I’m in shock lol! I’ve just weighed in after my first 7 days on the low-carb diet and I’ve lost 3.4kg!

I can honestly say I feel so much better, no bloating, wind or constipation which I’ve suffered from all my adult life, I have more energy and I’m generally feeling more clear-headed. Maybe I was allegic to gluten all along? Only very slight negative is that I’m more thirsty than usual and sometimes my throat actually ‘dries-up’. Anyone else have this very minor irritant?

I’m feeling so positive as this eating plan really suits my taste as I’m not really a lover of chips or mash although I do miss a packet of Walkers plain crisps! I can’t wait for my next weigh-in!

You an really eat what you like but a slice of their bread is 14-16g of carb and their rolls are 24-30g. If you’re limiting your card intake then these would take a big chunk of a daily allowance.

Thank you! I’ll give it a go freezing the uncooked cauli rice. I have bought some zip lock freezer bags that you can use in the microwave, so that would be very convenient.

Well done! That’s a great result. I think you could freeze it if it was just grated raw and not cooked yet.

Short of making/baking the Crispbread in the book’s recipe section, am I/are we allowed to eat Vogel’s?

Just wittering away to myself here. Apart from physical results, I have also discovered that actually I do have willpower. If I can resist a small child trying to share/force feed me delicious, buttery toast (that I have made and I mean literally cramming it against my lips!) I must have willpower. Of steel! What else could I achieve?! Next step, Prime Minister!

Well done Carb Addict fantastic news long way to go before I get there but enjoy your milestone 😃

Postscript: my shorts (which I wear pretty much every day at home) have fallen down to my ankles twice today. Thankfully not in public. I believe this is what they call a ‘milestone moment’.

Well may you be chuffed Maefly. Great work for a great outcome .

Although I bought the book and registered on here in the New Year, it has taken me all this time to start, but I have finally started and I have lost 10lbs in 3 weeks. Very pleased indeed!

I’m trying to combine the 800 calories eating with 16:8, so eating between 12 noon and 8pm, no breakfast, as I find it makes me hungrier.

Making lots of courgetti and cauli rice to eat with the family eating pasta and rice. Quick question, can you successfully freeze cauli rice?

Hi Greenjanet and Verano
I am with you for the long haul also. Although I have only 1stone left to lose I have to keep going once I get there because I cannot put on any weight as I have done every time in the past. Although I am off the insulin I am assuming that I will still have to keep carbs quite low when I am at ideal weight because it is highly likely I did a lot of damage to my pancreas and it won’t be able to cope with high levels of carbs. So once I reach goal I will still be here.

Greenjanet, the smell of the freshly baked bread (and at the moment he is baking a low sugar cake) is torture but so are the Lucentis injections into my eye and so were the constant insulin injections and trying to work out how much to inject to avoid a spike after meals if I injected to little and a hypo if I injected too much. I think I came to the BSD at the perfect time for me – hopefully before the diabetes caused too much damage but as I already had a taste of how devastating diabetes can be it has really helped me to keep on track.

So now – when the smell of baking bread wafts around the house I read new posts on this forum and slowly drink my lovely coffee with a teaspoon of cream (which tastes and smells heavenly now my taste buds have regenerated and is now a lovely treat). I also think about the future with no eye injections and no insulin injections and it really keeps me on the ‘straight and narrow’.

You’ll never guess how I got my username.

A typical lunchbox for kids would be a sandwich (either butter and marmite or cheese and pickle), a full fat yoghurt, and fruit pot (chopped up fruit), an apple, a banana and something like a flapjack or homemade cupcake.

Sure there sugar in it, but all 3 of my kids are so active I tend not to over stress. When they’re at home they eat med style, none of them really eat much sweets at all so the levels of carbs they are eating is probably spot on. In fact, I was telling my boy yesterday that most kids eat most of the trick or treat sweets on halloween, and don’t eke them out until Christmas like mine do. He looked at me like I was mental, and told he would throw up if he ate that many.

Hi Verano

Enjoy, and I am with you for the long haul as well, I may have lost nearly 3 st in 16 weeks, but it’s going to take me longer to loose the remaining 4 half ish stone, so in it for the long haul also.

