Morning all,

Well, it’s only gone and happened!! today – 129.6lb (I’m in the 120s 😀😀)

so that is -1lb from yesterday!!!! What? How?

Never thought I would get there in this challenge.

Reading the posts on the forum are so helpful for understanding that this process of loss/gain/loss/ maintenance etc. is so individual.

I have been mulling over what I need to fully get my head around in order to keep on keeping on. I hope you don’t mind me putting my reflections down here, I just wanted to crystallise them for myself. Yes, we have a formula to follow, eat x calories, x carbs etc and the magic will happen. In truth, that has to fit into the life that SueBlue’s poem talks about. The amazing, the good, the awful, the mundane.

I have been conscious that I haven’t wanted to say that I actually don’t count carbs (gulp, there said it!), I have reflected on why I haven’t mentioned this, I really don’t think any of you would judge me for that but I guess there must have been something around me not making peace with how I do this as an individual. For me, I was aware that creating and following a BSD meal plan which averaged out at 800cals a day was going to be tough enough. I KNEW, that given my temperament, adding a tracking element (on an app) and a carb count would further tie me up in knots from which I might never escape. As a perfectionist, I naturally seek the ‘best’ way to do things, which can usually be quite complicated and involved and then it is all or nothing. I am really working hard to not allow the ‘perfect’ be the enemy of the ‘good’ and, ‘near enough is good enough’.

Reading through the posts totally confirms for me that, within this framework, each of us finds a form that can work for where we are at in our lives, whether that is carb counting, fasting, just getting through a difficult season etc. I recognise the temptation to compare what I am doing with other people and be self-critical as they must be doing it better.

I am, of course, pleased with the fact that I am making progress and need to be content with how I am doing it. It isn’t linear, but it is progress.

Thanks all, x

A very happy Thanksgiving to you all across the pond from a very stormy UK!

Enjoy your holidays … 🙂

Love
Kazzeee xxx

Talking of jumpsuits and evening wear, I picked up a French Connection black slinky jumpsuit with no sleeves and a high collar last week, only another charity shop ‘just to try it’ purchase at £1.99 since I’d never had anything like that before but I love it, now all I need to do is work up the courage to actually wear it in public 😁

The black tie ‘do’ went off without a hitch, I drank a whole bottle of prosecco, bar half a glass my OH spilt, but over the whole night that wouldn’t have been a problem, but a friend offered me some gin too so I had a bit of a headache the day after. The dress was a definite hit, it just shows that you never know what is round the corner, the dress was hiding in my wardrobe for so long never seeing the light of day and now it is my favourite party wear, as I always knew it would be.

I hope the various Thanksgiving celebrations were a success, and I am certainly giving thanks this year for finding this WOE.

Hi Maggie, that’s great that you’re not feeling hungry at all. I’m just going to bed on day seven, and I have to say that I found days three, four and five really difficult, total carb flu. But the thought of having to go through all that again kept me on the straight and narrow, and I feel fine now. Think I’ve been nearer to 900 calories most days, but minimum carbs. Not even tempted by the home made cakes at work today, which I don’t think has ever happened before. It’s a revelation this diet.

HAPPY THANKGIVING Allie , &’ all our Forum Friends across the Atlantic Ocean , you will be thinking about your Thanksgiving Dinner about now , it is November 23 rd here in Oz , so was yesterday here for all those who Celebrate .
We are enjoying a few lovely warm days , mid to late 20 ‘s Celsius at “THE SHACK ” …. Not trying to make you jealous at all 😂😂😂😂 ❤️

I’ve been a bit strung out , a few weeks filled with health issues , tests etc.etc.etc., not over yet , but a few days break , prior to the next one !

I just haven’t been able to get enough time to participate , so have jumped on now and again , had a brief look latest Forums , and that’s about it .
Have noticed ‘ you ‘ go on the prowl each night ,
Like an ‘ Alley Cat ‘ ,
Looking for some new delight ,
Like an ‘ Alley Cat ‘ ….🐈
Catchy song from way back when , I find myself humming it when your name pops up .

