Hi Pootle. Wow you did so well but you must be careful not to under eat! I think I am guilty of that too hence the hunger, I still struggle with hunger.
Typically I eat some raspberries with yogurt for breakfast, salad for lunch and meat and veg for tea.
Eggs or salad for lunch but am starting to struggle with eggs now!!! It’s all a bit samey.
And I’m fairly fussy so it is difficult at times
Anyway I lost 2lbs this week! 17lbs total now. It’s a little slower than others but hey uts a loss.
My husband lost 4lbs this week not on this diet. So we get to have a treat….mine was a mars bar!!! He wanted some choc hob nobs….but weirdly we are yet to go and get them. Partly don’t want to mess up….but imvery much a reward person. If I get fed up unable to have occasional treat I will give up….so a treat it will be at some point! I get down thinking I have a long way to go still but I’m trying not to dwell on it. I cannot believe I have stuck to this for 6 weeks now!!! It’s a minor miracle!
Having a bbq tonight with some lovely meats and a few drinks. I have a holiday on Oct 2nd so determined to stick with this until then….and undoubtedly afterwards!!!
Well done Pootle, you’re doing so well and give me hope of keeping going.
Thanks everyone. X

Pretty gutted, only 1lb this week despite continuing with diet 100 percent. Lost 18lbs total but last few weeks have been disappointing losses. 2 and 1 lbs.
But its a loss so trying to be positive!

Your meals look good, and it’s normal to feel hungry at first. Maybe add more veggies or protein to stay fuller. It’s tough, but you’re on the right track.

Hi Lucy,

A loss is a loss! 1lb is still a loss!! I think that the longer we have been carrying/storing the fat the more resistant it is to being used/lost! My tremendous loss in the first weeks was weight I had put on in the last 12 months. I am now weighing in and finding I am plateauing more often than not! No loss, but no gain…at least it is no gain!!!! 🥴

However, I am finding exercise getting easier… and am feeling more energetic!

We can do this!! Keep on keeping on!
XXX

So the 2lb continuation goes on!!! Another 2lbs rhis week. Seems slow to me but I’m nit complaining . That’s exactly 1 and half stone now in 9 weeks. At least it’s working.
Still struggling with what to eat at times but I haven’t wavered.
4 and half weeks till holiday so I’m hoping to hit 2 stone by then hopefully .

Lucy as the first week or two of a new diet starts by eliminating fluids, especially low carb diet, yes you will have good numbers. Going at 2lb a week right now is a great achievement. Just keep going. I am sure with your husband also on a plan you can egg each other on.

As for what to eat, keep looking at recipes online. Deliciously Ella is a good site, thedietdoctor has recipes or just type in keto recipes for …. whatever food you have in. You are right to try to vary your meals.

Hi Lucy…welcome to the 2lb club! This week I have also lost 2lb.
It has been an incredibly busy week for me, and I have been very strict. A 2lb loss is great. I am also getting very nervous about the 3 month blood test which is booked for the 11th September. 🤞I really hope that being so strict has brought my numbers back down!

I am finding it easier to cope with getting my head round totally different foods/recipes, but being so busy this week has stretched my catering skills enormously! 😆
I have been constantly scanning the 8 week BSD and fast 800 recipe books for inspiration….love, some, hate some….but it is stimulating my brain and tastebuds!

One step at a time…here’s to next week!

K.x

Thank you both. I actually can’t believe I’ve come this far. And can’t believe I have stuck with it. Butni think I know why….i have actually have lost weight. All the other diets I have tried I was lucky to lose a few pounds over weeks , then nothing. Then my mentality is well I’m not doing all this hard work for nothing and I fall off the wagon.
This had been a revelation. Initially I was dumbfounded by what I woykd have to give up and very upset at how I had become but from somewhere I have gained the strength to carry on. I had my mars bar treat last week which in honesty was fab. Next treat at the two stone mark…which I hope will be before my hols on 2nd October… .7lbs in 4 weeks. I think I can do it it! I know my holiday will be hard and I won’t be following this completely as buffet meals are included but I will get it off when I get back and hopefully more. X

I’m still part of rhe 2lbs club! Must be several weeks it had been that. 2lbs again this week. 1stone 9lbs loss
Wow!
Sorry to post on here every week but it just gives me a boost!
Wish it was more lol but not going to moan. Thanks again x

