hi
it was Lidl yogurt that my Turkish friend said he likes best (when I was talking to him in amazement about the vast array of yogurt choices in a Turkish supermarket) – and he is a bit of a foodie, imports his on amazing olives and olive oil from his own groves in Turkey and Cyprus.
I also had a nice one from Morrisons – Lancashire Farm Greek Style Yogurt £2 for a litre

I think the photo in the shirt and skirt is lovely too Lynne

Oh wow what a group Emily started I have the feed on tap via email it’s amazing how we are all in it together and super charged up!
So today…..
Breakfast scrambled egg with salmon
Mid snack handful nuts
Lunch tuna on sourdough
Mid snack apple
Dinner cod with green beans and asparagus
Yummy! Never felt hungry at all
Exercise hike 15 mins and long dog walk
Off shopping for everything tomorrow to start cooking new recipes for me and gorgy supportive hubby.
Happy slimming everyone! Conquer our cravings we CAN do it.

Morning, well it is here in Australia, one day down, managed NOT to drink wine last night ( miracle) and drank water instead, it was ok and I feel good this morning, going to have eggs for breakfast, ploughmans (BSD) for lunch then meeting the family for BBQ and to watch the Cronulla Sharks match (up up Cronulla!) will try to avoid wine, made chick pea crackers yesterday (amazing and easy) – so good seeing so much support on here and wonderful Emily rallying us all.

Hey all!
I’ve been out of touch for a few weeks as I was traveling but stayed on the program. Hope all is well with everyone!
Lost another inch this week although no weight but am still down 85 lbs total and just finished 21 weeks.
Still have farther to go!!
I joined a Facebook group for 800bsd but they blocked me today after I asked if they were affiliate with Michael and the book – when they said no I suggested they honor the link to this website and the forums. So they blocked me.
Be careful – seems there are some FB groups out there seeming to be connected although they aren’t really.
Wishing you all the best!

Yowser, Lidl greek yogurt (not the low fat, although that is still nice) is creamy and lush, love it. Only £1.38 for a large bucket!! I recommend you try it. I find it very filling as well, so a little goes a long way.

Hi! I just started today in California. I’m 52, am pre-diabetic with a diabetic husband. He is not doing this with me for now. The fatty liver and fatty pancreas make absolute sense to me. I got down to a goal weight using an herbal supplement that is no longer on the market. The diet was 1200 cals per day. Weight loss around 8 pounds per month. I kept the weight off for over a year with little effort. I’m not sure what triggered the re-gaining of the weight. I’m thinking – re-stressed the liver/pancreas. I am looking forward to this – using this forum to inspire me through the day that my body screams at me for carbs!

Good thanks. Half way through week 5, lost 1stone and feeling so much better. Well done for stickng to plan when stressed. Bet you’re feeling good!! Your weight loss is fantastic and your health already sounds much improved. Great that the whole family is joining in. I am staying with my daughter for a couple of weeks and we have all been eating low carb evening meals. My son-in-law and grandaughter are converts to courgetti and cauli mash and we are all really enjoying the recipes from the books. Enjoy your weekend. xx

Sharikenn, when I started this my husband asked if I would miss rice and pasta so I asked him to tell me what it tasted like, no sauce, nothing, just plain. He said it tasted of nothing. So that is what I am missing, nothing. Agree with the spuds though….

Hi Orangeblossom, Since starting this plan I have been eating full fat yogs and cheese and even have butter to cook with as well as the olive oil and, yes my cholesterol was way down too and so were my triglycerides and also my HBA1c down from 8.2 to 6.7. My husband is a skinny thing and only has high blood pressure, but he tends to eat what I cook and has stopped asking for potatoes or rice with his meal and he has also reduced chol and tri but also his blood pressure is down so much that the cardiologist wants to take him off b/p tablets but our GP is a bit more cautious.

Sorry forgot to mention that I am also doing the 800 calorie diet

Hello
I am also starting the diet tomorrow and would love to be part of your forum . I am a 63 retiree and want to lose 14 kilos and get fit to face my retirement years so that I can have the adventures and holidays I wish to have in the next decade

Does anyone have any suggestions for homemade crunchy foods? I am new to this style of diet and miss toasted bread!

