Shalimar – I’m at work now, but am heading home. Def going t try the oatmeal. and my fuzzy PEACH housecoat. 😉

Thanks!

Deb

I am restarting the BSD after a few months break. Sadly I have put on the 12lbs I had previously lost.
I am in the process of re reading the book.
I need a little help from fellow BSD’ers to stay on track this time.
I am a mum of three, one being away at Uni, and have just upped my working hours to 4 days a week. I am the only adult in the house and solely responsible for shopping/cooking. I find that I need to be totally prepared with food shopping as I end up shattered at the end of the working day and really don’t want to cook.
So, if there is anyone else out there that has just started or about to, please drop me a line and we can keep eachother motivated and share ideas.
🙂

The Palouse Mindfulness online training is also 8 Weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Was watching a Jon Kabat-Zinn videos …. where he talks about some of the research into mindfulness training/practice having an effect on the brain in 8 weeks!!

I had previously noted information that the time it takes to change a habit is …. 1 month at a minimum.

Blends in with my earlier thoughts today …. that the BSD 8 week plan … is a kind of training or retraining program … to get us back in touch with our bodies … and what our bodies and spirits kind of naturally want from food??

I was watching this long video where the research is mentionned :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_If4a-gHg_I

but in this long video there is a longer explanation of the research (among other things) on the Palouse site …. the introductory videos are very interesting …

Frog, I would love to be 8 stone 12 and that is around my goal weight. Loopy, I bet you don’t walk around with your bum trailing on the ground like I do, you will actually have legs. I always say I am not overweight I am under tall.

When i am sick …. and hope to be at the point where i can keep something down

I pour boiling water over 1/2 cup of large flake oatmeal. Just enough water to cover. Stir til coolish … add pinch of cinnamon if desired, perhaps a bit of honey, after a few minutes it’s kind of set …. i add a tablespoon of cream and stir in.

OR … i just add the water

I eat 1 teaspoon at a time …… very slowly to see how it goes.

OR

i might also try some broth … from a carton, a powder, a cube …… maybe add a soda cracker if feeling adventurous

Hope you feel better soon.

p.s. …. sometimes it’s wise to bundle yourself off to bed …. in one’s favorite cozy things …. i love my fuzzy pink housecoat …. and try and sleep

Thanks Kjandtheboys. The midweek weigh in can be discouraging so I think I’ll do the once a week and be pleasantly surprised each week!

Thank you everyone! You have made me feel better 🙂

Nedds mum – how are you doing this week? Good to know that great results come round again after some potentially slower weeks.

Antigone – glad to hear you also went down again after weeks 2 and 3. And now you’re about to start your second 8 week stint – so it must work! You’ll definitely be in size 12 clothes soon 🙂

topcac – argh!! Those naughty pounds jumping back on again. Sooooo frustrating. I hope you see a loss between now and Sunday but if not, don’t despair! We’ll all be rooting for you. Don’t get waylaid by all those (admittedly delicious) things!

Onwards and downwards – enjoy the weekend 🙂

By the way I watched the bbd fat vs carb programme this morning, It was quite funny the reporter went on low carb for three weeks and his cholesterol level dropped as well as his weight. His doctor just couldnt accept it was a healthy thing. She said something like “well I can’t see what this diet is doing to the inside of your body , your pancreas, your kidneys”, despite the fact that all his indicators had improved!

Hello fellow BSDers!

I seem to have caught a stomach bug and am wondering what suggestions you might have for bland food that I can (hopefully) keep down.

I am currently drinking a mixture of flat Perrier and cranberry juice, just to keep my sugars up, but would REALLY welcome suggestions.

Thanks,

Deb

Hi KatrenaJ!

Welcome to the forums. It’s a great place to be! Everyone here is very helpful and you’ll find lots of advice and support 🙂

What are the foods you eat on an LPR diet? You may be able to find suitable alternatives that work well with the BSD way of eating.

Good luck!

Oh to be 8 stone 12!. I’m aiming for 10 and a half stone, which puts my BMI at just inside the higher end of normal, but that’s the weight I was before I had my children and I’ll be thrilled to get there.

