Hello

An overweight, unhealthy vegan here. Yes, I eat lettuce but also overindulge in high sugar foods.
As a result, my mirror and I are no longer acquainted 🙁 Can’t bear to look.

I’m a couple of stones overweight and have been advised by my GP that I am well on the way to non alcoholic fatty liver disease.

Hoping I can do something about it.

Have been reading your posts with much interest. Very inspiring.

Am currently trying to find low carb vegan proteins.

Will start my new way of life on Saturday.

Best wishes to all.

Fairyface

Are you on Redbull????
When you have finished walking New Zealand maybe you could walk up and visit me in Spain!!!

But in all seriousness – Well done

Hello everyone,

Nickix

Here’s a recipe I use and even my kids eat this, so it’s not that bad!!!!

1 onion
2 celery sticks
6/7 mushrooms
1 very small potato ( optional or leave it out)
5 cloves garlic or more
200 g of carrots, green beans, cauliflower,, broccoli,
Some asperagus tips or the whole stalk
100g peas
Herbs, parsley, thyme or mixed herbs , dried or fresh, whatever you have
Salt and pepper
A tablespoon of olive oil

Use a big pot
Heat it up first, that way you use less oil!
Throw in the oil and gently fry off the onion, celery, mushrooms and garlic until soft
Add the herbs and the rest of the veg. Except the peas and the asperagus tips
If you like anything else, throw it in as well. Or use less of one and more of another.
Add some water or stock, do not cover the veg, just bring it up to the half way mark.
Cover the pot and simmer until nearly softened
Add the peas and the asperagus tips and cook for another 5 minutes
When all the veg is cooked to your liking, it’s done!!

The beauty of this is that you can add more water and make it into a soup. Makes it as thick or as watery as you like 😀
I usually fry or grill some ham or chorizo and throw it into the mix
It’s my tgo to recipe whenever I need something hearty or comforting.
I hope you might find it useful. I always put a potato in it – for the kids!!!!

Anyway, good luck to one and all!!

I have asked to join the closed group. Managed to do 11999 steps today:-)

Hi and Happy New Year
Wondering how everyone is going and in particular AndyBB who started this thread?
Thanks for everyone’s encouragement
I did end up having one small glass of champagne on NYE and that seemed to make me plateau for a few days but down to 71.1 kg today
First mini goal is to get to 66kg and healthy weight range but love to get down to 56-58 kg long term which was my prewedding weight and best I ever felt
Keep tracking everyone and stay away from those carbs

Thanks Lynne.

I scoff curly kale and cabbage as theres nothing in them.

Hi. Been doing a bit of reading on here regarding BSD for vegans.
Are the following acceptable?
Coyo Coconut yogurt
Tofu?
I’m eating nuts and seeds
Struggling with knowing what to eat to fill me up.
Thank you

Hi. Been doing a bit of reading on here regarding BSD for vegans.
Are the following acceptable?
Coyo Coconut yogurt
Tofu?
I’m eating nuts and seeds
Struggling with knowing what to eat to fill me up.
Thank you

Hi. Been doing a bit of reading on here regarding BSD for vegans.
Are the following acceptable?
Coyo Coconut yogurt
Tofu?

I’m eating nuts and seeds

Struggling with knowing what to eat to fill me up.

Thank you

Hi. Try searching for ‘#walk1000miles’

Hi folks. I am trying to find the Facebook group for the 1000 mile walking challenge. Can anyone help me please.

Hi all,

First day has gone well, bang on for calories and not hungry, I am not sure if I have to count carbs too ? I had a soup from the site and steak and veg for dinner and 3 pints of water, which I hardly ever drink, feeling positive about the diet.

I do struggle to get myself organised counting everything before cooking, my husband is following the Diet Doctor so is eating slightly differently but along the same line(not for me too much butter and cheese ) so it’s a bit tricky but I am sure I will get my head around it soon.

Onwards and downwards as you are all saying xxxxx

Hi Californiagirl – thanks for the recommendation. There’s a review of this book on the Guardian app today so will read it and consider getting the book.

