Good morning/afternoon. It’s 6 am here. Tabletalk, The shakes I use is “Idealshape” 100 cal 11 carbs 5g fiber per serving. I blend vanilla shake powder with frozen strawberries, and unsweetened almond milk and keep in freezer. Then just microwave a bit when want. Makes great smoothy for about 200 calories.

Hello everyone, & the newbies likes myself.
In the past I have always done diets for vanity, like many, lost weight only to go “te dah” in my head and stick it all back on again. I have not had the wake up call from the Doctor, although my dad is type 2 and I am way overweight. But I started last Sunday (again to lose weight to get into my clothes), however on day three the testing kit arrived and my fasting rate was 6.0, which I think is borderline pre-diabetes?. Whoa boy that was the wake up call, so any thoughts of falling off the 800 cals, went straight out of the window.

Results
– Well I have lost 10lbs in 6 days. 🙂
-My skin isn’t so dry – probably because I am not necking wine like water.
-Mentally – what was a ‘treat’ being the wine, is now getting your tea, even without potatoes.
-My carbs on my fitness pal are between 20g and 30g (from my veg)

Questions
-I have pain behind my eyes, when I move them. Is this a side effect or a normal cold? I am keeping on top of my water – I think
-When cooking I use pesto and sundried tomato (calories counted) is this allowed?. As it tastes amazing with mascarpone cheese for a pasta sauce with the courgetti.
-I am planning to take a break at week four (for a few days as off to New York) then resume on the 800/maintenance. will this be OK?.
-I have ordered a low Gi cook book which seems to the science behind the diet. Is there a difference between low GI and the low GI Mediterranean diet?

My tips so far
– Get a blood tester, even like me, if you didn’t think you need it.
– Peppermint tea. I drink so much more of this now than coffee
– I have to travel with work, so I did use one of the Lidl High protein rolls (only half) and they are nice for emergencies.
-Sparkling water with ice and lime in a wine glass for the evening time hand to mouth habit. Whilst watching telly. If like me you can drink wine like water, then it may as be water 😉

Good luck to all those starting out. We can do it 🙂

Hi sunshine-girl

Not sure that I was counting anything too accurately before this week!

The one thing that has really astounded me are the carbs in ‘harmless’ vegetables. I have only just started to weigh courgetti and cauliflower. I am now reducing vegetables and fruit! Always thought strawberries were fine but now I ‘know’!!!

Maybe weighing everything, every now and again, will help with portion control. Hence dumping the courgette slivers!!!!

I should also say that it is teaching me more about quantities. I have just spiralized my courgette and booked it into my log as 150 grams, had a massive pile of slivers and put them on the scales AND ONLY 70 grams, so I have just saved myself 13 calories and 3 carbs, enough with my other bit left over for an evening snack. That takes me to closer to 700 calories and 28 carbs for today.

Happy October everyone

I wasn’t on the BSD last year when I spent several weeks in hotels whilst working.

But what I did was have a good breakfast – eggs, mushrooms, beans, tomatoes (add sausage and bacon if you eat them) plus a white coffee (not cappuccino).

Take a bottle of water to work and drink a lot during the day, but no lunch

Then a salad for dinner with either fish or meat, usually possible with a combination of starter plus side salad if none of the mains suit

Ahead of dinner I would go to the hotel gym and do a short workout on the running machine (but intensive as I could make it)- perhaps total of only 15 minutes but running faster than comfortable for, say, 3 minutes and then slowing to a fast walk.

If I had only been swerving refined carbs as well, I would have lost even more weight!

So you could think of your hotel stay as being an opportunity rather than a risk?

Hope helpful 🙂

Hi Verano, I never counted the carbs before, I just stuck to a menu plan from the book and made sure I was around 800 calories. But for the sake of what we are doing this week I decided I would have to be careful to stay around 30 grams. Depending on how this week goes I will decide if it is worth the effort to count every little carb when I know I am eating good food. If I lose load I might stick to the strict counting. We will see.

Shalimar, that is why we can ignore people who say ‘but you need your carbs’, or ‘your brain will shrivel up and die without carbs’. They only know one type of carb and that is what I call the white devil carbs. They can be educated to understand that we get plenty of really good carbs.

