HEIDI I’m so pleased you had a better week last week. Lots of NSVs there as well as the continuing loss. Well done! And, talking of NSVs, thanks ARCTICFOX for bumping that thread. It can be far too easy to focus on the scales and not notice all the other positive things that are happening when we eat well.

ARCTICFOX how did your fast go? You are working really hard to get your glucose levels under control and I really admire you for that. How fascinating about your cat too! I do think animals are very intuitive and usually know when something is not right.

DAWN how are you doing? Not long to go now until September and I hope you are feeling ok.

I’m doing ok – not much to report. Still need to be more consistent food wise, but I’m gradually getting back into the habit of exercising more regularly so it’s baby steps. My weight has settled, but I’m currently around 15lb more than I want to be so I need to tackle that. but – coming back to the topic of NSVs – I’m more concerned with getting rid of belly fat than numbers on scales. Obviously the two are related, but if I get to where I want to be in terms of body fat but my scale numbers are still higher than I’d hoped for, I’d be happy to stick with that.

On a funny note, I went swimming yesterday afternoon and it was the first time I’d actually swum in the new costume I’d bought for holiday. The costume has a blouson top which is flattering to wear and hides a multitude of sins! But I found yesterday that when I swim – particularly on my back – the blouson top part blows out like a big balloon. Probably giving the effect of a whale ploughing through the water 🐳. It made me chuckle – though I won’t wear it for pool swimming again!

Hope everyone is ok out there? YOWZER are you feeling any better now? CATHY I’ve lost track of when your holiday is, so hope that you are/will be having a good time. MARIET and POOTLE I hope your maintenance is going well. SUE, NOKIE, MIXnMATCH not heard from you for a while and hope all is well. Though I do appreciate that time flies so quickly!

Hope the rest of the week goes well for you all X

Sunny you sound like you’re coping really well. Thinking of you and great to see that you are still finding positives. It’s so easy to become ‘bogged down’. As s-g would say, just keep on keeping on……

Ahh Pootle this is where I read about your bountiful harvest. Our niece grows courgettes and a few years ago she gave us some ‘giants’. I made enough soup to last through a whole winter! Needless to say courgette soup is no longer on my ‘favourite’ list although I do love roasted courgettes. I often roast courgettes, onions, tomatoes, aubergine and peppers with olive oil and garlic and freeze in portions.

So yes I do have positives and I’m going to do my best to find some most, if not all, days ..

🛫🛬🛫 Experimented yesterday with a flight from Rome to Manchester via Barcelona. (We have assistance in airports).The reason was that this flight left at 2.30pm and arrived in the 7.30pm. All the direct flights didn’t leave until the evening, arriving late and then a drive home in the dark in the early hours. It worked! Two hour stopover which we needed to change gates, and the luggage actually turned up in Manchester! So very much a positive! Especially as we have a flight to Athens via Copenhagen in October …. feeling much happier about that now.!

🧺🧺🧺 Half of the washing done so just the ironing now!

🍅🥑🌶️ Ate a lot of lovely food while away with plenty fish and fillet steak with salads and vegetables etc. No interest in potatoes or rice but my daily treat was two inches of baguette with blue cheese. I also had an odd 1/4 portion of pasta and even shared a pizza with my OH. Italian pizzas are pretty basic without tons of toppings, thick crusts or ‘dough balls’. Actually quite healthy with rocket, my new favourite, and tomato salad. Now I just have to find ways to incorporate Italian pasta flavours into a lowish carb diet!

Hope everyone can find a positive or two today.

Hello.
Welcome (back) Antigone, Shetland Lace, Tulip and Mokovex. It’s good to see some new ‘blood’.

S-g I sympathise with you. We had 38 on the outskirts of Rome yesterday and that was a no-no for me. Just 28 here today and even that’s too warm!

Margaret belated Happy Anniversary! Glad to hear you’re improving bit by bit. It is a slow job but well worthwhile at the end of the day. The ‘new’ you is just around the corner!

