Hi Auntiekag,
I am not a curry buff (actually can’t stand spicy food!)
But I have omitted an ingredient or substituted celeriac, cauliflower or courgette in other recipes.
I am sure there will be some cooks on here who will be able to advise! 👩‍🍳🧑‍🍳
I started following the BSD 12 months ago. With great success.
Good luck and welcome to the BSD. I hope it works as well for you as it has for me. 😄

Help please! We have just started BSD and the week1 veg curry recipe says to use butternut squash. I really don’t like it. Any suggestions as to what I could use instead please?
TIA

SG, V and Pootle, thank you for keeping things going on the positive thread … ashamed not to have been contributing more often. It’s not been for oacknof positives, just an avoidance of tech.

Anyway, here are a few from me ….
🌸🌸 weather is fabulous 👌
🌸🌸 mum is still doing well
🌸🌸 bought a gorgeous dining table for the villa
🌸🌸 eldest DD and partner arrive in a week to spend some time with us
🌸🌸 enjoying spending time with our Turkiye based friends

All simple stuff, but enough to make life easier and pleasant.

I haven’t posted for a while, but have been lurking!

So a couple of positives for today:
1. Husband has cleared the kitchen work surface that has been covered with leads, chargers, letters, bearings, a cv joint etc etc for over 2 years! I can actually see the surface and have been able to wipe it down!!! 🤔🫣
2. My BS readings have been steady and I have got through the ‘carb hunger’ stage again! 😁
3. I have another new hat! 👒🎩 😁😂

Hope you all have some positivity in your lives.

Thanks S-G.

For 6 months I thought eating a 25g portion of porridge for breakfast was doing no harm. The ‘reader’ that I had bought off the internet was misleading me! I think it was faulty as well as the instructions stating that 6 was a normal reading for a healthy person!
I had a chat with a friend who is type 1, (incidentally she had always been told that vegetables are ‘free’ from carbs! So learning that I am relying on veg for all the carbs I am eating was a shock for her. She looked them up in her book and said she now understands why she sometimes has an unexpected high reading.) She passed on to me a tester that has been superseded. I ordered the strips from Amazon and have been having steady readings. I did one last night which was still 5.3 mmol/L. This morning (fasting) was 4.3, so I am hoping that, if I continue as I am, my next HbA1c will be non diabetic!

Sorry to hear of your struggles, wishing you all the best for the move.

Thanks for the shout out. I am also still lurking!! 🫣
Dr Mosely’s death marks the start of my journey.
This time last year I had just been diagnosed as type 2 diabetic. I had been to see a consultant for the problem with my breathing that had become totally incapacitating with the treatment the GP had insisted was correct. Specialist diagnosed asthma not COPD as the GP had kept saying!
So correct inhaler for asthma started to change my life but the diabetic diagnosis then knocked me sideways. Reading about the Michael Mosely BSD made me determined to try it!
12 months on, with plenty of support from these forums, I am in remission for diabetes and 5.5 stone lighter! And continuing to live the BSD way of life.
I know I cannot thank him personally, but I hope he knows how much he changed my life.
My sincere sympathy to his family and huge sadness that he is no longer here!

Good luck to all on the ship for this voyage… it is possible to change your life!

Thanks for the shout out, DCT. I am still lurking! Like others, I have been thinking of Michael Mosely and his family today particularly. I have been following his eating advice (more off than on) for about 7 years. I owe him a lot. Even when I am off the wagon, I know the right approach to get back on.

Arctic Fox, your post was so moving to read. I wish you lots of strength as you move forward with the therapist. . It is good to hear that your renewed contact with your godmother is proving such a support. Our emotional links to food can be so strong and it must feel good to be eating more healthily and taking better care of yourself.

I have been battling comfort/stress eating for a while now. Without going into gruesome detail, two very close family members have incurable cancer and another has worsening dementia. For the last two years, life has been full of hospital appointments and difficult decisions. I have ended up bingeing on all the wrong things late at night. As if that will change anything!

