Tokyo – report him. I’ve done that before now. Just need the bus time and the number. Phone the office.

Janey, I’m keeping the slippers of despair on. Know how many steps I’ve done today? *shamefaced* 831. Eps, don’t shout at me 🙁 I’ve been wallowing in a pit of boredom, anger, laziness, you name it, I’m wallowing in it today. Also a little bit of ‘if nobody else can be bothered, why should I’. I’m going to shut up now because I am on a right downer. 831. That’s disgraceful. It’s no wonder I’m fat.

Well done for deducting the money from your bill! That’s ace lol.

Oooh what have you covered them with Eps?

Also made vegetable curry with cauliflower rice …..setting the quilt to hover tonight🌪

Hahahaha nice one Gymgirl. Parp…

noooo lucky!! It’s no wonder you’re well on your way to healthy you mean, because you have determination and grit! Jes, if you feel despondent and disheartened you should treat yourself to something nice for yourself! You’re right, nobody else will do that for you so you have to mind yourself. A lovely bath or a lovely evening stroll on your own or a great book or a funny film! Close door and enjoy it. I’d come collect you if we were near enough!!! Not ever day needs to be a marathon of steps tho, and maybe today won’t be but that does t mean tomorrow won’t be! Have to say, nothing like exercise on my own with no body wrecking my head is best way out of feeling bad (for me). But maybe you just need some chilling out time for yourself without looking after other people. You’re fab tho so not bashing oneself, even in jest! 👏👏👏👏😘😘😘✅✅✅✅✅

Yum Gymgirl, good call, must get making the veg curry for tomorrow, and delicious Cauli rice!

Lucky you’ve done so well so far don’t be hard on yourself,you are not fat… as my friend always says there’s just a little more to love 😘 You are a wonderful role model with your attitude so keep on going we need you X

Lucky,you mentioning this morning about autumn/ winter really made me think!
i live on so many berries these days i’m growing a beak and wings..much as i enjoy atmospheric autumn,there wont be a ton of juicy strawbs,luscious raspberries etc in the shops…
Thank goodness,i guess theres plenty of berries in the freezer section 🙂
Ps Its weird…a small apple and a peach are now just a once weekly treat! X 😋😋😋

Awwwwww thanks guys (gals!) I’m ok, I won’t give up now, just having a crap day. Which came as a bit of a surprise because I woke up in an ok mood, especially after my weight loss. I’ll take your advice Eps and go for a candlelit bath, take my iPod. Might even use one of the expensive bath bombs I had for my 40th! It’s the only place I’ll get any peace. Have an early night. Going to write today off as a no exercise day. I know I’ll be on the go tomorrow, have to go and get some shopping for camping and ding meals and pizzas to leave behind for the boy or he’ll probably burn the house down. I’m still tired after my stupid neighbour keeping me up, it has a knock on effect for days, and so I’m getting wound up at the littlest thing. Including hubby, who doesn’t deserve it. The car thing isn’t really his fault, the old one was dead, we had a limited budget, it was a bargain, we needed it, and it’s saving us a fortune in cheaper insurance, tax and fuel costs. Over £500 a year on tax and insurance and breakdown alone. He’s naturally worried about doing something he’s never done before, which I would be too. But he’s not a quitter and he’ll ace it. Thank God he’s not on this forum lol.

I know Yowzer, what are our choices in the winter?? I find frozen berries very sour? Apples have really surprised me. I don’t like them much, never have. But you’d think they’d be really good on something like this? And now I know they’re not, I fancy one now and again lol. I’d kill for a peach! Been eyeing up those flat doughnut peaches, I love those… I suppose that in itself is an improvement, eyeing up fruit? Ah well…

Today’s Evening Standard had an “new diet” feature – Lots of full fat, Omega oils, no refined sugars and carbs.
Sounds familiar!

http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/health/the-big-fat-fix-meet-the-diet-doctor-changing-the-way-we-eat-a3303726.html

Yowzer49 – Waitrose do giant packs of berries for around £2, so I expect other supermarkets have similar offerings

I presume we are all supposed to concoct disturbing quinoa or other some such grain porridge or Bircher in winter. Eggs and mushrooms may win through in that case!

