
Sleep well s-g sounds like you need to!
Thank you verano, I had a wonderful sleep and didn’t get up until 10am. I would have stayed in bed longer but last night the on off toggle on our kitchen tap fell off in my hand so we had to get to the Bricolage (hardware store) this morning as I had the doctors this afternoon.
Very successful appt with Dr Gorgeous, he is very pleased with all my results and my weight was 71kgs which is 2kgs lighter than at my last appt. Not much more to say except he had the results from my MRI and it appears I am normal – don’t believe that 🙂
Besides the opthamologist on Monday I am finished. Tempted to have a drink tonight but we are going out for lunch on Friday so I am sure I can wait until then. Would still like to lose another kilo by the time we go away on 19th, but the pressure is off now.
Funny isn’t it, I am already planning for losing weight when we get back just before New Year. The supermarkets do catering platters at Xmas and NY and hubby was drooling over them for NY until I pointed out you have to give 72 hours notice to order and we wont be back in time. So we are just going to do a supermarket dash on the 31st and pick up loads of cold meats and cheeses and he can have some sweet treats.
Enjoy your week.
S-g all sounds great!
Looks like going into 2025 your ‘health’ is looking better!
For me the year will end with about a 10lb loss. Given our social life plus holidays I’m ok with that. BUT I’ll have to set a ‘bigger’ target for 2025!
It maybe a good idea to start thinking about new ‘goals’? Or maybe not!!!
Thank you everyone…. The results are in:
HbA1c 40! 🎉🍾
So not even pre-diabetic any more!
The BSD and encouragement from these forums really is the best! 👍👍👍👍
Thank you everyone and in particular Dr Michael Mosely, so sad he is no longer with us! 😢😢
Happy Christmas. 🎄🎄I just had the best Christmas present ever!!!!
Xxxx
Everyone’s news is really good!
I’ve lost 6.9 pounds in the first week. Pretty good too!
I have fallen in love with Chaffles! 🧇. With my mini waffle maker I make 2 chaffles – a total of 2 carbs – and I have these with some avocado and tomato on top for my lunch. Delicious and great to have something crunchy and filling as I do miss toast.
Congratulations Pootle. What a wonderful journey you’ve had. You must be so pleased. I too was inspired by Michael Mosley when I saw his documentary Eat Fast and Live Longer. It was a revelation.
And congratulations Verano and Sleeky that 2024 is ending on a high.
Hi Casey and LC. I hope you’re having a good week.
You’ve had a hectic time S-G so I hope you can relax now and enjoy your holidays.
We’ve been seeing here about the shocking storms/weather in the UK. I hope everyone is safe. And I hope you are ok too Artic Fox. The weather there looks brutal. Here in Melbourne a temp of 40 c is predicted for next Monday. That’s fairly early in our summer for such a hot day, so perhaps a prelude to a very hot summer and bushfires.
Hi everyone, great to hear of your successes, especially Pootle who has only been with us a short time. Pootle, what did your doctor say when he saw your results. Seeing my doctor yesterday is still a treat for me (besides his French good looks) and he was really pleased with my BG results. He said I am improving in that my BG is down again but also the amount of insulin. I just say ‘I have a good diet’.
Message from daughter this morning saying in is exactly 3 weeks to New Years Day – when we can start our new diet. I don’t like to tell her I am still on mine and always will be. I will relax a bit over Christmas but for me carbs still don’t come into it. No roast potatoes, yorkshire puddings, maybe some homemade sage and onion stuffing and a small pork pie (my downfall). Of course, the biggest threat is alcohol but now I hardly ever drink I am sure it will be just a couple of glasses.
Our water is switched off today for routine maintenance in the village. Good day for hubby to put the new tap on. We have enough to flush a few times, brush teeth and make tea and coffee. I should be back on in a couple of hours.
Thank you S-G.
