Tonight I clicked the “Diabetes Meal” option for my flight from Hong Kong to London on Wednesday. I have no idea what that will be though, and suspect it won’t be up to scratch when not comes to the BSD.

In other news my blood ketone level is 1.5 mmol/L. I am pretty pleased with this, although the weight loss is slowing.

Today I managed 25,000 steps, 100 mins on the exercise bike and 20 mins on the rowing machine. Pretty happy with that. 🙂

End of week 4 for me. This diet certainly has me shedding the pounds and feeling great. 1.3 stone down! I might have to tweak my goal as I’m ahead of schedule for my 10kg loss for Christmas.

Summary of progress to date:

Week 1: 3.9kg (8.6lbs)
Week 2: 1.7kg (3.7lbs)
Week 3: 1.3kg (2.9lbs)
Week 4: 1.6kg (3.5lbs)

Total: 8.5kg (18.7lbs)

I don’t have much more to lose, so I expect losses will be smaller for the second half of my BSD800. I’d be delighted with to manage a further 4kg loss.

My 8 weeks end on Christmas Eve, and I’m really looking forward to Christmas Dinner where I can up my intake (staying low carb mind!)

I admit I just eat 2 hard boiled eggs in the morning, – best breakfast on the go ever!

Morning all, what a lovely Thanksgiving story Esnecca. Your dad must be so proud of you and so relieved you are in a healthy zone.

I weigh 1/2kilo more today than yesterday, which is weird as yesterday I ate with big gaps and not to excess. The only thing I can think is 1) fluids 2)ate at Wagamamas and had a curry (no rice) but maybe more calories than it seemed. Anyway, I often fluctuate like this so I have no doubt I’ll be lower again soon.

I was herding teenagers around the 02 in London. What a lot of crap food they have on offer there. And the girls came with their own money and seemed intent on inflicting damage on themselves. I treated them to something in Starbucks and they had some horrific choc/fudge/cream confection and I kind of felt OK at least that’s them done – THEN they bought themselves some sweets, THEN some had icecream (luckily the sizes are tiny and the cost is high and I had my daughters purse at that point and she could tell I was about to blow) and then asked if they could have candy floss at which point I just said no. But all around me there were small (5-8 yo), overweight girls stuffing themselves as the candy floss/popcorn/icecream vendors peddled their wares and their parents complied. What is even HAPPENING to this world?!

Of course back in the summer I would probably have been involved in some if not all of the sugar orgy, so I know exactly what’s going on. I do wonder if politicians need to get involved though – sugar tax?! – the willpower of the individual v mega companies seems a pretty unfair fight to me.

Luvtcook – I have Kefir every day and it definitely doesn’t cause ‘transit problems’. I agree with other posters that upping fibre and water is the key and you have been given some good suggestions that really will work.

Arcticfox – well done for getting below 13 stone – and well done for avoiding the sugary and starchy carbs at your meeting. Hope your horse gets better soon.

Hello,
I live in Australia, and my husband and I have just started the blood sugar diet.
We are confused about whether we need to be counting carbs or calories. I know the BSD relies on 800 calories a day, but how many carbs should one aim to eat to have a low carb diet? We have researched a fair bit and have found that to lose weight you roughly need to aim for 20g of carbs. I need to lose weight, while my husband is a TOFI….thin outside and fat inside, been diagnosed with Type 2.
We would very much appreciate any guidance or help that more experienced people may have.
Thank you for taking the time to read this!
Best wishes
Buggerlugs

Hi AnnieW the Milbona I have is just Natural Greek yogurt not Greek style but I have no idea if it’s live or not! I prefer Total but it’s not available where I am. You. Could be right about the bacteria.

Oh, right. Sorry about that whole two countries separated by a common language thing. 😀

Thank you! To paraphrase an old adage, if I can do it after two decades of paralysis, you can do it too. Things can and will change for you, even things you’ve thought immutable, just like they did for me. There’s a forum full of people here who know what you’re going through and are happy to give you whatever support you need. Eyes on the prize, Miss Muffet!

