You are so organised and actually that is so important. You have such an early start and such a long day. I work every evening and several mornings so can be away from home from 9am to 10pm and have to take all my food for the day with me.

Your food sounds delicious and absolutely perfect for the BSD. I don’t follow the recipes but tend to have eggs for breakfast then salads or vegetables with meat or cheese. Am aiming to add more fish to my menus because I am not eating enough. Am envious that you can get fage yoghurt – I can’t get it anywhere here.

Hi all…I am on my 4th day of the BSD and I am a little worried as I dont feel as if I’ve lost any weight. I am concerned that I’m following the diet correctly. Is it too early to tell if I’ve lost weight?

NeNe you have some iron will there!

So we’re already in to week two and I’ve got a new favourite thing. Those salad bowls that all the supermarkets do now with just the basic salad ingredients and nothing more. I find half is perfect when beetroot, olives and feta/tuna/chicken and a drizzle of home made vinaigrette are added and it saves the bag of leaves festering in the fridge when I decide I’m going to cook something for the next few days.

I seem to have lost 3.4kg somehow whilst eating delicious food. Having portions of different soups in the fridge has really helped, particularly at lunch time when I normally don’t eat. I also now have a variety of meals in the freezer so all that time I spent with my nose in my laptop have been worth it. I need to pull all my recipes together now and build myself a stock of simple meals that can be made from kitchen staples.

My baggy jeans are now not even touching my thighs (yippee) and my tight jeans are feeling less snug but I’m not going to get excited about them because they loosen up with wear.

Energy levels are good, especially good actually given I have an underactive thyroid. It must be all those good nutrients I’m eating!

Well done everyone for getting through week 1, it’ll be week 3 before we know it 🙂

Hi Everyone,

Today is my second day on the 800 calorie BSD.
It has been great to read about all your success’.

I ate 777 calories my first day (yesterday), drank lots of water, (total carbs were 15), worked out on my elliptical, got 14,000 steps in, washed the car and basically kept busy all day but when I got on the scale this morning, I had actually gained 3 lbs. Craziness! I’m not going to let it stop me. Maybe my body was shocked at the attempt to lose water weight and held on to everything it could. I drank a lot of water!

I’m looking forward to a possible drop in water weight tomorrow. I will make it through week 8 on 800 low-carb calories.

Keep posting! It really helps knowing there are others out there that are doing this too! :–)

Hello everyone. I started on the 3rd too and lost 4lb. I’d like more but I’ve decided it’ll catch up next week – and with time of month and the fact that I started on one (new) pair of scales that turned out to fluctuate each time I got on within moments I returned those and got some others so who knows how accurate the first read was anyway. 4lb a week over 8 weeks is still 32lb which would be amazing!

Good luck all for the next week 🙂

We are trying to be organised Verano. There is always something missing from a recipe :-/ But yes having my husband on board does make it easier.

Thank you shalimar! I know I should be grateful. I guess it’s just that I have lost more feasting on carbs on Slimming World in the past. I’m not going down that road ever again though. I’m going to take the positives, which are I’m feeling full of energy, I’m not hungry on the 800 cals have no cravings for sweets stuff whatsoever – and I’m weirdly cold all the time which means I can wear a snuggly cardy and not boil to death 🙂

Thank you KrysiaD for your welcome!
Yes!!! :–) I am doing the fast 800.

Right now, I’m in my office having spring greens with a little red onion, 5 sliced cherry tomatoes, a sprinkle of balsamic vinegar and a teaspoon of Olive Oil. I’m also eating 70 calories of meat.

I had coffee and 2 boiled eggs for breakfast. A few hours later, I also had a morning snack of FAGE plain yogurt. For dinner, I plan to eat chicken and steamed vegetables.

I get up in the morning at 3:45 am, commute to work, and then start to work at 6 am. It makes for a long day!
Today I plan to grocery shop on the way home from work, followed by 30 minutes of aerobics and a weight training workout.

I am so glad to have found the forum! I know it’s really going to help me get through this. The reward will be so worth it!

Well done for sticking it out Bluemoon, you won’t regret it.

I also felt bad on day 2. Push on through and come here if you’re doubting. Drink (and pee) through it, you’ll make some huge gains over the next few days.