Hi Lucy, I have lost 2lb also this week! So we are keeping up with each other. 😁
I look forward to your posts, we started at about the same time with about the same aim….so your posts encourage me also! I am now finding it much more difficult to find time to count Calories and Carbs in everything I eat, but I have kept a diary of, literally, everything!!! So am starting not to weigh all ingredients, but referring to previous meals, using an educated guess! I had hoped not to have to do this until I had a positive result from the blood test next week, but work and home life have become a bit manic! So I still have fingers crossed that the BS reading will be low enough to take me well down the Pre range.

I have now had to sort out some of my smaller clothes….and/or tighten up the belts! So feeling good about the weight!

I saw in an earlier post that you have had your treat… I am looking forward to mine when I get the positive report from the GP…Watch this space.

XX

Really good luck Pootle with your tests I’m sure rhey will be brilliant .
Well done too with continued weight loss. I have a little treat every half stone or stone.
But bad news is today I have fallen off the wagon!! Feel a bit gutted but it’s only the second time. So basically I got too hungry and was out and about and ended up buying a Tesco meal deal. Sandwich and crisps and then I finished my husbands crisps too. So I’ve blown it for this week probably just as I’m getting closer to the 2 stone mark. I’m annoyed but it just came over me and I did it.
😪

Thanks Lucy. 🤞

Don’t beat yourself up too much…it is human nature, we all slip at times! We are none of us perfect and have to forgive ourselves when we fall, pick ourselves up and start again! I indulged in some dry roasted peanuts last week…my husband was eating them and I was hungry..!! 😢But I have been ultra strict since!

I am sure it won’t have done too much damage, so long as we think diet again, and not let it happen too often!

Tomorrow is the 3 month blood test….I am sooo hopeful! If my numbers are down we are going to go out for a meal to a wonderful seafood restaurant! 🤞🦀

Thinking of you…K.x

Really good luck today Pootle. When do you get rhe results. I have been pre diabetic for a couple of years and then drifted into diabetic hence this diet and on my 2 week double check blood test I was back to being pre diabetic only after a couple weeks so you are going to have no issues. It’s going to be fantastic news. Let me know! Well I weighed rhis morning and have put weight on, it’s not my official weigh in day which is Friday but 5 days into this week and seems I have put a lb on, can’t surely be the sandwich and crisps??? Feel deflated but I have lost every week so maybe this is what happens but it’s going to hurt if that’s the case on Friday. My target was 2 stone by the time I go on hols which is 2nd Oct. So times running out! 5lbs to go or maybe more if I have put on weight this week.
Good luck today. You’re going to smash it
X

Hi Lucy, I hope you are straight back on plan because the weight gain you have is not fat gained, it is actually fluid held in by the bread and crisp carbs. It will soon disappear so just keep going.

Pootle, cant wait to hear your results. I got mine within 4 hours but not sure how it works in the UK but hope it wont be too long a wait.

Sunshine-Girl….I cannot wait either!!!! Test taken yesterday, they said results possibly this afternoon , more likely tomorrow afternoon! 🤞

Thank you all so much for the encouragement and support!
Blood test results are in!!! HbA1c has dropped from 49 (Diabetic) back to 45 (pre-diabetic). A brilliant result considering the inhaler I use says it will put the diabetic numbers up!!
Yay! So I will celebrate in a couple of weeks, when life is a bit quieter, with a meal out at my favourite restaurant..not avoiding anything! Then back to seriously getting the next stone off!

That’s brilliant news. How long have you been doing rhis diet now?
How much have you lost so far?
Weigh in tomorrow for me but not boding well as midweek showed I had put on.
Yes you make sure you go out for a no holds barred meal and drinks lol. You deserve it. X

Lucy dont fret about a small gain but I had a treat just like you did and gained 1lb and today it is gone and another half a pound with it. If you really stick to this plan it does work. Also my BG is going down and down and I am having to reduce the amount of insulin I use. Never quite managed to get off all my meds but certainly made lots of reduction in cholesterol, BP and diabetes meds instead of what the doctor said that I would have to take more and more. Not me, no way, I never give up.

