Hey MuscleMomma,

I used to be a workout fan until a severe back injury scuppered my visits to the gym 🙁 I’m still recovering and about to go for my second round of treatment so think it’ll be a while before I can start working out properly again. I’m very impressed with your 60lb weight loss! I hope I’ll be able to hit that kind of goal (aiming to lose 100lbs if I can). Like you, I’m starting to realise I cannot have breaks or too many cheats or I just sabotage any progress I’ve made. It sounds like you have the mentality to do really well on this plan – and you definintely won’t be alone! Keep posting on here as it’s great to hear about everyone’s progress.

Lily-girl – good luck for starting this plan!

1) I love my new flannel sheets …. soooo warm and cozy …. and such a wild bold floral print (and i thought i wanted rosebuds and lace!)

2) The Mindfulness course is going to get me off my derriere to buy a printer — lots of reading!!

3) Got my interlibrary loan book …. Victoria Thompson Murder on St. Nicholas Avenue … just enJOYing and savoring every word. Love the Gaslight series … love the flavour or a different time and place …. reading in bed with my new flannel sheets!!

Think i need to get a printer!!! Lots of reading to do …. but at least i am retired.

Macmillan coffee mornings are sent by the devil to break our resolve and leave us crumbling in a corner eating Spinach and pea onmlette and quietly weeping – or is that just me!!!!

I just looked at the Kindle page and read it as being able to store your info by way of these forums. It’s the only place to do so, so I guess that’s what it means!

Y s, the logging measurements is mentioned in the BSD book, electronic version, page 118 of the Kindle version.

Hi all
Well it’s day 5 and just walked into town to get weighed and OMG I have lost a stone yes 1 stone ,14 pounds or 6.35 kl I Cannot believe it I know you lose a lot in your first week and a lot of it is fluid but I don’t care I have lost a stone and I am going to treat myself to a banana lol 😀Hope everyone else is doing good

Way to go Coady!!!

Good suggestion Vickyp.

Hope all is well …. or at least better Doordie!!

Thank you so much for posting your amazing results. Wow!!

Hi doordie
Hope all went well up the dr and you are finally getting sorted , well it’s day five for me and just walked into town to get weighed and OMG I lost a stone yes 1 whole stone yes 6.35 kg or 14lb I can’t believe it I know you lose a lot in the first week and a lot of it is fluid but I don’t care I lost a stone so I am going to have a banana yes my treat is a banana lol hope all is going well for you all 😀

Hi SunnyB

I managed to put on just 2.6lbs (usually would have been at least 5lbs) in just over 3 weeks by just not eating the really carby stuff … bread, potatoes, rice, biscuits etc. Didn’t find it too difficult to do without those foods. Did have a few oat cakes with cheese and plenty red wine to wash it down!!! White wine with the fish and chocolate after my evening meal …. but only 70%!!!!

Anyway, I enjoyed my holiday but didn’t go too mad and certainly did say ‘to hell with it I’ll eat just anything’!!! I don’t think I did too much damage and doing a strict reboot as soon as I got back has sorted the gain out.

Relax, enjoy yourself and get back into the swing when you get back.

p.s. … 7.5 grams of carbs does seem like a lot of carbs to me 🙂 … when i try for carbs between 30 and 50

I was a bit surprised at my blood sugar reading of over 10 myself today. Yes i did have lots of calories and carbs for lunch … but only about 2/3 of my allowed limit …. and i got off my derriere and had done aquabics, shopping and a short walk …. ???? it’s really going to be difficult giving up or limiting my coffee and cream … or even limiting it 🙂 🙂 🙂 I have lots of fancy teas and such … but ….

ah well 🙂

7.9 now …. and i haven’t eaten for 15 hours … 2 coffees and 2 diet drinks and some plain tea

……. frankly it was difficult to get my readings under 20 a few months ago, even with metformin

Here’s to a long long long remission … 🙂

so i am relatively happy with that ….. hungry but happy!!