Pootle sorry to hear about your hotel disappointment. Best laid plans! Did I read that you have a lot of squash and courgettes? Pull up the ‘Soups’ thread there are so many good recipes there. Also I have a lovely butternut squash and chickpea curry if you’d like it. Not sure if I’ve ever posted it here. It’s a bit carby but makes a nice change and if you’re not into curry spices you could always leave them out and add herbs of your choice and make it into a ‘stew’.

So to me. Arrived home last night really looking forward to ‘my own bed’ but for the life of me I just couldn’t drop off. I think it was after 2 when I finally fell asleep so a bit tired and crotchety today! Weight wise I was delighted to have just gained 2.6lbs so hopefully I can set too and get rid of that now. In fact I think it really does do your body good to have a total change of plan now and again. In saying that my tastes have changed so much over the years and now, on the odd occasion, two spoons of dessert are enough …. couldn’t eat a whole one anymore! Looking forward to getting back into ‘healthy’ eating again.

Hope everyone is having a good August.

Thank you Antigone & brilliant weight loss 👏👏 gosh Mokovex you are having to deal with a lot & I hope your treatment goes well. I know how difficult it is to lose weight when there is so much else going on & all you can do is take one day at a time & be kind to yourself!
Well my update is that my wound breakdown is probably caused by dissolving sutures wanting to escape rather than dissolve!! I’m so pleased to have a reason because I was wondering if I had done something wrong. I’m returning on Friday to have a check & a fresh dressing applied with a photo being sent to my consultant to check the healing & if I need an extended course of antibiotics.
It was amusing because a physio came down to see me so we didn’t have to drive back there again within a couple of hours & he put me through my paces. He challenged me to walk without crutches up the corridor past patients waiting to be seen then gave me one crutch to walk back with & I got a round of applause from them which was encouraging & lovely😀. I must now only use one crutch & make sure I am rolling my foot from heel to toes as I am trying to walk. It’s weird having to think about how to walk because it’s usually so automatic but I have been limping for two to three years with my stick before my op so my muscles have to be retrained. 🤞🤞
Keep on going everyone it’s worth it taking as much control as we can to help our own health & I will soon be rejoining you on the BSD once I’m back in the kitchen cooking from scratch again 😀
Margaret xx

Hope you are feeling better Wendy – sounds very unsettling for you. SG..maybe you’re building muscle in the pool? Everyone ok with the heat?

just to say I survived the heat from yesterday – 43 – today we are cooler at 41 🙂

Weight loss is a disappointment at only quarter of a pound. Still, better down than up. Had a swim most days but it never seems to impact on my weight. I did have a one slice of bread chicken sandwich just before bed last night as I was getting the shakes. Should really have done a blood test to see if I really needed it.

Big job today. Just taken deliver of £90 of Irish sausage and bacon. All has to be bagged up and put in the freezer to last a few months.

Stay safe everyone.

Oh, and Heidi, interesting what you say about less problems with reflux. That is happening for me too, although I didn’t even realize it until you said it. I’m also able to fast now without my gastritis flaring up, which I couldn’t do at this time last year. So that’s a win too!

Hi everyone,
Yesterday turned out to be a bit rough. I was struggling to get my glucose stabilized all day without overshooting, but just ended up on an all day rollercoaster. Then I messed up with my evening meal as I had imitation crab in nori wraps, thinking it was low carb, but my glucose shot up and down again, so I had to eat some greek yogurt to help stabilize things before bed. Also, I may have damaged my cgm by going swimming. It is supposed to be water resistant for 30 min and I was only in the pool for 20-25, so it should have been okay, but it was giving me some erratic numbers last night. It may have dried out as it seems to be doing better today while my glucose levels are more stable, as I am fasting, and the numbers are matching pretty well with my regular monitor. We’ll see how it does when I start eating again.
I’ve been feeling better today and my blood glucose has been pretty steady between 4.3 and 4.8 while I’ve been fasting. I did have some nori snacks for some salt and because I got quite hungry this afternoon. Only 15 calories though, so it shouldn’t impact the fast much. I’m hoping to keep going until tomorrow morning for a 36 hour fast. Might have a bit of bouillon though to get me through this evening.