Hi everyone,

Just checking in. I was away for weekend at a wedding in an Irish castle. Pretty amazing couple, location & weather. I was dreading the food & drink situation because I had started the diet on 2 Oct, I was down 5 pounds by 7 Oct and now I was going to be surrounded by amazing food, champagne, friends & family. They weren’t just having cake, they were having a ‘cake room’ for dessert. I was good as gold but it was very, very difficult.
I had a total of 2 G&T’s and one glass of champagne for the whole weekend which anyone who’s been to an Irish wedding will know that’s a triumph. We do love a party! I had to skip the canapés, had salmon & vegetables for the dinner and just watched everyone piling it high in the most divine cake room. Torture, but I was strong. I knew if I tried one I would have tried four and my bsd would be over and I need to do this.
I brought a green shake and a flask of butternut soup to have the following day while everyone else was having the hangover fry ups. Got home very late last night so weighed myself this morning and I’ve stayed at 5 pound loss so no harm done & back on track now.
Looked forward so much to reading all the posts on here today as I usually check in every day. Love all your stories and updates, your successes inspire me, your advice helps me and it’s so good to be part of a worldwide group all committed to the one goal, taking responsibility for our health.

Best wishes from NeNe xxx

I haven’t yet plugged in the keto calculator for what I expect my maintenance diet to look like, but I expect protein to remain very similar, or even drop a bit as my weight drops, as the guidelines are based on lean body mass. I can’t see carbs going back over 100g on a regular basis as that would be to invite back the cravings potentially so will look at what that gives me for fat content and try to keep it ‘good fat’. Certainly with all the good press about olive oil I can see the amount I use of that increasing when I am no longer restricting my calories. I am certainly not in any way worried about the amount of fat I am eating at the moment.

I can confirm that the Spanish chorizo and chickpea soup is super tasty and filling. Will definitely be making again.

So many positive and inspirational messages on here today. Well done everyone!!

Welcome jmarie41 to this forum. You will find the support here is phenomenal. I couldn’t have stuck to the BSD without it.

The BSD will certainly improve your blood sugar levels. Are you doing the fast 800?

Hi mixnmatch

As a fellow datahead, I think it might help to look at the absolute values of fat rather than the proportions. As the overall calorie are typically very low and the whole point is to reduce carbs then the fat level is going to look high.

If you doubled the calorie “allowance” then you probably wouldn’t eat twice as much fat so the proportion would go don.

DAY 1 of 10/10

Breakfast:
Vogel’s – Soy & Linseed Toast Slice, 42.5 g (1 slice) 103
Heinz – Baked Beans, 0.33 cup 75

Lunch
Jamie Oliver – Apple and Celeriac Soup, 1 serving 237
1/2 Homemade – Cheese and Onion Toastie, 113

Dinner
Allrecipes – Roasted Cauliflower ‘steaks’, 1/4 of head of cauliflower 97
Tesco Finest – Tinned Cherry Tomatoes, 200 g 78
Homemade – Red Cabbage Carrot Slaw, 1 Cup 67
Olive Oil + Red Wine Vinegar Dressing, 1 Tbsp 80

TOTAL 850 cals and I’m really full!

Over and out until tomorrow!

Hi everyone, well that’s day one done, it wasn’t too bad but tomorrow I might try skipping breakfast and saving the calories for later in the day, I’ve never been a huge fan of breakfast anyway. But I will miss my freshly squeezed oj though and now I wish I hadn’t thought about it because my mouth’s watering now. I hope all you 10/10s and there abouts are doing well, I’m going to have a cup of tea and then off to bed. night night x

Fantastic news Primadawn, sometimes the non scale victories are even more satisfying aren’t they?

I know it isn’t a low fat diet, but 37g is still a considerable portion of my calories coming from the fat element. I have just finished a meal of skin on roast chicken with a dressed tomato salad with lots of fresh parsley and am ready for my pudding of full-fat Greek yoghurt and clotted cream with raspberries. My current weekly trend shows 37% of my 797 calories are from protein, 42% from fat and 21% from carbs. This seems to me to be quite suitable. (I am a bit of a data-head case and have gone into this in quite some depth over the last few months.)

Today is quite a high fat day, admittedly, at 115% of target with carbs at 21.2g and protein at 69.5g. Tomorrow will be quite a high carb day as I am playing badminton after work. I try to get it reasonably balanced out over the week.

Hi trelawny
Well done you , I know what you mean by feeling good been on this now for two weeks and lost 20lb and find I can do things a lot better and with ease I have 3 1/2 stone to lose to be at the weight I want to be so keep up the good work and it helps being in this forum and reading everyone’s ups and downs and seeing them do so well and not giving in when they have a bad day so onwards and upwards here’s to another good week good luck every one

Fairyface you seem to have it organised and I think that’s the real secret. Having your husband on board and doing it together is a real bonus.

