TBH Frog, I think finding a rabbit jelly mould trumps housework any day of the week!!

Sounds like an hourglass figure to me!! Be really proud you deserve it.

Thanks for your reply. Much as I thought you were really committed which is how you’ve done so well. I’m not sure the odd days when the scales stuck can really be counted as blue days! I think once you got to the realisation that some foods were no longer to be in your life plan then I think that was probably the moment you cracked it.

I must admit into week 10 I don’t miss bread even though my OH has it regularly! In saying that we’ve not eaten potatoes since I started this plan, he’s had rice once or twice and tonight I’m making courgette lasagna and he hasn’t objected one bit! So hey ho ! You never know he may also ditch the carbs even if not all of them. BTW his weight is fine but he’s dropped 4lb doing nothing!

What an achievement Mixnmatch, well done you!

Thank you for telling me about the mini goals thread, it was really helpful. I’ve lost just under 6lbs so far. Would it be cheating to engineer a mini treat for my first half stone??? 😂😂

thanks Yowzer, yes I’m very pleased – renewed inspiration!
(not quite enough to do any housework though, which would be more productive than looking for a rabbit jelly mould!)

Gavin – I missed your post when I logged in earlier – huge congratulations

Gavin & Lucky – I have found the perfect gadgets for you both to celebrate your achievements! (I was looking for jelly moulds!)
http://justbento.com/handbook/bento-decoration-techniques/fun-japanese-egg-molds

I have found a jelly rabbit mould – but also John Lewis have really cute individual size jelly baby moulds!

Just calling in quickly in midst of housework blitz to say Congrats GAVIN on completing yr 8 weeks!
How are you feeling? Are you gearing up for another round of bsd or do you have other plans? X
Ps…FROG just 3 days reboot and look how quickly youve turned it round! 👍🏻 very encouraging isnt it! X

For the sake of completeness – when I began on 19th December my measurements were 50 – 49 – 54

Today they are 38 – 30 – 39

Hi Verano

Blips – as I weigh every day, but officially weighing on a Saturday, I could see fluctuations during the week. Fortunately experience over the years had taught me that this could happen but it would sort itself out. The only weekly gain I had was after 5 days in Prague in my twelfth week on the BSD, when I gained 3 pounds (then lost 5 the following week). Although I’d tried to stick to the BSD principles, I wasn’t careful enough with portion control. And it wasn’t easy trying to decipher menus to find something I could eat. The only sugar free soft drinks I could find were Diet Coke and water – so I drank a lot of water after a few Diet Cokes made me ill😱

In 37 weeks, that was the only gain I had, and it came off just as quickly.

Blue times – when the scales didn’t move for days (until they did). Does that count? Possibly when I started to realise that foods I’d previously enjoyed (and eaten far too much of) could no longer be part of my diet – but now I honestly don’t miss them.

I can say that the longer I have stayed on the BSD the easier it has become. In social situations has become easier to resist those things I know I shouldn’t eat – and it can lead to interesting conversations. At the end of the day, I am responsible for what I put into my body. And I decided that my long-term health was more important than the short-term pleasure of eating whichever carbs were available.

Hope this answers your questions, if not please ask something and I will do my best to answer.

Thank you for your kind words. I have a shed more to lose. Another 99lbs to go to get into a healthy BMI (plus sensible buffer zone). I know it will take a long time but now I can see a plausible way to get there. Sharing the journey with everyone here really helps. I can be honest about myself and the people here are kind and supportive. I already feel like a winner just for having that. When I started my 8 weeks I was horrified to find I was a whole stone heavier than I first thought I was. I felt terrible. Then somebody here on the forum told me ‘that will be the last time you see that number’ and I held onto that thought. My advice would be, even if the odd wheel falls off, just keep climbing back onto the wagon. We are all heading in the same direction and there are plenty of fellow journeymen willing to help pick up the pieces as you go along. As Captainlynne says ‘just keep on keeping on’. I think that should be the official BSD motto 🙂

