Hello Pubnicky32, I do my cauli in bulk. Whizz it in the blender then portion it up in bags and put it straight in the freezer. It might discolour a bit but not if you get it straight into freezer i.e. dont leave it sitting around or even in the fridge. Half the cauli gets riced and the other half I cook and make mash portions, super good with horseradish sauce.

Thank you Annie….I will keep at it. I have a few days holiday coming up (25th July) and want to look good for that. Had hoped to lose a stone by then as it is a great marker for achievement. Just a few pounds per week and I can get there.

Search for ‘whoosh effect’ and you will find a lot of posts on this subject. After the first week it is very common and due to fat cells replacing fat molecules with water molecules, and then expelling them all at once when the fat is all gone out of the cell. This is why measurements still change as the water takes up less space. I think 5 days was my longest stall in weight loss, but others had periods of well over a week with no weight loss, but the fat was still going. This also seems to particularly apply to our main target with this way of eating, the visceral fat that damages the organs.

Most of my days were two meal days, I even had the occasional one meal day, usually with the bulk of the calories in the evening, when going out for a meal for example. As Annie says, make the way of eating fit your lifestyle, as it will be far easier to stick to.

Some people do this, I don’t but then I use mashed cauli almost all the time as I love it.

Hey everyone, I’m just preparing everything to start on Monday but was wondering if you can prepare your cauliflower rice in bulk and freeze x
Tia
Nicole

Late to the party as ever!

I have two stone to lose before my birthday in September. Otherwise we won’t qualify for ivf- my partner doesn’t produce sperm but I am now the problem as a fattie off the NHS charts. I have been exercising like crazy and doing 1500 calls with no joy at all for months. I read bsd ages ago but didn’t think I could do it. Started four days ago and down two kilos! Astonished! Maybe this is a whoosh delay thing! Anyway I am 80kg and in need to be 68kg to qualify so please please can I Join and have your encouragement ?

Things that work for me.

1. I love to cook – recommend scrambled egg stuffed with veggies – I put in peas spinach mushroom onion spring onion and tomato and thenhave a side of grated carrot or sauerkraut. Yum.

2. Eat with eyes – so massive salad bowls with eight or nine veggies in- red cabbage etc then chickpeas tuna and preserved lemons and caper- yum

3. The book never binge again had really helped me to cope with my internal saboteur – recommend it if you are an emotional eater like me ( up and down for thirty years) sigh.

4. Am finding the 16:8 really helpful as hard lines As in I just never eat before 10 or after 6. Much easier to have an absolute rule than a bendy one.

5. My saviour. The potato. I count in one boiled potato at 100g 70cals and I add it into my meals over the day. Potato gets bad rap- very satiating and helps me cope with my weakness which is white rice and bread cravings and crisps.

Hello!!! X

Love to make up recipes so if you tell me what’s in your fridge I will give you a recipe for something tasty and compliant with bsd.

lynxbsd Thanks for the suggestion but that would make me gag.

Thank you all. I will take the bad breath in my stride. At lease I am aware of it.

Not sure what you mean but use the plan in a way that suits your lifestyle. As long as the overall average consumed is,what you are aiming for, it doesn’t matter on which day you eat, or don’t eat.

It’s common to lose a lot in the first week and nothing or very little in the second. Just keep on doing what you’re doing and your body will fall into line when it realises you are serious about this. Have you checked you’re measurements as ins/cams can be lost with nothing showing on the scales. It’s early days for you so don’t get downhearted. Have a read around the forums or use the search bow, top right of the page, to see you are not the only one. Good luck, it WILL happen.

Ok so first mini-goal achieved. I’ve lost my holiday gain plus 0.8lbs of goal 2. Just 1.2lbs to get back to my lowest BSD weight. So feeling quite pleased with myself.

Then the ‘biggy’ but I’ll deal with the next tiny one first!

Hope everyone is doing well.

Sounds interesting Mixnmatch please do keep us updated.

Not the best of days for me yesterday but scales are the same this morning so sigh of relief here!

Have a good weekend.

I am doing everything the same and have increased my physical activity but the scales are just the same as they were after 7 days. I lost 8lbs in the first week and now nothing over 5 days. What can I do?

Have you seen this?
https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/alcohol#more-170059
Vodka is zero carbs!!
I was at slimming world and considered staying for the weigh ins but the diet is about eating loads of carbs so I would have felt a bit awkward I think when they ask questions about your weight loss.

