Hello Lucky well done on your fantastic loss! I am in the Uk so may try H& B thanks. I’ve been on the BSD for about 8weeks 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?????

Hi Ruth! Thank you so much for those suggestions 🙂 Obviously the weight is now in hand, and I’m walking and I’m looking into yoga, so I’ll definitely get onto that tomorrow. Operations are out of the question because I have a condition called BIID. The best way I can describe it is like needle phobia but jacked up. Blood, blood tests, injections, eye drops, even having blood pressure taken can make me pass out. I am seeing a psychologist since January and have made great progress but can’t see me ever being ‘well’ enough to willingly have an operation, especially on such a delicate part of my body. I take anti-inflammatory out of habit and hope to be honest, because paracetamol alone does nothing. It barely helps a headache so how it’s meant to work on sciatic pain is beyond me. Opiates work to an extent but leave me fluffy headed and I have four children and a sick hubby so I need to be coherent(ish). You’ve just convinced me to get an appointment with the good GP, even if I have to get my Mum to pull strings with the receptionist and do it (how old am I??) and see what he says about the other scans. There may be a pool in our local hospital, I’m almost certain my aunt had hydrotherapy there. Thank you so much, you’ve been more help than you could imagine 😀 I will show up with a list.

I hope you find a way to manage your pain. It’s tiring to contend with, day in day out.

Well done on your weight loss! Onwards and downwards for week 4 now! You’ll be off to bed when I’m getting up, won’t you? Thank you so much once more 🙂

Good morning !!
well brenda has returned after epic fail friday which then turned into super shit saturday and slighty less sunday !!
i took some time away as it was all getting a tad serious for me , ( not you two thelma and louise !) and after the year i had my goal was to really not to try to take things too seriously. i guess we all came on here for different reasons, to loose weight for most of us is the goal
and everyones achievments are amazing but i felt slightly like a fraud on friday as my baking died !! this is why ,
i do miss my high carbs yep i said it i miss all the things that the lovely dr moseley suggests we avoid so rather than become a dolly downer and whinge about how i felt missing the foods i really do love i just put the phone down for a while !!!
i didnt go back to high carbs i thought about it tho i must admit but i carried on although my portions were way bigger so after a cheeky mid week weigh in this morning i think it will be stay the same week for me regarding weight loss !! but not official weigh in till fri this week so will see !
for me personally i want to achieve my first mini goal and i am 1kg away so hopefully that will appear soon and i shall continue to do it laughingly and not taking it too serious
this is only my personal opinion so i am not sure it makes any sense to anyone else or really matters but i thought i would just try to explain to my two old muckers ( thelma and louise) were i went and why !!!

Oh Tokyo, thank God you’re back, I was so worried about you! I wondered if Friday had really peed you off and that it wasn’t tongue in cheek, I was worried that you might have been ill, I was worried that your internet had been cut off… all manner went through my mind! It’s been a lot duller here without you, and I think everyone will agree with that! Right everyone??

You shouldn’t have worried about coming across as complainy, that wouldn’t have bothered me anyway, we’re all here to support and that’s not just for good times, it’s for bad too. But I understand why you wouldn’t want to. What I will do in a bit is DM you my mobile phone number (I don’t know what it is offhand as it’s new and I never call myself… LOL). You don’t have to feel obliged to use it. You don’t have to feel obliged to provide yours in return. But it’s there for you if you ever need it to have a private text rant (in more than 140 characters *eye roll*) and if you’re going ‘off radar’ again for a few days, just let me know and we won’t worry about you 🙂