Hi all,

Well that is Day 1 done! I won’t lie…I do feel rather weak and am now slumped in bed. But am still feeling determined to carry on and hope the weak feeling willl pass once my body gets over the shock of no bread or wine on a Saturday.

It is so great to hear from eveyone. I have read the whole thread and I am not sure I could do this without this group.

P.S To those asking “can I join?” …of COURSE you can! The more the merrier. And I am not the boss of the thread! I just started it out of fear 😉

P.P.S For my own accountability, I read logging my start weight as 14 stone 2 as that is what the scales said today.

Night night all

Thank you for the advice sunshine-girl. I am lucky in the way as I never was a fan of pasta or rice, if you eat them on their own, you soon see they are pointless calories for something tasteless. Potatoes on the other hand…. hmm 🙂

That is the week I am off to the states, the same as your daughter. So I will say hi. I am sure with all the walking it will help out. So that is week 1 done for me. Onto week 2. 🙂

Thanks Mixnmatch, That’s great to know….you have done SO well. I’m on day 6 and have struggled a bit today. I’m still waiting for my book to be delivered so I’m winging it a bit with what to eat, but I have lost about 4 lbs so far, and am looking forward to getting to grips with exercising again. Thanks fairydewdrop, and everyone for all your positivity, advice and encouragement. Here’s to starting anew tomorrow 😀

Hi everyone, I’ve been skulking here since I started on 27th September, I’ve lost 7lbs and its not even a week! I would like to say I’m super pleased, but I want to lose 4.5 stone so 7lbs is drop in ocean and total seems such a long long way away.

I am trying to get my head around carbs and calories, having done the no count with WW it seems slightly confusing as I’ve never calorie or carb counted. I am currently using online recipes and from the 5.2 book. Haven’t got the new one yet. I am eating brekkie and tea only, this has not been very hard as I love shashouska and it is really filling so a few times a week, although I usually have an egg based breakfast.
I really hope to keep to this successfully and I am shocked that I have not really felt ill not eating sugar or bread. I have no cravings at all, very little hunger, its usually just boredom calling me to fridge, apart from nibble of coconut I’ve been super strict.
I do think, no I know, I will struggle never being able to have coffee and walnut cake again. I have absolutely no restraint and once I’ve broken through.and started eating poorly again I’m like a crack addict.
Any support or advice in coping techniques when you just need a coffee and walnut cake much appreciated. I would say, at the risk of over sharing, pmt cravings are really difficult to cope with.

Today I received the 8week BSD book. I haven’t read it completely yet. Saw this site so thought I would check it out. I’m 68 and have been on a “diet” most of my adult life. I am keen to start this but as I have a freezer full of foods that won’t be appropriate feel I will not be able to it do 100%. I am not in a financial position to waste these foods. I will do my best to adapt some of my foods to BSD. Which I did tonight by making the chilli con carne which I served with steamed broccoli. Good look to all hope to join you completely when my freezer haul is depleted.

Saturday – Day 7 of BSD Fast 800. Really, really struggled today. Have gone over on kcal’s, but stayed low on carbs. Eaten loads of veg though too. I feel as though I’ve done the best I can today, but am missing ‘eating as a hobby’ … I hadn’t realised how attached to cooking, nibbling, having a lovely glass of wine or a beer I am both in terms of sheer pleasure, but also as an activity.

Didn’t get a good night’s sleep last night – which always makes me hungrier. So maybe a combination of the two.

Managed not to eat the homemade cornflake crisps my youngest daughter made, or eat even a lick of the spoon of Hagen Das … so am not beating myself up. Just went over with Roast Pork Belly …

Today is a blip, and I shall hope to get back on track tomorrow. Fingers crossed. If not, my wiggle room is that I can perhaps swap over to the having a couple of days of more regular calories, and do 3/4/5 Fast800 days. We’ll see.