Anyway, I had a lightbulb moment two weeks ago, when I breached another kilo going the wrong way; * I can’t change all that is happening around me, but I can control what I put in my mouth.* If I can eat in a way which cuts out cravings, it should help me to resist the comfort/stress bouts.

So I am on Day 13 of eating healthily, drinking more water and getting to bed early. I am not counting calories or carbs, but just avoiding all processed carbs, sugar, rice etc, trying to eat things in a better order, and take a walk after each meal. I could call it the non-Magnum diet (!), but it’s really a combination of Michael Mosely and the Glucose Goddess. It’s early days yet, but I feel a lot more in control, and already healthier than I did.

Wishing everybody here every success in moving towards their goals. x

Hi all, Simon dont worry, Verano was referring to me on the BG subject.

What normally happens is I have tests mid December, then my next lot at mid March so I have managed to get over Christmas and get both my weight and number down. This time we are only 3 weeks back and I still have a lot of work to do.

On that subject I wanted to have a word with Pootle about her confusion as to why her monitor was showing a lot lower than her HbA1c. It is not something I thought about and was reading something the other day that I should be aware of. Your HbA1c is the average of your BG over 3 months, but it is also the average over every day. If you measure before breakfast and you are on 6.5 you then think your HbA1c would reflect that – but no – now eat a lunch of reasonably good food but measure immediately and your reading is say 9.7. It will go down again as the day goes on but after a larger dinner your next reading is 11.9. Now lets tot them up and you will find a reading averaging 9.3 – that is what your HbA1c would have calculated – all the ups and downs of the day. Annoying isn’t it – and I am not going to test before and after every meal – once a day is good enough for me.

In my case I am testing at around 5.2 but a fortnight ago it was 6.8 and actually on the cruise I had one morning at 14.6. Hence, my HbA1c is averaging way higher than the 5.2 of this morning and is completely out of whack. I will explain to my docor that I am just back from a cruise and she will factor that into how many tut tuts I get 🙂

Hopefully, I can get my weight down a bit between now and Wednesday – I was 71kgs on my last visit and today I am 73.5kgs. Not quite lost the holiday weight but going in the right direction and should be under 73 by next week.

Enjoy your weekend everyone.

Thank you Verano for the welcome back – although the post about blood sugars etc wasn’t me, it was Sunshine Girl.
I did four days of fasting with 18:6 but slipped last night after a long day when I couldnt get home in time to eat within my window and ended up taking a night off. What a fail after less than a week. I will continue though because having tried just fasting in the week before I’ve found it’s fine once the weight has come off but too slow and indisciplined when you need that kickstart.

Anyone else had successful experience of doing 2:5 etc?

Welcome back Simon!

S-g sorry to hear your latest results. The good thing is you know ‘why’ and you ‘how’ to rectify the problem. Had your blood sugar gone up for no obvious reason then there might be an issue. I know it’s not easy to get back on track but at least you now have the impetus to push forward. Your next results will be better.

Nothing much to report here. Just finding it a little bit difficult to settle back into a good routine. I have no idea why but it is what it is! Anyway, onwards we go ……

Just received my BG results and they are the worst I have ever seen for many years. 7.2 – which of course is the remnants of my 3 week holiday and not managing to get things back on track. Just shows how important it is to watch the carbs. On a cruise how can you resist the beautiful food even though I do try to miss out on the cakes, desserts etc. I think I had a total of 3 cocktails so the main thing would be eating the beautiful soda bread my daughter makes, having the occasions carby meal when there are no choices available and, of course, the wine.

Seeing the doctor on Wednesday and I can already hear her tutting but at least I am not seeing my regular doctor who would probably give me a bollo–ing.

Hey ho, BG is going down each morning from 120’s to the 70’s I the transition has started.

Today is the one year anniversary of the death of our beloved Michael Mosley. Sending all our best wishes to his wife and family. Without him many of us would not still be here or would be in a much worse state of health. He was our hero and always will be.

