One of mine for our seafood Christmas is will be finger lime caviar atop and smoked salmon and cream cheese eggs roll! And of course lovely, lovely oysters.

Lilyrose, welcome. You’re going to do just fine and have already made a great start. Well done.

Great advice given already but may I suggest that you take a series of measurements (bust, waist, hips, thighs and anything else you fancy) before starting BSD proper? The reason for this is that, when your weight loss stalls occasionally – which it almost inevitably will – it is so easy to become discouraged. But, more often than not, when this happens you will find you are losing inches which is very heartening but, if you haven’t measured first, you’ll have nothing to gauge it by. Although your clothes may seem loser of course. Anyway, just a thought. And good luck.

I everyone, I’m making myself post because that’s one way of trying to stay accountable. I’ve not wanted to ruin the hopeful mood in this thread but so far thus challenge has been much less than successful, all my own fault. I thought I would be able to negotiate the parties etc a lot better than I have. So with less than a week of this challenge I am 600g up on the start, so still more than a kilo away from my final goal.

I’ve been kidding myself that at least this is better than other years, I can catch up after Christmas, blah blah blah. I see so many of you powering through and am thoroughly ashamed of myself!

So back to weighing and recording yesterday, 760 cal and 19 carbs- and that’s just my normal diet if I leave out the extra spoonful of yoghurt, the scrape of the wok from my son’s teriyaki chicken, the glass of champagne when I catch up with friends.

Five more parties scheduled in this festive season so I’d better make me a better plan 😨

At least it’s turned cooler today, pool parties yesterday and the day before with temps over 40 were far too conducive to icy relaxing beverages.

Best wishes everyone for a happy and peaceful Christmas!

I can confirm from personal experience that there is no problem building muscle on the BSD, even at 800 calories a day. Three weeks after the end of my 8 weeks I used a Boditrax scanner that reported my body composition on the border between very muscular and thin and muscular, with 22% fat, and very low (4cc) visceral fat. In fact the trunk part of the scan showed almost athletic levels of fat and muscle which isn’t bad for a fifty odd year old with a completely sedentary job. If you want to tone muscles as you go, and build muscle this can only help your metabolism, so weight training and HIIT are recommended rather than a lot of longer cardio.

PS. CORRECTION end of week 5 was 71.1

Hello all,

After another 5 days relaxing at the same weight, pondering the enormity of the situation, my dear old bod just gave up another 0.7kg, bringing me tantalisingly close to my December challenge target of getting of 70kg (this morning I’m 70.4). I’m very happy with that. I’m trying very hard not to think about how close I am to the 60s.

I have painters unexpectantly coming in today to paint the stairwell and hallway – they are opportunistically taking advantage of a couple of cooler days predicted and a few available days before they break over Christmas. Very pleased to have it done, but it is going to disrupt my Christmas preps and makes me regret not priotising sprucing up the downstairs loo which I will need to use, frequently, over the next two days! I even caught myself pondering cutting back my water intake. Serves me right really.

Smith before you take metformin ask your GP for three months to change your diet and try and control your diabetes that way. Metformin only reduces blood sugar by 10-15% you can do way better than that with Diet alone …. this way of eating will do the trick!

Great E., I like the purple ones too! 🙂 Yellow isn’t “my color” though, so I’ll just
have to pick a second choice for the 2/1 sale! Trying to stick with a “cool”
color palette because of the indignities of gray hair. I looked like a vagrant
for an entire year while the auburn had to grow out! I do miss it sometimes,
since it suited my personality, but just too high maintenance to continue
with. In my imagination, I see you as a blonde. Am I wildly off?? 🙂

Hi thank you again so encouraging
– I am toying with the idea of not starting the metformin until next week – hear the side effects of nausea, sickness etc are quite common and we are travelling away staying a hotel for a few days – so will have to go hard on this to bring the sugars down !!
I have been looking around on the other forums you all have an abundance of experience to bring to the table that I will tapping into – thank you feel a lot less desparate than I did a few hours ago !!!

