I have been hanging off the wagon for a while but remotivated earlier this week and have seen the 8 in the first time – 89.9 kg give or take a 100g that is 10 kgs lost since I started 1 Aug (and with 3 rubbish weeks) and 10% body weight!!!

I know I was close to it when stress derailed me, but it is really good to have an early win when getting back onto the wagon seriously to spur me on.

Hello Nomorepanic
good to meet you 🙂 Sounds like this is the beginning of some good changes in your life. You will do just fine – as Boligreen says use the forum for support (tbh I’m a bit addicted now – can’t imagine a day without checking in!) We’ve all had bad days and come through – and we’re learning how to avoid self-sabotage – a very odd aspect of human behaviour! Keep posting. There will be many who follow and can offer support and many who will find support in your posts. Remember everything averages out so one bad day in a week of good days amounts to very little – and soon you will lose the taste for sweet things and not be tempted. Good luck 🙂

Yay! Well done Mental! So pleased for you … You will waltz through the christening (just remember how good you feel today when tempted!) You reminded me of a radio play called Emily Rising – where she floated away lol! Sounds like a good act for the BSD Circus!
12lbs in 3 weeks is brilliant! I love the little private triumphs – a bit like coming home from Narnia – no one knows except you and others who have been through the wardrobe! Ha! We are all sort of going through the wardrobe! I am going to throw out some of my old ‘circus’ trousers today 🙂

Thanks for that info about the mushrooms 😊 I will keep on trying with the app, I can see it will be a big help if I can get into the way of using it.

No more panic- well done for today your back on the road again. Re the bloating it maybe just from a surge of sugar in your system that’s what happens to me drink heaps of water to flush it out. Don’t worry We all do it well done for owning up, don’t give up, you have got this!!
Next time when you feel like this, side track your self and come & write to all of us!!
Boli

Yowzer – thanks for that😃 Checked cinemas for miles around, but it’s not being shown anywhere yet😱

Who thought when this started we’d be having our own circus😃x

Who’s a very ‘Happy Bunny’. Me, Me, Me……. Just ended our 3rd week and have lost another 4 lb, making a total of 12 lb. I still cannot believe I am feeling so good and not craving food all the time.

As previously mentioned by others my self esteem has rocketed and I walk a little taller. How high will I be walking in a few weeks time when I have lost even more weight. My OH will have to tie a piece of string around my ankle to stop me floating away 🎈🎈🎈 ha ha.

Only one black cloud on the horizon at the moment is a Christening we are attending on Sunday and will be staying on for a further 2 days. So we may be slacking a little but hopefully still eat sensibly.

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Good Morning everyone. Another chilly autumnal day here.
For linch I am having beetroot and carrot salad again, it is delicious! For dinner – omelette and salad, followed by greek yogurt and berries as always.
Drinks are difficult Natalie, but if they must have squash make sure it is a weak mixture we have always been water drinkers so haven’t had that problem.
Have a good day everyone xx

Welcome Jon. How did you get on at the opticians?
How’s everyone else doing? It’s gone a bit quiet on here.

Thanks Igorasugar Yes I think water and target drinks will be my strategy. I am a little concerned how it will effect me after being on such a low cal. diet so will need to be a bit careful..

Well done on your weightloss!

Hi Natalie,

It sounds like you are working hard to protect your children from what we now know is an obesity epidemic. I also have a husband with a sweet tooth who buys chocolate and lollies. I have asked him to a) keep them out of site and b) not eat them in front of the kids.

Juice is only allowed at parties and special occasions. I personally got very overweight as a child and I will not let this happen to my kids as it is now known that 80% of overweight kids end up obese as adults.

Is there anywhere your husband can keep his juice/cordial out of sight? Can he drink it out of metal bottle so they don’t see it? Has your husband read some of the data coming out on how unhealthy is sugar is? Maybe if he read a few articles he would want to stop having it in the house.

Great that you are setting a fantastic example for your kids. Gluck.

ps I eat lots of seeds and some nuts as well ços I like them and for the fibre. Make pancakes with no wheat

Hi Daniel

I have one word for you ‘vegetables’ Lots and lots of low starch veggies with pepper, and a little salt and a very little oil or butter or shaving of cheese – not 4 ounces! or whatever flavouring you like. You will pad out your meals and take longer to eat them and feel fuller and happier at the end of them. Do you put lots in your soup? Do you fill up your Spanish omelette with peppers and onions and ….. anything. I have discovered I adore cauliflower plain without cheese sauce and broccoli and aubergine and zucchini are very filling and tasty as well

Look at the recipes in MM’s book and pad them out with lots more low starch veg.

Good luck.

Ruth

Hi Lucyjane

Well done on your loss and your targets!

