Hehe! Yes we all need to resplend much more often! X ✨✨✨✨

WEIGHT:
START: 70.4 kilos [155 lbs]
Week 1: 68.4 [150 lbs]
Week 2: 67.3 [148 lbs]
Week 3: 65.9 [145 lbs]
Week 4: 64.1 [141 lbs]
Week 5: 63.5 [139 lbs]
Week 6: 62.7 [138 lbs]
Week 7: 62.8 [138 lbs]
Week 8: 62 [136 lbs]
TOTAL LOSS: 8.4 Kilos [19 lbs] [12% loss]

BMI:
START: 34.4%
Week 1: 33.2
Week 2: 32.9
Week 3: 32.4
Week 4: 31.7
Week 5: 31
Week 6: 30.7
Week 7: 30.8
Week 8: 30.5
TOTAL LOSS: 3.9%

WAIST:
START: 37 Inches
Week 1: 35
Week 2: 33.5
Week 3: 33.7
Week 4: 33.4
Week 5: 33
Week 6: 32.8
Week 7: 32.8
Week 8: 32.2
TOTAL LOSS: 4.8 Inches [12cm]

WAKING BLOOD SUGAR: Prediabetic=100-125 mg/dL [5.6-6.9 mmol/L]
START POINT: 90-107 mg/dL [4.9-5.9 mmol/L] Prediabetic Range
Week 1: 86-103 mg/dL [4.8-5.7 mmol/L] Prediabetic Range
Week 2: 87-103 mg/dL [4.8-5.7 mmol/L] Prediabetic Range
Week 3: 82-90 mg/dL [4.5-4.9 mmol/L] Normal Range
Week 4: 71-90 mg/dL [3.9-4.9 mmol/L] Normal Range
Week 5: 79-88 mg/dL [4.3-4.8 mmol/L] Normal Range
Week 6: 71-84 mg/dL [3.9-4.6 mmol/L] Normal Range
Week 7: 77-86 mg/dL [4.2-4.7 mmol/L] Normal Range
Week 8: 82-91 mg/dL [4.5-5.0 mmol/L] Normal Range

My blood sugars are a success as I was in the normal range since week 3. I am waiting for some blood test results.

It was even better news when I weighed myself at the Doctors as I actually weigh 61 Kilos. My scales BMI calculation is a bit off so I calculated my BMI on the NHS BMI calculator.

NHS BMI calculator:
My Actual Weight: 61 Kilos [134 lbs]
My Actual BMI: 25.4

NHS Healthy ideal minimum weight: 60.3 kilos [133 lbs] minimum
NHS Healthy ideal minimum BMI: 25 minimum

I am still in the overweight category by 700g [1.5 lbs] and 0.4% BMI
My new target is
Healthy weight: 58 kilos [128 lbs]
Healthy BMI: 24.1 minimum

I want to be a couple of kilos below the healthy weight minimum line for fluctuations.

After a one week diet holiday I will start the 5:2 diet with a low-carb lifestyle to lose the rest of the weight. Then I will move on to a 6:1 maintenance low-carb lifestyle.

Here is a Before and after photo:
http://www.pinkmousemedia.com/images/b4_after.png

I had to buy new trousers one size smaller as my normal trousers kept falling down and were very baggy. I am wearing my new size 10 trousers in the after photo 🙂

Congratulations, Mixnmatch. And thanks, as I’ve been thinking about asking what on earth JOTF means, but now I understand. I don’t have any JOTF, but I do have TOTDF (trousers of the distant future) and SOTF (skirts…). With any luck, I might get into some of the skirts by Christmas, but the trousers will probably not be before April time. All good though. Still a target. Currently only 0.9 kg off my mini target for the end of the month, so that’s looking like a goer. And then it’s properly downwards this year, as I’ll have lost all the weight I put on earlier this year (a shocking amount and I know why – lack of self-control).

Good luck everyone.