I hadn’t thought of this until you mentioned crotch-drop tights being a perpetual concern on account of your fab legs, Allie, but when I was a girl I hated pantyhose because I felt like I was having to yank the crotches up every 10 minutes. In my case it wasn’t because of long legs, obviously, as I’ve always been a shorty. I needed smalls for the length, but then my curvy thighs and butt filled up the space in weird ways and drove the crotch downwards. Now that I no longer have neither hips nor thighs of note, smalls fit just right. The night of the party I was blissfully unaware that I was even wearing pantyhose. I had totally forgotten how tights tortured me for years when I was a kid and teenager. To celebrate this joyous recollection, I just ordered the bright yellow and purple tights from ModCloth too. 😀

The fatigue is a symptom of what is colloquially known as carb flu which is your body stumbling around looking for a new source of energy since you’re no longer feeding it the equivalent of baby food (ie, carbs). Once it figures out you have fat stores for that very purpose, you’ll have energy to burn. The duration varies with the person, but I think most people experience it for no more than a week or so.

You’re so not alone, smith. We’ve all got your back and between the lot of us we’ve lost literal tons of weight and eliminated or improvement a vast number of ailments, including diabetes. It’s great that you were monitoring it closely and are ready to drop the hammer immediately upon diagnosis. You’re so motivated to nip this in the bud, and Verano is a stellar example of BSDers who have been able to chase their diabetes into remission by diet alone, so it can certainly be accomplished. Rock on!

Hi verano – thank you for that – I am 53 and need a thr too – so get this weight off and getting my life back would be great !! And yes you are right we do live with levels of pain most don’t and sadly adapt to it !
I appreciate your support I am going to need it !!
All advice readily taken on board !!! X
You will be hearing from me again there is no doubt about that lol !!

I second Krysia. That’s a big step you’ve taken and you have every reason to be proud of yourself. Celebrate all of your successes without reservation, Lilyrose. This is a major lifestyle change that you are doing for the sake of your own health and future. There are going to be moments of frustration and if you’re anything like me, one or two descents into madness. It’s the chain of mini-goals and achievements that keep you going and focused on the endpoint even when the scale is being capricious.

Well done!

😀 thank you for replying- I have been prediabetic for a while 4.2 ish- now it has jumped right up 6.8 ! Scary stuff !
So very grateful for your response feel I am going to need the support over this Christmas period ! Looking forward to it tbh hopefully the constant tiredness will begin to subside ! A lot of weight to shift ! Like the 4 week bites idea !
Again thank you x

Lilyrose – I think you just might have achieved a big goal today. Well done for saying goodbye to the biscuits and bread.

I love cheese also – especially stilton. I love the broccoli soup with cheddar as well.

My absolutely favourite treat is some 85 or 90% chocolate spread with meridian almond butter and sprinkled with sea salt (because meridian nut butters don’t contain salt and salt definitely does intensify the taste). So lovely – a real taste sensation – and you don’t need much of it either.

Day 1 of preparation to start 800 on the 2 January.
Today I said goodbye to bread and biscuits from my larder. I’m not seriously counting calories yet but I have my eye on portion size. I based my main meal on BSD principles and had a courgetti (zucchini)
With a bolognaise meat sauce. I am full and feel I have achieved a small goal 😀🌹

Hi Smith I have just read your profile and just wanted to say a few words. You will never be alone here.

I just wanted to give you a little of my history to maybe ease your mind. I had my first hip ‘resurfacing’ when I was 52. It was wonderful and gave me back my life. Unfortunately I had problems just over 6 years later and contracted sepsis, had my hip removed and spent a good while in a wheelchair. However, I did get a new hip and all was as well as it could be. Just over three months ago I had my other hip replaced and it has been a wonder. I think one of the problems is that you get so used to the pain you forget what ‘normal’ pain free feels like ….. believe me it feels good!

You have a great goal to aim for. There are so many posters here who will help and support you every step of the way …. good times, difficult times, those days when you just want to throw in the towel and the good days when you just want to share a a loss or other success.

You will never be alone here. Enjoy your journey.