Hi sunshine-girl

I’ve noticed that both you and Krysia are filling in your food logs in the morning. I have been doing the same this week for the first time! It certainly concentrates the mind! In the first post, that I lost this morning, I was saying how I had dinner very much later than normal last night. I was starving so had to ‘snack’. Forgot about water entirely so started with some cold meat, then 10 almonds and finally a Nair’s stem ginger biscuit …. 6.6 carbs in just one biscuit !!!! The biscuit took me over the top carb wise but did still have to add some butter to my cauliflower to get my calories up! Never thought I’d see the day when I was desperate to up my calories!!!

Not done my menu for today yet only just managed to have my breakfast!

Have a good day!

Weirdest thing i’ve learned from the BSD so far :
1.
How many carbs vegetables have!!! And that’s not counting root vegetables!!

I am totally used to figuring vegetables are “free” foods … that you can eat as much as you want.

2.
That while i’ve eaten too much … foods on the BSD … and i’ve indulged in alcohol …. and i’ve been hungry … i haven’t really craved sweets, crisps/chips, breads/pasta/rice! The food on the BSD is really getting more delicious . 🙂

Thats great JOSIE! And 4 lb.down in one week is a lovely satisfying chunk isnt it! X
Good to hear that youre moving downwards 1960! x
LYNNE will check out yr earlier posts..x
Happy weekend all !x

I’d like to join in too! My son is 9 and I’m still carrying a lot of weight from being pregnent! I’d like to start with dropping a couple of stone – tried loads of diets but this seems more a way of eating that would suit me.

Good luck and success to us all!

Thanks Igorasusual! Will check that out too.

Did look up the disability and exercise thread …. and chair yoga classes have been suggested to me. I might try that for the interim …. but i think i just need to gradually work up to being fit enough to try the Fast Exercise plan!!

Would love some more handy hints on what type of thing to try.

Morning all, today I weigh the same (74.7 kg) and have just planned out my menu for the day which comes in at:-

740 calories and 31 carbs.

Must say, it was higher than that but I did some small adjustments i.e. calories the skinny cottage pie says to put cheddar cheese and parmesan cheese into the cauliflower topping. In my mind I don’t need both so cut one out and lost 110 calories. Then for lunch I am having roasted chicken with roasted red pepper and asparagus and cut the red pepper by half and took out one asparagus stalk and saved about 5 carbs, bringing my into line. Not much to change but such as difference if I want to stay 800 and 30.

I always think that Lucia’s My 8 Weeks thread is the best and most inspiring read for those who have issues (whatever they be) with exercising.

I have never forgotten her “stairs with a chair at the top and at the bottom” exercise – truly inspirational. Still not possible for everyone, but gives you ideas of what might give you a start n

Do look her up and read the thread if you haven’t already.

🙂 🙂 🙂

Thanks cmawp, yes my brother told me that which is why I suggested that someone from England should come on. In France they are not allowed to sugar glaze, they use and salt and spice rub, absolutely delicious but I take the skin off anyway so never eat the salt. Maybe just a finger dip.

I usually cook my own, like today for lunch I am having roasted chicken breast with roasted red pepper and asparagus, all that will be on it is olive oil and a little salt.

Morning thank you to all who replied. Saturday weigh in this morning and now 13 st 5 . Saturday’s are when I have my weigh in and blood sugars and record it in a diary. Each Saturday we would have a small cooked breakfast of one egg lean bacon tomatoes mushrooms which counts as 400 call. At night a mixed tandoori grill no sauce is the highlight of the week and serves as a treat. A couple if him and slim line tonics also help keep away the monotony of any repetitive diet but still the weight came off. Exercise is crucial in my opinion to this diet. Half an hour in the bike listening to your iPod burns around 400 calories and it all makes the difference .

Great idea to post what we eat. I have just had full fat yoghurt with a banana & a sprinkle of dried cranberries, I know not strictly allowed but still eating up leftovers in preparation for starting on Monday. Soup for lunch with a small slice of wholemeal bread & an apple then the spicy chickpea chilli & broccoli for supper. I think the BSDiet recipe book is going to become my go to ideas book. Good luck everyone for your first week.

Have finally reached my 2 stone off mark, lost 4lbs this week. Tokyo and Lucky hope all is well with both of you

Please may I join in? I weighed myself this morning – shock horror. Took waist measurement – disgusted lol. Sorting out menus as today have to finish off a portion of black bean and lentil chilli that was lurking in freezer but making soups as I intend to have yoghurt and something for breakfasts/scrambled eggs/etc with a main meal at lunch and then a soup for dinner as I think that will suit me and unsuspecting other half! Got another friend doing it who may join this forum and another one hoping too. Good luck to everyone.

