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“IRRESISTABLE: WHY WE CAN’T STOP EATING” with Chris van Tulleken, BBC2 this evening. or on catch-up now.
I have just watched this on catch-up and I promise this is a program that you NEED to watch!

Hi Lucy,

How are things? I know the run up to Christmas can be particularly difficult! I finally dropped off my plateau….with a 1lb loss. 😀My Christmas just became more difficult…in that I am not going to be in control of the food/cooking/kitchen. Long story, but I now have to go to my S-I-L who is on her own…the first Christmas I have not been at home and in charge of cooking for over 25 years!!! It would be this year, when I was planning a ‘different’, low carb celebration! BUT onwards and upwards…She has asked what I eat…when I said butternut squash instead of potato, swede instead of parsnip etc, she said she didn’t think she would be able to get those!!! So I am taking with me….just hope she lets me into the kitchen to cook them!

Keeping on!

Pootle … it’s one day! Just eat what you’re happy with! How about some green vegetables … dare I say sprouts!

Unfortunately Verano, I have to be there for 2 weeks!
And yes, I love sprouts and nearly all vegetables. I just know that I will feel hungry without extras and 🤞 after all I have achieved since June.
Going to take lots of large bottles of sparkling water with me.

WOW! Two weeks isn’t just ‘one meal’!

Good luck!

I think you might need it!

Don’t worry about ‘hunger’, eat as well as you can but don’t fret because you cant be ‘perfect’ with your BSD diet. Just don’t go over the top. Ok one or two ‘violations’ aren’t the end of the world. It’s only when you say “s.d” it I’ve given in to one thing so I might as well crash the car and go the whole way’!

You will be fine just don’t stress about the odd ‘digression’ just don’t go into full overdrive!

I think that I am most worried about the “s*d it, I have eaten that, so I might as well eat this” attitude. I have done that before… in 2020… and it eventually lead to 5 stone increase in weight and diabetes!!
But that time I wasn’t using the BSD didn’t have the support of these forums! So I think I will get through!
I have to get through!
Thanks

YOU WILL!

Hi Pootle hi everyone.
I was once again member of the 1lb club. It’s slow going but I’m happy.
I really wouldn’t worry about xmas Pootle . I went on holiday and apart from that stubborn 1lb it came off soon enough.
I fully intend to enjoy the Xmas week. It’s my husband bd on 22nd too so I will be having a good time. Enjoy the week. Don’t go over the top but enjoy some nice food. We diet or cha nge our eating ways all the time. We have to. A week won’t hurt you. Imagine you used to be like that all the time. Now uts just one week. Enjoy, have fun. Then back to it. Don’t stress. Imagine how much further forward we are from a year ago xx

Stayed the same when I weighed Friday, it has been a difficult road with xmas treats and outings. I didn’t put any weight on and am back to it fully again now after a forcibly bad weekend brought on by storm Darragh. Had no heating, how water or electric for well over a day and was having to eat convenience goods as a salad was of no use in the freezing. Trying to get a couple of really good weeks bow before christmas.

I still sometimes can’t believe I have lost 2 and a half stone……
I have to keep going as still a lot to go. But thanks for all the support it’s kept me going.

Hi Lucy,
Well done for keeping stable, much better than putting it back on!!
Storm Darragh also took its toll here and we still have no power, but I am lucky that we have a wood burner. It will boil a kettle and saucepans of veg and make porridge! Now rescued an ancient camping gas from the shed so all good!
We couldn’t get out on Saturday afternoon or Sunday morning as the electricity cables were whipping about at head height over our track! But taken down Sunday lunchtime, now waiting for new poles and wires!
Keep safe and take care, you have done brilliantly to have lost so much!
Xxxxx

Hi Pootle, thanks. Sounds like you have had a torrid time in the storm. Where are you based. We are north somerset area.
I read your other post…you’ve reached tour target weight. 🥳 wow!!! Huge congratulations 🎊 👏
How much have you lost and how long have you been going?
I’ve had a struggle patch but have been back on it fully and looking forward to weigh in Friday rather than dreading it! In honesty I haven’t been bad just circumstances have made it harder but haven’t put any on. Another stone I woykd be happy with but ideally stone and half . Sometimes it seems surreal that I’ve lost what I have. Like uts another person….do you know what I mean? X

Hi Lucy,
I know exactly what you mean about being another person! You have done so well!
We are in West Wales, still no power. Hope it is back on for Christmas 🤞 or husband won’t be able to join me at sister in law’s in Worcestershire for Christmas Eve and Day! 😩😢
Yes, I reached my target weigh (10st 7lb) yesterday. 🍾 I started dieting on the 8/6/24 at 15st 7lb, but only started the BSD on 15/6/24 at 15st 5lb. At that time my Hb1Ac was 50. Today it is 40 🎉🥳 totally thanks to the BSD. It has been very tough at times, and I have slipped up occasionally, but mostly I have been extremely strict, counting calories and carbs… even weighing lettuce leaves etc! 🥴
I don’t drink alcohol which I am sure has made it easier, but I am popping the top off a bottle of celebratory fizz tonight! 🍾
As S-G says… keep on keeping on!
Xxx

Wow 5 stone in 6 months….thats crazy. I’ve nowhere near that level of loss.
Although I do drink and that hasn’t changed. I don’t drink wine though only shorts.
I have lost 2.5 stone so only half of yours and I started mid July. But have holidays and slipped up a bit from time to time .
I’m very jealous of that weight loss lol. That’s incredible ….just wow!
Good luck with electric I was stressed enough after a day lol!
Congratulations that’s amazing
Xx

Hi Lucy and Pootle. Congratulations on your results and successes. Lucy, when you first started back in July I was so afraid we were going to lose you as I was a bit tough on you. Remember all that fruit. Thankfully, you stuck with it and can now fully understand that this diet does work but it needs you to work just as hard. So glad you are still here. Pootle, your results also speak for your hard work and the effort you have put into improving your life, weight and BG. You are both heroes.