KrysiaD what torture, the smell of baked bread, I’m sorry I would have to sabotage it, we had a bread maker I gave it away, when I started this plan, he buys his bread and freezes, if it’s left out my fat pixies shout eat it eat it, very loudly. 👹👹👹

What are we like. 🤗🤗🤗

Yummy start to today, scrambled eggs with smoked salmon, small cappuccino. 309 cals and worth every one!

Hi Greenjanet – well done – 1.4kg lost so far is brilliant. You are well on track.

Verano I have the same problem – husband has normal toast. But he may be even worse than yours because he makes his own bread in a breadmaker. He puts it on over night on a timer and we wake up to the smell of freshly baked bread wafting up the stairs! How bad is that.

Yesterday had 21 carbs but 920 calories. Still not fully recovered from the virus but have now started upping the steps. Have stayed at exactly 10 stone since Tuesday which I am really happy with because I worried that it would start going up as I have been a real couch potato while I have been ill.

My scales each morning tantilisingly hover over 9.13 before deciding that I am still 10 stone. So I know they will move soon.

We had kippers for breakfast and they were lovely. I chose un-dyed ones because the dyed ones were rather an alarming shade of orange. We are having rainbow trout for dinner and I am looking forward to it. My tastes have really changed. Before BSD I hated tomatoes and now I love them and it looks as though I now like fish.

So I have so far had 4 servings of fish this week – which was my challenge for the week.

Hi there
I’d like to introduce myself to the group.
I’m 40 year old female, 90kg but not yet diabetic. My weight has crept up steadily over the past 15 years, and I decided it really is time to get it under control. I’ve done the 5:2 before, and I did lose, but then I started my own business and everything else went out of the window for a while. The batteries went in the scales and I didn’t replace them for about 6 months – then got a real shock.

I’d like to do a mini triathlon next May, so need to lose the weight (around 30 kgs) and get fit. My son weighs around 30 kgs, which keeps reminding me the scale of the challenge.

I’m saying I started on 4th (although it was bit of trial and error at first, as I worked through the book) so its day 11. Loss so far is 2.2kg, with 1kg in the last 2 days since I started looking at carbs as well as calories. I was having 2 meal replacement shakes in the first week (for convenience) and only when I hadn’t lost for 3 days did I investigate and found that they each had 19grams of carbs in! I was also having a cordial in the evening (I miss wine!), which added up to at least 10 grams of carbs.
Yesterday I had bacon, egg sausage and mushroom for breakfast and some pastrami and gherkins for lunch, salmon fillet, cauliflower rice and green beans for dinner. I also had a small piece of dark chocolate in the evening – felt like a feast (I was just under 900 cals) and I still lost 0.4 kg this morning. I think I’ll aim for 30 grams of carbs a day and see where it takes me. I’ve filled the fridge with smoked salmon, mackerel, cheese and lots of low carb veg, so fingers crossed.

I’ve been low calorie for a while and struggling to understand why I wasn’t losing weight, so I’m hoping controlling carbs is the answer. I’m also drinking 4 litres of water, and building in 15 mins of cardio a day (I was already walking a lot but it didn’t help with my weight loss). I’ve just done a 15 min jog, which I couldn’t do 10 days ago.

Anyway – that’s me in a nutshell. Good luck to everyone over the weekend. I’m planning bacon and eggs again for brunch tomorrow, with a gourmet burger and rocket salad in the evening – which will feel like a treat as I love burgers.

Ok .. off to the hairdressers now so hopefully that will cheer me up …. usually does!!

Have a good day!

Thanks Jan!

You’re doing really well. I think after a certain length of time on this plan if you do fall by the wayside it doesn’t have the same consequences as conventional ‘diets’ with all the weight piling back on.

I don’t eat refined carbs at all at worst I’ve eaten a couple of oat caked but not even had them for a while!

I have lots to lose. At the moment I want to lose 14lbs to get me back to my ‘normal’ pre-illness weight. Then another 10lbs to get me down to my lowest in 12 years! After that I’ll tackle the real problem!!!!!!

Feeling better already .. thanks again!

And another thing…BMI was 40.2 (obese category 3) now 34.9 (obese category 1). My next goal is to get to overweight category.

Thanks Maharani 😊 To be honest I could have lost a few more pounds if I had exercised but easier to be more active now. Down another 4lbs since Monday! Cutting the carbs further is definitely boosting things now that I am further along. Have been starting the day with a high fat coffee. Good luck with the rest of your week!