I was a little discouraged when reading about the Hi Intensity part of the Fast Exercise because it’s just impossible to do because i am a fat couch potato … with a few minor ongoing physical problems to deal with.
It’s not just about the Hi Intensity being so great, the best … it’s just like doing a little aquabics (where even taking an Interval class … my speed is “very slow” and “almost very slow” and i can’t even do half the stuff).

Love ideas on what people who are really out of shape, like me, are doing.

Which parts of the Fast Exercise program can we do?

How to keep a good mindset when we can’t do Fast Exercise.

Maybe ordinary exercise should be more encouraged …. i’m sure whatever we can do … we should … and even if it doesn’t burn a ton of calories … and takes more time … isn’t there still a benefit to general health, energy, and clothes size.

Just trying to give myself a pep talk … yoga class later which was labelled “Beginner, beginner, beginner” which i mistakenly thought was for real, true beginners … who really can’t list their asses off the floor yet!!!

Hi, I started my own variation of the BS diet on Wednesday 28 Sept when I weighed 155lb. I am 5’8″ tall so don’t need to loose lots of weight, but I have read the book and felt inspired to have a go – it also means I will have lost weight by Christmas. In the last 3 days I have lost 5lb and feel confident that I will be able to continue. I haven’t suffered any headaches or felt particularly hungry. I have wanted to move away from bread, pasta and potatoes for sometime and in doing so just for three days, my energy levels have increased. I will follow this thread and hope to get more inspiration from you all as we continue our journey. KEEP DRINKING WATER

Congrats on the walking Poppetini … and the furniture moving too!!! My walking has only been about 1.5 km. with a stop for coffee …. i’m easing into more because of my back disc erosion/sciatica …. and lately my feet have been really bothering me …. they will thank me for loosing weight!

It’s early today …. but my positive thoughts for this day are (so far) :…..

1. An ode to the lowly laxative …. i think i just lost 50 pounds!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 I may even be able to go to yoga class this morning without cramps and focusing on bathroom visits … while continuing my currently hopeless attempts to lift my ass off the floor … or even get up from the yoga mat without help!!!

2. There is an indoor yard sale/rummage sale? at the community centre where my yoga class is … who knows i may pick up a bargain! Someone else’s discard may be my treasure! Found something like the open Avon sterling silver spoon ring which i have been looking for for 30 years at the last sale … only $20.

Fantastic so many more people starting!!

Hi

By the end of October you should be so well into this plan that you won’t feel the need for carbs as you do today!

There are lots of coping strategies but mainly just stay away from the starchy carbs …. bread, rice, pasta, biscuits and cakes. It’s amazing how you can manage quite well without these after a few weeks.

Good luck on your journey.

Hotel food isn’t that un BSD.

Eggs in some form … without toast and potatoes … a little bacon or even a western omelette with chopped ham and onion … eggs florentine?

Meat of some kind with vegetables instead of fries/potatoes,rice … salads with dressing on the side
Salad greens or with sliced egg, sliced meat, bit of cheese
Any little grocery nearby where you can get some apples, maybe yogurt and berries
Small package of nuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seed

Have a club sandwich and don’t eat the bread
Have a bacon hamburger and don’t eat the bun

Bring your own tea and some artificial sweetener …

Just find substitutes for the simple carbs …. and avoid breakfast cereals laden with sugar

Steak and vegetables, maybe a side of nice sauteed mushrooms
Broiled fish …. or even pan fried fish

You can aim for 800 calories and complex carbs …. and if you are off on those numbers for your hotel stay you can just consider it preparation … even a time or trial and error in picking out healthy foods

If it’s for work you probably want to keep up your energy levels and not be cranky on diet shakes

P.S. Snoop great weight loss!!!! Well done !

Hi Snoop

Glad the ‘puttanesca’ went down well!

To make life really simple I make a batch of tomato sauce and freeze:
4 x 400g cans of chopped tomatoes, cherry are nicer if you can get them
2 large chopped onions
1 grated carrot
Garlic, 3 cloves or as much as you like
1 large sliced green pepper
1 large sliced red pepper
2 bay leaves
Salt and pepper and 1tsp sugar

Put some olive oil (2tbs) in a pan, sweat down onions, add Garlic, chopped, then the rest of the ingredients except sugar.bring to a bubble and then turn light to the lowest setting and cook for about 1-1/12 hours until some of the liquid has evaporated . Add sugar if needed. Remove bay leaves. Blitz.

