HI I’m on day 2 of the 800 cal, so far so good 🙂 I weighed in yesterday morning at a massive 98 kg which for little 5ft2 body is way too much. I’ve tried all sorts and nothing worked for me, I am premenopausal (I am 45) and have an under active thyroid – oh the joys! Love my food! my dad is a type 2 diabetic and after hearing Dr Moseley on the radio went to his website and did the tests and it said I was destined to become type 2 – I really don’t want that so I am acting now! Good luck everybody, I will be taking each day as it comes 🙂

Mixnmatch – how fab are you? Really pleased for you 🙂
Well done Yowzer – are you continuing?
I am being especially good this week (so far any way) to try and reach next target. It is soo good to read about other peoples successes (especially when I have slipped up) – encouraging and motivating. I’m feeling peckish so I will have to drink a few more gallons of water!

only 4.5 lbs to go to throwing those knickers out.

I have just had my lunch of:

Spiralized courgette, cherry tomatoes (my garden is full of them), cucumber, spring onion, red pepper with grilled hallumi and 1.5 slices of ham (saving half a slice for snack later) served with olive oil, lemon juice, mint and yoghurt dressing.

All through it I kept saying hmmmm hmmmm this is delicious, hmmmmm hmmmmm I just love my food. My husband was sat there with his ham sandwich with 3 gherkins and said ‘shut up’.

I like a little platter…
Pastrami (or your fave cold meat)
Olives
Feta
tblsp Hummous
carrot sticks
any salad items you like…. always get jealous stares from colleagues as I dip and munch my way through it :0) – highly tasty and satisfying. It also works if Im caught short at work as I can buy packs of all the above at whatever supermarket Im near, have a picnic and take the rest home for another platter day!
LOVE the quiche idea, Im going to have a go at that. thanks x

I have been trying to do the diet myself i did ok losing a stone the first 2 weeks but then reverted to type. Went on hols and couldnt get motivated again. Thought having more support may help. Just been to have bloods done so can see starting point. Has any had the Dextra scan?

Hi Mixnmatch,
It’s really good that you can ‘tweak’ the BSD to suit your needs. The forums are so supportive and there’s always someone to help out.
Best wishes.

Ah, captainlynne,
This way of life is hard to keep quiet about – because it actually works – it’s difficult when you see people struggling following other diets, isn’t it?
It’s great when others join the BSD global family. (We are all adorable!)

Hi neohdiver,
It was so good to read your post. Only yesterday I was thinking of you, wondering how everything was going…..and today you’ve posted.
May I extend my warmest wishes in welcoming you back to the BSD forum. It’s a joy to hear from you.
I’m sure ‘BSD take 2″ will be a success for you. Continue to take care and look after all aspects of ‘you’.

I’m currently doing BSD5:2 and find this way really easy to adapt to my life. The weight is coming off and I’ve made daily exercise and mindfulness part of most days.

Looking forward to reading of your progress.

So glad you have got through it, with your strength of will you will soon be reaching good blood sugar control. The doctors are correct that you might have needed to ‘keep up to strength’ by eating more, your body needs good nutrients to heal. Thing is, this diet has better nutritional value than most ordinary diets and we all know that. Keep on keeping on.

I’m still on 800 calories as I still have a long way to go, Janey. I’m not hungry or feeling deprived so I will carry on until I am happy with my weight. Having said that I am a chocoholic and haven’t eaten any for 17 weeks but I can’t see that I will give it up forever. When I go to see my doctor he will want to weigh me. He may wonder what has happened to his scales and if they still work – they are the sort that you stand on and slide the weights.

Hi I’m just starting out too, and trying to avoid the booze as it is a big problem for my willpower. I am not prediabetic but just tired and think I am perimenopausal :/. I have committed to the 8 weeks at 800 to try to jump start myself.

Hi Igorasusual,
I have downloaded the keto calculator & My Fitness Pal.
I like the shakes but I know real food is best.
Do you have a sample one day 800 cal diet with these low carbs?
Or what diet do you use?
Thanks again for your help.
Hazel

Good luck Galleyslave

OH has to take a lot of pills for various ailments. I bought the BSD book because I hoped he might do it with me to get off the Metformin for his Type 2 at least. I thought I’d do it, because although not Type 2, I was mildly carb addicted, and wanted to lose a stone.

