jmarie41:) HUGS

I am looking forward to lookin’ good at Christmas.

Actually being somewhat hungry is good ….. for one thing it makes food taste better …. and that is your body’s way of saying “I need food”.

My main motivation is to feel healthy, be healthy and to have a body that is up to doing what i want it to. For instance … even just a trip to the museum in Toronto … my feet hurt so bad and i was so tired i didn’t even get to enJOY more than a couple of the exhibits! Even shopping … i had no patience for it. All the money i spent on the trip ….. and i wasn’t fit enough to enJOY it …i am sooooooooo tired of being sick and tired!!

Hi Antigone

It’s just as good with chicken breasts. Dice or slice the chicken into strips and add it with the curry paste and stir fry for 4 of 5 minutes of so until the chicken is seared on all sides. Then add the coconut milk etc and poach the chicken for maybe another 15minutes until the chicken is cooked through.

The ‘real’ recipe for chicken curry involves marinating and frying the chicken prior to the method above but it adds too many carbs and calories so I do it my way!!

Oh Granny i hear you ……….. i didn’t think vegetables of any kind had carbs. This has been an education!!

Thanks shalimar thats a great help:-) Will try to prep better as dont want to be worrying about havjng too many carbs, i now realised that carbs are in everythjng and well hidden in some foods😂

Hi Everyone,

I started on Sunday, October 9th and today is my third day. At my morning weigh-in on Monday, the scale was way up, which was strange but this morning, (Tuesday) October 11th, my weight was 3.5 lbs. down. Good news! I’ve been feeling pretty good with the occasional hungry feeling. I’ve been able to sleep too! No middle of the night hunger pangs. :–)
I started my own blog to write about how things are going, how I’m feeling, what I’m eating, what exercise I’m doing and so on.
I also use “Lose it” and have been doing that since 2010. Usually my calorie goals have been 1700 to 1800 a day, so it is funny to put down 800. I’m so excited that I’ve made that goal for two days now!!!!

I keep thinking about what it will feel like to be on this program for 8 weeks or more and to finally get my blood sugar and weight under control. I keep thinking about how nice it will feel to get dressed up at Christmas time and feel good in a pretty dress! I think about swimming in the pool with my granddaughters and not feeling as self-conscious about how I look getting in and out of the pool. These are the ways I am motivating myself! This week I plan to go get a pedicure one day after work and on Friday, treat myself to a massage.

What are some of you doing to motivate yourself?

Very interesting! Let’s hope more of our GPs accept this way of eating although I’m sure that quite a few will pooh pooh the idea.

Thanks for starting this thread it should prove very informative.

Hi danames 🙂 HUGS …. Hope the enJOY the book!! I find it very useful as i keep forgetting stuff!

Billingebabe …. 🙂 HUGS congrats on your loss of poundage … have a nice visit in London

Poppetini … 🙂 HUGS …I kind of love moving furniture to see if it looks nicer …. soup does sound delicious!!

Just lazing around enjoying my coffee …. going to shower and plan my day.

Marsie, it happens to all of us sometimes.
Sorry you had a tough time
Onwards and downwards

The creamy cauliflower and bean soup in the recipe section is fab and really does fill you up but can anyone tell me how many carbs i should log per portion?

Granny 🙂 HUGS …. i don’t see a carb count there at all.

Only way to figure it out seems to be to add up all the carb counts for the ingredients and divide by number of servings.

An internet recipe at this site

https://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calories.asp?recipe=1230260

with a total of 6 servings …. gives a carb count of 9.3 g.

Sigh….my self-sabotage gene got mixed up with my emotional eating gene today after a sad/bad afternoon with my 94yo mother (extremely reduced short term memory, confusion, terrible anxiety i.e. dementia) at her nursing home. And so I think my next short-term goal will be a little further away after an ugly icecream binge. Think I didn’t even enjoy it, just kept shoveling it in (I had held things so well in control while enjoying the beautiful food at a weekend wedding.) Did only have small bowl of steamed vegetables for dinner tonight, keeping OH company at the table, but………well, tomorrow is another day. Next mini-goal here I come.

