It’s not bad at all is it Janey? Most bread like of the breads so far.

Yes Timmy, I am rough as today. Rough as. And I just found out I copped off with daughters new boyfriends dad when we were 16 😜😂😂😂😂😂😂 and told him too. Poor lad was cringing. He went purple under his foundation.

oh lucky and timmy how i have missed you both let the hilarity commence !!!!!!!!

Hello chickpea! Glad you missed me 😀

Well, it doesn’t come any more hilarious than the above. Just what I needed with a raging hangover… Daughter says ‘You might know *boy’s* Dad. He’s your age and went to your school…’

And it just went downhill from there. I warned her a few years ago to find out instantly the names and ages of any of her potential love interests parents. Precisely because of things like this. And then I’d let her know if she was allowed to date them. However, she threw me under the bus with this one.

but whats the dad like ????

I’m currently vomiting into my mouth a little bit thinking about him tbh. Wasn’t my finest hour. But then, when you’re 16… you do as 16 year olds do…

Oh TIMMY how i envy you ..still sometime to go til you’re forty!
Treasure It,dont wish the days away! I’ m a crumpled old troll now and wd love to be 39 again!
LUCKY you are truly amaaaaaazing! Between doing the buffet and holding back on the goodies👍🏻!
What’s a couple of bottles of red in the big picture! How else is a gal sposed to keep going!
Ps sorry to say,but I love guy-liner! i adore that dandy look! Think Russell Brand when he did Big Bro…frilly shirts and long hair ..i love it..yes i am stuck in a sixties timewarp! 💕💕💕💕 xx

Well, I think maybe a buffet sized sausage roll and a barm cake might have been a few less calories Yowzer lol. But I did deserve it for getting a buffet done for 70, between 4.45 am and 9.15 am! Loads of compliments on it too. I rock. I am suffering though.

Meh, it’s not my cup of tea, but the trends are different now to when I was growing up. I liked and still do like my men (man) clean cut, not looking like they need a good wash. But then, I also have a thing about overweight men too. Johnny Vegas is my absolute crush 🙂

I’ll get my coat…

Hi all

I’m on my first day of a three week hol, lunch out was in a patisserie very French and luscious but was amazed when I ordered crayfish avocado rocket salad woo hoo the alien has come to stay. OH had take out cake as he was too stuffed to eat it there and he didn’t have salad he was very carbu say no more. Hope you all have a bril week Janey and Lucky get those as…..s moving movin as in the song 🎼🎼🎼

LUCKY johnny is very funny and that makes him attractive!
Ooh nooo i dont like unwashed either ! My dandies have to be scrubbed-up! And i cant bear dirty nails or greasy hair….. gahhhh!
Howzyr heel Lucky? It cdnt have done it any good stood all that time preparing the buffet 😁😁😁😁

JAN a three week hol! You know how to live! 🎈💕🎈💕🎈 Well done you on not being carby! X 👍🏻
Have afabulous time,you deserve it! X

Hi everyone – especially those just back from hols.
If your foot any better Lucky?

I am eclectic in my tastes in men ( hold yer tongue Lucky!). I can see Russell Brands appeal and I used to think Chris Moyles was hot when he was a chubster. But not Johnny Vegas, no no 😱 On a shallow level, have Tom Hardy washed and brought to my tent.. Let’s see how those steps add up then!! 😆

Enjoy your hols Jan! Won’t bother saying ‘be good’ because I know you will be, but if you fancy a treat, allow it! From another longtime dieter to another, you know what deprivation does to a person! We’ve got the answer to our problem now, we know it works 🙂

Hello Frog (typed Grog again there…lol) and Yowzer asked too, my heel is still painful. It was shocking yesterday after being stood all day, but the wine helped to numb it. Today not too bad, twinges here and there. Haven’t moved much though, I am so tired and off to bed shortly.