So I started, and got a handle of what to do, and lo and behold, OH decided he’d do it with me. I had suggested that less carbs might help his blood sugar readings (he’d had very high bs recorded just ahead of a planned op, which had put the op at risk – and I think that was something he really wanted to avoid).

I started early May and fumbled my way through until I got hold of the fact that reducing the good carbs would help me within the 800 calories. He started at the end of May, and agreed to keep the overall carbs low, although he didn’t match the calories as he didn’t need or want to lose too much weight.

And I lost not a stone, but 2 stone! and he shed lots of fat round his middle and came down 2 clothes sizes. He’s now off Metformin, so that’s 4 pills less to take on a daily basis.

Could your OH read some of the threads here? Try Bill 1954’s thread ‘This Has to Work for Me’ which is totally inspiring (SEARCH box top right will find it for you). He’s posted a link to two pictures also, before and after, which is also totally inspiring. He looks at least 10 years younger. These experiences are good as they are from real people, doing the real thing, and proving that although it might be tricky from time to time, IT CAN BE DONE.

And I would suggest you decide to start the thing on your own, if you have a bit of weight you’d like to lose. Your husband may see you looking better and brighter (I can’t overemphasise the other health benefits in terms of ‘aliveness’ that we’ve experienced) and decide that he can join in…..

Very best wishes to you both 🙂

That’s a great target to aim for, Mix, and you are most definitely in the correct mindset to reach it 🙂

I know what you mean about the ‘obese’ label. I never really thought of myself in that way until I began to read the medical establishment’s levels of acceptance weight/size recommendations and it was a real wake up call. I’m smaller now than any time in the last 20 years but I still remember the day when someone offered me their seat on the bus because they thought I was pregnant – the humiliation made worse by the fact that I couldn’t admit that it was just the fact I was a fatty!

Dear all

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kamilia – if you’re reading this – this is a forum for followers of the Blood Sugar Diet, and your post is really not helpful or appropriate in this setting. Please advertise elsewhere.

Keep us posted on your progress Lucyjane. I have found posting here helps to make me accountable and is also a great source of support and encouragement when the going gets tough. Try swapping out the wine for fizzy water with a twist of fresh lime and try not to think long term, just manage one day at a time and soon the BSD will become a way of life.

Thank you, I have been with him to the doctors in the past! Doesn’t make a difference. He knows I will support him. I have just about finished reading the blood sugar diet book and hope to be able to persuade him to read it! I will even do it with him! Thanks for listening.

We have watched the film fixing dad and he said it was an eye opener and that no one had ever told him he could reverse his diabetes. He has been to slimming world and weight watchers and said he can’t stand them, all the happy clappy stuff! I went to slimming world, albeit not with him and although I understand what he means, it did enable me to lose 3stone! He just can’t seem to see past that. One day he is really good and then it is I feel like cheese and biscuits, a whisky or rum (a couple of large ones), or what can I have to nibble on!

There is not much to add to comments already made, but I suspect that your husband might well be worried about his situation and is perhaps feeling a bit helpless and scared, in the face of what he probably feels is inevitable. Wonder if it would be possible for you to attend a visit to his doctor’s with him, so that the three of you can discuss the long term prognosis and what can be done to minimise impact? If between you, you and his doctor can make him feel he has some control, maybe he will get in the driver’s seat and make the changes which you know are necessary to improve his situation.

If he is a reader, perhaps you can encourage him to take a look at the BSD Fast 800 book, it might spark some light of hope for him.

Good luck and feel free to use us as a sounding board.

Should have said, well done at the pub. Sounds like the starter was delicious.

Plus, congrats on the trousers!

I have always allowed myself the odd alcoholic drink on my non-fast days and don’t generally get afflicted by ‘munchies’ but have already had plenty of experience of abstinence on previous though less successful diets. I will be continuing this until 1st October when I will try a Fast 800 diet to see how much more I can lose before Christmas. Final deadline for my target is April next year as I want to be able to fit back in my wedding dress for my 25th wedding anniversary. About another three stone should do it. Still buzzing, I almost didn’t realise how much that obese label hurt until it was gone.

Congrats sunshine-girl! 9lb is 9lb and not to be sniffed at. Many of us lose slowly – I’m one of them – but progress in the right direction, no matter how small, is to be celebrated. Didn’t bother posting my loss for last week as it was only half a pound, but better that than nothing and I’m pleased the reading was lower than the week before, even if it wasn’t huge.

Keep going and keep posting please, as it’s helpful to all of us to see how others are doing.