My stats – updated

Day 0 weight – 83 kg
Day 5 weight – 82.2 kg
Total weight loss – 0.8kg

Breakdown of food consumption and whether I exercised.
Day – kcal (Carbs, Protein, Fats) – Exercise

Day 0 (no stats) – exercised
Day 1 – 840 (74g, 64g, 21g) – exercised
Day 2 – 1,375 (139g, 65g, 56g) – exercised
Day 3 – 840 (66g, 80g, 28g) – no exercise
Day 4 – 869 (116, 65, 25) – no exercise
Day 5: today

A special announcement today. I smashed through the sub-100kg barrier.

The scales told me 99.1kg this morning. So nice to see 2 big numbers staring back at me rather than 3.

For those working in imperial, that’s 30lb or 2st 2lb lost in 18 days.

are you counting everything you drink? I have to count 40-60 calories and 3 or 4 carbs every time i have a coffee because of the amount of cream i like. Also have to add the counts for dressings, mayonnaise, etc.

p.s. Some of these things, like my cream, are simple carbs and just hit my blood stream and the BS monitor very quickly.

And i am frankly astonished at the amount of carbs in vegetables!! I still haven’t gotten over that information.

And i have a question as well … i’ve heard of the 800 fast and doing a 5 and 2 … or even 6 and 1 …. but i don”t have any info. on what to expect just doing 1000 or so ….and how much is affected by how close you are to your goal weight.

If you are on a loosing slowly plan perhaps nothing much will show up on the scale if you weigh in daily … but maybe it will show up if you weigh in less often????

Just some questions to think about.

No Shalimar 150 grams of full cream milk which was in the latte has 7.5 grams of carbs. What I found was was that like Cdh1966 experienced, it hadn’t happened with latte over the last 4 and 1/2 weeks and my total carbs this morning were 11gms at 9 and then 7.5gms 2 hours later and yet I went outside the non T2 normal BGL. It was a lesson for me that as KrysiaD says above, T2 merely seems to go onto remission. Maybe after 8 weeks it will be different.

I think I read that too but can’t remember where.
There is a tracker on the fast diet website, maybe it’s that one I read about, so it’s also possible that there will be one added to this site in the future.

Thanks so much both, I’ve obviously made that up in my head! I will have a look at the apps you’ve mentioned

Cheers guys

siobhan

I shall look that up! Sorry to hear about your man/carb flu. I hope you feel better soon. Try something like a miso soup or bouillon broth as the salts in those might make you feel better.

Yes to the spinach!! 🙂

Doesn’t even a small latte have lots of carbs ….and not complex carbs … won’t the latte go very quickly into the blood stream and affect a blood sugar reading???

Hi Timetochange,

I’m not finding it that difficult to maintain relatively good fibre content on this diet. I see that you’re still eating lower carb veg – do you also include things like chickpeas, quinoa and nuts (think almonds are good for fibre)? Maybe try to include some of them where you can and see if that boosts your fibre levels.

Hi there – Flash is right, no log here (although you could start your own thread as others have done to keep your measurements noted)

Have you thought of getting an app like MyFitnessPal or FatSecret – you can log there and both are excellent for

Establishing nutrients of what you’re eating to keep track
Planning ahead so you leave yourself enough calories
Keeping track of drinks
Keeping track of exercise
Keeping a note of calories/carbs over a period to get an average
And noting measurements.

I still use MFP (now on maintenance) to keep track of stuff

Hope that helps. 😉

Thanks for the words of encouragement. I let you know of my results.

Sorry to hear that K9zz. Maybe you could post some of your typical meals so we can see what you’re eating? I know how frustrating it can be when you try really hard for no reward. Keep on with it and hopefully you’ll get a big whoosh of weightloss in the next couple of days.

It is very strange – for some reason the visceral fat seems to start melting away whilst weight stays the same. You may notice your face looks thinner as well when you catch sight of yourself unexpectedly.

Don’t know why this is but well done on the shrinkage!!! 🙂

Keep on keeping on and you may have sudden weight loss in pounds.

Good luck! 🙂

Hi Flash,

I have a protein shake called Strppd /strippd-uk.com it has all the nasty stuff removed and the only sweetener it has in it is Stevia.

Yet to have it yet as I am not hungry and I have woke up with man flu which is probably all the sugar I ate yesterday.

I should really have spinach with the ham and eggs then it will be green and healthy!