Glad things worked Nickix!
Well this second week is rather different I am still hopping to the loo all through the night but don’t seem to be losing much weight. It’s our interim weigh day tomorrow because we have always weighed ourselves at the beginning of the weekend but the BSDiet weigh in on Monday which will be day 14 for us. I’m just hoping something will move🙁 I still can’t wear my new trousers that I can do up ok but still tight over my stomach isn’t that where the inches are supposed to go from?
On the plus side my husbands bloods are looking good!

Excellent advice Mimigogirl! I do exactly what you do – giving myself the green light even if the scales have moved the slightest fraction and then beat myself up about it after. It’s not a very healthy way of doing things! I’m trying now not to weigh until my “official” weekly weigh day, which is on Tuesday.

Hi Verano.

Yep know where you’re at only to well, I’ve found now I’m in week 16 I have to have some food to look forward to, I made chicken curry last eve my favourite comfort food, but it’s hard to do that every day, so I am also looking at keeping busy no prob at the mo, too much to do, and also distracted. I’m amazed at the losses after I have restarted, and even more am.azed at how little I gained when I came of plan. I am not one of those on here who have swerved all refined carbs since they started, I’m never that good, but we will all get there, and if we are following the plan we will get there faster. I spent too long carting all my fat around, I want to get rid asap.

How much more do you want to loose, I am almost halfway. Keep going, you know you want to, more than you want the weight back. 🤗🤗🤗

DAY 4 of 7
(Third attempt, first two lost in the ether!)

Yesterday
Calories 799
Carbs 26.3

Weight stayed the same but I seem to be into a pattern of lose one day stay the same the next. I don’t have a problem with that but if I had a plateau now I’d find it very hard. Don’t know if its 15 week syndrome but I have started to think about food constantly and I am missing some things. It doesn’t help that my husband eats ‘normally’, toast … ‘I made one two many would you like one piece? ‘ …. ‘I don’t eat bread’ . You can imagine the conversations we have so that’s not helping at the moment either! Anyway, enough of my woes! As you say Jan it all changes on the spin of a sixpence… hope you’re right!!

Anyway, well done Jan you must be feeling great!
Frog did you get a better night sleep last night? Have just noticed your recipes will look at them soon.
Krysia hope you’re fully recovered now.

To everyone well done on your losses, both in weight and large clothes!

Have a good day!

Just got the results of my diabetic review and my blods results are normal! I am so pleased. I have lost 51.5 lbs since January. I did 9 weeks of the 8 week 800 in May/June and that really boosted my weight loss and sorted out my blood sugars. I have continued to follow the pattern of the Fast 800 but without really measuring much. I have continued to loose weight at a steady pace and my blood sugars have continued to fall. My DN says that I will have a glucose tollerance test in 6 months and if that is OK I will be taken off the diabetic register! I have found the forum so helpful, lots of wise words and encouragement when needed.

So beginning of day 3 reboot.

Weighed in now 99 kg woo hoo my lowest ever, so have lost so far this week 1.5 kg, those carbs are such bad boys aren’t they stopping us achieve such amazing results. So now I am aiming for 98 kg by next Wednesday. We are having a big celebration on Sunday family are coming from far and wide, to celebrate no 2 son having cancer for the second time but in a very manageable way. Weird thing to celebrate, but when you’ve been through what he went through, before you would understand. Anyway dilemma is to stay away from all the goodies I will be preparing . Perhaps I will allow myself one thing of something, and work it out.

Anyway, I hope you are as happy with the plan as I am if you aren’t, don’t despair I was where you are a few days ago now look. It all changes on the spin of a sixpence.

