Haha, Mary – one of my favourites… “well there are no wrinkles on a balloon”! But I do have what my grandma used to call a wattle from my reducing double chins – slack skin and going all crepey! I can see my mother’s neck appearing! If only I could tighten my neck skin at the back! But hey, I’m a non celebrity 55…..! Thankfully no one sees my body that looks like a roadmap of stretchmarks! What with that and psoriasis, I stopped caring about that sort of thing years ago!

Aubergine lasagne – the Hairy Bikers, when they were doing their hairy dieters programme, did a lasagne but they unpeeled some large leeks and used those uncooked strips instead of pasta sheets. I never got around to trying that but I always thought it was a good idea. Thinner “sheets” with a bit more give, rather than aubergine that goes a bit sloppy. We should try that and compare notes!

Mary, I drive to Whitlocks End and get the train from there, into Bham. In the school hols I can do the trip door to door in an hour but in term time, I can add at least another 20 mins to the journey each way. Last night I left the office at 5.20 and got home at 6:50! And this time of year, you get late running trains due to “slippery rails” and “leaves on the line”!! There was an announcement once from the conductor – “please take care when alighting from this service. We apologise for the gap between the train and the timetable!” I’m used to it, even though I moan! 🙂

I shall indeed let you know what I learn regarding autophagy however, I can’t remember who, but there are one or two people quite knowledgeable about it on this forum.

Kxxx

Thanks for that, in my book the page is 118 so I found it by looking for Getting To Know……. Yes it definitely says ‘or log into the bloodsugardiet where you can store your data safely and anonymously. The site will also provide useful updates on the latest science and a wealth of other information’. There is no such data saving on this site and over the past 17 months I have never seen an update on scientific studies, as for the wealth of information, there is all the pre-amble about the different versions of the diet and the FAQ pages but there is a lot more in the book.

This site pretty much runs itself or should I say, we run it for ourselves and maybe that is where the wealth of information comes from. It is a shame that there is no-one monitoring (yes you can contact admin) the things we are saying and the advice we are giving, we are all only speaking for our own experience. I can see on the side of the page there is a Tweet link to Michael Mosley but, I am like you, what the heck is a tweet, my mobile phone is 12 years old.

Marianne you must have pressed the return arrow (top left) which takes you back to where you were before you posted. You should always use the Forums key and go back to the main menu.

Morning everyone, ok, when she was good she was very very good (rhyme from my childhood) – weight loss is taaadaaaaa 3.25lbs. I have just dipped under 12 stone at 11.13 3/4 and a kilo weight of 76.2, so not far from getting rid of the 76 mark. Which is great when 6 days ago I was over 77 kg.

Just done a new 30 min aerobic DVD with Davina McCall and found it quite fast. Also arranged to go for a long walk with my friend tomorrow morning. Oh it will be so cold, we had frost here this morning and 0 degrees. I guess Autumn / Winter has arrived.

Well done to all those with losses, even the little ones, and have a good day.

Half a pound down for me, to 9st 1 and a half lbs – I’ll take that quite happily!

Go Go Mokovex, you let the nice bacteria win yesterday! 😉

Well done to everybody!

MixNMatch – I’m thinking they’ll probably do a second big section in this Saturday’s paper so you may appear there – will look out for it online!

Cathy do you know what? It’s 1 lb – it’s neither here nor there! If I was you I would already happily be telling all the people you want to tell that you’ve lost three stone!

Not wanting to break this great run of losses I too can report a smidgeon down 0.2lb. Ok so nothing to shout about but it’s better than a gain I guess.

Well done everyone and sorry I’ve not posted much. Hope week 2 is good for everyone.

Thankyou all for your replies,I suppose I just never really thought of things like fish for breakfast, and its true its my carb addiction talking to me. lol. I am going to avoid bread as I know unless its a gorgeous piece of thick white crusty bread it just wont cut the mustard. ! I will go for the greek yogurt etc. I am more motivated today as I am pleased to announce I have done my first week and I have lost 8lb and 3 inches from my tummy! Hooray. Onwards and upwards. Thanks everyone

Hello everyone. Sorry I didn’t post yesterday, but I had a day, where I did lots and achieved nothing! You know? When you seem busy but nothing gets done? I did pick up my new specs though. The lady who served me was very large. At least as big as me although about 40 years younger. I confided in her that I had lost weight and she took the bait and asked how. Then I told her. I am evangelical about this way of eating! She said she would try as she is getting married in the next 2 years and wants to feel better about herself. I hope I helped.