Hi Smother 🙂 HUGS

Seriously …. you should try and get good at counting the carbs and calories. You can get that information from the internet … a paperback book diabetic counting book … or a site like MyFatSecret. Aim for 800 calories and 50 carbs or less. When you hit a plateau you can try and cut the carbs lower. Even though i don’t feel the counts are exact that way i have a good idea if it is working for me … and perhaps how i can adjust.

I don’t know how many posts you’ve read here …. but the 50 carbs is just something the people on this site have figured out works.

NOW … if you want to do it your way and you are happy with how the plan works for your weight loss … i won’t harp on it.

Welcome sarah and good luck with your journey, ive found this forum great so far for hints and tips and finding my way around the BSD!

Welcome smother, i only started yesterday so am learning too and watching out for hints and tips. The creamy cauliflower and bean soup in the recipe section is fab and really does fill you up but can anyone tell me how many carbs i should log per portion?

I’ve just been reading about leptin, as I knew nothing about it, Tabletalk. Insulin resistance, leptin resistance… It’s no surprise that so many people are overweight. We’re not meant to be living in times of food oversupply, that’s for sure.

Hope you’re doing OK, Tabletalk. Not surprised you’re having difficulty sticking to the diet. I bet you’re run off your feet.

I have officially started!!!

So far all i’ve done is made coffee.

I measured out 2 tbps. of cream for my coffee … 60 calories and 2 g. of carbs!!

PS. What is ketosis? There is some serious science stuff here that I am missing!!

Wow, this thread is so busy I can’t keep up! Congrats to MissZiggy, CallMeDeb, Wendy1947 and Disney Nut (and anyone I missed) on your weight loss. 🎉🎉🎉
If I could give you a virtual ticker tape parade I would!! I’m really hoping for results myself when I weigh in on Thursday morning… fingers crossed.

I just finished day 6 and I spent a lot of the day cooking and freezing portions of BSD friendly food. I had my own slip up last night, when I went to empty out some wine from a bottle in the fridge from before I started BSD. Instead, (in my weary evening mood) I emptied into a large glass and drank it. Thankfully it was the only wine in the house, and I was too tired to throw together snacks to keep the binge going. Oh well… there’s gonna be days like that.

I also find it impossible to drink water, especially that much without flavouring it with a stock cube or artificially sweetened cordial. I know this isn’t great, but one step at a time.

Hope everyone is feeling strong, sending good willpower vibes from down under… 😀

Shalimar,
I posted a big thank you for the great information you gave me.

I have ordered the “Blood Sugar Diet” which should reach me before the end of October.

I hope this ‘thank you’ reaches you. 🙂

Thank you for all this great information.

I have ordered the book “The Blood Sugar Diet” which should reach me before the end of October.

Hello everyone

I started the diet yesterday after finding out all about it in the newspaper and then buying the book. I have a lot of weight to lose and am truly horrified by my waist measurement, so I’m hoping that this works for me. I’m not very good at counting calories or carbs so I’m trying to stick to the recipes as strictly as possible.

Here is what I have had so far: please let me know if having stuff I’m not allowed!!
Breakfast both days – 2 scrambled eggs
Lunch both days – Jewelled peppers
Dinner – fishcake, beans & broccoli/Baked cod on a bed of kale
Snack @ 11 – 1/2 an avacado
Drinks – strong tea with very small amount of milk

Looking forward to all the support we can give each other 🙂

Natalie, I am also sending healing thoughts for Friday. Hope all goes well and that your health will be vastly improved. Keep us informed of your progress please xx

Jackieppp well done for hanging on. Hope you have a good week.

Today, so far so good. I was feeling hungry about 12 noon and suddenly realised I had had no water to drink, so guzzled three quarters of a pint and then forgot I was hungry!!!! Beetroot, carrot, walnut and feta salad for lunch, harvest pie for tea, greek yogurt and berries for snack this evening.

Have a good day everyone xx

Hi Tony,

I am starting today also. My weight is 220lb and waist is 49.
I wear an 18.
My eight week goal is 167 or 6.6 pounds a week nearly a pound a day.
Then I was hoping for 142 after that.