JackieM – you are so right that most people on this forum are the least anxious they have ever been. That certainly applies to me. To be free of the carb cravings definitely – for me – is a huge part of it. I feel happy, relaxed and completely free of stress. Also – I am no longer ‘beating myself up’ for my woeful lack of willpower.

Since starting the BSD I have had great admiration for anyone who can eat cake and then get back on the wagon. I started my first diet when I was 17 and am 70 next year. The whole of this time I have been yo yo dieting because I have absolutely no self control around carbs. So a WOE that banishes carb craving is like a dream come true. Especially as it introduces you to a vast array of absolutely delicious and satisfying foods.

Allie – I agree with Californiagirl that you did incredibly well staying the course on BSD during the very stressful time. You are right that you would not have had the stamina to cope with everything without this WOL.

Hi Heather and welcome

If you go to the top of the page, click on forums, then on the recent topics (middle ) and scroll down you’ll see the latest challenge ‘Busy, busy santa’s elves while caring gently for ourselves’

Good luck

Marie

At the moment the challenge is Busy Busy etc , search on the box above right, but it finishes next Tuesday, Boxing Day. There will almost certainly be a new one on the 26th or there abouts. Just keep reading the current threads to give yourself support. We are all here for you.

Where on the website are the challenges?

Yes Pancita life without cheeese would be truly miserable. The soup turned out so rich and creamy from the amount of cheese I used it’s just not really to my taste! At least my OH likes it!

I really do love soup though so have just taken some squash soup out of the freezer for lunch tomorrow! Hopefully soup lunches will set me back on a downward slide!

Welcome to the forum Smith. Don’t worry about being alone on the BSD and the forum, there is always someone happy to respond to questions, queries, to empathise, encourage and support, to commiserate and celebrate.

Well done you on deciding just to get on with it and not procrastinate until after Christmas. Having done it before, you know what’s involved and you have a pressing reason to push ahead and stick it out this time round. Join in on any of the threads that feel relevant and I would recommend joining in the 4 week challenge threads. These are populated by folks like you, but tackling the task in 4 week chunks instead of eight, which has the advantage of feeling less daunting.

Christmas day needn’t be a problem, just remove as much of the carb heavy stuff as possible, but enjoy the rest of it. You can still have the turkey, pigs in blankets, green veggies, some unthickened gravy and you could even have a little Oppo ice cream for dessert – 75 cals per 100g and 6.6g carbs.

Best of luck to you on your quest and be sure to keep posting and shout if you need some support, someone will respond for sure. Have a lovely festive season.

Frustrating when it’s not made clear what the dish actually comprises isn’t it Jackie? Can make eating out a bit of a minefield for us BSDers. Sounds like you are working around the anomalies though and managing to have some lovely family time.

Enjoy your Christmas at home with family and pets. We are celebrating at home too, which suits me just fine. Have neighbours coming in for drinks on Christmas Eve, a quiet day with just me & OH on Christmas day and a house full of off spring and grandchildren on 26th – then it’s all done for another year!

Here I am in Amsterdam with the family – yay! But oh my goodness eating out is still tricky! Just in terms of avoiding glazes they don’t mention or batters etc. We went on a tasting tour with withlocals.com which was great but I had to pass on quite a bit. I did discover smoked eel and herring are absolutely delicious! And the cheese was great too. And I had chicken satay with most of sauce removed. Kids had stroopwaffles and various samosas etc and chips with mayo and thoroughly enjoyed everything (even the eel!)

Last night I had cauliflower done 5 ways (only one of which was a bit dodgy/sweet) and wild boar on dark cabbage – a chop and a stew but the stew was done in a sweet sauce so I didn’t like it much and swerved most of it.

