Weigh in this morning showed a further loss of 3.3 lbs. Now just above the 100kg and a kiss good bye to ever seeing 16st something on my scales.
Clothes are fitting better,no bloating even after food. Less aches and pains?!? Digestion and bowls are settled which hasn’t been the case for a few years.
These are the positives I’m also going to remember when I hit a plateau, I know it will come. Not if, just when.
But, End of week 2 and it’s a thumbs up. 👍🏻 !!
You all stay positive.
Yes, Theo, I never mind “making a scene”! I SHOULD be making dinner
at this time, but I find this thread just too irresistable. I’ve completely
“lost the plot” today in terms of who is posting where, so I have to
grab this opportunity to wish you a gargantuan “HAPPY BSD
ANNIVERSARY”!!! I’m more than a bit jealous of all of you that
have been on this journey together for an entire year. Today, I can
barely remember what life was like without the friendships and
support that I’ve come to realize here. You are a very special lady
in that regard, your sense of humor makes me lol, and it’s always
a bright spot of sunshine in my day. I salute and respect all of
your accomplishments, and I’m proud to know you as a friend 🙂
Next up, our maintenance anniversary!
Aww, thanks guys. Feeling a little tearful now – in a good way of course. Thank you 😊
Great insight into your kitchen, Essie. Thanks. You are so industrious, not to say adventurous – a bit of a domestic goddess in fact 😊 Just wish you lived on this side of the pond, I’d be dropping in all the time 😊
Well now Essie – you certainly have a bit of a shoe fetish, and you are fast developing one in me too😉 That green-eyed monster is rearing his ugly head again!
As Allie says, they are hot hot HOT! Though actually rather cute too, particularly the booties.😊 But either pair would be very welcome to a place in my wardrobe, should you ever want to avoid Ms Allie Cat who, I’m reliably informed, is a stalker accustomed to accosting previously unknown (in the flesh at any rate😉) ladies wearing hot footwear 😜
Mary, you vixen! Ah, memories, memories…My o/h takes 8 different
kinds of heart meds, so wild nights are now a distant memory.
Enjoy!
Hi Natalie, just to complicate things for you, I have been doing the 16/8 pattern since the start and chose to give up milk in my tea and coffee. Apart from week 4 and last week’s (9) weirdness, I’ve been losing around 1kg a week.
I chose to give up milk so that I stayed in fast mode, fat burnng, but also because I don’t just have one cup of tea. I have tea and coffee in the morning and more tea in the afternoon and sometimes more tea mid morning. A dash of milk is around 20 calories and 2 carbs of which both are sugar. So for me, milk in tea and coffee just had to go. It took a couple of weeks to get over that particular sorrow! Now I’m a dreadful espresso enthusiast (bore) and have made a particular blend of tea leaves I can enjoy black.
I say, give going to lunchtime a try, with your tea, and just test out how that goes.
Like Sandy47 I plan to add some 24 hour fasts if things slow down and as a way of protecting my metabolism. Jason Fung is worth a read or watch on Youtubes.
Well, E, now those are both HOT HOT HOT! I’d wear either of them in
a heartbeat! The boots have brought out my green eyed monster, I
have to admit. I think it’s only a matter of time before I find myself
standing in line at City Fish, and notice a petite, dark haired young woman
with show stopping footwear. I shall speak your given name, and
then we will fall into each other’s arms, laughing hysterically. It’s
time to reschedule our dinner, too! 🙂 I know that Breshnev hat too,
my nephew just returned from St.Petersburg with the same model
for his father. It’s been put to good use out in the driveway, removing
mother nature’s recent largesse. Did you hear me laughing into
the cosmos when I noticed the position you must have assumed
to take these recent photos? Neither one of us could have managed
it in 2016. How would we have been able to get back up off the
floor???
Oh Mary I like your style! Hope you don’t cause ructions in A&E later……. Again!! Poor Jovis or rather lucky Jovis. Have a great night x
Gday all,
Been long time since I’ve posted, still on my journey been very challenging to say the least over last couple of months. Really over indulged over the xmas & new year break.
Week 72 done and dusted, my last post l weighed in @ 103.1 on 5 Nov 2017
Week 72 weigh in: 104.2kg, a gain of 1.1kg since last weigh in post.
