Janey, I don’t go for the banana hammock type speedos, I’m more of a Daniel Craig/James Bond type of guy.

I don’t think anyone can look good in a pair of budgie smugglers.

Today is not my day 🙁 I bet I will get on better trying to eat in London! That’s the way it goes

OK – first and foremost. I didn’t know what a ‘banana hammock’ was. So I made the mistake of Googling it. And then the second mistake of choosing Urban Dictionary for the definition…

‘A men’s style of undergarment that holds the genitalia in a sling-like hammock apparatus, allowing the meat knot to protrude offensively. ‘

Jesus. H. Christ. *Crying*

Janeyyyyyyyyy! Hello 🙂 The only reservations I had about the Fearne Cheesecake was… have you calculated how many calories are in THAT many cashews? And… it has no cheese in it. Apart from that… I hope you got your lunch before you killed your colleague.

Awwwwww Baristagirls, chin up honey. Some days are sent to try us xo

Hahahahahaha. That has made my day 😀

That’s not the worst of it. I read the words ‘meat knot’ and felt hungry 🙁 I am a terrible, terrible person.

Must….. resist……. the urge…….. to write…… something inappropriate!

Don’t resist. We can share the handcart… 🙂

Meat knot???? I think they’re allowed on the BSD!!!!!! Low carb, most definitely. And a small one must be under 800 cals??(I’m off for a lie down in a darkened room now!)

And yes, I may tweet Fearne aggressively and demand to know how a cheesecake can be cheese less.

I would cook it in olive oil, obvs… hehehehe 😉

Before you roast her (not literally) (although…) – is she dairy free/vegan? If so fair enough. If not, that many calories on nuts is madness. Your slice would have to be like 1mm thin.

I think she lives on dust.

But yes, cashew induced obesity or heart failure should maybe be avoided. We sell lasers at work so I reckon I could shave a 1mm piece off tho…

Cook your meat knot in coconut oil, it’ll add a little je ne sais quoi…. And serve it with cauliflower mash. That’ll do it.

I was going to give cauliflower rice another crack… we’ll see. Thumbs up on the coconut oil. Good call 🙂

you two are like a genius double act !! x

We’ve missed our vocation Lucky. We could do the comedy circuit as the BSD Broads 😉

Oh My you lot have so made my day. I was struggling and I have been chuckling away about meat, knots , bananas .I too googled it !! O my. Oh my I love a double entendre. Please keep posting I am near the end of my first 8 weeks and defo struggling a bit sooo hungry losing inches but not pounds. So am not weighing for a while as clothes looser etc. However am 18 lbs down

I have been away and stalking the posts as not enough wifi to post it has too so helped me thank you all xxxx

Oh, I don’t know about the genius bit, Tokyo 😉 You’ve got to laugh haven’t you, it’s a boring life otherwise?

In other news… I can’t believe I am saying this but I have just ordered a takeaway. My curry went horribly, horribly wrong. Curry should not ever be white. And I mean white, not creamy or korma-ey. WHITE. And not even the tomato puree I shoved in could remedy it. I now have a pink curry. It’s… nutty due to the cashews. I mean, of course it bloody would be. Am I simple or something? It was just all wrong. In the picture it was a lovely deep red colour. Put it this way, I am so hungry that a meat knot is sounding very appealing at the moment! So I have ordered a chicken kebab with salad on a naan (but it’s more of a wrap) and I’ll give the extra naans to my son.

BSD broads???? Bahahahahahaha.

Hello Collie 🙂 Well done on reaching your 8 weeks (nearly) and all the pounds you have lost. That makes sense, ditch the scales. It’s inches that get you into a new dress size, not pounds 😉

You will find many double entendres here. That Janey is filthy… tsk. Filthier than a sewer rat, that girl’s mind…

I have curry here Collie, if you’re hungry. It’s pink mind… 😉 x

Oh dear, another recipe for the ‘That Didn’t Quite Work’ book. I haven’t cooked with my European surplus sized bag of cashews yet. I think they could be a bad omen…

Hmm, I’m rethinking the ‘Broads’ moniker… Surely we are aiming NOT to be broad???

I just bought some gorgeous fresh bread that was reduced in the co-op. It’s going to kill me to watch/ smell as its devoured by the horde 😩 No Janey, resist..

