Even I’m feeling a little bileous at the broccoli idea now 😷

Good Morning !
Well the results are in from brendas bathroom and at the end of week four i have lost another 1.2kg or 2.6 lbds!!!!!!
in total thats 5.5 kg or 12lbs amazed!!
another inch from everywhere !!!!
absolutely amazed !!!! without any particular amount of exercise either well and truly gobsmacked!!!!
i am now 1kg from my first goal
so hoping to hit that next week !! then will set another goal
i did this as i wanted to loose the weight i had put on after my illness last year and i have i now weigh what i did before so anything more off is a bonus !!!
i feel a cinderella moment coming on ladies after cleaning and washing windows !!!!!!!!!

Great news Toyko, congratulations 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

GoodMorning
Well the results are in from brendas bathroom another 1.2kg down or 2.6 lbs !!!
thats 5.5kg or 12.0 lbs off in four weeks !! absolutely thrilled!!!!!!
and a inch of everywhere too
i am 1kg off my first proper goal then i shall recalculate !!!
i am amazed all this weight loss without any proper exercise !!!!
i started this for the health reasons to loose the weight after my illness last year i have now done that i weigh now what i weighed before that all kicked off!!
hoping the 1kg comes off next week or as near as possible
i feel a cinderella moment coming after cleaning and windows!!!!!

so excited i wrote two versions of it !!!! doh !!

Hee hee, worth saying twice 😹😹👏👏

I’ll be up at 5 she says, famous last words…

Wooooooooop well done Tokyo! You little star! And see, the sun even came out to say well done 😊 you’ll have that last kilo in no time, you watch!

House is chaos, three late kids running around like headless chickens, and hubby is a git for not putting alarm on. I feel daft now you know when you wake with a start? Coffee…

OMFG. So I slightly overdid my front crawl sprints in the pool last night and dragged myself out of the pool feeling like I was going to throw up.

Got home and needed something substantial to eat. Holy sh&* balls! I tried the steak with peppercorn and creme fraiche sauce from the BSD book. I’m not kidding when I say it is probably the nicest meal I have ever eaten/cooked.

I had it with steamed broccoli instead of salad and I also added in two thinly sliced chestnut mushrooms to the frying pan. My steak was a bit smaller than the one in the recipe which made the meal about 550 cals, but DAMN it was worth it.

If you can save up your cals for a big meal in the evening then this is well worth it. I’m cooking it again either tonight or tomorrow! (got 2 steaks in a pack from Aldi so then need eating!).

Oooooh well that’s a glowing endorsement if I ever saw one! I had steak the other night and I had to pretty much starve all day to accommodate it but it was worth it. Creme fraiche is fantastic for cooking, I should use it more. How’s the beach body coming along Tummy? Are you speedo-worthy yet??

Jeeez, Timmy! Not Tummy! Bloody autocorrect on this phone puts Apple’s in the shade I tell thee!

Timmy’s tummy is receding fast – those budgie smugglers will be on in no time!!!

Btw Timmy, I followed your suggestion and cooked a couple of our Lucky wraps to have with my BBQ sausages last night… DEE LISH! I am still happy to eat a ‘naked’ burger but a lonely sausage on a plate is not right (or maybe that whole sentence is wrong??!!) Insomnia for me overnight.. grrrrr. Still awake at 4 am so this morning was a mad panic, not helped by my ‘gardener’ turning up just as I was trying to hang washing, pack child off to school, make lunch, put guinea pigs out to pasture!!! When I say gardener, I mean my son’s granddad who I have cajoled into sorting my garden out for me as he has just been made redundant!!

The broccolli flatbread is sitting fartily in the office fridge waiting for its lunchtime debut. I feel a bit sick at the thought of it if I’m honest, but I will load it with either humus or cottage cheese and a big slice of beef tomato and see how I get on…

Well done on the continued weight loss Tokyo.. you’ll be super slim Brenda in no time!

Not yet, but I’m definitely changing shape. When I got out of the pool last night I did have a look in the mirror (well you have to don’t you). Because my shoulder/arm/chest muscles were pumped with blood, and if you squinted and were slightly drunk you could possibly have possibly mistaken me for someone in shape/muscley.