This makes 16 good portions , 57calories and 8.6 carbs a portion. Freezes really well!

I add the anchovies, capers and sometimes sliced black olives to the sauce when I’m reheating it. Add the courgetti and hey presto ! a meal in minutes!

I’m starting this on Monday,
I have read the book
Taken time to prepare
Bought the new recipe book
Looked at my diary for the next 8 weeks……. Arrrggh

I’m in a hotel for 9 days with work at the end of October

So what are my options?

Diet Shakes for a week?

Has anyone else overcome this obstacle?…
Any tips or ideas ?

Hi all, I don’t post often but saw someone comment yesterday about many people appearing to be missing. I’m still here, still sticking with it. Always do 10000 steps minimum, keeping my carbs under 50g. So far I have shed 16lbs and am feeling great. Well done to all who are keeping on track and good luck to all that fall off occasionally.

Some of the rotisserie chickens do use a sugar glaze to brown them and the chickens are often impregnated with flavour enhancers. I used to work on one of the counters that cooked them.

It is a minimal amount but it will be in virtually any rotisserie chicken or pre-cooked chicken.

In the short term it may not matter but it might be a wise move to prep your own further down the line once you’re used to the recipes and in the swing of the 8 week plan.

Good luck

Ruth, I don’t think he’s that desperate! 😀

Morning all! Or whatever time it is where you are!

My weight this morning was 123.2 lbs which is about 0.5 lb above my final BSD target.

However at one point this week I was on 122 point something and it oscillates around 122 and 123.

Found another pair of trousers yesterday which are really too loose round the waist. But generally it’s not the trousers – always bought 27″ jeans and M in Zara so they’re just much more comfortable everywhere now (for new I am in S and 26″) – it’s the shirts and jackets which are excessively roomy.

Some are workable but the more tailored styles look like there should be two of us in there. Oh dear, most expensive of all to replace.

Had hair cut yesterday and hairdresser said “wow, lot less of you! Don’t lose any MORE weight” which I’ve said before is so discouraging. Too slow for follow up on my part but have concluded next time I’ll say “I’m really really happy the way I am – but you obviously think I’m too slim, then?” Just to see what the response is.

On other hand the girl washing my hair wanted all the BSD details. 😉

So great to see all the new starters here, isn’t it – I am inspired as I read 🙂

Ruth – it could get me into trouble! My skirt could slip right down – not a pretty sight😱

Weigh this morning showed a pound gain (9.3 again) – but I expected it because I didn’t eat until late last night. Strange what affects the scales😱 I’ve noticed before that if I eat or drink late at night the scales reflect that next morning. Obvious, really!

Was very busy yesterday. A Macmillan Coffee Morning at church raised over £100. Nearly all the cakes were sold. I bought jam and marmalade for my family 😃 Then I was dealing with some finance matters with someone for hours – that took me past my usual meal time.

Was trying to decide if I’m going out today but don’t really need anything and I’m really tired so will probably stay in. See how I feel after more coffee!

Really need to sort my wardrobe out again. Dispose of the unwearable items – lots have already gone in the charity bags that come through the door. A skirt (possibly two) needs taking in. I might even try to alter my favourite top that is now a few sizes too big! But my poor wardrobe is looking quite bare again😱

Whatever you are doing, have a great day 😃

Hi Ian just about to start today myself. Actually read the book completely which is a first for me. Good luck reading some of these posts are giving me the confidence that I can actually stick to this one 🙂

Lummy, Tabletalk, you had a very low-calorie day. I’d have found it very hard to resist all the goodies at the church, having eaten so little. Well done, you.

Hello pgates. Good to have you join us.

Well, I didn’t make 83.5, but never mind. It’ll happen some time this month for sure! Keeping this inspirational thread in mind will keep me at it:

https://thebloodsugardiet.com/forums/topic/5-stone-loss-in-4-12-months/

Figures for today:
83.7 kg
-0.1 kg
Overall change -4.8 kg
790 cals
58 net carbs

Verano’s suggestion of courgetti with anchovies, capers and tomato went down a treat. And very few calories considering the flavour punch. OH loved it. So we’ll be having that again. Thanks, Verano if you read this. So few calories, in fact, that I had 50 ml of red wine to go with it. Disgraceful, I know, so I thought I’d better own up!

Have just written a post and lost it so for today …..

Yesterday
Calories 779
Carbs 36.4 !!!

Average for the four days is
Calories 748
Carbs 31
So ok with that.