I have a strong family history of diabetes and have tested prediabetic on a home monitor and also all the symptoms which is why I tested. I hope I’ve caught it in time!

New plan, I am going to incorporate 5 days of fasting mimicking diet into my 7 day reboot from next Tuesday, so 2 days of BSD 800/40 followed by 5 days plant based only 800/40 keeping protein low as well for the benefits of autophagy. I will track all of these on Crono as usual and will report back if people are interested in my experience.

Narnea – are you pre-diabetic/diabetic???
I’ve been sticking to the 800 BSD for two days, doing it properly. Feeling OK, but I was quite hungry yesterday afternoon so ate my stirfry beef with asparagus and mangetout early. I’m not going to weigh myself everyday, will just have the discipline of once a week at WeightWatchers on a Tuesday evening. Not sure what I will cook this evening – will consult the BSD recipe book for ideas.
Saw the Dawn French article yesterday – she has lost 7.5 stone!!!! And she had to do lots of walking.
Challenges for me coming up – dinner cooked by friend tomorrow evening, will take my own cauliflower rice to have with her vegetable stirfry. Meeting friend on Sunday with whom I usually drink a fair bit of alcohol – will try and stick to soda water with 3 slices of lime – I squeeze the 3 slices into the soda water and pretend it’s got vodka in it!
Keep going everybody!!!
Nancy x

Is it OK to use the 2 meal weekend days on different days? My work pattern allows me every other weekend of so that fits in, but the alternate week the best days to have my 2 meals are Tuesday and Thursday. Is this OK?

Thanks for that Luckylinda 🙂 Wow!! how did you replace dairy on the BSD? I presume you replaced protein with legumes and tofu?

I would like to become vegan in the future.

Hi everyone
Pleased to report that last night during the festival, I drank tea!!! a massive and very tasty pot of chai…..and a salad, so feeling virtuous….we’ll see how tonight goes…

thought of you last night Mary and your comment about we antipodean cousins as a lovely young singer/songwriter performed a song called The Antipodes! It’s one of my favourite descriptions of the far flung colonies, but rarely used locally!

Speaking of far flung…Canadaliz….where are you? missing your missives and hope all is OK in your world.

Lee, I hope your Irish family look after you well over there…and yes, well done for resisting the treats. (I’m lucky as I don’t really have a sweet tooth and also tall thin husband that I can fill up on anything that needs to be out of sight and mind)

FBB….yes, it does sound as if you may be in mild ketosis….good for weight loss (you can get test strips…either blood or urine..for the blood you need a monitor like the BS ones…some will do both)

happy weekend one and all and keep up….I will be on the road a bit over the next week so infrequent posting, most likely (I find the site a bit less user friendly on my phone)

Hi
Legumes ARE friendly on a blood sugar diet – they just don’t fit in too easily within a 800 calorie diet. If you are sticking to the 800 calories for 8 weeks as per MMs book then will be hard to have legumes too often. Once you pass the 8 weeks and have increased your calories then legumes are a good source of fibre and proteins. I am a vegan – I went from diabetic to ‘normal’ in eight weeks on a diet at 800 calories which included legumes (very small tho’) and they are now a staple of my diet and still no issues and tremendous weight loss.

Hi Verano – thanks for your reply and your support – not be long before your here too. Can’t wait to see you here and be congratulating you!

Slightlessdumpty x

Yowser – so well done – I am excited for you and dancing just as much as you are for you (well maybe not so much because I can’t at the moment but you know what I mean. 😀 We all know just how how hard it is to lose weight but everybody that makes it here just makes excited to know it’s not impossible! Get that bunting up and celebrate with the elite!

Slightlylessdumpty x

Evening All-
Mary – Sadly I’m not Angela Jayne – very sad story – she’s the one losing out – very happy to fill in for the meantime – she may well read your comment and reconsider,

Lee – enjoy your ‘holibobs’ – I couldn’t have chucked away that sweet!

ffbb – well done for getting to week 3 – great results in the face of adversity! Shame about the bad breath – a sign that you are doing well!

Me – not a bad first week – now for week 2!

Keep the faith everyone!

