greenjanet – thanks for kind words and many congratulations. I am thinking hard and realise I have not been this weight since about 1998, and a kilo in 3 weeks on any other diet would have had me whooping.

Frog you are an inspiration. What a reboot! I think I have been eating too much. Probably all the time, but the hunger thing was a bit hard.

Loopylou, great about the 10%. I am still not there which is one of the things that has annoyed me. I have been a pound off (.4 of a kilo) and then bounced up. But you lovely people will help me get there.

Krysia, you are another inspiration.

Indy 50 pounds – all I can say is wow

Verano enjoy your holiday. All will be well on your return. As Jan says we know we can do it now. What a change

Yowser thanks for all your wise advice

Ah sounds like Froglet had a lovely adventure on the roof garden!
Night night FROG n FROGLET
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I am glad you are feeling better young Izzy.

The fish was yum, thank you

Lewisfasters – some swear by weighing everything, I don’t. You can get an idea of portions and what it should be. And even if you were 900 a day it would have an impact – in the book MM says 800 was chosen as a good balance between speed of loss and having enough nutrients. So 800 a day might be a touch faster than 900, so if not weighing means some calorie creep each day then that is not end of the world.

If not weighing it all means easier to keep at it then I say don’t weigh, save some of your precious time. Chocolate is ok if high coca content so allow yourself some of that.

I got in and the laptop had decided to update windows – no ‘did I want to?” – two hours to complete.
Took Froglet up to the roof garden – I’ve tried to a couple of times recently, and she’s had a hiss fit about it, so I slipped the harness on when she wasn’t expecting it.
Once up there she loved it and wouldn’t come down again – an hour and a half shuffling round very very slowly while she sniffed every square inch.

Hi Verano
I’m in Australia and I’ve had a lot of success with the app EasyDietDiary to log everything I eat. It has a lot of our local foods.
Cheers
Linda

Need some motivation!!! I have lost an amazing 11lbs over 2. weeks 3 days. I’ve started craving chocolate since starting work again after school hols (im a teacher) , im knackered and stressed. 10-12 hr work days are taking their toll and I’m starting my emotional relationship with crap food!!!! I’m finding weighing everything time consuming..,……. I have so little of it! I love the food tho

Great advice. Thanks.
I ordered the book today, should have by the weekend. I definitely need to read it as have been a little confused.
I’ll get to grips with it, I’m sure. I’ll keep you posted!

In other news I’ve finally heard from the hospital and got my next test booked for next week.

In other OTHER news my dinner was awesome! But i don’t know what to call it. It was kind of like a curried cottage pie with butter be an mash.

Browned the mince with half an onion, a carrot and broccoli. Added some beef stock and curry powder and cooked a while. Cooked a can of butter beans then mashed together with some grated cheese and the other half of the onion and topped the mince with it. Popped it in the oven for 1/2 hour (in my case an hour because I had forgotten to switch it on)

I haven’t calorie counted it, but it was yumalumadingdong.

Frustrating clip of Radio 2 this afternoon when driving home – Steve Wright in afternoon, apparently the solution to the mid pm slump is a dose of carbs, which are good for our happiness and energy….. Then he said he was quoting from ‘Health Magazine’ – yeah that sounds like a reputable research journal!

Another good plan Lucia.

Thanks yowzer ☺ I’ve posted on my blog so you guys can see the coasters if you are curious, the paint pens are fun but quite expensive and not sure how long they will last!

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So team,

I have another idea.
Now who rolled their eyes?
Who tutted?

I was only going to say, if each of us told one person this week, the joys of this diet and gave them the website address.
Then we all did it again in, say, a months time, we could eliminate diabetes, in one lifetime.

Anyone up for it?

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Just home from work and sitting in garden. It’s so lovely and cool and rather surprisingly my tablet can pick up Wi-Fi.

It is so nice to read about everyone’s weight loss today.

Ruthdownunder -1kg off is one more step towards your goal. Well done.

Loopylou – 10% of your body weight gone definitely requires celebrating.

Greenjanet – smashing the 100kg barrier is super news – and I am sure you lost a bit more doing the jiggly dance. It’s a great feeling being fully back on track.