Good morning, lovely people! It’s finally Friday! My two nasty gained pounds were gone this morning alone with a few of their friends! So since Monday, I’m officially down 4 pounds! Very pleased!
Welcome to all the newcomers! I’m so glad we have formed this little support group! I find it so helpful to be part of a body of people going through the same struggle I am. I fear my friends and family get sick of hearing me talk about dieting and exercising.
A wonderful thing I noticed this morning is how much belly bloat I’ve lost! Had to dress up today, after dressing down all week. We have the new student orientation today. I put on a wrap dress that I haven’t worn before because it wasn’t flattering on my gut and it FITS! Only a 4 pound loss, but my tummy is so much flatter! Now don’t get me wrong, I still have SO much further to go, but it’s a nice little victory!
Tomorrow, my husband and I are taking our daughter and her friend to a movie. That will be a TEST as I LOOOOVE popcorn and candy and couldn’t tell you the last time I went to a movie and didn’t have either. But I’m going to take some almonds and maybe sunflower seeds and hopefully that will do.
I’m less hungry today but still have quite the headache! Really hoping that subsides soon!
Have a wonderful weekend, BSD’ers! 😉

yes, me too Sunshine Girl – I’ll delighted to be “overweight”! – that’s my next mini-goal weight!
that was why I got quite excited that my BMI was lower calculating myself, but with the NHS calculator, 5 kilos to go!

using the NHS calculator, for 4’11”, the top of your healthy weight range for normal BMI of 25 is 56.4 kilos – 8 stone 12lb
http://www.nhs.uk/Tools/Pages/Healthyweightcalculator.aspx

Hi Timetochange,

Thank you for your reply; I to have a feeling polenta will have to be ditched 🙁

I will have to give the breakfast drinks ago, I really enjoy porridge, and it keeps me full so a little wary about giving it up…but I need to lose weight, so I’ll see what else I can change to. Well done on being 12lbs down that is amazing, you must be so happy. I really hope the diet works for me,

Take care 🙂

Rozy, I had them last night, instead of making 2 medium burgers I made 2 smallish and one very small. I saved the very small for my supper and it tasted even better cold. Hubby had his 2 in a big chunk of baguette, drool, I was a bit jealous.

Hi Violet1811 welcome to BSD! I’m no expert, but I’d say avoid polenta as it’s made from corn meal flour; however there may be others who have successfully incorporated it?
I’m 11 days in to the diet and 12 lbs down, so my experience is that it works. I love porridge but have ditched it for now as it’s too startchy. The raspberry and spinach drink in the book is lovely for breakfast and I often eat eggs (any way you like) and yoghurt with nuts and a few berries. At the weekends I might have a small amount of bacon on one day. I hope yiu like the diet, I think it’s mostly as case of mind over matter. Having said that, I’m about to go away fir the weekend so let’s hope my mind stays on the matter of BSD!! Good luck and thus forum is great for advice and support.

I lost 6 3/4 lbs in the first week, 1 lb in the second week then the third week weigh in I had put on that pound again!! Mid week weigh in has seen me lose it again but YES – having the same issue as you. end of week 4 is on Sunday then I go to the US for a week on business – if I don’t lose this week I’m worried my emotional toddler will have a tantrum and I’ll be eating Ben and Jerry’s and chicken wings before I know it!!

I’d like to start this diet today. Rather nervous because I have LPR and many of the foods that help that are not on this plan. But I am going to try to make this work. I’m across the pond in USA Georgia and my weight fluctuates between 212 and 214 on a daily basis. I want to lose 100 lbs.

Hi All,

Starting BSD today, I had porridge for breakfast (weighed with a tsp of cinnamon), poached eggs, mushrooms and tomato for lunch. I’m planning to use the recipe book, which arrived yesterday from Amazon, but just wanted to check where Polenta lies. I’m presuming it’s something to stir clear of while on the BSD diet?

My husband is from Italy and every so often I will cook with Polenta…

Thanks in advance 🙂 x

Hello fellow 12 Sept BSD starters – how is everyone doing. We are nearly halfway through!!

I’ve had a tough week – official weigh in saw me put on a pound so I was gutted – but the day before, I took a spectacular nose dive off the wagon so I guess I deserved it (Two slabs of chocolate fudge case if anyone wants to know 🙁 . Was back on it the next day and have managed to lose the pound in the mid week weigh in but am away on business in the US for a week so, while I have plenty of opportunity to be good (I will have a car and there is a 24 hour supermarket opposite my hotel) I’m worried that temptation will just be too much. So I’ve decided to put my plans down here and then in a week, hopefully someone will ask me to account for what I had. Breakfast – blueberries and total yogurt (have already checked the website and Giant Eagle do it), lunch – cooked chicken and salad – or maybe , if we go out, chicken caesar salad, dinner (luckily no evenings out) – have checked the local restaurant menus and can have steak and salad every night – or fish, or chicken.