And yes, I was wearing speedos! These sort though…. http://www.speedostore.co.uk/mens-speedo-fit-splice-aquashort/810372A569.html

yes i admit timmy i looked at your speedos !!!! very daniel craig getting out of the sea !!!!!!
any meal that starts with holy s😀😀😀 balls has got to be a winner in my book , unfortunately i fear that is not a description for janeys farty bread !!!

Has anyone found a decent alternative to almond flour for making those cookie things? My missus nearly keeled over when I told her how much it cost (£10 from H&B). Given that one packet only makes three batches, and the cost of coconut oil, I think it costs about 50p per cookie!

I agree. Fart bread doesn’t sound the best

i mase the worlds most chocolatey chocolate cookies with chickpea flour ! you couldnt taste it but at the minute i try to put chickpea flour in anything !!
oh yes i am the chickpea queen !!!

As a newbie on week 2 can I ask a couple of questions of you seasoned dieters please?
First – after the great loss of 6lbs or more in the first week I am loosing around half a pound a day now – was that your experience?
My other question was – I know I am keeping to under 50g of carbs but is there a ‘recommended’ level of fat and protein?
Thanks so much for your advice – you keep me going in the dark moments!
Jill

hi i dont weigh every day once acweek and maybe a cheeky weigh middle if week but my opinion is dont worry about the scales ifvyou csn just go with it
no idea about protein or fat i just follow the diet rules and keep going and that works for me sure someone else csn be a bit more in depth but i dont want to get too obsessed with it i just keep doing what i am doing and cheering loudly when it works

Ahhh you are that cool calm person Tokyo! I wish I could stop weighing daily – have done it all my life and it is a millstone 🙁 Fear of losing control of my weight I fear – even over 24 hours – which I know is mad but there it is (even though, before this diet, all I did was gradually get fatter!). I will try my very best to take your good advice and thanks for the post. Further question – so after week one was around 2-3 lbs a week the norm?
Jill

i am many things but not sure cool and calm is one of them !!!
i wanted to be on the scales all the time at the start but thanks to two lovely crazy ladies( thelma and louise!) i decided against it ! just go with it for a week/3 days hide the scales( lifes too short) and so how it goes eat less do more follow the diet you have to loose weight its the law ! ( i think ha ha)
i weigh in kg and it all depends how much you have to loose ( some have more than others and will loose more weekly than others ) and how good you are sticking to diet i guess but i am no expert just cracking on and hoping for the best not been disappointed yet

Hi Jillf, welcome onboard this slightly crazy train of conversation! To reiterate what Tokyo says above, don’t weigh daily or you’ll just stress yourself. Go with how you feel and how your clothes fit. And on week 2 you’re doing well anyway.. one more week and the liver and pancreas are cleared of carbs and your waist will really shrink! I have never counted carbs as such, just gone with eliminating the really obvious ones (spuds, rice, pasta, bread, cakes, sweets) totally. There’s not much left after that!

Timmy.. woo hoo on the trunks (I also checked them out!). If you’re wearing them you must be looking good already 😀
Almond flour is very expensive (although better value on http://www.realfoodstore.co.uk for a lot of the bank breaking healthy alternatives) so I am experimenting with combining or replacing it with our old friend gram (chickpea) flour or coconut flour (which is a lot cheaper). Apparently with gram flour you should add a little oil to offset its dryness compared to the almond stuff.

Don’t remind me about the fart bread.. I’m dreading lunch 🙁

Haha. No they don’t look great yet Janey, but better than they did. More of a cupcake top than a muffin top now! I just have a very high “don’t give a toss what other people think” threshold and know that swimming shorts/board shorts are no good for fast swimming!

LMAO at least you wear shorts Timmy!! Not a word, Lucky 😉

Hi Jillf,
I’m now in week 13 and have lost 19.8kg and have just hit a ‘normal’ BMI after starting off ‘obese’. Still 5.1kg to lose till my goal weight of 65kg, not that I’m counting. Much! Heck, who am I kidding! I count everything!

