Hi V, what was the face product. I have just bought a set of vitamin C, an hylauronic acid and a retinol. I already use retinol most nights and I use sunscreen every day, even in winter. Hard to get in the shops right now as I want a special one for face. Great idea to treat yourself.

Positives@
Hanging our washing to dry noticed my tomatoes have had a last flourish – about 20 which needed picking. My basil has also come back along with the oregano. Is that one positive or 3 ????
Hubby had a problem with his laptop, took it in to the specialist nearby and they got it working – no charge.
Shopping today and managed to keep it under €100, especially with all the vouchers we had. Thats about £84. It had been creeping up and up.

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Hello Mixnmatch, I remember you 🙂
Sorry to hear that your husband’s cancer returned, but it’s good he was able to retire. It’s good that you have the next few months planned diet-wise.

Dawn – well done, it sounds like you are off to a great start!

Cathy – welcome back! So glad you got to enjoy your cruise 🙂

And a big warm, welcome to Heidi 🙂

I’ve had an up and down week, not sure what I’ve lost yet as I check my weight on Fridays. I’ve definitely been more active, my husband and I went for walk on 3 evenings and I’ve had a couple of daytime walks too, so averaging between 8-10,000 steps per day. Diet hasn’t been perfect but I have cut back on carbs and eating more protein, so that’s a start.

I’ve been getting heart palpitations and feeling very fatigued at times, also slightly short of breath so went to see the doctor today. He’s arranging blood tests to check iron, thyroid, blood sugar etc. I’m hoping it’s just that I’m run down. I miss how well I was feeling when I was following this WOE a few years ago – need to get my mojo back!

Hope everyone is having a good week!

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I’ll hop on board as well (if a bit late to make the Christmas Eve deadline). Things went totally crazy after I last posted here, OH cancer came back, he immediately decided to retire and we bought a house down in Cornwall in need of a lot of renovation and proceeded to downsize the contents of a 5 bed house into our new 3 bed cottage. I got a new job as well, although later gave that up to spend more time with him, but the weight gains that had already started before lockdown and ballooned then accelerated more with eating out/takeaways/comfort eating in the bad times and the carb monster got the upper hand again. I am currently in the process of putting it back in the box using all the old tools, Fast 800, Full fasts, and 5:2. (Or rather 2:5)

On a full fast (with elements of fast mimicking) for 5 days then starting 2:5, until the festivities start (and in between them) then after Christmas I intend to do a 7 day water only fast and then 8 weeks of Fast 800 keto.

At least this time round I know what works for me!

Hi.
Some positives here ….

😀👩🏻 yesterday I had a lovely compliment, I think, from someone I’d not seen for years … ‘you look well ….. for your age!!’. Not sure if that was actually a compliment!

🧴🧴 Can’t find emojis for what I want but today I received face products that I’ve denied myself for ages. I just though to heck with it, life is too short, just enjoy. And I have!!!

Hope everyone is well and staying positive.

Hi friends, positives for today

Booked to do the equivalent of an escape room but called escape route, based in Bergerac trying to find stolen jewels (I think) using phones and clues that are sent to us.
Sun is shining and will be for a few days – but not for our trip to Bergerac.
Picked up my repaired engagement ring. 2 cubic zirconium as we couldn’t warrant the cost of 2 diamonds even though they are still only classed as chippings – so small. It is 38 years old so nearly an antique 🙂

Hi everyone and welcome Heidi,
I meant to post yesterday but didn’t get round to it.My 1st week went quite well, I’m 4 and a half lbs down and have an inch less bloat.Going to try to be a little more organised this week and cut carbs further.Good luck to everyone for this week🤞
Dawn XX

No offence taken SG ! Please don’t worry ! Xx

Hi all, today is my weigh in and was a little disappointed as I have been super strict but I have lost 0.75 of a pound, so on track if I can do that every week for another 3 and half weeks. Must get more exercise factored in. I am doing some but a bit here and there so maybe 3 times a week.

