All I can say is…
It’s neArly the bank holiday weekend.
It’s raining, it’s Monday, it’s work day.
Wait.
Did I just say it’s raining?

Yipppeeeee
My favourite sport… Puddle jumping.

Hope you are having a great day too.

😀

Love Lucia
Xxxx

So gang,
Where are we?
Are we all doing the bsd 800?
Or are you just thinking about ?
Reading about it?
Finding it too hard to start?
Well how about little reductions?

I used to eat the big family bars of chocolate, I changed the size to a kiddies one, like a cadburys Freddie chocolate bar.
I used to eat two take aways , and large chips, curry sauce and half a loaf with butter on.
So I changed the size to one take away or one curry and small chips., and just one round of bread and butter.
I used to eat a full family bag of crisps, or the ones with 8 bags in, I ate the lot in one sitting, so I changed it to one bag of crisps.

I still had the taste of the junk food but single portions.

When I started the bs diet, I changed what I ate to “normal food”. For a week, then I changed into the Bs diet.

You just got to do something even if it’s to reduce the size of the junk food.

Then change one meal a day,

Then two,

Then count your calories

Then your carbs

Little by little.

Thinking of having a go now?

Come on in, the waters fine

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Such an inspiration as always Lucia🌻

Hi Imogen,
What’s the best thing you have read on this website?

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Just jumping in, Lucia, I think the best thing you’ve written here was about your exercise going up and down the stairs with a chair at the top and a chair at the bottom, for those people who are too embarrassed to go outside, at the start.

I think that is the most inspirational thing you’ve written and I’m always quoting it to people.

Thank you for all your thoughts, they’re so helpful as well as being very very funny. 🙂

There are so many…love your enthusiasm…how you can break down those seemingly impossible exercises into smaller steps that are doable, practical and affordable!!

I also loved the image of you arranging chairs at the top and bottom of the stairs and setting out to do what you could right then (and building on that)

Brilliant – no excuses – just funfilled activity 🙌 reminds me to not take myself sooo seriously!!!

You bring the same positive common sense approach to the diet, I am sure that many new BSD ers have benefited from your posts.

I am so thankful to you (and all the other super supportive BSD band who have helped keep me sane over the last 18 weeks 😵)

Thanks🌻💐🎶🎵💐🌻

Oh I am blushing…😊😊😊😊😊😊
I honestly meant for you lot to guide ME to other blog to help ME.
I wasn’t fishing for compliments.
But
I give you all 🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁
Thank you so much, I never think anyone is reading dotty old me and my ramblings.
Love lucia
Xxxx

So, it is true.
I look at the wall so high, then roll my sleeves up and move one brick at a time.
Inch by inch,
Calorie by calorie.

The walking at the beginning , using everyone’s garden wall, or the seats in the bus stops, helped me.
I just waddled off and when I got to something to sit down, I just plonked my bum down.
Caught my breath, went to a more dignified shade of red, rather than purple, mopped my brow, and got waddling again.

Sometimes it’s lonely, what’s the point, my .. Knee, foot, arm, ear, eyebrow hurts so bad.

But after you do the exercise and recover, there is this wonderful, cozy, smugness I feel, that, I, one big budgie, has actually exercised and survived it.

Love luica
Xxxxx

And what a lovely budgie you are 😎😎😎 Hehe you are always such a laugh.

Hi Lucia,

Very inspirational! I agree it’s rough to start. It’s a drastic change to my norm. However I realize if I want to lose a drastic amount of weight in a short period then I have to do the BSD.

I’m exercising each day and getting at least 10K-11K steps each day. I feel good, and don’t really feel a lot, although I do at times…lol

Hi med instructor,
I am SO jealous of you.
You and your partner are doing this together.
Mine won’t do it. Won’t encourage, Wont support etc.
So that’s why I ramble to myself here in the blog, to support myself.

I wish I could have a fitness buddy.
I wish I could have a bs buddy.
To slap me around and keep me on the path.

What are your plans?. Are you throwing yourself feet first into 800 cals and low carbs or are you doing a ‘gradual’ week?

Love Lucia
Xxxxx

Hi green Janet,
You know big bird from seseme street, you have the size of me with the personality of a blue budgie.

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Oh Lucia I am so sorry that your OH is not supportive. You have to be doubly strong. Mine is enthusiastic, not to the point of joining in, but at least encouraging.

Just remember you have lots of buddies, even if we cannot walk with you. Just keep going up and down those stairs.

On your question I have been marking time this week ( supposedly week 9) and looking at Igorasusal’s post I realise I am eating way too much fruit. This week way too much of everything, so I think I will start again on Monday.
Love to you

Ruth

Lucia you are so inspiring yourself it doesn’t always sound as if you need support.

There are lots of people here who have been helped by you, why not ask us for some support in return?