Who said, when we loose fat it goes in the form of urine, been thinking about that one a lot, you know what I mean 🤓🤓🤓

Well done carb addict! That’s amazing!! I love it when it happens overnight! It’s the fat fairies coming to the rescue! 😉 I couldn’t manage SW either but it was the diet as well! Never lost anything! Most was 1lb but it was always up and down unlike this one! Well an update on my problem! Lol. Something seems to have helped not quite sure which? They excess water or the tin of prunes or the beans 😜 But things are moving now! Thankfully. Just had my breakfast which I’m slightly concerned about as it’s small amount of oats cooked with soaked linseed chia seeds ground flax seeds with raspberries and diced pear! I so hope not too many carbs 😔 Gyllb I also work for NHS so know your pain! I use my slow cooker a load and make stew/soups and take. They can always be put into a mug and eaten on the go! Was a life saver in beginning. Keep with it. Have a good day folks the weekend is apon us 🙃

Morning all x Not a very good first week compared to you amazing losers! Realised I have been eating too many calories abet good ones .. nuts etc. Yesterday I gave myself a good talking to .. no more picking between meals only drinks but when you work shifts in the NHS it’s hard to have regular meal times. We all have our problems but I feel so great …so much energy … so positive .. it keeps me motivated. SW certainly didn’t do that for me! For me the secret is meal planning – a bit of a ballache but it works for me. Happy days.

Day 5 is here…waking up with a headache but think that may have been the one gin and tonic we rashly had last night….and why? Because some fentimans tonic arrived with the shopping! Heigh Ho.
Lol at the people watching ‘food porn’ – I just can’t whilst I’m focused on healthy eating. It sometimes makes me peckish, and sometines a bit nauseous!
Maharani kitten, I too have a long abusive relationship with food. I was sorry to hear of your childhood experiences. I think some of my issues came from my Nana who herself was a troubled soul. I have spent a lot of time (and money) getting myself to a place of acceptance, and feel ready to leave this suit of fat behind now and move on.
So Friday starts my weekend as I don’t work ( well lots of admin, but at home) so I meet a friend for lunch. I’m thinking cote brasserie and a salad with the dressing on the side. And a nice cappuccino as a treat. Will do chicken and courgetti tonight.
Hope yesterday went OK Natalie.

Morning gang – so I decided to take a sneaky look at the scales today and I’m 5.5 lb down – whoop whoop!
I’ve not counted calories or carbs – just stuck to the advice and recipies in the book to ease myself into the swing of things so that when my weight loss slows down (which I’m assuming it will) I can then start reducing the calories and carbs to boost my body back into weight loss.

I look forward to hearing all your updates – I read them during my lunch hour so that I’m not concentrating on my food 😋

Have a lovely day beautiful people

Hi Mental4ever, thanks for the encouragement and advice. The fact of the matter is that getting married and dieting don’t really go well together. Yet another supper with friends to celebrate this evening… Yesterday wasn’t brilliant either, but less than I might normally have eaten.
And yes, the doctor in the video is trying her best to get the message across, but you can tell from the feeble response from the audience that they’re not that convinced.

Today’s weight: 83.2
Change: -0.3
Overall: -5.3
Yesterday’s food:
982 calories
100 net carbs

Good morning. Just reading this blog and finding it to be brilliantly helpful..started 9 days ago lost six pounds in six days then gained a pound and haven’t moved since arghhhh. Interestingly I have changed my breakfast. I was having eggs and smoked salmon. Now having 4 rashers of bacon – could that be an issue? Any comments very gratefully received. Thank you

Morning all WOW cant believe it lost 2.5 kg after 4 days BSD! I know alot is water but still its encouraging😊, dont want it to all go pear shaped now so think i will repeat the last few days meals. Thinking of you natalie and hope all goes well today :-))

Hi Kjandtheboys 😃

Thanks for your comments. I’m glad my ramblings are still helping people.

After The first 8 weeks I decided to just continue on the 800 calories and low carb. It worked, I felt fine, and I had lots of weight to lose so I just carried on. I was seeing my diabetic nurse monthly for several months so she could see I wasn’t doing anything I shouldn’t!

I’m away from home for a couple of days so don’t have my notes to hand. From memory, I had one small gain the first time I went abroad. That disappeared in less than a week. The next time I had a hotel stay I stayed the same, with a loss the following week. (I weigh daily, but my official weighing day is Saturday). Apart from that, I saw a loss every week during the weight loss stage. Even during a holiday in Italy. Since reaching my original target and working to maintain, I’m still losing overall (another 7 pounds) but some weeks a small gain, but then a loss of 3 pounds in one week. This is just my body adapting to this new phase.

If you stick with the plan you’ll get to where you want to be. Like me, you’ll have heard “the plan works if you work the plan”.