Pootle, that is absolutely wonderful news, next step is to get out of the pre-diabetes level. Yes have a treat but you might find that the stodge doesn’t have the same appeal as before. Or take advice from the Glucose Goddess and if you are tempted to the bread don’t touch it until you have had some salad or veg, to line your gut and slow down the transition of the carbs. No matter what you eat or drink just make sure you are back on plan the very next day. Congratulations.

Sunshine girl that’s amazing you have done so well.
It’s not so easy so you have achieved a lot. How much have you lost or was yours about diabetes more than weight?
In the beginning I was fretting so mich about how I woukd sustain this but I have. My low carb bread and occasional treats have kept me going.
I hope I have lost something tomorrow . Thanks for your .message x

Lucy, I found this diet when I was 11 years diagnosed and already on insulin. I started on 24 units and by this time was on 44 units and still had BG of over 200 (about 11.0 on the other scale) and I used to cry every night because I didn’t know what I was doing wrong. I saw a nutritionist and she put me on over 300g of carbs per day to keep my numbers steady and keep me safe. Yeah, like hell. My numbers stayed the same and I gained 5kgs in the 3 months I stuck with her plan. Then I found Michael Mosley and prayed it wasn’t just another trick or crazy pill or something like that. I guess you could say the rest is history. I now run at HbA1c of around 6.0 but I still use 16 units of insulin which I am currently having to lower as my BG morning tests are around 4.0.

As for my weight. I weighed in a exactly 9 stone when I was diagnosed. I tried meds but they made me ill so doctor put me on insulin. In 6 months I had gone up to 11 stones 9lbs. Fortunately, it didn’t really go up more but try as I might I couldn’t lose anything – insulin causes your body to store glucose in the fat cells and it can’t get rid of it. My first 12 week stint on BSD I lost 13lbs. My total loss was 2 stone. However, besides putting on a few pounds here and there on holidays and treats etc, my BG stayed steady but I just sat at the same weight. I need to lose another 2 stone and I have set myself a goal of 3.3lbs per month for 6 months – up to my birthday in February. If I can do it I will have lost another 20lbs. I am sure I can do this as I am fed up of messing about with my weight now that my BG is looking good most of the time. My diet is obviously good by my results, just need to combat the insulin and make a real effort to lose more weight.

It is a total lifestyle for me. I am a diabetic every day, not just when I feel like it or feel like having cake. I find it easy to say no but I do like my wine and an occasional vodka and they would be my version of your Mars Bar.

Hope you can understand where I am coming from when I get strict with newly diagnosed diabetics or pre-. I want to save you from the heartache I have had to go through. All my thanks go out to Dr Mosley and Prof. Roy Taylor because they have saved my life.

Absolutely I understand why you drum it into people. I think though if they are like me uts a panic stage…newly diagnosed, a ton of weight to lose that I’ve been trying to do for years without success which gave me no will.power either as there were no results to incentavise me. Suddenly you’re faced with having to give up all the normal sweet stuff involved in dieting and on top of that carbs. Suddenly I found myself asking can I never have this or that or can I have it as a one off etc….its fear of the unknown. Where as you know how successful this can be and it’s hard to get that across. After my panic week or so I’ve settled into it and am surprised how I have stuck to it . My friend does slimming world and they love carbs on that diet, ridiculous she puts on a few pounds, loses a few pounds but still keeps on it. She won’t switch to what I’m doing and I find that frustrating too. I weighed in at the heaviest I have ever been so had to do something.
You have done so very well to adopt it as a lifestyle. Amazing. I had to help myself. 7 blood pressure meds I tried and they all made me ill. Now I don’t need them. Just got to get out of the pre range.
Only lost 1lb this week which I feel gutted about. But that’s one stone 10lbs now.
X

Just made me smile. I can imagine you telling your friend how great this plan is and she is not listening. Know that feeling very well. Good for you for eventually getting it. That bit about having to help yourself, that is what we all experienced and that is why we are here for each other. Keep going.

Hi, I am sooo delighted with my test results but I am going to delay my treat for a while, so I can be nearer my weight goal! (And until after I have seen the GP on the 25th) Weighing in today I am still in the 2lb club, but a loss is a loss!

S-G I also understand where you are coming from. To hear people at the start of a journey questioning the route, when you KNOW that the way is clear, must be extremely frustrating.