Will just say to catch you up to date , in terms of my weight loss , 6 .3 kgs overall since I first joined in , on lovely Lizzie’ s Forum , and although it’s a very slow loss , I’m happy with the fact that I’m at least losing .

Do say Hello & give my love to everyone on Our Lizzie’ s Forum , hope they are all soldiering on , will get back as soon as I can .
I must fly as we have visitors for lunch , so making a cauliflower pizza based pizza , time will run out if I don’t get that caul rice started .
Hot coffee with a big dollop of double cream floating on top smelling good , made kind favour of O.H . ❤️
Enjoy your Thankgiving dinner with Jim .

Love and hugs ,
Hello 66
😘😘

Hi SunnyB thanks for the advice. Drinking plenty of water but still mindful of fats so will change that up a bit ( many years of avoiding fats takes some getting used to)

Will try the brushing teeth method if will power alone does not work.

Appreciate your suggestion, thank you

Same from here…..happy thanksgiving guys – enjoy your special time with your families 👪👫👬👭🎈🎉🎊🎈

SueBlue – thank you for sharing the poem . We have all experienced amazing and awful in our lives. Keep breathing and relaxing everyone through the good and bad times.

I’m in my first week fully and strictly on the BSD and have lost 1.3kg in the first three days, but I am seeing my fasting BG rising from my starting 6.2 to 7.4. I had not heard of the Dawn Phenomenon before I hit this thread but I have now read several scholarly articles about it and feel assured that I know what is going on. Thanks, folks, and especially Squidgy for pointing me in this direction.

Just dropped in to say HAPPY THANKS GIVING to all of our friends across The Pond. Have a fab time everyone!

Thank you, SueBlue, what a lovely poem to start the day with! 🙂 Sometimes all of
those possibilities can be a part of the very same day, can’t they? But there is
always something beautiful just around the corner, and we need to hold on always
to greet the sunrise and a fresh, new day. Thanks so much for the positive
sentiment!

Thanks for the poem, SueBlue, it’s relevant to all our lives I’m sure and is certainly thought provoking. Thank you for sharing.

Hey Cameron – Wow, fabulous results so far! You must be justifiably really pleased with yourself.

Personally think that cravings are largely in the mind, rather than the body, so diversionary tactics might work – find a way to take your mind somewhere else, maybe going for a walk, or reading, or drink another glass of water. Alternatively, save enough of your cal and carb allowance to allow yourself a square or two of very dark chocolate, a few nuts, or a small portion of yogurt and berries in the evening.

In case it is your body asking for something extra, check you are including enough fat in your meals, to help with feeling sated; also check you are keeping your hydration up too.

Finally, if all else fails try brushing your teeth, as we rarely fancy eating anything immediately after cleaning our teeth and it will probably give you time to focus on something other than a snack.

Hope you find an answer that works for you, but it seems to me you have the BSD cracked!

Alliecat it certainly is a wonderful time to be alive!
This lovey little poem came up on my Facebook feed this morning, and I felt it was appropriate for our group, as some of us have been facing challenges this week.
“Life is amazing. And then it’s awful. And then it’s amazing again.
And in between the amazing and the awful it’s ordinary and mundane and routine.
Breathe in the amazing, hold on through
the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary.
That’s just living heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life.
And it’s breathtakingly beautiful”
LR Knost

Hi everyone!

I am so late to this party it’s unreal BUT I too (according to my doc) have also reversed my T2 diabetes. I am now at normal levels (Hc1a is at pre diabetic levels too -38!) and everything from blood to cholesterol is normal. Doctor says I may well have added 15-20 years to my life.

