Been off piste for around 7 weeks. too much happening coupled with the last few firsts after son’s death july last year. but now back and focused. on day 4 week 2 but not losing weight. i am eating a lot of natural yoghurt with frozen blueberries, having coffees with some milk and home made veg soup. i cannot eat eggs and dont eat pulses or much meat. i am having a pear a day and taking vitimen tablets. can anyone help and advise. i have preordered the new recipe book for the bsd and just waiting for it to arrive. i am having herbal teas though. thanks mary

Morning Lucky hope that you;re feeling better soon to enjoy birthday fetivities!

Rice rather than egg, but cute!
https://www.bentousa.com/egg-mold-rice-mold/3524-bento-rice-mold-and-seaweed-nori-cutter-set-omusubi-nyan-4989082764238.html

Egg one, but not brilliant
https://www.bentousa.com/egg-mold-rice-mold/3529-hard-boiled-egg-mold-shaper-robot-cat-dorami-4956810802203.html
Having read about them yesterday, you cook the eggs first until ‘soft’ hard boiled, then mould them, so I suspect that the ears would present the key challenge.
The most common ones are essentially egg shaped – hence rabbits, a kind of teddy (looks a lot like a Scottish fold cat though!) and Darth Vader.

Oh what a night, to listen to the archers verdict, watch poldark or victoria. What a dilemma!

The egg things are cute Frog 🙂 I love the bunny one. I wonder if they do lucky cat ones, that would be immense, every boiled egg I ate would be a maneki. Well done on your kickstart, it’s great when you have a couple of good days like that, really boosts you doesn’t it?

Unfortunately I woke up feeling crappy again this morning, rebounding off every wall as I got up for my morning pee. Exactly like being drunk. But without the privilege of having had wine. Cheaper, but also – a) the no wine thing and b) slightly worrying. Thankfully the house is reasonably tidy as it’s my son’s 13th birthday, and he wants KFC for his birthday tea so I don’t have to cook. So salad for me and hubby. He can manage salad, thankfully. Hope this disappears reasonably quickly, and definitely before Friday.

Another 0.1 kg off this morning too. Every little helps.

TIZZIE yes the shopping is done faster and i am spending less!
I think The Fage Yoghurt Co must have noticed a jump in profits coz i buy so much of the stuff now! But ive noticed the supermarkets stock much more 0% fat yog than the full fat..grrrr… But i guess more folk are still buying the 0% fat version.
some great UC here FROG,ORCHID and OLDBLUEJEANS et al ! X

Hi Janet 😃

No – not salads and stir fries, not the recipes in the book. I found that I can’t tolerate too many veggies – they have an (err) unfortunate side-effect😱 So I have to be careful how many I eat! I started out eating a more European breakfast of eggs, cooked meat & cheese (whichever was in the fridge) – just watching portion size. Then my breakfast turned into a cooked breakfast – bacon, egg, slice of black pudding. Sometimes with tomatoes and mushrooms (sometimes I can eat mshrooms, sometimes not!). Then, because I’m genuinely not hungry, nothing until my evening meal. That is some form of protein with a few veggies or a little salad. When I have salad it’s dressed with a little olive oil and balsamic vinegar.

One thing I had to learn was portion control. Instead of a chunk of cheese, I learned to have 25g. And I recorded everything in a succession of notebooks. I’ve just started a new notebook for this next, maintenance, phase.

How did I maintain my focus? Mmmm …. when I began I decided that I could do anything for 8 weeks, but did wonder if it would work for me, even if I could do it. Perhaps I’m fortunate that I live alone, and haven’t drunk alcohol for many years. But I did love cabs in most forms. But the threat (again) of being put on Metformin gave me a well-timed kick. It’s said that success breeds success, and my results at the end of the first 8 weeks helped me to keep on going. That, and the reactions of my Diabetes Nurse! I was determined to show her that not only does the BSD work, but that it is sustainable! When social events, residential conferences and holidays happened – after all, these are part of life – I looked on them as challenges rather than threats and worked out in advance how to deal with them. It is my choice what I put in my mouth, nobody force feeds me. Yes, it can be challenging – especially away from home, possibly more so when in another country. I found Prague difficult, but that I coped well in Italy. (Italy, with no pasta, pizza or gelato!😱 – but it can be done😃)