Yes I understood that. I was congratulating you on weighing 119lbs which is 8.5 st xx

I didn’t lose 119 pounds. That’s my current weight. I lost at least 200. 🙂

Wow Esnecca! That 8.5 stone! (14lbs in a stone) that’s an amazing achievement.

Sarahkeay Congratulations on your baby, my high blood pressure started when I was pregnant and it never came down. I have a joke that I’m still trying to loose my baby fat…..and my baby is 29! Lol!

I’m overwhelmed by the kind words and support xx

Jackie, isn’t fitting into that size S the greatest? I’m still amazed when a sweater fits easily over my head and floats to my hips without impediment. I’m so glad you went shopping and got to enjoy one of the sweetest payoffs of all your hard work. 🙂

Theodora (please do call me Essie, I always want to call you Theo because I think it sounds cool :D), I think you’re very right that it’s about the reclaiming of my health and happiness that moved my mother. The hot outfit was just a symbol. My father broke into the warmest, slowest smile as I walked down stairs. It was like I was going to the prom or something! A lovely moment I will cherish forever.

I heartily second the motion on the table as regards a hot booties photo section. Perhaps we should clarify for the mods that we are referring to footwear, however, not body parts. 😆

Nonna Mary, you’re going to be hitting the shops like nobody’s business very soon, all the more excitedly because it’s been such a big effort on your part to get there. Next Thanksgiving you can come over to my parents’ house and enjoy some fabulous roast turkey and tell us all about your father’s mastery of the bird.

I really did, SunnyB. It was such a warm and positive atmosphere and a great time was had by all, carbers and low-carbers alike. 🙂

Vinegar brining is a quick and dirty shortcut to make pickles. The kind you find in a grocery store are almost all like that. Traditional pickles, on the other hand, are raw, unpasteurized and fermented using a saline fluid and various spices alone. They’re sour but that’s from the extraordinarily healthy lacto-bacilli produced in the fermentation process. There is zero vinegar involved. I used to hate dill pickles too, but after a few weeks on the Fast 800 and the complete elimination of sugar from my diet, I started to crave it. Then I found the real fermented pickles (and kimchi, garlic sauerkraut, horseradish leek kraut, gingered carrots, red cabbage kraut, even beets) and they were a complete revelation to me. Now I can’t let a day go by without eating at least 3 fermented products.

I’m not saying you should run right out and find some properly fermented pickles. I doubt you’ll find them all that different from the vinegar brined crap because it’s probably not the acetic acid that’s really bugging you so much as the sour flavor it imparts which vinegar mimics on the cheap. I am saying that you should keep an open mind and not get too hung up on your old habits. You wouldn’t be considering so drastic a lifestyle change as the BSD if your old habits were something work clinging to. Your tastes change enormously when you cut out sugar and refined carbs. If you’re anything like me, you won’t even recognize yourself because of how profoundly altered your palate has become.

Good luck!

Miss Muffet, I weighed more than 300lbs at 5’2″. I avoided the scale for years so I don’t know what my highest weight was, at least 320lb, I have good reason to believe. Today I weigh 119lbs, less than I weighed in high school. That’s what? Fourteen+ stone? It took me a year and a half, 14 months of it on the Fast 800. Admitting that I was killing myself and had to confront a hideous reality unflinchingly was the most important step, and you’ve done that. I second Californiagirl. Cutting your carbs to below 20 grams while enjoying lovely healthy fats and proteins will break a very long-standing, entrenched pattern of pernicious dieting while giving you a feeling of true satiety that is simply impossible to achieve while eating bad carbs of any kind. In your case, it should also help drop that terrifying blood sugar figure as quickly as possible.

Sarahkeay, I’d never heard of Graze so I looked it up. It’s quite high in carbs thanks to ingredients like cashews (one of the worst of all nuts, carb-wise), rice flour and two different kinds of sugar (maltodextrin and sucrose). Given your history of gestational diabetes, you might need to be extra vigilant about hidden sugars and simple carbs. I understand women who have experienced GD are at great risk of developing diabetes even if it cleared up post-partum. I’m insulin resistant and it wasn’t until I found the BSD and started monitoring the ingredients and carb count of everything I ate, eliminating all sugars and white carbs, that I finally reversed 20 years of steady weight gain and went from moribdly obese to my high school weight in just over a year.