Re the wedding:
I find having a target number of glasses of wine works and also drink at least one glass of fizzy water per glass of wine. Drinking the water gives you something to do with your hands whilst talking to people!

Depending on what’s served at the wedding breakfast – try and go for protein and non-starchy veg. And perhaps half the dessert (or a small portion of fruit) if you can’t swerve it totally.

But the water is the best aid!

Enjoy and good luck! 🙂

I’ve done fasting a couple of times before …. after the first 2 days i usually felt great, although i did have some episodes of feeling faint. I did just over 3 weeks one time …. only quit fasting because i was still working then and it’s difficult to maintain.

Perhaps it was because my diabetes was worse and of longer duration, plus i decided to get back to doing aquabics and walking … this time i really didn’t enjoy the fasting experience and was just doing it because i had a head of steam up about loosing weight and wanted to take advantage of the extreme focus. I was so sick a few months ago it scared me.

I’ve just had a couple of days of overeating and drinking …. and i’ve settled down emotionally. I’m still focused but not fanatically so. I’m going to work the 800 calorie, low carb BSD. And i’m going to increase my exercise as i feel up to it. Not going to worry about a slip up now and then …. and take the results as they come.

I think i’ll be fine with that.

Shalimar why did you do an extreme fast? Just curious sounds really really tough!

I was thrilled this morning to be back in double digits 99.7 a week early so now my goal for Monday week is 98. Goal for end of October under 95, and by xmas 90 and under so i will no longer have an obese bmi. I have a wedding this weekend- any strategies to manage the wine and the buffet breakfast at hotel the next day?!?!

P. S. Someone suggested this so i did it.

I just wrote down my motivation, my plan, and put it in my purse …. and set an interim goal to be done by Dec. 10, which is a weight loss of approx. 2 lbs. per week and normal blood sugar. Then i will set a new goal.

This should be very achievable and i will feel wonderful when i get it down early. Should leave some room for Christmas …. and restrain me from going overboard on either exercise or food — so i don’t get exhausted and light headed and grumpy from trying to do too much too fast. My aim is to feel wonderful both during and after the BSD …. and frankly the extreme fast was torturous many times.

My accountability story.
2 days of high calories and carbs and alcohol.
Today : 900 calories but way over on carbs — but complex carbs namely assorted beans. Good protein in salmon.
Good news …3 days of normal blood sugar between 4.5 and 7.9 without medication (probably from previous fasting). At least my blood sugar has been normal for almost 2 weeks now.

I just wrote down my motivation, my plan, and put it in my purse …. and set an interim goal to be done by Dec. 10, which is a weight loss of approx. 2 lbs. per week and normal blood sugar. Then i will set a new goal.

Thanks for the ideas and the accountability.

Fell off the wagon for 2 days but i am already back on.

Congrats ruthdownunder and everyone!!!

Have fallen off the wagon for a couple of days but i was under 230 pounds a few days back AND i have had all 3 of my last Blood Sugar readings under 8 and as low as 4.5.

More on track today …under 900 calories but over 100 carbs … but those almost all high fibre beans. Will do better tomorrow on food and exercise.

Mixnmatch that is absolutely fantastic!

I have reached my mini goal at last! 10% weight lost I have lost 8.1kg and it has taken me nearly 13 weeks, starting weight 79.3kg but I cannot measure 7.93 so I was setting it at 8kg. So made it as last

So next goal is 11 stone, 70 kg and then after that 68.3 which will mean I am overweight! Woo hoo! I have to remind you that I am very short – my bmi was nearly 35 3 months ago
Lucyjane congratulations and Yowzer also and good luck to all

Totally off the track yesterday!
A tad hung over.
Better today.
Broth with assorted beans
Salmon with Miracle Whip

The beans made the carbs go up to 98.

Total calories 840, Carbs 104.
NO alcohol
No exercise …. Feeling not so sick now.
Seem to have turned my days into nights. I will work on that. Meeting a friend for lunch and used book shopping…. so i will have to be awake!!

Going to have a diet coke …. going to up the calories a bit with a lemon in the coke.

Rocky start for me ….. but things can only go up now! 🙂 🙂 🙂

My daughter is 12 too! She likes the higher calorie snacks of cheese and nuts, but would always choose sweet junk like biscuits if they were available. My son is 9 and likes apple, grapes, berries, cherry tomatoes, capsicum, pretty much any raw fruit or vegetables. They are both active and a good weight for their age but I do worry about the future. They will stuff themselves with junk if they can get it. I looked like my daughter until puberty when I got chubby, so being slender as a child is no protection (although being obese that young would be even worse). I try not to have junk in the house very often, but my problem is with drinks. My husband insists we have juice and cordial available (for him) so the kids are drinking a lot more sugar than I’d like, and in its worst (liquid) form! Not sure what to do about it.