Finally home after our epic journey. House is quiet as we are now child free for 2 weeks. *sniff* missing the rugrat already…

Disturbing quinoa porridge… Christ.

Glad you home safe! Can I come and stay for 2 weeks? I’m not missing mine.

Oh yes come and lie on my sofa and enjoy the peace. I’ll feed you nourishing BSD food (not quinoa porridge ) My neighbour is lovely, not noisy and she likes a G&T! You’ll have to sleepin a bunk bed though (choice of top or bottom bunk!)

Bottom please 🙂 Ace. I’ll leave now. But I’ll have to walk as I don’t drive. Be there in a fortnight. Oh. Wait… bugger.

Hang on till the morning and I’ll come and pick you up!! 😆

Hee hee doughnut peaches, have we come to that 😝😂😂😂👏👏👏

Enjoy your bath Lucky, bomb n all🍸💪🏽

Ok flat peaches then! 😝 I’ve seen them called doughnut peaches though so ner! Lol.

Just out of the bath, cleaned, washed, conditioned, vitamin c serum on. Age defying apparently. We’ll see. Cba drying my hair. Unfortunately… when I go to bed with wet hair I wake up looking like Barry Gibb circa 1977.

Yayyyyy Janey! Road trip? Lol.

Feel a lot better now that I don’t smell like a family of old meerkats 😅 Tomorrow will be better 🙏👍

I’m sure there’s a meerkat out there somewhere that’s horribly offended by your comment!

I take it you HAVE smelled a meerkat house? At a zoo or theme park??

The smell is still burned into my nostrils, three years later…

lucky i love doughnut peaches !!!
janey i am glad your back i missed you !!
if theres a road trip can i come ? i may fare better on that than a bus !!!!
lucky – heres my pep rally to you !!! you have kept me going when i first met you and janey on here you both kept me wanting to carry on to the point thats its just my way of life now, lucky you have done amazing when i tell people about this diet i say theres a lady i know thats lost … and thats you lucky your sense if humour and sheer determination has made this the easiest diet i will ever do !!!! so today you can wear your slippers and hold your blanket of mardiness ( if you have one i do! you can borrow mine!!) but i know tomorrow you will be back TA-DAH!! like the super ninja you are !!!

Blanket? Of mardiness?? 😍😍😍😍😍 I love it!!!! In fact, I’m going to knit us all one! And it’s going in the glossary too lol.

Thank you for your lively words. I can’t believe you tell people about lil ol’ me! I feel much better after my pep talks and my bath 😊 Tomorrow will be better. I’ll get my finger out and start packing for my trip. And get more steps than 936 lol xx

You gals rock!

Until this forum/eating plan i knitted all of the time. Have lost interest/focus on my current blanket project the baby is now overdue.

I go through knitting phases but my mum will churn out a cardigan a night, she astounds me. I’ve really got to be in the mood. I love knitting decorations for Christmas trees, little animals, stockings, Santa hats. Cute!

Lively words? Damn you autocorrect…

oh yes you and thelma are quite famous round these parts!!! you for your BSD achievements and thelma for the sheer fact she makes me laugh and her BSD bakes!!!!!!! you are the poster girls of BSD ha ha 👭

Bring me a blanket of mardiness. I want a crocheted one because when you’re down, anything crocheted makes life even worse!

Someone beat me to it on the ‘lively words’. I think lively words are what everyone needs! Tokyo, you are still a legend in the bus nightmare stakes. We couldn’t do this without all our BSD calendar girls (and Timmy’s speedos!)