I know from bitter personal experience how denial can become like an old, comfy blanket we wrap ourselves in, and the pattern of gorging the night before “starting a diet” is just another form of avoidance. It’s also a deadly trap because carbs spike insulin which scrapes the glucose out of your blood which makes you crave more carbs and on and on it goes. Cutting them drastically (20 grams or fewer a day, none from wheat, cereals, grains, sugar, starchy veg) can break that pattern better than anything else.

Good luck! Don’t be afraid of the calorie restrictions and counting. It may feel unfamiliar and scary, but it is liberation.

I’ve not made this but wonder if the yoghurt used needs to be “live”? I stopped buying Milbona and went back to Total because, as far as I could find out, although it tastes good Milbona is not live – no bacteria in it. (Milbona is Greek style – don’t know if the word style makes the difference.) No experience, just a thought.

Wow, I’m not completely sure what is happening other than a bit of a strange week, but while every 100g of weight loss was quite hard won at the beginning of the month, I’m certainly losing now. I’ve lost a whole kg since last reporting in on Tuesday. While I have been trying to get on more of a 5:2 pattern, in reality my eating has been all over the map this week. I had a fast day on Tuesday and I intended to break that fast on Wednesday morning by eating breakfast at work shortly before a 9am meeting I was scheduled to be in. Unfortunately my one route to work was blocked by a load of marble countertops that had fallen off the back of a truck and I didn’t get there until 9:30, so no time to eat and I ended up breaking the fast at noon instead. Then on Wednesday night, I was noticing indications that my horse was getting sick, so went back to the yard where I keep him on Thursday morning to check on him, and he was definitely sick. I had to wait for the vet to come and didn’t get to work until 11am, and was so hungry that I ended up eating my breakfast and lunch back to back, which was just as well because I had to be in a meeting for the afternoon where there were lots of sugary and starchy carbs on offer as snacks, and as I was satisfied, I was able to just ignore them completely. I was really on 16:8 for those two days. Then Friday I fasted again. Other than Thursday morning, I haven’t been hungry at all, even when fasting and I’ve been feeling really good and mentally alert as well. I’m sticking to low carb mediterranean type food when I’m not fasting but not calorie counting, just eating to satiety. I’m down to 82.4kg this morning, so only 400g to go to meet my mini weight goal for this challenge. When I convert that to lbs, I have lost exactly 20lbs since starting on September 24th, and I have finally managed to get below 13 stone (12st 13.8lbs)! I’m thrilled because this means that maybe by the time my horse gets better I’ll be light enough to actually ride him without putting undue strain on him. I’m not going to meet my goal of losing 2 inches off my waist, but the measuring tape this morning may have been showing a 1/4 inch lost so at least it is finally moving in the right direction.

Hi there,

My daughter turns 6 months old tomorrow and it is my line in the sand. I had gestational diabetes in pregnancy and like you have been in denial. I have the typical – harmful fat around the middle. I always think ‘I’ll start tomorrow’ which means I feast the night before with the result I Form a good intention most days and feast most days. I am about 20 kg ( 3 stone ) overweight and it affects my mood. 4 weeks tomorrow until Christmas Eve and I’d like to have lost 4 – 5 kg by then.

The thing that has worked for me is this:

Seaweed snacks – 20 kcal per pack but so deeply savoury it is oddly satisfying
Graze veggie power protein boxes ( 130 kcal per box )

Black tea. I can’t drink normal tea bag tea black as it’s tannic and vile and gives me nausea but proper ( expensive ) black tea is DELICIOUS. It’s the only way I’ll drink it black and I crave it.

Good luck!