So that’s me – still only 7 3/4lbs lost in nearly four weeks – haven’t dared measure myself, my waist just doesn’t feel smaller, but my clothes are looser than 4 weeks ago and I feel better.

Hope to catch up soon

TC

What an amazing result Suluro & a great incentive to keep going⭐️⭐️💐
My husband & I weigh in after five days tomorrow because we are used to weighing ourselves first thing on Saturday mornings & we won’t have lost as much as you but anything lost puts us on the downwards trend.

Antigone, no, not lost 2 stone, but now 2 stone from my ideal weight. I have lost 15 lbs. 2 stone, I wish. 🙂

Frog, I am 4 ft 11 ins, so a midget but never been much lower than 8 stone, the Wii Fit does that at the end of every weight in, gives you an ‘ideal’ weight and BMI. BMI of 25 will be my goal but not worked that out to weight yet. One day…. My current goal is to get out of obese category.

I’ve started the Palouse online mindfulness free online training. One of the videos today was the Raisin meditation (didn’t have a raisin but after watching did something similar with a snap pea pod …. good!)

But that lead me to watch a few other mindful eating videos …. http://palousemindfulness.com/selfguidedMBSR_week1.html under videos one click lead to another and i found these interesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tw93IgfL0U
Introduction to Mindful Eating by Michelle DuVal / The Mindful Center

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmRStcJ_LEQ
TEDxChandler – Michelle May – Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat

My conclusion is that we have totally lost touch with our bodies telling us why we eat, what our body is telling us about what nutrition it needs, what our body is telling us about when to stop.
How we eat is important as well …. are we distracted, eating automatically and from habit …. eating for emotional reasons. And food only temporarily comforts our emotions …. and what does the body do when we give it food that it doesn’t need?

I think of the 8 weeks as retraining us to listen to our bodies. When we are stabalized …. with blood sugar, weight, fat on our internal organs …. we will be at a point where we can make conscious decisions about the why, what, how etc. and really feed our bodies and ourselves and then Eating what you love and loving what you eat?

Comments???
Do you have some favorite videos???

Thanks apatch, yep definitely a lesson learnt! I thought I had more will power hehe! Was surprised how ill I felt all night really after a surge of sugar.
Oh brilliant, yep me too, I’m thinking will be easier using the recipe book for weekend, so I can cook for everyone, just add potatoes/pasta etc for others.
Ah that’s very interesting, yes I think it was bit limited in BSD book too. As I have no idea what my carb consumptions been, just weighed things out and followed the recipe.

Congrats Mrs Snoop! I’m starting again (week 9 for me) on Monday too (after a naughty week off-plan!) It is interesting to see what ‘normal’ people eat and realise that that was us not so long ago! Good on your OH for wanting to join our merry band – my OH (who would benefit from a little weight loss) is keen but not yet committed enough to give up his daily bread.

Ooh random good luck with the house move! It’s one of those really stressful things isn’t it, but always worth it in the end. Hmm I guess if it were me in your situation I’d try have lots little tupperwares of bits you know can grab and eat easily…in a bag for life or something separate to all the other boxes, like nuts, hummous, veg sticks, chicken & couscous. Few bottles water, maybe flask of tea/coffee. As you don’t get to stop let alone cook on moving day! By time you’re in at end of the day and door is closed, its feet up for cuppa and bed hehe! 😉

I’m a married mum of two, my daughters nearly 2 (where’s that gone?!) and my sons 6, before the children I was always a healthy weight and slim without much weight thought or exercise. I had gestational diabetes with both pregnancies, one diet controlled other injecting insulin, and my weights gone up steadily ever since. I’m currently in the highest prediabetic range and one reading diabetic. (Need two in diabetic range to be diagnosed) I want to avoid type 2 for as long as I can. My grandmother was type 1. My other nan was type 2, both sadly died with serious diabetes related complications. I’m only 32 and thought diabetes would happen in 30 years time not now with two young children. I’m 30% higher to get it from having gestational, so I really want to stick to this way of eating in the long run. The med diet has been great and tasty and once not doing 800cals be easier to sustain long term I think. I have about 2 stone to loose I think.