I think I just started this, decided to stick with it and to prove the naysayers wrong!!!! It helped me keep the focus. That, and the improvements in my health, mobility, energy and all the other benefits we notice. Oh – and the smaller clothes LOL

It is starting to sink in. It’s still strange when someone looks at me and tries to guesstimate my clothes size. And there are those, even now, who hesitate to comment in case I’ve lost weight because I’m ill. When I looked out the ‘before’ pics I even horrified myself😱 I’ve always been the one taking the pics, but I’m not quite as nervous about being in front of the camera now! I think the thing that is taking a while to accept is picking a size 12 off the rail and be reasonably certain it will fit (it does in most shops). Not long ago tops were 12, but skirts and trousers were 14. Then most skirts and trousers 12. But now even pencil skirts are a 12!!!!! That’s taking some getting used to!

Does that answer you? If not, ask again 😃

Remind me, please – how far do you still have to go on your journey now?

We all have to look after our old bodies 😃 💐

I listened all week JAN! Verdict tonight! X
IMOGEN A long soak in a Radox bath will help? And perhaps rest more today to give yr poor muscles a chance to recover if youve been overdoing things? X

Hi FLOWERPOTtwin!
Sturdy Leg Brigade is funny!
Stevie wonder song is Living For the City!

A boy is born in hard time Mississippi
Surrounded by four walls that ain’t so pretty
His parents give him love and affection
To keep him strong moving in the right direction
Living just enough, just enough for the city…ee ha!

His father works some days for fourteen hours
And you can bet he barely makes a dollar
His mother goes to scrub the floor for many
And you’d best believe she hardly gets a penny
Living just enough, just enough for the city…yeah

His sister’s black but she is sho ’nuff pretty
Her skirt is short but Lord her legs are sturdy
To walk to school she’s got to get up early
Her clothes are old but never are they dirty
Living just enough, just enough for the city…um hum

Her brother’s smart he’s got more sense than many
His patience’s long but soon he won’t have any
To find a job is like a haystack needle
Cause where he lives they don’t use colored people
Living just enough, just enough for the city…
Living just enough…
For the city…ooh,ooh
[repeat several times]

His hair is long, his feet are hard and gritty
He spends his love walking the streets of New York City
He’s almost dead from breathing on air pollution
He tried to vote but to him there’s no solution
Living just enough, just enough for the city…yeah, yeah, yeah!

I hope you hear inside my voice of sorrow
And that it motivates you to make a better tomorrow
This place is cruel no where could be much colder
If we don’t change the world will soon be over
Living just enough, just enough for the city!!!!

La, la, la, la, la, la,
Da Ba Da Da Da Da Da Da
Da Da Da Da Da Da
Da Ba Da Da Da Da Da Da Da
[Repeat to end]

Hi Jan
I heard the omnibus – I think I missed an episode at some point in the week, I thought I’d LA’d them all – it made a bit more sense today!

Not BSD stuff but if anyone here is a archers addict we have 2 1/4 hours of delectation today ooh happiness 🎼🎼🎼 humming archers tune if you know it, hehe gone bonkers and loving it 😀😀😀😇😃😃😃

Ooh captainlynne
I keep thinking about your wonderful achievement.
Did you just eat salads and stirfeys or did you follow the recipes in the book, I’m aware at week 12 I need to have more than salads and stirfrys, my attention has wavered a bit lately did your focus waver at any time. You have been committed for 9 months just wondering how you maintained it.
Has it all sunk in yet. It’s so life changing isn’t it, cannot wait until I am at the goal posts also, I need to look after this old body
😀🙏😀

You’ll get there Tizzie. 💐

starting measurements: height 5’7″, weight 13.1, waist 43″ feeling sluggish, achey and frumpy! Looking forward to feeling energetic, comfortable and proud.

Thanks CaptL – just over 100lbs, so it will be a while yet!

Hi, I’m starting this week and doing it on my own, so would be good to be going parallel with others. I feel slightly daunted by the task – have 3 stone to lose as now having arthritic pain in feet. I am worried about feeling hungry and light headed and then grabbing the nearest thing in sight. Seems like planning is essential.
well, here goes……

YOWZER49.
I like that we be twins.
CELLULITE BE GONE.

Hi Verano

An ‘hourglass’ figure 😃 And a few days ago I was told I had a good figure and good legs 😃

Not bad for a 5ft 1in 66 year old!