Hi, MissMuffet, and a very warm welcome to the forums! As one of the “biggest
losers” here, I know your story, and you have indeed found the way forward. Spend
as much time as you can reading different forums, join the new thread about to
begin in Dec., ask every question you can think of! We maintainers love to share
our knowledge with new BSDers. Californiagirl, I recommend Gary Taubes’ book
as often as you do. Sometimes I feel like a broken record, but it revolutionized
how I think about food and nutrition forever. I’ve never looked back, and you can
do so too, MissMuffet. Good luck to you!!!!

Allie

Drastic things call for drastic measures, Luvtcook. Magnesium tablets for today, I
think! In the summer I use an extra spice/coffee bean grinder to pulverize the nibs
(also high in fiber) and combine with raspberries (high in fiber) and grass fed whey
protein powder (from Dr. Axe online store) to make a smoothie. Most of the year I
add to greek yogurt along with chia seeds. Because I have cardiomyopathy (enlarged
heart) I am ever mindful of keeping the balance between calcium, magnesium and
potassium as correct as possible. Husband needs this too! Let us know how you
are getting on with solving this problem. I’m sympathetic. My idea of a big blow out
treat these days is to put a tsp of cacao nibs on top of a plump, dried apricot half,
fold it over, and shove into my mouth. Nirvana! But only 1!

Hi, everyone! I hope you are all enjoying the weekend…….We’re off to take a walk down by the river. There’s a nice boardwalk, and it’s a lovely crisp day.

Kazz, I’m sorry to hear about the leg/foot cramps. I hope that the soap tip works for you!
I’m picturing you outside today working on the leaves. My father was a big believer in
“free labor” so as children we were always enlisted for our servics on Autumn weekends.
Our own lawn was several acres of landscaped property with at least 12 mature oaks
on the property, so too much work for jim and I, left basically to the weekend. If it
rained, we were pretty much doomed. Consequently, our lawn service did it after the
first year. When I’m “allowed” access to the computer in the study I’ll reply. I got a chance
to read thru your email last night, and I’m sincerely grateful. You are so bright,
perceptive and intuitive, I knew you would be able to help me make the best decision
for me. More on that, later 🙂 Since you and friend Mary both enjoy Sat. night programming
of “Dancing…”, would it be fun to skype and watch it together?? It makes me happy to
think so 🙂 🙂 🙂

Love to all,

Allie

Hi, everyone! I hope you are all enjoying the weekend…….We’re off to take a walk down by the river. There’s a nice boardwalk, and it’s a lovely crisp day.

Kazz, I’m sorry to hear about the leg/foot cramps. I hope that the soap tip works for you!
I’m picturing you outside today working on the leaves. My father was a big believer in
“free labor” so as children we were always enlisted for our servics on Autumn weekends.
Our own lawn was several acres of landscaped property with at least 12 mature oaks
on the property, so too much work for jim and I, left basically to the weekend. If it
rained, we were pretty much doomed. Consequently, our lawn service did it after the
first year. When I’m “allowed” access to the computer in the study I’ll reply. I got a chance
to read thru your reply last night, and I’m sincerely grateful. You are so bright,
perceptive and intuitive, I knew you would be able to help me make the best decision
for me. More on that, later 🙂 Since you and friend Mary both enjoy Sat. night programming
of “Dancing…”, would it be fun to skype and watch it together?? It makes me happy to
think so 🙂 🙂 🙂

Love to all,

Allie

Welcome to the end of your thirty years of useless diets Miss Muffet — this way of eating is going to revolutionize your health, your weight and your life.
So good that you are “just starting”, even though it is the holidays! You are absolutely correct, there is no “good” time to start (well I take that back, the good time to start is NOW but you have already done that!)
Even if the holidays throw you a couple of curve balls, if you just go right back to it again and again, it will become second nature — then the weight loss and how good you feel will motivate you. Just don’t quit — that’s the only way this diet doesn’t work.
As you are feeling some hunger, the best way to get that under control is to get your daily carbohydrate count way way down — as low as 20 grams of carbohydrate per day. It will take a bit of time but you will quickly memorize carb counts and you will find your weight loss is quick and your hunger subsides.
I’m probably a broken record by now but I always recommend new starters get a copy of Gary Taubes book “Why We Get Fat and What To Do About It” because it is an excellent description of what we have done wrong in our diets and how to wrap our heads around a new way of eating (low carbohydrate and more good fats). It is a great companion book to the BSD book.
I drink Gerolsteiner sparking water because tap water tastes like pond water to me. Try that if you are struggling to drink water. It also has high mineral content, 25% of daily calcium, good all round.
There are a lot of stories here that mirror your own — you are in good company. Welcome and good for you in just starting!! You are going to amaze yourself.