Morning ladies, sorry, I was so relaxed I fell asleep last night! 🙂 Bathing is the future! (My husband WILL be pleased 😉 )

Poster girls????? You hear that, Janey??? Although, to be fair – with the size of my head, it’d have to be one of those massive posters they put on sides of buildings in City centres…

Sadly, I can’t crochet, Janey. But what I can do to make it seem worse, is knit you a dolly toilet roll holder, and a tea cosy (and egg warmer!) to match your knitted blanket of mardiness??

Well, you’ll be pleased to hear that I’m not going to be whinging today! Lucky has woken up with her big girls knickers on (and – unfortunately, then had to put her actual big knickers on) and is getting on with it. Another 0.1 kg off, which was a surprise considering a dying slug probably covered more ground than I did, yesterday. Just sat with my first coffee of the day, enjoying the silence.

Here’s to (hopefully!) a good day for everyone! Let me know if you had your cheeky mid-weeker, Tokyo!

Good morning everyone
Well had my cheeky mid weeker and i have lost 0.2 kg which is 0.4lb!!!and enough to get me under my first goal of 6.5 kg lost which is 14.33 lb or 1 yes i said 1.02 stone !! woo hoo i reached my first goal in just over five weeks i kicked its ass !!!!!! this fat thing
now as the sat nav says ” recalculating”!!
two next goals first one to loose 5 kg more !! and the next is i have a pair of jeans i used to wear i want to get into these jeans comfortably ( emphasis on the comfortably !!!!!! ) i shall be having a try on on of various outfits later to gauge where i am on the clothes fitting scale and when my next cinderella moment may arrive !!!

Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy you got your stone!!!! Well done cupcake! 😀 That’s brilliant, bet you’re over the moon!

Here’s to the next 5 kg, and may it provide more laughs and fewer disasters than the first 6.5 did lol. You could be closer to it again by Thursday/Friday! Your blanket of mardiness is folded up on the chair, I don’t need it today 😉

we shall put the blanket away in my cupboard of “in case if emergencies” !!
very pleased going back to thursday weigh ins so may only loose a bit more this week but thats ok i have lost a stone !! which at the start of this i never thought i would !!!!!!!!!!!!!
i dont know why but 5 kg doesnt sound that much really !!!! i have 2 and a bit weeks to hols so if i could just loose have of that before then that would be great !!!
i feel very smug today i am wearing my fab robe of chuffness with my shoes of wonderment !!!!!

Yes, it can stay there until Friday 😉 hehe.

Ah, that’s the beauty of weighing in kilograms. 5 kg sounds less than 11 lbs 🙂

We’ve got a whole wardrobe of garments now to wear lol 😀

we certainly have !!!
i shall be reporting back later on ” the jeans of the future” ( as there is no way no how i am getting in those jeans now !!!) x

Haha, I’ve made a little progress on mine. Managed to pull them up (eventually) and they have ‘the triangle’ shape where both sides of the front veer off in a diagonal away from each other. I’d imagine I’ve got another stone if not more before I can pull them together and zip them up lol. Oh well, I love a challenge 😉

Am wearing a band T shirt today that is actually now a baggy XXL, as opposed to fitting me like a glove (sticks out in five places) which it was when I bought it. So that’s another plus. I’ve been seeing it more on my bottoms than my tops up to now.

Good one Tokyo💐💐💐! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

A good morning to you all, first day for OH so have made us breakfast and lunch and dinner planned. This is sooo going to help organising I feel. Great walk last night and scales going down again this morning wahoooo 💪🏽
He s funny, within 10 minutes he had worked out he wouldn’t be wasting his calories on stuff like pomegranate 😹😹😹😹 (I made the jeweled pepper things from the book because I remember thinking they were tasty at the beginning, never did again though – too much chopping😂)

Great on the baggy clothes too Lucky – you’ll be bridging that v gap very soon!!👏👏

Morning Eps, hope you’re ok today 🙂 There you go, that’s your 20K steps from the other day showing now, it doesn’t always happen for our official weigh day does it?