Excess skin – a little. But nothing compared to some folk I’be seen in the media. After two Caesarean sections I was never going to have a flat abdomen anyway. And at 66, not many people are going to see it anyway. I’d sooner have a little excess skin rather than run the risk of amputation, kidney problems and eye problems related to diabetes.

I met a friend yesterday who hadn’t seen me since I started the BSD. We were meeting in a cafe. I rang her to say I had arrived, then she rang to ask where I was. I told her and she said she’d been there but not seen me! So I told her what I was wearing, and looked different to last time she’d seen me. When she walked in, it was “where’s the rest of you?” She wants to lose weight so was asking about the bsd😃

I’ll be seeing some colleagues today who haven’t seen me for dome time – be interesting to see if anything is said and to see their reactions.

The weight loss is only part of it. I’m wearing very different clothes, back in heels, wearing makeup again, and started wearing contact lenses again!

Best wishes for your BSD journey. Please keep posting and let us know your progress.

Target reached, reversed diabetes and weight around 71kgs. BP down to normal. Still loving the gym. Up’d the calorie intake to 1500 a day after completing 10 weeks on BSD. Must cut out the alcohol for a while see what effect that has. Would like to think the small weight gain is due to working out in the gym on the weights . Winters coming so gonna rethink the diet a bit. Any ideas?

Hi Snoop. I am sure that things will settle back down and you will soon be back on track. Give OH a dig in the ribs when he tries to tempt you with another glass of wine or better still have a glass of water next to your glass of wine and every now and then take a sip from this and not the wine.

Had a look at the video you posted earlier and once again amazed that the doctors know how the cure/reduce the problem but it is not filtering down.

Stats to the end of week 6
Lost 3lb this week
Current weight 12st 3lb
Overall weight loss 1st 5lb

Crikey. Holy moly. Jeepers creepers. I want to use some stronger words than that actually because…

I appear to have dropped 1.5kgs (3.4lbs) overnight!! Since yesterday morning, since I recommitted seriously to the BSD. If that’s not enough to keep me on the straight and narrow (and away from spring rolls) then I don’t know what is. Yes I know some of it will be water release but I don’t frigging care. I lost 3.4lbs overnight!! Biggest single overnight loss to date by 300%!! Hopefully I’m over that plateau which I have been sitting on for four days.

That means I have hit 10% of my intended weight loss to date (7lbs down, 63 to go)and that I’m officially now at my lightest weight since I can’t remember when. To say I am delighted is an understatement. I also picked myself up and got back on the wagon which I’m equally proud of – this is not something I have historically been able to do. Making myself accountable to you all daily is a big key factor of that I am sure.

Thank you Diet God. And thank you fellow BSD-ers in this forum. You are proving invaluable source of support and I am so so grateful for it. It’s the weekend here in the Middle East so I am off to the beach to reward myself with a few hours on a sun lounger! <big victory dance around the living room currently> Now just go to keep it up….. Have a strong day everyone!

Just had a mini meltdown myself. HUGS

Don’t know if it is harder to loose in the 2nd week … think it is harder to loose as much .. simply because a lot of water weight is usually lost in the 1st week.
Maybe 2nd week is harder because we are so focused and gung ho in the 1st week it may be less possible to sustain that level of focus … sort of like running out of steam????

Kind of like when i was working … when i had lots to do … almost too much before a big deadline i just worked flat out … but when you’re just doing regular work you just slow down. It’s just not possible to work flat out 24/7 … you need a mental and physical break.

Mixnmatch and yowzer – it is fun doing the clothes trying on and throwing out and working out what suits us now. I am also only buying very little until I get to my goal weight. Originally I thought it was10 stone 7lbs but now I think it might be closer to 9 stone.

Back on the wagon after winegate. Love the diet and all the posts. Was in Sw but couldn’t handle the ‘horse shoe of love’ think it must be me but I cringed through this. In this forum I can fail, whinge and get up again. Had the one blip this week but struggling to lose this week. Someone mentioned it was harder to lose weight in the second week, was there any reason for it?
Thanks for all the positive comments when I had a mini meltdown

Thanks Yowser49.
Your clothes fitting probs sound as though they should be on the unintended consequences thread 🤔

Thank you for the encouraging words and the cautions. Since I posted I have been on a quasi version of the diet, gone off metformin, lost 1.5 kg and my BGLs are significantly improved (2hrs – 90=120) except for the morning when the reading is still high 130=139. I’ve been suspicions for sometime that the 500mg of metiform was not very effective and I think this confirms it but will monitor closely. I was feeling rubbish on day 4 and cold but that may be due to something else as so many around me are suffering from a cold.