Haven’t seen the GP yet, I phoned for the results and am absolutely over the moon.. I have celebrated with a glass of champagne yesterday and another today. (I stopped drinking about 10 years ago except for very special occasions! )
I cannot wait to see the Diabetes Nurse’s face when I tell her she needs to bring herself up to date! After she treated me like a recalcitrant 5 year old for refusing to eat whole grain or whole meal bread, pasta or rice three times a day. 🫣
I am now the same weight I was in 2017, when I was pre diabetic. I had lost 4 stone over 2 years but my HbA1c numbers had gone up from 42 to 45. At the time my diet followed the conventional advice for diabetics!
I remember that my first post on these forums was a plea for reassurance that it really is possible to put diabetes into remission… thank you Verano and S-g for encouraging me to go for it!
I am very aware that I cannot relax my guard, and will have to live the low carb way for the rest of my life. I will still have the occasional treat (a few chips or a dessert when eating out) but I have found recipes and food within the BSD that I really like and my tastes have changed… I no longer fancy a sticky toffee pudding, when I could have eaten 2 portions in the past! Far too sweet now!
Great that your insulin is lower… the diet really does work! Just wish the established diabetic clinics could open their ears and eyes.
The community on here is so supportive… I will be staying ( Hope you will have me as a long term member)
To anyone starting out I say “be strong, read the books, count your calories and carbs carefully and you be rewarded!”
Signing off now as the fizz has gone to my head… btw our power was restored today after 4 days off grid! 😁
Pootle …. WELL DONE YOU!
Your head definitely seems to be in the right place. Yes life goes on. We eat lower carb. We have the odd potato or piece of toast. We don’t have cereal and toast for breakfast, sandwiches and crisps for lunch and then a sugary snack for our afternoon break followed by a high carb dinner! Our life is really so much healthier than that.
Welcome to your new ‘healthier for ever’ life!
Very well done Pootle that is brilliant news ⭐️👏👏👏
Margaret xx
Such a busy time of the year and sometimes we forget to look after ourselves. We are so concerned about looking after others to make sure ‘their’ holiday season is ‘perfect’ that we take a back seat.
Maybe, this year we could be ‘kind’ to ourselves. We don’t need every ‘treat’ one or two will probably be enough. For me it’s Christmas pudding. The rest I can live without!
Keep busy but keep grounded and the season will pass with all expectations met!
Hello everyone,
Sleekly that first week drop is fabulous – well done you!
I am still plodding on, nearing the end of week 4 and 2.5kg down overall. No great drops for me, even in week 1, but it has been fairly steady progress so I will just keep on and hope it continues. Over 25% of the way there though, so maybe viewing it in those terms is more encouraging.
Hi All
I’ve restarted the BSD (4th attempt) to knock off the prediabetes once and for all.
Into week 2 – have been very consistent with the diet and finding this time of year helpful as in the southern hemisphere and hot so salads are a good go to.
I only have 10kg to loose and in previous attempts have lost about 4kgs and haven’t maintained the diet long enough to get all the way (and likely get the fat out of liver and pancreas) – combination of an unpredictable work environment and lack of organisation.
My fastings were creeping closer and closer to 7.0
This time I hope I have prepped more and despite the holiday season have decided that doing this diet is better than adding on a kg or two and then trying in Jan.
So far – week one have knocked off 3kg and fasting BSLs have been mostly less that 5.5
Week 2 started with a 4 day plateau which has been my weakness in the past – I persistent and today saw a shift down another 0.7kg and fasting BSL in the 4’s!
I want to go all the way this time and am trying to stay focussed and front of mind to keep the momentum going.
Good luck everyone else!
Hi All
I’ve restarted the BSD (4th attempt) to knock off the prediabetes once and for all.
Into week 2 – have been very consistent with the diet and finding this time of year helpful as in the southern hemisphere and hot so salads are a good go to.
I only have 10kg to loose and in previous attempts have lost about 4kgs and haven’t maintained the diet long enough to get all the way (and likely get the fat out of liver and pancreas) – combination of an unpredictable work environment and lack of organisation.