We end on December 5th. We can do this, keep me posted. Sandy

Good news Snoop! We’re about the same so I’m with you on reaching the 70’s by mid November 🙂
Tabletalk – everyone says drinking water is really important but I don’t :{ I drink a lot of black, no sugar, de-caff coffee but should I drink water as well? I’m spending plenty of pennies! Interesting about the leptin too.

Oops sorry. Have just checked the Radio Times. Cold Feet has two more episodes to go.

I am reading in different threads comments about what a doctor has said or what a nurse has said when you tell them about the Blood Sugar Diet. Just to try to get an idea of the medical professions reaction to this, it would be interesting to have all the comment together under one thread. Some people have told the doctor before starting, what did they advise, has that changed now they are seeing your good (I hope) results. Have there been any really positive or really negative reactions to us taking things into our own hands. Some of you will have just started and not had the conversation yet, I know some are due to be retested at the end of this month. Let us know how you get on and lets hope there are more positive than negative. Maybe this will help people who are going to be having this conversation soon and you must always tell your doctor what you are doing with your medical situation. Maybe we will recruit lots of doctors / nurses into our way of doing things. Also, it does not have to be diabetes related. Lots of people are doing this diet for other medical reasons or just for the sake of good health in general.

I will start off as I have already told my doctor what I am doing.

To start with my results had been terrible, it is a long story about a rubbish nutritionist putting me on a high carb diet. I was running an HBA1c of 8.2 and over 6 months and 3 tests not been able to get it down. My doctor was in despair with me, knowing I was such a good patient and always taken good care of myself. I had found Dr Mosleys book by chance and told my doctor I was going on a new diet, no details, he had already heard it all and just smiled at me. When I went back for my next check up my HBA1c was 6.7 my cholesterol and triglycerides were all down to well within a normal range, and my weight was down by 4kgs.

He was amazed and very happy with me. Then I told him about the diet…… When I said I was on 800 calories he nearly fell off his chair. No no no, you cannot live on 800 calories. I had typed up a list of 5 days worth of meals, in detail, not just courgette salad, but everything that went into it. At the bottom I had written notes like, I do not eat simple carbs, and listed them, I do eat complex carbs and listed a few like cauliflower, aubergine. I do eat full fat foods like butter, cheese, yoghurt. And so on, the water, how I manage my exercise days etc etc. Now, here I have to say because I live in France my doctor is like private, I pay him and a consultation is 15 mins but can be up to half an hour if I want to discuss things. This is my GP not a hospital consultation. I gave him the internet address for Dr Talyor at Newcastle University and told him to look if he was intersted, and I gave him a copy of Notes for Doctors. So basically I lectured him for about 15 minutes. He said my diet was nutritious and good and my results were so good how could he say different and that I was to carry on with what I was doing. I had already reduced my medication (insulin down from 37 units to 26 units each night and Glycazides down from 90mg to 60mg) which he was happy about. He said he would not reduce my cholesterol meds until he had seen another test result and I should stay on my blood pressure medication as it was still high at 130 / 80 with medication so not back to ‘normal’.

I had to see him 4 weeks later about something unrelated but he had to do my blood pressure and weigh me and I had lost another 1.5 kg and my b/p was 125/70, so he is open to discussion on my next visit at the end of November.

Knowing my doctor he will have looked at the web site and updated himself on the research and we will have a very full discussion which I will report back on here. I hope others stories are just as positive.

Hello All! Thanks Verano for that smashing recipe – shopping list written! I am really pleased to have lost 2lbs this morning so I am actually 4lbs lighter than before I went away 🙂 This is great news as it means maintenance (one day in the future!) should go well! However, back to BSD for now and I’d like to get more fibre into my diet – previously I’d go for AllBran or a banana but not now. I’m gauging my nutrient intake from MFP and sometimes I know it’s a bit off but it’s a general indicator. Have a good day everyone 🙂

Hi Natalie

I ‘accidentally’ missed breakfast by doing some jobs after I got up and got so involved I realised that it was midday so I just had an early lunch!

