I haven’t got the book, although I read a few pages of my friend’s copy when she got it. I have only been BSD’ing my diet with the help of the forum, and other people’s helpful links, since mid-June. I always believed that if it existed it must be linked to metabolic syndrome, so good to know it apparently doesn’t ☺

tutu, it is because you are eating less salt, yes but mainly because you are drinking lots of water and flushing salts out. Also, when you are on a diet and it is working the fat leaves the body via urine so, if the diet is working you will find you are peeing more. Some have lots of problems with having to get up during the night, don’t worry if this happens, it doesn’t last.

My book arrived yesterday and there are some lovely sounding interesting recipes am hoping to try
Thanks for the heads up Sunshine re carbs

Tonight am doing the chicken biriani , smells divine and just added a bowl of the raita too so hoping its all worth it…

Hi All, thanks once again for all the kind replies. I was wondering why the BSD would mean you need more salt? Is it just, as some of you have said, that many people eat a diet that includes a lot of ready meals and processed food which contain a lot of salt before going on it? Because of severe health issues my diet was, anyway, very healthy! Very little processed food , so salt was really only that which I added. I made my own bread and most food cooked from fresh and then frozen in batches. Does the diet itself cause the body to need more salt in some way? My BP used to be very low when I was bed bound for a long time and I had to eat more salt at that point. It then became my habit and taste, so I”ve had to cut back what I add now that my BP is going the other way. But I wasn’t adding huge amounts in the first place!

Good to hear, Avila, that your BP went down with the weight loss. Here’s hoping. When I did 5;2 my BP was always higher on fast days as it undoubtedly acts as a stressor for my system, even though I often felt fairly well. One of the reasons why I decided to ease into this, rather than go for the full 800 a day to start with.

Hi Lessness

Congratulations on your 3 lb loss! 🙂 And fabulous to hear about your blood sugar readings! 🙂

How much weight have you got to lose? What’s your target?

If you are weighing carefully and sticking to the guidelines, then you will lose weight, sometimes it does just plateau a bit (just search for that in the box and you will find out how often it does!)

The other thing is you could try counting your carb grams per day as well as your calories. Some people here find that weight loss works best if they keep to 50g of carbs or less per day. I started by eating lots of veg including things like red cabbage. Then I started weighing and entering this on My Fitness Pal and discovered how many carbs there were. So I worked out some lower carb options and that helped with weight loss.

Hope that helps 🙂

It’s brill reading how much weight everyone is losing with this diet. What am I doing wrong? Lost 3lb the first week nothing seems to be shifting at the end of the second week. Have been exercising and am sticking to the diet. On the very plus side my blood sugar levels are now really low. Any ideas?

Thank you for all your tips and encouragement. I have tried adding a bit more salt and keeping up with the drinking and it has really helped. I’m sure it’s me just getting used to the different eating patterns. 😃

Thanks Antigone

Yes, I do have more energy. Before BSD I really struggled to go up the hills and steps in my nearest shopping town. I live in a small village, don’t drive, have to use public transport to go shopping etc. There’s quite a steep hill close to my house which I used to avoid (unless I caught the bus up) but now I can walk up that hill easily.

I don’t know what you eat, or if you have any health issues, but more protein could be a good idea.. I had to cut my carbs right down, but eat lots of protein, full fat products, and some low-carb veg/salad. No fruit.

Sounds like you’re doing really well. You should hit your target on Monday.

Hope this helps.

I went over yesterday – impromptu meal with my parents & lots of wine! I was good at recording what I ate & drank though – 1750 calories & 25g of carbs <- that was mostly from the wine 😉

Back on the wagon today. I’m doing a few days at 600 calories to limit the damage. Had cheese salad for lunch & that was my main meal, I just had a light tea of veggies & a few nuts. I’ll finish on 550 & 16g carbs.

Not going to weigh for a few day!

Enjoy, it is 25 here but the pool is down to 24, too cold to get in. If it reaches 25 tomorrow I will be in. Maybe that had an effect on my weight as I usually swim every day and not been in since 13th when we had a massive storm. Will have to get into my winter exercise frame of mind.