Frog – not surprised that you were stunned by your 3.9 kilos in a week.

Indy – well done for crossing the 50lb down mark and your normal results. No wonder your doctor was thrilled.

Verano – well done for keeping off the bread and potatoes – a small weight gain on holiday is a good result.

We all deserve a gold medal for our efforts.

Day 57
wedensday 14 september 2016

Breakfast: None

Lunch: 1 cup potato salad

Snacks:
2 velveeta slices
2 apple
1 peach
3 celery stalks with salsa

Dinner:
beef broth soup
sloppy joe on mixed veggies

Well, i am on a search for my long johns. Summer is saying goodbye to me with the chill this morning at 53 degrees. No more sweating to death. No more Seersucker wearing. Clothing gets changed and more conservative clothes now. Soon i will be saying hello to my cardigans again.

Summer is over. the US OPEN is over. And my Jersey Shore adventures is gone. That is what sucks on Labor Day. Beaches closed. Back to school. Everyone gets back to their normal everyday zombie life in the matrix. Gets colder and more indoors. Less jogging at afternoon energy bursts. Eating more pecan pie and drinking hard egg nog. Wow! where did the calories come from? How did I gain 6 pounds in December?????

Well, that is the problems with grey skies and blizzards.

Well done Tired
Hope your first day has been a good one. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Stop kicking yourself in the tuchus (there goes my yiddish again). You lost weight. Get up and start driving your F1 speedster to the finish line. 56 days and I only did 3 or 4 instances of my two friends: Ben and Jerry.

Chunky Monkey makes me Chunky!!!! 🙂

I almost never eat out really. So, it is easy for me in some ways. Thanksgiving in coming and Halloween. OMG! Candy and pecan pie. Americans gain a good 15 pounds Halloween to New Years. Then they make their resolutions and break them January 2nd. Then they join a gym and never go after the first month.

Crazy! Isn’t it?

Well, you are a 100 miles ahead of everyone else!

Keep it up!

I have to break my friendship up with Ben and Jerry! 🙂

Went shopping this morning and parked 1/2 mile from the shops, so by the time we had been down the main street and back had notched up a couple of miles. Hacking down bushes this afternoon for an hour and half, loaded it all into the vehicle on to the tip and unloaded it all again! So hopefully have burned a few calories there!!!
Lunch – chicken, bacon and salad, dinner – mushrooms, baked beans and halloumi cheese. Greek yogurt and berries, 4 coffees and loads of water.
Hope you are all doing well. Be nice to have an update on all that have commented on this thread.
Night night, another new day tomorrow everyone. xx

Glad Youre Enjoying it LAINIE and seeing great success!
Yes thank goodness forMM! X

Lainie!
I feel pretty much the same way.
Exciting isn’t it?

Lainie I think you speak for us all! More and more of my friends are trying it and loving it.

I don’t post much but I love reading all the posts.

I’m on day 39 and have lost 18.7lbs in that time (17st 12.6-16st 7.9). I cannot believe it. I never thought I could stick to 800 calories and I never thought I’d have such a high weight loss.

I’m loving 800 calories – I’m having really healthy and tasty meals and not having calories for snacks means I don’t even think about them. At last I feel that I have a really effective route to getting down to a healthy weight. Even my hubby has noticed the loss – he says in my face (so noticeable), my backside and my arms. It’s so nice to fit easily into my clothes, it’s so nice to have choice. I’m really excited about the future and even if my weightloss drops off, I know that by Xmas I’ll be in the 14 stone bracket – I’ve not been there for almost 8 years.

All those fad diets that are constantly promoted and here is Michael Mosley selling a book for just over £3 and no cost to use his website and forum. That man needs an award for what he’s given me and others. I know this might sound over emotional but I really feel SO grateful that I stumbled across this approach. I cannot believe I didn’t come across this earlier as I follow all his programmes. But at least I found it eventually.

And finally thanks to everyone who posts – your successes have really spurred me on.

Elaine xx

Today, at a funeral, an overweight family member said,”Oh Sandie, your doing well with your diet. Are you going to stop now? You don’t want to go too far.”
I politely walked away from the negative vibes.

