Going to have a duvet day today.
My cold isn’t too bad, keeping up with lots of hot drinks, etc etc.
I will do yoga. And mountain climbing at home today.
Well you try going up and down a set of stairs 20 times, I get creAm crackered, that it feels like a mountain.
I may wear a bright cerise hat and scarf whilst mountaineering, throwing ropes from the landing or bedroom doors, into the hall.
My hubby thinks I lost the plot years ago.

Love Sherpa Lucia
Xxxxx

Oh and I am going to try a pair of leggings on today.
Hope they doing look as if they are filled with marshmallows.
Finding it uncomfortable now to do yoga in jeans,
And it’s not really ladylike or grace full showing next weeks washing as I wear a skirt 👗👗👗👗👖👖👖👖👖👗👗👗👖
Cellulite, sounds like the brand name or a battery not blubbery skin.

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Hi Lucia,
Simple I would be chocolate, if I can’t eat it I might as well be it!
Christine

Hi Lucia,
I decided that today I would wear blue, trousers top and cardigan, oh and socks! And shoes when I went out, my slippers are a purple with spots on though sorry, does that count, they are funky (moshulu brand) are bright and sunny so hope I’m allowed to wear them in the house?
Christine

Purple with spots, way to go girl!
Christine, it seems you are embracing your inner purplefulness.
Next you will be getting one of those 1970’s bubble oil lamps. Totally love the look.

So with all this said colourfulness, have you stepped out, knotted yourself in yoga or climbed to the highest piece of fitted carpet?

I am just having a love fest with warren …, swoon.
Xxxx
Love lucia

HI Lucia,

hope the mountain climbing went well. I find doing most things in jeans to be uncomfotable, Leggings are definitely easier and comfier to be throwing yoga shapes in.

Polly x

Hi gang.
I went into the Edinburgh wool mill shop as they had a poster of a white dress scattered with large red poppies and sky blue poppies.
It was yummy.
The problem is, I have lost more weight from my belly button up, then my belly button down.
So the top swomped me and the hips were a little too snug.
But I am getting there.
Love Lucia
Xxxx

Hi Lucia. Sympathy! I had the opposite problem trying to buy a cozzie. Top stayed the same but bottom half shrank 🙁

Gloriously blue sky, sunny and wonderful.
Sad I am back I work in the morning, but thank goodness without a cold.

I have one of those boxes that you can step on and off of.
It was given to me to help reach into kitchen cupboards.
I think I will step on and off it watching game of thrones tonight. That’s an hour long exercise in the lounge….

I was able to get out for a walk after a cheese salad lunch. More salad than cheese.

Hope you all have had a good one.
Love Lucia
Xxxx

Eggs for evening meal , meant to be an omelet but ended up by being scrambled eggs 😚😚😚😚

Early night ready for an early start tomorrow.
Love
Lucia
Xxxxx

Back in work,
All I can say is rhubarb!!

Any one else in a growly mood?

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Hi,
On the bus a woman was saying she was embarrassed to go to the gym to get fit. She said they had all the equipment so that’s the only place she could exercise.

I suggested what I do.

I get the stool out of the bathroom and put it on the landing near the top if the stairs.
I get a chair out of the dining room, or deckchairs or anything.

I walk up the stairs, not holding the hand rail.
If I need to, I sit on the stool.
When I am ready, I come down trying not to use the rail.
Then if I need to, I sit on the chair.

I do this for 30 minutes. At first I could only do eight.
But over time, I increased it to where I could get rid of the seats.

I didn’t use the hand rail so it engaged the core, I was getting my blood moving, cardio exercise.
I was moving at lot of muscles including my maximus bumus, and my thunder thighs.

All for free, but I made sure, I did it at my pace and sipped water as I went. You don’t get wet. You can’t say, I don’t feel like getting into the car to go to the gym. I don’t feel like getting my gym clothes on. You are good to go even if you are wearing your nighty, or jeans, or dress, or trousers, or bare foot. Just be careful of slippers not giving you a secure foot hold.

She has asked me to check on her in a weeks time.

Shall do.

Love Lucia
Xxxx

With having cough medicine etc. I have out one of those stinky pounds on.
I eased up in the calorie counting and weighing.