Best of luck!

*called not Calle.
22lb was average over 4 weeks

Hi everyone. I’ve eaten some small amounts of cheese this week and whilst I’ve lost this week it’s considerably less than last week (as I expected) but I would not consider the 3lbs to be “rapid weight loss”. I’m not disheartened I just think it’s our bodies adapting to the new regime…. On a different thread a lady Calle Lucia stated she’s not lost weight but had lost inches…. I would second this as my stomach has really slimmed down this week….. I’m not sure that I’ll hit the “average of 22lb” as mentioned in the BSD 800cal book but I’m going to keep chugging away in the basis that it’s almost one stone gone in 2 weeks which is amazing for me.
My friend and I went out for lunch today which is the first time I’ve eaten out whilst following the diet and she thought she was doing me a favour by taking me to a salad bar restaurant….. Well I’ve been hungry all day since eating the rabbit food!! I did order the steak salad but it was not sustaining and as soon as I got home the sugar cravings kicked in big time….. I relented and had some apple slices in caramel dipping sauce (100cal) within my allowance but now I feel terrible…. Sleepy and lethargic!
This all goes to prove to me that I’m better for following low carb diet and to avoid the said salad venue!!
Good luck with your weigh-ins this week….. Can’t believe we are starting week 3!!

Hope the meds get you sorted Yowzer. I had Labyrinthitis back in January and then had meds like yours which seemed to do the trick 🙂 Hopefully the nausea is stopping you from comfort eating? It is horrible to be dizzy and faint so I hope you are soon better 🙂

loopy thanks for the information. I knew I had not seen information on how many carbs a day.
Verano. We are not diabetic but I was very worried about the visceral fat I have and my weight has been going up by just over a stone a year! I have only had one apple since being on the diet and can honestly say I have eaten nothing except what I have made from the cookery book! Yesterday at a concert I bought a bottle of diet coke and only had a couple of mouthfuls. Thrown it away today:-) Go me!
KrysiaD thank you also for the information and encouragement.

I can honestly say this diet seems to be reasonably easy for me but thats I am sure is with the help from my husband. We sit down together a couple of days a week and work out what we want to eat and then do the shopping. I also think the bank balance likes it because we are not eating a lot of meat!

Three positives to be grateful for..number one, music,two – music,three..music!
Just watching clips from the Desert Trip ” Oldchella” Festival in California..Paul McCartney,Neil Young,Dylan,the Who…
So grateful i was a teen when i first encountered these people and their fabulous talents, and soooooo happy that today- so very many years later – they continue to delight me and millions of others..
And not a single carb imbibed along with all the wonderful songs! Heehee! How positive is that! Let The Music Play On! X

Hi loopylou and Krysia good to see you here.

I love fish! I’m not much of a meat eater, maybe once a week, but I love chicken and fish, any type except monkfish. You could also try Thai fish cakes if you like spicy. I think they are really low carb but I would need to work it out exactly. They freeze really well!

It’s amazing how we forget about little things as time goes on. I think we become a bit complacent. This ‘7 Days’ will get us back to basics adding back in all the things we have relaxed on.

@mixnmatch I think fat should be higher than carbs. This is not a low fat diet at all.

Ah! I forgot to add my “non-scale” victory! I got into a pair of skinny black pants today that I’ve never worn! I attribute this less to the 6 pound weight loss and more to the amazing de-bloating that is happening in my gut! lol. I used to get bloated to the point of looking pregnant after meals, which I think is an indicator of a fatty liver, which I’ve never been diagnosed with but suspect I have (I’ve never been tested as I don’t go to the doctor unless I’m at death’s door! lol).

I hope everyone is doing ok? Nearly through the first day for me and feeling good! Finished eating for today and cals at 848 with carbs 38.7 so not to bad. Just heading out for a walk to get my steps up. Will have some black tea for supper. My weight this morning was 13st .5lbs height 5ft 1.5, waist 38 and tummy 49.5! Funny though I feel slimmer already probably all the water I’ve lost! Hopefully day 2 is as good!x

Six and a half stone lost ☺😊😀 (since Feb 2015).