Makes complete and utter sense to me. I have been in that position before on other diets, and the lengths I would go to to accommodate what I wanted to eat (or drink!) was shocking. Starving myself all day to accommodate wine or a takeaway or a night in with friends. It’s no good. This time it’s a little different. Ok, it’s a lot different. This time, no amount of scrimping on calories or extra exercise will allow us to have the forbidden. All the things we used to eat are off limits. And what happens when you make something forbidden? You want it all the more. It’s human nature. I can only speak for myself personally, and I’ve reached a point in my life where I’m fed up of being fat. I spent my 20’s overweight, I spent my 30’s morbidly obese. I hardly have any pictures of myself with my children, even when they were babies, because I hid myself in baggy clothes and refused to have photos taken. And I thought, how sad will that be when I’m gone? So for me, at this point in time anyway, losing weight is the absolute, and I am prepared to make that sacrifice to do it. To me, it’s no sacrifice. Because the results are amazing. But ask me again in a month’s time? My response may be different. You’ve had a health scare and it will make you stop and think is it worth it, all this faffing about and denying yourself. Only you can answer that and whatever the answer is, it will be the right one for you. And whether or not, I’ll still be your friend anyway 😀

Glad you’re back x

I was saying to my husband last night in bed, that without the support of this forum, I don’t think I would have stuck to the BSD. Even with the great results. It wouldn’t have been enough for me. I told him that I felt… accountable now, I don’t know if that’s the right word necessarily, because I’m not accountable to anyone who participates in this thread of madness any more than you’re accountable to me. But for some people, it is that ‘accountability’ that keeps you going. I’m sure most people have been to a slimming group. You’ve had a crap week, and you have one of two choices. You face the music, or you don’t show up for class that week. With the intention of reeeeeeeeallllly sticking to it that week. You’ll just have one more day off then you’ll start. And, if you’re anything like me, a month will pass and you still haven’t been to weigh and everything goes pear shaped. I actually paid WW for 6 months without going to a class! I thought if I cancelled it, I wouldn’t go back! I would miss this interaction too much to give up on the diet. I know I could lie, I could go back to my old ways and come on and spout about chickpea bakes while eating a baguette but I’m not a liar and I’d feel bad. I hope my weightloss has inspired or will one day inspire some in the way that I have been inspired by those who started before me. But I personally need to feel accountable to someone, even if it is just my peers and not a traditional ‘leader’, even if it is just in my own head, or I start slipping. I’ve even exercised this last couple of days because I’ve been set a target by Eps!

We’re all different, and we’ll all have our little tricks and tips to make this work for us 🙂

thanks lucky , you and janey have got me this far even after epic fail Friday!!
i do need to loose weight i just felt for me it got too serious and was easier to step away from the phone !!!
my goals havent changed my first one was loose 6.5kg and i am 1kg off that amy next is loose 5 kg !!! i was hoping to get first goal done by 5 august as going away shortly after for a few days !!
like you i have spent many years too many years on blinking diets usually low fat !!! losing putting it back on !!!! so yes i would like to do it once and for all i just want to do it and have a bloody good laugh if that makes sense
i cant pretend i would rather have a chickpea ( lucky) wrap as lovely as there are instead of bread or chips !!! cos sometimes i would murder my cat for a bag of chips still !! but like i say thats just me !!!
i am carrying on i would no i want to get to my second goal for my health so no choice but it dosent mean i cant have a screaming kicking and crying on the floor tantrum because i want all the things i cant have and i will stand hanging if i am the only one that feels like that !!!
but like i say i shall continue and try and put all thoughts of forbidden food out of my head for a while !!!!!!!!!

That’s the spirit! I dare say you will have gone over your first goal by the 5th of August, that’s 18 days away!

Yes, I think we all need to accept that most, if not all of our concoctions – when successful, and that’s going to be less often than we’d hope – are going to be pale comparisons of the real thing. We’ll get lucky with a few things, like the chickpea wraps, I had a really nice success yesterday with banana muffins, but we have to accept that some things can’t be replicated no matter what vegetable we try to mash or bake or fry. I know a time will come – and it’s probably going to come in the school holidays – that I will feel so tempted by something – I’ve got 4 kids birthdays in the space of exactly 2 months, for one! That’s four cakes and four individual takeaways of choice as their ‘treat’ tea. I’m going camping for 5 – 7 days. Friends will descend (because I’ve got the massive garden). I don’t know that I can trust myself yet to ‘just this once and then back on it’. I really, really miss pizza. And no amount of vegetable base or eggy-creamy-coconut-floury base will ever compare, I don’t care what anyone says. But I still can’t bring myself to eat even just a thin, thin slice. Not yet, anyway.

hurrah !! someone gets me !!
was thinking it was just me as i chomped into my ” rank” brownies thinking these never have or ever will be a brownie !!
but the fact is i accept it for now , i said i would do 8 weeks and i bloody well shall and you mrs lucky i have every faith in !! i know you will get there and survive the 8 weeks look what you have accomplished so far !! its truly amazing
i guess i just hit a wall but am ok now enough said !!
back to random posts !! and please god no more epic fail fridays!!!!