Remembering Michael Mosely today on the anniversary of his untimely death. He brought us all together on this wonderful forum. I am forever grateful for his teachings and for the friends I’ve made . When I read the blood sugar diet book in 2017 it changed my life. Here to express my gratitude for Michael and to my wonderful BSD friends. ❤️

Arctic Fox- what a brave and honest post. It’s good to see that you’re beginning to feel stronger and that your therapist is helping you come to terms with your past. It can’t be easy dealing with the impact of what has happened to you. Thank you for sharing your story with us. We are all here for each other. I’ve been given so much support over the years by my friends on the forum and please know that we are all here for you. I’m looking forward to seeing you flourish.

ARCTICFOX thank you and well done for such an open post. It sounds like you are really beginning to face up to so much of the stuff that has happened to you, and work through it with the help of your therapist. You really are sounding stronger and more self-accepting, and it’s great that as part of that you are realising the importance of looking after yourself well. I’m delighted that you have reconnected with your godmother too : someone who knows first hand everything that has happened and is giving you the unconditional acceptance and support you need. Sending you a big hug and look forward to being part of your ongoing journey, albeit remotely.

CATHY I just love your determination, it is so inspiring! I completely share your sentiment : “I haven’t achieved what I had hoped to achieve at the half way point but I tell you what, I am not giving up.” as I’m in the same position as you. But unlike you, I haven’t been trying as hard. I keep rebooting, setting myself challenges, and get off to a good start, then just lose my mojo. I think part of it is that it’s a time of change in my life in various ways. All positive, it just feels as if all the pieces have been thrown up in the air and are gradually resetting, and in amongst that there always seems to be a reason to overindulge in some way. But I’m feeling good and not going to stress about it, I just feel I’m at the stage where I need to give myself a bit of time to regroup and then hopefully will be more focused.

YOWZER how are you doing? I do hope that you’re feeling a little bit better? Thinking of you x

MARIET how are your teeth now? I really hope everything is sorted. I’ve had root canal treatment over the last couple of weeks and I was dreading it but all seems well. But I can only imagine how awful your experience was. I hope that it’s now all behind you.

NOKIE how are you doing this week, now you’re back from Switzerland? And DAWN have you dared weigh yet?! My scales are higher than I’d like them to be but I hope to reverse that very soon!

Hello to everyone else too. DAWN, NOKIE, SUE, MIXNMATCH, VERANO, HEIDI, POOTLE, STARGAZER and anyone else I’ve missed! Hope you’re all having a good week.

Hi everyone, I’m still here and checking in on occasion. Yowzer, sorry to hear you have shingles, that is nasty.
It has been a really big week for processing my cptsd and I’m really very tired. But some good things have resulted. I was invited to attend my dad’s birthday dinner, but in an exclusionary kind of way. My dad called me to invite me, but said he was doing it so I wouldn’t feel left out. He said they were ordering chinese takeaway. I asked if they could order a dish that I could eat, but because I can’t have gluten anymore and I’ve just come off a bad attack after getting some accidentally last week, could they ask that the cook give the pan an extra wipe before cooking. He couldn’t wrap his head around asking them that. I thought that would be the end of it, but he called me up again the day of and said that he and my mum had come to a solution and that was for me to cook my own meal at home and to bring it over and eat it. I had thought about doing that, but with how busy I am right now, my meals are pretty much just healthy ingredients on a plate. It didn’t feel good for me to just take my seed crackers, cheese and veggie batons over and to eat them while they were all having a special meal. My therapist has been trying to get me to stop pushing on them to accommodate my needs, because they never will. This isn’t just about food, it is about an attitude they’ve had towards me for a very long time. It sounds a bit petty to write it out here, but believe me, I have been accommodating them for so long, and it is never reciprocated. It has led to my emotional eating a lot of the time. Now I’m starting to recognize this pattern – they treat me like I’m being needy, I feel bad for being needy, and then I go eat to soothe myself. My therapist says there is a difference between being needy and having needs that aren’t being met. So anyway, I didn’t get upset or angry with my dad like I would usually do. I just said, ‘sorry dad, I don’t have time for that’ (I’m hoping my therapist will be proud of me for that). The indifferent reaction I got was pretty stunning. It became clear to me that he didn’t really want me there, he was just inviting me so that I couldn’t say he hadn’t and to avoid that conflict later. I’ve also been noticing a pattern that as I’m getting mentally healthier and stronger, my family is treating me more and more like the problem child. Now, it feels almost like they are shunning me. My mum has been dropping some pretty vile comments about me being in therapy.
So anyway, I stayed home and made myself a simple celebratory meal for setting boundaries with my family. It was delicious and I didn’t overeat. My stomach wasn’t upset after like it might have been if I had risked the chinese takeaway.
Then the next day, I called my godmother who I haven’t spoken to outside of social media for decades. My mum cut her out of the family after my grandma’s funeral, in spite of her being the closest thing she has ever had to a sister. My mum hasn’t even liked me being in contact with her over social media, says she is stupid and uneducated, etc. My older sister says that she is a needy wreck. But I thought I would call and judge for myself. What I got was the most amazing, warm person supporting me. She knows what I’ve been up to on the farm through social media, knows the difficult family dynamics I’m dealing with and offered her unconditional love and support. We talked a lot about how the things that happened to me in my family if known to be happening today would cause somebody to call child protective services. She said I’m doing the right thing by being in therapy and says I can call her anytime. My therapist will be happy, I think because she has been wanting me to make connections with supportive people.
Anyway, the shift that has happened as a result of this has been incredible. I’m looking after myself. Eating healthy meals in the right amounts for the volume of farm work I’m doing right now, and not comfort eating.
So sorry about the long post, but all of you have been so supportive of me and I wanted to provide a bit more context about what has been going on. I’ve been minimizing the abuse and emotional neglect from my family for so long and feeling like it wasn’t bad enough for me to deserve help and support over it. Now I’m getting the help and realizing just how bad it really was, and it is having an amazing, immediate impact on how I’m nourishing myself too.