Congrats IMP on completing 8 weeks! Its a great feeling of accomplishment isn’t it!
I wd LOVE to be yr weight! Good luck with yr next goal ..i am sure you’ ll reach it,just keep focused x

Excellent word Yowzer! Have a resplendent Sunday!!! ☀️☀️

Thats lovely news MIX! like JANEY said,a huge psychological leap going from a 16 to 14
Enjoy your day being resplendent ( good word) ! X
Great news too GAVIN on yr loss of weight and inches after first week 5:2 x

Thanks Arthur, Tabletalk and snoop, first week was tough, sure has been testing doing it together with my better half, but were getting through it, great results all

That was meant to say 400ml serving for lunch 😂

Daniel, high fives on your good results, I am not planning my shopping yet. OH said I should buy some new clothes and I said no, no, not yet!. How many women say that?

Cary Grant -wonderful. I have no idea why they remake wonderful movies

Happy Sunday and congrats Mix! There’s definitely a huge mindset leap going from 16 down to 14 jeans… for me it was like ‘I no longer have to shop in plus size retailers’!! Keep going.. line up yr next JOTF!! 👍🏼😀👍🏼😬👍🏼

Morning all, already announced this on the mini-goals thread, but as this is the home of the JOTF I am pleased to announce that I am now resplendent in a perfectly fitting pair of (admittedly stretch) size 14 jeans! Next target the non stretch pair 😀 then size 12. I can’t remember the last time I was size 12 but it was probably before I got married.

Hi everyone,
Well done on all the successes, and thanks for all the support. Like Lainie, I don’t post much but do read everyone’s comments.
End of 8 weeks and I’ve lost 15lb. Not as much as some but I’m now 12st 4 so as some of you have pointed out to others my loss is likely to be slower.
Also I was on holiday so had a couple of weeks in the middle where I had a lot of meals out with friends and managed to stick to the principles and still lost 1/2lb each week. I had a bit of a blowout last weekend for a friend’s birthday and danced the night away so although the scales say I’ve lost 1/2lb this week I know I’ve also lost the 3lb I put back on!!

Finding it easier now I’m back at work, although I’m not logging everything on an app but doing the principles – aiming for 800cals and not beating myself if I do have an extra slice of cheese of couple of walnuts so I’m sure it could be faster but this feels not too stressful!

Target is to try to get to 11st 7 by half term in 5 weeks time. 11lb to shift.
Can we do this? YES WE CAN!!

Come on BSD team, keep on keeping on 😁
L xx

Sunday morning weigh-in stats:

Height: 5′ 10″ (I’m not expecting this to change!)
Waist: 41″ (2″ gone)
Waist to Height Ratio: 0.58
Weight: 14st 12.4lb (8.6lb gone)
Heart rate: 73 bpm
Blood pressure: 125/88

Very pleased! Mrs C has also lost 8lb but nothing off her waist – anyone know why this might be?

About to tuck into cheesy beans.

I was getting a little fed up with this latest 0.3 lb standing between me and my next official mini goal of getting into the next stone bracket, and having noticed yesterday that my size 16 jeans now need a belt to hold them up, decided to raid the BOTF (box of the future, where all the clothes I have bought deliberately small as targets live) in my wardrobe and I am proud to announce that I am now in my size 14 JOTF. Size 14 jeans! Okay, they have some stretch, but I didn’t have to wriggle much to get in them and they are perfectly wearable. Much happier now. Roll on size 12!

Hi there

I’ve just finished the 8 weeks BSD and I must say it’s been a revelation! I’m a 6’1 43 year old male who’s always looked thin but carried a bloated belly (well hidden) around. After 4 weeks the belly had gone and I was loving the diet – it didn’t feel like a chore, I was taking an interest in cooking again rather than shoving a pizza in the oven. After 8 weeks I’ve gone from 12stone 10lbs to 11 stone 5lbs – to be honest i probably look a bit too thin because the weight has dropped from my face and neck as well as my belly.

