Day 189 weight 9st 5lbs (end of week 27)
Blood Sugar 9.0
Tried to have a night out but gig was cancelled at last minute so went home and watched casualty with my friend and had 1/2 a bottle of wine each – oops

Day 190 weight 9st 5lbs
Blood Sugar 9.8

Update:
Mum – its a problem with her heart, but hospital don’t know whats causing it – on monitor all the time
Auntie – Now has pneumonia and on new lot of antibiotics as no improvement since she went into hospital
Me – my HBA1c has gone up from 57 to 59 🙁 Will be seeing doctor w/c 5th September.

the saga of the eggs a story to behold !!!!
you have to eat your roast or you will waste away to nothing !!!!!
and then the boots will be too big!! 😷

Hi Verano.

The only reason the docs obcess about our cholesterol is because pharmaceutical companies have pushed statins for years it is worth mega bucks to pharmacy and medics, it’s easy to monitor as well. Unless you have a familial tendency to have very high cholesterol, just concentrate on eating healthily, it will resolve all that, also the measurements that surgerys still work on are out of date, as they are with blood sugar control. So don’t worry, just focus on Mediterranean diet.😎😎😎

I wouldn’t have statins even if I had had a heart attack, my body knows what to do if I give it the right fuel.😊

Sod all here for lunch! Apart from the bloody Pepperami! No egg, anyway! And very, very likely, no tea either! Yippee! See Twitter for full story…

Mentioning the boots is unlikely to lighten my mood… shall we just say… I’m going to be a size 8 and my bloody calves are going to be bigger than my waist.

I haven’t tried the silicone ones Frog, I did have a metal pan once that supposedly poached them, four metal cups, but they were always hard poached, and I wanted a soft yolk. I had a microwave one, that was pretty much the same story. I finally saw how to poach an egg perfectly on a cookery programme, went in the kitchen and did it straight away. Been fine since. But yes, the cleaning, plus if you’re doing more than two, you have to wash the pan, change the water and by that point, I really can’t be bothered. And at that point, can you hazard a guess at who has to do without their egg? In one! Moi! This will boil (steam) six at once and poach four. I might have one for tea…

Oh God, I bet that was galling seeing that label Frog, but also great that they are now consigned to the ‘too big’ bag – get them gone! Great news on the abundance of clothing ready for you. Have you read the book by Marie Kondo, or has anyone else? The Life-changing magic of tidying up? Specifically the clothes part? I think I’m going to be doing that soon. Size 16? I’m coming for you, Frog. I’m coming for you 😉 Well done 🙂 But of course, you will be a 14 by then so…

That’s really funny Lynne, I’m just assuming that once I’m an acceptable size that I will automatically start shopping like I deserve it. Whether that’s because I used to when I was 8/10/12/14 and even 16 to an extent or not, I don’t know. I hope the feelings of unworthiness disappear with the pounds. I didn’t think of that at all. Love the Minnie Mouse knickers, why not indeed! Why not! I personally can’t wait for the day that I can buy an off the peg bra without having to have them especially made. Ok, well I am overexaggerating slightly but still, sheesh? £30 for a bra? For ONE bra? ONE? Surely there’s not THAT much more fabric in a 44FF than there is an off the peg 40? Surely? No specialist machinery needed for that extra couple of inches of fabric, right?

Yowzer it sounds very much like I hit something like you did on the 5:2 then. I’ve been fine since, absolutely fine. Next mini goal one kilo or two pounds away! Can’t wait 😀
Just seen your email – will pass it on now 🙂

Thank you Imogen lol, and glad you understand what I meant ;-). I never thought I’d see the day I’d be perturbed by too much weight loss but when it doesn’t happen to you usually it’s a bit like ‘WHAT just happened there?’ I am beyond cross about the egg, you have no idea the full story of the bloody egg. I am just telling Janey now on Twitter and I think I may be slightly PMT. Slightly. Yes, she agrees. Well done on the jeans! And yes, get the big ones gone, none of us are going back there again. Ever. Even if there’s a carby meal out or a piece of birthday cake or even a holiday blow out, it can be undone in a week, two tops.

I constantly overthink things Avila, not as much now as I have done in certain periods of my life, but still it’s random stuff like today that bugs me. And if you don’t have the answers with a science degree, I don’t think my GSCE Science D-D grade is going to help lol. I am useless at science! Only count the naked weight, we weren’t born with full stomachs or clothes 😉 Thinking about a WW stint when Mr Lucky and I first got together, we would actually go commando to our WW meeting. We’d weigh our outfits to see what the lowest combo was we could find. And realised that our underwear weighed… Ye Gods, Gok Wan or Trinny and Susannah would have had a field day with some of the get ups I had one some evenings… 🙂 It’s a good job I didn’t have an accident, or my Nan’s warning of always wearing clean underwear ‘in case’ really wouldn’t have helped much…

It’s not easy being me…

Lucky
Your “petite but plus sized” reminded me of my Mum, who always used to state that she was ‘long bodied’ and ‘long legged’ – she was about 5’1″ (maybe, probably not when her hair was in a flat style!) so my sister & I never quite worked out where the short bits were.
I do appreciate what you mean though. I restate my claim that given my shoe size, I ought to be 5’10”.

I agree strongly that styles that are designed for sizes 8/10/12 won’t necessarily translate into size 20 or larger (or look particularly good, however confident the person wearing them). I often prefer(red! past tense!!!) to purchase well made clothes from ranges that are designed for larger sizes (not talking just cut large with lots of elastic here!) on the basis that they will fit better, rather the largest size of a ‘normal’ range.

