Of course Sazzie but 50 ain’t old. Personally it is the most maneagable diet I have been on but it only works, in my opinion, if you plan. So welcome and keep us updated.

Hi Sunshine Girl
I am on facebook, from when I needed to be for an arts project, but haven’t really used it to post anything to ever – I’ve just never really got why I’d want to be that ‘public’ with anything – with no degree of anonymity as one gets here. Can you get them to remove it?

Oh and I came down with a wretched cold last night and slept very little, so am craving some comfort food! Unfortunately have some important meetings today, otherwise I would have called in sick to work and slept through the day. Just going to have to drink copious amounts of green tea with lemon, and hope for the best. How do others handle being sick on the 800?

Well I have just search FB and found an unofficial site and guess what, I’m on it. No, I have never been on it, never even heard of it BUT when I posted on my page that I was jumping around after getting my HBA1c results and so happy to be on the BSD, they nicked it. Bloody cheek. I can of here an hour or so ago just after my earlier post to talk to my daughter on Skype and told her, she said Mum if you Google yourself you will poo your pants, the things people can find out about you. Yeah, I know, the internet is the devil but what can we do.

Anyway, this led me to an Australian site and a TV programme called Saving Australia and it is about 3 diabetics and 3 diets, one of course is BSD. Another is carbs from fruit and veg and another is a doctor saying you must eat bread and cereal or where else will you get energy from. Oh dear. Anyway, shows the internet is useful too. Sorry to hijack the Target Weight posts but someone did ask about this.

Week 2 day 7

The last four days have been terrible. My trip away was full of sweets, burgers, and the odd alcoholic drink. I came home craving a salad, but had no food in the house save for a ready made soup meal – not terrible in terms of calories and carbs, but probably filled with preservatives. However I started this morning with my usual smoothie, and even added half a teaspoon of turmeric. Not the best taste, but I hear its good for joints.

I am expecting an increase on the scales tomorrow, but I know that its my own fault for not having enough willpower while I’ve been away. Que sera sera, I still have 6 weeks to go, and no plans of going away this coming weekend.

🙂

I love cake and biscuits as well!

Thanks I am having protein shakes in the morning, shall have a look at the green smoothie.

Hello again!
Forgot to mention that I bought the book too.
Nevertheless I won’t be following all of the recipes as I like to experiment and try out new ideas!! It’s great to have a forumwhere we can share and support each other.
Today I had a small piece of toast with olive oil with coffee for breakfast.
At lunchtime we had homemade vegetable soup followed by roast herb salmon.
For dinner I cooked wild mushrooms in garlic with poached eggs. We spent 3 hours foraging in the mountains for them.
Happy days!!!
No drink all weekend which is a major achievement for an Irish woman – mother of teenage twins.
But the weight has got to go so we’ll soldier on.
Cheers

Willbeskinny – the other thing is the way WW seem to change their plan every year. So you need new books, often a new points calculator etc

Hi everyone, just finished my first day and feeling great about my decision to do this. Reading all your posts will keep me motivated. Also the thought of being fit and healthy will keep me going. I cleaned the house from top to bottom today so I’m counting that as exercise but I will unfold the bike that’s been in the corner of the living room since January and do a few km in the morning. Looking forward to having energy again, looking forward to my new grandchild in December and to being a glamorous gran. Just having some apple & pear tea before bed watching Ryder Cup with hubby. Go Europe! Goodnight my lovely diet buddies,
NeNe xx

Hello there,
I would like to join this forum. To be honest I started on the 1st, on my own, and came across this forum.
I am Irish, 51 and have been overweight since last year and can’t seem to shake the extra kilos off. I also have an underactive thyroid. I have tried the Fast 2 diet and even though it works, I found that after a while, I couldn’t control the non fast days, I used to binge.
However I feel really motivated to give the 8 week diet a go. In fact I am going to buy weighing scales and go for it.
I have been good so far, following the diet and being positve – it is only 2 days!!
I hope everyone does well, the best of luck to you all.
Cheers

Well done on your loss fab! I’m a cake and biscuit person so love sugar. I’m now not missing it but I found the first two days soooo difficult; had a proper come down. It’s my real downfall so I’m hoping to keep it to a minimum when I’m done with the weight loss. Can recommend the green smoothies from the book, great in the morning or as they are only less than 100 calls, also good for a fix when a cup of tea won’t do! Good luck on the journey.

swimming could be good?