Woo hoo FabEllie,
You are a star and can be so proud of yourself for sticking at it in spite of your setbacks. Well done👏👏👏👏👏
How much more do you want to lose?
Cheers
Linda

Hi Rich
It is very easy to follow BSD without the recipes and lots of specialist foods – just cutting out the bread/potatoes rice and pasta, and substituting with lower carb veg, and lots of eggs. Gram flour pancakes in moderation (biggish bag of flour, but you only need 10g of flour and water for a single pancake) – and if you’re currently eating takeaways, and can cut those out, you will probably eating more economically.

You don’t say if you’re diabetic – if you are the GP may be able to point you at (or refer you to) a support group or session – I did one when I was first diagnosed a couple of years ago, or a CBT referral – again as a session thing or 1:1.
I also came across a local charity that is starting a 12 week diabetes cookery and lifestyle group on Monday, and the same centre is also home to a “talk for Health group” – you might find something similar on your area that would be helpful. Depression alliance maybe another avenue to try, or there’s the national Walk for Health scheme that could provide a combination of gentle exercise and getting away from the hermit lifestyle.

Bet wishes that it goes well for you – even if you can’t find a local face to face group or assistance, I’m sure you’ll find lots of support on this forum.

Morning Lucky and Jan – planning Christmas already Lucky – scary!
I will have a comparatively tiny piece, and I won’t do my usual sampling of Christmas pudding the moment they appear in the shops, and I might even have it with yogurt, but I will not compromise on having proper Christmas pudding!

What dress size to get to to be the same as when you married Lucky (but hopefully not pregnant! – or is that a new target too?)

Despite a bit of a midnight binge (cheese then Jelly with a spoon of the almond soy yogurt), I lost a further 0.5 kg yesterday
I think I’d maybe cutting calories too low – as the binge was cheese (and not even very nice cheese it has to be said), carbs still under 30g.
And – the sugar free jelly with a splodge of the almond soy yogurt is like having your sixth birthday party all over again – well, except no rabbit jelly mould! And only having the Froglet to party with at 1am.

so – three days of reboot BSD, 1.6 kilos
day 1 – Lost 0.4 kilos
day 2 – Lost 0.7 kilos
day 3 – Lost 0.5 kilos

When I entered today’s weight into FatSecret this morning, I got an error confirmation message saying something like “that’s a lot of weight to loose in a week, are you sure you’ve entered it correctly?”

thanks Fabellie I am just starting and your post gives me hope. 🙂

Hi Linds awesome tips thank you been on BSD for 5 days now not much luck yet will keep going x

Hi Rich,

Firstly, you’re not alone. I have no idea of your personal circumstances but I’ve had bad depression myself in years gone by. I’m sure you’ll find a lot of support here.

It strikes me you might be taking on a lot to change you diet so completely whilst having so much else to deal with. It’s more important that you make healthy changes than it is to lose weight quickly. You will still lose weight I’m sure if you’ve been eating a lot of takeaways etc. Your hunger might only make your depression worse and it sounds as if it already feels like an unsurmountable problem. I understand you might want to lose weight quickly but understanding a little myself how will power is even harder when you’re depressed can I suggest that you start with altering to the mediterranean diet and eating as much as you need to not feel hungry. You can do this with the knowledge that you will be feeding the right gut bacteria and hopefully that will go some way towards helping your depression or at least helping you to cope with the dietary changes.

Do you cook or enjoy cooking? Tell me a little more about yourself so I can support you better.

Sally

Please don’t despair, Rich, you can do this.