Right now on Channel 4 there’s a programme called Food Unwrapped which is focusing on the importance of eating more fat and talking about all the types of foods/meals we are used to here! They are with someone called Dr Unwin, who I think follows the same science as Dr Mosely and he’s showing some of his patients who’ve lost a significant amount of weight on a BSD style plan.

Just had a huge stir fry and tried cauliflower rice, spread it out in a baking dish, drizzled with a chilli oil and lots of pepper, surprised at how nice it was, anyone else any ideas what to have instead of potatoes, rice and pasta,

Hi,
So, the good work we were doing before Christmas has gone a little wonky. Christmas got in the way.
We were eating so well, losing weight so wonderfully, we were exercising regularly.
But
Some big, fat bloke wearing red, and breaking into people’s houses, got in the way. He put the mockers on the good job.
So
What are we going to do about it?
Worry?
Cry?
Eat junk to comfort us?
Or
Are we going to start right now, this very second, to just eat sensibly, just think what shape we will all be in 12 months time?
We will all be slimmer, healthier, happier.
And
We can beat the living daylights out of anyone wearing black boots walking reindeer poo into the carpet, braking into our homes leaving junk food to put the kibosh on 2017’s hard work.

You with me on this?

Our slogan is… bah humbug.

Just eat healthily and smaller portions. Like the adverts to the posh restaurants that have a lot of white plate and a little bit of good quality food in the middle.

Love Lucia
Xxx

P.s. I found using paper towels to lift most of the reindeer poo up, then warm soapy water. Dry well.
🤔😀🤔😀🤔😀

When Tesco has gone I will have green tea and cinnamon to enjoy – looking forward to the health benefits of both of those 🙂

Hi Lucia,

I love your ‘one day at a time’ attitude. I need to slow my mind down and meet the challenges as they present themselves!!

If you just use a splash in tea or coffee it isn’t that significant. Latte’s and cappuccinos are more of a problem, but just count in your 800. If you have the problem that some people have where they psychologically don’t recognise drinks as nutrition, then have it on top of your 800, it is still good nutritionally. I do sometimes use skimmed, but more often semi-skimmed but my regularly daily beverage is herb teas so the overall quantity is low.

Hi,
Just between you and me.
Don’t tell me you have 10 pounds or 10 million pounds to lose.
No you haven’t.
You only have to eat healthy. No more no less.

Eh?

Well, if we get rid of the thought or task that we have to lose a mountain of blubber. Just erase that thought totally.

Now, if we say, just for the next hour we eat sensibly, we eat good , healthy, sensible food, and a nice size or amount, if we feel hungry, we don’t eat if we are not hungry. That is all we have to do. No more no less.
Less us just do the next hour. Just 60 little minutes. If we can throw in a little exercise too it fills up the 60 minutes, well then, it doesn’t feel like a mountain blocking our path.
But if we just focus on 60 minutes, well, we can all handle that. Can’t we.

After reading this, you now only have 58 minutes to focus on. 🤔

Love lucia
Xxx

Hello Timetochange,

I can identify with all you say about the addictive nature of carbs, particularly sugar. I’m a bit all or nothing with sugar but it definitely is my enemy so I’m back on the BSD from Wednesday! When I get my head around not eating any sugar it becomes easier as I go along so that’s what I am hoping for in the next few weeks. I think I may find it hard starting again so will keep reading these forums for inspiration. Good luck everyone!

I don’t have another 5 stone to lose, but lost over 5 1/2 stone in 2016, so if I can have any useful input will post it here for the new ‘big losers’ on the forum. Onwards and downwards, and don’t forget to be kind to yourself and just keep on keeping on, all forum watchwords that helped me hugely. Mindfulness is an essential component, so don’t forget to pay attention to the reasons why you are doing this, especially when tempted to go for the simple carbs. It will happen, you may slip and have some, but just start again the next day. One bad day does not undo all the good.

