Creating a topic so I can log my journey here and look back on what did and didn’t go well at the end.
This will be my first round of the BSD and I’m doing this for mainly health reasons (although I’d love to lose some weight and shrink down too!). I have severe brittle asthma and some degenerative disc problems in my spine both of which cause me no end of trouble – the asthma especially. In the last 6 months I’ve been hospitalized 6 times on the respiratory ward, mostly via ambulance and the Resus part of A and E which is not a place anyone likes to frequent. When the doctors there know younits definitely a bad thing! Although I don’t have diabetes I suspect I’m in the pre category and I don’t want to get into the fully there point. I’m a mum to two small children (5 and 3 years old) and currently I am off work due to my severe breathing issues – I very much want to get back to my job which is teaching and my work are keen to get me back too!
Previously I’ve followed weight watchers with some success and slimming world with not much (portion control is an issue) but this recent batch of ill health has had my weight pile on worse than ever with high daily dose of steroid tablets and an inability to exercise. I’ve got around 6 stone to lose in total, but really my main goal is improving my breathing and general health. I have a dairy allergy so all forms of milk products are out to me (allergy not intolerance which also applies to goats milk / sheeps milk etc).
Anyway, I’ve started my day with a brunch of 2 poached eggs, grilled tomato and mushrooms and half a sliced avocado. 450 calories including some extra virgin olive oil for cooking and cracked pepper for taste. Yum! I have a cinema trip to negotiate (no popcorn for me) later today. I’ll update later and would be glad of buddies who want to team up for support etc or just to cheer each other on ^_^