I wish I could bottle the feeling of being able to take a size 12 off the rail and find that it fits😱 It may not seem much to some people, but after being overweight for most of the last 55 years, and nearly having to go from a size 24 into a 26, it means a lot to me.

It’s taken 9 months to make the change and I am so glad that I took the decision to try it. Then to stay with it.

Wowee, bloke41, that is some result! You must be really pleased. A tough week, maybe, but the results are plain to see. Congratulations.

Hey Snoop, thanks, I’m quite amazed actually because of my blowouts and it’s proof to me that this BSD works and this week I’ll be making much better choices. I’ll have to google the Stevie Wonder song for a listen and a smile.
To all of us in the Sturdy Leg Brigade may we all find the success we seek.
Much love to all. Xx

Update to my last post about bras.

I’ve just been told by someone who worked a lot with Trinnie and Susannah (remember them) that the bras the M&S fitter recommended were not right for me!!! Mind you, I did wonder when I saw some of the bras that she brought me to try? Aaaaarrrrrggggghhhhh.

Looks like I’ll have to try somewhere else and a different fitter!😱

Morning all🙋 Jan, Yowser,Frog, et all.

Glad you are all feeling so lively!!! I’m off for a longish walk, then back to clean the house…boy does it need it!…then need to tidy the garden while the sun shines😵

Down another 0.5kg today so moving in right direction once again.

Can anyone advise what to do for sore muscles….not from exercise…woken up during night with discomfort especially in legs. Any suggestions??

Week 2 done and dusted, pretty tough week, but got through it. Weigh in 153.9 kg waist 151 cm, staring weight 159.9kg waist 158 cm, total weight loss 6kg. still sticking to no coffee or soft drink. Keeping up with 10000 steps a day and book exercises 3 times a week. Great effort everyone keep it up!

Hi Frog, It used to be hard, but it isn’t my favourite type of chocky but it is always there to nibble on like I did this week because I let the stress get to me. Ahhhh. Tell you what the factory does smell really yummy sometimes too, just adding calories on the inhale haha. I agree totally about the yogurt and I had a nice plain Greek one in the fridge and berries in the freezer but my naughty hubby brought home some sensational thick Greek (sweetened) yoghurt with the passion fruit in it (to which he later apologised) It was there, so I ate it. So easy when that voice in my head starts yacking at me… ‘ go on, just a little bit, with cream, go on, it’ll be right’ With cream?? I hear you say,
Yes, I forgot to mention that 😫
Cherries, yum, none here in Aus at the moment. I’ll try to remember they are high carb. Xx

JAN i am having a chillout day today as I did lots housework yesterday and my pad is gleaming! I’m sittingback enjoying it
FROG cherries are so delish arent they but disappointingly carb heavy like a lot of fruit..i am amazed to find onions are carby too! Who knew? Well done with yr reboot,it’s really going well isn’t it in a short space of time! Great results!
LOOPYLOU i feel for you..ive had PF and it comes back at times..ouch! …i take magnesium to help me sleep and for any other health benefits hopefully..i think it does help relieve cramps/ tight muscles. Have just read there’s plenty magnesium and other minerals in full fat unsweetened greek yoghurt..which i eat every day..and i think its my saving grace as its so creamy and comforting,it helps me stick to BSD x glad yr mum is on the mend..yr TLC no doubt has helped a lot x
Ps jan is right re magnesium,has to be right ratio to calcium..i cant remember if its twice as much calc as mag or the other way round x

Ooh loopylou

Bless you for your commitment to your mum. Keep planning your meals to allow for the travel I have to go to Norfolk quite frequently in a day, so I take all my three meals with spoons forks everything, my sister thinks I’m crackers, but I don’t care, I’m in the zone, and on it. Keep up the good work. Perhaps have some arnica for your inflamed joints, safer to take than magnesium. It would be easy to take to much magnesium, although shop brought magnesium is probably so low for that reason.
Supplements are not necessary on this plan, and may even inhibit its action, magnesium has an effect on calcium for ex. and we need calcium for obvious reasons, but it also assists weight loss. So look into it carefully.
Love jan

Well done, Flowerpot. 2.5 kg in one week is good going. I was feeling peckish yesterday and had the grand sum of eight almonds. Quarter of an hour later, I was feeling completely satisfied. It’s amazing how a little of something good will do the trick.
Your post reminded me of a Stevie Wonder line: “But, Lord, her legs were sturdy”. That would be a very polite way to describe my legs!
As you’ve seen, there are lots of lovely folk on her with lots of experience prepared to share and help.
Meanwhile, congratulations.