Anyone know what I should do next? I’ve got a feeling that I need to build some muscle to bulk up a little and up my calories but I don’t want to just balloon up again…

Snoop I use carb-45g, protein-50g, fat-47g as my daily guideline while on BSD (803 Cal). I find trying for less carbs makes life unpalatable for me. The fats should be ‘good ones’ (olive oil, nuts, avocado) and i dont stress if I’m a couple of grams over a guideline (which means being a smidge under on something else, as long as the calorie total us right. Im in Australia and use CalorieKing dot com dot au to keep my daily totals straight but there are clearly lots of resources around the planet that do the same thing. Good luck on your journey.

I am starting this plan tomorrow but having a bit of a prep and cook up day today.
I have a recipe that I use for squash soup. It contains squash (or pumpkin), onion, garlic, curry powder, turmeric, root ginger, 1L veg stock and 400ml coconut milk at the end.
Would this be allowed and if so what would a 500ml of soup be in calories please?

I’ve tried two other calorie counting sites and found the same as you Adie. I know there’s a measurement error in ascertaining calorie content of foods but the discrepancy with BSD recipes is marked.

im a tofi – was 9st 7lb tostart with: type 2 3 yrs . stuck to bsd for 6 weeks ;though some lower readings bs still in diabetic range. disappointed – my diabetes is certainly not ‘ reversed’. lost 8lb though. 🙁

Oh I do eat whole eggs, the egg whites was simply an experiment as I am sometimes way over on my fat macro. I can’t get my head around splitting my own eggs and potentially throwing half away, particularly the yummiest half, but found some packaged egg whites and gave them a try. My favourite eggs are from a small farm in the Lake District. We get them every month or so when visiting my parents, and they really are the best tasting eggs I have ever found.

Oh and I don’t wear Lycra.

And there are skinny Minnie’s in the gym, but they are not so bad. I tolerate them 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
I used to be scared being in the same room as them.
Now I just need them off MY MACHINE so I can strut my stuff doing exercise.

LOOK AT THE WAY MY MIND SET HAS CHANGED.

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Oh and regarding food,
I have , over the past. Month tried things I used to like eg chippy chips, and, well, they just taste gross!!!!
Greasy, stodgy, fatty, smelly and all words like that.

To think, I thought I could not survive without cornflakes for breakfast, now I have yogurt and berries.
For lunch maybe a salad or an apple.

I sort of eat now , a small amount to take the edge off my hunger, rather than eat a tone of foood in one sitting just in case the world runs out of carbs in the next ten minutes.

I changed little by little.
The biggest effort I did, was to start moving.
Just getting my big bottom off the settee was so big a task.

Then I couldn’t walk, I had to waddle so far and sit in a bus stop on their benches built into the shelter, pretending to wait for a bus. Catch my breath, then waddle off. I would sit on a wall, sit in a fence, sit on anything, to catch my breath and again waddle off.
The number of sitting downs reduced bit by bit.
Until, like yeaterday, I did 30 mins on the rowing machine, elliptical machine, the treadmill.
Then I went into the weighs room and bench presssed 150 pounds, and worked on other machines that I don’t know the names of, then a swim.
Don’t forget I cycle about two miles each way to the gym.
I thought the gym was less than a mile until hubby clocked it for me.
And I still did my 10,000 yesterday after the gym.

If I can do it, and I am a big old bird, then you can do it too.
Come onto the path with me, I am not that far ahead of you. Can you see me waving to you? I m waiting here for you, come and stroll up to me, we have plenty of time today.

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Oh and I am fit enough o climb up a ladder
And slim enough to get through the loft or attic door.
Went up for him to look for his fishing net.

Lazy puppy.
Bit at least I can do it and
I treated it as a form of exercise.

Project this weekend is …. sit-ups
Got to get rid of that belly.

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Me get help at home?
He stays in bed while I get up cycle to the gym from 6.30.
Do 90 mins, cycle home.
Then sleeping beauty awakens……

I do the bulk of my exercise very early so I don’t get moaned at.
I can then secretly do my 10,000 steps just plodding around through out the day.