Down another pound today despite going over on carbs!!

Well done everyone! Keep going! Now on downward slope just 3 more days to go!!

Thanks.
How’s it going?

lol very true unless I decide to start eating rubbish again! 🙂

Bissell, having nothing to wear will probably dazzle him a lot!
R(::

Lynne, I would like your clothes problem

I was away on 1st September, but a few days before I weighed 9.10 and a few days after it was 9.8. Today I weigh 9st 3lb. That’s a pound up from last Saturday but down overall in the month.

Yesterday was a strange day. A MacMillan Coffee Morning at church raised over £100. No, I did not eat any cake! My purchase was some jam and marmalade for my family. Then I was too busy to eat until late last night😱 So I was expecting the scales to show that this morning. But …..I am still 4 pounds under my original target 😃 And my clothes are loose again. My poor wardrobe is nearly empty again.

Whatever it was, Fatbloke – gone now and good riddance!

Onwards and downwards! 🙂

Oh, good news Caz123!

I remember my first couple of glasses of wine at a dinner with friends whilst on BSD. It was meant to be only one – lost control of that – fairly good BSD dinner but then got munchies on way home and bought Pret a Manger veg wrap for the train and THEN had 2 slices of toast when I got in. As some lovely person here pointed out that was a really good lesson.

So – subsequently – when unable to avoid a drinking occasion I drink as much fizzy water as wine (sip for sip works for me) and therefore always have full glass available. Less likely to lose control (more time in loo also now I think of it) and the fizzy water fills you when you’re dragged to the meal so even if not very BSD possible you can eat less of it.

If you know you’re eating out, look at the menu online to plan. Have two starters, or a starter and side salad. Both of these seem not to raise an eyebrow now.

But you have escaped well do really it was all worthwhile for the lessons learned. It’s not the calories for the alcohol – it’s the potential loss of control.

And now you know.! 😉

Well done and onwards and downwards! 🙂 🙂 🙂

I have lost 3.5lbs which does not surprise me as I jumped up in that weight over a few days due to eating loads of sugar. I guess it will be the glycogen in my muscles.

Good luck to all of you

It’s very inspiring to see your enthusiasm and I will look forward even more to see your success.

The BSD can be easy – and then more difficult – but there is nothing better than taking control and seeing the effects of, not a diet but a way of life, on the machinations of your body
Sorry about that sentence but you know what I mean

Stick to it and you will win!

Good luck to you all. Come back here if/when you fall off the wagon and let the lovely posters on this forum help you back on! 🙂 🙂 🙂

Woke up this morning and decided that falling off the wagon was not going to derail me total – and that last night should just be viewed as a minor detour. The plan being to go for a long walk today to help deal with the damage.

Just weighed myself – and another 2lbs have come off!!! Not sure how that worked, but I’ll definitely take it 😀

Food for today is already planned out. I’ve still got this!

Last post of the morning….sorry, I got a bit excited.

I am going to suggest all who want to post at the end of the day with what they ate (good to share meal ideas) and how the day went. I think this will help keep me accountable. Then maybe post each week with pounds lost. Obviously this is just a suggestion and is just what I feel I need to do to stay on plan. Xx

Just watched Michael Mosely’s BSD video on YouTube and feel v inspired!

Breakfast was scrambled eggs plus 2 slices of hot smoked salmon. Am surprised how little I missed the carbs after initially thinking “But where’s the toast!?”

Lunch will be Dahl with kale.

Dinner will be hummus and carrots.

I need to do a proper week’s meal plan as am winging it today. I need recipes suitable for adapting for the whole family. I shall do some planning this eve instead of Netflix and wine!

Go Team October/November. We shall do this!

Thanks Frog, am up weighed and feel ready to go on and up as Yowzer says!
Surprisingly, I have dropped 0.6kg since yesterday weigh in so that also inspired me , considering I indulged in too much of naughties…( def not niceys for bsd ) but I suspect the diabetes is the reason for the loss as its happened before to me.

Lots happening over the weekend for me, including a home made bake sale of cakes – however, because am gluten free too, I manage to not indulge, so yer a double whammy for me when it comes to food…grrr

That cookery course sounds interesting…wonder if my dietician will suggest similar lol…well am going on Weds next week but will be armed with my “sticking to the BSD” and will be back to show you why!!

Aah – have found some recipes with BNS! Lamb hotpot and a lovely looking soup. Now tempted to change my lunch regime.