Kazz, I am sure you will have a wonderful Christmas, just you and mum enjoying what you want to do. I love that your sister in law made sure you all had a regimented amount of sprouts. Perhaps it was to avoid windy botty burps later lol. Where the eff do you work? An 11 hour day including commute. You are marvellous! The most I have ever travelled was 45 minutes, I have put in 12 hour days though. Do you drive or go by train?

Allie. The Aubergine Lasagne was ok, but a bit of a faff to make. Jovis was keener than me. The aubergine (eggplant) replaces the pasta. I have made it with mushrooms as a replacement and I prefer that recipe. The kimchi, is not like the ones bought in the shop. It is spicy but I suspect not fermenting as there is no gas! I used the recipe in the book, but will use one from the internet next time.

Californiagirl. So pleased your niece is ok after what is an ordeal. My lovely youngest had a horrific 3 days before the birth and then a very traumatic week afterwards where she kept bleeding. Thank goodness all are safe. I have a horror story to do with turkey. Last year, I cooked the turkey the way I have always done (over 39 years). I carved the breast meat which was obviously cooked…then red juices poured from other parts of the bird. We were all astonished! We put the bird back in the oven and ate what we had, but 2 hours later the juices were still red. We gave up and ate the other stuff we had. I checked that my oven thermometer was working properly, so it wasn’t that. I had used a meat thermometer to check it was cooked…it is a mystery. This year I intend to cook only a crown!

It must have been a shock to your family to find out about your dad. He must have loved your mother to stay with her for so long. It would have been very easy for him to leave. Did she ever know he was gay? I have a personal reason for asking, I am not just being nosy.

My daughter has asked me today how to treat Noodle who is a little chesty and coughing. She is getting much better at asking for advice and seems to be taking it too! She is also leaving her with me on Wednesday for a few hours. Love my grandies so much!

I weighed myself and there is no change this week. I am not surprised at this. My stomach is all over the place, but mostly backed up. Immodium takes ages to pass through my system. Which is why I try to avoid it.

I read all the posts from the other threads. So many interesting people give such good advice. Kazz good luck with your 48 hour fast. I may try a 36 hour first. Let me know what you know about autophagy. I am fully prepared to have excess skin. Even young “big losers” have some slack skin. Look at a balloon after it has been blown up! I already have more lines on my face where the weight loss has been.

Hello66, LeeLee, Heather44, Solange, Searchingrockpools, crabbycams, fattyfattyboombomms…where are you?

Lots of love
Nonna Mary
xxxx

From the research I’ve been doing into ultra-low carb/ketogenic diet experience and experiments around the world the good fat/bad fat thing appears increasingly to be BS or at least reversed from prior thinking. From what I’ve read:
1. Trans fats are unequivocally bad (we all know that)
2. Polyunsaturated fats are looking increasingly bad – highly processed vegetable fats etc.
3. Saturated fat is looking increasingly like the gold standard in fat (butter, OO, meat, cheese, cream, eggs etc.)

As far as I can see the tested logic is that
A) cholesterol is far from the villain it was made out to be (by statin pushing pharma and their doctor lackeys) – e.g. molecule size is critical in determining the danger of LDL cholesterol as a marker of coronary danger and if you have low TGs, it typically means even your LDL is not ‘dangerous’ at any level.
B) saturated fat DOES NOT contribute to arterial plaques, furring arteries etc. The original research behind the old sham of fat in becomes fat inside has been refuted… we now know that carbs turn to fat and drives high triglycerides etc.

The n=1 evidence is common across the web. The US ketogenic movement is militantly pro saturated fats to the point that they swap methods for accessing beef tallow and other large quantities of animal fats (begging butchers for fat trimming etc.) so that they can fry and cook in them.
People are doing 30 days of eating basically just bacon (US streaky/belly kind, not the UK back bacon) and coming out with better blood stats than when they went in in BG, insulin, TG, cholesterol etc. Crazy I know but thousands are doing it with positive results (apparently because US bacon has a good ketogenic macro balance between fat/protein (as do eggs) and high sodium levels are needed for ketosis). Speaking of eggs… a 5 day ‘egg fast’ is increasingly common where people eat about a dozen eggs a day for 5 days (done many different ways usually) and lose weight, maintain ketosis and improve metabolic markers.
All the keto diet advice I’ve seen is largely focused on saturated fat for calories to satiation and the forums are full of people who have reversed their T2D under medical supervision, though often not with the support of their doctors who still believe in the SAD until they see the evidence.