Welcome back Simon. Glad you have decided to join us. I cant do 2 meals a day as the hunger seems to catch up with me, plus I am diabetic and have to keep my BG steady. Hopefully you have no such problems.

Nothing to report, weight the same. New gardener came and did a sh-t job and doubled the price he quoted. It wasn’t a written quote so dont think we have any come back. Will go back to my usual guy who does the job in one day whereas this guy kept coming and going and it took him 4 days (not full days). I have told the person who recommended him and she is going to have words, but I won’t be recommending him or employing him again. He will learn that you can’t come over the France, set yourself up and then not play by the rules. We have a joke here that Brits come over on the ferry and gain a certificate in building/carpentary/plumbing or whatever on the trip over and set themselves up in business – they don’t last long.

Raining today so not doing much. Nurse coming in the morning so I will be fasting from 8pm although cholesterol is not on my prescription but creatinine instead as well as HbA1c. Hey ho, will see what the doctor says next week.

Glad to hear you are sticking with us and you are welcome on the June thread. Do you have a medical reason for doing the diet or is it weight related.

Hello everyone
Am back in the zone and working hard to get into the 140s before my holiday. Had a text from GP saying my QRisk3 is 8.7% and to lower my cholesterol so that is why I am back on skimmed milk and low fat yoghurt. I know the full f at versions taste better and are healthier but I am trying to reduce my LDL. I reckon if I lose 1 stone and cut out the fats then my risk will reduce. At 64 I am on no medication apart from my asthma inhaler and I eat a healthy vegetarian diet so I am not too concerned about my elevated cholesterol LDL level but I would like to lose the weight. I am going to go out for a brisk walk after lunch every day and that is as good as I can do . My friend who died from a brain tumour was slim and healthy and she died aged 63 so no matter how hard we try it doesn’t always make a difference! My main priority is to reduce my weight by at least 10lb but preferable 14lb. I am determined to be sailing off on the maintenance cruise in January.
Yowser – I hope you are beginning to recover from your shingles . I feel lucky that my dose last year was obviously mild. I had a burning back for about 10 days and thankfully that was it. Nokie and you have both had a terrible shingles experience. Nokie- I hope you’re feeling inspired to take small steps. Be kind to yourself. We are all on this cruise together and sometimes it’s not plain sailing but we will get to port after Christmas and hopefully we will all celebrate this wonderful voyage together. My advice would be to make small goals. I am doing that. I’ve learnt I can’t be too optimistic.
Almost summer solstice and half way around the voyage. I haven’t achieved what I had hoped to achieve at the half way point but I tell you what, I am not giving up. Full speed ahead before August and then full speed ahead when I get back from holiday. It’s definitely achievable. I have bought my ticket for the maintenance cruise and I am not going to waste this opportunity.

