Yeah!!! You are sounding alot more positive Natalie, stay with it 👏👏

Keep going Natalie, we are all here waving you on.
X B

Thanks guys! And good morning Day… is it 41? Time just keeps on passing, doesn’t it, whether we’re sticking to the BSD or not.

Regarding my recent slump, I’ve been thinking it was tired/sick so therefore eating badly, but when I think back this difficult period started just over a week ago with my son’s birthday… so maybe it’s been eating badly so therefore tired/sick! Maybe I’ve been bumping along through carb flu again and not feeling better because I don’t stick to it long enough to get through.

It does make a difference, because the way I was thinking of it I was hoping to feel better first then I could go back to sticking to BSD, but if this is true then I have to stick to BSD first to feel better!

Plan for the day:
B: yoghurt with one passion fruit (hmm maybe I need to cut out the tropical fruit even in small quantities- but it’s Australian almost-summer! Waaaaaaaah!)
L: pulled pork and salad
D: roast beef and veges

Hi Natalie – it’s good to hear you sounding more positive again! Some good insights there for reasons why you haven’t been feeling good. A reminder for all of us that we need to keep focussed. It’s easy to be less vigilant as time goes by 🙂 Perhaps a “reboot” to week 1 discipline is required periodically so we can reset any bad habits that may have crept back in 🙂 Hope the rest of your day goes well and you continue to feel better each day!

Yes well said Natalie and Lara, bad habits can creep in and the temptations rise at this time of the year when the shelves are piled high with Christmas ‘goodies’! Happy to report a 1.5kg loss this week so trying to keep focussed, although I am attending a ladies fundraising luncheon today…..will be BSD conscious !

Good morning Day 42. Granny 1.5 kg loss is excellent this far along, well done! Good luck at your luncheon. And Lara you’re very right it’s easy to slide into bad habits and the more you do the easier it is!

My weight has had big swings this week with my inconsistent eating. My official weigh in is tomorrow but as of today I am back down to my lowest point – for the fourth time in two weeks! Sometimes I think I am cursed to never break that 5 kg lost barrier. Anyway this week I’d be very happy with a plateau because I’ve been sure it would be a big gain.

Today will be a big challenge because my niece and daughter both have their dance recitals today and we’ll be out all day and eating away from home, which I haven’t prepared for. I’ll have to make careful choices.

Hi Granny – great news on your 1.5kg loss! Hope the luncheon was a BSD success 🙂

My official 6 week weigh in was yesterday – I lost 1kg this week, bring me to 9.7kg lost and 11.1% down on starting weight, so absolutely thrilled with that.

I watched a ted talk last night with Dr Sarah Hallberg posted by JimNZ in the “What does your doctor say about BSD” thread and had a bit of an emotional meltdown. It was amazing and validating to hear her speak about how the accepted guidance for nutrition for diabetes patients is so wrong and the success she’s had at her clinic with low carb diets. I had a good cry, which I think helped to release some of the anger and frustration I have with the establishment at all the bad food advice and marketing that’s out there.

Hope you’re all having a BSD friendly weekend 🙂

Hello bsd buddies, and congrats on your losses. Am back after what is usually my first and last horrible head cold of the season. Have been feeling yucky so yoghurt, soup and 800 cals a day have been easy peasy!

Looked up that TED talk, Lara, inspiring. Both my GP and the diabetic nutritionist told me I’d need to abandon the low carb diet that had served me so well for over 6 years, and in fear and ignorance, I did. Cue substantial weight gain in just 3 months. Both were scathing about this plan, and the GP professes himself baffled about my glucose readings reducing so far, so quickly. , even suggesting I must have been wrongly diagnosed six months ago. It is frustrating. I just want to stand in the surgery giving.out the book to every t2 or prediabetic patient, in the place, because I think the current advice borders on negligent and works only in the interests of drug companies with a vested interest in keeping people on long term medication. It makes me so angry. Mkx

Maharani kitten
Glad you are over your horrible head cold I am also just about over a horrible virus that is going around here.