You’ll do your 8 weeks, and have a nice break for your holiday. I know I said you might not go OTT on holiday, but I didn’t realise you were feeling SO grrrrrrrrrrr about all those things, Tokyo. So I think you should eat whatever the hell you want while away. You might surprise yourself. Your body might surprise you! You never know until you’re in that situation, you envisaged yourself really pigging out – you might not physically be able to – not to the level you might have done once! For me now, if I think about cheating, no, we won’t call it cheating. Treating – with a bar of chocolate, for example, I’m talking A bar of chocolate. Single. Normal size. A packet of crisps is A packet of crisps. Pizza is A slice of pizza to savour. Me in the past, it would have been a 200g slab of chocolate. Or a family size bag of sweets. Or a ‘sharing’ bag of crisps. Or a full 12 inch deep pan pizza. I know that a kebab takeaway can mean plenty of meat and salad and I don’t have to eat the bread. If it’s an Indian, I can forego the rice and naan. Have poppadoms instead (yay lentil flour!). So I know there’s a little bit of a shift in me, that if I do snap and go off track, the damage is going to be much, much less than it would have been before. And that in itself, is more progress than I’ve had in years, if not decades.

I’m feeling a bit cack this week, shocking back pain and it’s ‘Ladies Week’ and the scales are doing all manner of rollercoasting. Down 0.3 from Saturday, up 0.2 today. Hubby has lost a kilo since Saturday… git… but I’m determined to see a loss by this weekend. I’d love to get my 2 stone by Saturday. The sun is shining which is incentive in itself to put good things into my body. I have a North Wales/South Wales derby at the Rugby so that should be an amazing day out. Be nice to finally get into that rugby shirt like all the other supporters manage to!

Yes lovely, I get you. Completely.

Now. Where’s Janey to inject some random filth into the day. Or, at a push, Timmy. Speedo update, Timmy?

Eps – I am going to be hard pushed to get my 10,000 today, but I will try my hardest. I am struggling moving today. There may be many hours of ironing involved, as I need to clear the pile before school closes (tomorrow :-O) and it’s currently about 3 inches smaller than me. Add to that four mini people, sometimes two clean outfits daily where water fights and playing out are concerned, and if I let it slip any further, I’m in trouble! Do I get ‘step credit’ for ironing? Am toning upper body, after all 😉

Of course! 🙂 In fact any steps are good – maybe 10,000 is a bit much for a Monday – I’m thinking I will try make it to 8000, that’s probably bettter to do it in bitesizes (ha ha ha hollow groan) That’s more than my usual Monday. Roasting here again! Ironing is practically weights!! :-))))

Had such a nice breakfast of eggs and mushrooms and bit of feta – YUM!

Here I am! I signed off early last night so it’s just taken me an AGE to catch up with goings on! Glad you’re back Brenda – we need you in our Triumvirate (there you go – word for the day – make sure you all use it at least once before midnight!). I totally get the Epic Fail Friday demoralisation Tokyo – bizarrely I think all three of us struggled that day.. weird huh? I was very close to tucking into some sugary treat or having a beer. I went to bed in a shocking mood! Yesterday’s kids party also was difficult – it always is when I am entertaining outside the dysfunctional family unit 🙁 As confessed yesterday, I did have ‘n’ glasses of white wine (unheard of for me but the yummy mummies demand it), and I also gave in to my ongoing craving of having a BBQ sausage in a BREAD ROLL (gasps of horror all round please). The slippers of despair were momentarily on (before someone threw a water bomb at my head) and then I figured.. you know what? One roll isn’t going to undo 11 weeks of work. I’m still losing weight and I I’m not bingeing on any other carbs. So it’s one day off. Deal with it BSD, I’m back on the wagon again Monday! Same for holidays Tokyo. You’re not going to undo all the good stuff in a few days, and in all honesty you KNOW you don’t feel the same way about food as you used to. OK, chip shop chips always smell lovely, and an ice cream on a hot summer’s day is great.. but you won’t be chowing through it like the old days. Lucky has been brutally honest about her past failings and she is the most strict of all of us now!