Thank you – the positive news is that I am at least not feeling hungry – so I guess if it takes longer to lose the weight, at least the scales are going down! Down to 71.5kg now. Will join the June group if I may – think the fast 800 may be going on for more than 8 weeks for me! Good idea re logging everything – will do that

Hello – I’m back again. Time to lose it and really hopefully for it to stay off this time. 72 inches tall so my stomach should be 36 and instead it’s 42.

I’ve just completed day 2 and found it fine so far, as I usually do. I’m eating two meals a Day, one at 1pm and one at 6. Yesterday it was a protein shake and at 6pm, chicken breast, cottage cheese and salad, today two boiled eggs and at 6pm trout, prawns, cottage cheese and salad.

I’m 52 and cannot keep putting the weight back on – it’s solely down to drinking wine and eating cheese in the week, which I really want to restrict to weekends once I’ve got my weight down. Wish me luck!

After night out at the quiz, we came 2nd to last…… I actually lost a smidge of weight. Feeling better today and had a well planned menu of boiled eggs then a grilled halloumi and bacon salad for lunch. Dinner is being made by hubby so I just have to put up with it but its not too bad – meatballs in a tomato, pepper and onion sauce. No white carbs.

Getting bloods done on Thursday and that will be a shock as I weigh 2 kilos more and my results might not be so good. Seeing doctor next week but not my usual Dr gorgeous – so I cant really go into all the things I want to say – like why do you give me a drug that makes me fat then tut tut when you weigh me.

House went on the market today – a couple of photos are a bit rubbish but I have asked her to come and re-take them as they are from when we had it up for sale 4 years ago and things have changed – like the bathroom.

Have a good rest of week.

Last post reported. and should hopefully be removed soon.

Quite what these spammers hope to achieve by making irrelevant posts on other people’s threads is beyond me! Even if I actually wanted their product I wouldn’t consider them on principle.

Hope everyone is ok and having a good week. And sending hugs to those of us who are struggling X

Hello. Thought I should bring this post closer to the top!

S-g you’re having a really ‘positive’ time. Best of luck with the ‘selling’. Hope it’s smooth. Our neighbour passed away early in February and his bungalow went on the market a few weeks ago. An offer was made almost immediately and the subsequent sale has been agreed. Fingers crossed our new neighbours are pleasant!

Sunny glad your mum is doing as well as she can and you’re enjoying life in Turkiye.

So as I’m here I guess I need a few positives! Not so easy at the moment, not for any particular reason, but really need this thread ….

🛳️🛩️🛳️ A cruise we have booked for October is now on sale so I rang the agent for a repricing and had a lovely surprise! Nice refund to put towards another trip!

🍓🍓🍓 I have been buying the most beautiful strawberries just from our local supermarket. They seem to be really sweet this year.

That’s me for today but hope you all have a ‘positive’ day.

Great news Pootle! Especially good to hear your bloods are steady too. It would have been so easy for you to give up when you had that one disappointing test. Just shows that nothing in life goes in a straight line and we just have to draw a line through the fluctuating graph to get the ‘real’ trend.

S-g you know I think we are just ‘stale’! It’s so hard to ‘keep on keeping on ….’ for as long as we have! Can’t believe we are coming up to our 9th birthday! I guess for me my ‘reason’ for staying low carb is to keep my bloods ‘normal’ and keeping my T2 in remission. We can’t know how many people actually use this WOL to successfully keep their T2 in remission but for me now it’s over 8 years. I’m just happy to be drug free and anything else is a bonus!

Freezers …. oh dear! I must admit I don’t have a great amount of stuff we don’t eat I just have too much of it! Then I forget to plan ahead and so I forget to take some chicken or something out and have to buy more, because I’ve not left enough time for it to defrost! Maybe I should just get a bit more organised!