My fastings were creeping closer and closer to 7.0
This time I hope I have prepped more and despite the holiday season have decided that doing this diet is better than adding on a kg or two and then trying in Jan.
So far – week one have knocked off 3kg and fasting BSLs have been mostly less that 5.5
Week 2 started with a 4 day plateau which has been my weakness in the past – I persisted and today saw a shift down another 0.7kg and fasting BSL in the 4’s!
I want to go all the way this time and am trying to stay focussed and front of mind to keep the momentum going.
Good luck everyone else!
Good luck PinkTulips, you are doing great and the BG is much more important than the weight. Going low carb will rid the fat around the organs. I am of the same mind as you, losing a kilo this week means not so much to worry about in the new year.
I had lunch out yesterday and they served me pumpkin soup (I chose not to have bread), then scrambled egg (which was okay) and for mains I just had what everyone else had minus the stuffing and roasties – turkey, sprouts, red cabbage and gravy. For dessert everyone had chocolate cake and I had a lovely fruit salad of orange, kiwi and passionfruit. The wine was my downfall and I have gained some weight which will go in the next 2 or 3 days. Not so bad as if I’d eaten the pots, stuffing and cake so it was a win for me. After that lunch I had no desire for an evening meal and just had some cheese on Ryvita. Hopefully, I will lose my gain in the next 2 or 3 days back down to my ideal weight of 71kgs.
I should go and start my packing but I have no idea what to take and don’t feel like I can be bothered. It will be jeans, Tshirts and jumpers most of the time. Swimming costume and gym clothes too. Must just get on with it.
Have a good weekend.
Hello everyone, thought it time to check in here again to help get my head in the game. Haven’t read all the posts in detail, but overall it seems that despite the season, many are logging good results … congrats to those of you seeing positive changes. To those struggling, stick with it, things will come right eventually.
Having been away for three months, arriving home a week ago, I decided it was time to get on the scales and report in, so that I start to make myself accountable again.
Sooo, the gain whilst away was 8lb. However, as I wasn’t at target weight before going away, I currently have 14lb to ditch to get back to target weight.
Realistically I’m not expecting to make great inroads this side of the new year, but definitely want to get back to better eating habits, which hopefully will show some positive results.
Welcome back SunnyB & very well done to those of you managing to keep on track & lose weight. Unfortunately I am not one of you & gained 1.75 lbs last week because of social eating & drinking. I am finding it difficult to balance eating out with losing any weight at the moment & looking back over this year it has not been good for me with a rollercoaster of weight losses then gains with me now ending up being 7.5 lbs heavier than in January. My feeling in limbo waiting to hear about my knee surgery & the relentless grey skies have not helped my energy & motivation. I know I am making excuses & I do feel rather can’t be bothered now but am trying to get back on track this week however have another Christmas meal on Tuesday after playing fun short mat bowls, so some exercise😀 Roll on January then I will feel able to give myself a mental kick up my derrière to refresh & refocus 🤞🤞
Keep on going everyone 👍👏👏
Margaret xx
Well I did lose most of the weight gain in just one day. Welcome back Sunny, can I ask a favour of you. How are you for setting up the January thread. I will be away and not back until the 31st when we have to be unpacking, washing, get out and do a shop etc. If you cant, just let me know and I will do what I can.
On that subject – looking for a very motivational New Year New You – that might do. Any suggestions.
Did my packing except for the few things I cant put away yet but nearly there, feeling so much better about it.
I have my appt with the opthamologist tomorrow and will get the results of my MRI although my GP did say they didn’t find anything wrong. So looks like it is glaucoma. Will report back after the appt.
You have my sympathy Margaret. My dad is awaiting surgery too and it is a really difficult time of limbo.
As someone who has struggled for most of my life with a restricted (not in a good way!) diet (and who still finds it hard to ‘join in’ where food is concerned), there is a joy in sharing food socially, so don’t be hard on yourself. It’s important too!
You know you can do it and when time and headspace allows, it will come right I’m sure 🙂