At 50 and six stone lost so far, I am pretty extreme and do not really have any problems. (My bikini days are probably over, but that’s not just a bit of loose skin, I prefer swimsuits for comfort). I have your classic ‘wings’ when holding my arms up and a little empty skin around the remains of the stomach flab, but have moved from size 22 to size 14 with no concerns. As I move closer to my healthy weight I intend to up the exercise particularly around the stomach and arms to see if that will help tighten the skin any further.

Day one – so far so good.

I’ve been trying out some recipes since Thursday (when my books arrived) and so far they have been filling enough.

Breakfast – Greek yogurt with raspberries and blueberries + black coffee
Lunch – Made a ham, mushroom and spinach omelette amounting to 336 cals (olive oil was 119cals!!!)
Dinner – cauliflower rice, prawns + side of lettuce.

Some background – I’m Asian and I like to cook so altho the recipes are to my tastes anyway, I also have to cook for my mum’s tastes. I was able to adapt tonight’s dinner for both us. Using MFP app is great for adapting recipes.

Welcome back Janey 🙋
Not sure I would be brave enough to bare all these days…might blot out the Sun…😉😄😅
Reminds me of a holiday in France (way back in my early twenties), when a friend from my college days invited me to join her, her husband, and their children on a weeks seaside camping holiday. I travelled across from the UK by train to meet them at the camp. Wasn’t till I arrived that they ‘shared’ the information that the campsite and beach were designated as a naturist site😱😱😱 First day kept my clothes well and truly on!!! Soon felt ridiculous and shed my inhibitions pretty quickly (for an uptight Brit!!) – really enjoyed the freedom. Still drew the line at supermarket shopping naked though😲

@fairyface best of luck to you too. I have found the first day easier than I thought, would usually be sitting with a glass of cold prosecco right now but have swapped it for a large glass of fizzy water. We had the Thai red curry for dinner tonight,have noted only 3 tsps paste needed next time as it was a bit too spicy for me. First time I have had cauli rice and enjoyed it definitely better done in the oven. keep in touch with your progress 🙂

Good Luck with your adventure too Chris (Fatbloke). Day 1 almost over and I have really enjoyed the food I have had so far and yes smoking is a hard one to beat so I can do this. 🙂

Hi Miranda, The smaller plate does work. I have been using one for a while and had lost 10 pounds prior to starting.

Determinedhistime. I think exercise will be the key, I read a post on here somewhere were a lady lost over 4st. She started with 10 mins on exercise bike a day . I’m going to start a little every day . Walking More etc . I hope we get a few more posters who have lost a lot of weight give us some tips as well. thanks for the reply . Good Luck x

Lamb tegine was delicious, even picky daughter who was reluctant, as it smelt ‘spicy”, enjoyed it. Found a similar recipe on the BBC website which said it was freezable, so have a readymade meal for when I come home late. Had quinoa for the first time and am now a convert. I was also surprised how full I felt after the yoghurt.
I Have also decided to use smaller plates to deceive my eyes and tummy.

Avila,thanks for the reply …glad to hear you have had no problems , I have 3 stone to lose in total . So hope i’m lucky
It won’t put me off losing weight . Just wanted any tips or advice.

This week I had my first NHS health check as turning 40. Have been trying low carb / low sugar med style eating in way of the blood sugar diet, and was interested to see the affects on my cholesterol levels. The HDL (good type) is 2.4 and LDL (bad type) 2.5…the GP said this was very good, especially the HDL level. I wonder if the diet is to do with this. I have been eating lots of greek yoghurt with berries like raspberries and blueberries, with a little honey and to change from bread i like dark ryvita with butter and sometimes humous. I also eat no red meat, and mostly quorn, and although still have about a stone to lose am pretty active, with a gym membership. I’d be interested to hear how this compares to others on this diet.

Hi Green Tea, I was pleasantly surprised at how full I felt after eating the berry breakfast. It was also delicious.
I’m not much of a tea or coffee drinker, I keep meaning to try green and peppermint tea to see if I like them any better.