It is a lot and often seems counterintuitive but the grand conclusion I am drawing is that saturated fat is not to be feared and that the fear-mongering is about as solid as that which gave categorical advice to eat ‘healthy’ grains and low fat diets.

TL/DR – look up recipes for keto ‘fat bombs’ if you struggle to add enough fat to your low carb diet, drink Bulletproof coffee if you want and don’t fear saturated fat.

Arghh… me and computers!!! I’d just more or less completed an entry only for it to disappear on me!

Anyway, rant over. For now.

Anne, you have a lot to deal with at the moment. I do hope and pray for you that your husband finds a way through, it must be such a worry for your family to see him like it. My son is probably what can be labelled as a functioning alcoholic, along with liking certain illegal substances, and it’s like sitting on a ticking time bomb. You never know what state they’ll come through the door every night and what mood they’ll be in.

I think you’re right about men and food; I’ve often said that if someone else was making all the decisions, cooking my meals and presenting them to me three times a day it would take all the decision making process away from me and I wouldn’t have a weight problem! No more buying multi packs of crisps and chocolate bars and stuffing them all on the way home from shopping so that hubbie doesn’t see!!! I think in my warped mind, if he hasn’t see me eat it then it hasn’t really happened! Can anyone else relate to that?

Anyway, onto this morning’s breakfast. I enjoyed two Portobello mushrooms with a poached egg. The directions were to ‘drizzle’ a little oil onto each mushroom. So while ‘drizzling’ the oil onto each mushroom (more like pouring if I’m honest), I read the calorie content of said oil only to discover that it contains over 800 cals per 100g!!!! So note to self; use a pastry brush in future if I’m going to drizzle. Did anyone see Nigella’s tip on poached eggs the other night? To prevent all the stringy bits in the water she popped an egg (from the fridge) into a sieve to let the more liquid elements drop through (not much came out) before popping it into a pan of very still water. Worked a treat! My egg had that professional look and no stringy bits! Feeling as if I haven’t eaten anything though so I’ve made myself another cup of tea.
I guess it will take a few days for my stomach to get used to smaller portions again.

Will catch up later, do please share what you all eat as it’s great to get inspiration from everyone!

Have a good day,
Love Marianne

For breast feeding, don’t overdo the dairy products, i.e. cows’ milk products.
It’s something to do with the type of protein in cows’ milk being less digestible (something to do with casein) than sheep and goats’ and some of the protein you eat gets into your milk unaltered.
I have personal experience of this so know it to be true. Basically, if your babe’s poo goes back to (or stays as) that watery with bits consistancy of the first few days, cut down on the cows’ milk and products.

Anne you sound as though you have a lot on your plate …. so to speak! You know there is no harm in a burger but without the bun. It’s amazing what you can do with a lettuce leaf! I know it’s not quite the same but a burger wrapped in an iceberg leaf with some tomato and mustard/mayo is pretty good. I make deconstructed egg mayo ‘sandwiches’ on lettuce leaves but cos or romaine are better as they are ‘boat’ shaped and sliced tomato. You could do tuna mayo or any manner of filling that you used to have between two slices of bread. There does come a point where bread and potatoes etc. no longer have any attraction and substitutes, like cauliflower, are really acceptable. Have a look at the thread ‘101 ways with cauliflower’ just search in the box at the top right hand side of the page. It does become easier after a while.

Enjoy your journey!

Hello Verano

Will check the website out. Thank you so much for your input, hope to get to know your story, success and tips. I love the non foodie treat ideas. I will book a facial if I stick to the BSD for 10 Days. A small goal with a treat to aim for.

Anne x

Hey Jill / Marianne

Warmest welcome to you both.

Marianne – I totally understand about failed diets and that your mindset has already set you up to fail yet againso why bother?

The reason I need to do this is to live a heathy life for me and also for my family. And maybe that is also the same reason for you too. Just take it one day at the time or in my case one meal at the time!

Jill – well hello – so please you have jumped on as well – especailly you had success within 4 weeks of doing the BSD back in May 2016 – what a fabulous result. 20 lbs. WOW in just 4 weeks. There is hope for me and my family. You must have been so perfect. Thar will be my downfall – when I am good – I am very good.. when I am bad… oh boy am I bad. Then beat myself up … I am sure you know how the rest goes….