Mixnmatch – WOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. That’s a phenomenal result! I bet you look and feel amazing. The old you is long gone! I’m always interested in everyones’ longterm ‘maintenance’ options and how it works out for them. I’m generally on Med Style eating with the occasional treat (usually alcoholic!) and also an intermittent fast day depending on how I feel. The waistbands are still getting looser too 🙂

Yowzer -congrats on the 8 week milestone!

Thanks, 54. I’m self-employed and the main, not to say only breadwinner in the household. Sorry about breadwinner – just goes to show how ingrained it is in our food culture. And the Spanish economy has been and still is so bad that I’ve been saying yes to almost everything. Only seven more months till the mortgage is paid off, then I’ll feel a lot more relaxed about things.

Anyway, great motivation and inspiration. So thanks.

Well this morning down to 12st 12lbs. One week under my belt. 7 1/2lbs lost (3.5kg), very pleased. Today I have Mediterranean plate for lunch and a pork parcel with cauliflower, then GY&B!!! On my walk yesterday got blisters on the balls of my feet, ouch! so rather tender at the moment. Will try some HIIT exercise tonight, possibly. I have just received Davina McCalls 7 mins exercise dvd, I will have a look at that as well to see what it entails.
wendyq – Will try an oxo cube. My Dad used to love them (with bread soaked in it, ugh!!) and I always fancied it because it smelt so good but never liked the taste. Now I am older (and we oldies can’t taste salt the same as when we were younger apparently!) I will give it another go. Will let you know how it goes.
Have a good day everyone.

Haha, I’d love to see your doctor’s face Babs! Well done on all your hard work… the success speaks for itself! I am still happily following the Med Style diet with the occasional (alcoholic) treat thrown in. I don’t even LIKE eating bread, pasta, sweets etc anymore.. the body tends to protest! Are you still on 800 cals or more relaxed now?

End of week 9 and lost another 2.5 lbs. Total 9 lbs but that includes a gain of 2 lbs when I had family visiting a 3 meals out in a week. So back on track. When I look at some of the losses I think mine is not worth a mention but it is my 9 lbs, more important for me is the fact that my HBA1c went from 8.2 to 6.7 and my morning bloods are regularly around 90 to 110. Happy days.

Hi Switzerland, I started on the 5:2 (using 600 calorie fast days and controlled but unrestricted non fast days) but switched this May to 4:3 using 800 calories and lower “maintenance” non fast days to try to educate myself on portion size. When weight loss slows I try to change things up so have just (Sept 1st) changed again to 2:5 prior to a 1st October first run at the Fast 800. I still have quite a lot to lose, between 3 and 3 1/2 stone to an officially healthy weight. It has taken me over 18 months of dieting to get this far with the largest part of the success coming after I discovered this way of eating and supportive community.

JulieR62

I have been on trips away and as long as you are strong and think nothing white and NO SUGAR things are easy

Dont drink

Dont be tempted by ‘one wont hurt’ because it will !!!

Think why did you start this new way of eating ?

You will have many trips away when you are your new thin self so need to get used to new eating away style now !!!

Tell EVERYONE you are on the 800 cal a day diet and gain their support.

They wont force feed you

Only you put the food in your mouth !!! (as my aunty used to say!!)

But above all, enjoy the visit !!!

Hi snoop

Hang in there

I dont count carbs but aim at the 800 cals as book suggests

I have desk job so have to stand every half hour and then have a walk at lunch very short, and longer one at night. Have pedometer so just keep going until i see about 10000 (most times 8000)

I am away from alcohol for 8 weeks !!! as know this is a bad thing for weight (Liquid bread they say !!!)

I avoid everything bread like !!! No lapses at all. I am a bread lover (Have own bread maker now gathering dust) but bonus is I dont fancy any bread things at the moment.

Refused a crisp yesterday !!!

Keep going snoop

Great news Krysia

I too look forward to being 10 stone something !!

START DATE 29th AUGUST
ok Day 8 over
WEIGHT NOW: 20 Stone 11 pounds
START WEIGHT: 21 stone 12 pounds
LOSS AFTER DAY 8 : 15 ponds
Exercise. Long walk
Went out for meal last night had smoked salmon , prawns and salad starter as my main
First visit to pub for ages. Had sparkling water .
Came in a small plastic bottle and staff seemed well geared up to such an order
Side effects: Trousers now fit better !!