ha ha it’s a triumvirate + extras – don’t forget all the rest of us!

It was a full moon – maybe that’s why every thing more extreme. Not only warewolves that are affected you know… 🙂

Back after hour and three quarters of ironing! Still loads to do but I’m going to do half an hour on treadmill and hubby is taking over ironing, then shower then lunch then sports day. Roasting here! Sheeeeeeesh! 8000 might be more do-able, and anything extra is a bonus then!

We did all struggle on Friday, I think it must have definitely been a planetary thing. I’m a firm believer in that. I’ve lost enough electronics to Mercury Retrogrades for it to be coincidence 😉

Most strict for now 😉

Yes, there’s more of us now, we have snowballed! I don’t know what a triumvirate is, but I’m guessing it’s three of something.

Right, how about we get off diet topic to keep Tokyo’s mind off it. I want a random fact off everyone about themselves, the randomer the better. I’ll start.

I once got Aled ‘Walking in the Air’ Jones into trouble.

Alex Jones?! Now I’m intrigued!!

Now.. Random fact about me. You already know I’m a part time naturist.. What else?! 😆

thanks janey again you get me !! ( have a feeling that lines from a film ?)
i will enjoy my holiday and i will eat what i want for those few days hell it aint going to kill me and it would be extremly rude not too !!
i agree i think we all changed our view on food i thought on sat as i shopped in m and s ” hell buy a bun go on i dare you buy a buy” and i said no !! and i didnt before i would have and before i realised my basket would be full of all sorts of goodies !!
at risk of repeating myself i love this way of eating but for me i will have the odd treat too lifes too short but thats my opinion
i agree with lucky couldnt have git this without this thread my god some days i have been in stitches ( usually invovled you two and timmys speedos!!!)
so done dusted and off we go again going to have my weigh in on friday instead of thurs gives me extra day to make a difference and if scales dint move thats ok
although just cut grass took me an hour and the sweat well it looked like i had dine an aerobic session with….. ( fill in your blank!!) so hopefully that will help
greek chicken with homemade tzatziki was excellant on fri making mousakka and also cauliflower and paneer curry for a couple of nights tea this week with the infamous lucky wraps !!!
my other half says there are some things that just need sugar in eg brownies cakes and hence why my main meals are a super success and puddings not so although breaking news half found ice cream recipes !!!!!!!!!!
so back on track my little amigos !!

random fact
i once said ” izzy wizzy lets get busy” and ” abracadadbra” and all manor of magical sayings to derren brown he was not amused i on the other hand was on the floor laughing !!

BWAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You didn’t! I bet he wasn’t, he is a bit deadpan isn’t he?

Well, the Aled Jones thing. He was in Form 6. I was in Form 1. We shared a block in the school and at lunch time, two 6th Formers would be posted on the doors to keep people out. But I needed a wee. He wouldn’t let me in. A… tussle ensued, which ended in him pushing me down the flight of concrete steps. I twisted my ankle. Grassed him up to head of 6th. Who then took him into office and gave him a right dressing down, in front of me. I did that thing that only 11 year olds can do. Looking morose, in pain and teary-eyed while the head looked at me, and then when she turned back to continue roasting Jones, I was wearing a look of mirth and glee, grinning at him and nodding.

One of the highlights of my life, I won’t lie 😀

that is a brillant story i shall never look at him the same again !!! nasty little boy !!!
no mr derren brown not amused particularly when i stood up and did tommy cooper ” just like that ” hand movements and all !!!!

