A few positives today, despite the heat.

1. My hand survived….!!!! A minor miracle!!
2. Made fridge soup today (everything and anything in the fridge that needs using up and can go into soup!) with home made stock from the chicken I had roasted on Tuesday. It was particularly good, and made enough for 2 people for 4 days>
3. Think I might have found a home for 2 of the ‘feral’ kittens, that are slowly taming down! Yay!!

Hope you are all finding some positives in your lives…. xxx

Lucy just jumping on here to say how pleased I am to read your news. Particularly after all you have gone through recently you must be delighted! You are so right in saying that even though you ate a lot of the wrong things you still ate a lot of the right things. And your efforts have paid off. Well done! I’m sure you will now continue with your weight loss and I look forward to reading about that in due course!
Best wishes, and have a great weekend X

Hi everyone. I’m back from holiday and just doing a quick catch up.

DAWN I’m so sorry you’ve had such an awful time. I’m really glad your mum didn’t break anything and also that you are getting everything sorted as well. But what a trauma. So very well done for getting into the 11s despite all else. HEIDI well done too for your ongoing loss. That’s great news and very inspiring. I love that quote too – ideal for days when we don’t have time or inclination to do all the right things we want to, but if we just keep things simple and stick to the basics we’ll still make progress. And POOTLE thanks for the top about Roy Taylor : will have a look.

ARCTICFOX I hope your back and calf are clearing up? It’s scary how the simplest of movements can injure us. I put my back out once just by twisting to put something in the bin! You may be right about overdoing the dancing but don’t stop! It could just as equally be the stress in your body coming out in other ways – I know my back is always more vulnerable if I’m going through stress. I’m glad that things are getting back on track with your therapist again.

YOWZER you are amazing to fend off that horrible carb monster even whilst you are struggling! I am so sorry to hear that you are still unwell and wish there was something we could do. How are you faring in this heat? Might be an opportunity to tuck away somewhere cool and binge on box sets or a good book maybe? Sending love and hope that you feel some improvement soon.

CATHY how are you doing? I hope that you manage to lose the weight you want to before your holiday. But don’t assume you will put weight on whilst away – you may not. Even if you are eating and drinking more than usual, there are still healthy options to be had, and you may well be doing a bit more exercise too. So don’t give up hope! I surprisingly didn’t put on any more weight on holiday which was a relief. And now I’m back I want to get back on board again and start seeing some loss.

Hello to everyone else reading this. Hope you’re ok, and do let us know how you’re getting on. Meanwhile, wishing you all a lovely weekend xx

Brilliant news Lucy!
Wow…38! That is excellent!! and the 3lb loss. Onwards….
Keep on keeping on!!
XXXX

Thank you Shetland Lace

Hi everyone,
Decided to weigh myself this morning and I’m back in the 11’s (just) at last. Determined to make sure I stay there until I’m in the 10’s ! Hoping you all have a good day. Dawn XX

Morning everyone. Some positive news from me this week. Had my blood test results and down at hba1c 38. I mean wow. One year ago I was 48 and diabetic. Thought because I’d fallen off rhe wagon it wasn’t going to be great. But this is considered below normal and I can’t believe it . I’m really proud of myself.And in hindsight yes I ate a lot of wrong things but still a lot of right things if you see what I mean.
Also back on diet 100 percent….plus have done along walk early morning past couple days. And I lost 3lbs this week.
So 3 more and back to my lowest. Them the extra stone to go. Which I aim to achieve by October when I go away (30 sept).
Hope everyone is surviving in this heat and doing well! Xx

Thank you for the lovely welcome!
Wishing you all the best for your upcoming op, Margaret.
And Pootle, I don’t want to even contemplate how difficult all the calorie etc calculations would be without the apps to help! As for my progress so far, I lost 2kg in my first week or so, and then sat on the same weight for 4 days. Weighed myself this morning and finally saw a shift downward again of 200g. From what I’ve read though, this is how it usually goes?
Anyway… have a fantastic day, everyone!

Hi Margaret,
Gosh, changing the bed every day is major! Particularly when you are in need of a knee op.
Thinking of you and wishing you a swift recovery.
Xx

Hi Shetland Lace and welcome.