Pootle, all those veggies sound wonderful. An embarrassment of beans …. is that like a murder of crow or a clouder of cats I wonder? Either way, I’m sure you’ll enjoy them.

My positives right now are ….
🌻🌻 stairlift successfully installed in my parents’ house … one big tick in the peace of mind box!
🌻🌻 a lovely chat with eldest DD today, she and her man are looking to move closer to us and they think they may have found ‘the’ house.

Those will do for me today …. hope your day brought some positives too.

Just want to say thank you to ADMIN, the rubbish clogging our site has now disappeared. Many thanks for looking out for us.

Hi everyone, nice to see so many returners.

Antigone, well done on 2 kgs. That is a great result. Mokovex, you have been through quite a time of it. I hope this site can become your safe place just for you. Hope you can feel open and share any worries, it is a great loss over the last 2 weeks and it is great your hubby is doing this with you. Mine didn’t and does’nt need to (tall and slim) but a BP and cholesterol scare made him look again at his daily sandwich and when I ask if he want rice with his bolognaise he now says no, and no to rice and potatoes. His treat is a couple of small cakes when we do the shopping and 2 croissants for breakfast – but that used to be 4 croissants.

Pootle, looking forward to your results. I think nurse know it all will be avoiding you from now on. Keep up the good work Shetland Lace, we all get to know our own bodies after a while and can trust our own instincts.

As for me, no weigh in today as Tuesday has always been my day but I do know there is some loss. I had a swim this morning as it is going to hit 43 degrees later and even at 11am it was 33. Don’t envy us – I think people in the UK have realised the heat is not all it is cracked up to be – sometimes it can be unbearable. We will batten down the shutters and try to stay cool. We do have aircon in the lounge but it costs a fortune to run and after a while running the atmosphere becomes damp and clammy so we prefer dry fans.

See you all tomorrow if I survive.

Hello Mokovex
sorry to see all the horrible things you’ve had to deal with but glad you are feeling positive again and in control. Pootle we’re all keen to hear how you get on with nurse and doc!

Hello everyone & sorry for my absence but I had a bit of a set back on Saturday with my stitch wound breaking down & looking as though it was leaking pus. I was quite panicky & got in touch with the hospital which is nearly an hours drive away. My husband drove me down & I saw the ward resident doctor who then phoned my consultant & thank goodness I have been given a course of antibiotics & will be seeing my Consultant tomorrow! My knee is red & sore but the doctor said it’s just a surface breakdown not deeper & didn’t even need a dressing to cover it 🤔
I’m just eating what my husband is giving me including breakfast that I don’t usually have so I know my weight has increased so at the moment I’m a poor example on here but I will get back on track when I’m fitter & more mobile again.
You are all doing so well keep on going 👏👏
Margaret xx

Sunny, You are an inspiration, finding positives in all situations!
I have a couple of veg garden positives:

🫛🫛 I have an embarrassment of beans. Trying to find time to make bean chutney… which I will give away because of the sugar content!

🍆🍆 (no emoji for butternut squash!) the squash have produced about 15 good sized ‘fruits’. Hope they ripen OK.

🥒🥒 (no emoji for courgette either) Courgette’s are really doing their thing… soup made and eating at every meal!!! 😄

Hope you are all doing okay.

Hi Mokovex,
I am a relative newbie, but achieved my weight goal and put diabetes into remission at the end of last year! Now working on maintaining a healthy balance.

Great that your hubby is doing it with you, mine did last year and still eats the low carb meals with me, but he now has a selection of “no-nos” in a kitchen cupboard. At first I found that a huge temptation, but it doesn’t seem too bad now.