Victorir – what a great learning experience to see the effect that sugar is having on you already 🙂

Recipe book was literally delivered to me at work 5 mins ago! Very excited to have in time for the weekend and I’m definitely going to check out the thai red curry also. I notice that the recipes break down the nutrition per serve too – calories, carbs, fat, protein etc – something I felt was missing from the recipes provided in the BSD book. Hopefully that will help with keeping track of the carb consumption each day…

Hello to all the newest people to have joined! It’s definitely a great mood booster having this friendly group to catch up on and see how everyone’s finding it. Not long until we are in the second week…whoop whoop!
I haven’t weighed myself since weds, will do it on Monday morning… massive well done to all the brilliant weight losses, it’s really positive to be seeing such results already.
I had a major set back last night… my husband came home from working abroad with sweets, my son was delighted! I thought I would be able to resist but ended up eating loads of sweeties! I felt sick and had the worst night sleep yet! It was silly of me, I guess the only good thing is, it has shown me how my body reacts now to sugar! So it’s put me right off doing that again.
I also pick up a copy of the recipe book today, will try the red Thai chicken too. 😊 As all the family can eat it, perfect!

I have watched the Panorama prog and already made comments on another thread, so so sad.

What I would say is that it is not our fault that we have been unable to control our illness with diet, which yes we are always told to do. No one told us what to eat or what not to eat so we went on diet after diet and failed like everyone else does. When we have been given dietary advice it has been so so wrong – eat low fat, low calorie foods (synthetic) and get plenty of carbs. I saw the doctor on the programme say you should start the day with cereal and have a wholemeal roll sandwich for lunch, the emphasis being that these are good carbs, along with rice and pasta, even better if you eat brown pasta etc etc. We have heard it all before and it is still the traditional advice. This is not just damaging to diabetics but to the population as a whole who are becoming more and more overweight.

I don’t know how I found this diet, I had been seeing pop ups on Facebook and clicked onto long videos about diet and you knew they were going to try to sell you something at the end. As it turns out their ideas were pretty much the same as BSD but were American videos and selling books or courses which I could not access, whick led me to looking for something UK based, then I found Dr M. I am sure I was totally sceptical but thought, £3.99 for a book, how can I lose. But I did lose, I lost weight and gained better health. Long may this diet prosper and grow and hopefully become traditional treatment for obesity and diabetes and many other illnesses.

Thanks Avila and Poppetini for your words of encouragement. I have a mental image of you two strutting your stuff to the Rocky theme! Might try after dark! Just back from holiday though so have a few things to sort out before including running in my daily routine. Avila your dog story made me laugh! Perhaps you should take her running with you lol! I was thinking about the cheesy dog farts that must have followed he he!
Well done on halving you medication josie – is your blood pressure improving?

Thanks Randam 🙂

I hadn’t introduced myself either…I’m a 38 year old single mum to an 8 year old boy. I’m not diabetic or pre-diabetic as far as I know, but my maternal grandmother was T2 diabetic, my dad is T2 diabetic and my younger sister was diagnosed as prediabetic. I’m 5ft 3 and ~12st (76kg) and realised recently that I am technically in the “obese” range, if you go by BMI (only slightly over BMI of 30). My weight has crept up over the last couple of years.

Though, if I’m to go down to what is supposedly considered the top end of my healthy weight range (64kg), that’s actually less than I have ever been able to sustain for any period since high school. Similarly to Randam, I don’t want to be superskinny either (I never have been and I wouldn’t be able to sustain it either). Compared to my sisters, I’m naturally actually quite a curvy shape, but I’d just like to be a healthy sz 12 and feel as though I have more energy than I do now.

Also, I’ve been completely hooked on carbs since forever and I have tried a few times to kick the carb habit (without success) over the last few years. Though when I look back, I realise that I’ve been under a lot of personal stress for a really long time (settling down these days, hopefully), so I think I just wasn’t in the right head space to really take this on with any real chance of success – I like that Michael Mosley emphasises that aspect of the process in his book and I’m only really realising now how this applies to me (even while I write this post). I’m not going to give myself any more grief for not being able to do this until now 🙂

Hi Verano – well done with your blood sugars, that’s great
Krysia – colleague with the clothes is now a size 10, and confident she will never be “that big” again – she does manage to say it in a way that isn’t condescending when I’m all “whew, more size 16 clothes that fit this week”
I’ll pass them on to Smart Works when they are too big for me!