This is really interesting and helpful. I’m doing the Walk the Walk marathon next May and I really need to get my nutrition right as I suffered from a complete lack of energy about 3/4 of the way and kept feeling really dizzy. Fortunately small mars bars helped a lot. The website looks great as well and so I’ve signed up.

Thanks for this Orchid and good luck on your walk if I don’t get back here in time.

Elaine x

Oh good JANEY! That spelt pasta was a great find!
Ohhh and you’ve completed yr marathon! Thats brilliant! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 very well done finishing so quickly!X

Yowzer – the spelt pasta was pretty good! Couldn’t really tell the difference apart from it cooking faster. Wholemeal too, so should be healthy!

Hi Jan – yes am still walking! I entered that sponsored MyMarathon in aid of British Heart Foundation.. And completed the 26.2 miles in 10 days 👍🏼👍🏼. All for a good cause 👍🏼 The Up bands do seem to be occasionally temperamental. Mine occasionally claims to have been disconnected…

Hi janey

Are you still walking I had to reconfigure my up and it would no longer accept the email I used so relaunched it on another email, hence why I’ve disappeared. Glad you are still maintaining. 😊😊😊

HIii IZZY glad to see you x i was wondering where you were
That was some walk last night! I’ m glad you havent slid down the slippery slope and now back on course
Love the sound of the silver paint pen! X

P.S.

Myfitnesspal may be better for anybody in Australia. Fatsecret has UK and .com sights in many languages. There are lots of apps out there so you can probably find one that suits your needs if Fatsecret isn’t right for you.

HI jANEY! thats interesting about spelt pasta being ok for maintenance
Will deffo give it a try when i get there!
Good to see you xx

Hi

The carbs are important if you have diabetes or are pre-diabetic. The science of low carbs is explained in the book …. please re-read because I don’t want to get the science wrong. Coupled with low calorie, ie. 800, this leads to fast weight loss which also helps keep motivation high.

So whilst low calorie is ok if you just want to lose weight if you want to improve your blood sugar levels then low carb is really important .

I think that’s right sure someone will post if I’ve got it wrong.

Evening all, yes I’m still around! Had to respond to Avila’s revelation in the Longley Farm cottage cheese. Isn’t it just epic?? I’ve been singing its praises for months and have a spoonful most days with lunch. Haven’t found another brand that even comes close to it for tastiness!

Am enjoying the hot weather here in the Midlands. Seems quite odd to be sitting outside in just a sarong when it’s already getting dark tho! House is like an oven…

So tonight I am trying spelt pasta. It’s a grain that has low impact on GI and full of fibre so is allowed in the ‘maintenance’ stage of BSD. I found it in the newly opened health food shop in town so thought I’d give it a go…

Thanks CaliforniaGirl! I hope I have some form of hope and invigorating enthusiasm in your long term goals. But the best long term goal is:

Cut the goal into 5-10 smaller goals. You make it easier to achieve it.

I hope you finish your goals easily. Remember what the Beach Boys once said:

She’ll have fun, fun, fun til daddy takes the T BIRD AWAY!

Or did I mean California Girls??????? Well, both songs are great classics!

Good Luck!

Who suggested Longley Farm full fat cottage cheese? Wow – a revelation compared to the skinny kinds I have met before. I did at the time double check the brand – having brought Longley Farm yoghurt in the local shop as a local brand, I thought maybe it was a similar name but no, it is just down the road. So I get to feel good about supporting local business as well as yummy cheesyness.

Well done on achieving your target captainlynne – both impressive and inspiring 🙂

Hello my lovelies, thank you so much for your support it really does help.

I’m feeling more like myself again and have mostly been on track with BSD, losing half of my gain so that is a positive step forwards, hopefully soon I will have a new low to report 🙂

I still feel BSD is great because on previous diets going through a blip like this I would have just given up – but I have not!

I’ve been mostly getting some chillaxing done – with the exception of last night when I went for a walk with my friend and her walking group expecting a much shorter walk than we ended up doing (8 miles!) Having said that I did enjoy it and wasn’t home late.

