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. ☺😊😀😁😂😃😄😅

Hi Lessness, you are quite probably not doing anything wrong, we are all different, and the amount of weight you have to lose does make a difference to how quickly it goes. If you are exercising a lot more than you used to you could also be building muscle and lean mass. This is a good thing as the higher the proportion of lean mass, the faster the fat will burn, so check measurements or use clothes that used to be too tight to gauge if you are losing fat but building muscle and toning instead. If you are unsure about whether you are in ketosis (fat burning mode) there are testing kits you can buy to check, and then if you are not, or only borderline, try dropping the carbs even more, as Igor suggests.

Check you are including a good amount of fat in your diet, and having at least 2.5 litres of water a day. If both of those are okay, try adding a little more salt or some higher fibre foods to try to get things moving. I have just been on a plateau for around a week and a half of no weight loss and even a couple of days of weight gain despite keeping the calories down, and this helped my weight to start dropping off again the last couple of days, I have lost 3.6 pounds since Sunday.

I got the book last week and have tried a few of the recipes this week.

Had the roasted pepper and butternut squash soup yesterday, was lovely, pretty easy to make, just need to roast the veg a bit longer or a bit higher temp next time. Also had the Moroccan meatballs in tomato sauce yesterday, tasty and again pretty easy to make, but i think the portion should be for 4 people not 6 as it would be too small for a main meal. The pork with mustard sauce was quick and v easy, had it with cauli mash from the book also.

I’m happy this book came out now as for me it’s the perfect time to refresh the meals we are eating with the new recipes. I’ve been on the diet for 5 months now and it feels normal to do this now and it is working – have lost 5st / 70lbs doing this, have more to lose so just gonna carry on.

Going to try and fit in a new recipe each day or so, keeps everything interesting and the intro of the book just reaffirms the principles. Yeah there are some high carb (relatively speaking) in the book but with a few tweaks they could probably fit in with the 30g carbs i’m aiming for each day.

Hi, I wonder if people can help me please. I am on week 3 of the 800 calorie plan. I’m not diabetic but have PCOS and 3.5 stone to lose. I haven’t lost anything this week despite sticking to the plan like glue and running 3 times a week. I’m cold and hungry quite a lot and just can’t work out why I haven’t lost anything. Last week I lost 4lb. Please help, this feels like a he’ll of a lot of effort for no weight loss so early on!

Had a play around in settings and found how to change it so it states 800 cals so am a happy bunny now

Mixmatch, you are going to have to teach me how to do the smiley faces, I only know 🙂

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.