I made up for it today – porridge and blackberries!
Lunch will probably be scrambled eggs or low sugar baked beans and for supper today I’m cooking the cauliflower cheese receipe from the book and adding broccoli to it

Hi all,

I’m starting the 8 week BSD today (11th Oct 2016) and I’m looking for buddies on my fitness pal for to give and receive support. I’ve not been diagnosed with pre diabetes, but I know I am at risk as my mum was diagnosed with diabetes last year and I carry a lot of excess weight around my stomach.

I’ll be using ‘shake that weight’ shakes and soups in combination with a meal at night to reach my daily 800 Kcals. Once I’m on track I am going to move towards complete food.

My starting statistics are:
Fasting blood glucose = 6.9 mmol/L
Weight = 208.3 lbs (36.2% body fat) – My goal is to 168 lbs.
Waist = 42.5″ (despite wearing 36″ jeans)

Any support is welcome, my username on MFP is the same as here asborthwick.

Thanks
Tony

Hello,
I started 10/10 too and have no idea when the 8 weeks ends…
For me this will be a long haul, lifestyle change as I’m starting at 254 pounds. Back up several stones due to various life circumstances (primary liver cancer etc.) so ready to make a change.

So far had
b: 3 egg and bacon muffins
l: 10 almonds, veggie sticks, 30g cheese
t: Bolognese with courgette!

Looking forward to getting to know you all.

Sarah

Verano, in France if you work there is cover included by something you pay like national insurance based on salary. If you are very poor and on state benefits your medical care is free. As far as I know those only cover the 70% that would be reimbursed by the state, if you want to get more back you pay insurance. If you are young you might not expect to be ill so maybe not bother with 30% private top up insurance. So if you go to the doctor it costs 23 euros, you get 18 back so have to pay the other 5 yourself. Things are not expensive, the full cardio check up I had last week cost 96 euros and I get back 100% because it was because I am diabetic, if not I would get back about 60 euro. If I have full bloods done it costs about 28 euros with 21 refunded. If you can afford to pay up the other 36 or 7 euros you might not bother with insurance. Also, your private cover is based on age and state of health, we pay 100 euros a month because we are old, a 30 year old would pay around 20 euros a month. However, and here is the big BUT, if you end up in hospital and have an operation costing 10,000 euros and the state pays 7,000 could you afford the other 3,000 which is why lots of people opt for a cheaper policy covering just hospital costs. Also there are other costs in hospital, blood test, physio, anaethetics, bed and food. It sounds complicated but it works, however, the French health service is also on its knees, maybe because it over does the great care. There is no answer to growing costs of technology. Maybe I can convince them to give diabetics the French version of BSD. Now theres a thought.

Congratulations Snoop on the weight loss!!

I came across this Ted talk as well, and was encouraged. There is so much evidence for this type of eating, but I don’t know why it seems to be such a secret to everyone. Someone posted a while back about the old days when people knew that bread and carbs were the culprit and they could maintain weight better. Seems we’ve tossed out some good wisdom as a culture.

Been very busy lately…lots of friends with power outages and flood damage (we live in NC) due to hurricane. Doing well as far as that goes, but haven’t been on the diet. I am surprised that I lost weight/maintained over this last week even though I have cheated quite a bit. I read somewhere that a cheat day increases leptin levels (I think?) And temporarily tricks the body into shedding some weight. I need to get back on track though.

Goal for today…water!!

And Snoop, it’s absolutely true about feeling poisoned when off the diet! My body reacts much faster to being stuffed and eating carbs. It’s been a great deterrent, as I know how yucky I’ll feel! That never used to happen! What a mercy!!