Thanks S-G.
I think I have been extremely fortunate.
Sadly, I would not have known anything about the BSD if it hadn’t been for the talk about it on TV following the tragedy of Michael Mosely’s incredibly sad death. I had not seen or heard of him and the BSD before that! 😢😢😢
However, the inspiration to try it out came at exactly the right time for me after the shock diabetes diagnosis. Then the encouragement and tips particularly from yourself and Verano have helped me along the way! I have only eaten 10 chips, 2 slices of granary toast, 3 crème brûlées (a real weakness of mine) and no pasta or rice since the 15th June! Giving up my daily banana has been the hardest, with toast a close second. But I will be keeping it up…. I have had one big scare and don’t intend to go there again!
Lucy, you have also helped me with your posts and common sense when I have fallen off the wagon! Thank you…
I know 5 stone in 6 months is insane… but I had put on two of them in the previous 6 months, and think they were lost much more easily that the other 3!!!
xxxx

Thanks SG, you have been brilliant and kept me on track. I remember the fruit thing…. I thought I was doing so well eating all that fruit lol! But now 100g of one fruit with my yogurt in the morning.
You have been so helpful alongside Verano and Co.
Pootle it’s been a pleasure journeying alongside you even though you’ve smashed me out of the park!!! I haven’t stuck to calories uts too hard for me but have been so good with carbs. Don’t think about having them with things now….had a roast ladt nightminus potatoes and Yorkshire pudding lol. Bolognaisr with runner beans…..you get the picture. Still a way to go but I’m fine with that. It’s been hard and I’ve slipped a bit bit I’m still here and still going.
I was 14.12 starting mid July now 12.5
So can’t complain. Some have been and gone on here but I’m still here unbelievably lol.
Thanks again.
Well done Pootle again….even if I am a little jealous lol xx

Well done girls!!! You have both done really well.

S-g and I started here in mid 2016, so over 8 years ago now. I’ve kept my blood sugar in the ‘normal’ range for probably over 8 years now and S-g has reduced her dose of insulin massively. I’m sure that staying on these boards way after reaching our respective targets has helped us both. It’s so easy with T2 to think ‘I’ve done it now, so I can get back to ‘normal’. ‘Normal’ is low carb for us. That doesn’t mean never having a roast potato or piece of toast ever again it just means that they are now a real ‘treat’ unlike our old ‘treats’ of cakes etc, which are actually not ‘treats’ at all but they are truly our ‘enemies’.

Anyway, enjoy the coming festivities but not with ‘gay abandon’! As s-g says ‘ just keep on keeping on…….’

Hi Everyone
My attention span isn’t great so I tend to skim over the long reads! However I’m glad to be part of a forum who believes that this works. Outer sources can be negative. I’m 37 days in and I have lost 1st 4lbs so very thrilled. I have managed to meal prep for the full month of December and thankfully I don’t have a lot of plans so that should ease the pressure. This has given me the kick-start to my weight loss journey where I would normally find easy but during menopause has slowed my metabolism down drastically. Keep going Everyone and I recommend the Chocolate cranand Pistachio pennies!

Hi Lucy…
I have been thinking about you and wishing you well, as I know the run up to Christmas coping with a parent with dementia is particularly stressful!

LC75
Great that you can be so organised with your meal plans…and a brilliant achievement in weight loss.
I cannot find the recipe for Chocolate, Cranberry and pistachio pennies…???? But I highly recommend the Pear and Brazil nut chocolate brownies! (I cut them in half to reduce cal and carb for a small treat! )

Happy Christmas all,
xxx

Thank you Pootle. Things are very stressful I must confess. They are in their 80s and my mum struggles to cope . My dad has deteriorated and isn’t an easy task, she lives with 4 imaginary family members on his side too who are long gone but exist for my dad. So you can imagine my poor mum. It’s exhausting. Taking him to the dr this afternoon as he has a bad chest. I live local to them and am an only child so it’s very hard work and demoralising at times .
Haven’t been 100 percent on diet. I knew I would struggle in the run up to Christmas but haven t put any on. After Xmas will have my full attention again but atm I need a break and intend to enjoy xmas to some extent. I know that’s not for everyone and I commend all those who abstain from it but I just can’t. 90 percent is no carb but have some biscuits and chocs along the way. Determined not to put on but for a couple weeks I am being less strict. It’s my husband bd on Sunday too .
Unfortunately this Christmas isn’t going to be easy in many ways. But we can only do what we can do I’ve lost 2 .5 stone and I’m proud of that. Back to it after for sure
Happy Christmas everyone and well done to you all. And thanks again x

Big pat on the back Lucy, enjoy Christmas and don’t worry, we will still be here to nag you (encourage really) in January.