I am so cross because I am a really proficient curry maker, and I should have seen by the recipe that it wasn’t going to match the pictures on the website. The only spice in it was garam masala and chilli. That should have rang alarm bells for starters. And thank God I only had 60g of cashews left, the recipe called for 100g! It won’t go to waste, I’ll freeze it and we’ll eat it when desperate. I might try and doctor it somehow. But I don’t even want to think about it right now.

Ohhhhhh fresh bread, crusty? Is it? Crusty? 🙁

Hi Lucky
Thanks for the offer but I’ll decline pink curry today I am having a yellow day today . Yellow peppers and tomatoes and I snuck in an orange so high in carbs but love them.

On a slightly different note but toilet in theme just listened to a bbc radio 4 food program on microbes part 2 – caught it on catch up . There is now a lot of evidence emerging re false sugars and processed food destroying the bacteria of our guts . Lots of research going on at Tommies in London. This effects weight loss and mood. In a few years there will be a revolution I hope xxx

Keep up the bsd comedy store you all and Lucia are amazing and so funny

I think it might be starting here, Collie. It’ll have a snowball effect on people we know, that’s how I’m on the BSD, after seeing a friend’s dramatic weight loss. I know we go on a bit about finding ways to eat things we shouldn’t but I think it’s only human nature after relying on it (and being addicted to it) for so long. I like knowing that I’m giving my body a chance now, and putting in what is meant to be going into it 🙂 (or as close as I can, with a leeeeetle bit of Lidl chocolate here and there)

Yes Lucky so well put a little treat is good for you but we are putting good stuff in predominately. I had the checkout lady asking me today as she could see good food , she asked re no pasta potatoes bread etc and so I told her , had to write the book title down for her. She hen said oh I am a diabetic and I told er it was mainly for her she seems excited I will look out for her in a few weeks xx
I really noticed while I was away how much food 1) we all eat 2) how processed it all is. I had a treat ice-cream but just one not one every day I had a gin and tonic but not the bottle ha ha ! I did not feel hard done by . Happy BSDing

on wholeheartedly healthy they have a recipe for raw salted caramel cups sounds and looks lush

I’m not sure what’s up with me tonight.. But I have the munchies. Maybe PMT, but whatever it is, I’m struggling. However to alleviate it slightly I have been on the Willies. No, no, don’t get mucky, I meant Willie’s Cacao drops which are 100 million pounds for a small tub of drops. One or two are enough to take the edge off (altho I’m aware they’re in the cupboard tonight ). I figure a couple of those is better than eating the distressingly lovely fresh, crusty bread with dinner or giving in to a bar of Cadburys. Let’s face it, I endured cauliflower rice with my tea so it’s offset.

I took a look at that Wholeheartedly Healthy site; some good recipes. In fact I served the slow cooker Moroccan chicken last night AND tonight (topped up with veggies) and it was LUSH.

Josie – are they the ones that look like Reeses peanut butter cups? If so, yes I’ve spotted those, they do look lush. I’m making her frozen yogurt bark tomorrow, with the berries and peanut butter splodges.

Janey! I could run and run and run with you munching on Willies, but I won’t. Oh, wait… actually… I will. Just off the top of my head…
If you endured cauliflower rice, I think you’re entitled to a good fistful of Willies tonight, personally?

I ate my chicken and salad, I left the bread, as did hubby. I gave the cheesy garlic bread to my son and daughter and told them to take it and run. I think it’s cooked reasonably healthily (she says). Famous last words, you watch. That’ll teach me to start cooking tea at stupid o’clock.

Oh, speaking of PMT, my hubby told me a joke today that I thought was quite funny, probably because I wasn’t premenstrual at the time.
PMT Wife to her Husband: Do you want something to eat?
Husband: What are the choices?
PMT Wife: Yes or effing NO!

Lol?

Muahahaha, I’m stealing that!!

A fistful of Willies??!! Is that the collective noun?! 😆

Well done on takeaway damage limitation. Some nights it all goes to ratsh** but you coped!

