remember that separated at birth thing Lucky?

I also have my sandwiches dry and never added butter or milk to my potatoes, but I never added cream either I just had them plain and mashed (or roasted…)

It’s genetic for me – my mother didn’t like butter/marge/milk and although she did give me some as a child I turned my nose up at them very early. My daughter also prefers her sandwiches dry and doesn’t like milk.

The kids like Elana’s silver dollar pancakes, and I’ve found they freeze really well so you wouldn’t lose any if you made a batch and they didn’t like or want them you could just freeze them.

Omg freaky!! I wonder how many more similarities there are? My eldest also doesn’t like butter or marge – except on toast… as long as the toast has nothing else on. So a bacon toastie would be dry, breakfast toast would have butter. He explained it to me a few years ago as he didn’t like the idea of melted butter on food, for example a chip butty. My daughter, however, she won’t entertain new potatoes unless they’re swimming in a pile of butter. It makes me heave, the smell of it, melted butter. Same with cheese on toast, the smell of the cheese makes me feel physically ill. Yet, when it’s on a pizza, it’s the most desirable smell in the world. And – I’d be the first to stick my finger in a bowl of leftover buttercream! There’s nowt as queer as folk, I tell thee! Or maybe it’s just me that’s peculiar!

I’ve got that bookmarked from quite a few weeks ago, probably near the start of this journey, they caught my interest. They look ‘normal’ enough, don’t they? I think it’s the freezing that’s the key. The Lemon and Blueberry scones were amazing. Absolutely amazing. Once frozen though, they fell apart. Soft. Had to squidge them back together when they were defrosting, and reheating in the oven did nothing to help. Still tasted lovely but when you stuck your spoon into them, they just crumbled. That was an almond/coconut mix. The Blueberry muffins froze great, they were almond only.

I think coconut flour is a pain. Too dry (hence yesterday’s disaster in the Friday bake) and your defrosting nightmares. No wonder it’s usually only mixed with the million dollar almond.

I’ve bought on that we shop before Izzy – it’s a lot cheaper than everywhere else ( and I like the green packaging!) Will put my order in next weekend after I get paid. Maybe 2 kg of the flour while I’m feeling flush? Hey have a good offer on coconut oil too at the mo. I’m really getting into cooking with it…

I wonder where Tokyo is? I even tweeted her before to see if I could prompt a reaction. Hope she’s ok.

Eps, just did a cheeky 15 minuter while hubby was on phone to his sister. 8251 steps 🙂 Woooooooohooooooo! Smug mode engaged! Ready for tomorrow now! Am I sticking to 8000 for another day, oh wise Personal Trainer?

i don’t really do the exercise every day but have started walking more at work, i have tried to keep within the 800 calories and have done so mostly didn’t do well at lunch as i had a fish cake with some salad. I have not kept to the plan in the book as i kept buying things and then wouldn’t need it again.

I’m not doing the exercises yet, just trying to walk more at the moment, Josie. I know from experience that it does help with my weight loss, and especially now with my staying the same this week, I’m throwing everything at it. I’ve only given the recipes in the book a cursory glance to be honest, I just took note of what I could and couldn’t eat and ran with it. So far I’ve bought three flours, coconut sugar and butter that I didn’t use before, and I think I’ll get through those in time. Anything too exotic, I won’t be bothering.

Yaaaay!! That’s the key, they all add up those active minutes! 👏👏👏👏👏👯
(Yes bunnies, but they’re celebratory😝)

That’s great, I went for big rambling walk too and clocked up loads of steps while basically people and dog watching 😂

Ok tomorrow 8500 that’s only tiny bit more but brill to keep it up. More of this and you’ll be going to yoga next week 😳😂😂😂 Go team💃🏻💃🏻

I need to up the ante on exercise as really not doing very much at the moment. I used to go to the gym but there never seems to be the time now. I’m either working or juggling kids! I hate swimming too. It’s boring (unless you’re in a pool in Corfu, mucking about!) Maybe I need a yoga or Pilates class?

