Hi loopylou

Yeahhhhh squeeze in ducky, lots of room on the back seat, and we can all squidgy up together and support each other. 🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌💃💃💃🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌

Hi all,

I got weighed this morning and I’ve now lost 15lbs in 10 days! Plus I’ve lost a whole inch off my waist. I’m so pleased.

I just hope this doesn’t stop like all my other diets have. 😟 I don’t mean to be pessimistic but I’ve been trying to lose this weight for 21 years, ever since it started going on! Positive thinking needed me thinks. I WILL lose the weight. Lol.

I have to says that this new way of eating has already sorted out my appetite: instead of feeling hungry ALL the time I now feel hungry hardly at all.

Hugs A xxx

Yesterday – day 2 of back to basics BSD
day 1 – lost 0.4 kilos
day 2 – Lost 0.7 kilos – 1.5lb!!!
– and that is on individual days, so 1.1 kilos altogether 3.3lb

I have an appointment with Diabetic nurse today – it got delayed because the receptionist made the appointment with the wrong person, but this is the one where she sent me for early HbA1C test because I’d stopped taking metformin.
I think she assumed that results would shoot up again, but they went down to satisfyingly normal!

brilliant, well don Maiasmum

Hi Janet and Loopylou – yes, it is weighing everything that is the secret for me. It really makes sense – shame that it took 4 months to realise how bad I was at estimating the weight of food. But on the positive side the 4 months have allowed me to completely retrain my way of eating and I will never go back to my bad old ways.
Thank you Frog for mentioning how good Fatsecret is in this forum. It has been so helpful. I have saved all my favourite meals and it is so quick to plan the days eating so I don’t go over the 800.

The Diabetes nurse was slightly incredulous that I stopped taking metformin in June, but my blood sugars continued to fall and are now boringly normal!
When I saw the summarised results online a couple of weeks ago, I was bemused by the Urine albumin:creatinine ratio results. because no “normal range” was quoted, and the ratio hadn’t been calculated. I tried to do it myself, and came up with answers that didn’t make sense. I now have the answer; my results are “too normal to calculate a ratio”.

That aside, I wholeheartedly recommend getting online access to your patient records if you don’t have that already – it’s brilliant to have the history of blood test results rather than trying to recall what was said at the consultation, also you’re better prepared with questions if you’ve reviewed test results in advance.

Then we moved on to lifestyle goal setting
Target weight “a bit too ambitious?” the nurse suggested – would I like to go for 80 kilos instead?
Err – no! – if I only lose another 7 kilos in 15-16 weeks I would be very p’d off.

I’m going to do another HbA1C in December – I’ll be pleased to have confirmation that everything is still on track, although I suspect the Nurse didn’t quite believe the last ones, although she did say that she wouldn’t include cholesterol tests because my cholesterol is ‘too normal to bother about’.

As others have commented elsewhere on the forum, it is a bit scary that medical staff seem completely oblivious to new research – the nurse I saw this morning is running the diabetes clinics and had never heard of BSD. She was pleased that I was her second patient this morning who is doing well; the other one is ‘eating a proper diet, not like your one, and taking her medication’ (and still has blood sugar levels above the normal range, BTW, but does have reduced blood sugar).

Hi Jan,

Thank you, and for helping me remember just how great the BSD800 is…nice to see the back seat busy once more🙋 hi gang…x

Scales finally showing some change after remaining static for the last 3 weeks!
0.1kg yesterday, 0.3kg today – so, moving in the right direction😊 once more.

Start weight 118.8kg size 20-22
Today. 97kg size 16-18

Next mini goal. 95kg…eventually I would like to reach around 75kg😕 (depending on how that affects my body / health)…will review as get closer to target weight! More interested in reaching a healthy size for ME, than an arbitrary ‘recommended’ average size or weight

More important has been the changes to blood glucose levels, cholesterol, etc…now all in normal range and am reducing medications gradually…though GP resistant to this as I have a heart condition…still think it can be achieved😊

Great news Imogen we are the backseat girls, ooh and the more we loose the more peeps can join us there, all happy cheering each other on from the back seat

Frog, they’ll all have heard of it in the next few years and will then feel very silly they didn’t take it seriously at first. If your nurse doesn’t go and research about the diet she must be a numpty after seeing your fantastic lab results! Now you can go on to show her that its possible to reach your ‘ambitious’ target weight!

Maiasmum, don’t worry, commit to the 8 weeks and your losses will continue, but be aware the scales will change much more slowly than in the first couple of weeks. Also they don’t always immediately reflect how well you’ve stuck to the BSD. However the losses soon add up, you will also notice how much better you feel and you will never want to go back! Well done on your fabulous start.