Delighted with the results of my weigh-in this morning – although I do weigh myself every day and I know I’ve been this weight for the past three days. Yesterday though, I took a top my wife bought me for my birthday back to the shop – to exchange a large for a medium!

Had smoked salmon stack for brunch and went to St James’ Church for the Fun Palace in the afternoon. On the way home I nipped to the swimming pool for half an hour of front crawl / breast stroke.

Mrs C used some unused food from the fridge freezer to make meatballs in a tomato, bacon, mushroom, onion and fennel sauce. Served with roast butternut squash and green veg it was simply perfect. Restaurant quality!

Hi all,

Day 2 started off great but then had a headache late afternoon despite drinking lots of water.

Dinner was – avocado, cherry tomatoes, 2 slices of ham and coriander = 175 cals

The coleslaw I had for lunch really filled me up as I had to really chew the red and white cabbage LOL.

Had blueberries and 1/2 apple as snack and have 46 cals leftover today.

Oh and I ordered new bathroom scales with fat% / water% / BMI analyser from Amazon. Thinking I’ll weigh myself twice a week rather than daily.

Keep up the good work everyone

You are welcome Wendy1947. Hope it helps.

Ah Frog / Captainlynne with the membership fee being £12.95 per mth and after 4 yrs of little losses and little gains I have been virtually the same weight for years (give or take a stone) I could easily have afforded nice hol / car, thankfully not a flat 😉 but I absolutely know what you mean!

Yes, Frog I think with WW you aim for a 1 or 2lb loss a week and that is supposed to keep you motivated, sadly failed me everytime, this time I feel far more positive, not just with the speed of loss (impatient devil that I am I want it all gone now!), but with the support network online I am really enjoying hearing other loss stories and reading the recipes, I have just seen your anchovy and courgette one sounds lovely and I will be trying that this week -thanks!

Fairy dewdrop do remember to add more salt than usual to your diet – with all the fluid we flush it out and it’s important to get enough sodium.

This can also help with headaches.

Add salt to your food, drink Miso soup. Or perhaps dissolve a stock cube in boiling water as a drink

Hope that helps 🙂

Thank you captainlynne for the link.

‘Night BSD family xx
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I used to drink lots of Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi but then went on to fizzy diet Lemon and Lime

But after a few months on the BSD I found them too sweet. And, when I was in Prague and the only diet drink I could find was Diet Coke, it made me feel ill😱 Now I only drink black coffee and water (preferably sparkling). It’s surprising how our tastes can change when doing this!

whew – nearly two stone in 8 weeks – you must feel really proud!

I didn’t see the original Trust me I’m a Doctor program – I wonder whether there’d be any benefit from lobbying the BBC to make it permanently available on iPlayer? – and/or to screen the original program again.

Hi Ladies, I’m 50 and starting BSD tomorrow. Could I join you?

Hi Willbeskinny

I remember those frozen grapes 😱 Like you I was a member of WW on and off over many years. And SW. And just about any other slimming club you could name!

I don’t know about a great holiday, I darent imagine how much money I’ve spent with them over the years – not only on membership fees, but also on books, gadgets and products. Plus their ranges of frozen etc foods!!! Probably could have bought a car or flat!

All those years – I’be been on diets since I was 11, and now I’m 66😱 But now, thanks to Dr M (and Prof Taylor) and the BSD I’m at (well, under) my target weight and it’s only taken 9 months 😃

Doing these on the bus.
The woman next to me, was reading giver my shoulder or arm.
She couldn’t do exercise she tells me.
RIGHT!!!
Red rag to a crazy bull.

I got her to wiggle her eyebrows,
Now her nose, I did it with her,
Now open your mouth wide and close,
Stick your tongue out and in.
Blow your cheeks out
Repeat.
So then I said…. you have just given your face a workout at the gym.
Now let’s do one arm.
Stretch fingers out, make a fist, repeat,
Bend the elbow.
Listen to your body.
Now your shoulder,
See how far forward you can reach,
Now back
Now up
Repeat.
You have just given your arm a work out and you are sitting in the bus.
So tell me again you can’t exercise?