I was actually quite upset reading your post. How awful to have such an ill informed GP and diet nutritionist. How bad that they have so completely closed their minds to the new research and what is so so much worse is that their advice was so harmful to your health. I totally agree that their advice borders on negligent. Correction – the advice is negligent.

I must admit that I thought I would have the same reaction at my diabetic annual review but when I realised the consultant was so happy I was following Professor Taylor’s research and the BSD and my diabetes was in remission – I felt so emotional I promptly burst into tears in the middle of the consultation..

I am doing exactly what the consultant has said I must do – which is to spread the word. So I have been lending people the BSD book (luckily the book was really cheap at Tesco) or giving them the link to this website. The first person I gave the link to has already reversed their diabetes.

I think I will join you outside your surgery giving out MMs book – although it would probably result in your doctor striking you off his list.

Thanks Krysia.
What I found especially alarming was the dietician urging me to buy low fat yoghurt with sweetener, low fat cream cheese and half-fat ‘diet’ hard cheese, and very low cal margarine – all Frankenfoods as far as I’m concerned. Also, she was a large lady, larger than me by quite a few stones. No reason not to take her seriously but ….. am looking forward to seeing her again at the end of Jan to show her what can be achieved with discipline, cheese, oils, nuts, cream and butter but by moderating sugar – lactose, fructose and their beloved ‘starchy veg’. Honestly, how can something that is extruded on a factory line and is choc-a-bloc with chemicals be better for you than something churned from milk? Bizarre.

And my GP just keeps shaking his head when I’m asking to reduce my meds every two weeks because my fasting glucose is so low that it’s a traffic offence for me to drive. “well, I’ll do it for now, but you won’t be able to keep this up long term and I don’t want you going blind and having your feet amputated on my watch”. Such touching faith! This despite me following a low carb diet for seven years (and still getting T2d – weirdly, at the same age as my mum, her sister and my maternal grandmother) . I don’t drink, never have, exercise at least 4 hours a week and my sugar intake’s been very low for years. Go figure…. I should be 9 stones!! MK x

Maharani kitten
Reading your post just reminded me of a conversation I had with a Diabetes Specialist Nurse when I was first diagnosed. She asked me what yoghurt I was eating. I said Yeo Valley Organic Natural Yoghurt. She advised me to eat exactly the same low fat yoghurt with sweetener and other additives as it was much healthier and I must stop eating the Organic Natural Yoghurt immediately. It didn’t go down well when I said – you must be wrong – how can a natural organic yoghurt with nothing added and nothing taken away be unhealthy. However, she was absolutely convinced that I was completely wrong.

It is so frustrating that your GP doesn’t have a clue that if you follow his advice to eat the carbs you will end up going blind and having your feet amputated. Still – the only thing to do is to lead by example. In the end there will be so many of us reversing diabetes or going into remission that all the diabetes educators will have to accept that the old way is plainly wrong. It is fine to have the meds for people who do not want to do the work to improve their health but for us who want to take control of our health they have to allow us to do so and provide the appropriate and correct dietary advice.

Maharani, Krysia, isn’t it amazing that we know more than doctors and nurses. To think a doctor doesn’t know it is HIGH blood sugar that causes blindness and amputations, not LOW. Low can lead to unconsciousness, even coma but that is another story. Keep the faith. I watched the video of MM’s interview in Australia (it is on another thread) and was really surprised that Diabetes Australia had top tip on their web site was eat low fat products, number 2 was eat lots of starchy carbs. When the director was challenged he had no answer to why it said that when he clearly admitted it was the wrong advice completely. How are people who dont have MM in their lives cope with all the crap that is told to them. I guess we know as we have all been there. Keep on keeping on…

Hi Sunshine Girl

I don’t for a minute think I know better than my doctor. As he keeps telling mw, he’s the one with 12 years of medical training lol. I

They’re all about ‘evidence based medicine’ these sprays and can see for myself that 6 weeks on this plan has made my blood glucose plummet – so why can’t he be pleased, instead of grumpy, that I’ve found this and am sticking to it? If the solution to t2d and all its horrid effects is ‘don’t eat carbs’ – I’m totally happy with that, after all, it’s how I’ve kept my weight stable for 6 years with no trouble, on about 1600 calories (mostly protein & fat) 25g carbs (mostly veg).