Hi how is everyone? I’m feeling great today….. Finally feel like I’m in the “zone” and that results are going to be good over the next few weeks.
I’ve lost another 4lbs this week which means I’ve hit a stone exactly in 2 weeks! I have previously achieved this type of loss on the Atkins diet, but it was a long time ago and once I’d fallen off that wagon I never got back on…. It’s great to have the encouragement of this group and to know once I’ve reached my goal the Mediterranean diet is one I can easily stick with.
I still have a long way to go….according to the General BMI charts I need to loose another 15lb just to get into the overweight category….. And then another 25lb to get to a healthy weight BMI…. It all seems very daunting and I’m not going to focus on the overwhelming numbers….. A good loss each week is obviously important in order to help me on my journey……I’m hoping to stick with the full fasting diet until December which will be about 10 weeks in total…… If I carry on losing at the 3-4lb mark then I should be 24-32lbs lighter which just sounds amazing! And could quite honestly be my goal!
Anyway I’m rambling…… I hope you are all still encouraged by your hard work and reaping the same euphoria!! Onwards and upwards for week 3 x

Hi all

Glad everyone is doing so well.

See sunshine-girl everything comes to those who wait!! Well done on your loss could it be anything to do with Zumba?

Interesting reading about the differences between medical care here and in France. I think I prefer the French way it certainly seems to speed up the process. What happens to those people who don’t have insurance or is it mandatory?

Granny snow peas are like a pea pod squashed flat with only tiny peas inside, you eat the whole pod. Common in Asian foods. They have a third the carbs of normal peas because you are eating the fibrous pod not just the sweet peas.

Wishbone I had a horrible headache yesterday and this morning but it’s gone now, I hope yours goes soon.

Hi flash
Don’t worry, I didn’t lose in week 2 or 3 and even now it’s still only a pound here and there. Just reasonably happy it’s still going down.
You’ll get there. Stay strong.

Thanks natalie thats great veggie tips, dont know what snow peas are, guess thats an Aussie word👍💃🏻. Yes wishbone was thinking of a sneaky weigh in too but dont want to be disappointed😆

Reading everyone’s posts on gardening, Blue Jays successes, and Cold Feet is all very lovely. Nice to see what makes us all feel good.

I’ve been a little up and down over the weekend. Yesterday was much, much better. Things to be grateful for are:

1. Our NHS – I feel for you Shalimar with regard to your cataract and choices. Sometimes it’s easy to forget how much we take it for granted here in the UK.

2. Having more get up and go again … moving furniture here, there and everywhere yesterday trying to get the sitting room and kitchen looking just right (who knows if this is the right formation, but it’s this week’s formation!)

3. Buying a stick blender … which inspired me to make a surprisingly delicious soup of spring onions, not quite perfect asparagus and frozen peas.

(Saute spring onions in about 10g butter; Add chopped asparagus, for a couple of mins. Add about 200 mls water, a handful or two of frozen peas, half a stock cube (chicken or veg), bring back to a simmer for a minute or two. Blitz with blender. Enjoy. It was deliciously sweet, and beautifully green and smooth).

Managed another jog yesterday – first day it hasn’t felt like just stumbling forwards, and actually started to feel like jogging.

Hi Krysia

Thai Red Salmon Curry 2 servings
360calories and 8.8g carbs per serving

250g salmon cut into chunks
1tbsp groundnut oil
2tbsp shallots finely sliced
2 cloves of garlic finely chopped or minced
1-2tbsp ginger finely chopped
2tbsp. red curry paste, or more to taste
1tbsp fish sauce
1 tsp sugar
200ml light coconut milk
Large handful of basil leaves.

Gently fry the shallots and ginger in the oil until softened.
Add garlic and cook for a further minute or so.
Add curry paste, to taste, and stir fry for a few minutes.
Add the salmon and coat with the spices
Add the coconut milk, fish sauce( or soy if preferred) , and sugar.
Simmer gently until the salmon is cooked …. maybe 10minutes.
At the last minute stir in basil leaves and wilt.

That’s the basic recipe.
I add a smashed stick of lemongrass to cook in with the salmon. I also finish with the juice of half a lime and some coriander. If you like you can add a handful of peas while the salmon is cooking or some sliced mangetout. If there’s not enough liquid you could use more coconut milk but you’ll need to add any of those to the calorie/carb count.

You could serve with cauliflower rice or even cauliflower mash. Enjoy!

Just popping in, to say

ARE YOU MEASURING??????