I use Verywellfit recipe calculator. I think we all have to use an aid to get the figures right. I know Nutritionix is popular.
I have found this community to be invaluable in my journey to remission and weight loss! There is lots of advice and information. As you will see, this is a monthly thread (renewed each month) there is also an annual thread, a positivity thread and many more! I look forward to hearing how you are getting on.
Xxx

Welcome Shetland Lace & what a lovely name!
Well my pre-op prep is certainly comprehensive with a bacterial shower gel to use for five days & nose gel to put up my nose twice daily plus clean bed linen, towels & clothes every day to cut down the chances of taking MRSA into the hospital. This is all new to me but I believe from what friends have now told me now standard practice in all hospitals & a pre-op carb nutrients laden drink to take on Friday evening before midnight & then again before 6-30am on Saturday after fasting since 6-30pm o Friday after supper. I am at least well practiced for the fasting part!🤔😀 The drink is supposed to help one’s body heal better after surgery? I am just relieved that our new washing machine arrived & was installed on Tuesday in time for all the washing that I am now doing & I fortunately have plenty of wide legged liken culottes to wear for after surgery to give access to my knee & to wear to physio plus of course another heat wave will be here from today onwards. Our garden is already looking rather frazzled & a pigeon is a frequent visitor to bathe in the wide terracotta dish I have put out for the birds to drink from looking very amusing jumping around & swishing his wings in the water splashing it everywhere.
I hope everyone will cope with the warmer weather & keep hydrated.
A bientôt
Margaret xx

Just dropping by for a quick hello, and to introduce myself. I started the BSD on 29th June so am very new to all this. I’m using the Nutritionix app which I would be lost without. I’ve looked through the recipes in the books, and there are some I’d use, but I think I’d be happier adapting my own favourites, and I definitely need an app to track all that! I read through a lot of forum posts before I began – lots of helpful advice and encouraging comments by some really inspiring people! I will no doubt need both in the weeks to come!

Looking forward to meeting you all.

Hi everyone,
Thanks Articfox, it’s been a bit of a rough time but it has made me more determined to crack on and try to become more healthy. My mum is luckily recovering well from her fall. Sorry to hear you have had a rough time with your back and your calf, good that your back is improving I hope your calf will soon too.
Heidi, I love that quote, I may have to stick it on my fridge!
Cathy, I’m pleased you have possible dates for your op and that’s great getting so many steps in.
Pootle I ordered the updated Roy Taylor book after you mentioned it and it’s just been delivered (same day delivery is so handy!)so I will enjoy looking at that tonight. I have never been diagnosed with diabetes but I know the information will still be relevant. I haven’t ordered the recipe book but may do that later.
I’m still hoping to be in the 11’s soon and would definitely like to have more weight off before my gall bladder removal some time in this coming month
I hope all of us with ailments start to feel well soon 🤞
Dawn XX

Hi everyone,
Dawn – so sorry to hear about your mum’s fall and your own health issues. That makes things tough for sure.
Pootle – thanks for the heads up about Roy Taylor’s new book, I’ll have to look that one up.
Yowzer – hope the shingles pain resolves soon.
With regard to walking everyday – I do that on the farm, but I was surprised to see by the step counter on my phone that it often doesn’t add up to as much as you would think. More now in summer than in winter, for sure, but still not great.
However, I managed to do myself in physically this week. I strained my back putting the cat’s dish down on the floor on Sunday and then on Monday I was reaching down for the hose when watering the horses and tore a muscle in my calf. Although these were small movements, I do think the injuries happened as a result of dancing beyond my fitness level. The calf has been bothering me slightly since I went to swing dancing last week. Luckily the back is resolving, but the calf is horrible. I can hardly walk at all, so I’m just limping around the farm. We’re having a cooler day today with rain so I’ve been able to wear my compression tights again and that is helping support it. I have a physio appointment tomorrow.
I did get in a few more limping steps last night as I had to trek out through the hay field to the dyke. My neighbour managed to get our pump working and I had to check on the fuel level. So happy the water level is going down now. It was up over my knees in places last week. Without the pump there would be no way it would be dry enough to harvest in a couple of weeks.

Hi S-G…courgette/cucumber…easy mistake when they are seedlings in a pot! At least you like cucumber. I remember when my purple sprouting grown from seed, turned out to be cauliflower! That was very disappointing, as I was relying on the sprouting to come in after the beans etc….but cauliflower came in at the same time!