Pilates is good, have done it before and it makes you feel long and lean! But yoga is just great as makes your head work too 👏👏

My emoticons are crap when I’m on the PC, only smiles, grins and sad faces! Pffffffffft. I’m more proud of myself for exercising at this time of the month, usually I’d pull in about 600. And on a Saturday too! Saturday is our family’s ‘day of rest’ because Sunday is boring, that if we’re not off out watching our rugby team at home, then we’re cleaning. I accept your 8500 challenge. I will do my best. Probably in two increments again, but I’ll be moving more around the house tomorrow than today. I want to see if there’s a local beginner’s yoga class, hubby also seems interested in yoga. He also likes boybands. Lucky is worrying.

I only went to the gym once. I was 16. Never, ever again. I have treadmill, exercise bike, rowing machine, abs trainer, little exercise bike thingy that you can use sat on a chair, and shedloads of weights. I can’t swim. I am hopelessly uncoordinated and I have failed at every sport I have ever tried. I can’t run or jog because I have massive tatas (And I means massive, 46FF) and it’s so uncomfortable. My arms and legs don’t move at the right time together, so any form of dance or aerobics is out. Pretty much, walking and darts work for me.

Omg, I just got post number 1111. A number I see everywhere since years. Of course I did!

Hee hee husband sounds very open to new stuff 👏🏻👏🏻 Will be dying to hear about your first class, hopefully one near by.

great about mini gym in your house!! No excuse so 😜

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am not sure if this works but its a recipe for brownies the ingredients all look like something we now have hopefully it will show same

None of it’s permanently set up though. They’re all clothes hangers in various parts of the house 😉

No, it’s not shown up Josie

Righto I am definitely ready for bed tonight! Will catch you all tomorrow, lovely ladies 😀 Hopefully the sun will be shining 🙂 Hopefully Tokyo will be back too… Sleep well 🙂

Make it
These Fudgy Paleo Brownies are so simple to make, are not cakey at all, and are the perfect chocolate treat! So delicious and gluten free,…
Ingredients
Vegetarian, Gluten free
Refrigerated
2 Eggs
Condiments
3/4 cup Honey
Baking & spices
2 oz Chocolate, unsweetened
1/2 cup Cocoa powder
1/4 cup Coconut flour
1/2 tsp Salt
1 tsp Vanilla
Oils & vinegars
1/2 cup Coconut oil
Drinks
1 tsp Fair trade espresso
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They sound quite non-offensive from the ingredients list Josie 🙂 Tokyo is the brownie expert though, I’m sure she could tell within 2.4 seconds whether it would work. But I can’t see anything in there making it taste awful. And as you say, we’ve all got that stuff in.

Well, my little ‘stones to kilos’ experiment has already come up trumps. 0.3kg down today 🙂 The figure is 100.4 kg, so I also have another ‘mini goal’ coming up – get under 100 kilos!

I’m going to have a decent loss this week, I can feel it. I have a renewed determination this week, and it’s come without the expense of me falling off the BSD wagon, which is all the better. Renewed determination from staying the same is psychologically a lot better than having to lose the same pound or two I’ve already lost once and put back on. Healthy foods and increased exercise will kickstart this again for me. I’m just having a coffee, waiting for the painkillers to kick in and trying to warm up a bit before I go on the treadmill, then I will go for a bath before I start my cleaning. Heating is on for the third morning in a row, which is shocking. Treadmill is in outhouses which, although now ‘attached’ to the house by means of two lockable doors and a roof, are still single brick, non insulated, non heated outhouses. Only now with two lockable doors and a roof. Bonus is in the winter, I have the worlds largest fridge…

Hope the scales/waistbands/weather is being kind to you wherever you are 🙂

Happy Sunday! 2 momentous pieces of news this morning. 1. I am WEARING SHORTS. And amazingly I look and feel good in them! They’re markedly bigger on me than last year when I wore them on holiday ‘because no one would know me there!’
2. I have found a use for coconut flour! By pimping recipes and trial and error I have made pancakes! They were initially VERY dry (imagine your mouth full of dessicated coconut) but I added more milk, and topped with blueberries, stevia and lemon juice. Yum!

My boy has his summer party today. Numerous small boys shouting and messing about with water. Wish me luck!

Yayyyyyy Janey! Well done on the shorts! Last time I wore shorts? 1991. No joke. Yes I know the ‘nobody knows me there’ routine but so far that has only extended to Crinkle pants and Ali baba pants. In the daytime. Outdoors. Imagine! Shorts! Or even – bathing costume! Anyway, you rule!

Any idea on the volume of flour? I’m a good cook but I HAVE TO follow some sort of a recipe.