I’m still looking for a good record keeping method/form but that too will be solved.

I’ve stocked the fridge, will be making a huge pot of soup tonight, increasing my 1k daily walk to 2k and cancelled all social engagements until Nov 29 and I’m ready to give it a go.

Cheers, and again, thank you for the advice.

Kjandtheboys 🙂

You asked if the rapid weight loss causes excess skin issues.

Does anyone know??

PLUS …. would say 80 pounds of weight loss over the period of about a year cause excess skin issues??? I am worried about that …. so after 8 weeks i’m going to do 5:2 for a little while … just so i don’t loose the whole 80 pounds too soon … i am hoping to be up to more exercise by Christmas.

I’m new to this program and have been waiting for all my ducks to line up before starting ‘properly’. The ducks are still out there but coming into alignment slowly. In the meantime I’ve been reading posts here to get me kick started and I would like to make a comment about those bathroom scales, which for me have been my downfall many many times. They can be so depressing.
I know I’m overweight and I really don’t need to know HOW overweight I am each and every day. If I’ve lost a bit then that gives me the green light to have a ‘treat’ (which isn’t really a treat, more like a sabotage) because I’ve lost according to the scales. And if I’ve put on weight – shock horror… I’ve been sooo good how did this happen – then I feel depressed and a failure. Should the dreaded plateau occur… well this clearly isn’t working and I might as well go back to my old ways! I know Dr MM says to weigh in daily, but I would encourage you to ditch the scales for a while (a week at least) and just trust yourself. If you’re having 800 calories you must lose weight even if you’re a couch potato – which I’ll bet you aren’t.
As for the fruit… full of sugar (very addictive) and carbs. Fruit is part of a healthy diet, but we are doing this to lose weight and in the process will hopefully kick the sugar addiction.

Hi captainlynne.
Thank you so much for your truly inspirational log of your BSD journey.
I’m relatively new in this road to health…. In week 3 and down 14lbs. I’m using the MFP app to log my calories and carbs etc. Like you I’ve done SW and WW and low GI and various others.
I’m happy with my progress so far and feel in control of my eating etc. I’m intrigued to know if after the original 8 weeks you just carried on with the same 800 fast diet? Also it seems you dropped steadily but quickly ( I read your profile- it seems you dropped about a stone every 4-6 weeks). Did you have a consistent loss ie 3lbs per week or did you plateau and then have bigger drops?
So far this week I’ve plateaued but I’m not disheartened I accept its possibly my body just stabilising.
I have a long way to go still 40lbs but am feeling like I will get there…..at some point…… I’m aiming for another stone by the end of week 8.
Also wondering if the rapid weight loss causes excess skin issues…………. This is a worry for me…………….Any advice would be gratefully received. Well done on your amazing transformation….. I bet people don’t recognise you when you pass them!!

Day 2 reboot

926cals /52 carbs and steps 4250 very busy today so didn’t count before hand, so will be more restrained tomorrow, but scales this morning had gone down .4 kg so getting there.
Anyone else out there using the jawbone up to count steps. Good night BSD peeps.
💤💤💤

I have a paperback book called The Diabetes Counter by Nolan and Heslin.

It’s basic …. can give you a reasonable count on calories, fat, carbs, sugar and fibre.

It has some Brand Names. I usually use this book first … there are plenty of online sources. I do like MyFatSecret. Sometimes i just google the food item … even a recipe like corn fried catfish with the word calories carbs …. and i usually get something i can use.

😄 got it on the euphemisms. Great little story. Sleep well Yowzer

Ps just recalled a funny true story..many years ago i had a colleague who used to own a wool shop. One misty winter evening,she was closing up at teatime and to her shock horror,her nine year old son appeared in the doorway,wrapped up warmly in his coat and gloves,but with a sanitary towel across his face and hooked over his ears.
He explained,its foggy MUm,so i borrowed this scarf out of yr drawer.! 😄