Heidi, I think the diabetes clinic nurse is a law unto herself. We are not permitted to make an appointment with her, she decides when she needs to see you and makes an appointment!!! 🙄
After our first encounter, I don’t think she will be keen to see me again! 🫣 😅
I hope to see the GP when the results are in.

Hope everyone is doing ok,
Keeping on keeping on!
K xx

Hello,
I’m back after a very long absence absence. I lost three stone back in 2017 and successfully maintained until towards the end of lockdown. Well, long story but a stressful family event and a house move saw me put on a stone and a half. I was then successfully tackling that towards the end of last year when I had a breast cancer diagnosis, surgery and my father died.

This year has been one of survival as I’ve had chemotherapy and so now I find myself three stone heavier than my ideal and pretty weak. I have radiotherapy daily until the 20th but I’m now back on the horse and trying to get it sorted.

Began BSD two weeks ago and have lost about 7lb. I have gone back to Pilates after many years away from it and trying to do a daily walk at least five times a week.

Hubby is doing this with me, which is great. So I’m feeling positive that I will get back to health. I have a work Christmas party right at the end of November so a good date to aim for.

Hi Pootle. Will the BS test mean that you see the nurse again? I loved your description of the pleased surprise your GP showed with your great results. The nurse’s reaction should be a picture!

Good luck SG with the temperatures this week. X

Thanks DCT and AF for the kind thoughts. This week has been much better – we managed a few days away at a lovely quiet country cottage. A great way to just breathe and recharge. I mainly stuck with the healthy eating, but there were a few restaurant meals in there. Still I lost a bit more, so am now down 10.6 kilos after 11 weeks on this reset. You are right AF that the non-scale victories are just as good. My trousers are fitting better, my watch strap is one hole further. And I am really hoping that a ring I bought last year will soon go on safely (ie come off again easily!). Healthwise I am sleeping much better, my knee has stopped hurting, and I have much less of a problem with reflux. What’s not to like!

Dawn, so pleased to hear that you have a date for the op, and good luck with all the preparation.
AF how interesting to hear that your cat may be alerting you to glucose lows. Animals are so clever!
DCT many congratulations on the new gym habit. It sounds like a really good base for your next steps.

Where are Yowzer and Clarinet? Hope all is well/improving?

Have a lovely week everyone.

Evening all,
I just wrote a really long post… and promptly lost it, as I wasn’t logged in! (I thought I was, but it did take me a long time to type it all out) Not going to repeat it all.. sorry!
Booking an appointment tomorrow to get BS tested… 🤞🤞🤞! Have kept weight steady… and been pretty careful on the diet!
Have a good week.
K xx

So it turns out that I may have a service cat. She sometimes jumps on me in the early morning hours but there didn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason as to why. But 2 days in a row she’s done it when my blood glucose has gone below 3 mmol/L. So it seems she is waking me up out of hypos. Very interesting.

Hello Tulip et al. Despite a shaky start I have lost just over 2 kilos since Monday morning 🙂 Very pleased with that and my BP has dropped as well. Working indoors to avoid the heat today but out this evening for a bbq….should be able to avoid bread hopefully. Everyone seems to be doing well and Tulip has sworn in! Well done folks

Hi All, Verano I know the admin team are usually on it so this spate of scammers is not normal. However, it is August and if it is a team of one he/she might be on holiday. Lets hope it gets tidied up or we will just have to posts lots to push them away. Another idea is not to comment ‘reported’ as it pushes them to the top of the threads, I do it so others don’t have to worry but maybe no more.

My weight is still okay. Sat out having brunch this morning and had to come in as it is so hot, and we are under a shaded gazebo. Right now it is 32 and due to get hotter later in the day. I am staying indoors.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

This is a good thread to have at the top of the list. We need reminding the late results aren’t all-out numbers. We all seem to forget about the non-scales victories, sometimes not even realising they’ve happened ….. I’m certainly guilty of that.