Well done Sunshine Girl – amused at the idea of being told off by your wiifit. Why does it think you want a BMI of 22? I will be delirious when mine gets to 25!!!
I had FatSecret’s error message of “that’s a big weight loss, are you sure” today – I think they have a really simple algorithm – in fact so simple its not an algorithm, probably just weight loss divided by the number of days since you last submitted a weight multiplied by 7!

Having said that, I just took a look at my BMI again
their website gives the formula for calculating BMI of
“divide your weight in kilograms (kg) by your height in metres (m)
then divide the answer by your height again to get your BMI”

Doing that, my BMI comes out at 30!! (well 30.1, but nearly overweight!)
Using the NHS calculator, which additionally asks your height and gender, it comes out with a BMI of 32.7
Interesting! difference is nearly 9%
dual BMI mini goals!

Thanks for the responses.
Sorry, I should have given a UOM for the BG. 130 is mg/dl. Hoping to get it down to 100 or less. Highs 2 hours after a meal have been as high as 219, even on low carb. I must be sneaking carbs in somehow.
This morning FBG is 134. I’m preparing for the diet, will keep you all posted.

Hi Flash – had the same in weeks 2&3. But then it steadied and kept going down. I finished (my first!) 8 weeks at the end of last month. I have been away (and eaten far too much) so will be starting the next official 8 weeks on Monday (back on it already and feeling better for it). I have a few social/eating encounters to negotiate but intend to be very strict and lose another 2 stones – it’s my birthday in early December and I hope to be celebrating in size 12 clothes! I have a scales addiction too and I can’t see that changing EVER! I need the pressure!

Well done Suluro, that’s amazing! You are on your way!
Xxx

First week down. I’m not diabetic, but with my family history and weight could end up that way if I don’t make these changes.
Week one loss 9.2 lbs/ 4.18 kg
Goal for this week, continue 800, and increase steps to 7000/d. Wondering how low need to keep carbs for this to continue to work? Know that will inevitably will slow down this week.

Congrats on losing 2 stones Sunshine – a fine achievement indeed! But that must be more than 10% of your start weight surely? You’ll soon be under that 74 mark too Yay!

congratulations Sunshine Girl
onwards and downwards!

Just reached another mini goal. I am now exactly 2 stone from my ultimate weight goal. Goals yet to reach, 2lbs to throwing out knickers, 2lbs to losing 10% of body weight and 0.1 of a kg to get under 74.

Keep on keeping on.

Good luck, Jim! 🙂

Great idea of RozyDozy’s to read threads here. Use the Search box top right to find both subjects and people.

Can I recommend Bill1954’s This Has to Work for Me and Lucia’s My Eight Weeks. One is someone who felt he had to do something to get his life back in order – and did! And Lucia is totally inspirational with starting with very small things but eventually making a huge difference.

Very best of luck to you and keep using this forum for support and accountability. Most people seem to find it helps 🙂

Hi Jim as a motivator you should see results in your blood glucose within a few days and in 2 weeks should be well on the way to being within a near normal range. I’m not sure what 130 is – is that 7.2 which is quite good anyway or is that the scale of 10 so 130 is 13. All these different measurements can be confusing. Mine was 190 (10.5) and by day 5 135 and 2 weeks later 105 and now between 75 and 110 (4.1 and 5.8).

Another way to judge how you are doing is to measure yourself before. you should lose quite a bit from your waist in the first 2 weeks, showing a change to your belly fat. If you hit a plateau around week 2 or 3, that is normal. Your body needs time to readjust and the loss will come back. This is not the time to give up.

Good luck and keep on keeping on.

Majormummy- keep going… we’ve nearly done a week now xx
And Mixnmatch- go you!…

Hi Cara and Meftl
Welcome!!

Apatch… that IS impressive… baking and no eating!… I really don’t have that will power!

I so know what you mean about being more aware of ingredients now… I moved onto sparkling water to keep my hunger at bay-
But I’ve just learned that it has 11 times more salt than still water…
Salt triggers my tinnitus and I wondered why my ears had been ringing all week!! … now I know!

Scales today showed a 2lb loss from yesterday so that was the 1lb gain plus an extra 1lb off.
Making my total loss 6lb since Monday.