Cheap, Filling, Easy suggestions

Eggs and bacon.
Omelette (2 eggs) with 30g cheese or some ham or your preferred filling eg mushrooms
Roast veg in oven – bung them in with some olive oil, lots of salt and pepper, (chilli if you like). Cauli, courgette, peppers, your choice – all are good.
Put some chicken in the veg in the oven.
Also I did chicken thighs as sort of casserole – first on stove top to brown with a little onion and some mushrooms. Then added chopped tomato and put in oven. Serve with steamed veg – we had broccoli

Hope this is some inspiration for you.
If you are really carb addicted like you say, it may be that you will have a bit of “carb flu” as you kick refined carbs but it does get better quickly.

The other thing to try is reducing your “bad” food bit by bit (Lucia’s threads – type her name in the SEARCH box) is particularly good to inspire you. Try reading those.

Good luck! 🙂

Soup. Cheap, healthy and filling. Minestrone slip. There is a good recipe on the recipe board. 80% food 20% exercise. Gluck. Sorry know nothing about candida.

Hi eternallyoptimistic. Love the term overhang – I’ve got a fair way to go before that disappears! Anyway congratulations.

Thanks for the info on spiralisers, Frog. Might see if I can get a Cuisique from Amazon. The blades look very easy to change. Much safer than the fancy French mandoline I bought. Came with a good finger guard, but you could easily lose the end of your fingers changing the blades, as they don’t fit at all well. It’s still packed away in a box somewhere since we moved here (years ago), but I’m not in a hurry to fish it out. It was positively lethal.

My figures for today’s weigh-in
86.0 kg
– 0.5 kg
Overall change – 2.4 kg

Yesterday’s food and exercise
731 cals
68 carbs
45 mins moderate walk with dogs. Really enjoyed it.

Quite a big drop for me in one day. Slightly fewer carbs and fewer calories than I meant to eat, but ate very well and healthily and slept like a log.

I’ve not been doing the fast 800 so far but adding a varying number of fast 800 days to 1600 calorie maintenance days, trying to train myself on portion size as well as cutting the carbs right back. I started on classic 5:2 then went to 4:3 and have switched to 2:5 for September prior to an 8 weeks hit out for October November. My willpower used to be as bad as anybodies, but like anything else it gets better with exercise and my metabolism certainly likes the diet. I am just three pounds off losing six stone, have lost 30% of my weight as at last February 2015 (reached yesterday and celebrated with just one glass of red wine on top of my 800, I had still lost a pound this morning). I have lost 8 pounds since the start of September, and am just starting to fit into size 14 clothes from a high of size 22. I am not saying it is a solution for everyone, I came to the BSD side of the diet relatively late having already exercised my willpower with some protracted no alcohol diets like the Whole Approach diet some years ago, and find it relatively to control my intake now. That said, after the Whole Approach I fell back into my bad old habits and put all the weight back on plus some extra hence my current emphasis on self education rather than just dieting. The maintenance training I am doing is for the rest of my life. No going back to the obese me ever again, and if I do indulge in a night out/christmas/wedding then I will just add an extra fast day until the added weight goes away.

Morning all!

Thanks Jan, glad your wedding went well too, and yes, it is lovely to fit into smaller clothes! Without seeing my dress, my daughter bought a dress in the same material but in a different shade of purple, so we’ll complement each other too 🙂 Hers however is a size 10 to my 20… Mr Lucky looks really smart in his new suit too, he looked like he’d borrowed his old ones! Even if he’d wanted to, he couldn’t have worn them. So he’s actually smaller now than when WE got married. A bit wrinklier and ‘tinsel’ haired as he calls it. I, however, despite being pregnant at the time (and no guys, it wasn’t a shotgun wedding… we’d been engaged over two years 😉 ) am not. Grrrrr.

Thank you Antigone 🙂 Ah, it’s a bugger isn’t it when things throw you off course. And you’re right, we do see now exactly what the bad stuff is doing to us, but I think it’s amplified now because we’re not eating it regularly any more. If that makes sense. I doubt that it would have put so much weight on us almost instantly in the past, but it’s because we’re not eating it any more. The way I look at it now is that this WOE is going to be for life, yes I’ve done well losing three stone but still, I need to lose a further 5 – 6 stone, so I’m not even halfway. And even when I get there, it’s not going to be the end of the story, it will never be the end otherwise all that weight is going to go straight back on! It’s inevitible that it will be done with little blips in between. With Christmas in between. With the occasional party or meal out or takeaway where I’ll want to eat rice, or chips, or have a drink. And I’m going to. Most of us will. We’re only human after all. But it’s not the blips we should focus on, as long as they are the exception and not the rule.