Got the whole single decker bus exercising and we also sang… if your happy and you know It wiggle your foot, 🎼🎹🎼🎼🎼🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶〰〰

Do not ever tell me the word CANT because I say you CAN and have a cup of T to celebrate

Have a great evening everyone.

And start by wiggling your eyebrows.
See how far you can go.

Love Lucia
Xxxxx

Hi Willbeskinny
wow – sounds as if you’ve been a WW member for ages!
Bear that time in mind, and see how close you are to your goal within that time period using BSD eating principles 🙂 – or how many weeks/months sooner you achieve your goal

wow …. i’ll have to try turmeric as well.

I was on amytriptyline as well … for depression … mainly my depression was from constant pain — not a great deal of pain all the time …. but constant pain … wit my feet, bad knee, bad ankle and sciatic nerve stuff, and then possible TMJ. Sciatic nerve stuff was real bad for 2 years …. and then something the chiropractor did eased that off!

Turmeric … sounds like something to try.

Shot KJ! Just keep at it.
I have started noticing if I have sugar (or carbs which turn in to sugar) at all, my body reacts really badly. I feel weak and sore, like a flu is coming on. It is crazy how much we attune ourselves to sugar.
I noticed I put on weight straight after the eight weeks, and panicked. My friend at the gym told me it would be mostly water, but it has kept me honest. Got another weigh-in today, so hopefully back heading down.

the Ottolhengi recipe was tons faffier than I remembered – I used the same ingredients & made a really nice stir fry that took 5 minutes. Have posted the recipe, but no photo, I’ve eaten it!

Chair yoga.
Sounds cool.
Will give it a try.
I do lu-oga.
Short for Lucia yoga.

I watch the yoga on you tube.
I copy it but only the bit below the belly button.
Then I copy the bit just above the belly button.
After a few days I put the two halves together. Then it is a yoga position.

AGain, I break it down to my size, my ability.

Love
Lucia
Xxxxx

Day 5 still have a bad head even though drinking over 2 litres of water. Finding the diet easier than I thought so far
Breakfast : strawberry, blueberries Greek yogurt
Lunch : Sardines, Rocket, salad leaves
Dinner :Roast Chicken, Vegetables.

So good so far.

Hi Frog, thanks for the positive comments. I know it’s a big loss, but I really wish I hadn’t allowed myself to get there in the first place. Its soo embarrassing to be the fattest person in the group. I think i’ve kidded myself for a long time that I am not huge which is really stupid! Maybe I wish someone had taken me to one side and said something as I really haven’t seen myself as massive, but I clearly am.

Re cafes and desserts, just to clarify, I don’t eat the puddings / ice creams I haven’t either touched for two weeks now and not craved it either which is surprising. When we got out I usually have a coffee while the children indulge (i’m ok with their indulgence as it’s not regular and they are soo healthy – clearly got their ability to say no to junk from their dad!). Also, we usually walk / cycle there and back – I guess we go as it’s where families and friends meet up for an evening.

As I have limited resistance to temptation I am avoiding all desserts in the hope that other posters on here are right and I will, eventually, be able to sit there unfazed when I see others tucking in.

Captainlynne, Sadly I think I have been one of those fooling myself that these grapes and cheeses are ok to eat, whilst not totting up the sugar content in grapes (i’ve literally scoffed punnets of frozen grapes each night whilst doing WW with no thought to the sugar effects other than to my teeth – how silly!) or the crackers accompanying the cheeses. Oh well, it was my last payment to WW this month and I am super relived as I was not losing anything and hadn’t really been successful for years. I could have gone on great holiday with the amount I have paid to be a member. I have to say I find following the recipes that someone else has calorie checked so easy, fingers crossed it stay that way !

Congrats to you and Mrs C.!!
I have Canadian Thanksgiving upcoming weekend so i will likely be off the BSD for a day …. although i shall try and splurge on healthy food and perhaps a glass of wine.