Imogen, good to see you loosing again too. It definitely helps me to see that others are continuing to do well even if it’s not always plain sailing. I’ve only just passed your starting weight now and hoping to be under 100kg by Christmas (more of a midi than mini goal!)

Frog – great news about your results and your weight loss. You would think your dropping blood sugars without metformin – compared with her patient on medication and the standard diabetic diet who still couldn’t get blood sugars to normal range – would have made her sit up and take notice. That’s without all the other good stuff going on with your results. It is really sad as so many people will continue to be injured by the way they are being managed by their diabetic educators.
Imogen, it’s so good that the scales are moving again and even better news that your blood sugars etc are normal.

Verano, I hope you are feeling less stressed. I have pulled myself around (see thread Feeling Really Low) and will get back on track after the weekend. In the meantime I am going to be a bit easier on myself and think of something else rather than my diet. I am in this for the long haul so gently does it.

thanks Tizzie & Krysia – she didn’t go into too much detail about the other patient obviously,, it was just the ‘she’s following a proper diet’ that left me a bit gobsmacked!

Hi Frog

It’s almost like fighting a losing battle!

Really well done on your results.

Why is it that if you had turned up and your blood tests were higher they would have had no hesitation in increasing your meds! Why can’t the medical profession accept that we aren’t all cretins who are only too happy to be ‘dosed up’ with whatever they deem fit?

The nurse should have been patting you on the back and saying you go for it, if you can make the bigger target well done and I’m here to help if you need me. But hey she probably thinks you can only do it with a ‘proper diet’ roll on all those carbs! LOL

Will certainly ask about access to my records best time I’m in the surgery.

Whatever you are doing its doing the trick so just keep going!

thanks Verano

Your practice may have information on their website on where they are up to with patient access – the link below is to information on where the NHS are with it generally.
https://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/pe/patient-online/

Hiii back seat gang! Beep beeeeeep!
MAIASMUM Kep thinking pozzzz….you have got off to a fab start and can look forward to more of the same if you stick to the rules! Ok probably it will slow down a bit but then some people seem to have a bit of a resurgence and another quite big chunk might come off! By the end of 8 weeks i had lost 34 lbs,so on average that was four and a bit pounds a week! So much more encouraging than the old “one pound,two if youre lucky” per week losses of previous diets. Forget the past,all that matters is this time! Keep on keeping on! X

FROG well done on getting back on track so efficiently these last few days!
Its quite staggering isnt it that the P Nurses don’t seem interested in BSD..you wd think as health professionals they wd want to keep themselves updated! X

IMOGEN thats great news about yr blood test results and in going down several dress sizes! X
SUNSHINE GIRL I read your post on the other thread,so glad you are looking after yrself and feeling better x
We all struggleat times and its horrid while it laats,things can look a bit bleak and overwhelming. Glad you’ve got yr mojo back!
FROG Thanks for that link !

Happy sat all you lovely back seat girls.

Woohoo detox big time, had my first proper BSD day back on it again yesterday all good, down .8 of a kilo today yeahhhhh but ooh headache big time, why did I eat refined carbs for a week, I didn’t even blooming well particularly enjoy them. Ooh poorly piggy Jan today. But never mind plan in action, very busy day ahead, food organized, and by Monday I will be much better. Looking forward to my energy levels going back up, I’m like a dish rag at the mo.

Short time aim back to previous weight by Wednesday and 3 stone loss in a couple of weeks, I’ve messed around enough, I want to be a chrimbo fairy at chrimbo it will be my 59 birthday, so aiming for target this year. So I will feel fabulous when I am 60 ohhhhhh dear feels awful 60 where’s all the time gone.

So what you all doing today girls, more importantly how’s your week going. Where’s the two sunnys, and Vetona and happy life so many I cannot recall, we need them on this bus trip, all cosy on the back seat.

Have a great weekend. Love jan 🚌🚌🚌😎🚌🚌🚌

Just went out to a fabulous sushi restaurant. Limited myself to salmon sashimi and edamame beans and then finished my son’s chicken curry Ramon soup once he’d eaten all the chicken and noodles. Yum. And I am feeling very virtuous.
Although I’ve just got home to an invitation to a birthday afternoon tea. Not sure how I do that low carb!

Happy Sunday all

How you all doing, for myself all symptoms now reversed, feeling up and nippy no today, energy back yeahhhhhhh😎😎😎

Morning JAN ! Happy sunday to you Too X! You sound in tippety top form today 🍒🌸🍒🌸🍒🌸
Hope you have a lovely day…i had a great sleep which really helps doesnt it..i put it down to BSD and taking magnesium a few hours before bed..sleeping much better than i used to do xxx

Morning Jan and Yowzer – you both sound very bright and zippy early on a Sunday morning!