I’ve kept track of everything I’ve eaten in my EasyDietDiary app and on looking back, I’ve logged somewhere between 40-70g per day of both total fats (as opposed to just saturated) and protein. On rare days I went either a bit over or under, but generally between 40 & 70g.

My biggest weight loss in a week was 4.6kg and the lowest was 0.4kg, but on most weeks, seems to be around 1.5kg per week.
I hope this helps, any questions, just ask, we are all here to help.😀
Cheers
Linda

and today ladies (and gentleman!) cinderella moment is brought to you by my gardening jeans !! four weeks ago i jumped and laid down anything to squeeze into them and took many attemprs to zip them up today in with a wiggle zip up once success overload !!!

Bloody hell! Do you all wait until I’m not here to interact? Pfffffffffffft.

So, Timmy, basically you were posing in the changing rooms, correct? 😉 Haha, I had the same reaction re the almond flour, he nearly cried handing over his debit card, and ours wasn’t so bad as we had buy one get one half price (I was in every day that week taking advantage of that offer, I tell you!).

Hi Jill, welcome. Come in, come in… Everyone is doing this plan differently to what works for them. I’ve not counted one carb daily, but I do look at carb counts. I’m just following the plan according to what I’m allowed to eat, and the amount of calories I can eat in a day. It’s working – for me – so far. When it stops working, well, then I’ll have to start looking at the amount of carbs. I’ve so much weight to lose anyway, that it’s going to take time. If I was nearer goal? Then the carb count would probably bother me. But I’m nowhere near.

I lost 14lb in my first week, 4 in my second, 3 in my third and 4 in my fourth. One off this week so far. I weigh again on Saturday at the end week 5/start of week 6. Everyone is different though and it will depend on many factors, including how big you were to start off with too. Personally, I am different to the other ladies, I weigh daily. I haven’t always but I have for the last two eating plans I have been on. It keeps me on track too. So if it’s right for you, don’t worry about it. One thing you might want to consider (what I’m doing on Saturday) is changing your scales to kilos. You’ll see the weight come down in smaller increments but as I said before, I could have three days at a certain weight and my scale won’t show a change until I’ve lost the whole pound. I could be 15 11 and three quarters, 15 11 and a half and 15 11 and a quarter on those three days, losing half a pound, but my scales won’t show me that. If that makes sense!

Janey, how was fart bread sandwich????? We must know!!!

Yayyyyyyy Tokyo!! Well done! I forgot to say too, I managed to zip left boot up apart from the last two inches or so!!!!

Thanks to you all – you are true gurus!
Jill

Linda that is really helpful thanks so much – week 13! I take my hat off to the long termers. I had to clear a frantic work diary that takes me travelling at least 3 times a week so I could retrieve 4 weeks at home to focus on this – plan to do another 4 weeks in a month or so 🙂 It’s v hard when your job takes you all over, no mater how good you try to be 🙁 And actually, the recipes don’t travel well!
J

Lucy – all fantastically helpful and encouraging thanks so much. Started at 12st 13lbs (sorry just can’t think in kilos even though I hear what you say about better loss tracking) and hope to get rid of a stone in the 4 weeks I plan to do it – then do another 4 weeks in a month or so (not eating differently in between but not calorie counting). I would like to get to 10 stone, that is my goal – but with such great support here I am sure it can be done, so thanks to you and all the lovely people who take time out of their day to support us. I really do think it is the greatest thing about this diet and why it works – they should market you as part of it!