Lucy, I started the BSD on the 18th June (15st 4lb)…I had already started dieting (with carbs) on the 11th June, when I weighed in at my heaviest ever – 15st 7lb. I had been diagnosed as Diabetic on the 11th! I only heard about the BSD on 15th June when I bought the book and recipe book.

I had previously dieted from 2016 (start weight 14st 8lb ) when I was told I was pre diabetic (HbA1c 43), through to 2018 (end weight 10st 2lb, HbA1c 45) and kept the weight at about that level until mid 2020. I used the ‘traditional approach’ of eating ‘healthier’ carbs, whole grain rice and pasta, granary/seeded bread, and skin on potatoes, plus low fat everything I could find! Despite the weight loss I went further into the pre diabetic range. So when I was told I am now diabetic, I knew already that the conventional diet was not going to work!
During lockdown I gradually regained the weight until I was about 14st after Christmas 2023. This year I became more and more inactive and depressed, comfort eating (a whole box of Thorntons chocolates at one sitting a couple of times a week…bags of doughnuts etc etc…you get the picture!) and my weight ballooned to 15st 7lb by early June. I am so determined to get back to a manageable weight, and control my diabetes that I have been extremely strict with myself. But I am human and have slipped a few times.
I am really working on getting to my goals…one at a time (first was to get back down to pre-diabetic range ✅, next is to get back into the winter coat I bought in 2019! I love that coat!!)…then keep my BS steady, so I am considered a diabetic whose diabetes is controlled by diet!
I know I could not have been so motivated without these forums and people like S-G and Verano who have kept me going!
Thank you all!
Kath.x

Great plan Pootle. I had a doctors appt on Tuesday but had all my blood tests on Friday so was very tempted to have a treat over the weekend knowing it wouldn’t affect my BG or cholesterol but held back because I didn’t want to have gained a pound or so with a few glasses of wine. Also the more you delay the easier it gets. There is something to read about deferred gratification but I can’t remember where I saw it. Will google later.

Hi,

I hope all is OK with you all.
I had a 2 lb loss again this week, and I am happy that I am still steadily losing! BUT I leapt off the wagon last night!
I was waiting until after the GP appointment next Wednesday to have my treat meal out…but hubby couldn’t wait any longer! 🥴
So we visited our favourite restaurant! I did try very hard to stick as closely as possible to the diet (I didn’t eat the little bread loaf served with the Crevette starter) but I did succumb to 10 chips….after I had eaten the plaice with tender stem broccoli and capers (thinking of the advice to fill my tummy before eating any carbs)…However my major sin was a Creme Brulee desert! 😩(I did give the shortbread accompanying it to Hubby!)
😢
So back to being even more strict today…1 poached egg on a large mushroom for ‘Brunch’….and a little chicken with roasted med veg for supper! 😇

Keeping on keeping on! 🤞
xxx

Life is for living.
Love that you counted the chips – I do the same.

Hi Lucy,

I hope you are OK.

Thinking of you 🤞.
xx

Hi, sorry haven’t been well this week and have hols next week. Hoping I get better in time.
Put on a pound ladt week which was very annoying . But I did have a weigh a couple days ago and I think I’ve lost 3 this week which woukd be amazing. Friday I will let you know.. Pootle
You’re continuing to do well, and forget the pudding you had . It won’t hurt you at all. I’ve had a few moments and they’ve been little consequence to the overall picture. A treat does you the world of good in my opinion.
I’m getting so close to the 2 stone mark now. Had to visit doctor this week and she hasn’t seen me since I started dieting and she couldn’t get over it , said I looked completely different.
So that was nice even though I wasn’t feeling well.
See where I am at tomorrow. All the best

Hi Lucy,
Sorry to hear you have been unwell, hope you have now recovered and have a positive weigh in tomorrow!
Isn’t it a boost when someone comments on our weight loss? My GP did as well! Made me feel 10 foot tall! 😂
All the best for tomorrow…I will be thinking of you! I think I will be a 2lb loser again this week…🤞

K.x

So guess what???? Woohoo 5lbs this week.
Total 2 stone. 13 weeks and 2 stone lighter!
I know probably this week was a big loss because I haven’t been well. But have still stuck to it.
On holiday on weds and had big trying on session last night. Got in loads of holiday clothes that have been sitting sadly in my wardrobe for ages.
I know I will put on weight away but I know I can come back and get back on it. Want to lose 2 more stone but even 1 would be great.
Thanks again to everyone.