I too have allowed the pounds to creap back up and currently have about a stone to ditch. However, I’m already starting to eat more on plan (difficult to go fully on plan, as not currently living at home), but I’m starting to feel the benefit even now … more energy and sleeping better.

Like others posting, I too am hoping to get into my smaller clothes comfortably again …. fingers crossed 🤞🏻.

Hi- thanks for posting Arcticfox and Dawn- that’s the boost I needed to get back on the site and hopefully back on the diet too….my NSVs are longer term- when I hit my weight loss goal likely to tally with- to get back into my smaller clothes I was in when I reached my goal! I think I’m quite a long way off that- so- mmm- get back into my ‘medium’ work top without looking like an overstuffed sausage would be fab. I’ve borrowed my (slim) boss’s bottom drawer emergency top that was already 2nd hand when she had it 😅……lol….so- and I guess get back into the ‘medium’ clothes that fit me last summer generally…..that will probably tally with around a stone/ stone and a half weight loss.
Another NSV would be to get back on to the healthy eating long enough to start feeling better….I feel bleurgh and sluggish at the moment and I know that the med diet usually perks me up quite a lot…..
Clare 🙂 🙂

Hi All- I’ve been absent for a while with just managing daily life really and also been quite lax with the diet also (have gained some weight)….I think I’m going to weigh tomorrow to see exactly where I am at and hopefully get my act together a bit. I was reminded to come on as a couple of peeps posted on the NSV thread so I had an email and thought- ooh- time to get back on it! Although I’m feeling somewhat wiped out at the moment, eating well is likely to help!
Hope everyone is doing ok….any major news I should know? xxx

Thanks for bumping this old thread Articfox, I haven’t posted on it for years and can’t remember if I ever reached any of my NSV goals but would love to reach some new ones! My first goal is to get my waist down into the 30s(inches) again as it’s been in the low 40s for a long time. I’m sure your puffer jacket will be doing up nicely before the cold weather hits. Dawn X

Hi everyone and well done Articfox for finding the NSV thread, will head over there now.Dawn XX

Bumping this thread to the top in order to help drown out some of the advertisements.
Reading back about zippers closing reminds me that I have a very nice down puffer jacket that I haven’t been able to wear for 6 years. It would be really nice to get it done up before the really cold weather hits in December and January. With my swim suit being almost too loose on me now, I am hopeful that I can do this!

Hi everyone,
DCT – yes the car situation is sorted now and I am back on the road with my parents’ old car and they have the newer one and seem very happy with it. So a big relief.
Dawn – we’ll have to find that NSV thread and bring it to the top again even if just to drown out all the advertisements!
It does seem like my NSV is real. I went for a swim today and my suit was looser again. So headed in the right direction. I was super busy yesterday as my hay was cut in the late afternoon, so I spent all morning and part of the afternoon taking down my t-post and electric tape fences so they could get into all the nooks and crannies without any difficulty. I was really really hungry by dinner and didn’t want to take the time to make what I had planned (salmon patties with kale chips), so I ended up doing something not great and had gluten-free potato gnocchi that was at the back of the store cupboard. I am wearing my replacement CGM and I did try to blunt the glycemic effect with lots of veggies, olive oil, pesto and mozzarella cheese. I also had diluted apple cider vinegar before and went for a walk up the hill after. It stopped me from spiking up quickly, but actually resulted in a similar pattern that I used to see with frozen pizza which is a double peak followed by an overnight rollercoaster with 2 serious hypos. My system does rebound on it’s own, but all that cortisol and noradrenaline caused a big spike, followed by another crash a couple hours later, so even though I didn’t wake up fully from it, I am sure it is interrupting my deep sleep. Very eye opening. So probably not having gnocchi anymore as a regular meal. Only as a once in a while treat maybe, and probably only for lunch so it doesn’t affect my sleep. Looks like I’ll have to treat carbs like caffeine and only have them early in the day.
Anyway, I suppose the other NSV is just how well I’m feeling overall. I have a bit more energy and spring to my step on walks, my joints hurt less, and I am enjoying most of my meals (exception was a tofu tikka masala that did not work out – need to try a bit of a different spice blend, I think!). I will spend some time planning meals tomorrow for the week ahead and see what other fun things I can come up with.
Keep on keeping on everyone!