What I can’t feel happy about is frightening me with scary stories and telling me (honestly) ‘you’ll die sooner if you don’t eat this diet – to the letter’ – excluding sugar, excluding fat, but including cereals, starchy carbs and processed Frankenfoods – stuff I haven’t eaten for years. At one point the dietician told me that diet drinks were useful to ‘fill you up’ and their recommended drug and ‘diet’ plan that made me put on 22lbs in 12 weeks, made me store fat round my middle – the most dangerous place and where I’ve never stored it before – and had my blood sugar through the roof. Their response when I was being a good girl and taking 11 tablets a day and getting fatter and fatter? A note after my 3 month HB test saying ‘excellent diabetic control’. Unmedicated, at that point, my blood glucose hit 18.

After 6 WEEKS on this plan, meds halved, 20lbs lost, medicated FBS always around 4 and Unmedicated around 6-7. So. Is this less than excellent control? Who can say. But other than this forum, I feel pretty much a lone warrior with this approach.

I accept that received diet wisdom is a ‘mixed’ diet. I choose not to mix carbs with mine! MK x

Good on you Maharanni kitten!!!

Why on earth does anyone think its good to eat and drink artificial processed “foods” and drink. And to recommend sugar to a person with diabetes!! Diet drinks just make me crave sugar. I am drinking 3 cups of coffee with cream and all sorts of tea without anything.

i have been a good girl. Eating healthy. Doing the one meal a day intermittent fasting … then i felt so good i have totally fasted for 3 days. Lost almost 6 pounds since Tuesday. Been eating salt so it’s not all water. Body fat feels looser. I could eat but i don’t really feel that hungry. Been watching a lot of Dr. Jason Fung videos on intermittant fasting and the causes of obesity and diabetes and knowing why things are the way they are really helps. I know that as a person who has had diabetes for decades i have to break that insulin resistance and make my body burn the fat.

Love Butter Bob Briggs … an older gentleman who lost almost 200 pounds who is famous for “Butter makes your pants fall off video” … also thought Why are fat people hungry”? I have the time so i have been really educating myself.

Good morning week seven! Officially only two weeks to go but I think a lot of us are continuing up to Christmas – and then beyond after a few relaxed days. My weight was a bit up this week, as I expected after a wobbly week and eating out twice yesterday, I’m fine and feeling positive.

Actually if I weighed myself right now I might be a bit lighter than I was first thing. The beef vindaloo I had yesterday caused rather a violent reaction this morning. I was trapped in the bathroom, drenched in sweat and feeling awful, panicking because I needed to get my son off to school and had two tradesmen arriving any minute! Managed to get out in time.

Why do tradesmen always leave all the doors open as they go in and out. In Australia that means a house full of flies!

MK your story makes me sad and angry. Hopefully you’ve turned things around in time, but how many people continue to follow this terrible advice? It’s the same in Australia, when I was diagnosed pre-diabetic I was told to eat 60g carb each meal, plus snacks, and lots of fake food. Low fat processed everything. I had a blood test meter because of previous gestational diabetes so I told the nurse I knew 60g of carb would make my blood sugar shoot up. So she told me to stick to 45g carb each meal instead. I guess that is fractionally better than telling me to follow their rules and stop testing myself? There were diabetics in the little class complaining that 60g was too restrictive; how could they have all their toast and jam and juice and sweetened coffee for breakfast on that? At the time I was eating cruskits with butter and Vegemite for breakfasts, and I thought it was the butter that was the evil bit!