Well done Lucy!

Just because your on holiday try not to overindulge in the high sugar foods. With a bit of luck you might find lots of stuff too sweet after eating this way for 3 months!
Anyway, the most important thing is to ENJOY!

Congratulations Lucy!!!!! 🎉

That is brilliant news..although I am sorry you were unwell!
Great that you have been trying on clothes and feeling good about yourself! Keep it up, try to avoid as many ‘bad’ foods as possible on holiday, but enjoy it and don’t get hung up on the diet. You now know you can get back to it when you are home again!

K.x

Thank you both. I’m really pleased and can’t believe I have achieved this so far.
Holiday will be a nightmare only as it’s half board and breakfast and dinner have so many choices. Rows of food, pastries….you know what I mean?
But I will try to do my best . Hoping I can walk and swim too. Previous holidays my back prevented me from walking too far, would have to keep sitting and re starting but I haven’t noticed it so much recently. My husband said the other day, you’ve been walking round the shops for ages and haven’t had to sit once… I was like omg you’re right. Didn’t even think of it. I have an airbnb annex to my house and cleaning it I always had to stop start….not anymore ….whizz right through it! Even making the bed!
Back better, blood pressure better diabetes better. That’s what I have to keep in thought when eying the pastry aisle!.

Lucy,
I know exactly what you mean about rows of pastries etc! I went to an afternoon tea yesterday as part of a group being ‘treated’ as a thank you. We each had a two tier cake plate put in front of us…..there was absolutely nothing on there I could eat and stay away from carbs and sugar…I am afraid I thought…..”b****r it and ate the lot! BUT that was one day, not a week on holiday, having the same temptation over and over again…and today I am back to being extremely strict! I don’t want to lose the health benefits I am achieving by being on the diet! As you say, suddenly we can do things we haven’t been able to for some time…doesn’t it feel great??

Have a brilliant time away, relaxing and enjoying the benefits of having lost so much weight!

K.xx

Lucy the first trip away can be so difficult. So many temptations.

Somebody once wrote on here something like …. using a car as an analogy … you wouldn’t jump a red light and then think ‘to hell with it’ I’ll now go and smash into a wall, etc etc. Ok so if you feel like a pastry have ONE but not every morning, have that odd slice of toast but not every morning, have one potato or five chips but not everyday. If one of anything leads to many then best not to have the first one!

You can enjoy your holiday without all the temptations. In fact feeling ‘light’ , your clothes fitting well and eating well will make you feel much better than having your clothes starting to feel tight and you feeling meee or guilty, or both, because you have eaten everything in sight! Most importantly you don’t want to end up back in the ‘diabetic’ range.

Enjoy!

Thanks both of you. Thing is I don’t really trust myself. After many years of failure I kind if expect it of myself now 😌. This is the only diet I haven’t wanted to eat eveyrhing in sight and the only die’t that has proved successful.
So I am worried and I don’t think I won’t slip up. I will. But I am going to try keep it to the minimum but faced with aisles of food is going to be tough. But it has to be damage limitation. And of course I will be stright back on it. I’m all for a treat here and there and I have done so along the way….but a treat is a one off. This potentially could be terrible for me. But I am going to try my hardest. Not going until weds…..so being extra good until then too.

Hi Lucy, I think you have already said it all – the only diet that has proved successful – it can be successful again after your holiday. But a treat is a one off – yes or it becomes the boring everyday and nothing special. And of course I will be straight back on it – so you already have a plan. These are all good things to tell yourself.

The not so good are – I don’t really trust myself – after many years of failure I kind of expect it of myself now. These are the thoughts and words of the old you. First there is no such thing as failure, only of not trying. And as for trusting yourself you have a wealth of knowledge at your fingertips now. When you are faced with food think about what the challenges are and try to avoid them. If there is a dessert you want, have it – take a couple of spoonfuls and leave the rest – hard yes, but you have the strength. If there is a bread roll and chips have one but leave the other or eat half of each. Don’t eat as though there is going to be a famine.