BSD reboot is still going well – cherry binge aside
Four days of reboot BSD, 2.1 kilos
day 1 – Lost 0.4 kilos
day 2 – Lost 0.7 kilos
day 3 – Lost 0.5 kilos
day 4 – Lost 0.5 kilos

Morning Yowser luvvy

Yes tippity pip today, what you got on today, I’m food shopping and a long walk 😎😎😎

Frog

Morning luvvy Bril losses, it’s so encouraging isn’t it. I’m down 1.1 kg on my waste of time hol greedy carb indulgence, that tasted yuck excesses, .9 of a kg to go then I am back on plan loosing again want my 3 st very soon. Yeahhhhh love love love this plan, it makes me feel so hypo, keep trotting on the spot, hehe OH looks at me can’t tell what his quizzical experts ion means, but hey loosing weight and feeling great so bring on the eccentric Jan yeahhhhhh😎😎😎😎😎🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓😎😎😎😎😎😎 currant buns out, so of up the shop in a mo, then a few hours walk. What you up to today.
Love jan

Well done Frog.
I felt tickety boo yesterday and did 4 hours gardening before the rain set in. Today I am feeling a little stiff!

Yowser, can I ask why you take magnesium? I had plantar fasciitis which leads to really tight calf muscles and I have read magnesium is good for helping them release.

By the way Frog, I can’t find Longley farm cottage cheese anywhere here. I did find some by Holy Cow which is ok.

Beautiful day here. Perfect for a long dog walk. Then more visiting. Mum is out of hospital now and moved in an ambulance back to Essex do it’s only a 3 hour round trip instead of 7 hours!

Ooh loopylou

Bless you for your commitment to your mum. Keep planning your meals to allow for the travel I have to go to Norfolk quite frequently in a day, so I take all my three meals with spoons forks everything, my sister thinks I’m crackers, but I don’t care, I’m in the zone, and on it. Keep up the good work. Perhaps have some arnica for your inflamed joints, safer to take than magnesium. It would be easy to take to much magnesium, although shop brought magnesium is probably so low for that reason.
Supplements are not necessary on this plan, and may even inhibit its action, magnesium has an effect on calcium for ex. and we need calcium for obvious reasons, but it also assists weight loss. So look into it carefully.
Love jan

JAN i am having a chillout day today as I did lots housework yesterday and my pad is gleaming! I’m sittingback enjoying it
FROG cherries are so delish arent they but disappointingly carb heavy like a lot of fruit..i am amazed to find onions are carby too! Who knew? Well done with yr reboot,it’s really going well isn’t it in a short space of time! Great results!
LOOPYLOU i feel for you..ive had PF and it comes back at times..ouch! …i take magnesium to help me sleep and for any other health benefits hopefully..i think it does help relieve cramps/ tight muscles. Have just read there’s plenty magnesium and other minerals in full fat unsweetened greek yoghurt..which i eat every day..and i think its my saving grace as its so creamy and comforting,it helps me stick to BSD x glad yr mum is on the mend..yr TLC no doubt has helped a lot x
Ps jan is right re magnesium,has to be right ratio to calcium..i cant remember if its twice as much calc as mag or the other way round x

Morning all🙋 Jan, Yowser,Frog, et all.

Glad you are all feeling so lively!!! I’m off for a longish walk, then back to clean the house…boy does it need it!…then need to tidy the garden while the sun shines😵

Down another 0.5kg today so moving in right direction once again.

Can anyone advise what to do for sore muscles….not from exercise…woken up during night with discomfort especially in legs. Any suggestions??

Not BSD stuff but if anyone here is a archers addict we have 2 1/4 hours of delectation today ooh happiness 🎼🎼🎼 humming archers tune if you know it, hehe gone bonkers and loving it 😀😀😀😇😃😃😃

Hi Jan
I heard the omnibus – I think I missed an episode at some point in the week, I thought I’d LA’d them all – it made a bit more sense today!

I listened all week JAN! Verdict tonight! X
IMOGEN A long soak in a Radox bath will help? And perhaps rest more today to give yr poor muscles a chance to recover if youve been overdoing things? X

Oh what a night, to listen to the archers verdict, watch poldark or victoria. What a dilemma!