Hahaha, both excellent stories. Derren deserved that – he takes himself waaaaay to intensely!

I did once stand behind Robbie Coltrane in a shop queue when he was buying a tie once.. does that count?

The urge to punch him in the throat is still with me, 29 years later, I won’t lie. Every time I see him on telly… What can I say, I know how to bear a grudge! Lol. He’s probably lovely but…

Oh Tokyo, that’s bloody priceless!

Right, off for a shower now, I smell like a family of old meerkats after my ironing and treadmill time! Just had worlds quickest omelette, chicken tikka salad for tea I think 🙂

See you all later, sports day beckons!

It’s random and it involves a celeb, which wasn’t a necessity, so…yes 🙂

When I lived in Manchester I once nearly got mowed down by Kevin Kennedy. I was crossing ‘his’ road and I stepped out in front of him, was my fault. He graciously waved me over. I looked, waved sheepishly to acknowledge/apologise, then did a double take to see Curly Watts sat there. I exclaimed ‘Curly!’ and pointed at him. Like a starstruck tool. He rolled his eyes, still waiting for me to cross. Haha.

I wish I had a ‘LIKE’ button for that one!!

Actually you’ll like this one, although it was my sister’s experience not mine! She is an avid gardener (like you Tokyo?!) and was really excited that celeb gardener Dermot Gavin was attending the Chelsea Flower Show when she was there. On the big day she was desperately looking out for him, and finally spotted him walking towards her. She went all pink and flirty and sashayed towards him, saying hello as he stared at her intently as they passed. Only afterwards did she realise her blouse had popped undone and her bra clad breasts were in full glory!! Muahahahahahaha, makes my day even now!!! 😀

ooh i like this !!
michael bubble
just before he got really famous he did a tour so me and my friend went to see him after he finished we came out and noticed a small group of ladies near exit for performers so i said come on anyway we stood for a while and we were all just about to leave ( there was about 20 hardcore micky bubbles fan!) when this guy walks over we were near the back someone said its michael bubble so i dragged my friend who was suffering with back ache pushed her to the front said ” excuse shes come out of hospital for the night to see him “( huge lie!!) before we knew it we at the front micky bubbles chatting away saying how he hoped my friend would get well soon let us take loads pics and then got his bouncers to get us back to my car so i could take her back to hospital !!!
we went for a macdonalds !!!! when we stop laughing !!!!

Legendary, Tokyo! 👍🏼

OMG Janey that’s cringeworthy, hahaha, your poor sister! 🙂

Tokyo! You are absolutely incorrigible! Next time I go to a concert, I’m paying for you to come too! That’s nice of him, he comes across like a lovely genuine bloke, doesn’t he? We can’t listen to his music any more though, we were put on hold once, over a course of several days, several times, with a company with the most appalling customer service in the world, ever. Sometimes up to an hour on hold. And all they had on loop was the same 5 Buble songs. Over, and over and over. We were fans. We can’t listen to him any more.

Sports day over, and… the boobage is burned. I repeat. The boobage is burned…

I have another one, one of the most mortifying things I’ve ever done, but the funniest to everyone else that I’ve ever told. I don’t think I can post it in case it offends someone. It wasn’t done with offence in mind though. But I still managed it…

Right. Now we NEED to know immediately. Don’t tease like that 🤔

yes that is exceedingly intriguing !!!!
i have a story that happened to my friend ( the bubble pretend your ill friend but this really may cause offence !! ) so all i shall say is it involved a beautiful black karen millan dress and a young man !!!!!!
i am done now i have cut the grass then after lunch i have made a mousaka for tomorrow nights tea ( as working) removing as many carbs as possible
sorted my lunches out for work and ironed all in 100 degree heat !!!!!!
go on lucky tell us !!?

Ok but if I get reported, and banned from the forum, it’s your fault!!