I could say a lot there Janey, couldn’t I? Hahah. No to Russell Brand, yes yes YES to Chris Moyles but not when he slimmed down. James Corden when he was in Fat Friends years ago… Johnny Vegas oooooooh I could grab those chubby cheeks and squeeze the life out of them. Yeah, I know how you get your step count up, horseriding like your colleague… :-p

wait a minute now lucky !!! theres only one crush ……. mr greg davies !!!!!!
tom hardy i want to slap him for some reason!!!
IDRIS ELBA now hes a man a big brute of a man yep i will settle for him until i can think of someone else that is !!!!!

Hubba Hubba where Mr Elba is concerned, I’m behind you in the queue!

G’ night folks x just posting this coz it made me smile..i do NOT think anyone here is a know all! Xx
Sleep tight! X
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I don’t know who Tom Hardy is tbh. Yes, Idris Elba he is rather dishy.

Night night Yowzer 🙂

have just sorted out the login to my patient records – it;s really good being able to access
(all the stats to compute and graphs to make!!! 🙂 )

Has anyone else done this?

Hi Everyone. I woke this morning to 23 emails with all of your posts.The conversation was very amusing thanks for giving me a chuckle, for the record I’m a Mat Damon fan.BSD continues 0 .2kg loss today but BGL still above 6 in the morning. I must stop having a bite of my hubby’s icecream. Also not working this week so steps are really down,like none.Every day there is a sensible reason why the indicators are up or down .I’m challenging myself to keep changing things to reach my goals
Thought for today “No one can do it for me, gains and loss are my responsibility and I have control.
Cheers All

At the Drs, you mean, Frog? Probably stating the bleedin’ obvious as per – yes Lucky, keyword being ‘patient’. I haven’t but then I rarely go to the Docs so it would probably be pointless. Haven’t had a blood test since 2006 etc.

Morning Butter 🙂 Mat Damon, hmmmm, not a bad choice. Like a fine wine, he has actually improved with age. Oh absolutely agree with you there. I don’t have to do the blood thing, but for me, the scales… I’m up 1.5 kg again from before I went away for the weekend. It wasn’t one half of a bread roll that did that, it was the wine, and the much reduced walking. In fact, from when I got home from camping a week ago, I think I’ve only hit my 10,000 steps once. If I want to see a movement in these scales from now on, the onus is on me. Alcohol buggers things up for me, so no alcohol unless a special occasion and when I do – moderation! Two bottles is not ‘in moderation’! And if I can’t do moderation, then I shouldn’t drink at all, how old am I? And I need to move more. But I’m also realising that I am effectively unravelling a situation that has taken me a quarter of a century to arrive at. I’m what, 11 weeks in? It’s going to take time. I need to be patient and be a bit more kinder with myself.

I’m debating whether to do the 3 mile walk into town this morning, son has another 3 days of resits to do, lab work. Hubby is taking him in, so I could walk in and meet him there. But the heel thing is really putting me off. Don’t fancy being halfway in to the walk and it going on me. We’ll see…

Hi Lucky
yes, notes from my GP – as you say, if you never go, not v helpful
It appears to be a summary version rather than the full thing, but it’s useful to have a clear record of dates etc.

Hope you feel up to doing the walk – have you got trainers or shoes that are shaped & support your feet?
I most often get a recurrence of problems when I walk too far in completely flat ‘plimsoll’type shoes.
On days when I’m working or need smart shoes when I get somewhere (even those are pretty flat and ‘sensible’), I most often where walking shoes or trainers, and change my shoes when I arrive.

My Nordic walking lessons start today.

Morning Frog, you’re really getting into this Nordic walking aren’t you? I’m intrigued! Even normal walking is a revelation to me in recent weeks.. Actually enjoying the time spent with my OH, simply walking and talking as much as the health benefits 👍🏼

Naughty Butterlover, come away from that ice cream. Or if you must have some, go and invest in a tub of Oppo from Waitrose or co cop. Low carb, low sugar.. And an excellent little treat for when you need it 😉

Hi there lucky

What’s the matter with your heel,

Well just got back from the practise nurse.