Home for Christmas and people are coming to us so double yay! Hope you all are looking forward to it too and if not I can empathise it’s been a difficult time for me since I was a child. Best it’s ever been like this year, when I get to be in my own home with my own family (and the pets!) xx

Thank you so much, ladies, for your kind and caring thoughts! Perhaps I
am as adamant about this WOL as I am because I would never have had the level
of stamina necessary to do what I expected of myself during that time without
having discovered the BSD way of eating 8 months previously. I’ll never go
back to that state of being. The future is uncertain, but now I know that I’ll
have the good health to handle whatever life has in store for me 🙂 🙂 🙂

Surely ortho whatsit nervosa is typified by anxiety and most people on this forum, especially the maintainers, are the least anxious they’ve ever been? They just don’t feel like eating ‘the white stuff’ any more because no more cravings. But most of them are no longer calorie counting either, so free to have as much of the low carb stuff they enjoy. If you want to eat cake, Dumpty, go for it, but I don’t think implying those who don’t want to are in some way mentally ill is accurate. They are healthy BMI though.

Lucia – it’s intersting you don’t feel your approach requires as much strength as packing it all in. For me you show MORE self control by getting back on the wagon after choosing to get off. Just goes to show we are all different and it comes back to understanding what will work for us individually. I do know I can’t feel deprived, if makes me very unhappy, so my non-getting-off-the-wagon is only because I don’t feel like it.

SunnyB I gave to admit I’m hanging by a thread! Today I made broccoli and Stilton soup but my OH thought it needed more cheese. By the time I’d finished it was just too rich and creamy for me even though each portion was only 170cals and 8g of carbs. Fortunately he likes it! It’s stir fry vegetables with left over chicken from last night for us.

I know exactly how it is with water. I have to say that while I was away I was consciously drinking more than usual and it seems to have stuck… fortunately. I am now finding hydration is a lot easier. Really looking forward to hearing how the brownies turn out…. see you tomorrow, hopefully with a success!

Hi Allie, from another thread I realise that your husband has had a really bad year but I’m pleased to hear he is on the mend. You know since my hip surgery, which has left me pain free, I walk around with a perpetual smile on my face! I understand how difficult it is to find specific positives each day because I’m just glad I wake up each morning, and wake up pain free!!! When you have trauma in your life everything drops into perspective when it’s resolved and even the most mundane things do indeed seem like a blessing.

I do try to be ‘gracious’ when possible. The written word can often be misconstrued which is why I appreciate this ‘joyful ‘ thread so much. Whilst I love a good discussion as much as the next person, at the moment I just need good the positive posts in my life.

Thank you for your good wishes which I send back to you two fold. Hoping you and your family have a joyous holiday season and all best wishes for 2018. Yes I’ll be back with yet another challenge for January so will see you there!

Healthy and happy New Year to you and yours.

Oh Allie, I too did not realize how much you have gone through this year. I am so glad your husband is better. I hope the new year is free from trouble and a wonderful happy year for you.
How incredible that you were able to stay the course on BSD during that very stressful time. Well done you!

Hi all – well finally got diagnosed with Diabetestoday ! Marvellous timing ! So day one is today – was planning to do this any way but I might as well get stuck straight in have read the book ! Worked out the next 4 days menu – got to think about Christmas Day ! Have done this before lasted 5 weeks ! So…. who else is out there starting today ? Would be great to not feel quite so alone !

Hi Allie – I had no idea that your husband has been so ill. How wonderful he is making a good recovery. It must have been so scary and stressful for you to see him go through all that surgery and trauma.

My husband is doing well also – although last Friday he fell over on the way to the local pub (who falls over on the way to the pub!!). Although he gave his friends a fright – he didn’t damage his new hip – thank goodness – although he did hurt his shoulder.

I had an excellent shopping trip at ALDI. Actually it was mostly for the sugary carby Christmas stuff (there will be 10 of us over Christmas) – although I did get some lovely 85% chocolate for £1.29. A huge saving on Lindt chocolate. I will be having a couple of squares spread with almond butter for a desert. I also do like the ALDI Authentic Greek yoghurt which I will be having with my berries.

As I put the Christmas pudding, stollen, Belgian biscuits, baklava etc. in my trolley I actually thought that none of it looked that appetising and none of it was a match for my special Christmas treat – the jar of almond butter which I will spread on my chocolate and maybe even eat a spoonful or two straight from the jar.

Have just discovered that I love macadamia nuts – am trying not to open the packet because it will mean another trip to Holland and Barrett to get some more.