Captain Lynne – your posts are truly inspiring. I come and read them when I need a bit of motivation. I am about to finish my first 8 weeks and I intend to do another which will take me up to nearly xmas! One thing that strikes me is that many folks on here talk of increased energy levels on BSD – perhaps that happened for you? For me it is just the opposite – I am very tired and certainly not up for increasing my exercise. I do have quite an active lifestyle – I have a half acre garden, horses to look after and land which is a good kilometer end to end but I am fearful of increasing my calories. I am planning to have more protein where possible as I think my muscles are suffering. On MFP and Ketosites they freak out when I enter my BSD stats! So more smoked salmon then (it’s a hard life!) Just wondered if you had any thoughts on this?
PS; My goal for the 8 weeks is 21lbs and I am less than a pound away (weigh in is Monday) so should make it.

Hi sunshine-girl still here!!!!!

Luxuriating in a hotel at the moment with temperatures in the high 29’s low 30’s and amazing views over the ocean!!

Back to our apartment tomorrow and then home next Tuesday.

Good to see you’re on your way down again. Make some tomato sauce and freeze in portions great on courgetti especially with anchovies, capers and Parmesan !!!

Anyway, I’ve not been weighed since Tuesday when I was still just 2.6lbs up but think I will have gained more here, will find out Saturday morning.

The future???

Will be starting a new thread next Tuesday ….’ Week13 …. Post holiday reboot!’

Think I’ll need a good reboot to get back on track!

Hope you’re all doing well.

Thanks for that. I will look at the book again and study the carb intake.

Monumentally fell off the wagon the other day – went away to swanky hotel where there was food aplenty and also gin, wine, champagne……I felt horribly poorly the following day and added 1.5kg back on. Pah. Honestly was lovely at the time but really not worth it as I have felt a bit down ever since. Last night I steamed cauliflower and riced it with some grated cheese in – not a potato substitute per se but it will have to do! You can also eat masses of the stuff to fill up on.

Anyway – back into the swing of things. Everything crossed…(still under 80…..)

Tutu,

I had ME/CFS in the past (I suspect that multiple issues are put under the same label as all not understood) never as severe as many but enough to limit life, and though mostly better now am aware of a ‘short battery life’.

As far as following this or any plan – listen to your body, adapt and adjust.

Re Blood pressure – I was on the higher dose of BP meds for 2 years (even though only 41, my depression meds had high BP as side effect but once up it stayed up even when problem meds changed) but losing a stone on this diet (was 100kg or 15 1/2 stone; 5ft 10) I am now off BP meds completely. I have at least 2 st more to lose but already BP helped.

The idea that actively adding salt at this point is a good thing is important – compared to the high hidden salt ready meals and other junk I was eating, the prepare from fresh meals on this plan are a massive drop, so a bit of intentional adding still only gives a small amount compared to before. It is just that when we are the ones with the salt cellar we are aware, rather than when others in factory add it.

Hi Corkie, I made the chicken thighs dipped in yoghurt and crushed nuts and it was very nice. I saw she used drumsticks, I would use breast meat in future. 2 reasons, the thighs took much longer to cook (not 20 mins as stated for the drumsticks) more like 40 mins and, I find meat on the bone too much effort for little reward. I will say I went completely off her recipe as I didn’t use any parmesan cheese in the coating and used real nuts not ground almonds. I saved about 200 calories (recipe says 440 cals mine were 240), Still it is good to get ideas from.

Have you seen the danger recipes, lentil carrot and avocado salad 31 grams carbs per serving, spicy stuffed red peppers at 35 grams carbs and, wait for it taaaa daaaa moroccan style chickpea salad at 60 grams carb per portion. They will be given a wide berth or adjusted. I am doing the red pepper but instead of stuffing with lentils I will use lean lamb mince and increase the calories to reduce the carbs.

What else have you tried. Last night hubby had oven chips with his fritatta and 2 or 3 fell off his plate into my mouth, they were very dry but it was too late, gone.

Poor you – I feel for you and this happened to me – imagine what it’s doing to us if withdrawing is so rough! Don’t put yourself through too much exercise and if you feel weak just rest.. I will get much better very soon. If it doesn’t I would suggest upping calories (but not carbs) to maybe 1000 for a couple of days – eating extra protein and fat (but don’t feed the carb monster!)

Feel better soon
Sending hugs

TC

Hi sunshine-girl

The nurse has blown hot and cold about the BSD over the last 9 months. She admits she needs to lose weight, but does she try it? Of course not! Seems to be a case of ‘do what I say’ rather than ‘do what I do’. But it’s not my problem. She’s seen my results so one day she may decide to try it.