START DATE 29th AUGUST

ok Day 8 over

WEIGHT NOW: 20 Stone 11 pounds

START WEIGHT: 21 stone 12 pounds

LOSS AFTER DAY 8 : 15 ponds

Exercise. Long walk

Went out for meal last night had smoked salmon , prawns and salad starter as my main

First visit to pub for ages. Had sparkling water .
Came in a small plastic bottle and staff seemed well geared up to such an order

Side effects: Trousers now fit better !!

Mixnmatch – 5.5 – sorry deserves to be in full – FIVE AND A HALF STONE!!!!!
that’s amazing many congratulations

Morning Yowzer

Just had breakfast then off to Hampstead for lesson 3 of Nordic Walking – weather not so great today.
End of week 8 – taaaa daaaaah!!!!!
– have you reached targets & on to maintenance now, or are you planning to continue for a bit?

Well, I woke up with a headache and 100 g more than I got up with yesterday despite sticking to the calories. Not doing as well as everyone else, but also very tied to desk due to work, and obviously eating more than recommended amount of carbs. Maybe I just have one of those bodies that is good at conserving energy!

Unfortunately, work takes priority at the moment. Should be able to ease up a bit next week. In the meantime, onwards if not inwards by that much.

End of first week figures

86.9 kg
+ 0.1 kg
– 1.6 kg overall (approx 3.5 lbs)
Waist 116 cm (-1 cm)

Yesterday’s food and exercise
781 cals
90 carbs (too busy to make lunch so OH made sandwiches)
No exercise

Side benefits: no twinges in my diaphragm area apart from hernia, which has stopped gurgling if I lie on my side. A distinct improvement. Am also sleeping well.
Alcohol: one beer all week, also a big achievement for me.

Well done everyone else!

Good morning folks, two mini goals just hit now, 5 1/2 stones off and the biggie NO LONGER OBESE 😀 BMI 29.9. A busy weekend/Monday following the Tour of Britain has upped my step count into the stratosphere rather than my usual barely scraping 5,000 which I credit for the good loss. I have also changed the fasting pattern to 2:5 instead of my usual 4:3 which may also have helped although as I only changed on 1st September and have just had my first weekend “off” I would have thought it would be too soon to see results showing from that.

Hi Verano, I had 3 weeks like that before my holiday. I didn’t eat any non-BSD foods in that time but I know that the calories had gone too high. My downfall was that I had started adding double cream to my coffee. I started with one teaspoon – which gradually increased to a tablespoon! it’s now gone back to one teaspoon. The legal carbs also had crept up. It wasn’t just the cream – I had stopped weighing everything and had started guessing. Which I now realise I was absolutely rubbish at.
I have done the 800 since getting back from my holiday on 3rd Sept – and have weighed everything – with amazing results.
3rd Sept – 11 stone 3 and 1/4lbs
4th Sept – 11 stone 2 and 1/4lbs
6th Sept – 11 stone 0 lbs – I am so happy. Am so looking forward to being 10 stone something. I am definitely off the plateau.
Blood sugar’s really good. I couldn’t have done it without this forum. It’s great that everyone is sharing their knowledge and experience.

Morning everyone 😃🌞

Many thanks for your kind comments.

When I checked the laptop for ‘before’ photos I couldn’t find any. The few I used to have had been deleted for some strange reason😳LOL. I was the one taking photos, not being in them! Sound familiar?

But then I remembered I had an external hard drive that I’d used to backup the old laptop a few years ago. And there they were. Both needed slight cropping to remove excess background.

Nettle – when I saw them, especially the closeup, I was horrified. And remembered why I avoided the camera. But that was the reality of the ‘before’ me, for far too many years. When they were taken, in 2008 and 2011 my size didn’t really impact on me too much. I could still do most things I wanted to do.

But in the last few years that started to change. After a fall, when I hurt my back badly, my mobility was affected to the point where I often used a walking stick. My weight, combined with the heat, restricted what I could do when I was with friends in Texas and we went on a trip which included a trip to the Grand Canyon. The last straw was when I was visiting my friends in Italy last November. We were taken to an island and needed to walk up the hill to reach the restaurant. The mountaineers who had taken us looked at me and said if I got tired to tell them so we could rest! But then we turned a corner and I saw the next part of the road. It was steep, and long. I could have cried. But I had to say I couldn’t do it. I was nearly in tears. Later my friend told me she was glad I’d said it, because she doubted she could have done it – she has a bad heart! Fast forward to my trip to my Italian friends a few months ago – I could do anything they could do. And they’re about 20’years younger than me. From dragging myself up the outside stairs to their flat, I could now go up with ease.