Hi pcoventry (Pete) and Mixnmatch, thanks for the replies. According to the book prediabetic sugar levels are 5.6 to 7.0 so at 6.4 I fall into that group, that’s why I said too high. I’ll be able to keep an eye on it properly when the monitor arrives. I’ve just checked the skimmed milk again it says 4.9g carbs of which 4.9 are sugars. Full fat isn’t much better at 4.7 carbs of which are 4.7 sugars. I like the idea of cream in coffee and tea but I suspect this would put a massive dent in my daily 800 calories.
I’m using the myfitnesspal app as a diet diary and it’s great. Only had 500 calories so far today from lunch and dinner. Did 1 hours walk this morning and burned 579 calories, so had a promising first day.
Good luck everyone

Congrats on joining up Antinic

This is where success is the best thing on the menu.

I am 64, been overweight for about 50 of those years, now on DAY 297 and loving it. I reached a goal weight, a revised to a lower goal weight, in October and have stayed there easily. In March last year when I started I thought I would give two weeks a trial, boy am I glad I did. Yesterday my fitness device told me I had set a new steps record of 20,624, that’s the difference in my life, I can just keep going and going no effort involved.

Enjoy your journey to a new way of life.

Keep us posted.

Nettle

Hi all

Lainie – hope the return to work goes better than expected. I’ll join you on Wednesday – I only work 3 days not 4, and so I have even less excuse not to fit in the exercise! For me it’s the rain/wind that discourages me. I am not a gym bunny, preferring outdoors for exercise.

Welcome to the newcomers! Hope you all had a good day – but if not, don’t let that derail us! I am teaching myself that the next meal is a new meal and a new opportunity to be sensible… better thinking that way than ‘tomorrow is another day’, or even worse, ‘I’ll start again next Monday’!

I stepped on the scales this morning and they say 85.6kg, so that’s already better than 2 days ago when they said 86. something (can’t remember in all honesty, but logging starts now!).
I am 5 ft 8 and at my heaviest was 93.4kg, which was 14 stone and (almost)10 pounds. BSD took me down to 79kg, or 12 stone 6. So currently a whole stone up from where I was in the summer. I would love to get down to 70kg. Last seen at that weight in my early 20s, plus a brief spell 10 years ago before my dad got ill and I promptly piled it back on again. I am now 43, and older and wiser, and certainly while I have regained some weight in December I have absolutely no intention of going back up the kilo scale to where I was before! So as you all say, it’s doable – in my case the desired loss is 15 kilos, or 2 stone 5 pounds.

I took the plunge and joined the 1000 mile challenge after all. I decided that there was no harm in trying for it, inspired by the examples on here!

Today, food choices have been 95% good – skipped breakfast as I got up late (can’t do that much more as back to work on Wednesday!) then had a sensible lunch and dinner. I did have some Spanish turron, in a weak moment, but I doubt it was more than 100 calories, and I am not going to beat myself up over it. No point in falling off the wagon in despair, I’d rather wobble and stay on it! Still within the 800 cal. In spite of strong family history of type 2 diabetes, I don’t want to get it, so I was careful to have the turron with plenty of cabbage and other sensible stuff (in same meal, not in same mouthful!), to balance the effect on blood sugar. I am knowledgeable about low GI foods due to family members’ diabetes and much reading, which might be why I don’t yet have it… not that I am making excuses.

Sandwiched a run in between the 2 meals, which means I have 3.4 miles of the 1000 under my belt already. Beautiful sunny day running along the seafront – not my neck of the woods but was determined to get the Jan copy of Country Walking. Closest place I could find it in stock was the other side of town (all the BSDers must have been busy getting a copy for the progress tracker for the 1000 miles challenge!). The tracker is now stuck on my fridge door. It is a very ‘in your face’ reminder every time I am tempted to open the fridge for a snack, that it would be more sensible to have a cup of tea instead. Seeing the thermometer on the side for mileage clocked up, I thought I might be able to find one for weight loss, and print that off too – I use MyFitnessPal for logging but it is nice to have a physical note too. Keeps me motivated. There are loads on Pinterest but I like being creative so have made one instead! I have put (non food) rewards up the other side to the kilo notches! Still thinking what the big one will be when I get to goal – I think the biggest rewards are health, but any suggestions gratefully received!