First of all Verano, where are you. You should be back from your holiday by now. Jump back on the bus.

My weight is on the move again, in the right direction. I had an increase in b/g this morning, only 120 (6.6 mmol.L) but always makes me worry. Worry not I told myself and looked at everything I ate yesterday. Tomatoes twice, in my salad at lunch and then in my fritatta in the evening. I know they are technically a fruit and the carbs are a bit on the high side as are the sugars but my garden is full of them so I felt I had to get rid of some. I tried making some pasta sauces and put it in 3 sterile jar and the lids blew with tomatoes and mould all over my cupboards. I think I will just put them in the freezer so I am not overdosing on them in future.

Nice to be able to see where I am going wrong. If you have the new recipe book by MM’s wife you will see some recipes with masses of carbs (i.e. 34 to 60 in one meal) and if you look at the ingredients it is easy to spot the culprits, chickpeas, lentils, beetroot, tomatoes and in one recipe, dates. Just need a bit of a tweak.

cinnamon yoghurt… mmm that is an idea to try,

not sure of divine intervention smiting you – but a well timed reminder from your body…. I know the feeling being at a meeting with lunch this week, and it was all sandwiches and wraps. As were train station offerings – I got some cold meat and tomatoes for my ‘evening meal’ on the way home. At the lunch I left as much bread as I could, given no cutlery, with the open sandwich approach – leaving half the bread and all the crusts, and skipping the crisps.

Great Captainlynne, Looks like doctors come and go but we remain and keep proving that this works. I have put on another thread that the advice we are following flies in the face of recognised practice and medical persons are afraid to go off piste and recommend something that has not been rubber stamped by NICE. On the quite though some doctors, like mine, are saying if it works go ahead. Good for your nurse, who though we would be teaching them.

All vitamins play an important role and most need replacing daily, what I am saying is that this diet is not going to deplete essential vits or minerals just because you are drinking lots of water. Even if you are not on this diet it is recommended that people drink 8 large glasses of water per day, i.e. around 2 litres, so it is not specific to this diet. If you are worried take a multivit which should be sufficient to make sure you are okay. UNLESS you are a vegetarian who tend to suffer from B12 deficiency through not eating enough protein which causes pernicious anemia. In which case you need added B12. The one thing you should not take extra of is Iron unless advised by a doctor. A normal person has sufficient in their diet and too much can be toxic.

Hope that helps.

Two things…..

1) A sprinkling of cinnamon mixed into Fage/Total yoghurt is heavenly.

2) I was just in a work meeting when unexpectedly (to me at least) lunch was delivered. I was just eyeing up the crisps and sandwiches and battling the ever-present “do I/don’t I?” debate in my mind when I was struck with an awful bolt of back pain, and I mean awful – feeling faint, not being able to move etc. So – divine intervention smiting me for thinking about carbs? I think so!! I need my back to get better and one of the main ways I’ll achieve this is by losing weight. Goodbye carby old sandwiches and crips. Hello crustless bacon frittata and coleslaw which is what I have actually packed for lunch today 🙂

LOL Yowzer 😃😂😂😂

All these uses for our old clothes!

I haven’t kept any of my old clothes (apart from the now famous coat) for the traditional before/after photo. You know the one – standing in one leg of the huge trousers that used to be worn. I suppose I could do something similar with the coat – how many people can fit into this coat? xxx

tutu, small amounts of salt on your food are not the problem, the problem is processed food which can contain masses of the stuff.

As for my cholesterol, I had been on the diet for 6 weeks when I had the test done in August. My doctor normally does it every 6 months so the previous one was February. I don’t think it started to come down before this diet as it had been high for years and years and I struggled to get it down. My triglycerides have always been way too high, so much so that alcohol always came into the question with my doctor. I convinced him it was not alcohol when I stopped drinking for 18 months and there was only a little improvement. I don’t understand the number for triglycerides except the acceptable range is below 1,70but in Feb they were 2,13 with a red star next to them, in August they were 1,38, so not just down, well below the danger level. My next test is due at the end of November but he is not doing cholesterol or triglycerides because he is more than happy with my results. So just HBA1c which had gone from 11.1 to 8.3 just by reducing carbs then on my last test 6 weeks into this diet from 8.3 to 6.7. Hopefully lower in November. Hope that helps, but basically I had been on this diet for 6 weeks at the time I started to see improvements. Gosh I do go on a bit.