That sounds horrendous. Enjoy! Rather you than me! Hope the weather is as glorious there as it is here! Yes, I said glorious. Woke up frozen, now we are seemingly in the middle of a heatwave. Can’t win.

Worrying a bit about Tokyo now, hope she’s ok 🙁

This is the recipe I pimped a bit http://naturalkitchenadventures.com/paleo/coconut-flour-pancakes/

Made a half quantity (in case they were awful). Used normal milk instead of coconut milk and a pinch of baking soda to make them fluffier. The goopy mess starts out very thick but thins down. Keep it quite thick though as these are more like American pancakes. I could only manage 2 so still have mix left, probably for another 2 👍🏼

Where IS Tokyo???

Testing…

Yaaay to shirts Janey! Swiitt woooo👏🏻👏🏻😝

This week is going to be a great one Lucky – below 100 here you come sliding down. Roasting day, walked for miles beside the sea, no nice!! The challenge will be keeping up exercise during the week but we ll do it👏👏👏

Yuuuum Pancakes look great. Hopefully try those soon. Also like the sound of that carrot cake Izzy mentioned, but first will get week started 💃🏻

Well I’ve survived an afternoon of manic kids, water balloons, BBQ and a little wine. Hope I don’t get a BSD hangover tomorrow 🙄 Even preached the BSD to my friend, who took my copy of the book home to read! Could do with a little lie down now!

Anyone else had trouble posting here today? I did this afternoon. Wrote three posts, posted them, not here. My ‘testing’ one worked, so I reposted the post again… didn’t come up.

It’s boiling here Eps, and I have been in soooooooooooooooo much pain today, worst pain I have been in in a long time. I’ll have to go back to GP for what use she is. I’ve hammered the pain relief, but no excuses – step count is 9086 for the day. I did 30 minutes on the treadmill this morning, pottered as best I could around the house, and just done another 40 minutes on the treadmill again. You know my ‘freezing’ outhouses? Yeah, well, the perspex roof and single brick walls ALSO turn the bugger into a sauna in the summer! My hair is saturated! Just rehydrating now and will have to go for another hosing down, a cold one I think! Seekh kebabs but in burger shapes tonight, I couldn’t be bothered sausageing them onto skewers lol.

Made some lovely muffins (which I tried to tell you all about in my three posts that wouldn’t post posts!). If this doesn’t post I’ll scream…

You’re coming through loud and clear now Lucky! It’s been a scorcher today, perfect for the kids party. Think I may need to be in bed by 9pm though.. Am shattered (and just a little tiddly!) elaborate on said muffins please!

Yes, under 100 here I come! I think as long as I can get a 30 minute treadmill headstart early in the morning before my shower, I can fit 8000 – 10,000 steps into my day. I have an early start tomorrow anyway, daughter is off to Alton Towers so she will be leaving at 6.20 am. It’s little one’s sports day in the afternoon, so that’s a walk to school and back as well. And then I can top-up again in the night time. What step count are you inflicting on me for tomorrow then, Eps?

Define ‘a little wine’ Janey 😉 hehe

Ummm, 3 small glasses.. Of WHITE. I never drink white! BSD hangover I reckon…😱

Oh my God. Is there some keyword in my post that it’s not allowing or something??

It’s telling me now Duplicate reply detected, but it’s not posted! And slow down, you move too fast. Oh, I’m sorry for being a fast typer! Which is USUALLY a good trait to have! Kind of a habit now, hang on, where’s my toes, I’ll use them, shall I? Pffffffffffft.

You will never know about the muffins. I’m so sorry. They were a ‘Well that worked!’ too!

Drink plenty of water and take two ibuprofen *nods*. I wonder if I’ll ever drink alcohol again…lol

They can be found here paleogrubs.com / banana-nut-muffins-recipe Just delete the spaces

See if that works. They were not sweet, but they were too, banana sweet. Sweet enough too. 157 cals without walnut, 170 with. Made 12. Stuck to the recipe except crunchy peanut butter instead of almond and no salt. Only slight problem is they stuck a bit to the cake wrappers, next time I will use my silicone muffin cases. Definitely a keeper.

Halle-bloody-lujah!