Enjoy your night out s-g.

Not looking forward to weighing tomorrow but I will and then my ‘June’ will begin and hopefully June will really be full of ‘joys’.

Well done Pootle, I remember when you first started, seems an age away.

I think the mistake I am making right now is we are trying to clear the freezer and to be honest most of the stuff that has been there for yonks are rubbish, which is probably why we haven’t eaten it before. Saturday we had spare ribs which are high in calories but thought a salad would counter that. It is not because the house is for sale (or will be when we sign the mandate) it is just that we keep buying the same things and I wanted to be clear what we have and start using it all. For example, I have 3 bags of frozen peas. So basically I am not really following any sort of diet plan. I will get back on it tomorrow after our night out and still aiming for another kilo for June.

Keep on keeping on…

Hi everyone,
Yowzer I’m so sorry to hear about your shingles having such awful effects and am sending you lots of hugs and hope you feel better soon. Also sending hugs to everyone else going through difficult times at the minute.
I should be weighing myself tomorrow but am delaying it as had a week in the Scottish Highlands last week and doubt I will have lost anything whilst I was there!
Wishing everyone a good week.
Dawn XX

I was thinking about you NOKIE,remembering you had had shingles. Thanks for the kind wishes. How long did you have it for? Its absolutely horrible isnt it. I have had slapped cheek syndrome for weeks and doc said thats prob activated shingles – what fun!
Stick to full fat yogs etc.. low fat anythjng usually has a ton of sugar and additives and thickeners to make it seem more palatable. Make sure you get enough protein and fat,and keep the carbs on the down low. I have whole milk if I’m having low carb cereal and semi skimmed in tea. Heylo low carb granola is tasty and filling – full of seeds and coconut.
Siometimes though,we can think we are doing the right thing,but we arent – i was astonished to learn in the bad foods for shingles list that nuts and seeds are included. Who wd have thunk!
Last week I only had water all week,one pear and two small slices of toast – eating a bit more now,but its quite pleasant to have little or no appetite for a while.
Love to all,have a good week xx

Joyous June is showing great promise.
The sun is shining and the recent rain has helped the vegetable seedlings to put on a spurt of growth. Luckily I haven’t followed that trend.
11 months on from discovering this diet I have had some ups and downs.. Now, at 10st 1lb, I am the lightest I have been for 40 years!!!! BMI 24 and tests showing a steady 5mmol/L. Waist one inch off half my height!! All thanks to the Michael Mosely BSD.

Good morning all😘
Firstly so sorry yowzer to hear you gave shingles
Its is so painful I had it on n February this year I know what you are going through I pray 🙏 you feel better soon get plenty of rest if you can

I am in Switzerland 🇨🇭 had a few days with my sister I fly back today my husband booked me a flight ✈️ he thought it would help me as I cannot seem to get out if my depression she is great we have talked and I feel more positive now she knows I feel unhappy as my weight has gone up so I will board the boat ⛴️ again and get my act together.

DCT I see you are doing 30 day challenge sounds a good idea thinking I might give it a go as you say cannot believe mm has been gone a year on 5th June we do need to all do this for him and make him proud😘

Cathy 2 pounds is ok I wish mine was only 2!!! You can do this especially as you have goals to help you get there

I am going to pack now as I leave this morning just hope I can put into practice what my sister has said it’s easier when you are away but I think I am ready to board the ⛴️ boat with you all thanks for all you messages you really are a great bunch see you on board
The only question I have 🤦‍♀️is can we have low fat yogurt and no butter I thought mm said we had to have full fat milk etc????
Bye for now
Have a good week all
Lv nokie xx 😘

Well done s-g.

My ‘Marvellous May’ result was anything but ‘marvellous’!

Anyway we are now in ‘Joyful June’.

Hopefully ‘The Joys of June’ will be reflected at the end of the month!

Enjoy June everyone!