Thank you all!
I drink my tea black anyway and have done for 20 years, I hate milk in my tea, yuck! So that’s something in my favour.
Oh yes my water definitely tastes of something, probably all the chemicals they put in it to clean it lol! I’ll keep sipping it though 🙂 xx

Jacki M that will be a great and easy alternative,
Thank you!

Phew…spent the day with two snotty, coughy grandies again. They are so lovely even as they are…how does so much gunk come out of such small noses? Anyway…knackered now.

Kazz…bloody well done and thank goodness for the weight loss…but then…you do work hard so you deserve it !

I am going to enjoy Strictly and I’m a Celeb tonight.

Take care everyone.

Love Mary xxx

Allie, all suggestions welcomed. Have been low carbing for about 5 yrs and never ran into this issue before per eating LOTS of veg. The cocoa nibs sound like a great option for daily maintenance. Will give that a shot. Magnesium pills and psyllium for today I am afraid.

By the way…how do you do your nibs? What do you put them on as I assume you aren’t just swallowing them with gulps of water. On yogurt ….or ricotta?

Miss Muffet I make myself a pitcher of black tea and just let it set on the counter and drink glasses of it through the day…have stopped even bothering with sugar (or ice as we Americans do) and just have it room temp. It works for me and is reported to help with weight loss. See info posted on the Livestrong website (which also has a free option to track your calories, carbs and protien if you wish).

“Research published so far suggests that black tea has the potential to support weight loss. The digestive enzyme lipase is inhibited in laboratory animals that consume black tea flavonoids. Since fats aren’t digested without lipase, some dietary fats are eliminated from the body rather than absorbed. When lab mice were fed a high-fat diet, the animals receiving a higher dose of black tea polyphenols lost more weight than the group that got fewer polyphenols, reported Nutrition in 2011”.

Luvtcook – I’m sorry you haven’t resolved this uncomfortable situation. I certainly
don’t want to be a nag, please forgive me, but I take 1 tb of raw cacao nibs every
day FOR the magnesium! 🙂

Miss Muffet – diet coke or any other diet drink will send your BG (blood glucose) sky high, it has the same effect on the body as sugar because the liver cannot differentiate. My daughter bought a water bottle with a central bit to put fruit into so you can say, put in 2 or 3 strawberries and get a fruity flavour.

Allie, thanks for reminding me of how much fiber avocados have in them. It seems so counterintuitive given how creamy they are. I think it my also be due to my drop in magnesium per cutting out some of the almond meal things I was making/having before BSD. Still struggling today….on to Level 2 intervention. Ugh.

One thing I’ve noticed since doing the BSD, in the past few weeks I’ve started getting heavy, weak legs as soon as I start walking down the road, then I started getting achey pains in my upper back. I looked it up on the internet and saw it could be a problem side-effect with the Metformin. As soon as I stopped taking it, the pains and muscle weakness disappeared. I took one again this morning and the pains came back a couple of hours later. I guess if I don’t need it any more, that’s why. My body doesn’t like it any more. So, I’ve decided not to take my Metformin any more until I have spoken to my GP. After all, I fought my diabetes with diet and exercise until recently anyway, so I should be able to do it again… Has anyone else had any side effects from Metformin?

1 day to go… happy Saturday evening and Sunday, everyone.

The 5:2 Forum has some interesting stories, but no recipe hints, which is disappointing , but never mind.