Christmas is going to be fun and games though. We’re going to have to make sure that the damage is minimal. I’ll stress to everyone not to buy me or Mr Lucky chocolates. There will be no big tubs of chocolates bought for the house this year. And I need to devise a BSD friendlier Christmas pudding with almond flour and coconut sugar. That’s just off the top of my head.

Morning Gavin, and well done, what a great weight loss for your first 8 weeks 🙂 What are the plans now?

Have a great Saturday everyone!

Well I keep seeing these small meals etc and gourmet recipes, I need something to fill up on thats cheap, easy, quick, budget is low, but fight this hunger and cravings for takeaways, systemic candida Ive had for ages, false hypos, though being so severley depressed etc and lots of physical and mental issues makes this seem impossible, 36 years since this started, a personal trainer would be better..

No will power beyond a basic hermit type lifestyle, hunger is a massive problem

Thanks, Frog. Very informative. Anything that might help with constipation sounds like a good idea. I sprinkled a few salt flakes on a curry I made yesterday. I could taste the salt even more strongly than the curry flavour. Next time I find a health food store, I might get some miso. There’s a fair bit of salt in that I think. Meanwhile, smoked salmon sounds like a good idea! Thanks again.

At times I doubted I would get here but FINALLY I reached the end of my week 8 journey and I’m singing a happy song!

Okay, to borrow feltwicked’s phrase (thank you fw it made me chuckle when I read it) I wasn’t so much on the wagon for the whole time but from week 6 I had just one foot on the tailboard whilst hopping along behind. At one point I fell off and the wagon actually reversed back over me before trundling off into the distance. Luckily, I dusted myself down and set off again in hot pursuit before it got too far away.

Weeks 1-4 went like a dream. Week 5 I was hungry the whole time no matter what and cals crept up to 900 per day. Week 6 I was tired all the time no matter what and cals hovered around 900-1000 per day. Still managed to lose 2-2.5lbs each week though. Week 7 seemed to be going well and back on plan until I sabotaged the whole week by succumbing to PIZZA the night before weigh in – doh! And I didn’t even enjoy it. I missed my steamed fish and veggies!!! I was so close to getting to my 2 stone weigh loss goal and then my weight went back UP after pizzagate by 3.5lbs. I was so cross with myself. Week 8 has been a mixed bag with wavering motivation after my pizza disaster BUT I weighed in this morning and lost 1.5lbs so have half undone the damage and feel motivated for the start of my 5:2 journey ahead.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the BSD diet. Overall weight loss so far (despite deviations) is 1st 11lbs. My blood sugar is in normal range. My blood pressure is back down to borderline normal (without meds!). My measurements are gradually shrinking. My GERD has resolved. My arthritic knees have improved. My fitness is improving steadily. Potted herbs now grace my kitchen window sill. I discovered things about food I never knew. I have a new found love of fennel and lemon (previously disliked both, now they are favourite ingredients). Things that have needed fixing around the home are suddenly getting fixed. 4 bin liners of fat clothes have gone forever. I now slosh around in the bath tub because there are GAPS all around me. The cookbooks on the shelf have changed. I could go on and on but you get the picture.

The benefits of BSD are not singular. The effects of the physical changes have spilt over into everything else.

My new hobby is to extend my repertoire of low carb/Mediterranean cooking. I was surprised how much I loved the recipes in the diet book and I want to take the next step. A plate of courgette brownies is my first attempt at low carb baking in celebration of reaching the 8 week milestone. They are 95 cals per serving and just 8g of carb each. Hubby is just making me a coffee and we’re going to taste test them. Wish me luck. Baking isn’t my strong point.