I always say that………sorry, not meant to be shouting, just making sure you’re taking due note 😉

Did you take measurements, or are you judging against some clothes. As Poppletini sensibly says, don’t get too attached to the scales they do go up and down or stay frustratingly level. But look at other things – how do you feel, is your waist going down, does your face look a bit thinner, are your jeans a bit looser.

You are actually changing how your body reacts to food, your hormonal response. Be kind, give it a chance!

Keep on keeping on and YOU WILL SUCCEED!

🙂 🙂

Lucia – thank you so much for the ‘poem’ about Zumba-ing. I have saved it on my phone, and it really cheered me up.

Movement can be anything – from those marching by their beds trying to improve their day to day movement with ME and the like, to squeezing those bum cheeks as you say.

I’m more a fan of dancing round the kitchen when no-one’s home – as then my lack of graceful co-ordination goes unnoticed … except by the dog, who leaps around with me, with gentle nips here and there …

And, of course, my new found jogging … yesterday it changed from a painful and improbably ‘stumbling’ feeling to an actual I can lift my legs more easily ‘jogging’ feeling. So very exciting.

Yes Sunshine-girl – it was auto correct. My tablet makes really funny corrections sometimes.

Do have a lovely holiday. It’s so good you have your food sorted and it will be lovely to relax with a glass of wine with your family.

I will definitely post on your new thread as soon as I have seen my doctor on 25th October. It will be so interesting and I am beginning to look forward to it.

Morning all!

some great results I see on your low carb push!

Re poo
Are you taking Magnesium? This is recommended as likely to be in deficit with lots of fluid, and I found that my poo issues (or digestive transit issues as they would have it in the ads – love the thought of an ad agency brainstorm about what to call it) resolved when I took some.

And Frog – can I ask you if you can remind me about the Waitrose low carb ice-cream or was it frozen yoghurt (not Oppo, the alternative) you mentioned some weeks ago? We love Oppo, particularly the salted caramel version, yum, but did you say there was another one – our local Waitrose hasn’t got it, and I can’t remember what it’s called.

Good to see all the new entrants, wish there were some ‘sticky’ posts with key points to remember at the top of the board, so that all the experience here could be found easily……always sad when someone asks about little weight loss in week x/y/z and does anyone else experience it……

Onwards and downwards guys, I’m still holding easily at my target weight. 🙂

Sneakysnooper – found out that lost posts put on pounds – well one pin my case. It covered my day out in Edinburgh with my book club girls. (We live in Sussex so flew from Gatwick) Woke up at 4.30am, back home at 11.30pm. Walked 16 kms – more than 20,000 steps. Stuck to Under 800 calories foodwise but we did find a craft gin palace. Hence the pound and a fuzzy head. Anyway have lost it plus another so a total of 10 pounds down in just under 3 weeks.

Just reached another mini goal to slide under 74 (as in 74 kg weight) and now at 73.9 kg. Going on holiday for 2 weeks now so my goal is to keep low carbing and not gain too much weight back.

I found this online maybe it will be helpful

The Essential Blood Sugar Diet Meals For One: A Quick Start Guide To Cooking On The Blood Sugar Diet. Over 80 Easy And Delicious Calorie Counted … Lose Weight And Rebalance Your Blood Sugar

Mixnmatch, six and a half stone is just so, so impressive, congratulations! Your porridge does sound delicious (especially as I had a protein bar).

I’ve a six-themed achievement this morning of a slightly less dramatic nature – down 6.2kg since I started (although not all of that since I restarted last Monday). And 9cm off my waist. Don’t know what’s different this time round but seem to be more motivated to get my step count up and have even been back to a yoga class I used to do. Hope I can stick with it, I’m just so bad at sucking up short-term pain for long term gain…

P.S. Krysia, see you changed it, but I received it before you had a chance. 🙂 🙂 🙂

Frog – you have so made me laugh this morning, I’m with you on poo-logging (if you’ll pardon the pun), but to think there are others who’ve gone as far as to make the app is making me giggle.

Despite litres of water a day, spoonfuls of flax seeds (in water), lots of veggies … I’m really struggling with constipation. Like really, painfully, struggling.

All the advice given appears to assume that I’m in need of more water, more veg, more fibre … but honestly, I don’t think I could add in more without carbs. How are you doing?