Thank you for your messages.
I have had a successful day today.
I feel really bloated though.. Anyone else had this problem?

Goodnight peeps x all Beatled out and happy. Loved them for over fifty years now and guess i always will.
CAPTAIN its well worth seeing. Surprising how many young folk in the cinema. It was full..last time i was in a packed out cinema was to see The Full MOnty about twenty years ago! We had to sit in front row and had stiff necks for weeks afterwards!
MIX thanks for the clown trousers! Our circus is almost complete! 👍🏻 X

Well done Gtownclaire! You are doing really well. Like you, I have PCOS and insulin resistance and believed that I couldn’t lose weight but am really enjoying the eating plan and having success with my weight.

Captain Lynne’s story is very inspiring if you have time to read back over her posts.

Keep up the good work. It is difficult when you have food around you all day at work (I do too.)

Went off-piste today and had quark with blueberries and flax seeds for breakfast. Unfortunately, it seems we bought vanilla quark and the flavouring is made entirely of different types of sugar. For ten minutes I felt on top of the world, and, while I didn’t crash, I did feel hungry for the rest of the day.

This may also have been because I didn’t sleep well last night. The party I was fretting about fizzled out fairly rapidly. But at around 3am the world and his dog seemed intent on making some kind of noise outside our window.

Vanilla quark with blueberries and flax seeds
Lettuce cups
Roast chicken and white bean mash

Feeling listless and tired this evening. Will have to jolt my body into action at the weekend.

Thanks Igorasusual, I didn’t measure but have PLENTY of tight clothes at the moment which will give me a good indication.
Day 4 today. Weight is 80.4, that’s 600g (1.3lb)for the 3 days. Happy days!
It’s definitely getting easier, I’m not constantly obsessed with my next meal but still getting hungry.
The weekend is going to be the tester, I’m a boredom eater and home is where all the food is. I’m going to have to keep myself occupied. Might be time to take up a new hobby.

The recipes sound divine! I ordered the book this week and can’t wait to start trying the recipes.

Corkie – thanks, don’t know about an inspiration, there are people on here who post more and have been doing it longer but its the easiest eating plan i’ve ever been on. Apart from around my period when i get very snacky at night, i’m not hungry at all and not craving carby foods, which is amazing to me. When i started i kept getting on and off the scales as i was losing so much weight, it felt like someone was just messing with the scales!

So keep up the good work and let us know if you try any more of the recipes and what alterations you’re making to them.

Hels

Week 6 Day 2:

Breakfast: 2 x boiled eggs
Lunch: Camembert Cheese
Dinner: Lentil Soup
Snacks: Paleo muffin
Drinks: 2 tea with milk
Water: 8 glasses
Calories: 565
Carbs: 26g
Steps: 30525 (including 4.km run and 6km walk)
Weight loss: 900g (59.2 kg)
Fast: 16 hrs

Hi guys, some great suggestions, especially using MFP! I log everything I eat each day, keeping track of sugars, calories, and carbs.

Day 4 is here! I feel great, haven’t had any headaches or ‘carb flu’ yet, but it may still come. Another evening where I was able to maintain self-control (Very unusual for me!), drinking soda water and lime at the local pub quiz with work colleagues. I even restrained myself from picking at the fries that were sitting on the table – right in front on me I might add!!

I’m really looking forward to receiving my book and trying the recipes! Mixnmatch – so right about the taste changing. The slice of lime in my drink last night was so much more aromatic than I remember, probably due to the lack of sweetness in my diet in the last few days. I love it!

Keep going guys, and good luck with starting Tray!

🙂

sunshine-girl is absolutely right.

(on maintenance) I usually weigh myself every night and every morning, as I’m not trying to lose weight now.
Quite often, after I’ve done my evening weighing, I find I need a wee, and then out of interest weigh again. Often a pound down on the weight five minutes before..

I have a vague memory of ‘a pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter’ and I can tell you, with all the liquid we drink, the scales absolutely demonstrate that.

You carry on with your strength and commitment and positivity!

🙂 🙂

Hi all,
Great to hear that there are a number of experimenters! Thanks for the tips on the yoghurt/almond chicken thighs sunshine girl. Helsbells, Wow, you are an inspiration to us newbies.
Week 1 day 3, I had the green eggs and ham for breakfast, hummus for lunch (delicious and very easy to make. I won’t buy commercial hummus in a hurry again). I had the baked cod with chorizo and Mediterranean vegetables for dinner. All in all, I felt very satisfied with the meals today. Weight 73.7 kg (-200g), that’s 1.8 kg overall.
Let’s keep it up!
Corkie

I was stuck on 101.7 for ten days and then this morning 99.7..no idea why.