I’ve also painted some more coasters and I will try to update my blog later. I had some I had already painted black and have discovered that I can sit and chill using a silver paint pen drawing mandalas, which is indulging my art, building some stock to sell AND chilling me out. win win win!

I’m off to create a meal with mince… Thank you again, you are all awesome, and welcome to the new posters 🙂

Hi Jackie WIlsonSaid,
I did the 800 over 10 weeks then had a 6 week break to cover holidays, visitors etc. When I restarted it was very easy, I had put a little on (gutfill etc) and that came off in a couple of days and the weight just coming off again. I did another 8 week stint then I was doing a lot of physical exercise so upped the cals and carbs a bit for the next period and had a ‘relaxed’ day per week. The rest of the weight still came off and I am now at target.
So yes, just restart, you know it will work and you know what foods to eat. It is much easier the next start!

JAN making my cuppa now..in nice fresh loose floaty pjs ! I bought myself post week 8 some lovelysmelling bodywash..gonna have a non food treat every few weeks now.
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This is the life…hehe!
In answer to yr question before..i think Lucky is busy with preparations for the wedding this weekend..but where oh where are Timmy,Janey and Eps..and Izzy? Or have i just missed them somewhere round the threads! X

Good work Stud! Your shopping plan sounds like fun! Always enjoy your lively posts! Julia

Yay Tired! So good you started NOW!!! There is power in just starting! I love your diary idea –I kept one of the first 8 week course I did (I did 24 weeks) and I look back in it now and it makes me laugh; I have so changed my entire outlook on food. You will enjoy the reflection in a few months time. Julia

Hi Nedds mum,
When I started I had read the book the week before I officially started and started logging what I was eating that week. That gave me a week to adjust to the feeling of ‘oh no, I can’t have that’ and ‘how do I ‘manage’ etc. I also started in shakes (not to be recommended) as a way of getting going, getting used to eating less and ease of managing portions and cals. I had 3 shakes per day plus a home made soup or veg. I did lose weight in the first couple of weeks – almost inevitable that you do on 800 cals, but I noticed all the weight was coming off of my hips and not my waist as per the expectation of getting rid of visceral fat. The issue turned out to be the shakes, I had purchased a standard brand (not the one the Newcastle project used as you can’t get it over the counter in the UK) and when I looked at the nutritional values, – yes, it was full of sugar – low fat – ie use skimmed milk, and 200 cals, but my carb intake was 120g per day. I then went onto making my own food and the inches came off my waist plus BS went down!
So – yes – take time to adjust especially as a vegan. Don’t worry about the carbs unless you spot you are eating lots of sugars, or refined carbs. I made a small change a week initially and over the first 10 weeks lost my 33.2 lbs and dropped 2 dress sizes.
As Jane says lentils and pulses are good, but in moderation. Adding in soya – tofu is the best way to keep the protein up without the carbs. I also stuck to a limited set of foods and did not start experimenting until later. My breakfast was full fat yoghurt (60g), blueberries (30g), plus 3 g each of pumpkin seeds, linseeds, sunflower seeds, almonds, This is a muesli without the oats. In your case, I just looked up the nutritional composition of Alpro Almond Yoghurt and it would replace the dairy yoghurt I used and be lower in cals! you can use hazelnuts for the nuts instead of almonds since you would use the almond yoghurt. I found it to be very filling.
Good luck.

Carl – I came back from 4 nights in Prague 3 pounds heavier, but they disappeared with 2 of their friends the following week. That taught me to be more careful with portion sizes. After a 3 night residential conference in Yorkshire I stayed the same. After 10 days in Italy (plus an overnight at a Heathrow hotel) I came home 2 pounds lighter than the day I left home.

When nothing else was available on a small railway station (I’d just left an airport without getting something to eat) I bought a sandwich, ate the filling and threw the bread away. Another time I was being driven to a conference when the driver stopped at a burger van (dinner that night was going to be late). What did I do? Bought a bacon roll, ate the bacon and threw the bead away. Sorry if it sounds weird, but I just didn’t want to do anything to jeopardise my weight loss, or to help the medics who aren’t onboard with the BSD. It’s me being awkward LOL.