S-g great weight loss!
I think that this site is only kept going by admin because ‘we’ original posters still post. Since the new ‘paid for’ 800 website was started a few years ago I think that we’ve been ‘looked after’ by admin and I’m really pleased about that. When you think about it there really isn’t a ‘good’ reason, financially, to keep this site up and running and I’m really thankful for it.
Thank you ‘admin’ for keeping Michael’s original site going.

Re-count – 16 suspect posts in the last couple of days. We should just keep reporting them as they spoil our enjoyment of the site.

Sorry to have hijacked this post. Keep on keeping on…

Can I just say on behalf of the genuine posters that this site has become an absolute mess with scammers, people selling stull and people not on subject. If you look at the last dozen posts at least 8 of them are scams. If admin can block genuine posters because they don’t like what they are saying or think they are a bit suspect why cant they keep these people off the site. I know when I report something they usually come back saying thanks for the report but right now they don’t seem to be doing anything to clear them off.

Admin, can you please do your job and make this site a safe a decent place for people who are following a diet plan. Maybe if I report this post you will take some notice but you seem to be falling down on your duties right now.

Hi everyone, had a lovely haircut yesterday. What is now called a Pamela Anderson, soft shaggy bob which I can add some curls and put behind my ears for nights out.

Weight remains the same but that is how it goes after a decent loss. Still sticking to it and had half an hour in the pool this morning before it got too hot. 36 degrees yesterday and heading for 39 today. Monday it will be 42. We just shut the house up and stay indoors. Don’t let the heat in or you will struggle to get it out again.

Hope you all have a great weekend.

Hi everyone and thanks DCT and Articfox , well done on getting into the groove of going to the gym DCT and congratulations on the NSV Articfox. There used to be a NSV thread which I posted a couple of goals on years ago but can’t remember if I ever achieved them! I enjoyed writing a food plan the other day, it took a bit longer than it used to as I’m trying to keep my fat lower but it’s lovely knowing what I’m having each day and not having to think about it. I hope everyone else is ok and manages to have a nice weekend. Dawn XX

Hope the car situation has successfully been resolved, AF …. it’s so frustrating when your relied on transport is suddenly no longer an option. Hopefully you’re now roaming around in a ‘new’ vehicle though.

SG, they might have been one liners in your last post, but those all seem excellent positives to me.

Which makes me think I should be posting some positives too. I’m now indefinitely based at my parents, as Mum is now in serious decline, but there are still positives to be had.
🙂🙂 my parents having finally agreed to it, we had a stairlift company do a survey at their home on Tuesday. Happily they will be installing the lift on Monday. Excellent service and not a moment too soon for Mum.
🙂🙂 have found solice and a little balm for my soul, pottering in Mum’s garden. It’s only a tiny urban garden, but somehow there is always a little calm and colour out there.
🙂🙂 my lovely OH driving a nearly 400 mile round trip on Tuesday, to bring me things I needed from home for my extended stay and to install the new electric supply to feed the stairlift for my parents.

Finally, a ‘looking forward to’ kind of positive … I’m looking forward to my son and his daughter (our youngest GD) visiting this afternoon.

Hope your weekend will be littered with positives and you’ll have time to post about one or two of them to share with us.