NO!!! We all seem to have a problem with water but what is there to hate? It has no taste. It really is just a habit that we have to cultivate. Try just saying …. this morning I will have one glass of water. The same tomorrow then step up to one in the morning and one the afternoon. Not too difficult, it has no taste!

Thanks, LTC. I finish my 8 week BSD tomorrow. It is frustrating that I have to wait until the end of January before my doctor wants me to do another HbA1c blood test, but it makes sense, I guess, as it shows an average over 3 months… With Christmas in between it could be interesting.

One thing I’ve noticed since doing the diet, in the past few weeks I started getting heavy, weak legs as soon as I started walking down the road, then I started getting achey pains in my upper back. I looked it up on the internet and saw it could be a problem side-effect with the Metformin. As soon as I stopped taking it, the pains and muscle weakness disappeared. I took one again this morning and the pains came back a couple of hours later. I guess if I don’t need it any more, that’s why. My body doesn’t like it any more. So, I’ve decided not to take my Metformin any more until I have spoken to my GP.

Thanks SunnyB. I thnk you’re right I just didn’t drain it long enough. I used a kilo of yogurt which is probably twice as much as I’ve used before. Yes it’s ok spread on crispbread with smoked salmon, black pepper and a drizzle of lemon. I tried it at lunch with some kalamata olives and that was fine but just not as good as it could be! Will keep experimenting!

Hi SunnyB and thank you. I’m struggling with what to drink as hate just water and don’t like it with lemon! Any suggestions? Can I drink Diet Coke? xx

Congratulations AngS and best of luck on the 5:2…you will be missed. Come visit some time and let us know how you are doing.

LTC

Hi V, I would say nothing but it might just have needed to drain longer. I have left some labneh draining for over 24hrs in the past – I go by the feel on the labneh when lightly squeezed and how much additional fluid drips out when you do this. Don’t be discourage from trying again and I’m sure you can use what you have produced as a spreadable cream cheese or dip.

Hi Miss Muffet – just wanted to echo Verano’s welcome. When I first started, I had about six weeks to go to a three month vacation. There really is no right time to start and we have to find a way to make this way of eating work for our lifestyles, because life is going to happen, no matter how we approach eating.

This is a great forum for information, advice, applause, encouragement and support. This is the place to come in good times and bad and someone will be there to offer words of wisdom. We are all on the BSD adventure and have our own reasons for being here, but ultimately our goals are the same – to improve our health, wellbeing; to be slimmer, fitter and healthier. Some of us have been travelling a good while now and are moving into maintenance and some are still soldiering on to get to their target, while others are just beginning along their path, but we are all here as a community to buoy each other along.

My snippet of advice is, include full fats in your meals to help with feeling sated, keep an eye on the carbs – they hide in allsorts of foods you wouldn’t expect to find them and finally, hydration, hydration, hydration!

Best of luck to you – keep us posted on progress and if you need advice on a particular topic, try a search using the box in the top right of the page, as it’s likely been covered before.

Yes, thank you. I wondered which property of dilute acetic acid ( lower the pH ? ). Lemon juice will do that too and possibly have other helpful compounds.

Thank you Verano. Feeling really hungry but I keep thinking of that BS reading and it’s stopping me caving in lol! X

Welcome Miss Muffet and you really have come to the right place. You are also so right that there never is a perfect time. We have to live and heal ourselves at the same time . There are so many success stories of reversing T2 diabetes and/or losing lots of weight. The only thing I found, especially with the recipe book, is that a hard copy is much easier to refer to as time goes on. I downloaded the BSD Diet book but then bought the hard copy from Amazon because it’s so much easier to refer to, and then I just bought a copy of the recipe book rather than the kindle version.

There are so many posters here who can answer any question you have, no matter how obscure, just be sure to keep posting it really helps. Good luck and enjoy your journey.

Welcome Kingfisher, a quick bit of online research suggests lemon juice is similar in action to vinegar, in that it contains antioxidants and also helps in regulating blood sugars. So, I think you could substitute lemon juice for vinegar as you have such an aversion to that particular substance.