It’s a good one! Well, why not, it seems to go well, doesn’t it? 😉

Yes, I coped, but I am very cross too. I need to be better organised. Much better organised too. I suppose I know I can have a takeaway and be sensible. I can go to Mum’s and eat a roast without the potatoes. It’s another ‘first’ off my list I guess. Just eating out to do now. That will be the true test, I tell thee!

lucky i saw that yoghurt thingy what sweetener are you using if any ?
since i was told perhaps not to use agarve syrup( and its sitting in my cupboard along with honey!!) i am now wondering what sweeterner to buy i have looked for the ones linda recommended but not in sains or morrisons i can see i am going to end up with a cupboard full of useless expensive items that i will have taken a second mortgage out to buy !!!

Collie – in all the excitement surrounding Janey’s Willie I forgot to answer you, that’s great about the checkout lady, and it would be great if it helped her 🙂 I do have a tendency to get a bit evangelical about diets and my friends start avoiding me 🙁 This time I’m going to lead by example and only tell them if they notice and ask. It’s just so hard when you find something that works and you know it can help others. I’m seeing my friend tomorrow for the first time in three weeks, when I saw her last she told me about the BSD. I started the next day, and I can tell her, at the very least, that I’ve lost 20lbs in 21 days. Maybe more if the scales are kind tomorrow 🙂
Re holidays the temptation is horrendous and the choices poor, I think back to last year’s Devon jaunt and I’m shuddering, the takeaways, the meals out, breakfasts out, the pastries, and the ice cream shops, with so many flavours that it felt rude to go home without sampling at least ten of their seventy nine thousand flavours. Well done on having one. I don’t know how I’d cope this year, so thankfully we’re only going camping, which should be easier to cope with as long as I’m organised. I’m avoiding alcohol at the moment, my tipple is red wine and I’m allergic to it. Plus, I can’t just have one, so it’s easier to have none.

Tokyo – I was just going to use the vanilla extract, whether that’s frowned upon or not, it’s a teaspoon. The way I look at it is this. If we were using these things every day and eating them every day, then it’s an issue, the same as it would be if/when it was sugar. We’re all individual and we’re all doing this for different reasons, some health, some weightloss, so opinions are going to vary accordingly – just do what’s right for you. It’s for a once in a while treat. If/when I take the plunge and bake something, I’m using granulated sweetener and to hell with it. Because I spent two quid on the sodding stuff and it’s getting used. It’s going to be rare, it’s going to be a special occasion when I do, it’s not like it’s going to be weekly, probably not even monthly x

Excitement surrounding my willie?! Omg I think a bit of wee came out at that!!! 😆

I’m going on holiday to Devon this year and now I’m worried about the 79000 ice cream flavours 😱

I was also impressed that Collie spread the BSD message. I tell anyone that will listen about how good it is. They do try to sidle away in the office but it’s a small room so there’s no escape…. The Anti Diabetes Roadshow was in Tesco carpark at lunchtime and I really wanted to go up and tell them how great the BSD is for helping reverse diabetes!

Lucky you and janey are like my oracles !!! all wise and knowing and bloody funny !!

I have another one but I’d probably get banned from the forum… 😀

Ahhh, are you? Slightly jealous, but not of the lovely food you’ll have to repel. The evil ice cream shop is in Paignton, so steer clear. Carrot cake ice cream. Carrot cake.

Oh you should have gone up and told them. Preach it, sister! If they’re still there tomorrow, direct them to this forum. Just not this thread, specifically. Word will spread in the end, with all these diabetes patients saying how they’re doing it.

Haha Tokyo, in my group of friends we had an Oracle – but we’ve now brought her up to date and she’s Google. Another friend is NetDoctor because she can identify any ailment you might have. We have Weather.com because she can tell you the local weather for up to three weeks at any given point and I am Allrecipes 🙂

Carrot cake ice cream. That’s it, I need a holiday hall pass for that one. Unless of course they have Paleo quinoa and kale flavoured sorbet (note sarcasm probably due to tiredness!). I’ve finished with my Willies so off to bed! We shall continue tomorrow….