It was about four years ago. Hubby had yet another operation, I don’t drive, and I didn’t like leaving him home alone after the op. So I figured out I could catch the bus outside my house, run around town, and be back in the house in exactly an hour. After travel and getting back to bus stop, it only gave me a 25 minute window to go to the bank AND get everything I needed, so I had to be uber organised. This particular day, I had to buy several greetings cards for different occasions and the three children had been invited to parties over the course of the next fortnight. So, I run up to the card shop with my list. Anniversary, Sympathy, Open Birthday – check. Two 6 year old cards, one girl, one boy – check. Two 8 year old cards – both for boys. Only one style there, typical, sod it, I needed them, only one card shop in town – check. Back home, children write on the cards, I stick a ten pound note in each card, stack them up ready for the parties. In my defence, I was very, very harassed at this point in time.

I take third child to his party. So, bear in mind, I live on a council estate, a very nice one granted. But this child’s house is down where the millionaires live. Birthday child’s parents are very well heeled, professional. Mother is lovely, father is a bit stand-offish. Both foreign. I drop my son off, I hand the card to his mother and I trudge home. Three hours later, I walk back down in the pouring rain. I was saturated when the mother opened the door to me, she invited me in despite my moistness, told me the boys were just finishing off and finding their shoes. So I stood in the large hallway, and she thanked me for the financial gift. I apologised at the lack of originality, explained that my husband had been quite ill, and anyway it was hard to know what children already had. She said it was fine and her son was saving towards some big item anyway, so it was much appreciated. Next minute her husband appears at the top of the stairs. He looks at me. His eyes narrow.

‘AH yes!’ he says, bounding down the stairs towards me. ‘I particularly liked YOUR card!’

I stop. I think. It was only a generic card, zero thought went into it, there was only one choice there, even! I must have looked blank.

‘Hang on!’ he exclaims, as his wife looked a bit puzzled. ‘I go get it!’

She smiled at me, I smiled nervously back, racking my brains as to what was so wonderful about my card that a grown man was RAVING over it. Back he comes clutching the card, the front facing outwards, facing me. My heart sank.

‘Look!’ he says. ‘It is a FROG! With the googly eyes!’ Then he started shaking the card manically. ‘LOOK! Look at the googly eyes! On the FROG!’

I’m stood there dripping all over their wood floors. I muttered something about it being the only card in the shop, just stopping short of doing a complete Father Ted ‘I am not a racist’ speech. Because I managed to innocently give the little French boy, a card with a frog on it, and his father managed to be very, very offended about it, and thought I’d done it deliberately! I am still mortified about it to this day, because I detest racism, I always have and I always will. The father to this day still blanks me. Everyone else thinks it’s funny though. I couldn’t get out of there quick enough 🙁

oh yes thats a good one left me laughing , you set the scene perfectly !

It’s not funny! 🙁 lol

i reckon janey will find it funny !!

Being the queen of inappropriate comments, this is hilarious! Most of my gaffes would probably result in BSD banning!

hence the tale of the black dress shall also remain untold !!

Twitter needs to be longer than 140 characters lol. I still to this day can’t laugh about it! For weeks after, hubby would randomly break out into laughter, in the supermarket, in bed, in the cinema… and he’d just shake his head and say ‘card’. And I’d know. I am still cringing about it, it’s the absolute worst WORST thing that anyone could infer that I was.

Ah well. I always put a little more thought into greetings cards now when I buy them…

What a plonker…

OMG I just remembered an old ‘upsetting other nationalities’ moment! So, one of my ‘official’ abilities is being able to speak German (and a bit of French). A good few years ago I was in Germany for a trade show and staying at a quaint little hotel, with what can only be as a HOT waiter/bell boy. Bearing in mind I was mid 20s and a very bubbly English girl, he and I were having lovely chats over several nights so I could practice speaking the lingo (plus he couldn’t speak English). Anyway, one night I was in the bar and he looked really tired, and what I meant to say to him was ‘ you look tired, you need to go home to bed’… and thanks to language variations, what I essentially came out with is ‘ you look tired, would you like to go to bed with me’!!!!!!! It took me a few moments, looking at the stunned expression on his face, to realise my faux pas!!!!!! AVOID AVOID for the rest of my stay!!! 🙁

Hahahahaha! Now THAT is funny! Didn’t you try and dig yourself out of the hole???