Regards

FB

Hi Siobhan,

I’ve read the book but don’t remember coming across that. As far as I know there isn’t anywhere on here where you can do that. Did it perhaps suggest finding/using another website or app where you could log your details?

Sort of mid-week weigh in this morning and guess what? 7LBS DOWN!!! I am astounded. I was really cross with myself for having gained 3lbs over the weekend but now it seems I’ve lost that and then some. This never happens to me. Ever! I am honestly in shock and can’t quite dare to believe it. Now the difficult part: not saying to myself, oh well done for losing some weight – have a treat! Thankfully I am the only one in the office this morning which means I can’t go down to the cafe to browse the flapjacks and cakes…..Fage yog and blueberries it is! 🙂 🙂

Hello,

Fatbloke – your meal plan for today sounds good. You’ve made me think of Dr Seuss and his green eggs and ham! I hope your eggs will not be green…. Which of the shakes are you going to make?

Frog – I want an afternoon tea now and it’s only 9.30am!

Hi everyone

I will be starting my month on Monday but I’m sure I read in the book that we could log our measurements somewhere on the website – have I misread this?

thanks very much!

Have been out of the loop for a while, as we are back in Turkey, but I have been reading the odd post or two and am loving this reboot idea. I am sure I will be in great need of it on my return to reality, so will keep an eye on everyone else’s progress and hope I can replicate it in Nov when we are home. Good luck everyone!!

Hi All. Weighed this morning and have managed to get off the 1lb I put on over the weekend. 😄😄😄.

Thanks for all the information on suitable veggies for spiralising and will be looking into them and info on YouTube. I have also been looking at some of the recipes on BBC Good Food website as you can nominate the main ingredient you are going to use. Like a lot of you here myself and OH have discovered the benefits of corgetts and I make sure that I have some available at all times.

Will probably not have good results on my Monday weighin as off for a meal with friends for their 45th wedding anniversary tonight and with my own daughter and son-in-law on Sunday for their 1st wedding anniversary. Will have to be extra good from Monday to next Friday as don’t want these little glitches to knock me off the diet wagon.

Congrats to everyone who has reached a min-goal recently and had to set themselves a new one! My mini-goal is sort of on hold at the moment, as I’m on hols and just concentrating on not completely pigging out. Have just over four weeks, until I will be looking at doing a reboot myself, to hopefully achieve my own mini-goal of sneaking under that next stone mark.

Yes in all honesty I have noticed my jeans are looser on my thighs and round my waist, will be measuring on Sunday morning, I’m just confused about the total lack of weightloss. Hopefully it’ll catch up next week. Thanks for making me focus on the positive! Lol. My glucose reading aren’t doing at all though.

Hi there – sorry you are disappointed.

Can I ask first of all have you noticed ANY effect with measurements or how your clothes are fitting?

You may know that people have weight loss plateaux whilst measurements still go down. Appreciate thiis is a bit different but wondered what you have seen, if anything.

Hi Frog – your food for the day sounds lovely. It’s great that your friend is making an effort to give you BSD friendly food.

Verano – well done – a stunning weight loss. Isn’t it a lovely feeling when you drop down to the next stone. What a marvellous start to your reboot.

Morning All,
I’m a bit confused and wondered if anyone could offer any advice please. I’m on my second week of the bsd but I’m not kidding any weight. I am not doing the 800 Cals a day as I’ve tried before and end up overeating. I believe I read in the book that’s it’s ok to up your cals if you want as long as you don’t mind it taking longer. I’m sticking to 1000 a day, counting everything on MFP and double checking with a book calorie counter if it seems wrong. I haven’t lost anything. My blood sugar aren’t dropping either, this morning they were at 6.8, yesterday 6.2. I walk over 5 miles a day with my dogs and do a stomach without for twenty minutes a day. I just don’t get it. I had blood taken yesterday to check my thyroid levels in case they are out but what else could it be. I’m 5′ 7″ so it’s not that I’m eating too many calories. My carbs average at 25g a day. Any ideas anyone? TIA.

Hi Frog
I think that the UK uses net carbs minus the fibre and the US uses total carbs including the fibre. This was always helpful for me, being in the UK, because I didn’t have to deduct the fibre when calculating how much insulin to inject to cover my carbs.