I started at just under 17 stone and after the week of carb flu we got into the habit of more exercise and doing the 8 week 800 diet. Very hard at first but with the help of My FitnessPal we managed to work out the best things to eat and keep energy up as well as make sure the protein was high and the carbs low. It was a rough start as I put in here, I got so weak I collapsed. But this turned out to be me not looking after my Iron levels, A few days of scoffing Broccoli and Kale sorted that.

Cut out Bread and Potatoes and to this day don’t miss either. ,Kept carbs to under 25G and Protein to I think about 200G. Dinner was often some meat from the butchers and a load of veg, very filling. Also Diabetic Ice Cream was a good desert, made no odds to anything (which of course is it’s point) and we also carried on drinking Coke Zero (which turns out also had no effect)

My doctor didn’t seem annoyed or surprised when I confessed that I haven’t taken a pill since Jan 2017 because I wanted to see if the diet worked and I told myself I would never know if I carried on taking the Metformin. Also I am unfortunate to be one of the few who gets constant toilet urges from taking it. So Metformin, Statins and Naproxen all stopped. In fact I asked Boots to cancel my prescription as I didn’t want to waste any more of our taxpayers money.

All I ever spent on the BSD apart from food was a few quid for the recipe book.

I am now 14:9 and feeling healthier. I walk a lot more in my job now and I feel the benefits. I don’t get any problems in my feet and my Myopathy has been clear since I had diabetes. My doctor tells me that whilst it can always return if I let it , as I sit here today Its gone and he wishes he could get me to go out and tell other diabetics how to sort themselves out and get away from pills and pain. And I wish I could too! (and I guess I sort of am!)

20 years of bad diet and lifestyle choice – reversed in 5 months. I stopped using the BSD in June and just stuck to eating what I liked in moderation. The rest has just fallen into place. All because I changed my diet and state of mind. Don’t get me wrong I still scoff the odd bad thing, but luckily it does not seem to matter.

I wish everyone the best.. and I will carry on eating what we do, enjoying what we eat!

Aha! so it was!

She’s doing good thanks – also lost a lot of weight – gonw down 2 dress sizes I am told 🙂

The doctor told me today he thinks Ive put on 15-20 years. And now only need to have yearly checkups on eyes and blood as a “precaution”

I’ve now given my BSD receipe book and other stuff to a friend who is type 2 but has to have an injection every week. I am hoping this will stop his problems too!

Greetings from Melbourne Australia . I am fine adhering to the BSD lifestle during the day but find that I crave chocolate or some form of snack after I have had my evening meal. Any suggestions to curb these cravings would be gratefully appreciated .

I have had great success to date having lost approximately 13 kg’s in the last 12 weeks but have rently found my resolve being tested.
Thank you for your assistance

Regards

Cameron

Hi everyone
End of day 4 for me and, like veerle, I am not feeling hungry, though Sunday (1st day) was hard. It sounds mean to say it, but I think I am coping better because my husband is away this week – if he is here it is all too easy to flop onto the sofa, crack open the wine and then get out the cheese and biscuits! I have kept myself busy which is helping too.
How is everyone else getting on?

End of day 3 and going good. I find with the small, light portions that eating slowly, chewing more helps to feel filled up, and makes the meal last longer when having a family meal. Sipping coffee, water and herbal tea in between meals means I’ve not actually felt hungry.
I thought I would be craving food more, so glad that’s not the case.

Thank you so much, Mary! This one of the “big ones” for us 🙂

Hi Julia, the program you were listening to today substantiates what I have read, also!
It’s not a bad thing to try and narrow the odds, is it? There is a large study being conducted
by the National Institutes of Health, ongoing for 15+ years where dementia patients are
followed. It’s fascinating. You might be able to find the program on you tube. Not only
do we feel so well following this WOE, but the projected benefits are only now being
explored. It’s a wonderful time to be alive, isn’t it?