StarGazer, sounds like you have a plan and doing what is working for you. Not sure about shakes with water, I prefer to use almond milk which is quite low in calories and fat but gives my smoothies a creamier texture.

Spend the night worrying that Wendy is going to take offence at what I said to her. I’m sure she will understand I was just flexing my newly found language skills. Big hugs Wendy.

This idea of mine of getting out and about more seems to have got out of hand. We have 2 more cinema nights next week and I have booked for us to do a city murder mystery tour on Saturday. It takes place in Bergerac and is all done on the phone. We have to decide whether we want to be Ersin Lupin (the famous French jewel robber) or Moriarty of Sherlock fame. The only difficulty we will have is that it will all be in French so 2 phones will be needed, one to translate in case we get stuck, but a great way to learn the language more.

Hope everyone else is keeping on.

Heidi welcome on board! I hope we can help you see some positive results and also support you as you navigate your way through the other challenges you are facing.

And Cathy welcome back! I’m glad you had such a fab time away and am sure you will soon start to reverse the weight gain. Its interesting what you say about body confidence. I think we can all learn from that : even though all of us on here want to lose weight and are mindful of what we eat, it’s easy to fall into the trap of not expecting to feel good about ourselves until we’ve achieved our goal. But life’s too short not to enjoy the journey too. So I hope we can all celebrate who we are, whatever stage we are at, and enjoy life one day at a time even if we’re not quite there yet in terms of weight and measurements.

Yowzer I am so impressed with your weight loss! Another 5lb in September is amazing! Ang I hope the various treatments continue to help your sciatica.

Have a good week everyone, and keep posting x

Hello all, just started having a shake at lunchtime. Bit of trial and error with the quantity of water and stirring it up properly, but super easy. Having a med style dinner, usually chicken and veg but also make my own burgers with just the meat and herbs and a bit of cheese and salad. After a week clothes feel looser (I don’t weigh myself), but definitely felt more tired than usual. Hoping this wears off as I adjust!

Hi all, no weigh in today. I am getting used to not weighing every day but tomorrow is my official day – hoping… fingers crossed. I have been super good and no afternoon snacks except one slice of ham today and yesterday I have 2 olives and a couple of chunks of pineapple.

Verano, I too know what carbs I can have and how often but they can still creep in. I allow myself the occasional Ryvita with butter with my boiled egg or with my homemade soup. But notice it is getting to be most days. Luckily I run out after my current packet and no more until we go back to the UK.

Wendy, sorry you are struggling. Think of it as your body ridding itself of the poison. I could say in French ‘bien fait’ but wouldn’t even suggest such a thing 🙂 Sorry, something I learnt today. These crazy little phrases that we think we know what they mean. Now I am worried you will think I am serious. No way. It is a phrase I had to learn so I never make the mistake of using it. :). Only you and maybe Californiagirl will understand – are you still on track with the French Californiagirl.

Lovely weather here again but no chance of the pool heating up so just have to get on with the aerobics.

Have a good week.

Wendy so sorry to hear that your carb withdrawal symptoms are so bad. Hopefully this week will be smoother. Keep on keeping on ……

Welcome to this lovely thread Heidi where you can receive advice, support, inspiration and absolutely no judgement. Dreamscometrue has kindly sent up another wonderful thread for us. Most of us have had our fair share of difficult times and with many challenging times along the way but we keep going and we keep supporting each other and trying our best. We have some good weeks and some not so good weeks. Yowser keeps us going with her wonderful inspiring quotes and entertained with her jokes and everyone here feels comfortable to share theirs ups and downs. I hope that like me you will be inspired to keep digging deep and doing your best. I am going to try and undo the extra weight I have gained whilst on holiday and the 100 day challenge gives us all plenty of time to achieve our realistic goals. One thing I have learnt is to be realistic. I can’t lose weight like I want to. It happens very very slowly but it does come off if I eat a healthy diet and slowly and steadily I am to going to make the next 100 days count.
Good luck everyone!