Have you ever posted your results? Do you want to tell us specifically what’s been hard for you and see if there are any tips?

Everyone is waiting here to buddy with you. [virtual hug]

Ruthdownunder- re fruit, I realise all my life I have thought that “fruit doesn’t count” and it’s ok to have apples, oranges more or less without limit.

At the end of our family walking holiday I “ate up” the rest of the apples/clementines. Then I looked at MFP – aaaaaaaargh. The sugar! The carbs! The calories!

Good for you- yes. Carb and sugar laden – yes. Calories/carbs better spent on other things – quite probably. Moderation in future and more considered eating – oh, yes. 😉

Morning Lucia,

As Igorasusual and Ruthdownunder have said; we are here to offer support, cajoling, sympathy, advice or a ‘listening war’s, whatever you need Hon, to keep moving on.
Just read your profile… you are doing great!! … sounds as if you have a real challenge everyday if your OH not very supportive.
I’m just up the road near Wigton, Cumbria…so thinking of you neighbour😊🌻

That should read ‘listening ear’ – auto correct hissy fit😊

Glad you explained that, Imogen, I was wondering what the auto correct gremlin had changed……

Hi gang,

I know I am normal, my moods go up and down.
My enthusiasm goes up and down.
My IQ also goes up and down.

I cans feel so ‘smarty pants’ one day
Then the next one , I feel, am I the only one on the planet that need s to lose four tons of weight?

But
I like to look at others blogs here on Thursday website.
I didn’t know if you had a really really good one.
Am I looking for pixie dust?
Probably.
Some but of magic to get me to my healthy size 12 sooner.

So gang, we will all keep going, keep swimming, keep walking.

Love luica

Lucia have you got the Bank Holiday off? Are you going to do anything special and sporty?

Hi gang,

Booked two nights away in the Peak District.
Hubby wasn’t so keen
Went.
But came back a day early.
Couldn’t sleep, the heat in the bedrooms was ridiculous . Windows wide open and huge fan going, but still no good.

Yesterday, we were dragging ourselves around, so we just went back to the hotel room , packed up and came home.

Going to the gym soon.
Same old same old

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Lucia please don’t think ‘same old same old.’ You are the catalyst in your own change. Did the butterfly say ‘same old same old?’
Enjoy your Monday.

Hi,
I feel more like a brown moth today, rather than a peacock butterfly.

Yes, I am being very human.

I have ups and downs.

But I don’t have all that blubber I started with in the spring.

Thank you for your strength and kindness.

Please keep sending mental hugs.

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Lucia… Sorry to read that your trip away was cut short…it must have been scorching if you?OH? chose to go home early.

Hope you feel more ‘colourful’ tomorrow, though I am quite fond of moths ( nighttime butterflies), they have a subtle beauty!

Sending hugs🌻

Hiya – Go girl!! Sounds like a good start well done. I’m aiming for 800 cals since last Tues – had BBC for grandsons birthday so little blip at the weekend but still didn’t only went up to 1,350 cals (which is pretty amazing for me at a bbq😀) I’ve concentrated on cals initially but now trying make sure I’m looking at what sugars too. I found the book really useful and think this blogging should be a great help too. 1st weigh in tom so will let you know how it goes.
Is it middle of belly supposed to measure? Xx

Hi Lucia – I’meant doing this on my own too – your bloggs are brilliant. The walking one especially – My knees and back are really painful and make walking any distance really difficult (not helped by all my weight 😶) I get a little panicky if going somewhere if got park too far away as don’t want to go in to place with sweat dripping down my face, bright red and out of breath. It’s horrible and embarrassing – people looking as if worried I’m going keel over. I haven’t got a clue how many is my average steps so bought a fit bit (just setting up now). Determined get over the embarrassment And get some walking and swimming to help with weight loss. Thanks for inspiration xx

Hi gang,
Well my spirit or mood has lifted.
Ready for aqua aerobics tonight.
Feeling a little, pink, with turquoise edges.
Not quite at the scarlet and gold colour yet.

Keep waddling

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Personal note
Delicate subject.
Isn’t it wonderful when you don’t have to be a contortionist to cut your toenails.
😀😀😀😀
Simple things amuse simple minds

Love Lucia
Xxxxx

Lucia, that is so not what I thought you were going to say 🙂

Hi Lucia
Glad you are feeling a bit pink and turquoise now.
If you are becoming more scarlet, purple and gold you will match the bag I have just finished making from recycled Indian sari material.

I cannot BELIEVE it’s September tomorrow !
The fall
Autumn
Where the devil did summer go?
I have been using my weight to fit into a tiny, weeny, weeny bikini.
More like three eye patches.
Ahhhhh pirates,

Oh jack sparrow,,,,,, that’s captain to you.

Swoon.