Hi SunnyB, I’ve not braved the scales yet, but I will do at the weekend! I’ve been doing ok – the new veg concoction tastes (and looks!) so much better than the old one so thanks for that – is bound to make a difference. I struggled a little today as I work in a very touristy place, which is full of cafes etc. and I’d not had the chance to make anything for lunch. As you’ll know, the problem with cafes is virtually everything on the menu is a carb, sugar or both! Anyways, I ended up having a white bread cheese and mushroom toastie – but I made sure I went for a brisk 30 min walk to compensate! Small steps etc. 🙂

Interesting discussion this morning on our public radio statio. KQED — Dr. Brettison talking about Alzheimers — recommends absolute low carb/high fat diet, ketosis, 14-16 hour fasting.
He has a book out — “End of Alzheimers” — more evidence of the benefits of this WOE

I just have one thing to say….

HAPPY HOLIDAYS !

Love Nonna Mary
xxxx

Thank you for the description alliecat, it sounds delicious. Our son lives in US with his American family and will be cooking pumpkin pie. I wonder if it would freeze so I can taste it when we go over for Christmas?

Mary, I’m absolutely certain the wait will be worth it!!! I’m delighted that you like my
stories, but you only encourage me to include more of them 🙂 🙂 🙂

Hi Travelling Rose,
I will happily join you as I need a serious re-boot (or kick up the a***)!
I was doing really well and had all but vanquished the carb habit but I have gradually slipped from the path. I haven’t actually put on weight but I feel bloated and lacking in energy and I know I will feel so much better if I can get back on track. It’s 4 weeks to the solstice and 3 to when we move house! So I have a sensible gap of time to get myself sorted.
Looking forward to a New Year full of health and happiness.
SSB

Right…I have 5 minutes to myself before Jovis gets back with the shopping and we start dinner…

Little Joe continues to have a nasty cough and a high temperature…not a fever, but high none the less. His mother is keeping a close watch on him but assures me he is ok. However, he is sleeping at the moment, despite his 16 month old sister bringing, sheets and blankets out of the clean washing basket, to cover him up! God bless children everywhere, they are so wonderful.

Noodle was lovely and gave me the most amazing smiles. I munched her and loved her and enjoyed every minute. She is so great. I am so blessed.

Lovetcook…that sounds horrible. Makes me mad when the medics can’t find anything wrong! I hope you feel better soon and enjoy Thanksgiving.

Allie, I love your stories. The aunt on the heels reminds me of one of my dads sisters. She wouldn’t use her bus pass (enables free travel) because she didn’t want anyone to know her age. Her hair was blonde and piled on her head and she wore high heels until she died. I wish I had their fortitude. I like to feel comfortable! The idea of the gravy arriving before the boat made me laugh!

Kazz…I have a Christmas Album by Nat…on it he sings Buon Natale (forgive the spelling if its wrong). A lovely little ditty! We have been watching Christmas Films and listening to Christmas songs for a few weeks now. Jovis loves the spirit of Christmas and we always make sure there is plenty of love in the house for him. Explaining our Christmas will take too long now…so I am keeping Allie on tenterhooks a bit longer.

Later lovelies,

Mary
xxx

Thank you, Californiagirl! And right back atcha.

I’m going to pass on the pumpkin pie (and mashed potatoes, mashed turnips and assorted preparations of cranberries) because I’m even more of a fanatic now than I was a year ago when I made an exception for my mom’s potatoes. Gotta keep my great new burgundy floral suit from popping buttons. 😀

I’m late again too after a funeral, travelling up M 6 again and doctors appointment and I am really pleased to have lost another 2 1/2 pounds. That is a total of 9 pounds on this challenge. It’s very unusual for me not to comfort eat with all that’s gone on lately, but I just have not been hungry. I am also determined not to gain again whilst taking the steroids (which may be very long term) and keeping the carbs really low helps to not overeat. I think I am now eating the correct portion sizes although I haven’t had the time or inclination to count calories and mainly I am eating just two meals a day with no snacks.
I’m tantalisingly near to the three stone off with just 1 1/2 pounds to go.