Welcome HEIDI and well done CATHY. Its nice to have you back and Im so glad your pf has gone.
HEIDi I love yr name. I worked in a hotel in Austria in my 20s and there was a lovely Austrian girl working there who I will always remember called Heidi.
Love to all and keep on keeping on xxx

Hi everyone
Well to be honest speaking French is a lot easier for me than struggling with a pretty rough week back ! I think I knew what to expect with carb withdrawal but I reckon it was a bit more than that .Headaches yes, but feeling weary and really out of sorts for well over a week … ? Ok I had a month of excesses when family were here but I didn’t expect to feel so yuk for so long after .Oh well …maybe something else was going on ??

So I am sticking with it , fasting where possible and eliminating any white carbs .I immediately get an attack of acid reflux if I eat bread so that is a good deterrent .
I have a week in the UK planned early October to catch up with hubby’s family so I will need to be extra vigilant there but apart from that , no other trips planned .

I start back to yoga this week and will resume pilates whne aquagym stops mid October .

Just keep going everyone and be gentle with yourselves .You can pick yourself up and crack on if there are any detours on the road !! Just find your way back 🙂

Wishing everyone a positive week
Wendy x

I like the words “thread of inspiration”. I have a lot of challenges on my plate at the moment, but this would be one that makes a positive difference. So I would like to join too. Thank you for starting the thread.

Well I braved the scales this morning and I have put on 6.6 lbs. Much less than I anticipated! You won’t believe this but my step count every day was high! The Sky Princess is a big boat and one day I clocked up 21,000 steps!!!! It was a shore day in Gibraltar. I think the steps I did daily may have offset what I ate. I am hoping to achieve a weight of 145 during this 100 day challenge. I know how difficult it is for me to lose weight so this is a realistic weight and my aim is to keep out of the pre diabetes range at all times. Today is a day of healthy eating and I will keep up the steps. My plantar fasciitis is definitely healing so can’t make any excuses not to keep the steps up. Off to fill the fridge and cupboards with healthy food this morning and then a huge pile of laundry to tackle! Have a good day everyone and thank you for this thread of inspiration.

Quick drop by to thank SG and Verano for posting here and keeping the thread active. Have a few positives so thought I’d post while I have a quiet moment.

🙂🙂 had a lovely few days with my folks, good to catch up in person and spend some real time with them.
🌸🌸 visited a garden centre and was seduced in to purchasing a few plants … they have to live with Mum for now, but they’ll eventually make good additions to my garden
✈✈ we fly out to Turkiye today, pleasant evening/night at on-airport Hotel yesterday, so nice relaxing morning before we go and check in

Will post again in a few days.

this is i think such a good things to see and i cant wait to try it now ekotogel

S-g yes I remember the days when I was ultra strict too throwing away the bread from sandwiches etc! Must admit I’m far more lax these days although I still don’t eat a sandwich unless it’s with my low carb bread, and then it’s always an open sandwich and I do have a burger, but without the bun!

The abiding thing I remember of my pre BSD days is that ‘afternoon fatigue’. I used to think it was the normal thing to need an afternoon nap after lunch. But then lunch was usually heavy carbs with a sandwich, crisps and maybe even a chocolate biscuit! Now, with a low carb diet, I never get that afternoon slump and in fact when I wake in the morning I feel much brighter and more alert and stay like that for most of the day.

So, I guess this Way of Life has many benefits apart from controlling blood sugar. Losing weight I guess is the primary benefit for many but there are others, well for me at least, include feeling much brighter and alert despite getting older, eating a far better diet with virtually no UPFs and being far more aware of how food can, and should be, our ‘friend’ not our ‘foe’. I’t comes back to the old saying we should ‘eat to live not live to eat’!