Jill, I can’t think in kilos either, this is purely for the psychological aspect of it 😀 Especially now that (I suspect!) weight loss is going to be slowing down to 1 or 2 lbs a week – still not to be sniffed at – but after such big losses in the first month, it’s going to be a bit disheartening. So, I’m going to switch off and just concentrate on the scale going down (hopefully!) in small increments. As long as it goes down, that’s all that matters. A quick google search can convert the amounts in seconds anyway, if I really need to know 😉

Absolutely you can do it! I don’t think I would have stuck to it without this forum, this thread has kept me sane, talked me down, geed me on and given me some of the best giggles I have had in ages! This thread is generally open between 5 am (apart from today grrrrrrrrr) and 11 pm 😉 You too can join us in a pot of hurrah, and tut at wilted kale. Squint drunkenly at Timmy in his speedos. Just remember to keep your chickpeas chunky, and leave your sanity at the door 😉

Lucky – totally flippin’ marvellous, thank you
Jill

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Update on the fart bread! I loaded the offending article up with humus, sliced tomato, a little shredded chicken and a few olives and you know what? It wasn’t half bad! The broccoli ‘twang’ was much diminished by the goodies on top and so it just tasted like bread base! So I will persevere with the remaining 5 pcs! 👍🏼

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Can people see this?

Yes but did the rest of your office look at you as if you’d floated an air biscuit? Cut the cheese? Did a bottom burp? Doing a one cheek sneak?

Yay! Glad it was edible! Maybe the orange one might be less offensive? How many cals a slice did it work out?

That looks delicious Janey!! I’m totally making it next… who cares what it smells like :-))))

Lucky you’ll be toasting before you know it 😉

No idea on cals.. I have transcended calorie counting now in week 10/11 or whatever I’m on! Plus the methane it will inevitably create will offset the cals!! Hee hee! Carrot or beetroot ones may be less offensive (although I believe there is still cauliflower involved).

The ‘fallout’ from it is to come, Timmy. Which is worrying as I have a customer meeting in a couple of hours!! 😮

I was thinking rather the farty smell of the bread rather than the resulting trouser trumpets.

Oh God, forgot they were cauliflower based… wonder if you could do a brussels sprouts one???

I wonder what it’s like toasted…

I need to stop wondering. I’m making the baps on Saturday to go with our burger.

i want to say it looks delicious janey ! BUT its the thought of the new wonder fart loaf i cant get out of my head !!! i preferred your date bread !!
still cleaning bloody windows but i did stop for lunch !!!!!
well done lucky on the boot front (soundtrack playing in my head is these boots are made for walking !!!!! ) visions of you strutting your stuff round your house in your boots !!!

Oh my God – for those who remember my rant about my useless son. I had to have a talk with him today. It was building up inside me. I told him it wasn’t that he failed his year that I was so cross about, it was his complete apathy. The ‘I don’t know/I’ll do it later/I’ll check my email’ and I asked him if he’d feel any less frustrated if it were his child. He shook his head. So it emerges he’s passed three (I think) exams, but he failed both the maths ones. So I pointed out that if he was resitting, shouldn’t he be studying? August is but weeks away after all! He can’t study. Guess why? Go on, guess…

HE HASN’T GOT THE TEXTBOOKS. He hasn’t got… the bloody textbooks. Why? Because they were – and I quote – too expensive. Some were £60…

Yes, all you parents out there, no – scratch that, you don’t need to be a parent, just possess a modicum of common sense – my first sentiment was to ask ‘How much do you spend on a night out’. Which was met with a surly ‘I don’t know!’ Taking into account pre-going out drinks, and now pubs are open late, not like ‘when I were a lass’ and you were chucked out on your a**e by half 11. I then pointed out that – shock horror – that’s what his grant was actually for! Expensive textbooks! Not his bloody social life.

So, to cut an already long story short… guess who has just been landed a very large bill for 4 of the five (secondhand) textbooks from Amazon this morning? He could go and whistle for the fifth one, which was over £60 second hand! Guess who is NOT a happy ******* bunny. I haven’t wanted a drink during this diet, and now all I can think about is the two bottles of birthday Prosecco and Cava that have been chilling in my fridge since May. And how good it would feel hitting him over the head with one.

Fin.