So to today’s positive/s;

1) 1st French beans for supper tonight!!!!

2) My hand seems to be healing…Fingers crossed that it survives this evening’s work! (Cutting wire netting for 13 people to use for a flower arrangement base!)

3) 2 hours after weighted lunch, (26.7g carb) my BS was 5.2 mmol/L . (I believe that is ‘healthy”????)

Take care all. xxxx

The weather is warming up here…we missed the last ‘heat wave’ ….and it looks as though watering is going to be the order of the day! Today I am keeping out of the sun, but have to work this evening, so the garden will have to cope until the early hours of tomorrow morning!

Hope you are all doing well today.
xxx

Great quote Heidi! Such sensible advice. I see that Roy Taylor has a new book out.. with a recipe book. Just ordered them from Amazon… just to see if there are any differences or new ideas!
Hope you are all having a good week.
Xx

Thank you Heidi for posting this sage advice! A great reminder for us all . I’ve just come back from a lovely evening walk by the river. I’ve done 10,075 steps today. I did 13000 on Saturday. That’s a lot for me. I phoned the waiting list office today to see wheee I am on the list and it looks like I’ll be having my first toe op in September or October this year. I need to get as many steps in as I can pre op as I’ll be off my feet for about 8 weeks afterwards. I am determined to be on the maintenance cruise in January. Hoping to be less than 150 lb before 8th August! I can do this!!!

Facebook algorithms seem to have twigged that I have someone close with stage 4 cancer, and that I am trying to be low-carb. So I am being bombarded with posters claiming that my life will change with beetroot extract/green tea/B12 etc etc.

But I found the following post from a Dr Mark Hyman helpful today – a dose of commonsense :
“It’s not too late to turn this year around. You don’t need a gym or fancy gadgets. Just simple habits done consistently.

Start by cutting out suagr, walking daily, prioritising sleep. Your health doesn’t have to be complicated.”

Hi all. I hope the courgette and swede were delicious, Pootle!
A few positives from today:
1) have completed most of the prep for a lunch tomorrow for friends. Less stress tomorrow! And it’s a nice healthy menu of protein and salad.
2) Finally got round to finishing the paint job which has been hanging over me.
3) Enjoyed a good walk on the dunes this morning’

Hoping you all have some positives to enjoy!

Hi Pootle, we too have just tasted our first courgette. Don’t know how but it turns out to be a cucumber. It said courgette on the tray of 6 we bought. Good job I like cucumber.

Had a good night at the quiz and we came 4th out of 13 teams – and there are only the 2 of us.
Bought some new sandals today.
Hubby does the cooking on a Tuesday – so that is a positive.

Good evening all,

Just one positive today;
We have just eaten the first home produced courgette and swede of the year! 🍠😄
😇

That sounds brilliant S-G. Enjoy your evenings!!

I had one of ‘those’ nights, where everything just keeps going round and round in your mind.. so I gave up on sleep and made a cup of tea at 5.30… I still didn’t eat until 12.30, but I am now running out of energy. Supper is in the oven, and I still have to water the veg garden! 🥱🥱🥱

I think, because I am tired, I am hungry, hungry, hungry! 😩 finding it difficult not to pick at the goodies in the fridge this afternoon. The cold chicken and sparkling water that I have indulged in, has not assuaged the urge, so I have come on the BSD site to prevent any more nibbles! 😜🤪

I hope you are all having a better day than I am! 😉

Another cool day and, at last, some rain, save me having to water all the plants.

Going out tonight to a quiz with meal. Just going to enjoy myself. And in the spirit of living life, I have book a restaurant table at a lovely hilltop bistrot for 14th July – you will know it as Bastille Day but in France it is la fete nationale. So instead of being at home and going outside to watch all the fireworks going off around us, we will be in the thick of it. Got a little complacent and not done it for years. Might be our last fete nationale if the house sells.

