Hi angie
Yes I can ditto the being ill pushing you onto this, and how wonderful it makes us feel, I have also noticed others, being very suspicious of what I’m doing, don’t know whether it’s resentment or what, but the weight loss has largely been ignored by most I have found.
And yes this forum never leaves me feeling alone on this plan, couldn’t have done it without it, that’s for sure. I have come out of a period of ignoring the forum due to family illness and heavy workload, and my health has deteriorated as a result, we need to think of us, all the time, without that, I drift into a fog of bread, biscuits, blah blah.
But just finished my soup made this morning in my soup maker, one of the best gizmos I’ve ever had, and I’m already feeling the call of the bathroom effect when ketosis kicks in, so back in wonderful planet BSD wooooop, feel so much happier now. 💃💃💃

Angie, that’s a story and a half you told there. Talk about battling against the odds. Good luck for your upcoming operation and congratulations for everything you have achieved so far.

feeling absolutely stuffed!
Diabetic cookery class this morning, we made Moroccan Chicken stew, which was really nice, with salad & cauliflower. Bit carby (chick peas and carrot in it), but very nice!
I cooked the cauliflower for everyone, and tried two different methods – at home I microwave, no microwave in the kitchen there, so I did two lots, one steamed, one stir fried – TBH, the two didn’t really taste that different! Also cooked broccoli steamed and riced – wasn’t that nice on its own, but I think to do cauliflower and rice together would be good – it would look more interesting than plain cauliflower, and the slightly moister texture would work well.

Peapod – JulesMaigret is in Germany this week but I have it saved on my computer. I am away from home until late this evening but will post the aubergine recipe here tomorrow.

Angiebabe – well done – what a fantastic weight loss and how thoughtful of your hubs to buy you a lovely winter coat as a treat for all your hard work.

Am back at work today and had a longer break than usual this afternoon so have walked to my two favourite places to have coffee. Subsequently have drunk far too much coffee. Hopefully the effects will start wearing off by the time I finish work at 9pm tonight.

Krysia but all that walking will be good for your step count. I have a jawbone up it counts everything very clever, and buzzes if I’m idle. Long shift though huh, when did you start work today.

I sometimes wonder whether people are reticent about commenting on weight loss because it would imply that they thought you were overweight before. And they don’t want to seem that insulting or unfriendly. So the easiest thing is to say nothing and wait for you to broach it.

My OH has rather bitten the bullet on this one by telling the town information source (I don’t want to use the word gossip because she’s a lovely person and goes out of her way to make everyone feel good about themselves) that she should see a difference in him come Christmas time as he’s going on a diet. So that’s that sorted. I felt a bit weird about everyone knowing, but now I see it as a useful strategy. Saves potential embarrassment on either side.

Greenjanet
I started work at 9.30am this morning. Monday is my longest day. It is totally my own fault that Mondays are so long because I am self employed. I left husband at home cleaning the house from top to bottom. I much prefer my work to cleaning the house and I do enjoy the coffee breaks.

The walking – instead of taking the car – is quite recent. So now the car stays in the car park during breaks and I get a lot of extra steps on my fitbit.

Hmm

Unfortunately a lot of the ladies who come in my shop are not very kind characters, and they wouldn’t want to acknowledge me let alone my weight loss. I live in a affluent stuck up area, not out of choice, it’s where my business is, hence a lot of nouveau riches who are frankly nasty, a lot of them. But I equally have some darling customers, 😂😂😂

Yep I’m self employed, it’s great, but I also work long hours, although at the mo it’s eased down, what do you do

KrysiaD,
Thanks so much. I look forward to trying the recipe.

Well day one in the bag almost, been a goody two shoes, made easy by homemade soup in my soup maker, a excellent must have gadget, cooks, chops, blends perfect soup in 20 mins. And a lovely quern bolog, with courgette, with 30 g Parmesan very yum and well under allowance. How’ve you all been
Frog have you been on plan, you know you want to. 🙋🙋🙋

Tried JulesM’s cauliflower from Nigella tonight and it was ok!

Roasted cauliflower florets mixed with a few tablespoons of oil, 1/2 tsp cinnamon and 2 tsp cumin seeds. Roasted 200c fan for 15mins. Added can of drained chickpeas mixed with 2tsps harrissa paste and 7 or 8 quartered cherry tomatoes . Tossed it all together and cooked for a further 15 mins. Should then have added pomegranate but didn’t ! Was very nice. Far more than two portions . Look forward to having it cold tomorrow. Big carby but worth it!

Day 1 – no trouble keeping calories, as been nauseous all day, I think it was fridge left overs I had on Sunday, left a day too far. But felt awful all day, tried to drink and teatime had egg and bacon as my first food. Survived that but still feel seasick…

Ooh sorry to hear that Avila hope you feel better soon. 🤒🤒🤒

Hi Verano

It’s even nicer cold the following day.

I occasionally just do the cauli bit as the carbs generally come from the chickpeas.

