Hello everyone,

Been on the 800kcal BSD plan since Tuesday, today is day 6. Yesterday we went to a wedding, I did eat the nice meal and have a couple of glasses of wine – was relieved to only see a 1lb gain this morning. Back to it today!

I’m 5½lb down on day 6, will be weighing on Tuesday for the “end of week 1” result. Haven’t found it particularly difficult – I lost 4½st on Slimming World last year, but even that plan I had tweaked to my own liking, and the more I look back, it was very similar to the BSD, low carb and lower calorie than generally expected. So I know this type of plan works for me.

I’m based in London, looking forward to getting to know you 🙂

Rachel x

Congratulations Rachel. We have started at the same time. My weight loss however has been slower. I did have a couple of pieces of dark chocolate, day four but I thought I was on track …then discovered that my approach of guesstimation re calories was way off and had not paid attention to the carbs in my diary… I was not eating any wheat etc but I was eating lots of nuts!..anyway back to the drawing board and am pleased I have stuck to this thus far… I normally give up before this so positivity is the way to go. Oh, I did a 15,000 step walk today so amhoping that there will be a positive reward on the scales tomorrow…

Good luck both of you.

Napangardi, I’ve been using the MyFitnesspal app on my phone to track it all – I think it’s reasonably accurate, but I am quite careful about weighing and measuring. It’s all a learning curve eh!

Patsy thank you for your kind encouragement!

Hi Rachel, I have started using the fitness pal and it has helped me with the carbs. I am still going slowly but this is just me. I do however struggle with water… It is cold and I just don’t want to drink. Tomorrow am plan to drink 500 mls whils I drive to work and then another on way home.. I will keep thinking of ways to up it.

Napangardi, I’ve been drinking rosehip tea and hot water with lemon. Nicer than plain cold water.