I think the hole was too deep…. 🙁

Fnarr…

Shush! That’s what gets us into trouble! You should see my poor work colleagues. Four grown men who are petrified of me. Tee hee!

Why, have you propositioned them, as well?

They should be so lucky! They just never know what rude comment may come out of my mouth!

Aha. Like working with a docker, then? 😉

Eps, I’m on 5223 steps which is much better than I anticipated pulling in today! Will see what I can do after my tea 🙂

Well, we’ve had some amusing stories today, and hopefully kept our minds off food 🙂 Tokyo, we will need to know about this dress, you know, you’ll have to Twitter DM it to us or something lol. I’m having chicken tikka strips, salad, a drizzle of sriracha and I think I will make some fresh wraps to go with. Luvverly.

Yay go for it Lucky. Your diner sounds great. I only on about 3000 but going out soon and hopefully pier and swim in the sea!☀️💪🏽💪🏽😂

Had spinach and bolognese sauce for dinner and Parmesan. And sneaky bit of the raspberry dark chocolate😜 Also found a coconut yoghurt at lunchtime which was low in carbs and high in fat but felt sick after it so no more of that for me! Coyo is the brand, but it’s a bit like the almond flour, eye wateringly expensive for what it is.might be good for emergencies though 😹

Just watched the cat stalking a fly, soooo concentrated, mindfulness in eating if ever I saw it!!😂😂

It was very nice! Thought I was going to have disaster wraps again, but I persevered and they turned out ok, and very tasty! Heavy handed shake of cayenne in with them 😉 Mmmm bolognese, haven’t had that in such a long time. I’ve got a portion of lentil bolognese in the freezer that needs using, might defrost that and share it for lunch with a wrap tomorrow, getting a bit weary of soup and omelette now!

Cats are amazing creatures, fun to watch, you really do need psychology to work them out! Alas, I didn’t mindfully eat, I wolfed it down 🙂 Just checked out the price of that yogurt… HOW MUCH!!!! I’d have felt sick eating it too! Lol 😀

Trying to gear myself up to doing a bit on the treadmill. I’ve got sunburned today at sports day and I’m sore. Shoulders and cleavage, and my face is now brown with a white stripe across my face where my jam jars have been. I look like a wally. Hubby’s face is tomato red with a white stripe across 🙂

Hope you have a lovely walk and swim! 🙂

lucky check your twitter !!!

Still sitting out in the garden.. Lovely! Roasted salmon with carrot spaghetti, mange tout and green pesto for me! Think I may have to use up the coconut flour pancake mix in the morning.

Can almonds go out of date? Just found half a pack of ground almond in the cupboard and it seems a travesty to waste it. Only problem is the 2012 sell by date 😳

Cats are in the garden, catching frogs and making them squeak. And there is a triumvirate of randy pigeons getting amorous in the trees and making a dreadful flap.. Quite literally!

Hee hee sickening price, yes lucky stripe😝👏🏾👍 Hope you got a few more steps in if you felt up to it👏👏 I am wrecked, walked for ages and freezing swim🦀🐳

Janey dinner sounds delicious. I think stuff like almonds last way longer than they say they do! Though 2012 might be pushing it🙏🏻😝 my dad eats everything well out of date and he is very healthy so maybe it’s all a bit exaggerated. Think use by is the important one and best before is only a recommendation😹

It is so good to see so many newcomers since I started , about 16 weeks ago. I have officialy finished my 8 weeks but found it much easier to just keep going as I still had fat rolls to vanquish ! I have bravely ventured out to some restaurants and have been surprised to find that I am able to stick to BSD quite well. Goes to show….I used to hone in on all the bad stuff before and didn’t notice all the other food .
Great to see so many people from other countries and chat to them. Although Australian, I am of Irish, Scottish and Manx stock, anyone from The Isle of Man ?
Good luck to all you newbies, it’s really the best diet, or eating plan I prefer to call it, I have ever done….and believe me, there have been so many I have lost count.
jillyB