Good night young lady, sleep well 🙂 I shall be thinking up willie/meat knot related innuendo for the next 22 minutes or so until I too, retire to my bed.

something i found earlier in case anyone is interested in chocolate cake

Author: Libby
Recipe type: Cake, Dessert
Cuisine: LCHF, Low Carb, Wheat Free, Sugar Free, Gluten Free, Primal
Serves: 15
INGREDIENTS
• 300g /10.5 oz dark 75% chocolate
• 175g / 6 oz butter
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 6 eggs
• 6 tbs double cream
• 4 tsp granulated stevia (optional) or sweetener of choice to taste
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Melt the chocolate and butter together over a low heat in a saucepan. Remove from the heat and allow to cool slightly before adding the vanilla extract.
2. In another bowl beat the eggs, cream and stevia together for 3-4 minutes (use a stick blender or hand whisk). It will go frothy and remain runny.
3. Slowly add the egg mixture to the chocolate mixture in the saucepan, stirring all the time. As you add more egg mixture, the chocolate and butter will thicken to the consistency of custard.
4. Pour into a prepared tin (see below). Grease a loose bottom cake tin with butter then line the loose bottom with baking paper and push through the outer ring so the baking paper adds a seal and stops the cake mixture from leaking.
5. Bake at 180C/ 350F
NOTES
Nutrition using other % chocolate
70% = 246 cal 12g carbs 7.7g sugar 21g fat 3.7g protein
75% = 250 cal 10.8g carbs 5.2g sugar 21.8g fat 4g protein
85% = 235 cal 5.7g carbs 2.9g sugar 22.3g fat 4.5g protein
ALWAYS calculate using the brand and variety of chocolate you have used in the recipe.
NUTRITION INFORMATION
Serving size: 1 slice (serves 15) Calories: 250 Fat: 21.8g Carbohydrates: 10.8g Sugar: 5.2gProtein: 4g

Ooooooooh Josie!! 😀 That sounds like it could work, are you going to try it? I have a long, loooong day out on Sunday, rugby, car boot sale, meeting relatives, dragging kids, have to take a packed lunch so I may try making that, seeing as I have all the ingredients anyway 🙂

Hi Josie, well it doesn’t sound terribly healthy.. But it does sound delicious! Can we risk 250 cals a slice for a treat? More to the point, can we actually cut it into 15 portions without laser positioning?! I think some of these recipes are very naive on a cake lover’s slice 😳

In other news, and probably to howls of derision..I think I’m going to have to chuck the Fage yoghurt out! Each time I’ve eaten it I have very quickly felt extremely unwell as if my body objects to whatever is or isn’t in it! No other brands of Greek type yog have had this effect. Anyone else experienced this? Presumably whatever they strain out of it is what my gut wants!

Hi Frog
Sorry for the delay in replying, I wanted to make sure I was giving you the correct information.
In David Gillespie’s book ‘Eat Real Food’ he says: Stevia (and similar sweeteners like Aspartame & Saccharin) are relatively new additions to our diet and the science isn’t conclusive one way or the other in the long term effects on our bodies.
As it’s taken 200 years since the introduction of sugar to understand the harmful effects of fructose, it could take many years to understand what the likes of Stevia will do.
He says that he would avoid them or treat them as methadone for sugar addicts (use it to get off sugar, but don’t plan on using it for the long term). He feels they are safe in limited doses, but not to rely on them.
I hope this helps
Cheers
Linda

Good morning
well hello chocolate ( said like terry thomas and old 50’s film actor !!!) that cake looks delish i dont care if its how ever many calories i am not eating it all day everyday and i guess thats the difference i have gone from eating sugar in everything ( and boy i ate a lot !!)to this diet i have followed it to the letter and seen results and i am doing it for the weight loss and a different way of living not to control or reverse diabtes and i am thankful the support i have recieved on here.
like you said in another post Lucky its a treat its a one off and if i calculate it in why not
I think to suceed in this way of eating there has to be a bit of a treat now and then i dont want to be a diet bore and after the year i have had i feel a bit of cake every now and then will do the trick
hope that wasnt preachy off my soapbox now off to my garden i may be sometime and no garden appliances shall be harmed this week !!!

Gooooood afternoon all! It’s July! The sun is shining! It’s meant to be raining! Scales still showing 16 stone 3 so all is well in my world 🙂

Janey, I’m sorry you didn’t like the Fage, but there’s no point eating something that makes you feel off, is there? I will only have it as a one off treat now, it’s a bit pricey and hubby prefers the Aldi one anyway.

Hello Tokyo. I totally agree with you. We’ve made such huge concessions over the last few weeks with our diet, and if we are going to eat this way indefinitely, we will have to succumb when we need to succumb. And if we’re doing it in a healthier way, or a way that is allowed by the plan, then all the better. Have fun gardening 🙂 I’m on the ball today, hubby having King Prawn salad and I’m having smoked haddock with wilted spinach and a poached egg for tea. Not getting caught out again! I want another pound gone by tomorrow to give me my stone and a half in 3 weeks 😀 If not, I will scream and scream and scream until I am sick.