My hubby had suffered from heart failure which was cause mainly from drinking – he is an alocholic. You would have thought that his health issues would finally make him sit up and do something about it… but he struggles with the drink. He just been on a two week binge. Stop drinking Friday as he was starting to have problems breathing again. He has been dry for 3 full days. How long will it last? No idea. Maybe losing weight and getting energy back will help him. He is such a good person and lovable when sober, generous, funny, smart, loyal, and hard working. He just struggles with drink in the same way I struggle with food. As to your comment about men having no problem sticking to the diet… my hubby is the same with food.. WHY? Because maybe we have done the hard work. The shopping and planing ! All they have to do is eat it.

My son, 23, just started he first job – and is over weight by 3 stones so it will help him too. He is keen to support me but he also loves his food. ( he only been on the BSD for one day and is thinking about BurgerKing! ) I know my son will start looking up food and recipes to have for more control on what to eat as so far the food I prepare is been ok ish

For me , I had a fright, a warning, a very minor stroke, so I need to bring my Blood sugar levels down as well as my blood pressure. I need to turn this round. I want to turn it round.

So my goal is to get to Christmas 21 lbs lighter

That is enough for now
Have a fabulous day
Anne x

Good morning and last day of week 2!

Esnecca I’m pleased that any ‘crinkles’ you may have can be hidden by ordinary clothes and they don’t cause you too much pain. I guess I just can’t get rid of the image of the only person I know to have lost a serious amount of weight, albeit by surgery. I know in my heart of hearts that I would never look like that but nonetheless, the picture is in my mind and I’m sure it’s stopping me progressing, but only in a very minor way. Anyway, I think my plan now to lose 2 stone then a further stone at a time may be the best way for me to go, and then I can keep re-assessing on the way. I am starting to sound really vain but I’m not really!

So yesterday was a far better day for me with butternut squash soup for lunch and venison burgers and salad for dinner with a few glasses of red, which I know have to go, and just 3 brazil nuts and 10 almonds as snacks. I managed reasonably well with water and didn’t have a crisp or a biscuit, so getting there. I didn’t log into fatsecret yesterday as I had no count for the soup but I know that I have to get back into the habit of noting everything down. Nonetheless, I do feel that after nearly 2 weeks I am starting to refocus!

Hope everyone else is managing to do well with their own personal refocus too.

Morning all.
I too have lost 2lbsthis week and it’s good to be up there with the losers for a change!
I spent Sunday at the hospital undergoing a batch of tests which resulted in high doses of steroids whilst temporal arteritis is diagnosed – or not. I am awaiting a biopsy appointment and have to continue the drugs for the time being. I am very disappointed as I hate taking steroids and have been off them since May when it was thought my Polymyalgia had resolved itself. Losing weight, or indeed trying not to gain weight is so hard with these drugs which are amazing but horrible at the same time.
I will keep on keeping on one day at a time.
X B

Thanks Marianne, look forward to the journey

That’s how I feel thank you sunshine girl

Thank you KazzUk

Weigh in day and the fasting seems to be working, albeit in an exaggerated first week of the diet way that suggests my liberality with carbs has caused at least some of the old water retention to reoccur. So today 10 stone 9.6 pounds which is about 7.5 pounds lighter than last week I think, and two pounds under my target. I have revised my fasting plans and will make my FMD intermittent, using my old Monday, Wednesday, Friday pattern and sticking to less than 800 calories on those three days, plant based only, low protein, and see how that goes. In other news, they’ve still not used my segment in the paper as far as I can tell, and maybe they won’t as they seem fully into recipe and science mode now, I am oddly relieved as when I tried on the dresses for mum this weekend she agreed with me that they were less flattering than many of mine, the high waisted look seemed to be trying to hide sins I don’t have anymore!

Mokovex- that’s is a fantastic loss- well done.

Mariet- 2lb off – amazing – good work. I am like you, up and down the same pound again and again- it is a recurring theme in my journey.

This morning I weigh exactly the same as I did last Tuesday – 134.4. I actually got to 133.6 earlier in the week. I am ok with this weight as I am wearing size 10 work trousers and a pound or so is neither here nor there in the big scheme of things but I would just like to get to the 133 lb mark so that I can officially say I lost three stone this year and achieved my goal! One day… one day…

Looking forward to following everyone’s progress today!