Thanks for that Yowzer 😃

It must be the control freak part of me too😱

It’s just when so many people tell you not to lose more weight! And yes, many of them do need to lose weight themselves.

I may just stay on the journey and see where it leads – I do love exploring new destinations!😃

I think it is as the others have said. But it will pass! It’s a horrible feeling but definitely keep those fats and proteins up and you’ll feel much better. Don’t worry about being too active, especially if you feel weak. I hope you feel better soon!

I get that Lynne..one hundred pounds off sounds so neat.. I must say 91 pounds never sounded right to me coz the control freak side of me likes even numbers tho of course i could see why you wanted 91 ( 6 1/2 stone) and am very admiring of you achieving that and more! I think theres no doubt you’ll get to 100 lb down ( amazing isnt it!) as you’re very focused, and as you seem to still be a loser in the nicest sense of the word!
And if you dont,its only numbers anyway,its how your clothes fit that matter, and how you feel in yrself,and of course even more so,how good yr health is! X

Yes.
The treat thing for the kids is very very difficult. It’s all sugar. And shitey sugar at that! I have this thing with my kids where I say well you can have that (maybe a wee bar of choc) as oppose to ie those tangfastics or skittles..which are shitey sugar. At least in the chocolate there is a little goodness from the milk and the cacao! I agree that a little bit of sweets does the kids no harm especially at the running around stage. My older boy is at the stage “I’m hungry” me..have an apple ..him..looks like I have offered him a worm. And that’s the difficult part, because once they start moving a bit less or going down the town for their own lunch..you have less control. Not that I’m controlling..but I really do not wish for any of my children to have weight issues like what I have had for the 2nd half of my life. I am trying to protect them. .but every conscious not to scare them. Just trying relaxed nudges.

Having a good day so far.
Xx

TUTU i feel for you as i have ME too..i am past the severe stage, I wd say moderately unwell now after 20 years. Trying 5:2 fasting and BSD have been two examples of my many attempts to get better.

5:2/BSD hasnt helped my ME symptoms but i do think has made me overall healthier and of course,slimmer! Reflexology helped in the long term..i.e., an hourly session per week for two years. Also a graded exercise programme offered by the hospital was a big help..it was very gentle and built up slowly

I agree re salt..i’m using Himalayan pink salt..not sure if its any better but ive heard good things!

Only other thing i wd say is be cautious if you are severely ill ..yr body is under quite a lot of stress anyway and yr cortisol and adrenaline levels are probably high..BSD must put yr body under some further stress from what ive read even tho it also brings benefits,so you need to be careful. Are you under a consultant or part of any ME group such as ME Association? They may be able to advise you whats best at this stage of yr illness
I think youve been very sensible taking it slowly like you have xx

I feel for you HILLYBOB,yes its carb flu ..if its any consolation,it does pass like Barista says ..and it shows its working! Lots of us have gone thru this at some stage,very often the first week like you x youre right to get plenty of fluids inside you and eat yr protein and fats. Rest if you can,sleep if you can. Hope it passes soon! Hang on in xx

Hehe oh yes CAPTAIN,we could use your overcoat for the Big Top! My big nix could be safety nets for the trapeze artistes! 😄😄😄😄 xx

Hi Aggy, and welcome to the BSD family.

I think I can say I have a high adrenaline job. I’m a minister so find myself in lots of stressful situations.

In the past I noticed that my blood sugars were always adversely affected by the stress, so was interested to see that this hasn’t happened since following the BSD. Once my blood sugars started to drop, the ‘adrenaline increase’ didn’t happen.

I do change my routine on a Sunday, and sometimes on other, stressful, days. Normally I only eat breakfast and an evening meal, not being hungry inbetween. On Sunday I eat breakfast, then mid afternoon because I’m not at home when I would normally eat. Sometimes I have a small snack when I get home again, but that is becoming less common.

From always carrying food with me ‘just in case’ I no longer need to do this.

I find that being post-adrenaline makes me feel exhausted, so plan for that. I make sure I have something low-carb already prepared so I don’t have to think about it – just grab and eat. Or something that takes minimal preparation. It’s not a time to start preparing anything complex. In the past it would have been a sandwich or possibly a ready-meal. Now it can be left-overs, sliced cooked meat (or poultry), salad – something along those lines. I also found it helped to make sure there was no bread or other high-carb food in the house.