I am now officially normal blood sugar HbA1c now down to 38 from 45 , weight down 32lbs, liver function normal CRP 10 greatly reduced, b.p. Excellent, she was so amazed she went and got one of the docs, who were both flabbergasted that I had done all that in just under eight weeks, and I am now the official surgery guinea pig apparently.

I am officially over the moon. Yeahhhhhhhhh

Now I want everyone to feel as well as I have felt on this plan since day2, but I am sure eventually the world will catch up with us.

To top it all the sun is shining. 😎😎😎

Oh wow! Wow! and Wow! That’s just fantastic news GREENJANET!! You must be over the moon! 🙂
I’m over the moon too – I am wearing SIZE 10 trousers for the first time EVER! I love BSD
Bean 🙂

That is fantastic Janet – really well done.
I think the medical profession has to stop just dishing out pills to sort out problems. I would have appreciated a right bollocking when the diabetes was first diagnosed with graphic illustrations and the difficulties ahead but showing a way to actually reverse this horrible condition. My daughter who is 28 has blood sugars of around 20 most of the time – she injects everyday, yes I have given her my copy of the book and I have talked to her in no uncertain terms and I am really hoping that she can sort herself out unfortunately I can’t do it for her. Maybe seeing me lose the weight and reduce my blood sugars combined with health improvements she might be motivated.

Break out the capes of smugness and an extra large pot of hurrah for janet and Bean! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

We are all getting lighter and (more importantly) healthier!!! BSD rocks!

Hi all, it’s good to be back😀Glad everyone enjoyed their holidays, I’m still waiting for mine but then I’ve got 2 within 4 weeks 😎😎😎.Everyone is doing fantastically well, so pleased to hear about your results Janet you must feel amazing.

Well done JAN and BEAN! X * thunderous applause*
Isnt bsd just amaaaaaaaaazing! JANEY i agree.its rock n roll! X
FROG enjoy yr nordic lesson! X

Bean, gymgirl51 Janey quint

Thank you so much for your lovely encouragement, I really feel I have returned from the dead, with all the bad symptoms I had, many of them life threatening, SLE etc etc, the world needs to know about the dangers of refined carbs, for me reducing the carbs to below 50 has been what has made the difference to my health, when I lost weight before I didn’t feel this well.

Bean Wowser on getting into size 10💃💃💃👙🎉🎉🎉

I’m 5 ft 6 in and cannot remember ever being anything smaller than a 14 when I was 16 years, at the moment just got into size 18 trousers, so who knows . Keep up the excellent work.

😎😎😎🎉😎😎😎

This might be worth a watch folks…
CLEAN EATING’S DIRTY SECRETS
With more consumers than ever concerned with the purity of their food, vlogger Grace Victory tries clean eating and investigates if it’s a fad diet in disguise with potentially dangerous consequences. Grace attempts to change her diet and meets with dieticians, YouTubers and those whose desire for health has become an unhealthy obsession.

BEEB 1 10.45 pm tonight x 35 mins.

butterlover = make some jelly & have it with a dollop of fage!
the Jelly is only 9 calories for quarter of a pack – very refreshing.

Hi frog

Don’t you find the low cal jelly sets of your appetite the way I understood it if its low sugar, the body thinks it’s getting sugar, then in response releases insulin which it doesn’t need to that then triggers of your appetite and you eat more as a result. I know it would mess me up, as I have spent 41 years playing around with low cal stuff hence why I ended up with the monster appetite. Or perhaps this doesn’t happen to you.
🤔

Each to their own in the ‘treats’ stakes. I eat stuff that has coconut sugar in it with no spikes in appetite at all. I think everyone finds a way to deal with cravings. Let’s face it, we’ve all had decades of eating badly, so an occasional treat won’t kill us! Plus if I had to be 100% ‘legal’ all the time I’d get demoralised and we all know what happens then!!…. 🤔🤔🤔

i agree with you janey i have a little bit of what i fancy and i have still lost weight and if like today i eat a little too much i pull it back tomorrow whats that saying is it horses for courses ? or did i just make that up ??