Plan for the day:
B: yoghurt and passion fruit
L: tin tuna and salad (it’s my usual shopping day but I don’t think I’ll be able to get out before lunch, so it’s whatever I have left in the fridge and cupboard)
D: steak and salad

No wonder some people with diabetes just get worse and worse and just won’t accept the fact that if they are not careful to eat healthy foods that they are going to face foot amputation, heart attacks, stroke, and a body that is full of fat that will just not move.
I’m 67 and i just now accepted that i can not just take pills and eat what i want … because i just about died this summer and was leading a miserable life. Now i have to take drastic measures.

Good luck on your new track Natalie 🙂 HUGS …. so sorry about the Vindaloo!!! Been there, done that while i was traveling.

Ladies and gentlemen – I need help. What do I say to a friendly acquaintance who is really slim and has uncontrollable t2? She does not even look like MM – a tofi – but she is obviously quite unwell. I feel that it is not my place, yet after reading these forums for 5 months I feel as though I should offer some links to read. Some experts out there somewhere

OMG totally off topic but I’m telling everyone! Over the past couple of years I wrote a novel (young adult fantasy, with dragons and magic). Last week I sent my synopsis to my preferred literary agent and they just asked to see the first 50 pages! It’s no guarantee that I will be published or even that the agent will take me, but it’s the next step taken! I have always wanted to write, and now I’ve done it! Wooo hooo!

Hi Ruth

How about saying that Blood Sugar and Diet and Diabetes are the current hot topic, that you have found it really interesting and had success…would she like to read about it? Then offer to answer any questions after that read. I’ve got used to be asked to share, I keep it low key and to the point, lend or suggest the book, email the BSD link, say how it was luck for me, right time right place when I heard about it, I’ve found it simple to follow and they see the result. It would have been too easy in the first few months to overdo and wax lyrical, it was exciting remember? Now it is set in place, still feels great but I know you cannot MAKE folk want to do it.

Good luck. How’s the weather over there? We returned from a holiday to the Goldie to another outburst of quakes. Been there done that thanks…BE STILL. My summer thing is making up large batches of the oven baked mediterranean vege, with balsamic and lemon. Yum. Lasts a few days.
N

Wooohoooo too
Congrats Natalie. Can we say we knew you before you were famous?
N

Nettle, thanks for advice. Sorry about the rim of fire going off again. I am coming to dinner with baked veg – yum indeed

In THE FAST DIET RECIPE BOOK by Mimi Spencer and Dr Sarah Schenker. The official 5:2 diet book.
N

Congratulations on the young adult novel and possible publication Natalie!!!

🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

Ruthdownunder, I recently had a similar problem with a pregnant cousin who got gestational diabetes, I was trying to give gentle advice but she didn’t want to hear it. It’s so important but she wasn’t even really following medical advice either, she seemed depressed and defeated. I really haven’t lost enough weight to have authority. She’s since had the baby who had to spent a week in hospital (don’t know if health was related to GD) but is fine now. But my cousin has an increased risk of diabetes in the future with this history and being overweight. Such a worry.

Yes indeed Nettle, when I’m the next JK Rowling and posing for my author photos I’ll credit everyone here on the BSD with my health and glamorous looks.

Congrats on your literary success Natalie, really, really exciting!
I’m a published author and my advice is to have a second book ready – if they like your first, things can happen quite quickly and before you know it they’re asking for another!
Having to do promo and the terror of having photos taken at almost 18 stones was what motivated me to lose 6 years ago – kept thinking that everyone who’d ever known me would see I’d turned into an undisciplined chubby blob!
So exciting, well done!!!!!!😊

Natalie, thanks for advice and many good wishes for your success, and Maharani kitten a published author also. Such talent lurking in these pages!

I have not lost enough weight to give advice either, especially as am not diabetic, but it really stresses me that she is so unwell, and was eating lollies and sandwiches for low blood sugar!

