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.

I Love reading your posts Izzy, they’re helpful and inspiring. I’m just starting week two, after a bumpy week one. I’ll just soldier on and I’ll get there too. Xx

Hope you’re feeling a bit better. Sounds like you’ve got a lot on your plate. You need to be kind to yourself and not try and pack too much in. A fundraiser and shopping is more than many would take on, especially with kids in tow! Take it gently. And I agree with Imogen and Frog: don’t forget the antidepressants. Forgetting a painkiller is one thing, but forgetting a couple of antidepressants is another thing altogether. Make sure you get the tests done. Whatever the outcome, you won’t be stressing about wondering what if, what if not.
Good luck and lots of cyberhugs.

Hi again all,
Well I’ve been travelling along this slightly bumpy road on my wagon this week that I have fallen off quite a few times when stress and pressure at work has got me down and I’ve given in to cravings. I found that when I ate some junk, I really wasn’t satisfied for very long at all and just wanted more of anything really. I had not noticed that pattern before. So instead as the week went on, if I got too stressed and wanted junk I ate a small amount of wholesome food like some almonds or a cup of miso soup or some edamame beans and I started to feel more satisfied and the cravings and stress would go. This means I ate well over 800 calories per day each day but I am still astounded at the results at the end of this first week. My start weight last weekend was 82 kgs and my weigh in this arvo is 79.5kgs. I am really astounded to say the least. I am lucky in one respect that my job is quite physical in fact and I’m up and down stairs by the thousand I’m sure in a 12 hour shift, (I work in a palletising warehouse in a chocolate factory) sheesh my legs get tired by the end of 12 hours. I’ve ordered a pedometer so I can actually track how many steps I do in a shift. Thanks Igorasusual and SunnyB for your words of encouragement they really have helped me to keep going when I was off the wagon rolling around in the mud. This week I hope will be different and I’ll really stick to only the great food choices. There’s no doubt that I do feel thinner around the belly.
The junk I blew out on this week was some maltesers, sweetened yoghurt with sweet passion fruit in it, a big box of KFC , a packet of potato chips, a couple of slices of toasted white ‘grainy’ bread. None of this food really satisfied me tho. I was aware of that after I ate it. I would feel a kind of belly bloat but still be hungry for something else. That was a real eye opener for me in my first week. If I eat really good quality protein and some quality carbs I can last sooooo much longer before I need to eat again. Wowsers. I love this system and all you fellow BSDers are such a huge inspiration. Thanks for being out there. Love yooz all xxxx.

Hi there
Rich I was just like you monster appetite but it is easy after 41 years of failing diets it works it is cheap as you eat modest amounts and my appetite walked out the door two days after I started I have lost almost 3 st in 11 weeks go for it you will be amazed and wonder why you doubted this plan goes against all the rules but it works because it does go against the rules. Keep us posted on your progress we are always here for support 🙂🙂🙂

Sorry to hear you are struggling a bit Izzy. Hold on in there, we are all rooting for you.

Hi Rich — I couldn’t get with the recipes either so I just made simple good food — roasted chicken with steamed vegetables and green salads with vegies added, small amounts of salad dressing. Breakfast I was satisfied with eggs, cheese, heavy cream in my coffee. I found that the more simple the better. It seemed like just staying focused on the diet took most of my energy so I didn’t add anything else that wasn’t strictly necessary. Just stay simple — a few months focused on just this is just fine. Plenty of time later to get more “on your plate”, literally and figuratively. I will look for your future posts. Best wishes, Julia

Day 21. BS 7.8 mmol/L. Long walk today with Lucky. Beautiful warm days now Spring is here. Glad you both liked Quolls the ones we see are bright orange with white spots and have thick coats. They are related to the now extinct Tasmanian Tiger both have that canine hunters jaws and very sharp teeth. Nocturnal.

Hope everyone is well.

Thanks for sharing this. How marvellous!
I am struggling with my plateau ad constipation but will continue with the diet. Sugar levels have also stopped dropping.

But i feel much better. No heaviness in the stomach region. sleep is better.

I am travelling for 3 weeks at the end of Sept and that will be a real test.

I have to increase my level of activity. I just have to.

All the posts I read are so motivating.

Thanks to all those who share.

Hi …. the 140 pounds doesn’t sound too bad …. your health is worth it!!
I don’t even know how to drive …. and really it’s a big expense to drive. I can afford that or my private Clay Aiken concerts!! 🙂

I’m not doing my diet with anyone …. except you and my friends here.
But my sister may join me in general weight loss … but she only has 10 pounds or so to loose … while i have about 70.

BUT ….. i do fit into a new bathing suit already …. so i can dump my crappy one when i go to aquabics! 🙂

I haven’t started the 800 calories yet …. but i’ve been sort of fasting for a week. I started with just the 12-hour fast every day for a week.

And i plan to up my exercise from zilch to something!!! Only short walks to date.

Liro, Lucyjane … glad you are enJOYing your special meals!!!
I went and picked out a really expensive Olive Oil and the the owner picked out a much cheaper one!! He should know. I also got a sterling silver spoon ring at the street fair/jumble sale … i’ve been wanting one since i lost my Avon one decades ago … been looking on eBay … so for 20 dollars i even had it fitted for me.
Had a local tea at Spa for You … and decided to treat myself to a spa item for every 10 pounds i loose … p. s. some of the items are not that expensive.
Also i joined the community centre for 5 dollars … and see they have some free exercises for seniors and foot care appointments for seniors … also free!!
The Yoga will cost but i think i would like some good instructions for 6 weeks. Then i can join the yoga or Tai Chi/Chi Gong classes that are free with my gym club membership. I just need to get more fit before i tackle the gym classes.
No longer walk today but 4 small ones.