So, if I can do it without any backing etc so can you.
And if you get an ounce of encouragement , know that in my world, you would be a king.

Keep strutting your stuff.

Love. Lucia
Xxxx

Bloke41, that’s amazing. Well done to you and your wife.

Ruthdownunder, thanks for the info. I’ll have a look at my “daft question thread” in a bit and post there too. Lots to take in.

For now, today’s figures:
84.4 kg
-0.1 kg
Overall change -4.1 kg
Yesterday’s food and exercise
847 calories
49 net carbs
Four hours’ digging (I’ll be swimming in cabbages and caulis this winter!)

My Fitness Pal is populated by users. Some enter data carefully – others, not so much. You have to have check each entry – or have a pretty good eye for recognizing which entries are correct. I don’t know where FatSectet gets its data.

MFP uses the US way of counting carbs – the carbs include fiber, so if you want to know net carbs you have to subtract fiber.

One more thing. I am not sure that MFP and Fatsecret count all fibre properly. Someone will probably tell yeah or nay

Sunshine-girl we used to call that impossible pie back in the day ( it had some flour decades ago) I think you could call it a baked frittata now and serve it at expensive cafes. It sounds yummy

Mixnmatch eat your whole eggs, fat and protein and delish!

Snoop have you tried paleo style pancakes.We have something in Oz called LSA – ground linseeds, almonds and sunflower seeds and it makes the best healthy pancakes. You could used coconut flour – or Frog’s delicious pomlette with besan (gram flour I think you call it – chickpea anyway.) I use milk and eggs, but you could use water, less egg and a pinch of baking soda for the puff up. There are all sorts of recipes out there I have mine for brekkie with a smidgin of greek yoghurt and a little fruit, but they also toast well and make very easy pretend bread. Almond flour is very dear here as well as in the UK – have learnt that here, but a good blender will make your own dry mixture into quite reasonable flour .

The heart attacks must have been very worrying for you, and OH, but if he sticks to this plan his sugar levels will go down – look at CaptainLynne, Bill54 and many others who have posted here and his blood pressure should drop quite dramatically. And his cholesterol levels, even if he eats some eggs. I am afraid I eat a little bacon as well, but I am very old and stuck in my ways. Not so stuck that I found this WOE brilliant and successful even though I am slower than most. My cholesterol and BP have come down even with relatively small weight loss

I will pipe down now

Good luck to all

Hi, you are all doing very well. Just want to let you know that the keto site reddit.com/r/keto/wiki/faq says that grams of fibre do not count because we do take them in. So if you can find out any many grams of fibre in your blackberries or whatever you can probably deduct them from your carbs. MFP won’t do it, as far as I know. Other cleverer folk than I have put proper links to that site and its other pages in their posts.

On the other hand that site does warn about too much fruit!

Keep on keeping on lovely folk. As Yowzer says it is elementary!

ruth

Well done everyone. Amazing calorie control Snoop! I’m sure the gardening is a great diversion and good exercise too. Bloke41 very nice! Glad your other half is on board and you’re succeeding together.

Mmm…glad you mentioned boiled eggs. Arthurconandoyle. Going to make some tomorrow…need to change it up some…

Today’s #s:
Weght: 163lbs pleased to be back to this so fast considering time of month.
Calories:730
Carbs: 40

Brought the scale and lots of herbal tea on vacation with me. Here we go…

Impressive figures, bloke41. Congratulations to both of you!

Week 3 done and dusted, todays weigh in result, 150.5kg, waist 148cm, start weight 159.9 kg, waist 158cm. Total weight loss to date 9.4kg. My wife is doing dinners and breaky with me and having normal lunch. Shes lost 3kg and 11cm off her waist do date. Made skinny chilli yesterday, quite partial to it, though need more chilli next time.
Stepped up to 1.5 hr walk a day and about to up book exercises to 3 reps per 3 days a week. Have a great week all

Yep saw the tortoise goodnight 💤💤💤

Night all x dont have nightmares after that film JAN x
One last try..no didnt work 🙁 x nighty night x

Ditto. I too listened on radio 2 but am 6 days in. Found first few days very difficult. Had a few wobbles.