I just wanted to say to all of you on your 8 week journeys just stick with it no matter what. You will be so glad you did. I dedicate my first low carb brownie to you all.

And the wagon just keeps rolling on. See you all over in the 5:2 forum 🙂

End of week 2. So happy as I’ve lost 7 lbs and the jeans now fit so much better – with no overhang! I havent weighed 10 st 10 lbs for about 3 years. One more week of strict dieting then a week in the sun, when I plan to at least not put any back on! Then back on track for the next 14 lbs. Again i have to say how much I’m loving some of the recipes in the book. I have around 30 cookbooks yet I’m making quick and easy veggie meals that are so different. Even my carnivorous OH and two teenage sons are also enjoying. Loved the beetroot falafels we had last night – and they are really filling. Hope everyone else feels as good this weekend.

Good morning everyone 🙂

Today is 8 weeks on the BSD. Just completed all my measurements.

2st 4lbs in 8 weeks. Bloods normal. Blood pressure normal.

The monsoon of rain that hit Dartmoor all night is clearing.

Just trying to catch up but its near impossible as you can’t quote text into a reply, so apologies everyone.

Lucky I did read you hit 3 stone. Well done. And to your son too.

All this beard talk. Must go and shave now 🙂

Thanks Bissell. I don’t mind going a few pounds under 9.7 but not too much more, otherwise I’ll need even more new clothes. Going a few pounds under gives me some wriggle room 😃 But 9.7 is the top of what I want to be. Time to start the next stage, not losing much more and maintaining.

Hi

Just before you ‘go’ I’d like to ask you a question please.

I’ve only been following your journey for the last few months but it has been more than remarkable ! You seem to have had a very steady ‘descent’ but have you had any blips or blue times along the way?

Excellent news Captainlynne! Were you still trying to lose weight or did it still happen anyway?

Hi Lucyjane and everyone else on this thread😀
Welcome to the BSD!
I’m now on my 21st week on the BSD 800. I’ve lost 27.5kg (60lbs in old money) and I’ve just today bought a size 10 pair of jeans to celebrate. This is compared to when I started where I was squeezing myself into a size 16!!
I’m not T2 or had blood sugar issues in the past and I’m 56 yo and post menopausal.
As far as alcohol is concerned, I advise that you go cold turkey and cut it out. Especially until you reach your goal weight. It doesn’t help with your willpower and I hear the hangovers are atrocious!
In saying that, I’ve only had a total of 3.5 glasses of wine all up since I started as I decided not to risk it😀 I actually don’t much feel like it anymore.
My tips:
– treat this as a way of eating for the rest of your life, it can’t just be an 8 week plan. I’m still not eating simple carbs or any sugar, but I have increased my cals so that I stabilise to where I am now (62-63kg). If you go back to what you used to eat, you’ll go back to the way you used to look and feel!
– Record everything that passes your lips on an app, I use EasyDietDiary, but I’m in Australia and not sure if you can download it elsewhere.
– Drink at least 2-3 litres of non calorie fluid per day, this is vital. Most of mine comes from herbal teas.
– Eat full fat everything, no low fat or lite. Don’t be afraid of eating fat, by not eating carbs, your metabolism switches to a state of ketosis (burns fat) and the increased fat levels will help you feel fuller for longer.
– try to do at least 10,000 steps per day. I have gone from 0 – at least that, sometimes double that and now get up an hour earlier in the morning before work to go for a walk. No excuses, well, except when it’s raining!
– Stick to less that 50g of carbs per day and if you find you are not losing weight, drop it to 40, then 30 until you do lose weight. You will be surprised at just how much you can eat within 800 cals per day. The trick is to record everything and not guess. Particularly with fruit, it is much higher in carbs than what you might think!
– Read the forum every day and look through the other threads as you can pick up a lot of tips along the way, both of what to do and what not to do!
– Treat every day as a new day and if you fall off the wagon, just get back on straight away.
Best of luck and feel free to ask questions of any of the old timers as we are only too happy to help.
Cheers
Linda

At the end of 38 weeks on the BSD I can report 2 pounds gone since last week’s official weigh. Total now lost 92 pounds.

