Amazing dream new life!
Penny

Hi christine
I’ve only just git Ketostix. Is there an ideal colour we should be getting ?
Thanks
Penny

Hi Lynne and Judith, I was probably asleep when you both posted. I did ask Bill in my email to forward on to you both. He’s probably too busy painting his fence or blowing bubbles in his jacuzzi 🙂

Hi Christi1948,
Thank you for your kind comments. These forums are such a great, supportive place and that goes a long way to helping people succeed.
Hope you have a fantastic time away and come back refreshed and raring to go 🙂

Penny
Any shade of pink is good, listening to what others are getting, it sounds quite a personal thing depending on how many carbs you have, I know you go quite low, and also exercise seems to affect colour too. I find its quite easy to get no colour with just the introduction of something carby and then it takes several hours to go pink again.

Thanks Christ1948 – I’m an introvert and online support has been a lifesaver for me over the years as I find it much easier to ‘talk’ this way than IRL.

Penny – IKR?

I did well at my pub lunch yesterday – I asked for burger, no bun, salad instead of chips. It came with chips!! It would have been so easy just to eat them (I hate making a fuss in restaurants) but I sent it back and got the salad instead. 🙂

Fantastic newlife! Your desire to be healthy overcame your embarrassment of ‘making a fuss’ in a restaurant! You know you have really cracked the dining out on BSD now! 🙂

Hi cherrieanne, after a wet start the rain came out so Bill will have been painting and then blowing bubbles in his jacuzzi! I think he is keeping his w/ends for family so we may not hear from him until Monday . 🙂

Hi hashimoto
Re: consolidation of FAQS

At the start of the 8 week BSD adventure we didn’t know what, we didn’t know? Neither did the book!

Enough of us have completed BSD in real time with real food ( not hospital monitored shakes) to have a general consensus of what works best for the majority of people undertaking the diet.

This was & is THE experiment We are doing the BSD on our own, for the most part.
The time is right for consolidation of good , tried & self tested advice. And , where to go to find more!

However, BSD is not an easy option. We’ve all thought long & hard about it. The awareness & enormity of what we are doing (& for the rest of our lives) looms large.
We all need light relief. We ALL care about the people trying to make this life saving & improving change. That’s what makes this forum so special!

It was & is my goal to be informative, encouraging & praising.
In that regard I would like to see :

For Newbies : BSD FAQS tried & tested as we know them

Chat : To keep our minds, bodies & souls on the BSD track

Eureka ( I have found it! )

My thoughts exactly, although the more I have thought about it the more I think a fixed thread of the good tips we have all gathered would be helpful..if it is a Q and Answer thread it will fill up and digress like all the others and quickly become useless.
Yes, we have been the experiment, and a lot of us have done this for more than 8 weeks (lynne has completed 16 weeks) so we really do have valuable info to pass on
🙂

Agree entirely Eureka. The Q&A needs to be fixed and we also need a way of identifying new info that could be added to it in the future.
I would like a separate chat area – not to stop the chat in the threads as it is useful, but to keep the threads to the topic and allow other chatter to go on elsewhere.

Hi penny
Apparently anything above neutral is good the darker the better! I’ve only managed a pale pink!
Christine

Hi cherrianne
Thank you, we are ‘here’ in Tenerife, other half watching golf! I had roast chicken and salad for evening meal 😌

Hi Janet
Thanks
I ve only had pale pink so far despite very low carbs – I didn’t know if ‘trace’ was good enough. Even cycling uphill round the park didn’t shift it.
Probably explains why my weight loss is so slow. But at least I keep losing.
Penny

Hi Newlife
I can’t find my previous post. Did I write IKR? If so I don’t know why! What was it about?
Penny

Morning folks, I’ll take a look through the day and see what I can come up with.
Please bear in mind that I don’t know what platform the forum is built on soI have no idea of what can be done with it.
I’m sure most platforms do have a private messaging system but be aware that can be open to abuse as well as being useful.
Stickies shouldn’t be a problem.
I suppose the best thing would be to make a list of improvements we would like to see and run them past admin for approval and action if possible.

Hi newlife fe
That’s the thing I think we will all find difficult, going out for a meal. I had salad and roast chicken last night ( I am in Tenerife at the mo) had a few mental wobbles thinking they wouldn’t do that as a meal, however they were very good, the waiter said whatever you want lady!
Keep up the good work christine x

Thanks hashimoto, it felt good.

Thanks hashimoto, it felt good.