Your weight loss is fantastic, well done.

Hoping I lose something this week.

Keep going!

Waitrose not Waitress. I must turn auto-correct off – who needs it on a computer with a proper keyboard?!

@shalimar – of course, the free abundance of honey in the supermarket makes you forget just what a precious commodity it is. Did you know that “an average worker bee makes only about 1/12 teaspoon of honey in its lifetime.” That’s according to the Golden Blossom website.

Took my son swimming this morning, and then spent ages unsuccessfully trying to get him to sleep in his pushchair. So it wasn’t until 14:45 that we had “brunch”! I was starving. Went to see original illustrations by Quentin Blake for the BFG and Kitty-in-Boots books at the House of Illustration, and stopped at Waitress to get some missing ingredients, some more tubs for taking breakfast and lunch into work, and a spiralizer.

Black coffee
Smoked salmon and poached egg stack – absolutely delicious!
Harissa Chicken – Mrs C did this a bit differently – she roasted the chicken with the pine nuts, parsley, oil, spring onions, and the Harissa paste, raisins. We steamed the haricot beans and served them both on a green salad with mint. It tasted delicious. We agreed that it would have been better with a small portion of veg on the side rather than the salad.

First thing tomorrow is measurements day. Looking forward to it!

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn276/yowzer2008/image_zpswenqxbfk.jpeg
Can you see this one? X ( i cant see it)

JAN you saw the horse pic? It didnt show up at all on my page! X

Thanks, guys. All good info. Am really looking forward to reading the books and getting going ‘properly’, especially as the two of us will be doing it.

It’s a horror film on the horror channel, and working early tomorrow, the film is weird with a capital W

Yes it did I saw it

JAN?.Triangle..was that from th 70s?
Why the early start tomoz or shd i mind my beeswax? X

AFTER DAY 3
Weight: 74.2 (again)
Walking : 8000 steps.

Funny, I had forgotten how much I enjoy boiled eggs. 😊 For some reason they had slipped off the menu. Have rediscovered 75 calories of deliciousness.

Tried again….nope,not working 😐😐😐

Hi Snoop, my breakfast this morning was a portobello mushroom, grilled and topped with half a can of baked beans (for the fibre) and cheese. It was lovely. Is this a book recipe? I don’t actually have the book but am sure I have seen it mentioned on here.

Most of the demonisation of eggs regarding cholesterol seems to have been now debunked, as the dietary cholesterol does not seem to be absorbed, so eggs should be regarded as a good addition. I have also been experimenting with egg white omelette’s which are a bit weird when you are used to full egg one’s like I am. Tasty though. These may be another option. Possibly kippers 😮 as well might work for the protein.

Good luck with the transition, my OH isn’t really on the diet, but is eating my evening meals, with lower carbs, and he has noticed a diminishing carb hunger, he often misses breakfast now, waiting to eat until he is really hungry and has lost over a stone, while still eating bread etc. He isn’t diabetic but does have a thyroid problem which he is medicated for.

JAN i hope so. Want to be around for a long time yet! X

Keep going folks! Pony up and ride yr horse,clippety clop! X

( thats odd.tried to put a horsey pic on but it wdnt stick )🤔🤔🤔

Lucia, just letting you know I think you are wonderful. Hope you are getting more help at home.

What strong legs!

Verano I am with sunshine-girl. Enjoy your holiday.

I finally got around to reading the faq on the keto site and it talks about many and long plateaus . Very interesting

sunshine-girl good luck with the Zumba certificate

Morning Ruth luvvy, did you sleep well, another amazing rebooting day ahead huh.😊