Thanks S-G yes time to stop fooling myself with guestimations about what amount I am eating & smaller big girls pants will also be welcome 😂
Margaret xx

SunshineOrange ….. great advice from sunshine-girl. Just stay with us and write down all your daily/weekly/monthly goals. Although at the moment ‘one day at a time’ might just be the way for you to go.

Hello Cathy
Glad you had a wonderful cruise and didn’t worry about the eating too much!!🤗
Happy anniversary next week end I am boarding bus tomorrow let’s hope it works by Christmas Day that will be a good present 🎁 to ourselves
Have a good week
Hope everyone has a had a nice weekend
Lv nokie x🤗

Just realised that if I start tomorrow then my 100 days will take me to 25th December. Perfect!

Hello
I am back from my wonderful Mediterranean cruise and will be boarding the bus tomorrow for the 100 day challenge. The holiday was amazing and I dread to think what I weigh! I didn’t hold back on anything! I didn’t over eat but I definitely didn’t stick to this WOE!! was never going to hence why I had my HbA1c checked before going and the nurse agreed! I saw some very large people whilst I was away and nobody seemed to be bothered about being overweight. They were wearing bikinis and had absolutely no body confidence issues whatsoever. it was quite liberating to see people embrace who they are. I don’t think size matters as much these days but of course health does and that is why I will be back to eating a healthy diet from tomorrow. Two weeks off is not a problem. I might get on the scales tomorrow to see the damage but part of me doesn’t really want to face it! Anyway, I’m back home today and looking forward to eating healthy food and joining you all on the challenge. I am away again at the weekend As it is our Ruby wedding anniversary so will do my best and then from next Monday I’m fully committed to doing my best. I’ll catch up on your posts in the next day or so. It’s good to be back. I’ll start my 100 days from tomorrow.

Hello.

S-g great positives.

Dark and dank here today but there are positives:

🥒🌶️🫒 Back on plan for 2 days and 2.2 of my 5.2lb holiday gain are gone so very positive.

🧺🧺🧺 Washing all done so just the ironing to do now!

🥦🌶️🥑 Finally, after all these years I’m working out just how to eat some carbs that don’t send my blood sugar soaring. I have a feeling that after 8 years of low carbing my body is reacting more normally to carbs.

Onwards and upwards making every ‘positive’ count.

Hi Verano, glad to have you by my side as you have been for many years now.

My positives are:0

1. Found a housesitter for our Christmas (been trying to avoid that word but….) trip. Coming from America to meet up with their daughter who is in London but fancies a holiday in France.
2. Just sold my heavy Dyson vac, no hassle, just put it on a site and it went the same day.
3. Hopefully picking up my engagement ring from the jewellers after having replacement stones. Couldn’t really afford diamonds but they have put in 2 cubic zirconia.

Will save any other positives so I have something to say next week.

Great plan Pootle. I had a doctors appt on Tuesday but had all my blood tests on Friday so was very tempted to have a treat over the weekend knowing it wouldn’t affect my BG or cholesterol but held back because I didn’t want to have gained a pound or so with a few glasses of wine. Also the more you delay the easier it gets. There is something to read about deferred gratification but I can’t remember where I saw it. Will google later.

Hi all, hope you are having a good weekend. I love it when things go right and that is what is happening for me right now. First we put out a call for a Christmas housesitter on the site we use and, after 2 false starts we have found someone who we hope is a perfect fit for us. Next we bought a new light-weight stick style vacuum and put our heavy Dyson on a selling site. Went the first day and they picked it up and paid today. That money will go towards me having my engagement ring repaired – needed 2 new diamonds (tiny ones at around €100 each) but couldn’t justify that so settled for 2 cubic zirconia at €100 for the 2.

Weight loss is going well so I resisted weighing today as we all go up and down on a daily basis. Going to try to wait until my weigh day on Tuesday. BG is going down every morning so I am still reducing the insulin dose. Down to 15 units. That also helps me lose weight as I am not pumping so much fat magnets into me.