Thanks for your kind words Cathy. It’s been an awful few weeks but my stint in hospital has certainly given me a wake up call regarding looking after my health. The gall bladder removal will be done with keyhole surgery and I will be home the same day so I should be able to crack on with healthy eating without too much disruption🤞Dawn XX

Just catching up with the thread. Dawn you have had a very upsetting time. I’m so sorry. What a terrible shock it must have been for you to witness your mums horrific fall. I’m so glad she is doing well. I’m also sorry to hear you’ve had a rough time with pancreatitis. I hope you’re soon on the mend.
Yowser- you’ve also had a really tough few weeks with your ongoing sciatica and shingles. I hope you’re soon feeling better. Illness really does take its toll. You always manage to keep your sense of humour .glad you’ve given your carb monster the heave ho.
Heidi- well done on your continued weight loss. It’s great that you’re feeling and seeing the impact of how well you’ve done.
I am not making any progress! I’m very disappointed with myself. I am staying static. I’m hoping I can lose a few pounds before my holiday in five weeks. I’m aware that I will come back heavier and so I need to give myself some wiggle room as I don’t want to be back to square 1 on my return . It’s a constant struggle.
Let’s have a good week.

Thanks DAWN and HEIDI XX
HEIDI very well done on 7.2 kilos down,⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Good luck and happy healthy eating for the week ahead DAWN and everyone.
Im finding it very hard to resist temptations to cheer myself up at the moment,🙏for strength to be ‘ good’ this coming week,Ive chased my Carb Monster away and wont listen when she whispers in my ear !! I dont even know how she got aboard this ship 🤨XX
😈this is how her face looks!😈
XX

Thanks Heidi and well done on a brilliant 6 weeks, I find that really inspiring. My eating has been all over the place obviously, not being able to eat then eating the wrong things, but I am going to do a food plan tomorrow for the week and try my best to stick to it. Dawn XX

Good morning all!
SG, you make me laugh, but you are correct about feeling like you have a new love.
So I have posted all my menus in MFP and am ready for the week’s meals. That is half the battle.

Thank you S-G & very wise words 👍😀 & well done getting back on track.
Margaret xx

Hi all, just popping in to feel the love and positivity. My positives are

Daughter and grandson arrived in exactly 2 weeks today.
Booked a restaurant for lunch the day we go to Le Prison Infernale – a bit like Crystal Maze. A little camp site by the river and they do vegetarian for daughter.
Temperature down from 35 to 20 and feeling so fresh.
Lapse in diet didn’t do much harm so just 0.2kgs up.

Hi Margaret, so glad to hear you are AT LAST getting the op. Enjoy your short break and hope to see you running around soon. Bon chance.
I am over my small slip and have actually done very little harm (just gained 0.2kg). I was reading a magazine article about how it feels to be on a diet and here are a few thoughts.

The high you get when you first start is like being in love. Everything is wonderful and you are so optimistic for the future. But love has its ups and downs. Sometimes you are soaring the heights and then you plummet down. Gains and losses are a part of everyones life and it can be very emotional. Your love is for yourself and how proud you feel when the scale show a loss. When there is a gain we fall out of love with ourselves, feel let down by ourselves and want to end it (the diet that is). Always remember the good feelings over the bad and try to stay in love with yourselves.

Nice thing today is that it is about 15 degrees cooler and we even had a splash of rain, so feeling more energetic. Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Dawn and Yowser, so sorry to hear of the challenges you are facing. Dawn it must have been horrendous to see your mother fall like that. And then pancreatitis on top of that. Wishing you both a full recovery. And Yowser I am so sorry to hear that you are still suffering with shingles, sciatica and shoulder pain. That sounds like a nightmare trinity. I do hope you get to enjoy some of the holdiay. x

Arcticfox keep on keeping on, indeed. Glad to hear that you feel back on course, and wishing you a good week and the weeds a very bad one!

I am back on track after a few days in the UK, helping my very elderly parents during the heatwave. It is now 6 weeks since I started the health campaign. I have lost a further 0.5 kg so am now down 7.2 kilos. I can really see and feel a difference, which is great motivation. So I am pressing on. I still get the occasional craving for Haagen Daas, but have been able to resist so far. Mostly because I know that one teaspoon will never be enough…..

All the best to our group, and have a lovely or improving week!

Thank you Pootle & I really must get back on track having let my calories & carbs increase so much that I was worried the hospital might refuse my surgery with me having gained weight since I saw my surgeon last October. The waiting has been stressful & I have been eating too much that is easy than to always prepare from scratch because standing chopping veg etc & cooking has been difficult. Oh well best feet forward now & eating & drinking low carb for next week.
Keep on going everyone this way of eating is worth it to become healthier particularly also avoiding highly processed food!
I will post again after my op & at least I will have a private room & a tv despite now being an NHS patient to keep me amused but taking my French books, kindle & knitting with me so that I am not too bored 😀
Margaret xx

Hi Margaret,
Yes you have found the continuation of the monthly (June) thread.
Good luck for your op next Saturday. 🤞🙏that all goes well and you make a swift recovery.