So I am giving it a name…. Mr Blow felt. Mr scar a manger. Dr evil do no good.
Your days are numbered, my cold has gone, hardly any cough, I am now ready to assassinate you. I am going into stealth mode. You are gone mister. You are toast… ( ha, all my toast is long gone … Carb joke here people).
Judo kick, karate chop……

Anyone else put weight on over the bank holiday?

I was expecting it, as I am unlucky. But my frame of mind is good.
I am going to enjoy all that I have weighed to eat. I am going to focus on each bite.

Anyone else in ninja mode?

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Yay, goodbye cold assassin, welcome back to more good eating 🙂

Mindful eating makes it more yummy and filling at the same time. Great advice on the stair workouts. There is a fitness guy online who has made a whole workout series of going up and down the stairs, then again he lives in a tower block in New York so up and down once or twice and he’s done miles 😀

I’m still stuck at 13 stone… first thing it’s a couple of pounds under but then it stubbornly leaps back to 13….. still it’s lucky for me ‘cos that’s less than it was before

Polly x

Yup, mountain of work in my pigeon hole.

Thinking of running away, anyone want to join me?

Love Lucia
Xxx

Hi polly,

Glad you are positive, just don’t let it get you down.
I am the same, previously, I would give up and put on about another hundred stone or more because I gave up.
I couldn’t reason with myself, that it is only one pound on, you can burn that in a few days, so by the weekend it would be gone and more, and I would be nearer my size 12.
Now I just say … My size 12 is just postponed from a Monday to a Saturday, but it will be mine, all mine, I tell you……
Sorry, haven’t got over me saying this morning… Engaging the core.
I wanted to say engage the Borg. Make it so number one, fazers on stun. Clingons on the starboard bow.

Yes I was a coach potato in front of the TV for many many years, so you will get a touch of telly or movie quotes.

Love Lucia
Xxx

Hello again all. I have been reading bits and pieces still but not able to post recently as home and work life has been particularly busy. Just logging in quickly to say I haven’t forgotten you and hope to be back once daughter’s exams are started properly and hopefully her stress levels are lower.
The very best wishes to you all – that stepping and stair climbing is admirable!

Hi Julia18togo
Hope all is well BSD wise? Good luck to your daughter re exams. Talk later

Hi Julie 18 to go,

Make sure you give her a big hug from all of us here.

Good luck!

Love Lucia
Cxxxx

Thanks Eureka and Lucia for the good wishes. In fact if you are thinking of running away from work Lucia I might join you. Although for me work is easier than doing the mum stuff… I would like to run away from home and come back in a few weeks time.
Eureka – diet is good and bad. Bad in that I have eaten stuff I shouldn’t have today. And good in that I have batch cooked a week to 10 days worth of BSD meals in freezer and fridge since I know that coming home from work is when I am at my lowest ebb – today’s misdemeanour was my daughter’s sweets rather than the meals! The cardinal sin on this diet😕. Although not diabetic this won’t help my weight loss this week.

Hi julia18togo,
I’m glad there is someone else who is up against it! I have no children doing exams, just adult daughters living or coming with their three girls every Tuesday for tea. This last couple of weeks I have been getting things ready for a spring market at our church, making stuff, organising the hall, setting up and rotas for help, dashing about, working on projects late at night and just dipping into bsd forum when I can,
My grandson Fergus has his first exam on Thursday and our daughter is like you a bit stressed, especially as her eldest has his exams starting next week too. So I wish you well with you and her exams, and like Lucia said give her a big hug from us, and ‘speak’ soon
Christine x

Hi Julia18togo
Good to have food pre made. Can you factor in a couple of walnuts or Brazil’s etc to eat instead of the sweets if you get a severe attack of the munchies before dinner is ready? Best not to eat between meals as you know, but eat good stuff if you must 😀. Plus, fat content in nuts more filling.
Make sure everyone sleeps well while exams are on & has breakfast, & is hydrated. You think better!

Hi Christi1948
You’ve been busy! Hope the market goes well. Has your daughter made any cakes for it? I used to bake for my mum’s church do’s. My old Battersea school cook book circa 1962 was trolled through for raspberry buns recipe. Her favourite but not T 2 friendly!!
Yes ‘big Lucia hugs’ for ALL going through exams. Just do your best with NO extra stress applied. 🍀 🎓

Hi Christi1948

Hope the market goes well. Mine is at the end of June – really need to get sewing something!