Nettle, I have the other one by Mimi S but will look out for that official cookbook as well

Hello MK
It is hard enough to do what we are doing without the medical profession not supporting you. Is there way you could change your doctor ? I think I read somewhere that doctors in general did not receive a lot of training in nutrition so that is probably why yours has not kept up with latest developments; sounds like he is stuck in the past.

You are on top of things, and are measuring your bloods, so you are informed and aware of what is happening to your own body. You know how much better you feel and you know how the medication is affecting you and asking for an adjustment seems perfectly reasonable. Anyway, more power to you for soldiering on.

Great news, Natalie. I hope it’s an instant blockbuster! Between you and MK, we certainly have a lot of talent in our midst! It is really lovely to have something non weight oriented to feel good about.

As far as Christmas goes, I’m planning on going for another 8 weeks (and on until all this blasted extra poundage is gone) so I will also be continuing. We are going to a resort for 3 days over Christmas so I will have to loosen up a little (not go too hog wild) and right back on the program on return. I am not worried about it as I think I’m capable of making sensible choices…but will I? Time will tell and as I have approached this on a day by day basis, hopefully good sense will not vanish over 72 hours!

Natalie, fingers crossed for you xx

Morning all, yes well done Natalie on your excellent news and as someone posted nice to have something to celebrate as well as weight losses:-) Thankfully I am not diabetic myself but am horrified at some of the posts here relating to doctors/nurses advice, scary😳😳! I stumbled upon the BSD whilst googling something completely different, dont know about anyone else but its quite easy to get distracted on the internet. Thankfully I did and have found the BSD principles easy to follow 👍 so far. I’m going to have a few days off plan at Christmas as I think if I accept that now then I will be more forgiving with myself and get back on plan quicker, thats the theory anyway haha. Have a goid day everyone.

Thanks everyone. It’s hard not to get over-hopeful, but I won’t hear for weeks.

My eating was much better today, although still well over 800 calories. I’m having more trouble with hunger, maybe if I can keep the carbs down for a few days my hunger will reduce.

Oh Natalie, you are my hero! Well done, not sure which to list first, weight -loss or novel, so in the words of an average Australian , ” go you good thing!!”

Hi Natalie – fantastic news! I’m keeping fingers and toes crossed for you 🙂 🙂 🙂

I too will be continuing after Christmas and probably well into the new year to lose all the kgs I need to. Another 10 to go to reach a healthy BMI, and then I’ll reassess, although expect I’ll need to go lower (but trying not to obsess about a number!). That will see me at my lowest since late teens / early 20s so will be interesting to see what I look like at that weight. But that’s a ways off and I’m trying to just focus on each day and make good choices that I know will add up over time 🙂

Krysia & MK – I’ll join you handing out MM books and pamphlets 🙂 I feel a bit like a reformed smoker wanting to spread the message and convince everyone I can about this way of eating. I saw a young girl eating lunch today, she was well into the obese category and was eating a modest lunch of a toasted sandwich – I just wanted to rip that bread away from her and put a copy of BSD in her hands. But I realise the best I can do is influence those closest to me by being a good example. People are slowly starting to notice the weight loss, which is nice and opens the door for a conversation about BSD (although I’ve learned mentioning 800 calories tends to freak people out, lol!).

Hi all.
End of week six see’s another two pounds off which I am pleased with as I have been very conscious of the carbs but have not been sticking to the 800 Cals. That is a total of 1 stone and 3 pounds.
I am joining the Strictly group for the lead up to Christmas and will try to keep going in spite of all the birthday and pre Christmas festivities. And……. there is always January!
Good luck to everyone.
X B

Evening all! Congrats to everyone who made good choices last week and got rewarded!
Weighed this morning and delighted with a 2lb loss – total 22lbs in 6 weeks – am thrilled to my knickers to have lost one and a half stones – almost all the weight I gained in the 12 weeks I followed the diabetic diet ‘norm’. Blood sugar seems too have settled over past week at normal with one quarter of starting meds, which I am genuinely amazed by. Knickers feeling loose now so new ones planned for weekend purchase.