Hi Jan
Congratulations on your results – that’s brilliant.
I had HBa1C and other stuff tested yesterday, so keen to see the results.

I was wondering that the other day, in respect of the ‘no added sugar’ squash that I probably average a couple of glasses of a day, although I mostly have less sweet flavours like lemon or grapefruit, and dilute it tons more than the bottle suggests.
Although I loved the jelly, have only made it once so far (but did buy some more at the supermarket) – I did ponder buying gelatine and making my own, but it seemed a bit of a faff.
Difficult to say what impact it’s having, as I haven’t tried not having it.
I certainly haven’t had the ‘it’s too sweet, I couldn’t possibly eat this’ reaction to foods like cake or fruit etc, that other people have reported, although I have been able to resist them, so not sure really.
I’ve been using Stevia occasionally as well – but I only used a teaspoon with a kilo of rhubarb, so that was still quite tart; I just checked a recipe and that was suggesting 85g of sugar to 550g rhubarb – so that would be about 30 teaspoons for a kilo, I think that would make me gag.

I must admit when I made the jelly, I did eat all of it (one portion first, then went back for a bit more and a bit more…..)

Apologies Butterlover – probably not my best suggestion!

Hmm Tokyo and janey

You are exactly right I’m just to frightened of my as in the past monster appetite, and if I let the lid of the can of worms I will never get them back in, but I must admit I have no urges to eat anything sweet, despite having what I thought was a sweet tooth, which I now think was just a sugar addiction. Each to their own, it’s important as you say to digest the avail info here and make your own decision. Never mind that get stepping girls, it’s a hot day, but no excuses. We want calves and bottoms like a supermodel don’t we. 👙Well I’m wishing for some anyway a girl can but dream. Where’s lucky got to, I expect she’s exhausted after feeding the five thousand, what a task. Respect.👏👏👏

I’m with Timmy on the controlling of ‘sweet’ urges with a teaspoon of no-sugar peanut butter.
I’ve forgotten which brand, but it just contains… peanuts.
I didn’t like the meridian one much, I found it a bit gloopy.

How were your Peanut Butter Muffins Lucky?

I’m considering making cashew butter with the large bag of them I randomly bought. Or is life just too short?! 😆

life is too short mrs janey !!!!!

Cor blimey they wouldn’t stand a chance of being made into butter with me I’d eat them, I adore cashews🤐

Hmm ok I’ll pass on that. Probably.

I think Lucky is ill today. Best wishes and get well soon!! 💩😷😍💜🙏🏼

oh no nothing serious i hope janey ???
🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
please send her these flowers to make her better and let her know i am thinking of her xx

Oh lucky, heard you might be poorly.

Sending you magic medicine pixies lots of love luvvy. Hope you get well soon 💤👷🐓🌺🌻💐🌷🍎

I fear the blanket of mardiness may be in play for poor Lucky… 😔😰🤒

mind you when you feel ill you just want to curl up and console yourself dont you ? if your reading this hope you get better real quick and the blanket goes away nothing worse than feeling poorly on a sunny day and no cheats to cheer her up !!! 🍰 here’s a slice if sugar free cake !! x

Hi everyone, its such a lovely day today…

Hey Janet – well done on the results, great turnaround.

HI Gavin
It is lovely, but I’m waiting for it to cool down (and pollution to lessen) before I venture out again
now if I had ready access to the wilds of Dartmoor!

I love cashews too Jan – for me, a teaspoon of peanut butter is far more satiating than the actual nuts (that I could eat, and eat….) – I think it’s the texture of peanut butter that makes a teaspoon enough.
Maybe it would work with cashew nuts too – just avoid sneaking any before they make it into the blender!

Blimey! It’s so hard keeping up with you guys!
Isn’t it hot today – the hottest day yet?! I’m not a fan of this heat. Had an interview today so am waiting to hear whether I’ve got the job or not. Fingers crossed!
Hope Lucky is feeling better xx
I’ve bean very good on the carbs lately. It took me a while but I’m getting the hang of it. Yesterday I only had 39 carbs – woohoo, get me!
Bean xx