Hope this helps

All the talk about our voluminous clothes being used as camping equipment – I put my overcoat on last week and it was huge. Never mind camping equipment – it could house a circus😱 Yet another use for our old clothes!😃

Sounds like it Hillybob, I felt simply awful for the first weeks but it will hopefully pass quicker for you. Keep going and don’t give in, as you will feel the benefits very soon

Hi all, thanks v much for salt suggestions. i’ve been cutting back on salt over the past few months as blood pressure has become high this year so, obviously, a bit reluctant to increase too much due to BP but will try a little more and see. re cholesterol, sunshine-girl, very encouraging to hear! have you any idea how quickly your levels of chol. and trigylcerides started to fall and at what rate? many thanks.

Can anyone help? I am on day 4 and feeling very wobbly. No energy and when I went for a walk this morning thought I was going to collapse! I have upped my water intake, had three pints of water plus tea already today. I am feeling very weak and hungry (had scrambled eggs and smoked salmon for breakfast). Is this carb flu?

Hillybob

Hi Yowzer 😃

It was weird putting on my hat and finding it too big – fortunately it was my second best one. My best hat is slightly smaller 😃

My new coat isn’t as smart as my overcoat – zip front rather than buttons – but it’s warm and it fits 😃 On another thread we were discussing our old, baggy clothes being used as camping equipment. Thinking about it this morning, the coat could be used to house a circus😱😃

The pencil skirt – my own fault for buying a 14, not a 12! I’ll have to take it in, when I put it on it slides down to my hips😱 Fortunately that’s where it stops😃

Talking to the nurse this morning, I said that the figure of 9st 7lb had been mentioned to me so many times over the years and that was why I’d worked to that. But part of me has been thinking about the extra few pounds (as I’ve already gone under the 9.7) to get to 100 pounds loss. Must be all those years at slimming clubs with their 100 pound losers. I’ve said I want to stay between 9st and 9st 7lb, but 100 pounds would take me to 8st 12lb – not too far under my original thoughts. The healthy BMI for my height is 7st to 9st 7lb so I’d still be comfortably in the range. Probably the best thing to do is to not worry too much and just monitor how I’m feeling, how I’m looking while eating healthily – low carb of course!

Thanks Sunshine girl I will have a look. Just that I think I heard Vit C is important to help iron absorption.

I have my first mini goal set and probably the last! I’ve sat at 4lbs above my ideal weight for the last little while and in 4.5 weeks I to to Scotland – I want to lose it in that time! 1lb a week should be a dream, I currently do med-style as opposed to 5:2 and am going to have a lot of soup to reduce the calories as this seems to help the loss. My friend won’t know me! Wish me luck…

Hi Penny, yes, let him do his own meals. Also, I would suggest that rather than reduce his calories he reduces his carbs. If he is already on 50 grams try to get it down to 30. 600 calories is not going to make him loose quicker.

Mixmatch, if you look at the book again, you will see that the ‘famine response’ is a myth talked about by MM. It does happen but only when you are truly starving. See page 99.

Hi Christine

Back from seeing the nurse (and having flu injection).

She asked how I was feeling, checked my weight on her scales (they weigh less than mine), told me she tells lots of patients about the BSD. She asked I’d I’d seen the GP to discuss it, because she keeps on telling the GP about it (and me!). But the GP does not appear to be interested. I have heard on the grapevine that the GP is leaving, which will mean the practice will be staffed entirely by locums. In the 15 months I’ve lived her I’ve never seen the GP, and only seen a locum once!

The nurse asked me what the top of her healthy BMI (at 5ft 1.5ins) should be!!!!!

She liked some photos I showed her that were taken a few weeks ago 😃

Oh – to go back in a few months, just to let her see how I’m doing.

Hello tutu
I totally agree with Flash21 who has made some very helpful suggestions for upping your salt intake – for me it is the salt and it may be for you. The more water I drink the more I get horrendous muscle cramps – so although I do put salt on food I have to take a few grams of salt before I go to bed – if I don’t the muscle cramps in my thigh muscles are so painful.
I keep a tub of salt by my bed so if the cramps strike my OH puts some in a glass of water (I am usually in so much pain I can’t) and I drink it – the cramps go in a minute or so then I walk a few steps and I am ok for the rest of the night. This has been an issue all my adult life and salt has always worked.
I also get brain fog and a shaky feeling until I have more salt. I use celtic sea salt which has other minerals as well as sodium – although if I use regular white salt which is pure sodium it works faster.