Prior to going on holidays in early October l got to 99.4kg, was so close to achieving my 99 kg goal, but carb monster set in while on holidays and l blew out to 105.5 kg. The lowest l got to my pre-holiday weight was 102.4kg on 20/10/2017. Then the Christmas and new year’s holidays came by and l really indulged bad, carb monster and desert over load. We ended up going to Tamworth to the in-laws for 3 days and we had a mighty feast for those days. I couldn’t believe my eyes when l stepped back on the scales on 27/12/2017, I weighed in at 116.5KG! Then l knew l had to go back to the drawing board, carbs were vanished and deserts were off the menu. For some reason l weighed myself 3 days later and l weighed in at 109kg. I don’t know what went on, a loss of 7.5kg in 3 days is unexplainable. It was bloody hot in Tamworth over 40c for our whole trip and l was drinking water like a camel, could of been mostly water weight gain l guess.
Lately l have added swimming to my exercising routine, really enjoying it during our heat wave. Still sticking to my walks but just not as long.
My weight loss journey has had many highs and lows and twist and turns, another 5.2kg to go till l reach my goal weight. My 99kg goal weight has been so close many times but yet so far away.
Though there is on certain thing l know, l will never bloody give up!
take care all…..
LeeLee! How are you feeling?? I’ve had to take care of some of
life’s little chores, so haven’t been on top of all recent news here…
I know that you had extensive blood work done recently. Have
you heard the results yet? Your trip to the islands must be coming
up fast! Hopefully it will be the rest that you need. Thinking of you!
Allie
Mary!!! Love it! 😊😊👍
Kxxx
Girls really? Read my older posts….I can blow his mind!
Yowzer!
Just popped by to say thanks to Esnecca for the creamy dressing suggestions. I’ve been having a salad most days for lunch when I’m at work and so they have really come in handy. I also made one to go with a fish taco salad (minus the taco of course) with a bit of kimchi juice mixed in with the mayo and lime juice and it was divine!
Just about to start BSD and want to get the best Commercial Meal-replacement Diet shakes available in Scotland UK. Anyone got any ideas please.
Natalie, I fast until lunch every day and have 2 BSD friendly meals – also have tea with milk in the mornings. Have been losing 2-3lbs per week using this woe but haven’t tried to see whether I’d lose more without said tea. I’m happy with a steady loss of 2lb per week, and am probably at the halfway point until my target. May review this when I get closer to goal by mixing up some fast days.
I’m very proud of that Mary! 🤣🤣 Go girl xx
Happy Anniversary Theodora! I hope to one day achieve what you have.
Happy to report a 2 lb loss this week, so down to 10st 9lb. Briefly weighed 10st 8lb just for a day on Saturday, but not getting disheartened, this works. Aiming for another 2lb next week as this will be my 2 stone weight loss milestone.
KOKO everyone, and enjoy your trip to China TC. Good luck with your goal of avoiding food with more bones than you 🤣
Thanks for posting all x
I’ve been a bit frustrated with slow loss so I need this thread more than ever!
1. Maybe I haven’t lost much in the past 10 days, but I’m still at a much much happier weight than I was six months ago!
2. We’ve had several days of cooler weather and I’ve been able to get out in the garden every day, it had been too hot for a while to do anything. It’s going to heat up again soon and that is also nice – back in the pool!
3. Rereading old Enid Blyton “Mallory Towers” boarding school books. Such an alien world to an Australian! And probably not really much like that in reality.
Fair enough Lovetcook. You obviously know what you are doing!
After a small loss last week and now three days at the same weight, I’m going to mix it up a bit by extending my fasting window by skipping breakfast. I don’t usually do this even though I’m not hungry in the morning, because in the past (not on BSD) if I skip breakfast I suddenly get ravenous mid-morning and make bad choices. But I’m hoping BSD changes to my body/blood sugar stability will help with that, and I have a plan for what to eat if I do get really hungry before lunchtime – not just whatever random junk I can grab quickly!. I normally eat about two hours after getting up, stretching that to five hours might be a bit much so lunch might be very early today!
But, is the general consensus that my early morning tea with a splash of milk (so I’m not fully fasting) makes this whole exercise completely pointless? Or just a bit less effective?