That is all…

Day 7. Rather a haphazard supper tonight because I forgot our local village butcher is closed on Mondays. I found some tempura battered cod in the freezer & we had that with some quinoa & flageolet beans! Oh well total calories today for me was 807 but more for my husband because he found his small bag of pumpkin & sunflower seeds left uneaten from yesterday & ate them!!😀😀🙀

I didn’t get time to post this morning so this is the belated results. I have lost another two pounds, bringing me to the full 7 pounds in 7 days. My body fat has also dropped another chunk and is now 38.3% but the big news is that takes me to SIX AND A HALF STONE lost since FEB 2015. This is quite shocking as I was following the basic principles without the calorie restriction in September and didn’t expect that big a difference. I am now wondering whether it is the longer periods of active intermittent fasting I tried on the weekend that made the difference so will be sticking to that for the rest of the plan.

Aah thanku Mixnmatch, will have a look at that.

You must feel fab-u-lous, you are an inspiration!! x

I am here and ready for tomorrow also. I know exactly what my extra is. I really haven’t eaten enough fish – lots of weeks no fish at all. So I’ve not really been doing a true Mediterranean diet.

To remedy this my husband has made some salmon fish cakes for me that he saw in the ‘I and they are lovely’. They are really spicy and the recipe uses ground almonds and an egg to bind them together. I like kippers So will have one for breakfast. Will also start using tinned tuna with cream cheese which I really do like. I will look for more fish recipes in the recipe book.

The carb level isn’t in the books, although I believe the recipes in the book will roughly average out to a similar level as many of us use, around the 50 mark, if anyone who has the book wants to have a look at whether it does, that would be great, as I have just made that assumption. Carb tracking came about for me because I followed one of the links for the keto calculator posted by Igor (try search to find the link), and messed around on that with how best to portion out those 800 calories to keep me healthy. I wanted quite high protein to make sure my increased activity was covered so settled on (roughly) 40 net carbs, 77 protein and 37 fat. In practice my fat is a little higher than this, and my carbs and protein both a little lower, but I blame the Cornish clotted cream I am still using up after my trip for that 😀

Sunshine-girl – prunes and Greek yoghurt a great choice with lots of nutrients.

I hadn’t realised that the French like their gateaux so much and of course baguettes are really high carbs. Hope you enjoy your Zumba class tonight.

Fairyface – yes it is swings and roundabouts. Most people do well on maximum of 50g of carbs a day and it is fine if it averages out to that over the week. Some people find they need to keep carbs lower. Restricting carb levels does seem to be very important. I didn’t realise this at first and it took me 4 months to lose a stone then I lost a stone in one month by keeping carbs lower and logging everything I ate – which you are doing already so you have made a great start.

Great results people 😀, and for those who indulged in a little ‘pick me up’ over the weekend, well done in acknowledging it and coming back rather than falling off the wagon completely. It won’t hurt having the occasional indulgence as long as it doesn’t become routine like it used to be for me. On my day 7 weigh in I had lost another 2 lbs which took me to my 6 1/2 stone mini-goal which I hoped to hit by the end of this week so will need to think of another one that is do-able. The next one of my outstanding mini-goals is the ’11 something’ which is 4.5 lbs away now. That may be too much for a week two as I am probably expecting a plateau for a few days this week, as my body adjusts again. On that note, my top half now seems to be shrinking faster than my bottom as I am wearing a size 10 top today 😊 Keep it up folks, we’re all doing fantastically well.

Hey Good Luck Rice_and_Curry … keep in touch and let’s see how we both get on eh ?

Many Thanks Flash21 …will keep posting how it’s going 🙂

Congrats on your efforts Bluemoon, Poppycat (it is a challenge!), Lesleyp (great on the fitness!)

HUGS to all!

I am on Canadian Thanksgiving Holiday so i am cutting myself some slack ….but i am not eating wildly. Was up all night so i am actually still in my nightie and bathrobe. It’s cold out but supposed to get nicer … and it’s sunny now so i am going to move my butt soon and go for a walk!

Hi Fairyface

I think it’s probably a good idea to check out the carbs certainly in the early stages. You don’t mention whether or not either of you have diabetes. If you have you really need to take care of the carbs.

Some fruits and vegetables are really surprising. For example a medium Apple has 19g carbs, a banana 27g and 100g of onions 10g. I had a small piece of Victoria sandwich yesterday, it was a birthday, it had only 250 calories but over 31g carbs almost my daily allowance!!! I’ve chosen 35g of carbs a day but as loopylou says 50g is usual.

