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. 👍👍👍

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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.

Hi team let’s do it!
So day 6 of 7. Weight slightly up this morning to 101.9 but still down. Made the lamb eggplant last night and used too much salt. Can’t say it was very good.- maybe I over cooked the mince. It was a bit dry.
My carbs have consistently been under 50 gm this week. I will have a ham and cheese crepe today ( Sunday family tradition) just one, buckets of coffee, and a lentil chicken breast salad for dinner. Less salt. 10,000 steps. Hoping to hit 101.5 and under tomorrow for week 1 weigh in. Week 1 done. Will feel better when I’m writing week 7 done and dusted! Still the weeks do seem to fly by these days so let’s hit week 8 at least 8 kilos down. For me the toughest part is no wine as we love dinner out time with friends etc with wine. Still it’s not for ever but it was time to pull back.
Liro I am very interested about tp healthy gut bacteria as there seems to be a real link with this and obesity. How is everyone else going?

Bought a blood sugar home testing kit today. I need to fast for twelve hours before doing the test and stupidly I’ve just gone and eaten something before going to bed so I won’t be able to test until 11:30am tomorrow!

We don’t own a car as we live in the middle of London, but at the moment we have a hire car as we’ve just been on holiday. We took a day trip to Margate today and on the way back called in at Tesco to buy all the ingredients for the Week One menu. Around £140 for two people, which isn’t too bad as I won’t be buying any food from the canteen at work or from the shops on the way back home.

@shalimar – are you doing the diet with anyone?

Just went out to a fabulous sushi restaurant. Limited myself to salmon sashimi and edamame beans and then finished my son’s chicken curry Ramon soup once he’d eaten all the chicken and noodles. Yum. And I am feeling very virtuous.
Although I’ve just got home to an invitation to a birthday afternoon tea. Not sure how I do that low carb!

Shalimar, that sounds like a good idea to buy quality ingredients like that olive oil that seem special or indulgent when you cooking your healthy meals.

I did grocery shop yesterday a little bit too close to lunchtime…..but instead of the usual my body went into crave overdrive for fresh seafood and salad greens….came home with a trolley full of greens and salmon and prawns etc and had a gourmet lunch! What’s difference a week makes.

Still waking up very hungry but it’s not bothering me, taking comfort that it must be working.

6 days down and 2.7 kg down to 113.3 this morn. I really think I can stick to this long term. Now just need to get the body moving.

Congratulations Stewart! 🙂
What an inspirational story – you have taken charge of your life and I bet that in addition to the weight loss you feel so much better.

Fantastic effort – onwards and downwards!

Thank you so much for posting. 🙂

Thanks Janet

I’ve always said I was at the back of the queue when patience was being handed out – I must be getting old LOL But I do have stick-at-it-ability 😃

Big hugs 😊😊😊

So delighted for you captainlynne. You are our role model for patience and perseverance. Amazing achievement.👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Sounds like a great idea. Those chocolates sound lovely. I had a small piece of Green and Black’s 85% cocoa tonight (17g I measured it). Just 1 lb now to the next stone boundary and my weight starting with a 12 for the first time in decades.

Hi Izzy
sorry that you;re not feeling great.
Don’t know anything about Addisons, sorry, but I do remember that when I had antidepressants a few years back, there were was quite a lot of concern about taking them regularly, and the side effects of not doing so, or stopping them too quickly. I think it only applies to certain brands, but do take care with that.
Lots of love & very best wishes with getting your mojo back.
SOON!

I haven’t got the book, so can’t really comment on specific recipes, but yes carrots and other ‘below ground’ veg are much more carb heavy than the ‘above ground’ type. Maybe some of the other meat and vegetables used are due to the ‘Mediterranean’ nature of the recipes. I just miss out the bread, potatoes, pasta, rice and sugar from my usual recipes and meals, occasionally adding an alternative like courgetti for pasta or cauliflower mash for potato. This seems to work well for me.

hi
if you use the search box (top right hand area of the page, there are a number of existing threads about constipation which you may find useful
You’ll probably find it useful to use one of the online calorie counters – FatSecret, My Fitness Pal, calorie count – there are loads of free options on line. I prefer FatSecret, they have a UK specific site, so no measurements in cups, lots of UK supermarket brands, I find it easier to use than MFP and there’s a lot less ads. It will help you track calories, carbs, fats, protein – just about any food related nutrient you can think of.
Also, as a visual reminder, I like the carbs in fruit and veg images from DietDoctor – I have them on my kitchen wall
https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/vegetables

I haven’t used any of the recipes at all – if you want to substitute stuff, just use an online calorie counter to track the nutrients that you use.

Hi everyone
I’ve just started the 8 week diet because I want to lose weight and feel healthier and fitter. As far as I know, I’m not pre – diabetic but my BMI puts me in the overweight category. In my first week I’ve lost 5 lb. but badly affected by constipation. I’m looking for some advice re understanding the recipes in the 8 week book. A lot of them I’m ok with as they are similar to meals I normally cook (but now I’m having no carb with them). I am puzzled as to how the ingredients are chosen e.g there’s beef mince but not stewing beef, only red peppers are ever used – is there something wrong with yellow and green? Carrots are used sparingly – are they too carby? And no cabbage? It would help if there were guidelines to help with this as I’m not too keen on being dictated to on choice of recipes. Also (last question, sorry) why so many seeds?

Thanks Tizzie

I’ll be posting about maintenance soon – watch out for a new thread!

Looking forward to seeing you reach maintenance – do you have far to go?

Congratulations CaptL,
you have been an inspiration since I first found out about BSD.
I look forward to hearing about how you get on in the maintenance phase and also to joining you there at some point.

Great to hear about your success on this diet, it should inspire many more people to give it a go.
The fact that the BSD can make a massive difference in such a short space of time is something I wish I had known ages ago! Barriers to starting a diet when you are very overweight are the perceived pain and the time it takes to get anywhere. Not so with this way of eating. I know I can do this in some form, forever- something I’ve never said before about any previous weight loss/healthy eating plan.
Congratulations on your remarkable achievement so far.

Hi Christine

I’m starting my new Moleskin today. Maintenance instead of weight loss.

Will start a new thread later today or tomorrow. Need to wake up! Traveling home yesterday was a nightmare. East Coast Mainline had significant delays because of damage to overhead cables at Retford. Had to dash from King’s Criss to Euston to travel on West Coast Mainline. Instead of one train (with reserved seat) the journey home was – London to Manchester, Manchester to Huddersfield, Huddersfield to Durham, then taxi home😱 I should have left at 18.30 arriving home about 21.30. Instead I left at 16.30, arriving at 21.30. It was a very, very, long day. I’ll say no more at the moment!

Hi Izzy,

Hang in there honey… it feels like you have let yourself get a little run down.

Taking time to rest, doing activities you find relaxing, eating regularly and getting to bed on time will all help.

The work room will be there ready and waiting when you are feeling a little better.

I know it seems like skipping your medication is not so important – but when combined with the other physical symptoms it may play a small part – and if you have Addisons the effects of the condition may be contributing to that slight anxiety. It will be good to have that looked at in more detail at your next appointment.

Thinking of you and sending good thoughts and virtual hugs🌻

P.S. good news about the keyrings and the interest in the coasters😊