Welcome Yams1979, don’t beat yourself up about the yo-yo in, we’re only human!
This is the first time I’ve done anything like this and I’m only a week in but I can honestly say that I haven’t been hungry (apart from once when I was tired more than hungry) and haven’t missed carbs at all. That said I am really lucky that I’m doing this with hubby and don’t have kids at home so we just don’t have any tempting foods about, it might be harder if I had to watch someone else tucking into a bowl of pasta! Good luck with it.
Mary – you fast piece!
Theodora – what a lovely post to read and what a lovely OH. Congratulations on your BSD first anniversary.
Liz – I’m so sorry. I’ve just noticed you’ve answered a question of mine as part of a response on this thread. I’ve only just seen it. It’s sometimes difficult for me to keep up (I spend days at a time off-line). The fibre thing – I’m trying to make sure I have greens (e.g. spinach) a lot more, and I’ve also started having chia seeds and flaxseed. But generally it’s a work in progress. I’ve also always struggled to stay <20 g carbs and eat all my cals. My initial degree was in English Literature – it put me off reading anything for years – hence I’ve always been curious about how creative people manage when they add business into the mix. l’m enthralled at the idea of a tiny Great British Bake Off Tent with all its contents – I want one! Hope you’re doing well x
My positives
1) I had a really wonderful weekend with my OH, including at his brother’s surprise birthday party.
2) My BIL and his wife have been married for about 5 years. They’ve both been married before and have grown up children – early 20’s upwards. At the weekend I saw a home full of happiness, generations of relatives from both sides, walls full of photos of shared days, old photos of grandparents, great grandparents again from both sides. It was just wonderful, and is still making me smile.
3) I had some lovely, genuine compliments from a young relative. He has experienced a lot of trouble in his life and I know he is still struggling, so for him to be so clearly happy for me was genuinely moving.
Yep, I need help too!! Really have to get my act together or I’ll be back where I started. Starting in the next day or 2. Might try get that book, it sounds interesting
Leelee, lovely of you to pop in. I am afraid I didn’t wear the dress….sniggers….he bought me a nightie so I wore that…
Love Mary
xxx
Hello, can I join in here too please! I am ready to start in the next day or two. Have spent today browsing the 8 week bsd recipe book, and fighting a carb withdrawal battle on the couch, as I needed to wean myself before getting stuck in properly to the 800 cal for 8 weeks programme. I have decided to follow the 8 weeks of recipe plans in the back of the book to the letter, to take any decision making out of the equation!
Am currently pretty annoyed with myself as I have gained an awful lot of weight since summer 2017, it’s been a feature of my life since having my first baby in 2001 that I have lost and gained the same 2 stone over and over again. Last time though I really worked hard and had my food and gym work all fairly close to perfect and I have just let it all slide. I’m determined to get my act together and lose a significant amount of weight permanently as I can’t keep yoyo-ing like this. I have tried everything, WW, SW, Unislim etc. but when I discovered the gym and circuit training I started unwittingly following a low carb high protein good fats diet that worked really really well for me and kept me feeling full and satisfied. I’m dreading weighing myself tbh, post Christmas and we’ve just been away in Lanzarote for a week so it’s been a beer fest as well as a carb fest 😭😭 for the last 4 weeks. I will weigh and measure in the morning though, wish me luck
I lost 5lbs in first week and decided not to weigh myself until the 4 week mark however I had a cup of tea with sugar 😔 we all have our moments of weakness but I’m not deterred. Maybe u should look into the 5:2 fast as a chance in habits is hard to break straight away
Just popping in to wish the lovely Nonna Mary a truly lovely birthday.
Steak a la Jovis sounds just the ticket but I do hope you wore your lovely dress. A night in can be very special.
Have a lovely evening xx
The dehydrator has been busy today. I thought you guys might enjoy a little glimpse behind the curtain at the process.
Here are clumps of fresh ginger after they’ve been peeled, mashed in the food processor and had all their juice squeezed out of them with a cheesecloth. I use ginger juice all the time. No way I’m donating it to the dehydrator. He’ll just make it disappear! Besides, it dries faster the drier it is to begin with.
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Here are the clumps broken up on the tray ready to go.
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Here’s the tray in place.