This is four children of this particular ‘calibre’ that I am unleashing on the world. You’re welcome 🙂

If it’s any consolation I was a lazy tw*^ at uni and didn’t pass my finals. But now I’m a chartered accountant and am running 3 successful businesses.

oh lucky !!! that truly was a rant poor you but i guess what as a mum did he expect you to do ? you did what i and thousand others would do buy the books i would say kids ( but only had a son !!) are sometimes gormless i think its a boy thing ( not sure what girls are like !!) probably a whole different ball game but at least he pasted three , hope you calm down treat yourself to a chocolate mousse bar !!! x

I will get it on, Tokyo, it’s getting there. I know it will come because I used to have quite nice pins, for a shortarse anyway.

Do you know what, all these diets I’ve been on, especially the ones since I’ve been big (and by big, I mean no offence to anyone, just by my ‘teenage’ standard, me being ‘big’ – for me – is 11 stone upwards, and I’ve been up to 18 stone 10 at my absolute highest). I’ve always ‘held back’ a little. If I can get down to 12 stone, I’ll be happy. If I can get into a size 16, I’ll be happy. And the bigger I get, the less ambitious the goals seem to be. Now it’s – if I get down to 14 stone, I’ll be happy. If I can get into a size 14, I’ll be happy. I found a picture of myself at 16. I was tanned, beautiful, still had a huge bust and a curvy bum but my waist, oh my God I’m sure it was smaller than my thigh is now. I was probably about 9 stone. And I’ve been looking at that picture and wondering if all my ‘aim low’ goals have been a sort of self-preservation, because in my heart of hearts I knew that I’d never get down to that size again? I knew I’d never stick to SW or WW or cabbage soup or whatever it was I was on that month long enough to ever get there? And now… I don’t know, there’s a shift inside my mind, as well as my body. I’ve pinned the picture to my kitchen cupboard door, where I can see it daily. I don’t want to get too far ahead of myself but… I wonder if this is it, this time? I hope that makes sense to someone.

Epspecially, I need you and your psychology please. Even if it is only cat psychology. It worked with the scented stuff…

Really Timmy? That’s great, well done for turning it around. I’m not holding my breath though, there’s just no oooomph in the boy. Well, he’s a man really, he’s 2 months off 21. I said, didn’t I? I said that he thought he could wing his degree. Surely he knew that he couldn’t without at least the textbooks he needed? Christ on a bike…

Tokyo, my kid ratio is 3 boys 1 girl. The girl is nearly 14 and she is my punishment for my teenage years. Everything I put my parents through, she is putting me through. And some more. This is karma in action. The boys have been zero trouble in the real sense of the world, not a scrap of trouble at all. I’d raise another fourteen boys over another girl, any day. Love them all though 😉

That’s a good idea with the photo. I’ve got a photo of myself on honeymoon in Cannes in nothing but a pair of shorts. 6 pack out and looking lean (and dashing of course). I might pin that up for inspiration!

Funnily enough that was the beginning of the end. I used to go to the gym 5 days per week and lift. I was fairly rippling with muscles. I had a week off to get ready for the wedding, then 2 weeks honeymoon. So for 3 weeks I did sweet FA exercise (apart from usual honeymoon exercise, cough, cough). I never could get back into the gym when I got back, and 11 months later out popped two sprogs! Game over, massive balloon in weight from a slender 13st to a chubby 15st.

I’ve since got back into exercise but haven’t shifted the weight until now. In fact that was 12 years ago to the day when I let it slip! It’s my 12th wedding anniversary on Sunday. It’s crazy how the time flies and the excuses we make. 12 bloody years of being a skinnyfat.

No more I say. My 6 pack is coming out again this year.

Firstly, do not drink the Prosecco or you will feel as utterly awful as I did on Sunday! Better to hit him lightly over the head with the bottle, thereby conveying your frustration but preserving the contents! Take 5 mins, have a mousse bar or Willie or something nice, and then realise it wasn’t THAT nice and that you are doing BRILLIANTLY on the BSD.. plus you have a new bunch of crazy friends; chandlers, accountants, quilters, readers, yoga doers (?!), all of whom are cheering you on as well as counting on you for moral support and giggles.

Tut at the wilted kale then don your pashmina of determination (a new garment) and soldier on!

p.s. As the mother of a son I am under no illusions that I would also want to batter him, but then would cough up for the b****** books!