When I set up fat secret I got it to display the fibre as well as carbs cals fat and protein. I was going to add the fibre to to the carb total and then changed my mind. I decided it was better for me to still know what the net carbs were because they are the ones that raise my blood sugars. I was also concerned that if I used total carbs it would cut down my carbs even more and mean that I was eating even less fibre than I am eating now. I am looking at the fibre as a separate and important part of my diet like the fat and protein. So I have probably been cheating because have been posting net carbs. So my 25s should be 30s and my 30s should be 35s approx.

Yesterday 32g carbs and 860 calories. This morning have had a special treat – black pudding with my egg. But later will make up for it by having a healthy salmon salad.

Reached my second mini goal so am now down into the next stone!!

So next mini goal to lose 3.3lbs to get into single figure lbs. I would like to do this by mid October but don’t want to set a time limit as I don’t need the added pressure!

Hope you are reaching your goals.

DAY 4 of 7

Not quite as in control yesterday
Calories 797
Carbs 35.6!!!

Sorry I asked the question about carbs going to carry on as before!! Just seem to be finding it really difficult to stay within 30 carbs. I just needed a square of chocolate last night hence the higher carbs but had to have it!

Going to persevere until the end of the 7 days but will then definitely increase my carbs to 40.

Anyway, the good news …. I have lost 4.2lbs so far this week, that’s the 2.6lb holiday gain plus 1.6lb extra! That also drops me down into the next stone so my next mini goal reached as well!!

Avila ( I think) read on the facebook site that people had a month off the 800 after 8 weeks and followed BSD principles for a month before doing another 8. Effectively I am doing that with being away for most of September. I know its early days yet, just 3 in, but I wonder if there is something in that.

Have a good day.

Hi Jenni from the block
That is exactly what I believe. I am off all insulin and my BGLs are very similar to yours.

I now think of it as my diabetes is ‘in remission’. Eating carbs freely and a sugar addiction caused the weight gain and diabetes in the first place so I know that going back to the old way of eating will bring it back again together with the retinopathy and the threat of a whole host of other issues. If I think diabetes is reversed I know there is a danger that I will think myself cured of diabetes and just go back to the carbs.

Diabetes ‘in remission’ gets me into a totally different mindset. When I get to my ideal weight I will follow the lead of captainlynne and Igorasusul and all the other successful BSD graduates and find out bit by bit what level of carbs and calories my body will tolerate and not gain weight or mess up the blood sugars. I do love this way of eating now and with the support of this forum it really won’t be hard to do.

Captainlynne, maybe the Daily Mail would sponsor a ‘makeover’ for you as a follow-up to the BSD articles. It would be another piece and would appeal to their readership, for sure. They could probably get some fashion, perfume and make-up ads off the back of it. Even fancy glasses frames companies might advertise before you move over to contact lenses.

If you have a contact number for them or can get in touch with someone, it might be worth asking. Nothing ventured, nothing gained…

Hi Tabletalk, I shouldn’t go looking at my figures for inspiration! My carbs are usually quite high and I didn’t do so well on the calories yesterday, in part because I had two nibbles off a new packet of cheddar cheese before grating some for omelettes. One – and half the size – would have been more sensible. Better still, a pinch from my grated portion. Arthurconandoyle, I need to get up to your number of steps. I went out for an hour’s walk with the dogs yesterday. I really enjoyed it, but it was no distance in comparison with your step count.

I’ve decided to regard today as the last day of the month for dieting, not the last day of the month for my weigh-in. Talk about cheating! At least it’ll give me a spur to see if I can still make 83.5 tomorrow morning. Still very unlikely but you never know. Crossed fingers I don’t go up. If I manage to get through my work before it gets too late, the dogs could be in for a longer walk this evening.

Figures for today:
83.8kg
-0.1 kg
Overall change -4.7 kg
899 cals
37 net carbs

How are you doing, strawbs?

Cdh 1966, I know your mystified feeling on BGLs going up. Today towards the end of week 5, after 4.4 BGL first up, 1/2 an optifast, an hours gym then a latte (small) I took my bloods and for the first time since starting I had an 8 reading. Since day 2 I’ve had 4 and 5s in the morning and 5-high 6s 2 hours after evening meal. I have stuck strictly to the diet and have lost 8.5kgs. It’s mid afternoon here in Australia and the reading is back in the 5s now but like you I can think of no reason for this morning’s reading. One thing I now know I have not reversed T2.