Further to my above post on autophagy, I just read the following on another forum:

“Yes, it seems autophagy it is triggered by MTOR regulator; the absence of dietary protein (MTOR). I read a helpful post “noticed that after 3 days fasting, I see a fast progression of skin tightening and definition happening”. Dr Fung stated in an interview [Dr Fung: Intermittant Fasting/ Weight Loss – Autophogy @ 17:40] that Autophogy kicks in on water-only in approx 24-48 hours… ”

Cheers
Linda

Knowing that legumes are not that friendly for the blood sugar diet ( and other diets that I have read) and are used sparingly, in my experience research, I have learnt that legumes when sprouted are considered a good healthy alkaline food, the composition of the legume changes when sprouted, becoming a vegetable easily digestible, what are the BSD teams opinions on this?

The only goal I haven’t already reached is the one that says I am never going back again 😁 I am 8 stone lighter than I was 2 1/2 years ago and reached my target weight 5 months ago. The reason I still post here is to support others on their journey and to keep embedding the principles into my own life so I will never end up where I was.

Hi FFBB, I think the breath thing is a good sign! Stop me if you’ve heard this before but it means you are in ketosis so are properly fat- burning. I’ve read that it is only temporary so just see it as a weird sort of victory and keep chewing that gum! 😃I remember it happening back when I didn’t fall off-plan every five minutes and did a search on the threads and found lots of info.
You are doing so well!

Just a lurker here, but hey fattyfattyboomboooms, see the link below.
Sesame Oil, oil pulling, simply swishing a tablespoon of Organic Cold Pressed Sesame Oil ( not toasted sesame oil) around you mouth, great for teeth and gums, and great for oral hygiene. It will work. Great for putting on your salad too. Cheers Jim

http://www.foodmatters.com/article/oil-pulling-the-habit-that-can-transform-your-health

If you live in the uk, buy it here,
http://www.hollandandbarrett.com/shop/product/meridian-organic-sesame-oil-60076352
and have it delivered to a Holland and Barret shop near you for 95 pence.

Hi everyone,
I’m still lurking and reading but don’t post much.
Congrats on everyone’s success, keep going, this is not a diet, this is a way of life!
Sugar and grains are no longer a part of my life, so willpower has nothing to do with it. It is just a decision to day no.

I have maintained my 30kg loss since September last year and incorporate fasting into my regime as well (by fasting, I mean water and salt only, no food).

If I can do it, you all can!

Hubby and I are off to Africa for a 5 week holiday on Monday, I’ll check in when I get back and let you know how I went and what I weigh (currently 60kg)
Cheers
Linda

hiya, i am still having the greek yogurt from Aldi with some nuts and some blueberries

I did WW and SW for years and couldn’t understand why I wasn’t losing weight. It took me nine months last year to lose what I lost on BSD in about five weeks! I am a slow loser but since January this year have lost 33lb. That never ever happened on SW or WW. I have realised since starting BSD that the low fat high carb way of eating just didn’t suit me. It’s hard to go against everything we have been taught about low fat diets but this way of eating works and you won’t feel hungry which is very liberating. Also, the support on here is amazing and so much more informative than the slimming club meetings that I attended for years and years. Good luck with your BSD journey and welcome to our successful way of eating.

Oh Yowser I’ve missed your funny comments 😅😅😅, seriously though it’s how we feel more than look, and I imagine you are feeling great , you are my role model 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 keep up the excellent work 🙋🙋🙋

Hey Yowzer
Congrats!
Fasting is the secret to getting rid of those leftover stomach cells, it’s called autophagy! See below:

https://www.dietdoctor.com/renew-body-fasting-autophagy

I reached my goal weight last September and my ‘overhang’ has been getting less and less as each month goes by. I now regularly fast, often from dinner to dinner, but on occasion for 3-4 days (if you do this you must keep up the water & electrolytes, especially magnesium and sodium).

I put a bit of Celtic sea salt on my tongue every few hours and that does the trick.

Cheers
Linda

Hi Yowser
Well restarting for the umpteenth time, lost 3 st last summer and put 2 back on, but on it now, so much easier in the summer isn’t it. Do you still have fage for breckie, I do it’s so lush had fresh raspberries today with it yum🍧

Hi Mixnmatch

Thanks – sounds as if you are on your way to reaching your goals 🙂🙂

I never tried either WW or SW but have found the community here to be fantastically helpful and supportive. Good luck with reaching your goals.