It would probably be a good idea to check out your favourite things in a calorie/carb counter … you may be surprised!!!

Good luck!

Well done on the decision to go on the blood sugar diet jmarie41. You can certainly find plenty of inspiration on the forums as there are so many successful dieters on here. If you have any difficulty or questions there will be lots of people on here to help and give advice. Good luck

Hello everyone!

I too started on Monday 3rd, hope you don’t mind me joining this week instead! I’ve been following you all since last Tuesday or Wednesday but have only just had chance to register – feeling like a stalker so thought I’d better get on with it! Never been in a forum before, or followed one, absolutely loving your chat – you make me lol. Will be amazed if you get this post though, should have made ‘Luddite’ my username!

Learning a new way of eating/lifestyle is a big learning curve isn’t it? And I’m sorry to hear a quite a few of you have been feeling poorly – maybe it’s your bodies trying to get you to go back to all those pesky carbs! I think we all need to be kind to ourselves as it’s very early days.

I weighed myself before I started but haven’t been near the scales yet! Have tried every diet under the sun (some several times) and have always found I lose weight very slowly at first. Don’t want to be disappointed and disheartened. I know it’s doing me good because, as many of you have said, tummy is flatter and food tastes fab/wholesome.

Michael Mosley suggested fasting in the mornings. I’ve really taken to this and don’t feel hungry at all. First of my two daily meals tastes amazing! BTW have I missed a bit in the book re the amount of carbs we can have? I just thought I was counting up to 800 cals per day??

Everyone’s doing really well, give yourselves a pat on the back – go on….

C xxx

Hi all, day 2 done for me as I started Sunday. Just sent a request to join the fb group x

Hello all. My loss for last week was 6lb and an inch off my waist which is great. I did have a small piece of my daughters birthday cake yesterday and a small prosecco but back on the wagon today. I got back into a pair of my ‘skinny’ jeans which I last wore last year so I’m super happy with that! I made the beetroot falafels today too, very yummy and as it makes 2 portions I’ve got my lunch sorted for tomorrow too – as long as I can fend off my husband from scoffing them. Keid x

I’m here and ready for tomorrow. My little extra will be making sure I do 10,000 steps each day. i have been a bit lax about this lately.

Fairyface, The book doesn’t specify a set number of carbs and low carb is typically defined as anything form 20g -100g carb per day. However, most people seem to find that sticking to 50g per day leads to weight loss and better blood results. For some people its 70g, others its 30g. I guess it depends on your body but if I were you I would aim for about 50g.

Hope BSD is working well for you and good luck to you and your husband on your BSD journey.

Day 2 done! Was really quite hungry today so happy that I’ve stuck with it. Drank plenty of water and having herb tea for the rest of the evening if I get too hungry.
Total cals 841 total carbs 37g
Hoping things start to get a bit easier after day 4.
Hope everyone else has had a good day x

Had a good first day, it helps knowing that there is a team of us all in the same boat.
Had a protein shake with almond milk for breakfast
Protein bar mid morning
Veg soup for lunch
Dinner lamb and broccoli.
Slightly over on calories, but the lamb was left over from yesterday.
I’ve had 917 cals, 64g carbs and 90g protein.
Out to choir tonight so will have black tea at break time.
Overall a good first day.
I have at least 6 stones to lose so am setting my first target at 2 stones off. I am 5 8 and quite fit. I go to the gym and aquafit and enjoy walking. Just need to do more!

Thank you loophole. Just a week in for us on the diet so still working things out. Is it maximum 50 carbs a day?
Just had a bit of a calorie shock as dinner tonight was over 5oo calories. Spanish Chicken out of the recipe book,(yummy)
but we have been well below 800 calories over the weekend as we were really busy. So I suppose its swings and roundabouts!

Yes, the French rate of diabetes is only 1% higher but you would expect it to be lower as they have around 10% obesity we have 25%, and they have 15% overweight whereas we have 35% – don’t quote me, that is from memory. They eat a big baguette every day though not many potatoes or rice and pasta, they do like their gateaux.

I think my lows were caused because I didn’t eat enough of the right things, everything low calorie, low fat and salads made of lettuce, cucumber and tomatoes with a bit of chicken or tuna. They were also happening after maybe 50 minutes swimming and I just wanted to know what to eat, found out on here, 2 or 3 prunes and a couple of mouthsful of Greek yoghurt. Everything is fine now. All ready and off to Zumba.