Hi Jan
yes – OK ish day, most food was at cookery class – bit guesstimatey because I didn’t weigh exactly what I had.
Have just loaded the Moroccan Chicken recipe – 250ish cal, 11g of carb

Hope you sleep well and feel better tomorrow Avila

Where did you get the Moroccan chicken recipe from

diabetic cookery class – it tasted really good

We worked in pairs, and made half a recipe that was for four people – but at some point there was left over chicken, and we were given some more to add in. Two of us had a portion each, several people tried it, and I bought the rest home – ant that is definitely more than one portion.
So – I adjusted the recipe to allow 100g chicken each portion, but the other ingredients same quantities that we used in the class.

We had a nice salad with it too – lettuce, shallot, avocado, cucumber, alfalfa, walnuts & some orange pepper to give it some colour.
Hit and miss dressing that I mixed in an emptyish mustard jar with a splash of olive oil and red wine vinegar.
I like nuts in salad – the problem is that if I have nuts open at home, I do tend to sneak one, and then another one….

morning everyone
0.7 down – I don;t think yesterday was that amazing, so probably a temporary weigh in blip – so back where I was six weeks ago!
I WILL crack it with this reboot!

Hi Peapod
This is the recipe from JulesMaigret which was really nice. I use Longley Farm Cottage cheese which I prefer to all other makes as it is thick but mozzarella is good also. Have tried it without assembling it into a tower – just putting a slice of aubergine with tomatoes and cheese on top and grilling it (once I have fried the aubergine) and that was nice also.

Aubergine bake.
Slice the Aubergine thinly and fry until brown, Slice a beef tomato and assemble a tower with a layer of Aubergine, a layer of tomato and a layer of cottage cheese and repeat. I add some basil leaves, a dash of olive oil and a bit of parmesan on top and pop under the grill till the parmesan changes colour.

I’ve also used mozzarella instead of cottage cheese and field mushrooms instead of the aubergine.

Thanks so much Krysia. This is perfect for tonight’s meal as husband is out and doesn’t like aubergines. I know what you mean about Longley Farm cottage cheese, it has a lovely creamy taste so will be ideal in this dish.

Feeling more human today, but still a bit fragile, trying to focus on a presentation due tonight, I hate prepping powerpoints, and it should have been done already but procrastination, other jobs and feeling ill are leaving me deadlining.

In other news I have reached the bottom of my recycling kgs (lose and gain and lose and gain etc) from the relaxed weeks and so that helps me to feel committed to getting the scales down. I was getting frustrated at the ebb and flow and that drives the ‘stuff it I am going to eat… anyway’ so get stuck in circle. But then need to remember the circle used to be 99 -101kg not 86-88kg as it has been, and weighed this morning at 85.5kg.

Mini goal is 84kg when I will be 15kg down – the same as the big dog food sacks I buy, that is a good visual and pick upable measure of achievement . Also 15% of body weight. 83 kg is the next stone barrier (13st) and then I am into territory that is totally unmapped for 20years with the aim of 79kg which is the border for healthy BMI.

tasty superfast lunch – spiralised courgette, some gammon that was in the fridge, and pesto – 209 calories, 4.7 carbs

Great Frog

Good loss today’s a new day, I’m down .8 k aiming for 1.56 k a week, ooh I’m ferocious at the mo, love it when I get in this mood, . But I’m so amazed on this plan when I do it properly how fast it works. Wee wee wee all the way home 🏡 hehe, we will be xmas elves nice slimmer ones 😇😇😇

Avila – glad you are feeling a lot better today.

Congrats Frog on your weight loss.

Everyone’s food sounds lovely – giving me lots of ideas.

Peapod – the recipe is perfect for one person and so quick. My husband doesn’t like aubergines either.

Greenjanet – I retrained 17 years ago as a pilates teacher. I specialise in back care. When I started my training one of the teachers for the course said that I would never get anyone to come to my classes because I was so overweight. How wrong she was – classes have always been full and I am so busy. Too busy in fact – I teach 6 days a week.

I must say though it does feel nice to be thinner – someone said this week that I looked lean. Now that’s a word that no one has used to describe me for at least 40 years. You said you are self employed – what do you do?

I bet there area lot of people that don’t find it motivating to be taught aerobics/pilates or whatever by someone that is stick thin and doesn’t quite get why someone can’t just bend over and touch their toes/put there legs behind their ears or whatever!

The woman that leads the class that I go to is tiny, but it’s a class for over fifties – I could probably do something a lot more challenging now, but it was the first class I ever felt comfortable in and wasn’t the least fit person in the room.

But lean – wow!
Must have felt like it did for me when a hairdresser talked about cutting my hair to complement my high cheek bones 🙂

Avila
Go girl you can do it 😊😊😊

Hi Avila
I have a shop, but half our business is done on line so lots of website work, you’re in a good job useful for getting into shape with the new figure 💃💃💃

Frog – it was a wow moment just like your high cheekbone moment at your hairdresser.

Actually you may be right that a lot of people might not be motivated by a perfect instructor. Clients are often relieved they don’t have to wear lycra – I am also relieved that I don’t need to wear lycra. Now that would really scare the clients away.

Greenjanet – no wonder you are so busy – with a shop and an internet business.