That now takes me a pound under my target weight of 9st 7lbs, which is also the top of my healthy BMI.

As I’ve said, don’t mind losing a few more pounds, but not more (otherwise it’ll be more clothes shopping😱). But 9st 7lbs is the top limit – I really do not want to go above that ever again.

I’ll be starting a new thread later today (I’ll tell you what it’s called later, when I’ve finally decided. I’ve had a few suggestions already – any more ideas?). The new thread will record this new stage in my BSD (or should that be post-BSD?) life.

More later – watch this space 😃

Hi Lucy Jane. I’ve had a disastrous week5&6 through partying etc I am not proud of myself 🙁 However I console my self with the thought that I would have done the same on top of my old eating patterns previously ( and actually on my worst day i totalled about 1200 calories which soon averages out). I think this Eating regime changes your tastebuds so you start to not enjoy the old treats.You have to have a social life so just do your best with the BSD rules but enjoy yourself.

It’s the weekend and am hoping I can stay on plan and remain focused. Baking cakes and having family over could positively side track me….

I have jumped on scales and it’s moving down so am pleased.

Bfast today was a 1 egg omelette with a side of bacon and mushrooms! Deliciousness

Hello All, congrats Lucky – 3 stones in under 3 months! Fantastic. Good news about your son also 🙂
Frog – are you following ‘the trial’ on Radio 4 ?
Yowzer – great bear PIC. Unfortunately it’s hunting season here and it isn’t just bears that poop in the woods!
Gavin- have lost track of your progress.
A disaster week for me with parties and family staying. Bit of a do this weekend also 🙁 However, I have 2 weeks to reach my first goal of 1.5 stones loss and I have (had) lost a stone at week 4. So its possible I think. When you are monitoring your food like we are you can see what a difference a (relatively) small amount of naughty food can make – no wonder the weight crept up!
Have a good weekend y’all 🙂

End of week 38, another 2 pounds gone. AND that takes me a pound below my target weight of 9st 7lbs, and in my healthy bmi😃 Total weight now lost 92 pounds.

Happy sat all you lovely back seat girls.

Woohoo detox big time, had my first proper BSD day back on it again yesterday all good, down .8 of a kilo today yeahhhhh but ooh headache big time, why did I eat refined carbs for a week, I didn’t even blooming well particularly enjoy them. Ooh poorly piggy Jan today. But never mind plan in action, very busy day ahead, food organized, and by Monday I will be much better. Looking forward to my energy levels going back up, I’m like a dish rag at the mo.

Short time aim back to previous weight by Wednesday and 3 stone loss in a couple of weeks, I’ve messed around enough, I want to be a chrimbo fairy at chrimbo it will be my 59 birthday, so aiming for target this year. So I will feel fabulous when I am 60 ohhhhhh dear feels awful 60 where’s all the time gone.

So what you all doing today girls, more importantly how’s your week going. Where’s the two sunnys, and Vetona and happy life so many I cannot recall, we need them on this bus trip, all cosy on the back seat.

Have a great weekend. Love jan 🚌🚌🚌😎🚌🚌🚌

Hi lucky

Congrats in getting to 3 st 🎉🎉🎉way to go girl I’m just lagging behind you a bit. Hope you have a fab wedding in Norfolk we had a great time at our Norfolk wedding last week and isn’t it great fitting into a smaller outfit. Next stop the chrimbo fairies yeahhhhh💃💃💃 love jan

Hm I don’t know that I trust myself to stop at at two. Iam just ending the first week of the blood sugar diet. I think I will give myself 3 passes out if the 8 weeks for unavoidables like weddings and that’s it. How many 800 days are you doing? Are you still losing?