Didn’t use a blender on soup …. i kind of like rustic over smooth. I even like chunky mashed potatoes with skin on —- not that i have that anymore 🙂 🙂 🙂

Laid up this weekend … dry sinuses and very sore throat!!

Happy birthday to your mother in law!

Still have dry sinuses and a sore throat!!

But …. on the good side
1. It is a beautiful sunny day …. much nicer than it usually is in October here
2. Went out for cream and sore throat lozenges …. and narrowly escaped buying a bag of chips/crisps …. corner store had no cream so i walked to the grocery store … and got some nice chicken wings/drumsticks (small, roasted from the deli) …. at least that was healthy food
3. Sinutab is working on the sinus pain!! Cancelled aquabics class and had a nice lie in!

Yes, I have been thinking again.
Just going to have a yoghurt and calm down.

As you can see I was in a hell of a mess.
I am getting there now.
Keep going, keep moving, keep happy.

Oh and 14 weeks to Christmas,
I have a promise to keep.

Love Lucia
Xxxxx

Well done Lucia!!!!!!

Good luck with the interview – you are SO worth it 🙂

And inspirational. But you do that just in your spare time. You must be PHENOMENAL inspiring people at work.

🙂 🙂 🙂

Your welcome Christine ! Can’t keep a good thing to yourself would be naughty!

Oh and something else.

I have told you how fat and ill and unfit I was.
It was too much to get myself just off the couch,
Then walking around the house,
Then kept moving
Kept walking
Kept dancing as I dried the dishes,
Kept pushing, inch by inch.
Now I cycle to the gym, do 30 mins in the room with the rowing machine, cross country machine, treadmill etc
The 30 mins in the wright room
Then in the pool, if I am not swimming a length, then I hold the side of the pool and do stretches or excercises, in the water.
Oh and by the way, all the snobby brilliant swimmers all tutted at me when I did a width really really slowly to start with. Now the gutters are my friends.
Then I cycle home the long long way.

Now I told you, at he beginning I couldn’t do the diet cold turkey.
I had to break the wall down into bricks.
Shall I change just one meal a day to start with?
Shall I count the calories if one meal a day and keep it to 300?
Shall I try just salad or veg for one meal a day?
Shall I cut the carbs in one meal a day.
Now I am eating with bs diet way for 80% of the time.
I am not perfect, I am human.but I have noticed my tastes have changed.
I went into a takeaway shop, and had to rush back out as it smelt so greasy it made my tummy flip!!

So team, whether you are thinking about starting or one day one, or about seven months in like me, just keep going.

But I never told you my blood work figures, my tablets that I had to take. My symptoms.
I decided not to prattle on about that junk.
They were in the corner of the room but I did not give the valuable time here on the blog.
Slowly they faded into nothingness.
The only mention I did, was to acknowledge I am off all medication.
I didn’t do a song and dance over it. I didn’t love them. I wanted them to divorce me, to pack their bags, to leave me forever, to walk down the road and forget my address.

I have the same attitude with my blubber, I have only mentioned the size 26 that was elasticated and too tight.
Do I got a baseball bat and mentally beat the living daylights out of each pound.
I was angry with the blubber, it made my life hell, made me ill, made me not live life to the full.
So I take each pound. I think if it as a glob of ugly yellow slimy dense smelly shap the size of a paperback book.
I visualise me beating seven shades of ¥$><<~%€$¥ out if it,, it gets smaller and smaller until it’s gone. It feeds off me being unhealthy, but when I cycle or dance or move, it screams and shrinks, smaller and smaller.
(Yes I know a shrink would have field day with me).
I try to show that it isn’t an essential part of me, that it is a parasite hanging on to me sucking the life out if me. So when I exercise, I imagine me with a baseball bat, bag! Take that, wack, take that!! Etc.

Some people may find it easier and less disturbing, to visualise themselves in a size 12.
I need the aggression as motivation.

So what’s the next step?

Building my self confidence, building the inner me. I have been hiding in this fat suit for far too long. It’s time to step out into the sunshine and feel the warmth in my face……..

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Wendy1947

You might want to look at Bill1945’s thread ‘this has to work for me’ to see what he did. That may help.