Switzerland – I did hesitate about posting the ‘before’ photos, but decided to do so for the sake of completeness. The closeup was taken outside the Moulin Rouge in Paris, the full length pic in the doorway of the jail in Terlingua Ghost Town in Texas. The ‘after’ photos were in York last week.

When I went to get my hair cut yesterday, the hairdresser asked if I’d been losing weight? How much? How? As I was telling her another lady walked in, who goes to Slimming World. So she joined the conversation. The sw lady has been going for a year and is ‘fed up’ with it, so I told her about the BSD book and the basic information. The hairdresser has seen me go through the whole journey, and can see it’s had none of the adverse effects some worry about. Hopefully. Few more folk to join the BSD family😃

Ending week 9 with a loss of 2.5 lbs. My goal for the 8 weeks is to lose 3kg (6.6 lbs) and I am already a third of the way there. Must not slacken off just because I have had a success.

Ruth and Verano, better than a gain. I thought I was going to be up having gained half a pound a couple of days ago but it comes off in the end.

Morning everyone,rise and shine.xx !
my last day of the eight week cycle! Woohoo!
ANTIGONE All the best for week six and pleased you have some non scale victories for week 5! X

I’m starting today so I’m a week behind most of you. I did this BSD in May this year and found its success amazing and so encouraging to know I could actually succeed at a diet/ strict calorie restriction and feel satisfied and energised and I lost about 6 kgs. Ok so about 3 kgs have gone back on ( summer, lack of concentrating on myself and my health) but most of that was in the last week. September new start and have not used the forum before. Looks great.
Keep in touch!
Starting weight 76kg. Height 5′ 5.5″. Waist 39.5 inches.
Aim to lose 8 kgs.

Welcome back neohdiver 😃💐

Glad to hear you’re doing ok and looking forward to reading your progress in phase 2.

Welcome to all the new posters! I have had another unexplained gain of 3/4 lb! Could be a combination of time of the month and slight constipation. I won’t let it get me down! Stats from yesterday cals 738, carbs 37.6, steps 10,000+. Hope everyone has a good day!

Hi Verano. I did exactly the same thing! It has started moving slowly again, thank good ness

Week 17 has passed and I lost another pound bringing my total to 2 stone and half a pound.

It’s five months since my last blood test and I have to see my endocrinologist at the end of the month so I went for the test this morning as some of the hormone results take a while to come through. When I had my last test my blood glucose spiked at 138 mg/dL (100 to 125 being pre diabetic). It wasn’t that high the day before or the day after but my endocrinologist pointed a finger at me and said “You are diabetic”. I wasn’t prepared to accept that although I was prepared to be pre diabetic. I then stumbled by chance on BSD and am having amazing results. Before I went for my blood test this morning my husband tested me at home and it came out 97 – not even a bit diabetic. I am waiting for the official results and I expect my endocrinologist, who is a very nice man really, to point a finger at me and ask “Whose blood did you use for the test and whose liver did you use for the ultrasound?”

Watch this space

Hi

Going into week 10 at the same weight as week 9!!!

I had a really strange week. Lost 1lb and then over the next three days put on 1.8lbs!
Then yesterday lost 0.8lbs so back to square one.

Better than a gain I suppose but disheartening.

Need to reassess my food and wine!

Hope you all had a good week.

Just thought I would share I had my first weigh in this morning and have lost 3.4kg. I so love this woe. 😀

Just remember you are carb addicted and that’s what leads you to the chocolate! Once you can change your body to stop needing the sugar you will crack it – read all the threads here where people tame that monster with just one square of dark chocolate!

Count TOTAL carbs – but if you can give up sugar all to the good. I gave up sugar in tea and coffee when I realised how many calories/carbs I was wasting when I could have been eating other things!! I can’t say it was so easy but I am very proud I did it.

Eat good food
Plan ahead and count the cals and carbs (if you can keep under 50g of carbs per day that really helps)
Drink loads – eat a bit more salt as you will be peeing it out
You may have “carb flu” as you kick them out and change your body but stick to it
And good luck!

It really really is worth it. Use these forums for help advice inspiration. Search box for previous comments.

Good luck to you both! New life coming! 🙂