Ah sorry to hear you in pain lucky, that’s not good 😳
amazing that you got steps done anyway tho, in the sweat outhouse😂high five 😝😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
10,000 tomorrow and every day this week – that’s my goal too, c mon bsd-ers!!!👏👏👏👏👏👀👀👀

Great about party going well and wine Janey hee hee hopefully not too bad tomorrow, sparkling water 👍👍

Just made pancakes for my oh but didn’t eat a single one🙌🏽 did have one piece of chocolate tho. If I’m going to have calories it’s not going to be wasted on tasteless fried cakes 😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? Eps, you’re a bloody hard taskmaster!!! No easing me in gently??? Ok then. I will try my hardest.

Awww thank you 🙂 I’m in pain every day, and have been for a long, long time (back issues, sciatica, ligaments and probably more only GP is useless unless you’re a fit bloke and by fit I mean phwoar not healthy) but I’m used to it, if that makes sense, at it’s usual level. I function and just get on with it. Hurts whether I sit, stand, lie down, do housework, don’t do housework (lol) so I don’t use it as an excuse, because – well, I can’t! But now and again, it’s like someone turns the volume up on it and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah 🙁 And today, was one of those days! Like thirty toothaches in the lower left of my back, travelling down my left leg into my knee. Was determined to hit the 8500 though so I adapted my step thing on my app, and my band buzzed when I reached it. I had to finish the song… and then another came on that I liked lol. Would have been rude not to.

Yeah I don’t blame you. Chocolate FTW 🙂

Hello, this is my first post on the forums and I hope someone can help. Does anyone know where I can buy almond flour or if I can use ground almonds as a substitute for baking. I am about eight weeks into the BSD and have enjoyed trying new recipes but I love baking so I am looking for good substitutes/ alternatives for regular cake recipes thanks

Hey Gymgirl – are you in the UK?

If so – Holland & Barrett sell it in small bags on the High Street. It’s a tenner for 500g though! You may need to take out a loan, sell a body part etc. Izzy swears by http://www.realfoodstore.co.uk/gluten-free-flours/ for buying in bulk, it does work out cheaper, you can buy 4kg bags. Ground almonds aren’t exactly the same thing (Izzy knows why), but in a lot of the US recipes I’ve seen, they’re used interchangeably.

And welcome to the forums 🙂 I’ve wrote this once already and again – it’s not letting me post it! How has your 8 weeks been? I started week 6 yesterday with a 25lb loss.

Auch that sounds painful😳 Impressive that you function so well despite it all. Yes not a big fan of gps either, Know a bit about everything but not a lot, and don’t get me started on their knowledge of food…

That’s a bit mad they can’t work out why you in pain all the time. No chance it could be an allergy type reaction to some foods? I wonder. Or have they ever mentioned orthotics for you feet? Apparently if you’re feet don’t work right, it affects hips, back and even neck? Anyway, what do I know! I just find it annoying to hear that stuff like that hasn’t been looked after. Maybe you’ve tried loads of things already.

Yea, 10,000 it is!! We need to aim high! It’s hard when I sit at a desk a lot of the time but small walks a few times a day add up! And then one in the evening. Wrecked now after gorgeous sunny day and walk, sleep time soon👏🏾👏🏾. Weigh in tomorrow and I’m already wishing I didn’t eat that extra chick pea biscuit a minute ago but Hopefully I’ll remember that for the next time 😹😹🌻

And you so need to take up yoga!! Could be the key!💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻🌻🙏🏻

Put it this way, she only sent me for an x-ray two years ago after about 8 years of pain! I muddle through as best I can with paracetamol and ibuprofen because every time it’s really bad and I go to ask for something stronger, she looks at me like I’m faking it. The thing is – she knows what’s wrong, she diagnosed it! She said ‘Hmmmmmm have you had an x-ray yet…’ and I said ‘No?’ ‘Why not?’ she says. Why not??? What was I to do, just turn up at the x-ray department demanding one??? I said ‘I don’t know, you haven’t sent me for one!’. I wouldn’t mind if I was one of these in the Doctor’s all the time, March 2014 was the last time I went to see her! Wouldn’t know about any of the other things because, well, she’s useless! I asked what I could do about the pain and she said ‘Lose weight.’ Fair enough. ‘Take painkillers.’ Ok, can you prescribe me some, then? For longer than a week at a time, because, you know, when I come back, it’s going to be with the same thing? That you diagnosed?? ‘And if it gets too bad, you’ll have to have an operation’. Er… no. No, I won’t. It’s not a case of finding another GP either, the other ones are equally… one is fantastic, but you can’t get an appointment with him as he’s constantly booked up with those who are in daily… another thinks that every ailment can be cured with fresh air and walking. One is hellbent on getting everyone off every medication that they’re on, whether or not, and another changes everyone’s medication – even when it works. It’s a complete shambles.