Thanks ladies! DCT thank you,thats kind of you,yes i have yr email add. I didnt know about the breathing prob either,found out the hard way xx 😄😄😄😄 xx take care of yourselves in the week ahead. See you both later,up on the top deck, for drinkies while watching the sunset! Xx

Yowser- sending you get well soon wishes. So sorry to hear you had to go to A&E. Certainly puts things into perspective. Rest up and hopefully you’ll be soon feeling better. I agree with you that we are so lucky to have the NHS to take care of us when we need them.

Hi to you all and here’s to a motivated and successful June.

My results for May are 1kg which was my goal but still feels a little low and could do better if I could get my head and body back into dieting mode. Good news is the pool is getting warmer and I hope to be swimming in the next few days. Then maybe I will lose some weight.

As it goes, we have a night out on Monday but after that nothing for another month. So hoping to be back on track.

Let us know how you are all getting on and what your aims and goals are whether they are diet related or something else.

YOWZER I’m so sorry to hear that you had to go to A&E. I had no idea shingles could cause breathing issues. How are you now? Im glad you got good care and really hope that they have sorted the problem.

Please get plenty of rest and know that we’re all thinking of you. I’ll say a little prayer for you now. If there’s anything we can do to help just shout : I think you have an email address for me from that time we were experiencing issues with the forum and wanted a backup plan for keeping in touch? So please let me know if you need help X

Hi everyone,happy first June!
Short and sweet as Im ready to stay in my cabin and sleep after spending 14 hours in A and E.
Ive got shingles,doctor sent me to hozzy as I was having difficulty breathing.
Really hard to be in A and E at the weekend,it gets soooooo noisy and busy,but after triage I was put in isolation in a quiet corner,with a bed and a comfy armchair. So at least I wasnt on a hard chair for hours. The staff were wonderful,we are so lucky. Despite all its shortcomings,the NHS performs miracles every day
Good luck for the month ahead! XXXX

Hi Cathy, good to hear from you. And GOOD LUCK for June! We can do this! I think it helps when you have an event to aim for, and I really hope that you get where you want to be for your niece’s wedding. And well done for the steps as I know that’s been a real challenge for you with your foot issues.

My 30 day challenge is 4 days in and a bit up and down so far . . . . literally! I lost 2lb by Friday but seem to have put them back on again. Much of that is water weight I’m sure, but I need to go lower carb to see more results. And also do more exercise as that has been less than planned. But I’m feeling hopeful and will report back in due course.

I read an article in the Daily Mail yesterday with Clare Bailey. I can’t believe it’s almost a year since Michael died. She seems to be coping very well and is not bitter about what happened, but grateful for all the love and support. So let’s do him proud this June!

Love to you all X

Hello everyone
I let myself down in May and have started June 2lb heavier so it’s knuckling down time as we reach the half way point of our cruise! No time to waste as my other cruise is in two months’ time. Can’t afford to start the holiday with tight dresses! I’ve ditched full fat milk and butter to try and address the raised cholesterol issue. I tried 0% Greek yoghurt and it was horrible so I’m going to look for a better option. I’ve found some low fat cottage cheese that is quite palatable. I went for a big walk yesterday in my new trainers and walked 11,500 steps. So my aim for June is to stay focused and determined and to get the scale moving down again.
DCT- how are you doing on your 30 day challenge? I think it’s a great idea.
Foxy- I hope you’re doing well after the recent shake up.
Nokie- hope you will soon feel strong enough to take a walk on deck with us. Just small steps to get started. We have 6 months ahead of us to make even a small difference.
My productivity journal is out and I’m trying to keep calm despite my May gain. It’s another kick up the bum for me. I’m annoyed that I’ve let myself down and I don’t want to be feeling sorry for myself again so today is a new start. Nieces wedding in three weeks and cruise in 10 weeks. Six months to disembarkation from this cruise! Six months is a good amount of time to reach our goal. Let’s make it count. The maintenance cruise liner 🚢 is sailing off in January-how many of us will make it on board?

Will see you all here tomorrow (Sunday 1st June). Have a great evening.

As we are still in May I will report my months weight loss tomorrow – although technically only 3 weeks.