Sorry Penny, I wrote it, it’s an Americanism I picked up (ex-wife is American) – it means I know, right?

Well done to you too Christine. I think restaurants are much more used to coping with modified menu requests than they used to be. We are the customer after all 🙂

Hi bill, ive put together a list of ideas. Ive emailed the tech team about it. I’ll email you my list for your furtber comments/suggestions. I didn’t want to bother you during family time at the w/e

Silly girl Judith, you can mail me any time 🙂
Anyhow it would have given me a break from the garden. (Painting all done and looking good, now all I have to do is build the swing and arch we managed to acquire over the weekend) Did I say “all” ? I’m going to suffer for that 🙁
I sense a conspiracy, do you know my OH by any chance ?

Hi Bill, I hang my head!! Do you know I feel like I do know your OH!!!!

Bill, it will all help with your BSD exercise plan!! I still have to paint all my fences ( I like to do it every year) it takes me a few weeks because bending my knee is a problem. Spent all day yesterday gardening now I’m off for lunch with a friend again – 4 times in 8 days !! It was one of the things which worried me at the beginning of the diet – now I know I am absolutely fine and staff are always so helpful with my no carbs requests!! 🙂

Enjoy your lunch hun 🙂
Our little girl came into her first season a fortnight ago so the dog walking has been seriously curtailed until next week, we’re both looking forward to getting going again, plus there will be lawns to mow weekly and all the other stuff associated with the garden.
I’ll be looking for an improved weight loss – or else.

Hi all,
As many of you know, I’m in Tenerife at the moment, I have just got ready to go out, at home I’m normally wrapped up in layers of clothes to keep warm, i have just put summer clothes on! Yippee I look like I have lost weight, even though I still have 1 stone 9lb to lose, so folks just wait till the summer and imagine how you will look without all those layers and weight! It’s something to look forward to, even when you have a blip! Like I did yesterday when I had that chocolate! So keep on keeping on.
Christine

Hi Christine, the summer clothes really show off the weight loss, don’t they? 🙂

Hi Christine
I’d like to say I’m not jealous but I’m green! Even your roast chicken with salad yesterday sounded lovely. I’m sure you’ll find something just as yummy and good for you tonight. I’m imagining lovely fish dishes!

Hi Judith
This may be of help – a book called ‘you can heal your knees’ ( I think!) which really helped me.
Penny

Hi Penny, thanks for that! I will try anything but the story is 21 years ago I had a serious accident, all the bones in my leg were multipley and compoundly fractured. My tibial plateau looks more like crocodile teeth and there wasn’t enough bone left to set my knee back in the correct position so my left leg is a bit shorter than my right leg now. I was told by the consultant that I would be in a wheel chair within 4 to 5 years. That was 16/17 years ago! I still go hill walking, when possible, and still do the gardening etc. A friend who is a physio came every night for months to work on my leg which is, I think, the only reason I have been so able since the accident. I was told under no circumstances to ever kneel on it and I am very lucky to have the degree of bend I do have (thanks to said friend) as I was told by the consultant that I would have great difficulty getting up and down stairs. I don’t.
I was also lucky that the accident happened in France and I was taken from the first hospital to a specialist hospital, even they didn’t fancy the chances of saving my leg so they flew in a surgeon from Switzerland! When I finally got home the consultant here said he would have had to amputate high above the knee because he wouldn’t have known how to fix it and it carried a 90% chance of developing an infection after the op!! He referred to the metal structures within my leg as ‘the Eiffel Tower’, it certainly looked that way!!
I count my blessings every time I look at my two feet!

But I will look at that book because who knows? 🙂

Hi everyone

Click on Resources on the toolbar to see Dr Michael Mosley’s video from Sydney Opera house.
Eureka

Wow!
That will teach me to go away for a few days and not read posts!
Having dropped the pebble into the water, I see that you’ve all picked it up and run with it (if I can completely mix my metaphors).
Well done and thanks Hashimoto for taking it as far as contacting HO.
Light blue touch paper and retire – nowt else for me to do 🙂
John
(What sre “stickies”? – sickies with a cuppa?)

Hi Judith
That books called
‘treat you own knees’ by Jim Johnson
Costs about £5
Penny

Hi john I had already grumbled about the sheer number of new threads causing problems, making it difficult to help new starters. We obviously want to help and encourage new starters and some of us are spending a lot of time trawling latest posts to find and encourage.

Just as the grumbling died down you reopened the issue.