Hi Dawn, not to worry, it is understandable that you have been preoccupied. Glad you have your gallbladder removal booked now. September is not too far off, so hopefully you will be ok. Hope the op goes well!
I think I have a NSV. It was a much cooler day yesterday with some rain. Only a high of 22 C. I had to go into town to the car dealer to deal with the new car. I am not buying it, but my parents are. Then I am buying their car which is more practical for me anyway and less money so that has brought my stress level down hugely. Anyway, because it was cooler, I put on a pair of jeans I hadn’t worn in a while. I think they were a bit looser than they were. I have the same ones in the next size down that were slightly snug around the waist when I last wore them, so I will have to dig them out and see how they are fitting now and then I will know for sure if I have lost some inches. Well, maybe more like millimetres so far, but better than nothing.

Hello SL. Well done on the loss. Pootle- I feel for you – I used to travel teach many years ago and stayed in some very weird and wonderful lodgings!
I am on track and hoping for a result on the scales!
Bon weekend!

Hi Pootle and everyone. Sorry for delay today been rushing everywhere plus the fact I was highly annoyed this morning when I stepped on the scales. Zero….nothing. no loss at all this week despite vigorous 2.5 mile walk 6 out of 7 days early in the morning.
Not drifted off the diet at all.
Felt awful this morning. Not fair lol!
It’s weird…like i said im stuck at this weight thereabouts which has been on me the longest. 2.5 stone was over past few years.
I remember being on the scales years ago trying to lose weight from more or less this point. Not using this diet though. And every week I weighed the same hardly lost anything. So here I am again.
Hoping for good things next week. X

Hi Lucy,
Hope you have had another good week… but if not, there is always another next week.
That sounds very odd, but I hope you know what I mean!
K xxx

Afternoon all,
Sorry not much time, but I want to boost this thread ahead of all the spam ones that seem to be proliferating at the moment!

Keeping on…
K xxx

Hi Lacy,
Sorry you were missing out! Really pleased you are back with us!
Hope everyone is doing ok!
K xxx

ARCTICFOX I hope you’ve got your replacement car sorted now, and I’m glad you still managed to have an online therapy session and tackle the binge eating session experience. It sounds like you are getting to grips with the glucose situation too. Well done with it all, especially with the farm to run (and, if I remember rightly, another job too?).

DAWN I’m so sorry to hear that you are having to wait for your surgery and hope that you will be ok till 1st Sept. Good luck with the food planning for between now and then. I’m sure that will help, not only with some weight loss but also in terms of something positive to focus on.

How is everyone else doing this week? I have no loss to report but have been getting in the groove of going to the gym most days to exercise and relax. For me, establishing habits is really important, so I’m going as often as possible even if I don’t yet do an awful lot when I’m there. I just know I need to ingrain myself into the mentality of going there today rather than putting it off till tomorrow. Hopefully after a month or so of doing that it will become just what I do . . . and hopefully then I will start to see some difference in body tone and strength as well as the weight starting to come off. I’m getting better about staying on track food-wise, though definitely still much room for improvement. So 🤞I will start seeing some gradual but consistent loss soon.

Hope everyone has a good weekend, and special thoughts to all those who are unwell or caring for others who are X

Hi all,
Thought the forum was very quiet, then realised I wasn’t subscribed to August!
So to catch up, congratulations on your weight loss SG – 3.5lbs is fantastic!
Welcome back Antigone – and I don’t think I could have resisted fresh sourdough either.
Happy Anniversary Margaret – your celebration meal sounded delicious!
Sounds like you’re having a wonderful time on your holiday, Verano.
And Pootle – seems like you’re working very hard at the moment, and I’m so sorry that your well-deserved hotel break didn’t work out.
My update – lost a kilo this week, which I’m very happy about. I’ve worked out that if I eat more than around 30g carbs a day the weight just doesn’t shift. So I’ll try to stick to that. My trousers are all very loose now though, so I’m losing fat which is the aim, after all.
Anyway, hope everyone has a fantastic weekend,
Lacy xx

Hi Verano,
Sounds like you are having a wonderful holiday.