Hello all

Day 6 started with migraine but pill and off to work even though the duvet called.

Head cleared and solid day of work done and dusted.

It’s Friday here made it to dinner time having had 2 soft boiled eggs at lunch (a fast day from the old 5:2 regime for me really). Have mapped a full week beautifully within 800 and tonight is 2 reds and homemade sourdough pizza, all within limits. Yes I know the carbs are up there but have decided Friday is treat night, wine and all as friends come round and they don’t know I have surreptitiously weighed and calculated everything within a inch of its life haha! Wine too. Drinking hot water until they arrive and then presto, red wine glass full (had had 100 ml and now 150 to go). Need to drink v v slowly!!

Weight is coming off rapidly week one and loving not feeling hungry. Have 20kg to shift. Wonder how long it will take.

Love this thread! Have been reading for days and really want to join you all.

We have a TV ad running – Bring on the Weekend, sing song voice. My space right now.

Hope your day is awesome

tigsxx

Hi MuscleMomma, like you I love building muscle and working out. I lost 10 pounds before summer with nutritionist help and exercise and now they are coming back. I’m also excited about starting this program but probably when working out eat up to 1000 cal and other days 800. Wish you all the best 🙂

Hi Lynne

It may be interesting if you have changed from winter to something else, skin and hair tone change with ‘maturity.’ It may well be worth the full works to make you look as good as you feel.

Get the tinted lenses so to see the world through rose-coloured…..

N.

Happy Birthday!!!

I read Hairless Chicken in that last line~?~… 🙂 and thought what new recipe is that! LOL!

We seem to be in sync …. in that we both has some slip ups.

Finally weighed in … 236 pounds …. so i gained some. Blood sugar over 10 but that’s back down to 8 also.

Food Thursday : Cheese Omelette with side of bacon, coffees with cream, diet Dr. Pepper.

Was looking for some low carb goat cheese … and i found some … now i don’t remember what recipe that was for.

Got lots of good groceries … big bags of kale and spinach, sweet kale, solid white tuna packed in water, English cucumber, Grape tomatoes, Ready to eat breast chicken, cauliflower, avocadoes …. sure i can feast on some of that.

p.s. i started that free online course in mindfulness noted in that section here …. that’s going to be sooooo interesting and something i’ve started on before. That’s because i realized that when i reach for alcohol and sugar that something is wrong that has nothing to do with food (other than one’s birthday and Thanksgiving and Christmas 🙂 ). Canadian Thanksgiving is coming up in 2 weeks … and i will probably have something extra … but i will not feel guilty about it.

Lets keep on keeping on!

Good luck with those last few pounds.

I finally got to weigh in … and i’m at 236 pounds. This is a gain after last week which was disastrous. Even my blood sugar was up a tad over 10 a few hours back … but it’s back to about 8.4 just now.

Even though i had a cheese omelette with bacon (no bread or potatoes … just that) and some coffees with cream … i didn’t eat anything else yesterday so for the first time i’m within the calories/carbs amount. I’m hungry now but i’m just going to have a coffee and perhaps a diet Dr. Pepper. I feel more in balance and on the right track.

I am a 30 year old mom, wife and IT worker who loves to build muscle and workout! I have currently lost over 60 pounds with a low sugar/low carb diet (at 1200 cals). I have been off track and have been gaining/losing the same 5-10 pounds for the last 2-3 months, my exercise habit is what has kept any real weight off.

Over the course of the past few months I have learned a lot. I learned I need a strict plan and can’t “give myself a break”, since “breaks” don’t seem to end. When I lost weight originally I rarely gave into temptation, but as the weight came off I got lazy when I reached my current size.

That is why I am excited about doing the 8 week low sugar diet plan. I still need to lose 80-90 more pounds to reach my goal but I think this will really help me focus. Originally my doctor had me on a VERY similar plan, I was to eat 800-1200 cals a day, but struggled to stay at 1200 even. This time around I think I have the tools now to stay at 800. The biggest is seeing others on the same kind of plan. I was basically all alone before. 🙂