Hi Imogen

I did have a problem that a few weeks ago when I really started increasing my levels of exercise.
I really dislike taking painkillers, but I found taking a couple really did help, I think I only took them once or maybe twice – I can’t remember now whether I took asprin, paracetamol or Ibuprofen – but it worked

The other thing that was truly wondrous was when I had the problem while staying in Edinburgh, and didn’t want to spend the entire week inside the travelodge with the sound of wailing bagpipes drifting in from outside all day, I found an amazing sports massage therapist – half an hour of pure wizzardry, and it wasn’t particularly expensive!
I usually only have massage as a treat or destress/relaxation, than to address a specific problem, but she was truly amazing.
And she was based just a few doors along the road from the tea shop that had won prizes for best cakes in scotland, baker of the year…. but that’s another story.

Well done Frog – your BSD reboot is going really well.

thanks Krysia – how are you getting on?

Thanks Yowser🙋🌻
Thanks Frog💐
Will give your suggestions a try, start with the bath, and a couple of painkillers probably!

Wish I could blame the exercise however, yesterday was a lazy day…perhaps I didn’t do enough?!?😱took a walk today and cleaned the house, going to do a little gardening – gently does it though.

Frog – I used to live in Edinburgh. Those bagpipes can be … intrusive😲 Which cake shop won the best award? Should we be even whispering about cake shops I wonder? Sorry all.x

Ooh frog and Yowser how great you are archers addicts as well 64 minutes and counting ooh I cannot wait, it’s been a very long spring and summer waiting for this hearing, ooh twitching with anticipation.💀💀💀💀💀💀💀🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣62 mins weeeeeeeee

Me too JAN..my toes are twitching in anticipation!
Keeping active til then cuz will be a couch potato from 7 pm listening to Archers then watching FirstDay at Big School on ch 5+1 at 8 then Victoria at 9 pm x

Ooh I vote Poldark, in the hope that he gets hot again, know what I mean hint hint. But archers is supreme in my humble opinion.🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜

Ive only got involved with the Rob/ Helenstoryline JAN..i know nothing of any other characters and havent watched Poldark either..tho i know he’s eye candy
would like a big glass ( vat) of wine to drink while listening / viewing tonight, and very much fancying some buttered crackers …thats after staring mournfully for quite a while at packets of posho crackers in the supermarket earlier.
Do you ever recall a snack called Saltines? I could nyamm an enormous bowl of them right now..think i just need salt – which i will get from my dindins..having halloumi with salad x got some pink himalayan salt which looks v pretty and bought some chia seeds and milled flaxseeds today! Feel am gettin more n more healthy tho i widnt be a bit surprised if i start pecking and tweeting after all the nuts,seeds,berries etc lately xx

Ooh Yowser I’ve just googled them and yes I remember my nan had some one Xmas when I was a little kid, and they came in 4 in a cracker and you snapped them into 4 very nice, never seen them though to buy them, but what you could do is just dip your finger in some salt that may suspend the craving, but I know there’s nothing like crackers butter and cheese, but enough of that I want to be healthy more, I will indulge when I get to target at Xmas. Phewww best not think about that one.

Yayyyyyyyyyyy hooooooorayyyyyyyyyyyyyy ! X Not Guilty!
That verdict gives out the right message 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
That awful guy Rob tho….he’s chillllllllling isn’t he 🙁🙁🙁
I like the triumphant music at the end! But why arent they rushing to get Henry before he gets kidnapped!

Ooh I cried and cried,what powerful acting, praying that will now empower the disempowered, no one should feel unsafe, and frightened. Wonderful stuff.

I thought it was very odd that no one was concerned about Henry’s safety
Would have loved what turned them all round to not guilty – the chair’s rant or the realisation that was the only decision that would get them free of the other odious jurors before the weekend.

JAN yes well said…ihave worked at a womens refuge and its so important to empower the disempowered x
FROG i know! I was in bits waiting for someone to go and get Henry as fast as poss! X
I thought i was gonna stop listening to the Archers after the trial,but the story is not over ….x

JAN re saltines..apparently not available in england coz there are banned substances in them that US allows but Uk doesnt! They taste fab tho..and they were deffo on sale for a while in uk in the late fifties/ early sixties when the supermarkets first started opening x

I did a diet once that was supposed to include saltines, no idea what else, don’t remember, but I substituted ritz crackers
whatever you do, don’t go near the pringles
http://io9.gizmodo.com/5851487/how-are-pringles-made

Nooooo step away from the pringles! Waaarghhh! FROG Ritz are nearly as nice as saltines.
There were some called Tangs ? I think. They were oval shaped and the smoky bacon ones were lovely!
MY KItchen Is Now Closed…some of the saddest words in the english language 🙁
XX

Yep my kitchen is closed now as well so not thinking about food anymore too exhausted after the trial, need to save my energy for poldark hunk overload hour hehehe

Hehe Jan who needs food when you have hunky eye candy ! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
I too feel wrung out after the trial ..bed after Victoria I think! X

Enjoy Yowser 😁😁😁

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Night all x