FLOWERPOT We must be twins coz sounds like i have same legs as yours,two short cellulity trunks..in fact i have head to toe cellulite! We can only pray that BSD is a miracle cure and dissolves it for us!
Your dog sounds adorable and very cute! X

Flowerpot

You wasn’t as all of us wasn’t greedy, it’s simply the carb monster giving us a uncontrollable appetite, I experienced it when I first started this plan, and re experienced it when I came of plan for a week, my appetite was almost uncontrollable again, thinking about food all the time which when I am eating the BSD way I don’t have any of those things,. We are science in action. We are so fortunate to have this plan. It will I reckon be a charged for website in the future. So we need to make hay now and get it all gone the lbs that is. Happy Sunday. 😎😎😎
Love jan

Well done Frog.
I felt tickety boo yesterday and did 4 hours gardening before the rain set in. Today I am feeling a little stiff!

Yowser, can I ask why you take magnesium? I had plantar fasciitis which leads to really tight calf muscles and I have read magnesium is good for helping them release.

By the way Frog, I can’t find Longley farm cottage cheese anywhere here. I did find some by Holy Cow which is ok.

Beautiful day here. Perfect for a long dog walk. Then more visiting. Mum is out of hospital now and moved in an ambulance back to Essex do it’s only a 3 hour round trip instead of 7 hours!

Lol greenjanet, The carb monster made me laugh too, yowzer49 hit the nail on the head.

Frog

Morning luvvy Bril losses, it’s so encouraging isn’t it. I’m down 1.1 kg on my waste of time hol greedy carb indulgence, that tasted yuck excesses, .9 of a kg to go then I am back on plan loosing again want my 3 st very soon. Yeahhhhh love love love this plan, it makes me feel so hypo, keep trotting on the spot, hehe OH looks at me can’t tell what his quizzical experts ion means, but hey loosing weight and feeling great so bring on the eccentric Jan yeahhhhhh😎😎😎😎😎🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓😎😎😎😎😎😎 currant buns out, so of up the shop in a mo, then a few hours walk. What you up to today.
Love jan

Hi Yowzer49, thanks heaps 🙂
I was never really a big choccy eater when I started there but over the past 16 years I have eaten vast amounts, however not sooo much the last couple of years as I don’t enjoy it so much anymore, (a good thing). Yes all those stairs for sure do help burn the cals and I should have awesome slender legs but I don’t at all, they are more like tree stumps hehe, strong but chunky and very cellulity, that’s another change I hope the BSD will help with. My body has stored fat on my upper arms and legs and hips and bum and my belly and it’s all in the form of cellulite. Oh to remove the fat around my vital organs first and then hopefully all the rest will go too. I’ve felt like you too and thought I was just a greedy glutton, (I probably was tho) but I was eating all the wrong bad, bad stuff that just made me more hungry dammit!! The stuff that’s designed by manufacturers to do just that, keep us buying the rubbish. Yeah I’m finally waking up. I’m starving the beastly carbmonster 😁
My poochydog Patty is a brindle and white purebred English Bull Terrier and what a funny bugger she is too, I love her, she’s 3. Xx

Congratulations Snoop. 👍👍👍

😇😇😇

Oh Yowser
You do make me laugh carb monster got it in one, that’s one for the terminology list me thinks.

Morning Yowser luvvy

Yes tippity pip today, what you got on today, I’m food shopping and a long walk 😎😎😎

Morning Jan and Yowzer – you both sound very bright and zippy early on a Sunday morning!

BSD reboot is still going well – cherry binge aside
Four days of reboot BSD, 2.1 kilos
day 1 – Lost 0.4 kilos
day 2 – Lost 0.7 kilos
day 3 – Lost 0.5 kilos
day 4 – Lost 0.5 kilos

I’d been struggling a bit all week and then PMS hit with a vengeance today and I had about a million calories, all junk food, I felt miserable and sick before but even more with all that rubbish in me. Erg. Luckily tomorrow is not just another day, it’s another Monday and a clean slate for a new week! I know that any “right now” is a chance to start again, but there is something motivating about a new Monday. It’s a week you haven’t already ruined.