It’s not that I don’t LIKE the Fage, it just doesn’t like me! I’ve just had squeaky cheese and eggs for lunch and had to omit the yoghurt topping because of my anti-Fage tendencies 😔

So I am considering Elana’s cookies this afternoon (stop sniggering at the back). I have ALL the ingredients and I reckon I can get them past the rugrats without protest! Wish me luck, I’m going in!

Sniggering??? I can just see you going up to Elana and – in an almost Beavis and Butthead-esque fashion – saying ‘Hey Elana, hehehehe, nice cookies, hehehehe.’

In other news, expect rain, I’ve just pegged washing out 🙂

Cookies are made! They have a slightly gritty texture but for ‘healthy’ versions they are pretty good! Let’s see what the kids think…

My washing is determinedly out. It’s July therefore it is summer and 24 degrees.. And no one will persuade me otherwise.

i have returned from gardening and only had to jump up and down once to get gardening jeans on !!!! normally i lay on the floor then jump up and down at least three times squeezing into them is like a volcano erupting !!!!!
i am awaiting cookie news how much will they have cost ??

So, I put my washing out, and it’s blowing hard, and it’s sunny, warm, not a grey cloud in site. Blue sky. I come in, I crank my tunes up while I potter in the kitchen. And I look out of the window, and it’s raining! Bring everything in… beautiful again. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr. It’s staying in the tumble dryer. I’ll be like an idiot in and out all afternoon otherwise. The cookies look good! I hope they pass the taste test with the kids 🙂

Yayyyy well done Tokyo! You’ll have to demote a ‘new’ old pair of jeans soon for gardening. Or wear braces. I’m awaiting the fun and games which is my ex husband and my husband in the same room for an hour or so while ex picks up eldest and has a cuppa. The p***ing contests these two have, have to be seen to be believed. Whatever one has done, or knows someone who has done, the other has done it better, or knows someone who has done it better, and has not only the T Shirt, but the keyring, mug and the Directors Cut DVD. It was amusing for the first year. Seventeen years later… I’m fed up of warning hubby, I think he does it to wind me up now.

Congrats on the jeans Tokyo. The mental image made me giggle! Don’t step on a rake or I will become hysterical at garden based silliness!

Cookies… Mmmm not bad! Slightly gritty (seems to be the almond flour) but otherwise pretty good. My boy is home in an hour so I shall proffer them as an after school treat.. I did have a somewhat comedic moment when the mixer became entirely clogged up with the mixture and I had to pick it all out with my fingers. Not wasting it! Money wise, definitely cheaper than the billionaire brownies, but then I’m using the ingredients I ready bought for them. Coconut oil is definitely a winner! Oh and I gained 2 new Twatter followers thanks to the pic I tagged!

Ah, exes and other halves. You should see my set up. It’s the Swiss Dysfunctional Family Robinson. My son’s father and I get on well and he also gets on with my OH so most weekends I socialise with my 2 ‘husbands’ and 4 associated kids (only one of which is actually mine!). It shouldn’t work but it does ☺️ Weirder still, the ex is currently renting my OH house off him after he moved in with me. Keeping up!?!!….

Twatter was a typo… right? :-O

Just about, Janey, but I had to read it three times 😉 My friend has a similar set up, but with two children from two different ex’s, current husband who she has no kids with, but he has two, one ex has other children and a girlfriend (who is not the mother of the other children), and another has a wife. They even spend Christmas day together, all around a massive table. It’s all about the children at the end of the day, and it’s nicer to get on if you can. She’d love you and your extended set up. I have to admit my ex is very good to my children on birthdays and Christmas. But it still makes me cringe a bit, to my very core. And I can’t wait for him to leave.

this is like bring you ex to work day !!! i too have an ex husband but my son went to uni came home and has left to live with his girlfriend so thankfully the days of intermingling are very few and far between !!
when my ex left i would have walked over hot coals to see him but that was many years ago and although friendly
( hes a plumber and were can you get a plumber who charges nothing and will do the job!!!) its just a cordial relationship now and like you lucky always glad when he leaves !!