Just google vit C and you will find it is in lots of other foods besides fruit. Vit C is one that needs to be flushed out and replaced daily, if you are worried take a supplement but keep within the recommended dose, more is not better.

Hope for the people on a plateau, I posted on 20th that I had been stuck for 2 weeks, 21st I lost weight and today I have lost even more. It does shift eventually so don’t give in. I think the body needs time to adjust to what it sees as strange things happening.

Hi tutu, Flash21 is spot on with the salt. Just to give you some hope, I have always had high cholesterol and doctor says it is probably familial, which would assume I could do nothing about it but take the tablets. Since being on this diet my cholesterol has gone from 4.8 to 3.4 and I eat more oils and fats and eggs. I have also seen a big reduction in my triglycerides which indicates an improvement in liver function. Don’t go on statins unless you are really forced to, even my doctor has tried to get me off them (before this diet) without success but has reduced my dosage by half because they cause muscle cramps at night and I mean jumping out of bed screaming cramps. I am hoping he will cut my dose even further with the improvements I have seen.

The sleep problems and brain fog are symptoms of carb withdrawal. 4 weeks in you should be seeing this go but as you have not been on the full 800 Fast for all that time it will ease over time. Try some relaxation for the sleep problems or a glass of milk before bed, there are lots of remedies on this site, just type in the search engine.

Hello tutu,

Well done on your 10lb loss so far – that’s fab! I think salt might be your friend here to help mitigate the cramps. If you are drinking lots and therefore flushing out lots, you may have depleted your salt levels at little. Others on these forums are far more knowledgeable about this than I am but it’s the advice I’ve been given. Maybe try a miso or broth/bouillon drink (also low cal – yay!) or perhaps adding some extra salt to something like a boiled egg. I hope this helps! I also suffer from terrible cramps in my legs and this does seem to minimise that a bit.

Hi everyone – for 4 weeks I’ve been easing my way in to the BSD. Not doing 800 calories, or even counting, but cutting out all dense carbs/sugar and following broad med diet. I’m doing the diet to lose a little weight (56 and crept up over the past 10 years to 10 st 9) but mostly because I’ve become very craving for food, want to eat even when I know I’m not hungry, find it very hard to lose any weight, and have bad blood pressure and cholesterol readings, which are getting steadily worse. My GP says its genetic on the cholesterol front but I have severe ME and am very reluctant to take statins as side effects are very usual for me and health already a constant issue. As far as I know blood sugar has always been ok. I’ve lost 10 lb or so which is unheard of for me in this time frame, but have started to get worse and worse cramps and muscle pain in the past week and sleep, which is always bad due to illness, has got worse. My fatigue levels have also increased and brain a bit shot. I’ve done 5;2 on and off over the past 2 years and, after initial probs, been fine with fast days and, usually, felt weller. I really like this regime, cravings have completely stopped and I don’t feel hungry. Anyone any idea what to do re cramps/ muscle pain/ sleep and brain fog?! I’ve searched for cramp on here and tried more water and late night snacks but no joy. I feel like my body is really not liking something.I can do very little exercise due to health issues. My GP no help on this. He has no clue about anything dietary beyond basic NHS health diet advice.

Haha Lucia, BITE ME is a great response! Hope you enjoyed your walking, cycling and wiggling.

Yowzer, jealous friends are horrible! Luckily I don’t have any of those (or at least they are not out of the woodwork yet). Although some do seem keen to push those well-know diet clubs. I read about one. It said I could have two jacket potatoes for dinner. I put on about 3lbs just by LOOKING at a potato, so no, I’ll stick to BSD thanks!

Frog – yes, very very irritating indeed!

Hope everyone has a good day 🙂

Hey Mixnmatch,

Wow SIX STONE!! Amazing!! That is so impressive 🙂 Six stone is also my goal so I will take inspiration from you!

I hope you weren’t too disappointed about only being able to wear your dress a couple of times! Perhaps you’ll have to start selling off all these hardly worn clothes to make way for your new wardrobe! I too have some lovely things I’d like to fit into but can’t quite just yet, so they will form part of my mini-goals. Another one is to treat myself to a new hair cut and colour once I’ve lost a stone. Only 1lb down so far, so that will probably be a long way off but onwards and downwards as they say!