As Verano says, you don’t want to find yourself back in the diabetic range so trust yourself to take care of yourself in the best way you know how.

We have all been there and know there will be things we cannot resist – for me it is wine and I do have some on holiday or at occasions. Enjoy your holiday but not so much that it will make getting home miserable. My daughter has just spent a weekend in London and they ate out on Friday and went to a famous restaurant with 12 courses on Saturday (it is called Plates) and they had saved up and joined a waiting list for 5 months to get a table, so of course she took every advantage. Her WhatsApp to me this morning said ‘I’m scared, might not get weighed for a week’. My reply said ‘you have had a brilliant time and made memories. Now you know what you have to do!’ She will hopefully be straight back on the diet tomorrow.

No preaching here, just advice from experienced people who care.

Enjoy your holiday.

Hi Lucy,
I am really regretting eating the tea yesterday…now wishing I had cried off as I have been hungry all day! I Haven’t felt this hungry for weeks! I think it must be due to all the carbs I ate at tea.
I think the advice from S-G and Verano is spot on…when my head is in the right place, I feel I can achieve all my goals, when I start to doubt the trouble starts. It sounds as though you now know this diet works and has huge health and lifestyle benefits and we know we can do it!

Have a brilliant holiday,
K.x.

Pootle, regrets wont change anything except make you feel bad. Just look forward and hopefully learn something. Keep going.

Hope your holiday is going well Lucy,
My latest experience has shown me just how easy I had it for the first couple of months of the BSD! In that time I was totally in control of what and when I ate. After the hunger of the first week, which I quickly realised could be assuaged by drinking sparkling water and/or eating a little meat, the diet suited me brilliantly. Following the afternoon tea and then being in a hotel for a few days (very limited food compatible with the BSD, as I was working and only had sandwiches, wraps and or chips on offer!), I am back to craving toast etc and feeling hungry all the time! I know I can get through this and back into the ‘happy place’, but am a little frustrated that my body is reacting in this way!
On the weight front, I have lost another pound…probably mostly due to being so seasick 🤢🥴 on the ferry home!

A positive note; the consultant for my asthma was almost as delighted with my progress as I am!!

Keeping on!
K.x

Hi Pootle, hi everyone. Literally just walked through the door home.
Don’t know where to start really, I haven’t been very good. It was just too hard. I only had 3 pastries all week but an awful lot of chips and some bread and lots of alcohol too.
I have walked between 2and 3 miles everyday and swum lots too but like you Pootle I am craving all the wrong stuff again. Haven’t dare get on the scales as I know it’s going to upset me. It was too much to resist everything all the time. All your meals in rows and rows.
I did my best I know it was nt good enough. Two stone loss up the creak now.
On the plus side I had a lovely time and ready to start over again.
Probably be crying on the scales later but I can’t change it all and I ate nowhere near what I usually would. Fingers crossed for the damage.
Xx

Hi Lucy, glad you had a good time but the holiday is behind you and any bad eating is also behind you. You have not put a two stone loss up the creek. You will probably have gained between 5 and 7lbs. So you are still 1.5 stone down. No it is not ideal to have made that gain but it is life. You said you did a lot of walking you also talk about avoiding pastries (maybe a couple were eaten) so you have already taken in good habits and strategies.

Now is the time to build on that and get straight back on plan. You will also find you lose quite a lot in the first week as you are carrying fluid from the carbs as well as some actual weight gain. Get on the scales tomorrow and take a reality check then back on it. You might find that, like Pootle, you find it harder this time round, the hunger, the cravings the whole diet thing will seem more difficult.

The first time around you are so full of optimism and motivated to do well. You are excited to get started and see your progress. This time around it is all so familiar and lacking that enthusiasm. It might be an idea to go right back to how you started. Making a menu plan, shopping, looking forward to a new adventure. Can I also suggest some of the mistakes you made in the first place wont happen again so you are already starting from a much better position.

Hope I haven’t gone on too much but you have done this before and you are rareing to go, so good luck.

Hi Lucy,
Don’t think your loss will be up the creek! At least we both know what we have to do to rectify any problems we may be having now.
Great that you enjoyed your holiday and kept active. I think you were VERY restrained to only have 3 pastries! I might have given into temptation much more than that!
Keeping my fingers crossed for your weigh in, but don’t beat yourself up if you have put some weight back on. We can get back on track!