Hi! I’m just starting out too. Thanks to my fasting my fridge is bare … no junk food in the house at all! Can’t wait to shop for good foods!!
I’m excited and anticipating more energy and better health!!

Good thing that i already love veggies, beans and lentils!!

Hello! I’m starting the BSD with my wife on Monday 12/09. We’ve just got back from holiday and we’re writing a shopping list for week one.

At the moment we’re both quite excited.

Good idea Lucyjane!
I don’t have a scale at home but i weighed 245 pounds last Sunday. I’m getting back to aquabics at my gym and i weigh in there. I’m hoping to join a beginner yoga class tomorrow.
I actually think my feet/legs are feeling a tad better.
i will be doing short walks around my neighborhood … getting to know it more. I actually live less then half a kilometre from where i lived as a child … but i haven’t really explored it. Very bad back .. which i think loosing some weight will help … will be increasing my exercise very slowly.
I am interested in practising Mindfullness to ease stress. I do have some relaxation and meditation Cd’s and stuff which i could be using but i haven’t.

I think takeout coffees have been a big issue for me…and portion size. I eat pretty well generally like low sugar and hardly any processed foods (except bread) cause my son has to stay off colours and preservatives…so not finding the food a shock….but def less portions and not just reaching for a wrap or bread.

I will try to check in each day too. Feeling good today. Woke up mega hungry however! Pancakes made with green banana flour for brekky with warmed berries and a bit of quark mixed with honey for a cream…mmmmm. I am doing about 900 Cal’s which I am happy with to start with and considering I have so much to lose.

I am working on my gut bacteria at same time after reading a few books on the relationship between depression, obesity and gut bacteria imbalance….hence pro biotics, pre biotics like inulin and green banana flour, and tumeric and magnesium supplements (for sore knees)…..started them about two weeks before this diet and I think they largely responsible in my change in mood to enable me to stick to diet (I am definitely an emotional/stress eater) as I hadn’t changed anything else up to that point.

Hi Shalimar
Makes the NHS sounds tons better already – I will quickly forget all my winges after I’d seen the diabetes nurse this morning!
I’m glad that you’ve found some support through the Diabetes organisation, that will be a great start to kick off with on BSD.

I didn’t have any symptoms that I specifically tied in with diabetes, so didn’t take it very seriously and my blood sugar went up to 112 (it’s supposed to be between 20 and 42, and is now sitting happily at 38) – being told that it was too high to be accepted on to a medical trial that was looking at treatment for diabetes was a bit of an eye opener!

Eat well (BSD-well!) over the weekend, and I hope that the appointment on Tuesday is helpful.

Hi shalimir, , liro, nevergiveup, frog, Amandah,
Welcome to the thread and great we are all here. I keep thinking wouldn’t it be nice to be feeling good about ourselves this Christmas.
Today after wKing up and feeling terrible was ok. I stayed on track although maybe 850/ 900 calorie. Today down to 101.7 kilos and not even a week in so that is encouraging.

I have found it helps when dealing with kids food to have some vegetable sticks to munch on, and even some sugar free chewing gum which I find a bit groce.

I have been thinking about what has got me here in an effort to stay on track and what did I do differently when I was 25 and 75 kilos. Well no wine. Running around busy. Rarely snacked and ate less.. Of course I have had two kids now, am older, and have always had a tendency to gain weight so with stress this has just ballooned. But it’s time to get on track. When I am 50 my boys will be 15 and 13 and I want to be able to go skiing with them and the beach without them being ashamed.

Shall we check in with each other daily and help each other stay on track. My first goal is to 98.5 kilos in two weeks. I know that is quite a bit nearly three kilos but isn.t that the point of BSD and hopefully that goal,will stop me from going over 800. Morning here in Sydney and I am off to yoga. Will check in at the end of the day and see how everyone is going and hope Amandah sday got better and Shalimar is feeling ready to begin.