Hi Kate – good to know I am not alone struggling with ww. Think I will start on Monday and cancel my ww subscription which I feel is high considering the support I have received. Seems to me everyone here on the forums is far more helpful and supportive.

Hi Dolly, I tried WW and SW many many times with minimal success. They both allow you to eat the stuff that’s no good for you. I think this plan comes at it differently and reeducates your tastes. I’ve had far more success with the BSD!

Just keep well hydrated and use moisturising cream/oil and you may find like I did that it keeps improving. I believe it can take up to two years to keep on improving, so I am also trying abdominal massage at the moment, but it really isn’t an issue most of the time.

Hi Mary, thank you for such kind words. Yes I am drinking plenty of water, it doesn’t seem to be helping.

Small price to pay though.

FFBB

GREEN JAN i feel jim dandy thanks!
Apart from the wrinkles,that is,which have turned into pleats!!! Not a good look but i keep covered up or I ‘ m scared someone will try to iron me! 😕😕😕😕😕😕😄😄😄😄😄😄🤔🤔🤔🤔😋😋😋😋😋😋
Lots of hugs to you from me xx

Hi GREEN JAN and JOSIE x good to see you both
Josie 3 stone down and maintaining is not to be sniffed at 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
GREEN JAN how are you getting on? X

Hi Narnea,
Thanks for getting in touch. Yes, we are seeing the BSD as a way of life now. We’re still on our way to goal so haven’t really deviated from the plan, as such but because we’ve been doing it a while have had a couple of meals out. It isn’t particularly difficult to stick to, we quite like the restrictive nature of the diet – this is actually easier than moderating! The weight loss was fairly constant, at least 3 pounds a week but often more. We’ve both lost almost 4 stone now, I’ll post an update in a couple of weeks. To be honest, although the weight loss is brilliant, it’s all the other benefits too, which make this diet worthwhile. Once you get your head around the diet and do a bit of preparation, success is certainly possible! Good luck with your weight loss journey.
Claire

i am am amazed at how much weight i lost when involved with this thread. I miss Lucky, Tokyo although i have not put on weight i haven’t lost any more either. so will have to put up with just 3 stone. Who would have thought it.

Hey FFBB, well done on making it to week 2 and losing more weight. You are wonderful.
Are you drinking plenty of fluids? I only know dehydration makes the breath pongy. I hope you are counting the cals in the gum lol (I wouldn’t). I think we should all act like snarky teenagers…why should they have all the fun?
I am glad you are realising how strong you are….you are a hero of mine.

Take care,
Mary xxx

Hi everyone.

I just love this diet, I have been working with a team of friends, and they have been drinking wine and feeling rough in the morning, I have been on sparking water, then they keep feeling hungry, I am still never hungry and then the best thing ever.

I was looking for a top and the lady selling the fisherman’s smocks (I love them for walking in) said you are easy to measure as you don’t have a tummy.

Wow, 4 months ish since reaching target and that is music to my ears.

Still maintaining.

Some weeks I am up a few lbs, some weeks down, but within 4 or 5 lbs all there time…

It is so humbling to read so many stories, so many lives changed…

Well done fellow 100ers

Fantastic! Can you tell me a little about it?
Was the the weight loss constant? Did you have trouble sticking to it? Is it a way of life now or will you reintroduce stuff?
Sooo good to hear success from people 👏

Well I am excited! 4lb down in 2 days!!
I’m hoping finally something that works 🙏
I am feeling a little rough but I was before , that’s why I’m doing this.
So the biggest shock for me though (considering I’ve been studying nutrition for years) is just how much you can eat with soooo little calories and still feel full!
Tonight I made chicken tikka on the bone, cauliflower rice and natural yoghurt, yum 😋
So far don’t miss the other stuff but am going on a camping holiday next week so hope I will cope with that.
How are you guys doing tonight?

Great blog, and great results, both of you. Looking forward to you joining our merry band of maintainers soon 😀

It can be difficult to be sure you are fat adapted but generally if you can go For long periods without needing food, can do exercise without ‘carb loading’ your mood is on an even keel you may be. Check out the Diet Dr website, there’s info about it there along with ketosis – and it’s a well respected site. It can take some time to become fat adapted and able to switch between fuels. But everyone is different so we are all our own experiment.