Happy birthday Marsie and well done on on your weight loss.

Love and hugs to you Sunshine Girl.

Keeping on………..
X B

Enjoy the holiday, Esnecca! Why do I always want to pull up a chair when you start to
describe food??? 🙂

Thank you, Verano! I will enjoy this most traditional of American holidays in the most traditional of ways: with near-constant bickering with my family. 😀 It has already begun because I will not be eating my mother’s famous mashed potatoes this year, even though I did last year when I weighed 130 pounds more than I do now. She gave me the old “But it’s just one day. You have to have a little joy in your life!” speech. I indulged her in a little back and forth before shutting the whole conversation down. “Mother, I love you. I love your mashed potatoes. I just don’t eat potatoes anymore.”

I’m making cauli mash mixed with chopped up steamed spinach and garlic plus ricotta and parmesan for a low carb but delectably rich side. Also roasted aspargus served cold with a dressing of Dijon, roasted garlic and parmesan. Between that and my father’s incomporable roasted turkey and stuffing, I am ready to feast on my terms. I even scored a little dessert, mini pumpkin spice cloud cakes that I plan to frost with vanilla and cinammon cream cheese. Twenty calories a pop for the cakes, 35 for the cream cheese. No carbs. Not one. Ten’ll get you twenty that everyone’s going to want to try one of these cute little guys even though they can have all of my mom’s fabulous pumpkin and mincemeat pies they want.

Bring on the insanity!

Hi, Busybee! Pumpkin pie is a little hard to describe. Imagine pumpkin puree to which
is added cream and eggs, then heavily seasoned with ground cinnamon, ginger, allspice
and cloves. You pour this mixture into a blind baked crust. It has the texture of a custard,
but denser than an egg custard because of the pumpkin puree. When a knife inserted
comes out clean, it’s done! 🙂

Yes, best wishes from me as well. Pumpkin Pie?
X B

Thank you, Verano! I’m feeling very blessed this holiday. Husband doing well, and I have
so many new friends here to be grateful for. Loll in that sunshine! I can feel the warmth
of it from here, and recharge your batteries 🙂 See you when you return!!!

Allie

The news has been just awful, I too have found the current status of it all very disheartening and I understand how it can trigger memories that bring us down if we have any past history with those issues.
Combined with the holidays and the worries about North Korea and all the turmoil politically, both in the US and in the UK, the endless news-cycles of negative/negative, it is just too much.
As we move into the holidays, I’m just wishing everyone a calm and quiet few weeks, with joy and happy family and friend connections, however it best suits you.
Sunshinegirl, I hope your low point is passed and you are feeling better — you’ve been such a valued contributor here, thank you for all your replies and comments this year. I know a lot of people have gained a lot of important insights from your journey.
Topcac — ugh, I’m feeling your conflict with weight gain and job stress. Can you break the cycle by changing up a couple of things that set off the auto-response of eating — it is so easy for us to respond that way and I can still fall (almost two years later!)into that if I get tired or angry or stressed.
My coping strategy is just to make any change I can to break the cycle, no matter how small. Sometimes just getting my nails done or getting a facial or taking an hour to go sit and look at a view can help me — anything to stop my auto-response of eating.
Celebrate small steps back and you will be feeling more in control soon I hope.
Our world is such a beautiful place — full of caring loving people. As we move into the last weeks of the year I hope that everyone enjoys the quiet dim days of our solstice, then the growing sun as it swings around again for the new year 2018.
Good wishes to all.