Oh hello, forgot you were there.
Yes, so now I have to put it into storage for next year.
If you don’t behave and stick to the 800 low carbs, I will have no choice
But
To post a photo,
With the title,.,,,,,
Look what happened to me when a carb got me🙃🙃🙃🙃😘
Love Lucia
Xxxx

Oh,
Also, putting tights on.

You know when you actually get one leg on, up to your knee
and you can’t quite get the other leg into the waist band and down the other leg without rolling about on the bed?

I now roll both legs of the tights up,
Bend over, put both lots of toes in,
Hitch the heels on,
Then pull the tights to the knees.

I still have to wriggle to get the thighs and derrière into the tights.

When I had more blubber, the tights seem to roll down over my big belly, so the waist band was like a hipster.

This caused the legs to slide down,
So when the undercarriage part ( I don’t like the word gusset) got down to my knees,
I had to take shorter steps.

It was bliss going for a tinkle and hitching them all the way back up,
It was like having a facelift
Xxxxx

Love lucia

Too graphic or just funny…

Or have you been there?

Love Lucia
Xxxx

You are never anything but spot on, Lucia….. 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

Okay,
So did we all remember to say
White rabbits?🐇🐇🌵🐇🐇🐇🐈🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🌵🌵🌵🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐇🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🦁🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰🐰

September, here you are.
I suppose I could treat it as a caterpillar.

I have gone through the eating everything stage like a caterpillar.
I am now wrapping my body in layers as it goes colder.
I will carry on with the diet.
Then in the summer… The two weeks after Wimbledon, I will strip off and there will emerge a jazzy butterfly…..
Delicately eating nectar. ( no carbs)

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Okay, okay
Who’s got it?
Can you look under the settee?
Behind the curtains?
Where oh where is it?

Love Lucia
Xxx

I am losing weight.
My left knee looks quite sexy without three tons of blubber attached.
😄😄😄😄😄😄
Love Lucia
Xxxxx

Hi Lucia,

It’s great to read that you’re losing weight……remember this is the one thing you lose that you don’t want to find again….call off the search and leave it behind!

Have just bought two great big, ,,, huge,,, fantastic cauliflowers.
So many recipes so little time……

Love Lucia
Xxxx

So after losing a pound last week,
Guess what I have gone and done.
I am SO careless
I have lost another one!

Bit by bit
Inch by inch

We are all, getting there.

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Yay!!! Way to go, Lucia!!!

All this carelessness! Keep it up!

🙂 🙂 🙂

Brilliant, Lucia. Haven’t got time to read all your posts but I’ve really enjoyed this page. Have I understood rightly, you’ve got a walking blog? Can you point me in the right direction if so?

Good piece about making incremental changes. I’ve started hitting 800 calories a day, am losing weight, but not sticking to the carb ceiling. But I’ll get there, as you point out.

Anyway, thanks for the inspiration. Just the other day I noticed my toe nails seemed to be closer! Haven’t worn tights in donkeys years mind. I regard them as an invention of the devil. 🙂

Soooooo…..
I am in the mood.
I am in the zone.
Weighing myself every morning,
Watching those sneaky little carbs,
Not stuffing myself
But
Not getting too precious about it.
I was offered a Wearther toffee,
Yes I took it,
I ate it so slowwwwwwwwwwwwww.
It was yummy.
Got passed it
And off again back to my diet.
What am I aiming for this week?
A perfect pound off my weight.

So are you in the right frame of mind to do it?

Love Lucia
Xxxxx

Hi there Lucia. Keep on in there.
regards Sandie.

Yes I am cruel…

I saw it there, just behind the wardrobe.
It was cowering, hunched up, looking lost.
It looked at me with those big eyes, asking, no, pleading with me to take it back,
Remember how we loved each other, the fun we went through,
It started to inch towards me, slowly, one tiny step at a time.

I reached , just past the tissues,…..
And grabbed the yard brush and gave it
THE BIGGEST THRASHING Its life.

It seems my memories of our relationship were all sad and tearful.

I scooped it up and put it out with the trash.

So team, if you don’t know how to get rid of a pound of Blubber, see above.

Yes , I am cruel.
But I don’t want it back.
Ever.
Full stop.

My right knee is looking pretty cute and slim.

How is your day going?

Love luica
Xxxxx

So, are we feeling slimmer, younger , fitter?
I am.
Got a crazy weekend out and about, so having to watch my eating.
Those carbs are sneaky….

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Enjoyed the gym and swim this morning.
You having a good day?
Love lucia
Xxxx

Hi Lucia, 🙋

Sounds like you had an active day.x

Yes,
It was hard at first to get motivated and to move
But
After a few weeks
You actually look forward to doing it and
It becomes easy to do
So you crank it up.

Love Lucia
Xxxx

You will never guess….
Me
Of all people
What a surprise.

Oh, I wore my bike tyres out, needed two new ones.

Didn’t think I would ever say that

Love Lucia
Xxxx