Hi, V, so happy to see you here today, holding down the fort, in your usual
gracious way! I just wanted to wish you a joyous holiday. You’ve accomplished
so much this year, WOW! Reversing T2D is such a mighty achievement!

Those grapes can be pesky, can’t they? One of those foods where it’s hard
to eat just one, wouldn’t you say? 🙂 I know that you’re already back on track,
though. It’s hard for me to come up with positives each day, for I always
seem to be in a perpetual state of gratitude. New friends, new life, expanding
dreams of all things being possible now that I’m healthy.

I’ll be looking forward to your new Jan. challenge thread. See you there!

Peace, joy and love,

Allie

Welcome Nick! Keep us posted on your progress! Don’t worry about losing muscle — keeping your carbs very low (as low as 20 grams per day but preferably always below 60 grams per day) and eating adequate protein will target your fat stores, not your muscle.
Our bodies were not designed to become weak and wasted when we needed to access our fat stores (as happened all the time when we were living as hunter/gatherers) — we ALWAYS carried our fat as a source of fuel and it is no different today. Your fat is going to burn first as long as you get your insulin levels down so you can access that fat.
LOW CARBOHYDRATE = LOW INSULIN
If you work out while you are on BSD, you should be able to increase your muscle.

Hi there, Nick! I’m adding my voice to the chorus of Welcomes. You are
about to embark on a plan that will transform your life 🙂 🙂 🙂 SunnyB has
just given you a list of things to prepare for your journey to wellness, and
I can’t improve on them. I just want to reiterate that planning ahead is the
key to success, and hydration is ultra important. Joining in on the challenges
is the best way to get to know our community, and for us to get to know you!
I’ve lost 10.5 stone, but the number isn’t really important. Whether you’d
like to lose 3 stone or 10, it’s all possible here with the support we have
to offer and share. I’m happy that you will be joining us on Jan. 2! Merry
Christmas, and I’m looking forward to getting to know you. I hope the cloud
of fatigue and depression will lift for you, as it did for me, when I adopted
this lifestyle.

Best wishes,

Allie

Happy to have helped Allie – enjoy!

Liz, lovely for you to have your daughter home for the festive season and I’m pleased she is going to be supportive of your BSD Christmas.

Verano, even with the small slip-up with the grapes, it sounds like you have things under control. I admit things got away from me a little yesterday, so like you, I had a soup lunch today and will be having pork, cabbage and cauli-mash tonight. Need to up my hydration today, as it was a bit lacking yesterday I think.

Positives for today:
1) Did half of the final pre-Christmas food shop this morning.
2) Still not feeling stressed about Christmas – a first in many a long year!
3) Making some low carb brownies this afternoon – will report on them later, when I know how they have turned out and calculated cals and carbs.

Stay positive everyone.

I absolutely LOVE your idea, SunnyB! Thank you so much for sharing it!
Caviar, too? PERFECTION 🙂 🙂 🙂 O/H will be thrilled, and won’t even notice
the lack of bagels!!!

Warm holiday wishes,

Allie

Welcome aboard, Nick, congrats on taking the decision to change your life for the better. Sounds like you are determined and focused, so I see no reason you will not complete the 8 weeks. The first few weeks are the most challenging and once you have those cracked the rest will probably fall into place quite easily.

If hydration is an effort for you, I suggest starting to tackle that now, in your build up to you full on start. Have a think about what might work for you – using a drinks bottle to drink from, so you know how many you need to consume a day; draw a little chart somewhere to record each drink you have. I draw little cups and glasses on the white board in our kitchen and cross them through as I have each drink. You just need some little reminder, so that you increase your intake and can see what you’ve consumed.

This is also a good time to start to clear the cupboards and freezers of non-BSD food, as far as possible (assuming there’s no one living with you that will want such things) and think about what essentials you’ll need for 2nd Jan. Try to keep BSD friendly foods around which don’t require too much preparation, for those times when you need ‘a little something’ or a situation arises where you’re not able to use the planned a meal. If you feel the 8 weeks might be a bit challenging, join the next 4 week challenge on the forum. This is just a group of forum members who tackle the BSD in four week chunks, as opposed to the standard 8.