Hi Snoop
If you’re adding some salt you’ll probably be fine – and some foods have decent quantities in (bacon and other processed meats, smoked salmon).

I came across it when I was researching constipation; it can cause that – other symptoms can include headache, nausea & tiredness; a lot of non-specific stuff that you may not immediately identify with low salt intake.
Aside from the lack of salt in the diet if you stop eating processed food, drinking a lot, as you should on BSD, flushes the salt that you do eat through quickly, further reducing the salt in your body.

I didn’t find any research on a sudden drop in salt intake (ie if you stop eating predominantly processed food and move to mainly fresh food with no salt) which I would have been interested in.
The recommended UK daily intake is 6g – I have no idea whether that should be scaled down proportionate with lower calories

At the start of BSD, my salt was regularly in the region of 1g – I now try to regularly use food that has salt in it, I’m still not great at adding it to cooking. A few weeks into BSD, I was served charred green beans that had been tossed in sea salt crystals – I thought they were amazing – when I made them at home, I realised that it was probably just the salt.
One poster on another thread said that they used (or made a drink with) a stock cube when they were concerned about salt levels – I only had a low salt oxo in the cupboard, but it contained more salt than I’d had in a few days.

The problem is that one is so familiar with all the mantra of avoiding too much salt, it’s easy to be unaware that too little can cause problems too.

Hi Frog!
Just got back from a short walk.

Health care in Canada is free but it is difficult to find a regular doctor in Northern Ontario. We now have a Northern Ontario Medical School and i hope to get a doctor from one of the new graduates soon.
Can go to walk in clinics but they are not usually very comprehensive. I do have a glucose meter and in panic i made an appointment with Diabetes North, which supplies some support … it’s this Tuesday.

I DO have some tools BUT i have been VERY careless with testing and even taking the Metformin.

I have confidence that i will turn this around.

I did have a really good scare!!! Which is why i found the stories in the 8 week book very encouraging … cause some of those people were worse off than myself.

I think i may have an easier journey than those with husbands/wifes and children. You all have my healing thoughts.

How did I forget those! They are getting a bit gnarly too, will get the angle grinder and safety specs out and give them a trim before the wedding 😉

LOVE the picture, feels like the story of my life this last week 😀

Night night, I’m making tracks too, see you all tomorrow! 🙂

Hi Shalimar
welcome to BSD & the forum – sorry to hear that you haven;t been feeling well – that in itself can bring you down & make it difficult to get out and active.
I’ve no idea how the Canadian health system works, but if you’ve been unwell would it be a good idea to visit your doctor? If you have your blood checked, it will give you a better idea of what you’re dealing with – and be a good marker to measure your progress against.

Hope that the first few weeks of fasting have produced good results – Good luck with it

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LUCKY youre hilarious..dont forget yr griffin claws..!
Night night sleep tight xx
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It must have been on a different thread, no email notification apart from the above one 🙂

It is really sad, I’ve seen it happen twice now.

No, I still don’t think I’d be ok with a beard at any age, no matter what I could eat 😉 I’m mortified at the hairs that have appeared at the side of my upper lip. Really mortified. Mr Lucky claims he can’t see them, but… they’re there. They are there. This is just the beginning. I am a right catch presently, me. Massive calves, hairy mouth, tribal breasts, impending glaucoma, sciatica and the runs. Trophy wife.

Where did it go? I wrote something and dunno..maybe i posted it in the wrong thread!
LUCKY and FROG..i neglected to add i wdnt mind a beard at my age now..66.. A few years ago? NO! Shudder!
At 66 i think i could deal with it as long as i was tucking into three square meals a day and keeeping slim! 😋😋😋

LUCKY its very sad for those young uns who just take a wrong turn somewhere, then things escalate and they cant get back..
It must be horrendous to lose yr kids…🙁