I had a night away from home for work yesterday… killing 2 birds with 1 stone… last night’s work followed by an ‘in person’ meeting today within 25 miles of each other… all 175 miles from home.
Great, I was so looking forward to a relaxing night at the 3 star country hotel I had booked, with a leisurely cooked breakfast. Not to be! The hotel phoned me to say they had a problem, so had transferred me to their ‘sister’ hotel for the night! The sister ‘hotel’ was a pub with self catering apartments… no coffee in the room, no breakfast available (pub was shut this morning) no tv in the bedroom, on a main road, with about the hardest bed I have ever tried to sleep on! I swear the floor would probably have been more comfortable!!!
So disappointing!! Especially when the hotel had come highly recommended! It was less expensive, but that wasn’t what I wanted!!
The only saving grace was the steak salad, which was very acceptable. But that didn’t make up for the shortcomings! 😢😢😢😢😢

Just popping in to say ‘hello’!

We are just leaving Portifino in Italy, it’s hot!
Just three more nights until we spend two nights in a small hotel near Rome airport then home.

Eating pretty well. Had a pink grapefruit juice today. It was wonderful. Haven’t had a fruit juice in probably 8 years … this one was magnificent! So good to eat/drink something and really enjoy and appreciate rather than have it constantly and you don’t even ‘taste’ it.

Anyway hope everyone is doing well and that August is really turning out to be ‘Awesome’ in every way.

When I get back I’ll join you all again.

As sunshine-girl (s-g) says just keep on keeping on ………..

Hi everyone, sorry I haven’t been posting, I’ve been a bit pre occupied waiting to hear when my gallbladder removal is happening. I chased it up today as still hadn’t heard anything, no date had been booked for it yet (even though I had been told I should have had it within a month of my hospital discharge at the start of July because the gall stones had caused the acute pancreatitis)after my phone call today it has been booked in for 1st Sept and I’m keeping everything crossed that my gallstones don’t cause further problems before then. I feel I can concentrate enough now to create a food plan for the coming week and work on getting some more weight off before my operation. I haven’t caught up on posts properly yet but I hope all of you who have been having difficult times lately are ok. Dawn XX

Hi everyone,
I was struggling with my fasting glucose again over the weekend, probably due to stress as my diet was still ok. However, I was so fed up with it by Monday evening that I embarked on another 24 hour fast, but my numbers still weren’t settling after that, even with a walk and a dance session, so I kept going overnight again and am now about to break the fast at 38 hours. I felt really hungry around 2pm Tuesday and my blood glucose was at 3.2, but I was feeling good otherwise and not shaky or lightheaded. I checked it again an hour later and it was back up to 4.7. Thanks to the dawn phenomenon it was up to 5.0 this morning. So now I will eat regular meals but lower carb and may try another fast on the weekend. My replacement continuous glucose monitor is meant to arrive today. We are in a bit of a cool spell, so hopefully I won’t be sweating as much and it will stay on this time, as I could really use a break from stabbing myself multiple times a day.
Hope everyone is doing ok. I know it is a busy time for many.

Afternoon all,
Antigone… great idea to sort your wardrobe.. I need to throw out the bigger clothes that I packed into a suitcase for the second time… or get them altered to fit the renewed me!!!
S-G I hope you are surviving the heat. Congratulations on the quiz win and weight loss!
I’m currently 140 miles from home, trying to keep several boxes of cut flowers cool until tonight! 🤞🤞
Take care all.
K xx

Hi all, after my night out my weight shot up but is back down again today. So my weight loss for the week is now 3.5lbs so still not a bad result. No more events until September and still have 3.5lb to lose to reach my 7lb goal. Still happy.

Our heatwave is on its way back and it is 28 today but I am indoors and I am freezing cold. Will probably feel it tomorrow when it hits 35 degrees.

Well done SG. Hats a great loss and a good win!