Sorry it has been so long since my last confession – I mean update. 🙂 A lot has happened. My Auntie died and my Mum (her sister) has taken it quite badly.
For info: My steps monitor is on my wrist and records better than the one that I used to clip on my waist, My mini exercise bike is one I peddle while sitting on the sofa and my pedometer doesn’t register it.

Day 214
Weight 9st 7lb
Blood Sugar 7.7
Steps Recorded 3445
*Had Flue Jab

Day 215
Weight 9st 7lb
Blood Sugar 8.6
Steps Recorded 2449

Day 216
Weight 9st 7lb
Blood Sugar 8.6
Steps Recorded 1072
Bike Time 60 minutes

Day 217
Weight 9st 7lb
Blood Sugar 7.9
Steps Recorded 1922
*Me still sore from flu jab
*Auntie looks terrible
*Oldie not very well

Day 218
Weight 9st 7lb
Blood Sugar 7.8
Steps Recorded 1231

Day 219
Weight 9st 6lb
Blood Sugar 8.1
Steps Recorded 526
Bike Time 60min
*Auntie – no change

Day 220
Weight 9st 5lb
Blood Sugar 8.3
Steps Recorded 2664
60 minutes light gardening (dead heading)

Day 221
Weight 9st 7lb
Blood Sugar 8.4
Steps Recorded 3050
Auntie – died at 8.40pm

Day 222
Weight 9st 7lb
Blood Sugar 6.5 (reading taken at 6.30 am as couldn’t sleep)
Steps Recorded1115

Day 223
Weight 9st 5lb
Blood Sugar 9.0 🙁
Steps Recorded 1952
*Me – Busy day registering death, signing paperwork and collecting Auntie’s things.

Day 224
Weight 9st 6lb
Blood Sugar9.0
Steps Recorded 1508
*Me went out to a coffee morning

Day 225
Weight 9st 7lb
Blood Sugar 8.6
Steps Recorded 3032
Bike Time 60mins + 5mins Arms
* Me went for a short walk with my friend

Day 226
Weight 9st 6lbs
Blood Sugar 8.2
Steps Recorded 3544
* Me nearly 2 hour walk with my friend

Day 227
Weight 9st 6lbs
Blood Sugar 7.7
Steps Recorded 2809
* Me 3/4 hour walk with friend.

Day 228
Weight 9st 6lb
Blood Sugar 6.8
Steps Recorded 706
Bike Time 60 minutes

Day 229
Weight 9st 6lbs
Blood Sugar 8.4
Steps Recorded 513 (Took counter off for funeral as bright pink)
*Me – Went to Auntie’s funeral. Ate one of everything at the funeral tea. Everything had carbs. But didn’t want to be seen to be picky or fussy.
*Mum – too ill to go.

Day 230
Weight 9st 7lb
Blood Sugar 8.5
Steps Recorded 304

Day 231 (end of week 33)
Weight 9st 6lbs
Blood Sugar 7.9
Steps Recorded 708
*Me -sorted Aunties clothes
*Oldie – a lot better – more like his old self.

Day 232
Weight 9st 7lb
Blood Sugar 7.2
Steps Recorded 427
*Me – making more of an effort on the food front to stick to the calorie intake and not have a quick carb lunch.

Day 233
Weight 9st 6lb
Blood Sugar 7.6
Steps Recorded 309

Day 234 (today)
Weight 9st 5lb
Blood Sugar 6.8

In the last couple of weeks I have been knitting more. I have knitted 4 hats, a pair of socks, finished one jumper, nearly finished another, finished off a blanket. I am trying to get more organised in the knitting department. I have a lot of stuff that is half finished and just needs sewing up. I feel as if this reflects where I am on the journey, I have got so far and the end is in sight, I just need to focus and aim for the finish. I am more of a starter than a finisher, in Chris Powell terms I am on phase 3 which if anyone watches the programme is a particularly hard phase, although less weight to lose at this stage – keeping the motivation and focus is very hard, but I don’t want to have my medication increased – I want to be medication free by the end of this year (March 2017).