Will continue on till Christmas and beyond because I’d dearly like a BMI of 26 – the thinnest I know I can go at 54 without looking haggard and weird. Tried Hobbs Xmas dress on and it looks OK but will spend next 4 weeks really being disciplined on toning exercises – and failing that, will get a new Spanx slip! Am still a different shape since T2D meds kicked in, not sure why.

Tapatch, I’d love to change my GP but I live in the country outside Edinburgh and the next nearest practice is quite a drive. Hilariously, my doctor is the practice specialist in diabetes and is actually quite young, so no excuse for him really. The other doctor in the practice has real issues with women patients (currently subject of formal complaint!) so not much choice. I’ve discovered there’s a diabetes walk in clinic near my work though so will investigate that. Since I’m rarely I’ll otherwise it should mean I don’t have to see much of the scathing GP.

Weather here is absolutely awful tonight – howling wind and horizontal sleet, and freezing. A great night for a bowl of soup and a warm fire….

Congrats losers! I love seeing everyone’s weekly weigh-ins.

I used to hate breakfast until I was brainwashed into believing it was the most important meal of the day and forced myself for years. Now I’m used to it, I get hungry as soon as I get up and my stomach grumbles and growls until I feed it! I know some people have given up breakfast altogether on the BSD but I can’t. Lucky I don’t have to.

Shopping today after being trapped at home yesterday with tradesmen. I can stock up on healthy food.

Plan for the day:
B: omelette
L: rotisserie chicken and salad
D: spicy chicken and roast veges

Congrats to our published and soon to be published authors!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

Remember to eat our healthy unprocessed fats so we don’t feel hungry!! I am into whipping cream in my coffee and i think i saw some clotted cream at my little grocery store. I may try to get me some of that!

I am still total fasting except for coffee with cream, salt, and plain teas. I did have 2 coconut oil capsules but i am wondering now if i shouldn’t have had them because i did feel a bit wonky with a headache this morning. But while i think about food i am not really body hungry. I am having more cream than recommended but as if it keeps me fasting i am okay with that. Since i am retired i was able to just sleep in.

Doing stomach exercises … just sucking it in while laying in bed … i am hoping not to have to much excessive skin when done … anyone know how to help that along??? I thought i would loose the weight in 2 stages … go full bore for the next few weeks … slow down for a while at Christmas … getting more stomach exercises and yoga … and then go full bore again.

I’m keeping to the BSD when eating. Learned a lot about the fat component of BSD and it really is essential.

p.s. I’ve been watching a lot of video and general information i get, for now, is that Metformin is the best of the usual diabetes medications because it doesn’t fool around with raising the insulin levels. No meds is still best of course. Also learned that sugar is very bad for the brain!!!

Love to all.

Funny you should say that about the brain, Shalimar.. This last week I’ve felt a whole lot more alert. Sleep still eludes me, however, so I’m once again viewing the Edinburgh skyline at 3.30 am , wide awake after less than 6 hours sleep. *sigh*.

Well at least you are enjoying the scenery. Wonder why you can’t sleep longer?

Have you tried Melatonin supplements? My bf and I have found it to be extremely effective, verging on miraculous, in fact.

http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/tc/melatonin-overview#1

So MK what sort of thing do you write? So exciting to have an already-published author on the thread. I just checked back through my comments and I somehow missed saying so before – but I promise I was thinking it!

Esnecca And MK I also have trouble sleeping, difficulty with both getting to sleep (all my life) and waking very early (more recently, last couple of years). I did look at Melatonin but as I have sleep apnoea I was worried about taking something that might relax me too much so I stop breathing! I can’t take sleeping tablets for that reason. I’m sure Melatonin isn’t as strong, but still. Maybe when I’ve lost more weight and fixed my sleep apnoea? Getting more sunlight during the day is supposed to help as well.