God, you’re getting your money’s worth out of these biscuits Eps! And yes, I’ve found two teachers locally, one actually in my town. But it’s a mixed class. Another does beginners classes. I think I’d feel more comfortable with that. One of them does it term time (a parent maybe) so they’re done now until September. Need to double, double check this. Sorry about GP rant. Lol x

Yes much better to do a total beginners class, nice to have people beginning together on a lovely journey of discovery, kind of like the bsd.

Jes no wonder you ranting about gp, that’s v annoying! They sound crap tbh. But at least you taking control of one piece of it yourself and hopefully weight will help in some way. Then you can say yes well I’ve done that, next advice?

Monday tomorrow sigh, ah well let’s hope it’s a great day 👏🏻👏🏻🌻 night night

That’s what I’m hoping, anyway! Show up there a size 8 and shout at her for opiates lol. Or show up there a size 8 and be cured would be better, I suppose. Lol.

I’m a bit of a lunatic, I love Mondays. Sunday does me. It WILL be a great day, the sun will shine, we will get our 10,000 steps. Food will taste amazing, and we will shine like the stars that we are 😀

Hubby just knocked a full reed diffuser over the hallway wall. He’s been warning the children to mind it, mind it, don’t knock it over. He feels like a wally now. House stinks of citrus and I need to redecorate. Great.

Night night all 🙂 Early start in the morning 🙂

Hello Lucky I’ve been on the BSD for about 6 weeks and have lost 10lbs so far so not fantastic results but I’m pleased especially as there was a weeks holiday,a birthday, a party and a new job celebration in there. My husband is also on the diet so it makes life easier, hopefully next week will see me in the next “stone ” bracket, unfortunately today I have hurt my back at the gym so my 3 times a week gym session may be curtailed …..any idea what carbs are in painkillers?????

Hey Gymgirl, that’s a fab weight loss when you’ve had all those things to contend with too! I think I PUT ten pounds on during my last holiday! My husband is doing it too, he’s lost 21lbs, it does make it easier doesn’t it? Also depends how big you are to start with and I was pushing 18 stone, him nearly 19 so it was guaranteed a decent starting weight loss (I had a stone in my first week lol). I feel your back pain today, sister! They could be laden with carbs and I wouldn’t have cared today! My emergency codeine stash was well and truly hammered. I’m not counting the carbs as yet, just the calories, and trying to stick to the right list of foods. And Eps above is whipping me into shape by forcing me to walk. She’s a meanie 😉 (jk Eps xo)

Hee hee put down that 50 shAdes and get back on that thread mill 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽😹😹😹

I thought you were in bed! 😛 Fifty Shades… pffffffffffft. That’s three days of my life I’ll never get back…

Hi Lucky and all

I am just reading this on Monday morning, end of week 3 weigh in, so I thought I must post instead of cooking OH breakfast.

Much older than you, very fat, have had sciatica for 20 years, some suggestions. Losing weight is good, walking is good, simple yoga poses like cobra and downward dog and pose of a child are good. Swimming is the best.

There is an operation, not a huge success rate, anti-inflammatories do not really work on nerve pain, despite what the gp said. You need an MRI not just an Xray or at least a CT scan. I at last have a neurologist, after like you, managing it for years. I even got a script for opiates and decided they were worse than the pain. But I can tell he does not really want to operate, because what we have is bone growth over the nerve and it is arthritis!

What you really need, and it may be hard for you, is a warm swimming pool. Find a doctor who will send you for hydro-therapy. They must be about. You don’t have to swim for the Olympics just dog paddle or breast stroke or walk.

Some-one posted this recipe on another forum and said it was good http://www.nourishingdays.com/2010/07/fluffy-coconut-flour-pancakes/

I am sure that almond meal would work in most recipes, we are not making sponge cakes. I have been making non-wheat pancakes for years and if it is not fine enough just put in in the blender!

Good night and good morning from downunder
Start of week 4. for me 9 lbs down
Ruth