Sorry, Kazz, I forgot the punchline! When my then future husband got back to college after his
first major holiday with my family, he was asked by a friend “How was it with Allison’s family?”
His reply was “Oh, just like one of our fraternity parties!” Enough said 🙂 🙂 🙂

Hi Pottypeg,
All we can do is keep spreading the word and using our own experiences as evidence.
Well done on your fantastic weight-loss – you are a great example of what works.
SSB

To all my ‘ new friends’ on the other side of the pond I’d just like to wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving and have a nice day x

Kazz, you just put a happy memory in my head. My grandmother used to make her own
homemade mincemeat for christmas pies!! As I recall, it was started way in advance of
the holiday, and was loaded with brandy or some other booze. I just remember the spice
she used and the alcohol. I’m going to have a look at the recipe you linked. I haven’t
given that a thought in a long time. Does it contain suet??? Holidays were pretty raucus
at the relative’s houses. The “elders”, probably my current age now, refused to give up
their whiskey or scotch as they aged. When o/h was first exposed to my family dinners
he said that he’d never seen old people drink! He’s from a different area of the country
than I. On one holiday my great aunt had over indulged and was therefor a little unsteady
on her spiked heels. She was bringing in a full gravy boat to the table. The gravy arrived
on the tablecloth several seconds before she came along with the boat. None of this seemed
at all shocking to us at the time! 🙂 Sparkling wine was then served with dinner. My cousin
and I were both around 13 at the time, and we were both given a glass as we had
graduated to the “adult” table. What did we know? All this passed as normal. Maybe
this explains why I’m more than a little crazy? O/h is indeed planted in front of his
laptop! No classes this afternoon because of the holiday. I’ll try to sneak back there
and dislodge him so that I can pick up your email 🙂

Caron a great loss pat yourself on the back!

Well wonderful to feel some sun on my body again and feeling relaxed despite a very early start this morning. I just love these boards. Everyone is so helpful. There is always someone to help in a crisis with great advice. I, for one, know that there is no way this plan would have been anywhere near as successful for me, without the help of all my ‘friends’ out there.

Allie so glad you have sorted your problem, and yes, I think sometimes others see things far more clearly than we do ourselves.

I’ve enjoyed my last four weeks here and they have been successful, as far as I’m concerned, because I’m still not going back to the ‘old me’, much prefer the new one, the water drinker!!

Look forward to another challenge in the not too distant future but for the moment I’m going to relax, enjoy a glass of cold white, gaze at the ocean in the far, far distance, and recharge my batteries. I think as we get a little older stress, surgeries and all manner of things take a greater toll on our bodies. We need to be kinder to ourselves.

See you all soon.

Happy Thanksgiving to you too Allie, and Esnecca and Luvtcook — and any other US posters who I don’t know!
I hope you have a wonderful warm day and enjoy the BSD-friendly parts of Thanksgiving dinner and yes, Allie, a sliver of pumpkin pie! Don’t think I can call it Thanksgiving without a bit of pumpkin pie but I will probably eat the filling and leave the crust because it’s my favorite part and I can sort of justify the pumpkin, cream and eggs!!

An interesting thread. I started at Slimming World 6 years ago and lost reasonably for a while but then plateaued and couldn’t shift any more weight. I was following their diet which advocated loads of rice, pasta etc particularly if you were vegetarian. Having down a lot of reading a year ago I decided to try cutting out carbs such as bread race of any kind and potatoes but went back to full fat cheese and things like nuts and peanut butter. Lo and behold the weight started going again and I’ve now lost 4 1/2 stones altogether.

I decided to buy the BSD books as a friend who is Type 2 was doing it and was interested to see that it was based on what I’d discovered for myself.

There are so many people still convinced that low fat is the way to go. I work with someone and she won’t accept that things like low fat yogurts contain so much sugar. 🙂

When I talked to my doctor some years ago I was presented with the NHS guidelines and had I followed those I would still be a lot heavier!

Hope things are going well, Martie. Have you braved the scales yet since starting?

Firstly, big hug to you Topcac, it must be hard to see the numbers continually climbing back up and very disheartening, given that you had done so well. I agree with CC that finding the resolve to ‘keep on keeping’ on can be really tough and that you need to be kind to yourself, so take this w/e and then look to get back to it, even if it’s only in a small way. Even if you are only able to side line some of the non-BSD indulgences, it would be a start.