Hahaha that’s priceless, wasting calories on pomegranate. Haven’t had one for years, but I believe you can buy the ‘jewels’ now in bags? My dad used to love them and we’d sit eating them with a sewing needle to get the fruit out. Acceptable in the 80’s. It is a lot easier when you’re not having to cook two meals and watch them eat things you might want yourself.

Need to go into town soon, just having a coffee . Hubby is in smug mode this morning as he’s 0.6 kg down on yesterday too.

everyone is having a ” down” day on the scales yippety yip !!!

Those are the sort of down days we like here! Yep indeedy! Right, off to get this step count up! Catch y’all later! 🙂

i have just ordered jaime olivers new cookbook family favourite superfoods i think , i bought the first one last year pre BSD and was very good havent used it whilst doing this but figure when i get where i want to be it will be adaptable to the BSD way !! so looked at the new one and that seems the same style too.
i will let you know when i get it
i find him slightly annoying but not as much as the paltrow!!!
so it could be useful in the future
off to try ” future jeans ” on now wish me luck !!!
oh and i just watched an interview with the two lads who did the documentary ” fixing dad” very good mentioned sir michael moseley !! and carbs are devils!!
so downloaded it ready to watch

Morning, Tokyo how are the jeans of the future fitting?? I haven’t dared even get my own pair of JOTF out but maybe I should?? I think they are a 12 masquerading as a 14 so unlikely to ever get into them without the aid of warm spoons and some butter however…

Lucky – add JOTF to your list!

When I put my (formerly fat ladybird) trousers on this morning they seemed bizarrely loose.. maybe hanging out in Paltrow-land (aka Brighton) has magically made me thinner? Well, that and not having much to eat thanks to late night restaurant closures and over-full OH not wanting a proper meal at any point yesterday! Either way, I’m taking it as a win 🙂

Got an M&S voucher for my birthday so might go for a mooch one evening after work.. new clothes!! Yaay!

Oh and the Nigella ‘legal’ cake has been consumed!

janey – the jeans went on BUT had a massive v at the front and no way were these bad boys going anywhere zipping up!!!! in my defence m’lud these jeans are apair of levis and according to tag inside 32 waist and 30 length so these are teeny tiny jeans !! thats levis for you ! to lager ladies sizes!!!!!
so these are the jeans of the future
( JOTF!!)
trying some other bits on now !!!!

heee heee Jeans of the Future – I love it.

Will need a new pair soon as old ones are either falling apart from wear or a bit stretched looking. If this lifestyle makes the general ordeal of buying a pair of jeans a bit better, bring on the FUTURE :-)))) Jeggings don’t count, these news ones will be proper stiff jeans, unyielding!

well trying on done !!
some bits too big hows that happened?? and some bits just too small and some bits just right !!
so shall leave it now for a couple of weeks and see where i am then !!!
now ladies need bit of help am having sister law for lunch in a couple of weeks now we are eating BSD my sister in law is a vegan my brother in law eats anything and my nephew likes ham sandwichs and sausage roll !! any ideas for food to suit all ?

Well done on the clothes!
Vegan? Does she know Paltrow??! At the risk of alienating everyone around you (like I did) you could make lentil/veggie cottage pie with cauliflower mash!!

paltrow has disciples everywhere!!
it is going to take some planning i fear !!

hmmm… chickpea curry and cauliflower rice? There’s a nice one here though sweet potato could be replaced with something else or you could just avoid those bits. It’s really tasty! http://www.greenkitchenstories.com/the-no-recipe-curry/
(loads of other good vegan stuff here too)

And some porridge bread and ham sandwich for nephew just in case :-)))

its all very complicated gone are the days when i vould just throw a few sausage rolls on the table !!!
thanks esp i am going to obviously give this thought its like catering three different meals in one!!

I know, hard to please everyone! :-))

and keep within the BSD law !! i am sure i will find something at least it forces me into cooking something healthy !!! but oh how i shall miss some of the bad things!!!!
i am no saint and even now i think ooh i could eat a doughnut etc !!