I realised too that I hadn’t introduced myself and really should seeing as we are all getting along so well.
I’m 45 single mum.. to my 20 yr old son who is now away at Uni. I work full time too
I’ve been on every diet there is- with varying levels of success ..
I’m not prediabetic… but my mum was T2 diabetic and I don’t want to be!
And I’ve piled on the pounds again – I’m 5ft 7 and at the start of the week was 14st 10.
I’d like to lose 2 stone …to get back to a Uk size 12
I don’t want to be skinny.. as I can’t maintain it

What attracted me to this diet was exactly as others have said… I think it’s a real lifestyle change and I can just increase portions etc (and have wine again! 🍷🍷 ) once I achieve my goal

So… I have a biggie next week… I move house on Weds …I’m determined to stick to the diet.. I just need to be super organised
If you have any ideas- let me know

This forum is brilliant and will help me through my house move !

Also, Hillybob, are you having enough salt?

Because we’re drinking so much fluid, this flushes out the salt from the system and lack of sodium will certainly cause feelings of light-headedness.

It might be worthwhile doing the following

a) adding more salt to your food
b) drinking Miso soup or
c) having a drink made of a stock cube in boiling water.

Dr MM mentions this in the BSD book, but it’s easily overlooked.

Hope that helps 🙂

Hi Jim,
It’s daunting starting out on something that will bring about major changes in your life. The early days can be the hardest (weeks 2-3 seem to be hardest – just read other people’s posts) but stick with it. Drink plenty of water – dehydration can fool you into thinking you need food. Plan your meals. Stick with the foodstuffs recommended. A lot of people have been very diligent and counted calories & carbs (I haven’t but I still saw weight loss).

If you do ever feel you are hitting a brick wall and the weight’s not coming off, think about whether you are feeling better, are clothes feeling a bit looser? Our bodies react in different ways, sometimes slower than we would like, but persevere. There are plenty of people on this forum who are more than willing to pass on the benefit of their experience.

Above all, this is a very flexible regime so you can adapt it to what suits you best.
Best wishes!

I started BSD last Friday, so weighed in this morning and eleven pounds down! So pleased, feeling so much better already . Got a long way to go but keep taking it day by day. I have never been part of a forum before and finding it such a support reading other peoples posts.

Hi,
I’ve been BSD-ing for most of this year (to good effect) – I haven’t followed the menu plans at all. Rather I chose to dip into the recipes – some appealed more than others, but I have tried a few things that I previously would have shied away from. Some people like to stick diligently to the plan because it helps them to stick with it but in reality it is whatever works best for you. I haven’t counted a calorie, I figured if I cut out the junk I was eating, and stuck to the foodstuffs recommended in the BSD then I wouldn’t go too far wrong. I just wanted to make it as easy as possible to follow, even though my weight loss has been slower than many people’s. That is the beauty of this regime, you can tweak it to what suits you.

Struggling here too Major Mummy, feeling hungry. I used to eat really large portion sizes, needing the feeling of being really really full (probably an emotional thing), so it’s taking a while to get used to lower carbs and less food overall. I imagine it could take a while for me. Though I’m still hungry much of the time, I’m not quite so hungry as I thought I would be. Just trying to keep busy and keep the fluids up, I’m having lots of nice herbal teas which I think is helping.

On the plus side, I managed to get through a night of baking last night (for work) without taking even a single bite, so I was pretty happy with the old will power 🙂

Also, I’m really feeling as though I’ve learnt a lot already in only 4 days about food and what is in the food I’m eating, carbs, calories, nutrition, portion size etc. I’m finding the meal planning is really helping (I’m usually terrible at meal planning and tend to waste a lot of food that goes uncooked and thrown away etc), so I’m finding that being so focussed lends to much more sustainable living (for me). Gotta keep reminding myself of all these extra little positives 🙂

Yep, happened to me during the second and third week but then great results this week. ( 4th week)
So don’t be despondent, you’ll lose more…

Hi again

I’ve been quiet this week because work has been incredibly awful and very frustrating BUT on the plus side I have made time every day except yesterday to cook BSD friendly proper meals. Usually when work gets demanding the first thing that goes by the wayside is any time for me so I’m really pleased I haven’t let this happen so far.

I started on 1st but couldn’t weigh myself because the battery in the scales was dead. I did measure myself the same way Dona Rosa did ie. with the tape measure loose rather than breathing in and pulling it tight. Since I replaced the scales battery on Monday I have lost 2.4kg and having measured myself I’ve lost 2in off my bust and 2in off my hips. My waist hasn’t changed though. Very bizarre given that this diet is meant to target abdominal fat. If it continues this way I’ll end up with a very odd body shape! I have hypothyroidism, does anyone know if that has any effect on where you lose weight from?

Conclusion so far? Something’s working!