Hi,
It is again , with deep regret, I bring you news of a sad loss.
One of my best friends, who I has been through think and thin and thick again with me.
They have stuck to me throughout, no matter how much I have tried .

The sad news was broken gently to me this morning on my scales. I have lost weight.

I am sorry I will need a quiet moment to reflect…….

We have been through so much together and now you are gone. No longer will I see your reflection in the mirror. No longer will I have to consider you as I get the ‘big girls’ size.

All I have left is my skinny self.

Do be careful teAm, this could happen to you.
Love Lucia
Xxxx

Having a veggie day today.

Suprised that i am getting the hang of it and more importantly enjoying it.

Anyone else trying out vegetarian days?
Love luciaXxx

Good for you, Lucia! A whole new world of food has opened up for you! Cheaper than meat days too! Xxxx

Morning L, Judith
I quite often have a vegetable stir fry flavoured with spices and soy – delicious.
Judith, have you tried roasting your gram flour before making flatbreads? It’s supposed to change the flavour.
I have this idea of roasting it with a few herbs for flavour and then whizzing the whole lot in the processor.
I’ll let you know how it goes.

Morning Bill, hope your fasting bs is ok now?
Roasting the flour first – now that is an interesting thought!
I made a batch the usual way last night and had a couple spread with cream cheese and lettuce as wraps then froze the rest.
Lucia if you haven’t tried them yet you should. I reckon you get about 40 from a £1.69 bag of flour. Plenty of protein and fibre and lovely with a veg curry. 🙂

Lucia – my go to lunch for taking to work is a salad with a quarter block of the feta style cheese every supermarket seems to do a budget own brand of. I have found the budget ones no less good than the normal supermarket own brands. The block easily cuts into 4, and it works out at 20p per lunch for the protein bit, and then I add whatever I have to hand – my favourite is chopped lettuce, tomatoes and cucumber, grated carrot, a few black olives chopped up, and then a dressing of 10ml olive oil, some lemon juice and seasoning. I have the dressing in a little pot so that the salad doesn’t go soggy. So as Judith says, cheaper than meat and just as nice.

And the best bit is that it still leaves me with a few calories left for a snack…

Congrats on the loss of the pounds!

Am back in work today, my mum is kindly doing ‘keep the granddaughter on an even keel’ duty today.

Hi Judith 6.4 today and 4.2 pre food last night.
Still don’t know where that spike came from, maybe I was invaded by sugar loving alien presences 😀
Yeah, according to the sites I looked at, roasting the flour first produces a more nutty than beany flavour and I thought that varying the herbs and spices would make the flatbreads more versatile to use with more meals.

ooh, I’m gonna try that Bill.
Good your BS is back to normal! 🙂

Hi guys!!
I’ve been reading this great thread with interest for a week or so now and thought I would finally be brave and post! I have a lot of weight to lose (not quite sure how much as I haven’t DARED to step on the scales yet but I know it’s bad just by looking at my enormous tum in the mirror!!). My mum had type 1 diabetes and so I witnessed a whole load of terrible things as a child (loss of toes, ulcers, hypos etc) – she died when she was 50 after a particularly debilitating stroke. I was 19 and I’m going to be 45 this year and have been telling myself for YEARS that I need to get my bahookie in gear or I shall end up the same! I am not diabetic (as far as I know) but want to avoid developing it – so far I haven’t really been helping myself!

Last week I did the original 5:2 diet (which I have done successfully in the past) but also bought Mr Mosley’s Blood Sugar Diet book and have started thinking Mediterranean this week and aim to do 3 x 800 days. Yesterday was my first and it was perfectly fine. I did feel a bit hungry but it actually felt good (I’m weird!!). Today – so far so good. And will do Friday too. The schools are being used tomorrow for the Scottish Parliamentary elections, so I shall be out and about with the boys all day and so I decided tomorrow would be ‘normal’ but trying to avoid the ‘baddies’ food-wise!

Lucia – I was just wondering – how long have you been on the ‘diet’ so far and how much have you lost? I’ve been intrigued. Sounds like you have heaps of willpower and humour!! Been loving reading your posts!