Hi all. What a great thread! I started 25 Sept with 20kg to lose and a large middle that grew a life of its own over the last few years with the menopause circus. Super excited we are all in this together!

tigsxx

JANEYI admire you going au naturelle on yr hols! Good for you! Hope you had a fab time and welcome back,its nice to have you here again..
it does seem like our tums really dont like those carbs nearly as much as at times our heads seem to want them.
I can go ages then suddenly i will want something bready,toasty,biccie- ish or cakey,usually when i get a nice smell going past a bakery or something ..all that stops me from succumbing is thinking that these days i might just get a bad belly ache! 😝😝 x

I also started today Lisa 67.
I am 63 shortly, osteoarthritis in my knees. Only take aspirin daily but feel as though I am not living life to its full potential! I weighed this morning and I am 17st 13lbs, 114.2kg, 251.8lbs. Hubby and I went on a marathon shop yesterday. Meal planner done but is in need of tweeking. Which we are giving ourselves a couple of days to sort out again. We have taken before photographs and I think I might do them every month. I have read the book and bought the recipe book which I don’t want to deviate from for the first 8 weeks. I will start to go out for a walk daily even if it is just up our road! Drank loads of water today and enjoyed what I have eaten. Onwards and upwards:-)

Cooked the cod with chorizo this evening on a bed of leeks. Put in extra chorizo – and counted the calories on MFP – came out at 380. Absolutely delish!
Mr BB has now read the book – I put it on his kindle – and found it ‘very interesting’. Loved his supper. Maybe he will join me?

hello, can I join you ? starting tomorrow – newly diagnosed – got around 9 stone to lose but Im not really thinking about that, just looking forward to health !!!!

Ive got a big food delivery coming tomorrow and a cook up planned as I work long shifts, any one know if the muffins are freezable ?

Morning / evening all

Very happy with 3kg (6.6lb) and 4cm off waist after first week. A few headache and fuzzy head days as to be expected but really not hungry at all. That was the biggest surprise as any other diet I always felt like I could eat my desk! And feeling like I can still fit in a week end social night (much much less portions though) which I can look forward to. Super rapt.

I missed in the book or somewhere but I am gathering an aim is to keep carbs below 50. Is that right?

tigsxx

Hi….what a great idea to start this group! I started this morning and have 3 stone to lose (I’m 5 ft 7 and weigh 14 stone 3). I’m 49 and had a shock yesterday when I was put on tablets for high blood pressure. I’m pretty sure that if I eat better and lose weight, I can come off the tablets. Good luck everyone….

I had my colours done as part of ‘valuing myself’ as ‘homework’ in therapy after a breakdown. It was very enlightening,

Not as good as it could have been as had to finish up some leftovers and other half poured me a drink!! However, today went like this

Breakfast was half a Greek yoghurt with fruits of the forest – leftover from earlier in week so had some sugar in them as they were vicious

Lunch was left over black black bean and red lentil chilli with a sprinkling of parmesan

Dinner was homemade minestrone soup – onions, tomatoes, carrot, leek, cabbage and tiny shredded bacon bits, tiny bit of pasta shapes – made enough for 4 meals – around 200 calories.

Lots of water.

Tomorrow will be much better.

Well done to all of you for doing so well on maintenance. It is very inspiring to know that you have seamlessly moved from the weight loss phase to maintenance and instead of immediately putting the weight back on you have either stayed on target or have even dropped below target.

My start weight was 12stone 3 3/4lbs. Target was 10 stone 7lbs. I am now 10stone 3 3/4lbs and clearly at 5′ 6″ do need to lower my target to 9stone something – maybe 9stone 10lb.

So that is what I will aim for and adjust lower if I need to. So thank all of you on maintenance for leading the way. It is so much easier to follow in your footsteps rather than try to make my way on my own. I feel very emotional tonight – I looked in the mirror today and hardly recognized the person looking back at me with a waist smaller than it has ever been since I had my children in my late 20s – I am 68 now.

I’ve just returned from a week in Spain today, embracing the Med diet although with some additional bread and alcohol! Will be glad to cut carbs down again though as the stomach doesn’t like it!!!

BUT my holiday snaps are far more favourable this year than last.. and when you’re a naturist that makes a difference!! 😎☀️😂

Ok so todays meal were (all from BDS 800 recipe book:
Breakfast – Poached egg and avocado
Lunch – Ploughmans Lunch
Dinner – Veg curry and cauliflower rice.