Cathy

Morning,

Start weight: 136.5lb
today: 133.2 lb
loss 3.3lb

Esnecca, Californiagirl, Marsie, Masiemouse, S-G, Marie123 – THANK YOU for your encouragement and understanding. Yesterday was a full BSD day. 😀

It made all the difference hearing your voices in my head. I feel quite overwhelmed actually that you all took time to reply, writing on here still feels very alien and not easy to put yourself out there. But I totally experienced the power of the collective will to succeed. The shouty longstanding internal voice of old “why even bother” or “it’s only a matter of time until you fail” was drowned out by your voices.

I am under no illusions that today won’t bring fresh temptations but mindset is currently good.

Well done Mariet on your loss. 👏

A happy Tuesday to you all my friends

Julia – congratulations to your niece on the birth of her twins. I guess the profs do know what they are doing but it must be agonising to witness when a loved one is in agony! Wonderful news and just in time for Thanksgiving. It must be a whirlwind for you guys across the pond with Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years! Found the story of the melted turkey baster very funny, bless her, at least she tried! I’ve heard of pumpkin pie of course but never had it. Is it a savoury or sweet dish? I shall have to google as can’t imagine it!

Mary – good luck on your weigh in today – I’m going to try a 48 hour fast so will let you know how I get on. I was going to try yesterday but ended up having lunch and a light dinner, so starting from last night at 7.30pm. Must remember to drink lots of water. I’m quite interested in autophagy. Just started reading up on it – particularly interested in how it can help reduce loose skin which I am concerned with. I carry the majority of weight around my torso and last time I lost weight, although I didn’t get to target, I was aware of beginning to resemble an old crumpled duvet! But that’s not the end of the world – as Allie said on another thread, no one sees you when you’re dressed!

Allie – I have many culinary stories up my sleeve! The good thing about it just being me and mum this year is that we’ll have leftovers! And we all know, those are the best bits!

Another quiet day at work today with my guys over in Berlin at a conference so I will be back later!

Loves
Kazzzzeeeee xxxx

Thanks KrysiaD, im trying to outrun that carb monster…..

Esnecca
I’m sure that you are right – and being new to checking all this at the time I blindly accepted it without applying common sense!
Mike

Hi sunshine-girl. Page 124, getting to know yourself. There are a few other things mentioned in this and the clever guts books that I can’t find on the websites although to be honest I can’t remember what any of the others were. I’d be happy to use other apps but my iPad is first generation so the operating system won’t support them and my phone is also getting on a bit. That’s why I was hoping to be able to use the website

Hi guys — my struggling/laboring niece just gave birth to her twin daughters, Kathryn (my daughters name) and Ava! She finally did have a c-section, so all ended well with the littles ones and mom and dad in Washington DC! That was exhausting….
Allie, you are in Connecticut! Lovely to think of you there — our daughter went to Williams in Mass so we drove around New England a lot on visits but didn’t get to see much of Connecticut so I would love to go back some day soon.
My dad is a 94 year old walking disaster — my mom passed away 10 years ago (we all say she had had enough of my dad — ha ha) he has always been a tough customer — successful? Yes. Nice guy? Uh, how about them Yankees? My dad is HIV positive and has multiple issues related thereto — Not a blood transfusion — he is gay but forgot to tell my mom over fifty years of marriage.
Glad to know that I am not the only person who hears sugar treats calling from the freezer and… I usually tried to cover my tracks too!! So funny! These days I am the tough one, and my OH is a little more piggy.
I am happy I’ve got some new sisters! Take care all.
Julia

Oh mon ami Moojar, Je suis desole tu ne parles pas francaise. C’est une langue tres belle Je suis sûr que vous pouvez le faire et ta femme sera très surprise et fière de toi. Bonne chance et bonne continuation.

P.S.
les haricots vous font péter

Would hate for you to be disappointed at the lack of French LOL 🙂

Glad you are able to adjust the diet to your breastfeeding needs but dont go mad on the bad fats. Sorry to say the jury is out on coconut oil as it can increase HDL cholesterol (H for happy to remember it is good) but it also increases LDL (L for lousy as it is bad) – that is my way of remembering which is which. However, you are not like a lot of the people here, you just want to lose weight after having a baby so you shouldn’t be too worried about diabetes or cholesterol or blood pressure etc like a lot of us ‘oldies’. So just do the best you can for you and your baby and the weight will come off – we are not all Victoria Beckham. Breastfeeding is the best thing you can do for your baby and the hormones released also help you lose weight. Such a beautiful time – my baby is 40 next year. 🙂

Hi Jill! Jump on board!!! I am a sort of returner too (did it just from the book, I haven’t used the forum before) as I lost over a stone and managed to keep it off for about 3 months, but as always with me, once I hit that 3 month point I seem to do all I can to sabotage my healthy eating regime and before I know where I am I’m back at the starting point! I really am my own worst enemy sometimes.