Cheers guys.
Iona x

Congratulations IonaJ,
You’ve just taken the first step and you can be proud of yourself 😄 Take it one step at a time, but as you’ve already discovered, this whole lifestyle is a lot easier in reality, so GO GIRL. Keep going, one day at a time until you’ve reached your weight goal, then keep going so that you stay healthy for you and your family!

Hi IonaJ, definitely the right decision. I would say just go with the fast 800, low carb it is easier than 5:2 as you have 800 calories a day instead of 500. You will be stunned at how quickly you will lose weight.

I would also say brave those scales and take a photo of yourself in your undies ( I know) but after 2 or 3 weeks you won’t believe the difference! Also write down your measurements as they often tell a bigger story than the scales in terms of loss!!

And GO GIRL, GO!!!! 🙂

Hi Lucia,
Sorry I haven’t done any kind of excercise for over a week, unless you count dashing about getting ready for our church spring market, on a positive note, I have found a Pilates class, the bad news it’s on a morning I can’t do, yet!
Christine.

Hi eureka,
I have got an afternoon fairly free so I’m catching up while I can, my daughter who lives with us isn’t a very good baker, she is a good gardener though, the other daughter hasn’t time or energy to bake at the moment, I should do some, however as I’m so busy organising my stall, ( I run a craft club each week at church) I’m on the committee for the fund raising, so I’m busy on two levels, the good news is it will be over by teatime on Saturday, until the next sale which is in the autumn, thank goodness.
You never know I might find time in the next couple of days to do a cake, even if I can’t eat them!
Christine

Hi Lynne,
I’m just trying to catch up on my emails, I have done a bit of sewing this session for the sale, I usually do some crochet too, however my fingers have had an arthritis flare up and crochet is a bit painful at present,. What sort of things do you make, it might give me ideas!
Christine

Just wanted to let Lucia know that she is inspiring. Read forum today and I am feeling excited about trying this low carb diet. Thank you all.

Hi Christi

Sorry to hear about the arthritis. My hands suffer with it too😒 That’s why I change crafts around.

Don’t know the type of area you’re in. Different things go better in some areas than others.

Last year I dried some lavender and made lavender bags and sachets. Keep thinking about some fabric boxes I made early last year – they fit a chocolate orange but can be made different sizes.

Or pin cushions, draught excluders, cushions, aprons, bags, purses, pencil cases

I’ve been doing patchwork until recently, both machine and hand-stitched. There’s a simple pattern for a small patchwork dog that seems to go down well.

Currently making cards, like lots of people. Not necessarily good for fairs, but my craft group sells them to raise money the church. Also make cards for special requests.

Hope it goes well.

Hi gang,
How are we all doing?

I have been asked how long I have been on this diet.
Sometimes it feels like a life time, other times it feels like a few days.
I have lost over a stone, I have found myself, found happiness and laughter.
I have found THE ANSWER.

I have gained the odd pound then lost it, gained wisdom ,but most of all I have found a FAMILY.

Love Lucia xxx

I have just had a look at my first blogs.

I started blogging on 8th March, on a prep week.
I started BS800 on Saturday 12 March.
This weekend, this Saturday, I will have done my eight weeks.

WOW 👀👀👀👀👀👀
Where did the time go?
Nearly 1. 1/2 stone down, what a journey.
I am in shock”………….

I feel emotional. I got here. I never gave up.
Dear goodness, I have done it!!!!!!

I am gob smacked.

I want to say one thing from my heart.
Something I say all the time

This is a personal message just to me, from me, I…… LOVE LUCIA XXXXXX

Yes, I actually like me now.

God bless each and everyone of you who contacted me and carried me on my path, when I learned that there is REAL life to live and not live it through the telly.

I hope you all walk along our path towards me, and am at the end of this path. I can go left and put it all back on, go right and keep losing, keep going and achieve my size 12.
I haven’t got there yet, but I have got here. I AM HERE. Look at me, I have not given up, I have achieved it, finished it. Wow.

Party at my house Saturday, you are all welcome. Lets dance, lets laugh, lets socialise, lets drink, lets eat…. I that order.

Wow.

With love from a very humble, average, lumpy person, who has got less lumps today.
🌻🌺🌼🌸💐🌻🌺🍄🌹🌷🌸🍁🌺🌸🌻🕸🎃🌸🌼🌼🌻🌸🌷🌷🍄🌷🌸🌸💐💐🌸🌸
For you all.