SunshineOrange, you are in a safe space here. We never criticise or have a go at or insult anyone – we are here to look out for each other. We might sometimes give each other a little push or some advice people don’t want to take but it all comes from a good place. I am assuming you don’t have any health problems like diabetes where diet plays a big part but I am sorry to hear about your head injury. It must be difficult to cope with the combination of insomnia and memory loss – I find it very hard to sleep and often still awake at 5am but lucky enough to be able to stay in bed if I need to.

My suggestions for you are 1. Stay with us and shout out if you need any help or advice. We might have been asked a question a dozen times but we don’t mind and that even makes us quite an experienced resourse. We will never try to give you crazy ideas or sell you anything but we have all done lots of reading or watching videos we might recommend. 2. I think you said you have bought the book (can’t remember which one) and I am sure you will find a menu plan for a couple of weeks. Try to follow one or spend a couple of hours making up your own using them as inspiration. 3. Do a shop with your menu with you and don’t buy anything that will throw you off plan. 4. Write down all your goal, hopes and dreams. You can also write down how you are feeling, is the diet helping with sleep or are clothes fitting better etc. 5. Write down what you eat and drink or put in an online application like MyFitnessPal which will calculate your calories, carbs, fats etc. Also write down any exercise you do and try to get into a routine, be it a walk once a week, aerobics in front of YouTube 2 days a week. Whatever. It is all up to you and baby steps are fine. I think the lists and recording will help you remember where you are and what you are doing. So many things. Hope I haven’t overwhelmed you.

Margaret, at least you have admitted you have strayed from the plan and maybe you already know where you have been going wrong. I think you can still go out to bowls dinners or spend time with your son but plan it into your diet. When he has a bowl of potato chips you can have a bowl of carrot sticks with a hummous dip or something similar. Have a meal out but leave the bread and miss out the dessert or have some fruit or even ice cream or a sorbet. There are lots of little tricks that can build up to good habits. Don’t think any of us find this easy. I sometimes want to scream – I hate being diabetic and I cannot be on and off my plan as my diabetes is always there at one level or another. Much as it is my dream it is not going away. Pull on your big girl pants (not a comment on size 🙂 ) and crack on with a plan to get you where you want to be.

Well I think I have had enough to say for today, see you all next week.

Thank you SG, DCT and Yowser. I guess we are all inclined to blame ourselves when we don’t lose and not necessarily take the credit when we do.
Yowser, what fantastic results you have had! That is amazing and in such a short period. Kudos to you!

Thanks for the warm welcome, everyone.

S-G, you’re right; I’m quite the lurker. I am rather shy and easily discouraged so I tend to stand in place rather than take action… but I would like to change that. My two biggest challenges right now are my severe insomnia, which leaves me so exhausted that I struggle to even think clearly, and my traumatic brain injury that prevents me from taking short turn memory to long term storage, which means I forget most everything including my goals and determination.

My introduction- I am an almost 40 year old widow with a teenage daughter. I currently weight almost 270 lbs.
My reasons for joining everyone is to decrease my weight, improve my health, and positively influence my daughter while giving my self-esteem a facelift.
My marriage was a rocky one to say the least and left me with quite a shattered view of myself, not really knowing who I am, what I want, or where I belong. My daughter is likewise lost and wandering so I hope leading the way to a better path will help her in her journey of healing.
I really love the atmosphere of this forum so I’ll try to contribute more in the future.

Just a quick drop-in for Margaret. Can I suggest a complete “back to basics” approach?

No more guessing portion sizes even for good stuff … weigh and measure everything going on your plate, stick to as near 800 cals as you can each day and similarly, decided your acceptable level of carbs a day and try not to exceed it. And no “just one/just a little won’t do any harm” excuses.

We can all get complacent about the size of portions and little “off-piste” treats/exceptions, but by going back to basics and reminding ourselves what “normal” portions/eating on the BSD looks like, we can reset. The exercise might only be necessary for a couple of weeks, to get you solidly back on track.