A number of us still want to be able to welcome new starters and it would be lovely to be able to point them to a thread dealing with common problems and the unexpected ‘blips’ , thinking of sudden blood sugar rises which seem to happen in week 4/5 last a couple of weeks then drop to pre or non diabetic levels. It savesa lot of worry.

With captainlynne we have 16 weeks of BSD experience! We are the experiment – real people, eating real food out in the world. We have a wealth of experience and tips to share.

I just hope it gets ‘stickied’ so it stays at the top of the threads – like calling all americans ( I think that is what it’s called).

So thankyou John for making me realise it really needs sorting and a lot of folks feel the same.

Now a work in progress! 🙂

Yes John, you certainly did get us all thinking. I noticed you did a runner! Only joking! Stickies are threads that stay at the top of the list like the one MM put on about looking for American guinea pigs.

Wow Judith, you went through the wars didn’t you? I complain if I stub my toe!

Hashimoto,
Keep it up! (And I think I now understand what “Stickies” are).

Penny, (and anyone with a bad back)
Another book in the “Treat your own” series is “Treat your own back”. I went to my physio a few years ago being hardly able to move, and after setting me back on the road he said that all I really needed was this book.
In the bad old days, when I got a bad back, I was in real trouble for weeks – now, as soon as I feel a twinge, I get down on the floor (even in the middle of tuning a client’s piano) and do the exercises. Result – the discomfort is usually gone in a few days.
I guess it all depends on the nature of the back problem.
Following up on the above, I have to confess that this post would have been better posted in “Coffee and Chat” if it existed – sorry for drifting.
John

Janet, I must be one of the luckiest people alive re my leg.:)

Eureka thanks for the heads up re Michaels blog. You’re a star!

Penny, thanks, I’ll look it up!

Janet,
Thanks.
John

Hi Christi1948
If you’re in Playa de Las Americas toss a coin into the musical fountain for me! I love the long walk from Los Cristianos to Bahia del Duque. Put your step counter on for that walk!
If you’re at Puerto de la Cruz, walk quickly past the ice cream parlour at Cafe de Paris. Enjoy it all. Buenas noches
Eureka

Hi hashimoto
You are a ‘can do person ‘ who always acknowledge & encourage others, thanks for that.
Eureka. 💐

Thanks Eureka.

Thanks Penny, I have ordered the book.
John I noticed that book on backs when I ordered the book on knees.

I go to Pilates for bad backs and like you I do the exercises as soon as I get a twinge in my back. I might order the back book after I have read the knees book 🙂

Thanks everyone. I must check out that book for bad backs😳

Hi Janet
Just got back after an hours walk, I actually had fillet steak and salad! It was succulent the only down side was the salad had loads of corn and I don’t like it, it took ages to take them out of the salad, I was going to have salmon, will have that another night.
Christine

Hi Judith,
It feels so good to be happier in my skin, hears to the next 1stone 9 lbs!
Christine

Sounds fabulous Christine, I think everything tastes better in a warmer climate. At least while you were pulling out the corn you were burning a few more calories! What’s on the agenda for tomorrow?

Hi eureka
We are in playa fanabe between plays de las Americas and el duque, just had an hours walk after having fillet steak!
Off to los Cristian’s in the morning, to get me something for my birthday! 68!! Haven’t a clue what I want definitely not clothes, yet!
We might walk back, I love the walk, it takes me all day, cause of my back I have to rest every so often!
I don’t have a step counter, perhaps that’s what I could get? Cheers
Christine

Hi captainlynne
Me too, about the back book, that is, when mines bad I go to a chiropractor, he’s very good, all my left side is more flexible than my right bacause my left side has to work harder! I used to go to yoga, however the chiro man said all the twists were making my back and sciatic nerve worse!

Hi Janet
Off to los Cristiano to get a birthday present, eureka has given me an idea! Didn’t have a clue otherwise, we might walk back, we’ll see how my back and leg is.
Christine

Hi Christi1948
Happy bday for tomorrow. There is a lovely jewellery shop on your left as you walk out of the Del Duque beach area going towards Adeje. Think it’s called Jose Santillan. Not that I’m giving you ideas!

The Sun King do a good Basque Hake at Los Cristianos. Opposite the beach fountain. Nice & low carb. I feel like I’ve just walked down there too.

Are we all knackered? Someone must have a good back somewhere? Did mine in,in 1984!
Eureka

Hi Judith
What a terrible thing to happen. Sounds like you got the best care. I like the Eiffel Tower idea!
When I had a bad knee I sat on a ‘hop-up’ for those low sort of jobs. That might work for you? Or a longer paintbrush!
Penny