K.xxx

Thank you both. Pootle….I am the same. Constantly hungry and wanting all the wrong things but hopefully it will pass soon.
Thanks for the message SG , I am determined to get back on course but yes its hard at the moment as so very hungry.
So it’s not weigh day until tomorrow but I have gained 7lbs. Quite frightening really I wasn’t as bad as I usually would be and kept my exercise up. So a 1lb weight gain per day! I’m shocked but hey back to it and hopefully it will come off quite quickly.
Back to it in earnest today.
Thanks everyone. Good luck to you too Pootle. We can and we will do this. Xx

Lucy, At least 3lbs of that is fluid and will be gone in a couple of days. Keep on keeping on…

Being hungry is a sign of health.
So feed hunger with REAL, healthy food — meat, vegetables, salad, nuts. Prioritise protein. Avoid the sugars — sugar is the driver of your hunger. Don’t give up — one of the amazing things that happens is that you will lose the desire to eat sugar. Seriously, this is absolutely true. It took about a year of refusing sugar and refined carbohydrates and one day, like magic, I simply didn’t want sugar anymore. It happened overnight, literally. It was, and has been, a game changer for me.
I used to read that sugar was addictive and I did not believe it until this happened to me. I was a sugar monster for most of my life — I even remember endlessly looking for sugar as a child. Refined carbohydrates are also sugar — quickly converted to sugar in your body.
If you are interested in why this is true metabolically, check out and listen to Dr. Benjamin Bikman’s podcasts. You can just google his name and they will pop up. He is a metabolic expert researcher at BYU University in Utah. I love his simple and entertaining explanations.

So proper weigh day today and was less than yesterday considerably. So I am 4lbs heavier than when I left. Not 7.
So hopefully this will be gone quickly. I’m happy with 4lbs for a week. Have been pitch perfect since re starting and will continue to do so.

Hi Lucy,

That is good, you will quickly lose the 4lb, I am sure! Well done for restarting with purpose!
Life seems to be getting in my way at the moment…I am trying so very hard to keep to the diet and record calories and carbs. I had a ‘lunch meeting’ yesterday… I did turn down the bread and had a few prawns on a small salad with lemon mayonnaise but not able to know the calorie or carb content! I weighed and counted everything for supper to make sure I was well within the limits, to try to allow for lunch. BUT it wasn’t scientific!!!
Today I am out for supper….So, again, I will not know the calorie and carb content of what I eat…even if I try to chose ‘lower carb’ foods. So am being ultra careful with lunch!!

I have had 2 very interesting conversations recently.
1. person worried that they might be heading for diabetes…extremely interested in the BSD, looked at website and ordered the book. I hope my experience helps them. 😀
2. person with diabetes, (about 5-6 years) already lost a toe, sight causing problems etc….just started on insulin injections once a week. eats anything they like…white bread, sugary foods etc etc. Could not understand why I was saying no to jam and dessert. Didn’t want to hear about the BSD… was certain they wouldn’t benefit… 😢

I am just grateful that I found the diet, have been able to stick to it and it has taken me back to pre diabetic, as well as losing a great deal of my excess weight!! In no little way because of the support from these forums. Thanks everyone!

I am keeping on!
K.x

Question, read the book took notes looked on the webpage too … so 800 calories, reducing carbohydrates – but how does 800 calories work for both men and women, when men usually are 2500 and women 2000? I am doing OK so far on the 800 calories, but husband is worried he won’t manage on so little, so that then got me thinking have I misread something somewhere and should be doing something different as a woman? Thanks in you can help me.

Hi Mistehippos, the diet is the same for men and women. Can I ask why your husband is on the diet with you. Is he diabetic or other illness, is he overweight and wants to lose some. I would suggest if he has no particular medical reason he could have a few more calories. My husband doesn’t follow this diet at all but over the time I have been on it he has completely cut out most white carbs. He might have a slice of toast at breakfast and does allow himself a couple of croissants at the weekend. He doesn’t need to diet as he is 6.1 and probably weighs the same as me and I am 4.11. You have to know yourself what the motivation is.