By the way SunnyB thanks for your suggestion that I might be under eating good fats & protein & I have been increasing my protein intake & having more kefir!. However as I had feared I gained another 0.75lbs when I weighed today & seem to be going backwards this month & in fact since last January have gained 8lbs rather than at least losing that much🙁
I’m not happy about this but still want to keep trying to lose as much weight as I can before Christmas. I hava a bowls final celebration lunch tomorrow & must do better next week.🤞
Margaret xx

Hello all, lovely to read all your posts 🙂
I’ve had a good week- 1kg down from a week ago, most likely water weight in part as I’ve just restarted, but hey, a loss is a loss!
All this talk of weather made me look it up and interestingly your temps in the UK right now are very similar to here (Sydney, Australia) except of course we are in spring and you are at the tail end of summer/early autumn.
I’ve been walking more this week and also had my last physio appt (for ankle) and he said it’s about 85% of normal capacity so getting there 🙂
Keep on keeping on everyone!

Hi NOKIE, i think working out a food list is a great idea. Im going to do that right now. I normally just choose food in a rather haphazard way,but planning instead must be a better way surely. Enjoy your familytime and yes isnt it nice to see some Saturday sunshine!X

Hello all 🤗
Lovely to hear from you gorgeous day today some nice sunshine 🌞 after few cold days
Glad we all back on the 100 day journey I am starting properly on Monday as we were away this week at family (bad excuse i know!!) but I will work my food list out tomorrow and hopefully stick to it all week
Good luck to you all have a nice weekend
Lv nokie xx💞👍

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Well done MARIET! I too agree with SG…give yourself a pat on the back for your hard work!X
ARCTIC,how is your fruit,veg and seeds programme going? And SUEBLUE,good to hear your ankle is improving,hope youre enjoying your evening walks with hubby X
DCT!DAWN!NOKIE!CCATHY! and everyone else aboard the magic bus..Sending you all love and positive vibes.
Onwards and Downwards! X 💜💕🩷X
As for me, Acupuncture is definitely helping the sciatica,and Ive lost 5 lbs since the start of Sept,33 lbs since 6 th of June.
Just want to conquer the sciatica completely now,and keep losing weight! 👍

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Hi, I am sooo delighted with my test results but I am going to delay my treat for a while, so I can be nearer my weight goal! (And until after I have seen the GP on the 25th) Weighing in today I am still in the 2lb club, but a loss is a loss!

S-G I also understand where you are coming from. To hear people at the start of a journey questioning the route, when you KNOW that the way is clear, must be extremely frustrating.

Lucy, I started the BSD on the 18th June (15st 4lb)…I had already started dieting (with carbs) on the 11th June, when I weighed in at my heaviest ever – 15st 7lb. I had been diagnosed as Diabetic on the 11th! I only heard about the BSD on 15th June when I bought the book and recipe book.

I had previously dieted from 2016 (start weight 14st 8lb ) when I was told I was pre diabetic (HbA1c 43), through to 2018 (end weight 10st 2lb, HbA1c 45) and kept the weight at about that level until mid 2020. I used the ‘traditional approach’ of eating ‘healthier’ carbs, whole grain rice and pasta, granary/seeded bread, and skin on potatoes, plus low fat everything I could find! Despite the weight loss I went further into the pre diabetic range. So when I was told I am now diabetic, I knew already that the conventional diet was not going to work!
During lockdown I gradually regained the weight until I was about 14st after Christmas 2023. This year I became more and more inactive and depressed, comfort eating (a whole box of Thorntons chocolates at one sitting a couple of times a week…bags of doughnuts etc etc…you get the picture!) and my weight ballooned to 15st 7lb by early June. I am so determined to get back to a manageable weight, and control my diabetes that I have been extremely strict with myself. But I am human and have slipped a few times.
I am really working on getting to my goals…one at a time (first was to get back down to pre-diabetic range ✅, next is to get back into the winter coat I bought in 2019! I love that coat!!)…then keep my BS steady, so I am considered a diabetic whose diabetes is controlled by diet!
I know I could not have been so motivated without these forums and people like S-G and Verano who have kept me going!
Thank you all!
Kath.x

Hi everyone, how are you all doing?