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The second one right below it is garlic, my father’s homegrown, as a matter of fact, which makes the greatest powder I’ve ever tasted. I put that in this morning so it’s almost done. Another hour or so and it will time to take it out, give it a few minutes to cool, then grind it all up to fine powder.
Toby101, not to worry. I have plenty of extra fat to sustain me. Am still over 50 lbs above my target. I did a broth fast on Day 1 and 2, I am actually doing a 5:2 style fast on Day 3 nd 4 (had about 300 – 400 calories in a flax seed toast with avocado, large green salad for supper). And per Jason Fung’s book, they often do 7 – 14 day fasts on their overweight patients. Taking vitamins daily. And feel great. If I didn’t I would stop.
The data suggests that you are actually in a pretty protected state while fasting (or near fasting). The real danger is in a chronic calorie reduction (say of 500 lbs) that does not kick your system into an autophagy mode where you actually have a rise in growth hormone, etc.
Would just like to nudge over whatever roadblock I am currently hitting. I am sure it will show up eventually….just need to be patient. So much easier said than done.
It’s time for more fun with post-Christmas sales. I call these my double cats, one cat is the leopard print, the other is the kitten heel. These are my first kitten heels ever and I adore them. So, so comfy.
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For Theo and Allie who enjoy the sleekness and versatility of black as an anchor, and to prove to all y’all that not always about the technicolor explosion for me, check out these sweet suede loafers with a herringbone emboss and studs around the soles.
Nothing to report, just posting to tick the subscribe box. Don’t know how it unticked itself.
Happy Anniversary Theo! You are a gentle warm and guiding presence on this thread. I hope you are basking in the warmth directed to you by so many on this forum.
Theodora can I add my thanks and good wishes. You are amazing and it’s reading yours and the others stories that keeps me going.
Thank you.
Nonna Mary
xxxx
Right. other half a pound down this morning again, but so that makes 3.5 lbs , all told ( it was 3 down not 2.5 yesterday i now realise) … That’s half , half a stone.. ( sounds better eh? ) .. that half a pound may not stick ,but at least it shows I am going (snails pace) in the right direction
I have absolutely weighed every last crumb on the electronic scales today.. Ive had dinner and MFP says 746 calories .. Plain tap water ice and lime slice only this evening
I also had a headache and was really thirsty today ,, not helped in that i think i may be getting a cold.. BUT I AM DETERMINED 🙂
I have glugged loads of water today ..
I have also reminded myself that i did see 12st.12 a couple of days before I restarted this which was my Panic weight .. so if I count that it makes 5.5lbs down in two and a half weeks ..
I have also gained this week, just 0.1kg, but still a gain. I have been struggling to fight a cold and very sore throat so have drunk a couple of cans of cider over the course of the week because I craved a fizzy drink to help with the sore throat, so was up slightly on carbs to my normal aim, and I and have not been as physically active as normal. So guess its not as bad as it could have been.
I have found that I am sleeping more deeply on longer than normal. Just sometimes I end up having dreams about out of control steam engines (whenever one of the cats sneaks into the house and I wake up to find him purring in my ear.)
Who indeed, Cathy?!! But here we are, a whole year later, a whole lot lighter and, without doubt, a whole lot healthier. 😊
Thank you for your lovely comments and here’s to our next year – in maintenance obviously. 😀
Happy BSD anniversary Theodora! What an inspiration you have been to me and many BSDers! You really do shine on here and I love your vitality and enthusiasm. What a great ambassador you are for this way of eating. Well done on your fantastic weight loss and thank you for your positivity throughout our journey together. Like you I am at goal and maintaining. I didn’t lose as quickly as you did and still struggle to stay at goal weight and my aim is to try to get under (can’t seem to manage it) to give me the wiggle room that you managed to achieve. Congratulations Theodora and thank you for the help and support. Here’s to another year ahead! Who’d have thought this time last year what we would achieve!
Awww, bless you Essie. Thank you for such a lovely response, all the more treasured because not only do I count you as my valued BSD friend, not to mention fashion mentor, you are most definitely one of my BSD heroes. 😊
Allie, I need to get my dad a pith helmet for his bald pate! He still wears the bear hat I got him in the USSR in February of 1990 (the last year there was a USSR). It’s the hottest hat in existence, he says, which is why he looks like Brezhnev whenever he shovels snow. 😀
Happy anniversary, Theo! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, you accomplished something grand with the BSD and with maintenance. It thrills and inspires me to see how far you’ve come, how generously you support other BSDers and perhaps most of all, the flowering of your wardrobe.