S-G so sorry to hear about the loss of your friend. Unsurprising that you needed to toast her memory! But great to hear you are getting back on track!

Violinist, I do agree that having goals is very important. I also find that having a record of ‘everything’ to look back on makes me realise how far I have come, which makes me determined not to fail now!!
Hope you are all doing well today.
Xxx

Hello S-G, Verano & Pootle and I am hoping that I have found the continuing threads from June? Sorry I haven’t posted recently. I am now having my knee replacement op next Saturday after getting a cancellation. I hope you are all doing well?
Margaret

Thank you Yowzer and I’m so sorry to hear you still aren’t great bless you, you’ve really been through the mill🙁 Sending you lots of hugs and hope you have a cosy Sunday. Dawn XX

Oh gosh DAWN you and your poor Mum,im so sorry for you both. Thank goodness yr mum was ok though,that could have been horrific – although the shock of it was no doubt horrific. Sending lots of love to you both and so sorry youve been going through a lot ofpain as well,Dawn xx Seems a lot of us going through stuff recently,this ship isnt bring us much good luck so far. Dont worry, One of these fine days we’ll all be in the ship disco dancing the night away,all our ailments forgotten 🙏🩷🤞🏻💜👍⭐️XXXX
Can you believe though,we are now over halfway through the year? I actually got an email the other day,” its beginning to look a lot like Christmas! “ I could hardly believe my eyes!
FOXY,very interested to hear more about your EMDR,my niece is having great results with it xxx
Hello to everyone else,have read but havent the energy to reply to all..,still feeling rubbishy with shingles,sciatica and a sore shoulder.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend and have a good week ahead! XXXX
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Hi everyone and thanks Articfox for bumping this thread. I’m sorry I haven’t posted anything since last week, it’s been a bit of an awful time, much of it spent at hospital. My mum and I were at a shopping centre last week and had just stepped onto an escalator. I always go in front of her to break any potential falls, she’s never had one but it’s just something I’m in the habit of doing, and somehow she missed her footing and fell (past me) head first all the way down the escalator, banging her head and shoulder and side and back and virtually everything. The security guard in the store ran across and turned the escalator off before she reached the bottom and a nurse and first aiders arrived and store staff too and everyone was lovely. We spent most of the day in A& E and she eventually had a full body scan in the evening. Amazingly, after all of that she hadn’t broken anything which we are all so grateful for and was allowed home. The experience was a shock for her at 90 not surprisingly. She’s doing very well but is still very bruised and sore. Then on Saturday I started to get bad back pain which then also moved to my abdomen and I assumed it was a kidney stone again but it was still there by Wednesday morning and I hadn’t really been able to sleep or do much at all waiting for the stone to pass and the pain to go. My husband ended up taking me to A&E (I couldn’t believe we were there again in such a short space of time!) They gave me pain relief intravenously then they did a CT scan of my kidneys, no stones were visible but the radiologist then said he though it could be pancreatitis so they did another scan for that and my pancreas was inflamed and I have stones in my gall bladder which they think have caused it (as I don’t drink alcohol which can often be the cause) they sent me to another hospital a few miles away which specialises in pancreatitis and I was there until yesterday evening. They gave me morphine regularly for the first two days which kept the pain at bay and I was on a drip for fluids. I also had a uti so they gave me antibiotics for that. The pain completely stopped by 10am yesterday and I’ve needed no more pain relief since then. They allowed me home and I will be going in as an out patient within the month to have my gall bladder removed as the consultant doesn’t want to leave it any longer than that but if I had stayed in hospital waiting for an operation I could have been waiting a while if emergencies were coming in needing to be done straight away. It’s all been a bit of a shock but some patients on the ward were in a lot worse state than me so I feel lucky to be home so quickly.
Catching up on posts I know a lot of people are going through difficult times at the minute and I’m sending lots of love your way. Dawn XX

Hi everyone,
Just a quick update and to help bump this thread to the top again.
I worked through the issues with my therapist and we’re back on track again. I asked her about doing EMDR for my eating and food issues and she says it is very effective for that, so we’ve booked a session in a couple of weeks to work on that. In the meantime, she has asked me to track any negative thoughts that I have about food and eating. I’ll keep you updated as to how it goes.
Anyway, I’m going back out to the garden to tackle more weeds. It suddenly struck me yesterday that I can use my new hedge trimmer to cut down the tallest ones. So I’m going to try that. They are over my head now they are so tall!
Hope everyone is keeping on keeping on.