Arcticfox I hope your elimination diet has got off to a good start? Stay strong!

Dawn welcome aboard! Keep us posted as to how you are getting on, and how we can help?

Mariet I agree with sunshine-girl you have worked so hard and deserve the results you are now seeing. I’m really pleased for you 👏

Hello to Yowzer, Nokie, Sue, Cathy (once you’re back from your cruise!) and anyone else reading this. Hope that you are all is doing ok too?

I’ve lost 1lb so far but need to up my game as I’m still allowing too many wrong food choices to creep in. But the exercise is going well so I’m happy overall. I know I need to stay focused on the WoE and I will see the results I want to. And I know I do best when following recipes from one of the books, I just need to get better organised with advance meal planning and shopping.

Have a wonderful weekend xx

Thank you Verano regarding your surgery reassurance to me. S-G you are doing so well with your weight loss now. I need some of your determination to rub off on me🤔 My husband & I went up to London yesterday for lunch with friends & I have been trying to eat much fewer lower carb calories today but will find out when I weigh tomorrow 🤔
Keep on going everyone 👍
Margaret xx

Hi everyone, I didn’t get weighed today because I lost a fair chunk yesterday and didn’t want to be disappointed if it had blipped up as it can day by day. So will leave it for a couple of days.

Verano, was that about me getting a sandwich and throwing the bread away 🙂 Still do that, or eat the meat out of a sausage roll. I expect a buffet to be full of fresh cheeses, meats, salads and maybe some fruit, not stodge, stodge and more stodge. Went to an event recently at a chateau and it was a buffet so I thought great – posh nosh on a buffet (as above). When it arrived it was either in bread buns (burgers) or deep fried with batter or breadcrumbs. When I told them I couldn’t eat it they said I should have told them beforehand. So lesson learnt. They did do me some chicken bits without the batter and then ask if I would like some chips to go with it 🙂 People, really.

I envy you and your trips and I was saying to hubby I would like to just pack a case and go off somewhere whenever we felt like it. But we have 3 cats and it is a military operation getting everything sorted. However, that is working in my favour as we have had nothing in our diaries except for a few quiz nights from beginning of September to end of December when we visit family again. Great for my long term plan. I took my inspiration from Mel Robbins in a podcast about if you really want something, make it into a project with a start and end date and work towards that goal. She say 6 months is good so that is what I am doing. 3.33lbs per month adds up to 20lbs. No more messing with 2lbs on and 2lbs off and so on. So I am also being grateful to be able to concentrate on me and my needs and goals.

Have a great weekend and keep on keeping on…

Just made me smile. I can imagine you telling your friend how great this plan is and she is not listening. Know that feeling very well. Good for you for eventually getting it. That bit about having to help yourself, that is what we all experienced and that is why we are here for each other. Keep going.

Absolutely I understand why you drum it into people. I think though if they are like me uts a panic stage…newly diagnosed, a ton of weight to lose that I’ve been trying to do for years without success which gave me no will.power either as there were no results to incentavise me. Suddenly you’re faced with having to give up all the normal sweet stuff involved in dieting and on top of that carbs. Suddenly I found myself asking can I never have this or that or can I have it as a one off etc….its fear of the unknown. Where as you know how successful this can be and it’s hard to get that across. After my panic week or so I’ve settled into it and am surprised how I have stuck to it . My friend does slimming world and they love carbs on that diet, ridiculous she puts on a few pounds, loses a few pounds but still keeps on it. She won’t switch to what I’m doing and I find that frustrating too. I weighed in at the heaviest I have ever been so had to do something.
You have done so very well to adopt it as a lifestyle. Amazing. I had to help myself. 7 blood pressure meds I tried and they all made me ill. Now I don’t need them. Just got to get out of the pre range.
Only lost 1lb this week which I feel gutted about. But that’s one stone 10lbs now.
X

Good morning!

