Hi everyone,
I’m posting because after days of feeling down I thought maybe someone could share some hope and inspiration. I’ve only been on the BSD for 2.5 weeks. I lost 5lb in the first few days (and the week before had lost 3 lb just watching calories but no specific food changes). But for the past 10 days I’ve lost no weight at all. It’s really disheartening. So early in the diet on such restricted calories I thought I would do better.
I did start the BSD a week I knew I had 3 night’s out coming up in the first 3 weeks. I don’t go out all year then have 3 in a row around my birthday. I’ve so far had 2 of the night’s out and the final one is this Saturday. It might have seemed an odd time to start but I just felt if I didn’t start then I never would and it was better to start then than not at all.
Even with the two night’s out so far I’ve stuck pretty much to the 800 cals. I had half a bottle of wine both night’s out (which is half what I would probably have had before). I rigidly stuck to not having more, felt awful both times and don’t feel like I ever want to drink more than one glass of wine a night ever again! (And that’s saying something because I’d identified wine as my main vice beforehand). I’ll be driving this Saturday!
I’m also in the middle of Couch to 10 K so am up to running for about 20 minutes 3x a week. So I’m getting exercise. That will increase in coming weeks. After the first run day I felt unwell and weak so I upped my calories slightly for run days, however I’ve never gone over the run+800 calorie allowance if that makes sense (i.e. if I burn off 300 cals I’ve never gone over 1100).
Even on my birthday itself I only had one small glass of wine and we made a special sugar free birthday cake which I had one carefully measured slice of.
I’m not finding the diet hard. I don’t feel as great as I expected – not seeing all this energy everyone talks about. But I’m happy to continue on it.
I have had some dark chocolate and tiny glasses of wine but have never gone over 50g carbs on any day.
But it is disheartening not to be losing weight. I have around 30lb left to lose so it’s not like I only had a little bit.
Any ideas? Surely it’s a bit early to plateau. Things I’ve wondered about are:
a) Not enough calories with the running? (Both times I noticed any weight loss I’d actually eaten more the day before…)
b) Too much dark choc and wine even though staying within 50g carbs?
c) Had a healthy diet to start with (I haven’t had to change much, mostly it’s just calorie/portion control for me) so not going to see the dramatic effect on my body other’s see?
d) I have autoimmune diseases (coeliac’s and Pernicious Anaemia) – something to do with that? Someone suggested getting tested for thyroid problem but I had my well woman check just a few weeks ago and had everything tested and all my bloods are fine incl. blood sugar and cholesterol
e) stress
e) Something hormonal?
e) Not enough red meat? (I don’t eat beef or lamb)
e) The diet doesn’t suit me? (okay desperate at this point)
Positive things that have happened have been
a) surprisingly easy to cut down/out alcohol
b) diet generally easy
c) Not hungry
d) sleeping a bit better but feeling like I need more sleep (have always needed 7-8 but right now 10 hours would be great but that’s never gonna happen with kids!)
But less good have been
a) strange hormonal things happened last week (one for the ladies….)
b) headaches first 3 days but they went
c) definitely more irritable even though I’m not hungry (but that may be a lot of stress I’m under and doing one thing positive seems to highlight all the negative things going on!)
Would love feedback from people who’ve had a similar problem or been on the diet a while and rode this out.