Maintaining your muscle mass should not be an issue, as long as you keep up your exercise and ensure you are including a good amount of protein in your meals.

Make good use of the forum – use the search box in top right of page to search for specific topics – there is a lot of wisdom and experience on here and people are happy to offer advice, support and encouragement, so just shout out. Definitely post all your results and let us know how you are getting on. I haven’t put anything in this post about my person stats and journey, as it is all documented in my profile, if you want to take a look.

Best of luck to you on successfully changing your life with the BSD.

Hi Krysia! It seems that our view of maintenance is very similar 🙂 I don’t
eat fruit either, with the exception of raspberries. They are a powerhouse
of antioxidants, as well as fiber, and are so easy to keep in the freezer. Like
you, my present diet has much more variety than pre BSD, and the contents
of my refrig. is a riot of colorful vegetables, super clean fish and poultry, and
the occasional pkg. of pastured and grass finished beef. I’m ordering myself
to get down to “brass tacks” today and decide what we will be having for
Christmas dinner! Too many choices, not an absence of them! And the white
stuff is gone forever… I hope you had an excellent shopping trip and found
everything you need “in stock”.
Wishing you a joyous holiday, Krysia. Is your husband fully recovered?
Mine is doing extremely well after colon cancer surgery, a second heart
attack, and the implantation of a defibrillator in his chest this year. I’m
feeling very blessed. Far too much time spent in the Intensive Care Unit
(3+ weeks)!

Glad that things are on the up for you Theo and hope that continues. Try not to stress about the festive season – ask the family to help out as much as possible. And keep up those de-stressing walks. Like you the sweet stuff is not going to be a problem and whilst I appreciate a drink, it is no longer of any importance to me, so I am hopeful of keeping things in control on all fronts.

Alliecat, Christmas morning we are going with smoked salmon on some scrambled egg, all sprinkled with a little finely chopped shallot, topped with a teaspoon of lump roe caviar. Oh, and a glass of well chilled brut champagne – bucks fizz has never been my drink, give me straight champagne every time!

Here’s to a peaceful and joyous festive season and only good things for us all in 2018. Happy maintaining everyone!

Hello,
Like many i have found this wonderful, life changing book & online community, read the book over the last few days and read some of the inspiring, interesting posts.
A bit about me, I’m male, 43 years old, 5ft 9in, weight around 16.7 stone, quite broad and my scales give me a BMI of 30. I have suffered from stress/depression in recent years and have a skin condition which while slightly better has left me with pigmentation marks on my lower legs of various sizes (lichen planus).
I have done and still do HIT training once/twice a week which i believe aids my BMI being 30 not 34/35. Do medium/long distance road cycling when i find the time and the weather is better.

Diet is a bit of a mess really, do eat a lot of freshly prepared meals but mixed in with high carb meals and far too much alcohol along with irregular eating patterns. This i know effects my energy levels, moods and focus.

My hopes & goals when completing this 8 week plan:
To lose weight around my waist, aim to get my weight to 13.7 — 14 stone.
BMI of 23.5/24.
To see my skin condition improve.
My energy levels get a much needed boost.
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My concerns:
I don’t complete the 8 weeks (lack of planning my meals).
My muscle mass (shoulders/chest and arms) reduces too much.
Don’t drink enough water as i struggle to do this now.
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What i can offer:
Talk about anything above in more detail if it helps others.
Record and post my findings on all of the above.

So that’s me in black & white, quite liberating in itself. I will start the 800 calories strictly on the 2nd January, in the meantime i’m trying some of the recipes and doing lots more reading.

Look forward to this journey and sharing my experience.

Thanks Nick.

Merry Christmas Jim47!