So great to read all your positive posts it’s put me on the right track for getting back into the swing of things.

Well done S-g and Pootle , great results. Love your long term goal setting idea s-g.

Sunny hope you’re having a good trip. We came back yesterday as you were leaving!

Wendy sounds like a great summer with wonderful family time. Sometimes we have to just go with the flow to enjoy those occasions to the fullest extent.

Welcome to the newcomers and returners. This is definitely the right place!

Julia …. buffets! I’m with s-g here. I avoid buffets whenever possible and eat from a menu. Sometimes it’s not the ‘hunger’ monster but the ‘just fancy a little bit’ monster that wins at a buffet for me! Afternoon tea is simply, we just avoid them!

Margaret don’t worry too much about general anaesthetics and age/fitness. They tend to use sedation and spinal anaesthesia now for lower body surgery. I’ve had two extensive hip surgeries with that method and couldn’t tell any difference!

So to me. Home from lovely family time in Portugal. Naturally after 15 days AWOL I have a little extra baggage, 5.2lbs, to be exact but that will be soon be gone. I’m going to set out some short and long term goals following s-g’s lead. I have to be realistic as we have another trip planned at the start of October. No point in setting myself up to fail so my first short term goal will be to lose this holiday gain before our next trip. I will work out my longer term goals later today.

Hope everyone is continuing to do well.

Pootle, I hope you do see that nurse and can say ‘told you so’, but I’m sure you wont and the doctor is on your side. Your results say everything about this diet that any medical person needs to know – it works. Good for you.

Wow Pootle what an amazing weight loss in three months ⭐️⭐️👏👏👏 I bet your Doctor will be astonished & very impressed with your achievement!
Margaret xx

Lucy, I found this diet when I was 11 years diagnosed and already on insulin. I started on 24 units and by this time was on 44 units and still had BG of over 200 (about 11.0 on the other scale) and I used to cry every night because I didn’t know what I was doing wrong. I saw a nutritionist and she put me on over 300g of carbs per day to keep my numbers steady and keep me safe. Yeah, like hell. My numbers stayed the same and I gained 5kgs in the 3 months I stuck with her plan. Then I found Michael Mosley and prayed it wasn’t just another trick or crazy pill or something like that. I guess you could say the rest is history. I now run at HbA1c of around 6.0 but I still use 16 units of insulin which I am currently having to lower as my BG morning tests are around 4.0.

As for my weight. I weighed in a exactly 9 stone when I was diagnosed. I tried meds but they made me ill so doctor put me on insulin. In 6 months I had gone up to 11 stones 9lbs. Fortunately, it didn’t really go up more but try as I might I couldn’t lose anything – insulin causes your body to store glucose in the fat cells and it can’t get rid of it. My first 12 week stint on BSD I lost 13lbs. My total loss was 2 stone. However, besides putting on a few pounds here and there on holidays and treats etc, my BG stayed steady but I just sat at the same weight. I need to lose another 2 stone and I have set myself a goal of 3.3lbs per month for 6 months – up to my birthday in February. If I can do it I will have lost another 20lbs. I am sure I can do this as I am fed up of messing about with my weight now that my BG is looking good most of the time. My diet is obviously good by my results, just need to combat the insulin and make a real effort to lose more weight.

It is a total lifestyle for me. I am a diabetic every day, not just when I feel like it or feel like having cake. I find it easy to say no but I do like my wine and an occasional vodka and they would be my version of your Mars Bar.

Hope you can understand where I am coming from when I get strict with newly diagnosed diabetics or pre-. I want to save you from the heartache I have had to go through. All my thanks go out to Dr Mosley and Prof. Roy Taylor because they have saved my life.