Arthur, .3 is merely a pee or a cup of tea. Leave the scales for a couple of days and stick to the plan. Have you done other measurements so you can check if your body is changing. Maybe it is too early. I am a very slow loser but I have kept at it and now lost just over 10lbs in 10 weeks. For me the important thing is my diabetes which has improved greatly.

AFTER DAY EIGHT

WEIGHT: 73.4 kg. ….. WHAT.??
Walking: 3,000 steps

I stuck to the diet and PUT ON 300 grams? What kind of evil magic is this?? 😉

Granted, it wasn’t a very active day – at the accountants sorting out the family ‘s taxes, but I even refused a cup of tea there, because I knew they’d offer biscuits with it.

I guess this might be why some people advise not to weigh yourself daily.

Has anyone who’s been on the BSD longer than me had this experience?

Chookymama, I sympathise. 1.5 kg in a day. You poor thing! 😢Depressing, isn’t it? I guess this is where we show our strength and commitment and positivity. Let’s both have an excellent, strictly-come-dieting day and show those bloody scales a thing or two! 😀

Day 65

I really hit it hard on the cheese attacks. I can not fathom what the reason for this is. I just keep munching on it today. I surely could use a new way to get into the locomotion. Yeh, like the song. what would Dr. Phil do? Actually, he would get some rogaine for his baldy spot. LOL

I really should keep it up on 3 pounds a week. It really is not as FAST as the book said. It is actually a lot of crapola. One can not do
such a pound a day because they are nutrient lacking from no food.

How on earth do you think I can do this for the next 8 months? I have so many aches from this eating. Those crispy mozzarella sticks when at TGI Fridays is a no no. Boy, this is not for the social butterfly types. It was challenging enough at the US OPEN for 2 weeks. Everything in moderation.

Day 65
Thursday 22 September 2016

HAPPY FIRST DAY OF FALL! YAY!!!

Breakfast: None

Lunch: 1 Cup Greek yogurt with strawberries

Snacks:
4 ounces Mozzarella
2 Apple
1 Peach

Dinner:
Chicken Breast
Acorn Squash
Chicken Soup

Numi

On MFP for plain ingredients try doing eg Generic white mushrooms. That brings the raw ingredient up.

Keep persisting! You’ll get the hang of it! 🙂

Yowzer’- I want to see that too. Must check out if it’s on nearby mthanks for reminding me 😃

Mixnmatch – sounds like we’re well on the way to a circus 😃 Any more offers anybody?

I asked my daughter what treats she gives her daughter. When she was younger she loved cherry tomatoes, raw veg crudites, with dips of various kinds (peanut butter, cream cheese, hummus) popcorn, oatcakes (as good as digestives but not so sweet), rice cakes, and she occasionally kept roasted veg in the fridge (carrots, parsnips, peppers) ready to nibble. Of course, fruit, nuts and seeds. Sweets were included but not on a regular basis. She is now 12 years old and doesn’t want many snacks at all. She likes sweets but give her some grapes or berries and she is over the moon.
Hope this helps xx

I like mine too, although I am not really as creative as I could be, I adore celeriac chips though, particularly with fish.

Cronometer gives 140 calories and 15.5 g net carbs, 10.9 g protein and 2.4 g fat if that helps for 500 g mushrooms cooked. I am never sure whether I should use cooked or raw weights for soup though. White mushrooms raw are 110 – 11.3 – 15.5 – 1.7 in the same order. Perhaps an MFP user can suggest something or you could add it yourself.

If there’s going to be a circus I can supply some great clown trousers 😀

Going to see the Beatles film,Eight Days A Week:The Touring Years film tonight..can’t wait!
gonna go crazy with Beatles mania standing up on my seat screaming my head off! X
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Hi all, definitely in a plateau type phase at the moment myself. It seems as though the last three weeks have been a question of lose a pound gain two, lose three gain two and I end up back where I started. I’ve come up with various excuses: ‘that’ time of the month, the euphemistic ‘poor digestive transit’ etc but decided I really needed to get a good handle on exact figures for calorie/ carb intake (since I have been relying on my own judgement a bit too much maybe?) so I got the myfitnesspal app. Turns out to be another huge source of frustration at the moment, I hope I’ll get the hang of it soon but it is driving me mad just now. Trying to enter my recipe for mushroom soup and cannot find a listing for 500g of mushrooms 😄 Any amount of mushroom related manufactured products, but the plain and simple ingredient, not likely! I guess I need to work at getting more familiar with the app. Perhaps that is how it helps, you spend so many hours fiddling with it that you don’t have time to eat 😛😄

I just have to do the standard one the old fashioned way. ; ) should be 😉

The first one was the standard smiley, so looks like some sort of bug. 🙂

The tablet I used has a selection pre-prepared, although it sometimes seems to mix them up randomly, I tried to select the standard smiley. ☺😊😀😁😂😃😄😅