I loved all of these meals.

Yesterday’s meals (my first day) were :
Breakfast – Portabello toast with goats cheese
Lunch – Sardine dip with crudités
Dinner – Baked fish with green beans

Not keen on the sardine dip (I have a problem with the taste of oily fish!) or baked fish, but I can work on that recipe and customise it to my taste.

Too scared to weigh in as yet, think I will be weighing once a week on a Friday only.

Drank heaps of water (about 2.5 litres so far) and will keep on doing so.

Have had headaches today, but from what I’ve seen on the other threads these are not uncommon and pass within a few days, so I have taken some painkillers which solved that problem!

Not feeling hungry I am so happy with that, as was worried due to lots of scare stories around VLCD.

Hope you are all keeping positive!

HI Lisa,

I started on Friday so I am only on day 2.

Good luck with it, if you can kick smoking then you can do this.

Chris

Welcome Purplespice and we’ll done fir facing the scales!!

So I calculate you are aiming for 14kg loss, which is 30lb. And I am pleased to tell you my 26 lb loss took me 9 weeks – so you are absolutely in the ball park of achievable! 🙂

Measure – use clothes if you like to judge- don’t worry too much about weight plateaus
Drink, drink, drink, drink
Count carbs as well as calories and if you can do 50g or less of “good” carbs per day, that will help
Plan and use an app to record and help
Weigh your food
Try lots of different food – your tastes will change
Add salt and especially if you feel lightheaded

And GO FOR IT!!!! You can do it

Let us know how you go 🙂 🙂

Oh these are awesome replies!

Thank you so much… You have really given me confidence that I can do this.. And not put it off using the hotel stay as yet another excuse not to tackle my problem with sugary carb addiction

I did all my shopping today for my first week.. And I think I spent the longest time ever in a supermarket …. Normally I hate shopping.. But today was an education looking for ingredients I’d never heard of before!

Hi everyone,
I ‘ started’ the BSD yesterday but couldn’t face the scales. Today I did. I’m 4ft 11inches – approx 149 cms with a medium frame. My target weight is 52 kg. I was 65.9kg this morning before any food/ drink. Long way to go- It is good to read other people’s continuing successes.

I have started today!
weight today: 114.2kg
Menues: sorted (mostly)
Shopping: done (still more to do)
Meal planner: made out for next two weeks (nearly)
Before photographs taken:-(
Measurements recorded:-/
Just need to decide how much I would like to get down to.

Put the skinny cottage pie recipe in my calculator and it comes out at 310 cals as it says in the book and 10 carbs not 8 and I have left out one of the cheeses. So it must be higher calories than it says. I always check first.

Just double checked all ingredients and it works out at 380 calories not 310, so be careful out there peeeps

Good for you AVILA spreading the word! Its good that some folk are keen to know more. I think a lot of peeps are just a bit scared of it..i know i was,BSD sounded too harsh,even to a seasoned faster like myself! And yet the reality is delightful in many ways! X
Mmm bacon butty…😋😋😋😋 well done on swerving the bread! X

Hi Verano – I started weighing everything and logging it into fat secret on 3rd Sept. The first 4 months (started on 1st May) I guessed everything and thought vegetables and berries and hummus contained hardly any carbs). I was told by the dietician at the hospital that the carbs in hummus do not affect blood sugar levels so there is no need to count the carbs or inject insulin to cover it. Clearly not true.

I lost 1 stone and 1lb in 4 months then with fat secret and weighing everything I have lost a mind blowing 1 stone since 3rd Sept. Two stone overall (I had to lose 1lb twice).

It shows how bad I was at guessing. Also planning the day in the morning I can tweak my menu – usually I have to take out the blueberries or cut down on the quantities of veg. I had absolutely no idea that non starchy vegetables contained so many carbs.

I’m in too. I started today and I’ve planned and shopped for tomorrow’s meals and Monday’s Breakfast & Lunch. I will need to shop again for Monday evening’s meal so if anyone eats any delicious dinner I’d love to know. I have 3 stone to lose.