It is so hot here we are tending to just stay in the house. The pool looks very inviting and is now around 25/26 degrees but the sun is just burning down (36 yesterday and 32 today). Not only that, but I have had an upset stomach all day and taken 2 Imodium. Our gardener even had to give up cutting the hedge as he was starting to feel faint and sick.

I will see you all on the June thread tomorrow.

Hi Helpneeded, please don’t give up. We all lose weight at different rates. In my first 2 weeks I lost about the same as you (3lbs) or just under. There are many reasons, are you diabetic, are you on ANY medication, what is your starting weight, how much do you want to lose, sure you are not adding anything you haven’t mentioned, and so on.

What you are eating seems to be fine, maybe try logging it to make sure you are not forgetting anything. Don’t worry too much about exercise as it can make you hang onto weight if your body doesn’t think it is getting enough to eat. Walking the dog is fine and really good for you in lots of ways (and good for the dog 🙂 ).

Give it a couple more weeks and remember that 1.25kgs is nearly 3lbs. I see you are the same weight as me – the people you hear losing a stone in 2 weeks are usually starting at over 90kgs or even more. The less you have to lose the more your body is going to rebel.

I don’t want to give up on yet another diet, especially as I went through the ‘keto flu’ in week one but I am very close to seeing if I can get weight loss jobs as this just isn’t working for me at all. So fed up

Hi, I started the BSD on 15.05 and have to date lost about 2lbs. I keep reading about how people have a good weight loss amount but nothing seems to be happening with my weight. I can’t eat any less – my diet is generally Greek yoghurt with a handful of blueberries and seeds plus about 5 nuts in the morning, lunch is fish and salad and dinner is meat and veggies- no potatoes etc. Drinking mainly black coffee and lots of water.
I have bought ketosis sticks and seem to be in keto about 3/4 of the time. Exercising for about 30 mins twice a week and walking the dog as well for an hour a day.
But hardly any weight loss. I started 73.25kg and am now 72kg. I am so disheartened. I seem to look worse in the mirror than before the diet even started. What am I doing wrong?

Thank you s-g. Lovely bright and breezy name for this thread. I look forward to contributing.

See you all on Sunday 1st June.

Hi there everyone. Hello to regulars on our monthly thread but don’t forget we are here to welcome newbies and lurkers. If you want a caring and non-judgemental group of people to help you on your weight loss or health journey, you have come to the right place.

Please feel free to join us and let June be the month when you really make a difference to your half year resolutions. Whatever that might be. Besides the dieting information there are several diabetics on the thread who are happy to share the knowledge they have gained with both controlling, resolving or living with diabetes along with their weight loss.

Come and join us or just say hello.

setting up new thread. It is all I can do as I have to stay indoors. It is 35 degrees outside and is totally unbearable and we are only at the end of May.

It will be called Enjoying the Joys of June.

So sorry to hear your news Lucy. Be kind to yourself.

Hi all, sorry I have been too busy for posting positives although my busyness is all to do with positive things happening.

Put the house on the market – for €30,000 more than 4 years ago. Where else can you make €30k in 4 years beside doing a job.
Garden looking lovely and garage is nice and tidy after having a false ceiling put in – because we had to clean it for the work to be done has now saved us a big job now.
Looking forward to planning and designing our new kitchen and bathroom and the house in the UK – got to sell this one first.
Weather is beautiful at around 28 degrees with 32 this weekend so hoping to be swimming soon.

Verano, like you my not posting positives recently, doesn’t mean there haven’t been any, so thank you for posting some of yours and giving me a nudge to do likewise. I’m just going to randomly list a few of the recent ones …
🌸 though she tires easily now, Mum is still doing well, is still mobile and enjoying her normal routine as much as possible
🌸 enjoying wonderful weather in Turkiye, spending time with OH and catching up with friends
🌸 OH bought me a beautiful dress as a belated birthday gift
🌸 I’m all caught up on my favourite aussie soap
🌸 have been getting in quite a bit of painting time and enjoying being creative
🌸 and finally, youngest DD is about make an offer on a house, which if accepted would be her first house purchase 🤞🏻it goes well