I’m still struggling a bit. I start every day well! Today I was in a real hurry and picked up some hot chicken for lunch – and bought potato gems as well! I almost never get them, or only for the kids. It was a momentary brain aberration. And I ate them. And a Magnum ice cream in the afternoon with the kids, because it was about a million degrees outside today in Sydney. But I have no excuse. Wobbling along.

Natalie, my bf also had sleep apnoea (it’s almost gone now, thanks to his own weight loss), and his doctor told him she had no reservations in recommending Melatonin as a sleep aid. She emphasized that she wouldn’t say that about a lot of supplements, but she had no concerns whatsoever about Melatonin. It’s not a narcotic so you don’t pass out. You just fall asleep faster, sleep longer without interruptions and feel properly rested when you wake up.

That is good to know, I’ll look into it further as I have heard a few people had good results.

Hi Esnecca, and thanks for the reminder about melatonin. A friend brought me some back from the States a couple of years ago and it did sort my sleep patterns out – not sure why I forgot that but it’s not so easy to come by in the UK and I guess I ran out, was then sleeping well, so just forgot. Pal is in Texas just now so will ask her to bring a couple of bottles and see if I can use Christmas break to settle.

Why don’t I sleep? No trouble getting to sleep and i practice good sleep hygiene, good routine, no gadgets or tv in room. Job being busy, stressful and deadline-driven is one reason, worries about future health also. I never really considered my mortality until my GP started banging on about T2D and early death, now I turn it over in my mind all the time. Plus, my OH snores like a hog!

Natalie, to my utter surprise I won a national literary comp with the first short story I ever attempted and part of the prize was a one year contract with a literary agent, mentoring from an established author, and a publishing contract for a first novel if it was up to scratch. It was a brilliant start, I was very, very lucky. That was five years ago and I’ve since published 2 novels, 2 short stories and a cookbook. Haven’t made enough to retire to the sofa and eat cream cakes, but it’s been an exciting adventure which started as a cathartic exercise to put the experiences of a tragic love affair on paper. I work full time and travel a lot for work so don’t have loads of time to write, So I scribble away on trains, planes and in hotel rooms, often use my holidays to go off somewhere quiet for a week or so to make my rambling notes into something coherent. I’m not well known and I don’t sell loads, but I enjoy the process, it’s fun.

Desperate for something sour and fruity today, lost control and necked a glass of blood orange juice. Not the worst in the grand scheme of things but alarming sugar spike and felt really odd afterwards. Won’t be doing that again in a hurry. MK x

MK that is fantastic! Not the juice… the writing. Fiction and a cookbook too. But was the cookbook BSD friendly?

Good morning Day 45. My weight has spiked up again today, nearly a kg gain. I’m just all over the place. I’ve been very inconsistent and my body doesn’t know what to do. Here’s to a better day today.

Lol Natalie. Itwas not BSD friendly at all ! I had to get a pro recipe tester to do the tasting as I was strictly low carb at the time.

Good morning Day 46.

Weigh in was not good this morning. My weight creeps up and up. I know I’ve been wobbly for the past couple of weeks, but I just reviewed the past seven days more carefully. Not one day under 1100 cals! Seven day average 1423 cals/92 g carb. So… there you go.

I’m having trouble finding my mojo.

I had a month like that!! I actually gained back about 7 pounds after my original fast.

Today i am wearing a pullover that i haven’t fit in years. It may be water weight (at least some) but i haven’t been down to 225 in decades. Haven’t been on a sugar/crispy salt binge in a little while but i did order some vitamins and stuff online and there is some coconut covered in chocolate! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 so …….

Don’t worry …. tomorrow is ALWAYS a new day.

Thanks Shalimar. I’m charging up my Fitbit and I’m going to start exercising. I have no Englert (I typed “energy” what on earth is Englert?) at the moment but maybe it will come once I start, I can’t wait forever.