I will probably try and feed my boys the same food but give them bigger quantities. One of my sons is into healthy eating anyway and has quite an open mind when it comes to anything different.

I have been very inspired by some of the recipes on the site; I filtered to show the most highly rated ones as I thought they would be the best bet and some of them sound lovely- can’t wait to get cooking!

Onwards and upwards; bring it on!!

Love Marianne

Hi folks

good to see people still at it

One tip I try to give since hitting my big target !! and now maintaining !!

I NEVER counted carbs, I stuck to 800 cals, so ate everything I wanted (No bread no buns etc etc) witjout counting the carbs, just the calories , Much less faff !!

I did stop drinking alcohol and now just dabble on bdays and spcial events (looking for ward to Christmas and new year !!)

As someone once said

Never bloody give up !!

Its worth it !

54 (now 55!)

Gday all

54andfatnomore, thanks, will stick at it mate.

It sure is easy to put on Snoop, we know we can lose it, just got to go to the basic. For me im going to try avoid the carbs big time.

Have a good one all and just one more thing…
never bloody give up!

Californiagirl, hello sister woman! I know exactly what you mean
about being overwhelmed by the multiple active threads we are
reading at the moment! I keep starting at the top of the page,
and have only made it down to my “homepage” here at 4:30pm.
You’ve really made me laugh about a turkey roasted at 450F degrees!
You are of course correct, I’m on the east coast, CT to be precise.
I have a great weakness for pumpkin pie, too. Unless I can find
a single serving at Whole Foods to be shared by the 2 of us,
I’m steering clear of it this holiday. It might spell disaster for
me. I really could relate to your comments on treats residing in
the freezer, on another thread. I so remember frozen homemade
cupcakes sending telepathic messages to me at @11:00pm
that couldn’t be ignored! I couldn’t even wait to defrost them,
that’s how obsessed I was. I actually had to wait until O/H
went to sleep so he wouldn’t catch me at it. Shame, shame 🙂
Now my Kitchenaid mixer sits forlornly on the countertop, unused!
I’m so happy you had time to drop by today. Does your Dad have
any urgent health problems? I lost my Mother following a massive
stroke at the age of 94. We all know they are on borrowed time
at that age but it certainly doesn’t make it any easier, does it?
I hope you will be back SOON. It’s so quiet here that I feel like
I’m surrounded by ghosts, with exception of Mary and Kazzi.,
of course! Of course!

Kazz, I’ll be back later. Your posts are so full of fun that I want
to allow enough time to respond. 🙂

Love to all who may be reading but not posting! Hello66, I
think about you every day. Put me out of my misery and let
me know how you are, whatever the news.

Allie
xoxoxo

Hello Welshannie and Marianne
I am a 6 November starter too, so climbing on your wagon for the ride if that’s ok? Actually a I am a returner as I lost 20 lbs in 4 weeks back in May 2016 and kept it off for ages but slipped a bit and gained half back. No more slippy slope! ( not good for wagons). The good news is yes this is different and it is a great and successful diet and I am hopeless at dieting so if I can do it anyone can! I not only lost the weight but my ( pre diabetic) bloods returned to normal and my blood pressure came down a lot. Added bonus …I stopped taking Meds for acid reflux as my stomach loved me for feeding it this way. To this day if I eat carbs I gain weight and get heartburn…they are the very devil!

My top tips. Cook for yourself and ask your family to feed themselves for this period: spoil yourself with non food treats like days out or head massages: yes, use this inspirational forum.
Starting at 12st3 dripping wet…the only way is down ladies – onwards!
Jill

Ok. Yesterday I stepped on the scales for my regular weigh in. I have taken to weighing myself 3 times a week, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. I am slightly stunned to announce that I have had a further loss of 800g since Saturday which means I have officially reached my target weight of 10%!!!! Break out the champers! I mean soda water. 😏 A week ago, I was skeptical that I would reach the recommended 15% but I have done the maths and. ….you know what. …this just may happen yet. 6 weeks ago I was skeptical that I would achieve any significant loss at all but THIS WORKS. Get off the couch everyone and keys boogie! 😂😂😎 I have 2 weeks to go and roughly about 4.5kgs to lose. If I don’t make it, it is going to be close and the green ‘normal’ range is definitely on my radar now so I am thinking if it ends up close I think I will keep going to get the prize.