As many say, onwards and downwards, folks!

Julia x

Thank you again Mixnmatch. Very sensible. I am soooo good at putting blocks in my path.

evening all,
day 2 here, going well so far.
it feels really strange to be doing without bread, crackers and pasta but im finding ways around it.
cooked a spag bol for the family tonight and i had mine with courgette noodles 🙂 weird, but not unpleasant.
then i took our dogs for a big walk whilst everyone else had pudding.
i feel i have to be very cautious to not really say “diet” as i have a 6yr old daughter who watches my every move :/

echo the huge thanks to those sharing their top tips up thread, these are super helpful and shows how i can work it into my life so it feels like less of a massive challenge. Hope everyone else is going well so far. love the thought of boiled eggs = no dishes 🙂 that is certainly something i can get behind.

I am 50, but Captainlynne, our resident celebrity maintainer reported similar and is both older than me and lost her 100 plus pounds faster than me. Don’t borrow trouble and wait to see if it becomes a problem before worrying about it would be my advice 😀

Hi, I’m so glad I found this forum. So many helpful tips and inspiring stories.

I stumbled over this book after reading an article, read it and prepared for the diet during the Holidays. Today was my first day and so far so good. I’ve been eating mostly vegetarian for a few years and will add more legumes to the diet than some of you, but will stick to 800 kcal a day.

Breakfast was a kale smoothie, lunch the plowman’s platter and dinner was homemade minestrone. Evening snack will be greek yoghurt with blueberries.

After a rather rough year, with my father diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s with me as his main caretaker, I know find myself overweight for the first time in my life. I’m also more out of shape than ever. My goal is to lose the weight, focus on healthy foods and start excercising again. On step at a time, though 🙂

Linda

Lovely to ‘see’ everyone on here.
I had a low day yesterday but came bouncing back today.
I have been out for two walks today totalling 11999 steps and also loaded up the World Walking app. I am walking New Zealand but did not set it before I went out!!!! Never mind tomorrow is another day but we have grandchildren coming for the day so I don’t think I will be able to go out.
I am just waiting for the day when everything becomes second nature. It is reasonably easy for me as my husband is also helping with the shopping and menus. I am so determined to lose this weight around my middle and be able to wear lovely clothes again.
Thanks for keeping me focused.

Thank you Mixnmatch. It’s good to know it might not be a big problem. I do though wonder if age comes into it – loss of elasticity etc. I am 63 with crepey skin on my arms, but perhaps drinking lots of water would help that. Time will tell….
K8sgettingthin

I have lent my book to my Dad and know there was something in it about Low GI. Should we be looking at carb or GI levels in food or are they the same thing? Sorry for probably a silly question.
Jane

The beef stir fry was delicious with cauliflower rice but my lunchtime portion of duck rillette rotted up my calories today making a total of 880! So only water until bedtime💦💦

Thank you, in between a friend told me exactly the same. I was wondering how this diet will affect my weight lifting program

Hi K8sgettingthin, I have waved goodbye to around 110 pounds in the last two years and the reason there has been little mention of loose and flappy skin, is it just isn’t a problem for me. Possibly because of the linked attention to regular exercise that goes with the way of eating , I have transformed from a size 22 (almost 24) caterpillar to an athletic size 12 butterfly. There is a little loose skin if you look hard, classic wings, and a little on the former gut, that make it highly unlikely I will ever be seen in a bikini again, but I am perfectly comfortable in gym kit, cycling gear, or leggings, or a normal swimsuit. I was quite surprised myself, as I expected much worse.

I’m in… Hard start to the year with lots of work functions but better to start it and do as best as I can then not at all right?!