Hi KrysiaD yes but being self employed gives its own reward doesn’t it couldn’t work for anyone now 😊

I’ve worked as an interim for the last fifteen years or so – sometimes employed on a fixed term contract, otherwise on a day rate either directly or through an agency.
I had a bit of a rethink last year after loads of stressful roles, and decided that I didn’t want to work full time, and have taken lots of time off this year. One client has just asked me to go back for the third time – I’m toying with the idea proposing to work for them on a permanent part time contract. I can easily do the role in three days, but they’ve been trying to recruit a full time person for over a year without success.
Working without an end date to a contract always feels weird – I have a stress control mechanism of “I’m only here for another X months” (or count in days if it’s really bad!). There was one open ended contract a couple of years ago where they liked me being there so didn’t do much about finding a permanent person – I had really itchy feet by the time “two to three months” had morphed into eighteen! – But equally only being somewhere three days a week works well for me too!

Greenjanet – yes I feel the same about being self employed. I so enjoy that I have total control of what I do. Although it often doesn’t feel like it when things get really hectic. Even when I am working flat out I know that I can give myself time off and it is much less stressful than working, for someone else.

Frog – only being somewhere 3 days a week sounds really good. I had a very stressful job before and would have retired at the earliest opportunity. Now I never want to retire and will – in the future drop down to 3 days a week.

I once worked for a circus school – we had a trapeze teacher who didn’t want to retire – lovely, great commitment, but she did get to a point where she didn’t want to teach at heights (neither did we want her to, H&S nightmare) – but it was a tad awkward to accommodate that for trapeze!

Frog – your post made me smile. What a H&S nightmare. Pilates teachers do tend to work on to an advanced age also. Working with the body is fascinating as it has a huge capacity to repair itself given the right conditions. As we have found out with the BSD.

watching trapeze and ballet lessons while I worked was brilliant – and loved watching hoops, quite hypnotic
It was the clowns. I hated the clowns!

Frog
Your circus school sounded a lot more interesting than the College of further education I used to work at.

Ah clowns – that has just reminded me that I have some trousers now that I could donate to a clown. I used to think that nobody would notice my weight if I wore very loose wide leg trousers. Although they are black so probably no good. In fact everything I wore was black as I thought that hid my weight also. People who have never seen me in colours are quite shocked now.

Am quite excited – have been searching for fage yoghurt since May and have only just realised that it is called fage Total yoghurt. So bought some today -can’t wait to try it.

Hi KrysiaD – you’re in for a treat 😀

I have 100g every morning with 50g of blueberries (strawberries in summer) and 10g of walnuts fir crunch …. lush!!!

Enjoy!

I got home this evening and husband tried the fage with blueberries. He really liked it and he doesn’t normally like yoghurt.

I had a teaspoon and it is lovely. Unlike any yoghurt I have ever eaten. Looking forward to breakfast tomorrow.

Had stressful working week;
Clock change and darker eves are a trigger to winter depressions;
TotM

all 3 are munchie factors, so gone over every day this week except Monday when I was ill…

oh well, best hope is stay put on the scales.

Avila – fingers crossed that the scales stay put.

Hi Avila
hope your week starts getting better – give your dog a big hug, that will make you feel better

I met a lovely bulldog puppy this evening – stopped to talk to him (and his owner) and he was so excited and wriggly 🙂

Krysia – enjoy the yogurt
had never occurred to me, but I suppose the “Total” is more prominent than the fage – it is quite widely stocked

Lovely breakfast – Fage with some blueberries and walnuts. It is amazing yoghurt. I was getting fed up with eggs for breakfast so it made a lovely change.

We are thinking that when our daughters and families come up next weekend we will offer them the fage and a variety of berries plus perhaps whipped cream for desert. It tastes so wonderfully indulgent I don’t think they will miss the sugar filled deserts we usually buy.

It will be so easy to stick to BSD then as although we will cook potatoes for them the rest of the food will be BSD.

Hi Krysia
I did the opposite, I’d got out of the habit of egg for breakfast, but had one this morning with asparagus and smoked salmon. Delicious, and just as well because I didn’t get time for lunch.

Hi Jan
where have you gone!!? 🙂
hope that all is well

so on a mission to lose 3 stones by christmas, 4lbs off in the last fortnight only 4lbs to go, might go for 3 1/2 stone.

Frog – what a lovely breakfast yesterday – egg, asparagus and smoked salmon. It was a good job it was so filling as you didn’t have time for lunch.

Josie63 – well done on your weight loss. Only 4lbs to go to meet your 3 stone target is amazing.

Have finally made successful cauliflower mash – other than when I bought it in Waitrose, it’s always been too lumpy.
I seem to have solved it today -just as well, I’ve eaten cauliflower every day for at least a week to try and perfect it.
I haven’t tasted it yet, still in the oven (with baked cod and lentils), but I did achieve a mash texture.
I think the problem is that I have an inbuilt trigger against cooking vegetables until they are soft!

Hi Frog
How did you do it? Mine’s always hit an miss and am intrigued about putting it in the oven …. to keep warm or cook???