Someone asked earlier if I plan my meals, indeed I do. Detailed menu plan and shopping list every week. It’s the extras that creep in that are a problem. I have a husband and two kids who like carbs and don’t need to lose weight, and I’m within walking distance of shops so it’s hard to eliminate temptation. But I keep getting up and trying again.

hi Flowerot
a chocolate factory – is that hard. or to you get inured to it?
Chocolate fix just by breathing in deep!
There is a very posh chocolatier nearby in Islington, and it is actually quite satisfying to stand by the door and breathe deeply – the Hotel Chocolat shops are a bit like that, but Paul Young’s is much more hardcore!

I had a completely mad blowout weekend a couple of months ago – felt quite yuk! – and the yogurt – even if it took you over on carbs and cals, a natural greek one with fresh fruit would have been soooo much better!!
I had too many carbs yesterday – I’d bought a punnet of cherries the day before, without checking the carb content – would have been OK if I’d just had a few, but they were amazing = I ate them all during the course of the day – fortunately it was a smallish punnet!

Hi greenjanet,
12 weeks is great work, well done you, I’ll get there too. Hey I have all those ghastly aches and pains too so that’s encouraging to know that they might well disappear along with the crappy carbs 😀 I totally agree that this diet also inadvertently addresses the mind games too and helps us to hear that inner chatter, well it has for me this week that for for sure. I’ll certainly meditate more and more to help cope with stress. Xx

Meant to add,RIP Glenn Frey x a sad loss to this world x

Thank you PRINCETONIAN STUD for the Eagles track some days ago..brilliant..just as good live as in the studio and they make it look effortless! What a wonderful audience too.
Here they are doing New Kid in Town,my favourite,could be same concert X

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GrBfiMUcwbw

morning Arty
I just googled again to look at more quolls – they are lovely, and yes, some have much more orange coats than others.
Great that Lucky is doing well and enjoying long walks
You’re doing well too, blood sugars under 8 again- well done. How did you get on with your GP the other week, you were going to discuss dropping metformin?

Hope youre feeling better Izzy. Please take care x!

Hi FLOWERPOT! Well done on yr first week results! They are amazing specially considering you work in a chocolate factory! Did you used to eat quite a bit of chocco.,being surrounded by it,or did that in fact put you off choccy?
Its great that yr job is so physical,that must really help burn up cals.

Well, now like the rest of us here,youre learning the truths of how yr Carb Monster eventually runs away whimpering if you dont eat the bad stuff..i used to think i was plain greedy til i learnt that eating carbs just makes us hungry for more of the same. Starve the monster and off it goes.

Can i ask what type of poochydog Patty is? X

Morning JAN ! Happy sunday to you Too X! You sound in tippety top form today 🍒🌸🍒🌸🍒🌸
Hope you have a lovely day…i had a great sleep which really helps doesnt it..i put it down to BSD and taking magnesium a few hours before bed..sleeping much better than i used to do xxx

My figures for today’s weigh-in
85.7kg
– 0.3kg
Overall change – 2.7 kg

Yesterday’s food and exercise
873 cals
49 carbs
45 mins moderate walk with dogs.

Over on the calories but, for the first time ever, under 50 g on the carbs. The extra calories will be fat, so that should be easy to cut down on a bit today.

Happy Sunday all

How you all doing, for myself all symptoms now reversed, feeling up and nippy no today, energy back yeahhhhhhh😎😎😎

Hi there flowerpot.

You have had your first realisation of many that I expect you will have. I have done 12 weeks of this plan and recently went of plan for a week on hol, ooh did I feel ill, all my old symptoms exhaustion, aching joints etc came back all because of refined carbs, 3 days later on plan and all reversed. This plan is simply miraculous in my humble opinion in the power it has for our fragile bodies and mind.
So keep up the good work, your ability to cope with stress will increase because of this plan, perhaps also try the meditation as suggested in doc ms book. Go for it. Yeahhhhh 😊😊😊

Well done shalimar on take small steps to look after yourself, amazing what you find when you start looking.
My small step for today was suggesting to my girlfriend we do a walking catch up instead of sitting at the coffee shop….and NOT getting a takeout coffee to go!

Lucy Jane the book the brain maker by David perlmutter is really good for the gut microbe stuff. I got it on Kindle. Summarises the research which is mind blowing to read that you can’t believe more people don’t know about it, then goes through what foods to eat to feed your gut.