It’s tough being unhappy at work and it’s evidently undermining your efforts in other areas. May be after this w/e, just take it slowly to try to re-establish you BSD eating pattern. I have confidence you will find your way back and start to see the numbers on the scales drop again. Meanwhile, keep posting and we’ll keep doing what we can to support you.

Hi everyone, I have given myself a good talking to. My hubby has been worried about his blood tests and I have been telling him not to worry about what has not happened yet and here I am getting worked up about something that happened years ago. My hub has seen the doctor and it is a worry as his triglycerides are a little high but combined with his fasting blood sugars are also up but not high – it is the two together that rings alarm bells. Fortunately, the doctor has sent him away saying he should know what to do because of me and retest in 3 months. Although he doesn’t eat so many white carbs at our main meal I think he is kidding himself as he has toast and marmalade for breakfast, sandwich and soup for lunch with a sweet yoghurt, cakes twice a week and croissants at the weekend. He has switched to porridge in the morning.

Started week 2 on the Mindfulness course which I couldn’t face for a couple of days. This week is about self compassion which I really need. They talk about someone called Kristin Neff who has lots of UTube talks on the subject. I particularly like the phrase ‘you are the master of your own ship’. I have to put what happened back in its box as I cannot change it or improve it or prevent it. It is gone.

Thank you all for your support.

Topcac, I know where you are coming from. I am in the same boat (now master of it) and it is not easy to pull out of the mindset. With your job, just remember the words ‘not yet’. You will eventually be able to move on to better things, just not yet. Self loathing is not allowed in this world, we have to love ourselves for the wonderful people we are. Talk gently to yourself, just as you would to a friend. Hark at me preaching but empathy for others can help us care more about ourselves too. Take care.

I can’t quite imagine it either, Theo. Something on the order of a very
rotund yellow snowball the size of a large man, rolling down the stairs and
out into the street. Do you think the sanitation worker’s will pick it up? Unless
they are in excellent shape and do weight training regularly, I rather doubt
it!!!! Yuck, yuck, yuck………..Good riddance to bad rubbish 🙂 🙂 🙂

For any of my fellow Americans visiting this thread today, I wish you all a
very happy BSD friendly Thanksgiving. I’ll certainly be keeping my guard
up tomorrow. No gravy, no cranberry sauce, no potatoes. Lots of green
vegetables. Wine in moderation. Pumpkin pie? Maybe just a sliver 🙂

Allie

Thanks Allie. My thoughts exactly. Going to do a few low energy things this am….blanch a few of the veg, bake turkey wings to make gravy (turkey breast doesnt do it if ….moist breast does not yeild enough drippings). Gang does not arrive until 1 pm tomorrow, so will have to leave more labor intensive stuff till tomorrow am then if I don’t perk up a bit this afternoon….and ask for help for anything left on the the to-do list.

More water it is then.

Thanks Yowzer and ESNECCA…Seem to be getting on ok – don’t feel hungry and trying to drink plenty of water – but not enough over the last few days – so aiming to increase today!

The scales are not moving too much at the moment despite being below 20g carbs each day. So trying to not be demotivated and am drinking water! Any other ideas? Should I be monitoring fat % each day?

Thanks for any help xxxx

Haha, Allie – you say you may not remember WHERE the vacuum cleaner is! I may not remember WHAT it is😉😜

O/H’s health seems to have been a powerful motivator for you, and helping him to drop 50lbs has GOT to improve heart failure, so much less strain on the heart after all. So well done to both of you.

I’d far rather make adjustments to my lifestyle to improve my health rather than spending my life on meds, and this WOE has given us the tool to do that – or at the very least, help reduce meds.

I cannot even imagine what 200lbs of fat looks like (not sure I even want to😝), but it’s certainly better gone!

Look forward to chatting later xx