Verano, I’ve got all kinds of fascinating sags hither and yon. My bingo wings are so empty now they’re basically two-dimensional. You can see my triceps when I flex, that’s how thin the connection point is between the wing and underarm. Thighs have pleats like my high school uniform skirt. All butt padding is gone but pancaked skin remains. My belly, oddly enough, looks if not normal, no different from many mothers’ bellies I’ve seen. A little pooch but nothing gaspworthy. Considering when I started out that belly was wider than I am tall (seriously, 3 inches wider), I’m more than okay with the pooch.

This was bound to happen. I knew from the beginning that with 200 pounds to lose, there wasn’t going to be any magical bouncing back of my 45-year-old skin. Is it unsightly? Yup. Does it get me down sometimes. Sure. But it’s no problem whatsoever to cover up in normal clothes. I don’t have to wear head to toe scuba gear or anything. I’m also extremely fortunate in that the way my fat was distributed and the locations and dimensions of the loose skin don’t show up at all through clothes, even lighter weight tops and breezy cotton cargo capris. Some of the people I’ve seen on extreme weight loss tv shows are left with pretty serious disfigurements that make them constantly self-conscious even when dressed.

Some good results posted above, folks ! And I endorse the suggestion about public recognition for our Esteemed Leader Dr Michael Mosley. ‘Twould be well deserved.

As for myself, well, I nearly forgot to post today, despite it being the end of my 11th week on the BSD. So here is a quick summary of last week’s progress.

I now weigh 177.6 lbs (down from 205.2 lbs on 21 Aug 2017) and this is a 2.2 lbs loss on the week. Satisfactory, but not outstanding.

I have upped the protein intake to a daily average of some 71 gms, at last, and I feel much better for it. Now, if I could only get my carbs under control, in the opposite direction as well, I would be a happier man. I have only stayed below the 800 cals budget one day out of the last seven. A couple of days I was substantially over. Naughty me. Again.

Alas, I also have this wedding long weekend coming up Friday through Sunday this week. A veritable cals-fest, no doubt, but it will not be fatal, I am sure. Public confession in due course next Monday.

So I wish you all a steely determination, wherever the week takes you.

Long Live the BSD !

Macloud

You don’t want to eat eggs every day but you do want bread every morning? I suspect repetitiveness isn’t the problem. It’s the carb withdrawal making you crave breakfast toast. That being the case, you might want to try varying your breakfast with something that is not the drug that drove you to BSD rehab in the first place. Greek yogurt and berries, say, or coconut cream chia pudding or smoked salmon with capers and a thinly sliced green onion drizzled with 14 grams of cream cheese thinned out with the juice of half a lemon. Break out of the mold a little. It’s rewarding, I promise you.

To answer your question, there are commercial low carb breads out there, yes. I used them as a crutch quite often when I first started the BSD. Eventually I found I no longer cared enough to bother with the expensive online orders and since I love to cook and have easy access to ingredients, when I do want a “bun” for a burger or a buttered muffin with my omelette I just make one. I gather from your Sainsburys and £10 references that you are in the UK. All my sources are US-based, but these sites have a couple of options for you: https://www.carblife.co.uk/carblife-bakery/ , http://www.sugarfreemegastore.com/acatalog/Fresh-Bread.html . I’ve tried several Great Low Carb Bread Company products and the plain bagels aren’t bad at all. Also Joseph’s Mini Pita Bread and Mama Lupe’s Tortillas.

Hi I think it may be best if you try to think of life ‘without’ bread just for the moment. Most people find that you just have to go cold turkey and cut out simple carbs like bread, rice, pasta and potatoes. Lots of people have Total (fage) full fat Greek yogurt with some berries and maybe some nuts for breakfast if you don’t fancy a protein breakfast. I have that or an eggy breakfast occasionally with smoked salmon, or a kipper, or smoked haddock and an egg and I’m sure others will add their favourites……???

Verano, many thanks for that, all help at this early stage gratefully accepted!

Marianne

A good website is fatesecret.co.uk where you can record your daily intake of calories carbs etc and get great nutritional information about all sorts of foods. Also you can put in your own recipes into the ‘cook book’ section and it will work out the carbs etc for you. Some of the recipes in the book don’t have accurate calorie etc, counts so be a bit wary. Best of luck to you and your family on your journey.