YES FROG..thank you..i thought i was going barmy! X
Good point re number of posts on this thread..LUCKY didnt realise what she started!
Is it still tropically hot in London? We have it today after yesterdays rain…bit too hot for me..
Will be glad next summer but this summer my fat is the equivalent of being wrapped in quite a high tog duvet!😎

Thanks Lynne, great tips, did you stay the same weight on hols or continued to lose? Hopefully my resolve will be strong after 4weeks 🙂

Carl – no, I didn’t count calories when away from home, wherever I was. I still ate low-carb and watched portion sizes. I haven’t touched alcohol for many years, so that wasn’t an issue for me. In Italy I stayed with friends so shopped for foods I could eat when they ate pasta, bread etc. We ate out several times, sometimes with others, and I always found something BSD friendly I could eat, especially the antipasto. When we were taken to a special ce-cream cafe, the only thing without sugar was black coffe, so that’s what I had! Self-catering in this country – just eat BSD friendly foods, low carb, and watch portion sizes. And drink lots of water! Hope you enjoy your holidays. I look forward to seeing your results.

Hi Yowzer *waves*

Thanks 😃 . I’ve been there so often before – I’ll join the slimming club at the beginning of the year. Oh, it’ll be too full, everyone does that, I’ll wait. Oh, I can’t afford it this week, I’ll wait until payday. Etc, etc. So I realised that if I joined the slimming club just before Christmas it would be quieter and I could settle in to the programme ready for the new year. Last Christmas my neighbour plated up a dinner for me – turkey with all the trimmings, and Christmas pudding with cream. She’ll never know how much went in the bin 😱. I portioned the turkey and froze most of it for later meals. Potatoes, parsnips, stuffing etc straight into the bin and I cooked some extra green veg. Given the choice of cream, brandy butter or custard with the pudding, I asked for cream. When it arrived the pudding went into the bin, to be replaced in the dream by fresh blueberries. Did I feel deprived? No. In a way, it was a challenge. What could I do to stay with the plan? After all, Christmas comes every year so I needed to find a coping strategy sooner rather than later. And that helped when I’ve been away from home, whether for holidays of work.

has anyone else notice that this topic never goes to the final page when you post now, just the penultimate one?
Happens when you hit ‘reply’ from the recent posts page,
or is it just me

I’ve emailed tech support to see if its an issue with the number of posts on this thread

Hi lucky

Missing your many posts are you okay

Hi Yowser
Yes I remember them I’m 58 mind you don’t feel that age anymore before bsd I felt 88 it’s such a miracle this plan

back to the hair debate of yesterday, there are threads on here

HAIR PROBLEMS – last post 3/9/16
HAIR LOSS ETC- last post June 16

I read recently that castor oil is good for hair loss (presumably similar to coconut oil) My hair has got thicker recently, but I read about it being good to encourage thicker eyebrows.
I tracked some down in Morrison’s hard to find – apparently is can be used to induce labour as well, so lots of chemists don’t stock it.
Can’t really comment on it’s effectiveness – it would probably help if I;d used it for more than the first two or three days.
Made a nice cuticle oil as well.

Yes i’m still subscribed JAN…i just seem to get totally logged out if i look away for a moment! They dont like me
😩😩😩 actually the techies here are so nice

Co op..i love it…there’s always such a gorgeous display in the bakery …mmmm..but not for me any more..i eatit with my eyes and nose!
I do still get pangs but other healthy stuff is gorgeous so its not too bad..i love lettuce sandwiches – some tasty ham or halloumi inside two crisp romaine lettuce leaves!
JAN do you remember the old fashioned co op from the fifties ( i doubt youre old enough) They used to put your money in a little tin and it used to go along a pulley thing then come whizzing back with the change! No self service then
Enjoy yr book..im just going to have a shower then me too.. A few last chapters of a book to read! I left it at a suspenseful moment!
Then – lunch! No I Havent even had lunch yet hehe! Go me! I had some yog for elevenses and not been hungry since.
Glad you got sorted online..hope it works out ok! Nothing worse than having to ring places and be kept waiting listening to rubbish music! X