Good morning, Sunshine-girl and all!
I have learned, as you have, just don’t give up! I use the word STRIVE and GOALS. I am always working toward a goal and if ever reach them, I immediately make more goals. You can see in my profile, if you click on my name, that I have documented my goals since 2018, when I stumbled on to this website. And not just weight and blood work numbers.
As you can see, I have played the violin for 60 years and just last year I started taking cello lessons and don’t sound too bad! I even started a small orchestra!

That is what I like about you guys, you continue on and when you fall you get up and dust yourself off!

Just popped in to say hi to Violinist – so glad we were of help. Hi to Char10tte to. You are very welcome.

Not wanting to bring things down but I really blew the diet last night. My daughters friend (who became mine too) died yesterday and my daughter was having a glass of wine in her honour. I said I was going to be strong but she said – you know what S would say, enjoy life, you don’t know how long you have – so I had a few glasses of wine to say cheers to her. She was 54 and discovered pancreatic cancer in February. But now back on with the diet before our night out on Monday.

I will be back to normal soon – if I ever was normal. 🙂

Thanks Pootle, this forum is really helpful and appreciate it. Will keep up with successes (and any slips)! X

Hi Charlotte,
Good to meet you. It is never too late!! Hope your journey goes well. There are inspirational people on here, and we are all around to encourage each other! Hope to hear how you are doing!
Xx

Pootle …. just had to drop by to say how envious I am of all your pickled walnuts …. I adore them too! How wonderful to be able to produce your own. Hope your hand is fully healed soon.

While I’m here, I should add a couple of positives myself ….
🌸🌸 currently in France and getting to spend time with a friend of many years standing.
🌸🌸 mum is still getting on with life, 3mths into a 3 to 6 month life expectancy diagnosis. She’s an amazing positive life force and such an inspiration.

A bit late for July 1st but giving things a go – better late than never and all that! Tried many years ago, now really need to get serious to lose some weight and improve health factors.

I love your crazy!!! I also weigh myself every morning and have documented my intake since 2013, when I had digestive issues. It became a habit. I use My fitness pal website. Wine and chocolate together are a rare treat for me too!

Hi I had 800 cal 50g carb/day for two months. (The BSD. )Then I increased calories slightly but kept to 50g carb (more or less) Weighing every ingredient…calculating it all out very carefully. I am lucky that I have a very supportive husband, who dieted with me! I use a lot of recipes from the Fast 800 and BSD cookbooks but adapted them, as I don’t like spiced food. Also adapted recipes I have used for years. Using a tool on the internet to calculate the calories and carbs. I have slipped from time to time, and have succumbed to hot buttered toast on more than one occasion!! 😂
I weigh myself every morning… if I don’t, I ‘think’ I can get away with eating ‘treats’ every day. If I think a treat has put 1/2 lb on, I am strict the next day!
But, having said that, I do have treats… chocolate is a huge weakness!! 🫣🙄 I drink a lot of sparkling water, and have told the doctor that I will never give up good, strong coffee!!!☕️☕️ I have a bean to cup filter machine, and have far too many cups in a day!! 🤪 and a little bit crazy! 😂🤣🤪

Wow, I just love your story! Are you doing the 800/day program?

I think, like so many, I didn’t want the medication that came with a diabetes diagnosis. So when the GP told me I had moved from pre-diabetes to full blown, I was looking for ‘a way out’! I had piled weight on due to incorrect treatment for another problem which was mis diagnosed .
It was hard to accept at first and I have to acknowledge that without Verano and Sunshine Girl’s support, advice and encouragement I might have given up and gone back to GP for metformin. As it happens, I enjoy the food… I don’t drink alcohol often (about 3 times a year… one glass of fizz) so I lost the weight and (with a blip) am in diabetic remission.
These forum threads keep me motivated… and reasonably on track, so I keep it up!
So all in all I think I have got into the swing, but I know I will fall off from time to time!!