Hi Lynne

Yes the turmeric is with ‘pepper’ and the company just sells vitamins!

Good luck with them they certainly seem to be helping Christine and they have definitely help both myself and my OH.

Give them a go !

Christine and Verano

Tablets ordered. Many thanks.

Hi Christine
I’m with you on that 😃 This year’s colours seem to have been the autumn ones since this time last year😱 Give me what I know as Chinese Blue or a nice bluey-pink, even a nice bluey-red. Nice and bright. Not yellow, or orange. *thinks* not even seen any coloured tights for ages!

Enjoy your trip😃

Hi Verano,
Thank you so much for the recommendation, I have been so much better on the turmeric tablets, I will never fully get rid of the pain, as it’s a damaged sciatic nerve, I take two amytriptyline every night and one (can’t remember the name) tablet in morning, my doctor has only just changed it because of the pain I was in, they didn’t work!
So a Big thank you for recommending them, they are a miracle cure for me.
Christine.

Hi Lynne,
I have never liked autumn colours, so like you I don’t like anything in the shops with those awful muddy colours, it’s miserable enough in winter why would you want to wear dull colours? Give me bright happy colours any day!!!

It’s whether I have a connection and have the time while I am lazing by the pool!!!!! I’m sure there will be opportunity to catch up with the forum.
Christine.

Avila

I love fish as well and I’ve discovered how nice it is with a pat of herb butter – I’ve always thought that I couldn’t afford the calories but now I’m not eating any junk I can afford it. My next step is to make my own.

Well done Lucia!!

I went for an interview this week and finally was able to wear one of my lovely suits. I felt fabulous and so much more confident than when I’ve had to cobble clothes together. Like you, I don’t care if I don’t get it because I love the new confident me.

Elaine xx

So,
I have a question for you all.
And I do want to hear from each and everyone if you.

What’s the oddest exercise do you do.

What do you do now., with exercise that you couldn’t do before
Or you couldn’t ever contemplate before?

Mine is…
I try all different things to keep interested and stimulated.

From hoolahoop.
Juggling 2.3 even 4 balls
Hop scotch
Weights in the gym
Puddle bashing.

I look for something really cheap, like the bat and ball in Poundland.

So team, what’s yours?

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Nice to see you Miss Ziggy.

Day 2

todays meals: Breakfast : poached eggs with spinach and pine nuts page 29 recipe book
Lunch: Feta and avocado bash page 49
Dinner: Beef stir fry with asparagus and sesame seeds page101

Verdict: breakfast: tried it will not be having it again
lunch: I think it would be better not mashed together but chopped up with shredded lettuce.
Felt as though I had eaten enough and lasted till dinner time at 5.30
dinner: FANTASTIC.:-) Had it marinating since this morning. Had not got mange tout so used french beans
and a courgette. I did cauliflower florets in the oven. Nice:-)

Had had several cups of tea and loads of water. Might have to have a few almonds later but I will see how I go.

Hello,

I’m starting the diet on Tuesday, after getting some new ingredients tomorrow.

I’m not diabetic – but don’t intend to be and I need to lose weight, preferably about 2 stone, but my goal at first will be a stone.

The weight is around my middle and bottom and I now have cellulite on my thighs, something which escaped me for years.

I realise I will never be a size 10 again, but a size 12 would be fabulous.

Day 3 for me – heaps better on the headache front which is great, just a low lying one. Also noticed an increase in energy from yesterday too.

Meals for me today were

Breakfast: Portobello “toast” with goat cheese and pine nuts.
Lunch: Pepper with jeweled feta.
Dinner: Eggplant with lamb and pomegranate (swapped out lamb for smoked tofu which was amazing).

All great meals today! Drinking lots of water and peppermint tea (peeing lots too!).

Feeling good!

and
This week I have lost three pounds.
😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀

So, when I say,…does my bum look big in this.
I can reply….. not so much.

So keep going , I didn’t let one gain of a pound last week upset me.
Hubby said it was wind… eh?

Three pounds in one week.
I haven’t killed myself. It’s been great.
I am mindful still, over every time I eat.

How are you all doing?

Love Lucia
Xxxxx