Hi Carb-Addict

Hot meals sound lovely. I love feta and fish. I’ve come in well under calories – 591 but carbs are a bit high at 60. I will aim to have a lower carb day tomorrow. I’ve had a lot less to eat today and don’t feel hungry at all. I plan on a nice warm bath and a pampering session later on.

Exercise has been absent today but that was planned as I wanted to get the house straight, ready for us all going back to work tomorrow.

I hope everyone else is having a successful day.

Lainie

Hi Cowpat, full fat milk is actually lower carb than skimmed, and cream in coffee has none 😊 the joys of this way of eating.

My first Day On BSD and I feel great. Hade eggs for breakfast a sallad for lunch and quinoa with veggies for dinner. Keeping portions Small to reduce calories. Haven’t been counting The exact numbers of calories but I found a list online and looked up some of The foods I Will be eating so I Have a rather good idea of how many calories I eat in a Day.

Want to loose about 10 kilos but it’s mainly a way to build new eating habits for a healthier happier me.

Here’s one I love.
http://alldayidreamaboutfood.com/2015/01/paleo-low-carb-thai-chicken-zoodle-soup.html#hsBzZFoeBMrz7UIB.32

Miss ZIggy

Hi
I am new and excited to get started – I have started to browse the Fast 800 thread as I believe if I am to succeed I need to commit. Is there a thread with meal plans listed? I would love to see what everyone is eating as I am concerned I will not have the ability to create the variety of meals.

I intend to lose 45 pounds but more importantly I want to show my partner this is a good diet for him – he is type 2 diabetic, taking metformin, blood pressure meds and statins but is not one to be told – I want him t join me but I know I have to show my success first which will draw him in!!

If you can point me in the direction of a meal plan thread I would be really grateful. Thank you and very best wishes to you for 2017.

I have read blogs by Dr Jason Fung who has worked with many diabetics. He is an advocate of intermittent and longer term fasting.
My understanding from what I’ve read Is that the body will never use muscle for fuel as long as there is body fat available. I think body fat would need to drop to less than 10% before this would happen.
Dr Fung has many videos on YouTube and a website called intensivedietarymanagement.com if anyone is interested in finding out more.

I just picked up some body fat %, water %, bmi scales in Morrisons sale for £12 thought it would be interesting to get a guide and the price was good if anyone is else is keen. ( I apologise now they are branded weightwatchers!) I was pleasantly surprised with the body fat % but then I have no idea what this was when I started BSD 3 months ago!

Hi Lucia…sounds like a plan.

The weather is not so cold here, around 12 degrees mid morning so maybe we should have the walk round my place…

Dam. Tday i’ve hit 900 cals – but I still consider that to be fantastic considering I am 40 16 stone and planned for 1000 to be my worse case anyway. It’s mainly been eggs, stuff for dinner and chicken with veg for tea.

Still had 2 litres of water so far, I find it hard to drink but I am doing it. Getting used to 3 meals a day is also something I am not used to doing!

GRANNY, another writer on another forum thread suggests the correct formula for calculating the optimum protein intake is : 1- 1.5g per kilo of IDEAL body weight. Use the middle weight of the ideal range for your height and build. There’s an abundance of websites to help. Hope this is helpful. (Mine works out at around 70g – I’m very short!)

Hi Ari just wanted to wish you well – I have literally just discovered the bSD and this forum – sped read the book in the last 24 hours and raring to start –

I have read alot about sticking to 50g or under for daily carbs but cant remember reading what the level of daily protein intake should be??? Can anyone help?

Hi angela06,
I was walking with you.
wasnt it frosty this morning? Did you notice my red nose? You were too polite to giggle.
Fancy another walk when you are free? I will wait at your gate and we will go together.
Should be fun.

Love Lucia
Xxx

Hi Eileen, for the record, visceral fat was one of my main concerns. BSD took care of the bulk of mine within days (10 days or so). Even though I’ve gained a few lbs with my Christmas madness (BSD friendly, out of control portions) my tum is still flatter and tight!