Love Lucia

Xxxx

Hi,
I am still suprised that I didn’t give up after two weeks which is my normal pattern.
It is a crazy way of doing things, but when you think about it…….
If you don’t put it in your mouth , it won’t go on your hips. Duh!!
I get the picture now.

I think on Saturday I will put one blog in the section called … After eight weeks. Just to show my face.

I think as I still have a long way to go, I will continue for a little while longer, then change to the 5:2 diet.
If anyone meets up with doctor Michael Mosley, please give him a hug from me. He will never realise what gifts he has given me just by writing this book, making this website at the right time for me.

If you are reading this message and not sure you have the will power to do this diet, please read all my blogs as I have had ups and downs. No one has told me I was a failure putting weight back on, they held my hand, gave me encouragement, and got me going again.
The nicest thing is ,… You all have laughed with me but never at me.

Oh and the best advice for newbies, beware of the dollop of yoghurt… You will have to read my early blogs to understand the daftness behind that episode.
Love Lucia
Xxxx

Oh and I noticed no one said anything about my love fest with warren

Not warren Beatty, but warren buffet.
I love this 85 year old oracle of Omaha.
He started as a kid saving, and is worth billions. He is one if the owners and runs Berkshire Hathaway company.
He still lives in the house he bought more than 30 years ago.

Last weekend was their annual AGM. This was televised, live streamed for 7 1/2 hours, I watched it all doing exercise, with my cold.

He is my hero. His company made little yellow plastic ducks it’s his face and Charlie mungers (his partner) face on.
They are in front of my telly.

Along with yellow minions, who love bananas and work great as a team… But that is another life lesson.

So there you have it, I would live to gave him as a guest for lunch, a nice crispy salad and to talk to him. He would probably eat dairy maid ice cream, with coke a cola etc as these are the companies he owns.

See, it was nice after all!!!
Love Lucia
Xxxx

Hi L
it’s marvellous the way your confidence has increased since you joined 😉
Your own willpower has been the major factor so credit yourself with that. Yes the BSD’ers have jumped in from time to time to offer advice when needed but it’s you who took it all on board to create your very own success story. YOU did it, nobody but you.
You have inspired loads of people that you have never even spoke to. Remember, on average only 10% of people who read forums ever bother to post so you will have quite a large audience.
Oh by the way, I realised the mistake with the dollop of yoghurt and started usiong a splodge instead 😀

Congratulations Lucia,
You have brought sunshine into the lives of many people. Your musings, meanderings, wit and whimsy are fantastic.
Yes you’ve gained huge benefits from the BSD, but so have the rest of us just from getting to know you. Well done on completing the journey. x

Well done Lucia, looking forward to you joining us in other threads on Saturday!!! 🙂

Lucia
I have been a serial stalker on here for a while! Your posts have inspired, amused ( Ilove your humour) and encouraged me to the point where I have jumped in and am about to finish my first week. Your honesty is inspirational as we live in this ‘perfect society’ it is great to hear the ups and downs and the support from others , makes me glad to be a human otherwise I will morph into my collie dog.Thank you keep posting and really well done. Collie

Hi collie,
Your first week, wow, you have done the hardest thing… The first step. It takes a HUGE load of will power to take it, now it is easy, so easy.
You have a big family around you to walk with you on your journey.

I love the ideal you are a serial stalker. Don’t tell the others otherwise they will advise cereal isn’t do good for you, too many carbs have full fat Greek yoghurt and berries instead.

You must tell me what you have eaten in your first week.
I like eggs bacon mushrooms and tomatoes. This can be a main meal.
The another meal can be salad and chicken or a bit of cooked meat, or feta. Or if you prefer warm, veggies and a chop or something.
It doesn’t have to be hard.
I made it hard for myself, being too strict, got my knickers in a right twist. I had a time out for 24 hours were I measured just by eye.

I hope you will be around when I can zip up a size 12. I am saving to give a diabetic charity a gift.

The most important piece of advice I can give is to enjoy your life.
I actually went out and smelt the flowers.

I am here if you want anything.

Love Lucia
Xxxx

My goodness I go red with embarrassment just thinking how hard I tried to weigh a dollop of yoghurt instead having a whole small tub.

Hey, I told you I was wired different than most.
Love luciaXxx