May your second BSD year be as exceptional as your first. 🙂
Don’t look backwards and don’t abuse yourself in thought, word or deed. What’s happened has happened. You absorb the hard lesson and use it to fortify your resolve as you move forward on the BSD. You need all your resources and strength to take on a lifestyle change of this depth. Mortifying yourself will only debilitate you and hold you back. This is an active thing, stingle. You have to stop morbid, self-hating thoughts in the moment. I mean, literally stay “STOP!” out loud and then redirect your thinking to emphasize your successes and to plan and organize your meals for even more success.
You’ve done the BSD before and you rocked it out. Once you get past that first week or so, the carb flu, the cravings, your confused body unsure of what it’s supposed to do now that you’ve removed its laziest source of non-nourishment, you’ll have energy galore to propel you towards your weight loss and fitness goals. No fear. No living in the past. Not one step backwards.
Good luck!
This week it’s my turn to celebrate my first BSD anniversary, and what a terrific find both this WOE and this Forum have been.
I began on 16th January weighing 11st 7lbs, hoping to lose about 1.5st and, in my wildest dreams, 2st but never actually believed that was possible. Yet by the end of 16 weeks I had lost a phenomenal 3st!!!! I entered maintenance in early May and yet went on to lose another half stone whilst increasing calories slowly, but keeping carbs low. I can now easily fit into my wedding dress – and I got married in the late 60s!!
So here I am one year later, weighing just 8st, with a BMI of about 20, and body fat of just 22″% I did in fact, at one point, when we were undergoing rather a lot of stress, drop as low as 7st 7lbs but happily I soon regained those 7lbs, and have held steady ever since. My method of maintenance has been to stay low carb, but I no longer count calories. Monday – Thursday I am “careful” of what I eat, but I relax Friday – Sunday, and even allow myself s few glasses of wine on each of those days, as we have quite a sociable lifestyle, and eat out 2 – 3 times a week, but I always stay low carb. I can’t remember when I last felt this good – healthy, energetic and full of vitality. Thank you MM and Prof Taylor.
I have disposed of every single item of large baggy clothing I possessed, and my wardrobe is now bursting at the seams with wonderful size UK8s, and I have become far more adventurous in my choice of clothing (see the Phoenix thread) – now it’s a pleasure to shop!
Not only have I lost more weight than I ever dreamed possible and settled happily into maintenance, I feel as though I have made so many new friends around the globe. So thank you to everyone, for your support and friendship. Long live BSD.
My positives today are:-
1) Today is my first anniversary of starting BSD and finding this forum, and making new friends.
2) I have spent the entire day (7am – 4pm) doing a house clearance (not mine) which I had been dreading, but had to be done. 😭 Nowhere near finished, but feel as though I may have broken the back of it.
3) Came home absolutely exhausted, feeling grubby and dishevelled and emotional, to find a cup of tea waiting, and that o/h, who has NEVER EVER IN HIS ENTIRE LIFE done it before, had groomed (or at least attempted to) both of my exceptionally hairy dogs, to “try to take a bit of the pressure off you” he said, when I nearly burst into tears. After nearly 49 years of marriage, he still has the power to surprise me.💕
Sounds ideal Mary. You can always wear your dress in your own private setting!
Hope Jovis feels better and you both enjoy your birthday x
Tilly
It just sounds perfect, Nonna Mary 🙂 🙂 🙂
Enjoy!
Welcome, stingle.
You have come to the right place if you need to offload / rant, or could do with help, support, encouragement, and yes, sometimes a kick up the backside if necessary.
One of the best things about this forum is that nobody is judgmental and no matter how many times you fall off the wagon, someone will reach out a hand to you and pull you firmly back on. You can do this – you’ve done it before, you can do it again. Start NOW.
Good luck, and keep us posted on progress.
So we are staying in. Jovis has had a sinus pain all day and I am feeling tired, so we are going to have steak and vegetables done a la Jovis. Lovely.
Mary
xxx