Hi Marsie, thanks for your words of encouragement. Yes all the fruits have been good and raspberries have been a lot cheaper so I’ve treated myself them now. I was out today and bought a small carton of Greek yoghurt and had that with a pun net of raspberries as part of my lunch, delish!!
Best wishes for Christmas x

Hi Butterlover and thank you. Btw I love your name! Also thanks I’ve been running it all by my Neph, Cardio, Endochrinologist, 2 x GPs. I’ve even discussed it while having a gynaecologist procedure today! That Dr firmly supported my doing this while checking my biochemistry every few days. She said to me “ we get very frustrated with the ‘old Lo fat diet advice” and she then said: “ Science has now proved it wrong” and a lot of dietitians did their training a while ago and they have stuck w the Lo fat idea”. It was great to hear a Dr advocating this type of diet and I told her what I had done to take a closer control of renal friendly fruit n veg and preparation . I also saw the dietician on the ward and showed her my blood results and the significant improvement if made in a couple of days. She was pretty happy but didn’t really want to talk about my success with the diet only advising me to up the exercise. Also, I apologise I hadn’t written back earlier but I’ve had a tough couple of days and it’s been hard enough to keep up with reading all the posts on the threads I am following. I’m loving all the tips and recipes, solutions and general discussion. I’m just way too tired even though I want to jump in many times. Loving that I’m meeting so many wonderful friends here at all different stages. Thanks again for your support and advice Butterlover and a merry Christmas x

Well, I haven’t had a whoosh in ages, and have been hovering around the same weight for the past week. It happens, I’m not too worried, would have been nice to lose a bit more before Christmas but I’m having a week off from calorie and carb counting from tomorrow.
Actually at the start of this I said I would be happy to have lost five kg by Christmas, and I’ve lost 7,but we always think we should have done more, don ‘t we, instead of congratulating ourselves for what we’ve done.
I’ve been planning on what I’m going to eat tomorrow morning to break my fast, and I’ve been enjoying the low carb bircher so much, I’ve started soaking pinhead oatmeal so I can have an oaty version. I’m not sure I can bring myself to eat too many white carbs…
Hopefully see you all in the new year – I’ll not be logging back on til then.

Was intrigued – and looked this up to check whether or not I suffer from it. It doesn’t seem – in my view – that I or anyone on our forums suffer from this condition which sounds so restrictive – not just with food but by restricting living life itself.

Although I don’t eat the white stuff and it may look as though I suffer from it because I really don’t eat it ever – I do eat berries – even though a super consultant has advised me to eat no fruit because my pancreas can’t cope with it (I am very sad that I wrecked my pancreas by eating the white stuff but won’t give up my berries).

Also I probably do have more deliciously indulgent cream than is good for me. My diet actually feels less restrictive than it used to be – the huge range of lovely tasty and delicious food is wonderful on this WOE. Am just off to ALDI to buy some lovely stuff for Christmas.

Theo, I’m VERY happy to know that your weight has stabilized at last! I know
what your BMI is, and I was beginning to get a little worried about you….

I hope everyone else is in a good place with their holiday prep. I had hoped
that we would be getting together with my sister and her family and recently
sent her an email to this effect. The reply was from St. Petersburg (Russia)
so it doesn’t seem too likely! Upon her return, plans will be made for later
in the week. Our Christmas morning fare is always champagne, smoked
salmon, and bagels. Obviously there will be no bagels this year. I’ll just
have to come up with some sort of wrap idea. All ideas would be most
welcome!
Wishing you all a blessed holiday, as we march on in maintenance 🙂

Happy New Year!

Allie

Haha, my friends, I’ve never needed much persuasion when going bold with
clothes! Those red tights are already in the shopping cart. I have to give
modcloth a call before ordering though, as measurements aren’t given for
height (don’t want the crotch down around my knees) so I may have to
size up. I was also all set to order another pair of leggings, black with large
human skulls, but they are out of stock. Do you think I’m an old lady
exhibitionist?? Don’t you two think your being a little “insensitive” (haha)
discussing decolletage in my presence, though? 🙂 My new bra size is AA!
This revolting state of affairs has necessitated the purchase of a mastectomy
bra, and with it on, I weigh 2 lbs more than without it! Poor Allie…I’ll just
have to be content with my gams. OF COURSE I will go for red tights! I saw
a lot of other snappy ones, but mostly o/s. You be careful, Theo with those
tunics! I don’t want to read about you getting arrested for “indecent exposure”!
🙂 🙂 🙂