Maybe someone else can recommend a suitable loaf.
But I’m not sure the “alternatives” are helpful. They’re likely to be a bit pants compared to the original version (and your mindset doesn’t change). I had a recipe book for paleo, someone lent it to me. The bread was made with about 100 probiotic capsules and an awful lot of expensive, ground-up things as flour substitutes. I buy a lovely, 4-ingredient, small sourdough loaf once in a blue moon. We enjoy a bit fresh, then toasted, then as breadcrumbs, then it’s gone til the next time. Each to their own!
Why are eggs your only option? Can’t you eat yogurt? Avocado? Smoked fish? Nuts? Even baked beans?

Hi, I too am starting the BSD tomorrow! (I have breakfast sorted but probably need to do a bit of planning!). I’m 52, 5’5”, 13st 10, on BP tablets, narrowly avoided being prescribed statins by my doctor last week and pre diabetic! So unless I do something and soon I think I shall be in the same boat as you (frightening situation).

It’s incredibly scary though because I have many failed dieting attempts behind me and my mind wants to tell me why do you think this time’s going to be any different? But I have to try again so that I don’t feel quite so helpless.

Hubby will be doing this as well as he’s been diagnosed with kidney disease and needs to lose weight too (he has an iron will and no problems sticking to it; what is it with men?!!!). I don’t think my two grown sons will take kindly to it as they have quite physical jobs.

I shall be relying on the book and this site as I don’t have a smartphone (about the best mine will achieve is the calculator function!!).
I love cooking (part of my downfall) and am looking forward to making some of the recipes.

So I will follow your posts with interest and see if we share the same experiences.

Tootlepips and have a good Tuesday!

Marianne

Hi KazzUK

Thank you so much for your welcome and good wishes.

I think the hardest part for me is sorting out the food plan and doing the shopping list. So that has been done and I hope as weeks go, it will be come easier.

Will keep you all posted with my journey. And my family as well. They are on board at the moment 🤗
First day done, organised for tomorrow.

Positive thinking.
Welshannie

Weigh day again! It seems to come around so quickly 😊

63.4 today, 0.9kg or 2lb gone. I’d like to say gone forever but I am in one of those seesaw periods where everything returns for an encore.

I am a little disappointed because I have not only been strict with myself, I had an extended fast of 48 hours due to a tummy bug. I was kinda hoping for the silver lining but oh well, it’s still a loss.

I don’t post much but I read every comment and they all help me stay on the path so thank you all and crossing my fingers that you have the results you’re looking for.

Yes, Verano, it would be be so sad to know that anyone felt too
ashamed to come back. The support here is so sincere and lacking
in judgement. I also hope to see captainlynne back one day too!
Someone was kind enough to provide a link to the dailymail photo
shoot. Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!

MnM thank you. Yes you are a bit younger than me! I am really encouraged that skin tone can keep improving for up to two years. So encouraging. I have to be honest at the moment it’s just bingo wings but, the visions that spring before me, from gastric bypass surgery, are truly frightening!

Allie strangely enough Captainlynne is a ‘captain’ in the Salvation Army, not sure if you know of that in the US but it’s a Christian organisation. I think her talk of make up etc was more a result of her being featured in the Daily Mail as a great loser on BSD. I think somebody posted the link to that article on another thread, maybe Remember, Remember. She did so well, she was very generous with her help for us newbies at the time and I was sorry that she had to come back. I’m even more sorry that she did come back only briefly as she probably needed our support but didn’t stay around for us to help her. She had been having a rough time.

If you are out there Captainlynne come back and say hello!

Lots of people have come and gone on these boards and you often wonder if they made it, in the long term, and are living the ‘dream’ or have fallen by the wayside, and need help but are too ‘ashamed ‘ to come back.

We are all still here continuing our journey, whatever that may be, but the important thing is we are all still here giving/taking advice and help. That’s why we are all succeeding!

Thank you so much for posting your results!!!! I REALLY appreciate
it, Mixnmatch. I’m now going over to the 100 club to read all about
it! You’re a star 🙂

Allie

I am struggling about breakfast. I have done a week now, and I dont wnt egg every day, I dont have time to cook and im not so good at it anyway. Is there any bread we can eat? Any bread we can make without weird stuff for ingredients. Went to sainsburys today with a list of ingredients for low carb bread and couldnt find any of it. Saw a bag of almond flour in the health food shop but it was tiny and £10!
Please someone tell me there is a ready made low carb bread out there……

I am 6 days late but still would like to join.