Bes of luck on the BSD

Hi all, just popping in (November seems to have been a bit of a whirlwind ) still away with relatives but home by Tuesday! Your posts have given me motivation to keep to the plan as near as poss without being rude when being encouraged to eat portions of carbs!! Bread everywhere,🍰cakes everywhere 🤪 I have had the 🍷I am a converted red drinker now😊
I want to congratulate all of you, this is such a solid forum for advice and tips and amazing recipes👍 Respect to all newbies like myself, BSDers who have reached their targets🎯 and you amazing maintainers💪It just gives me hope that I can set myself a new target for December to get into the next stone or close too without ruining this challenge, will weigh Tuesday and post happy hols and have a super weekend all 😊 xx

Ok so I made this yesterday using Lidl Milbona Greek yogurt mixed with a teaspoon of salt. I have only used Total in the past. Anyway I let this drain for around 20hrs but it has turned out like very, very thick whipped cream. SunnyB, or any other labneh makers. What have I done wrong??

I’ve started the BSD today. I know it’s only 4 weeks to Christmas but when is it ever the perfect time? Life will always get in the way.
I was diagnosed with type 2 about 4 years ago but just over the threshold at that time but now totally out of control. I’ve been in denial for the total time, eating what I wanted and hardly any exercise. Tested my blood sugar today and it’s 16.5 and I’m 6st overweight (something I haven’t admitted to anyone!). Things have to change. I’ve been on a diet for the past 30 years aaaarrrrggggggg!

I’ve downloaded both the diet and recipe books onto my kindle at the beginning of the week and I’ve been avidly reading it since (haven’t tucked into the recipe book yet).

IAs I have explained in my profile I do not use vinegar in any form. It is promoted as being valuable for this way of eating.

What can I use instead. Doe lemon/lime juice have the same effect?

Hi, I’m please to report I’ve lost 3 of my 4lb gain last weekend. I’ll weigh in again on Thursday and it would be good to lose another 3 and hit my Nov goal of 6 but it’s probably unlikely, however, I will give it my best shot!

Sunshine – thanks for answering my question about the soap. I will try that tonight. Well done also on your 1 lb lost. I have lost very slowly since I begin BSD, averaging out at losing 1.5 lbs per week. If that’s all I expect, then any more is a bonus. Really pleased for you SG.

Have a good weekend everyone.

Kazzeee xx

Hey PatriciaSan I can only eat eggs in moderation else I get sick of them. 100g full fat Greek yoghurt and 10g flaked almonds worked for me. Now I am used to it I don’t have breakfast

Hello my friends

I just wanted to post that I weighed in at 16.13 this morning so 3 of the 4 lbs gain from last week off. Phew! I shall weigh again on Thursday which is the last day of the Nov challenge and hopefully if I could have lost another 3 lb, I will have met my Nov goal of 6 lbs lost. So, scales going in the right direction again.

I had brunch today of a grilled kipper and 2 scrambled eggs. I really enjoyed it!

Well that’s it for today, nothing new to report. Got a mountain of leaves to sweep up and may be meeting up with a friend tomorrow for coffee but other than that, need to start the book club book 1984! But, I still need to finish Brain Grain, so whilst the laundry is on, that’s what I’m off to do now!

Enjoy your weekend lovelies, see you Monday.

Kazzzeee xxx

Esnecca, you must have felt a million dollars in your Thanksgiving outfit! And lovely for you that others noticed and no-one pressured you to eat things you didn’t want. Sounds like you had the perfect day.

Like you, JackieM, clothes shopping is still a revelation to me. Still can’t quite get used to not having to buy baggy items to disguise the unsightly bulges. Buying fitted clothes is definitely not coming naturally yet, but I’m getting there gradually. It’s so lovely when I do buy something fitted and feel good in it, I hope that it will be awhile before that feeling diminishes though.

Keep going Joes Nonna, you’ll be with us soon, telling us about your new wardrobe too.

Have a good weekend everyone.