I guess though, from the number of tags on newly found clothes at the back of the wardrobe that I’ve bought in sales at huge discounts (because I was going to fit into them one day) that Igor is right – women do tend to avoid spending a lot on clothes in a size that they’re unhappy being, hence the discounts – even though really well made and tailored clothes can hide an awful lot and be incredibly flattering.

Why eat no sugar chocolate when chocolate is allowed on this diet, just make sure it is 70% or more. The higher the cocoa content the less milk and sugar they put in. I hate milk chocolate and love the very dark stuff so it is easy for me to say but you can change your taste buds and this is partly what this diet is about.

Yes, I guess we’re all different when it comes to our reactions to foods as well as medication. The last thing I want is additional medication. I’m hoping to dump Metformin not add to it!!

well done Gemgem

TassieDevil excess urine is the way the body gets rid of fat. In case you wondered where it went, does it melt, no or it would still be inside you, does it come out in your skin, no the far globules are too big to come out through pores, does it come out through pee or poo, yes, the fat can pass easily through the urinary tract. If you were to do a lab stick test you would be able to see the fat in your pee, only it is called ketones. That is why you have to drink lots of water to replace and to flush. Sometimes your poo will get harder and that is because the fat is drawing water out and into the bladder so it is drier, another reason to drink lots. After 2 or 3 weeks it will sort itself out so nothing to worry about. Maybe drink your fluids during the day and stay dry 2 to 3 hours before bedtime. When you go for a pee make sure you completely empty your bladder, sitting on the loo creates a little reservoir in your bladder so when you stand up the urge is there again very quickly. Too much detail, sorry, used to be a nurse.

Wow, so many posts but I’m halfway through this one and my Mum showed up to visit, so I’ll post this and then crack on with the rest!

Igor – this is a discussion I have had many a time with larger friends, and it’s one that always seems to get quite heated, plus sized clothing. For me, there’s no stigma in the term itself, but for others I know it’s a big deal. But yes, of course, it does help if you can go to the same rail as the size 12’s hang and pick what you want without being confined to a separate ‘special’ part of the store. I have friends who are very confident in their larger sizes and who manage to look great and can pull off almost anything. I don’t, however. I am also very small, I am petite as well as plus sized. I looked like a little barrel lol. My friends argue that they should have the right to wear what they want, if it’s being made in a size 8, they want it in a size 22/24/26. I know however, no matter how lovely an item of clothing is, just because it is being made in a size 24, it is not going to look on me like it does on the mannequin in the store window. Some women don’t care, but I do, and I don’t believe every single item of clothing made in a size 8/10/12 translates to a larger size. I think some of it made in plus sizes are absolutely horrendous. But if it’s not offered… It is each to their own, of course, everyone will have their own opinion on it, and I do think self confidence has an awful lot to do with it. I think I look at the mannequin and then I look at me in the changing room mirror and I don’t see what I want to see, or expect to see. I just saw a fat woman in another dress/top/suit that would look great if she was several stone lighter and I’d just think ‘Why bother? I won’t feel good in it. It’ll sit in the wardrobe.’ Go home, and instead of doing something about it, I’d console myself with cake.

Also the ‘I intend to lose weight’ thing is an issue, yes. It’s one I’m still battling now at the moment, and I think quite a few of us are too, when we aren’t yet at the end of our journey. I could have spent a fortune the other day on beautiful sale clothes, which weren’t even my usual level of ‘cheap’ at half price! But the difference is now, I’m battling it in a good way, in that I am very successfully mid (ish!) way through losing weight and I don’t want lovely clothes that will only fit me temporarily. This is opposed to my old way of thinking about not feeling worthy. So, an improvement all in all – but I still probably won’t have new clothes for a good few more months yet!

Hi both and thanks for your replies, glad it isn’t just me then! Only caffeine in the morning but loads of water as I am in the Middle East and it’s scorching. My BS has gone down to normal levels which is a relief as well as my BP so all good news.
I guess I’ll just have to live with it and go back to 5:2 when I’ve done my 8 weeks. it yes, the weight is coming off too so mustn’t grumble!

Inspired by everyone’s posts ‘re JOTF, and feeling a little disillusioned at my most recent weight plateau…decided to have a clear out of my 18+ size clothes…YAY, can finally get into the size 16 jeans lurking in the wardrobe…so have put all the baggy, too loose, too comfortable clothes in a big black bag – will drop off to the charity shop after the bank holiday. Sooo needed that lift😊
Now will need to get some more smaller size clothes cos I am not going back!!!

Lucky – oh I get the overthinking, I can get so tied up in knots overthinking – I used to be worse, especially over what I said, they said, guessing at meanings etc etc.

I also have an existential wondering – why does over eating not show that day but some random days later? Equally weight loss – though I allow for metabolism time on that side.

If mass is neither created nor destroyed why can I eat a lot of terrible stuff and the scales not change, then 2 days later when I am being extra good and contrite the scales jump. Where is that mass/weight for 2 days?? (And I ask this as someone with a science degree!!! )

This morning, pre food, post loo, I saw 92 (kg) on the scales, ok followed by point 8, and back up with drinking and dressing, but a promising glimpse. And 4 weeks ago unthinkable – then 99 point something instead of 100 was hopeful.

Starting week two and am over the moon with the results thus far BG 5.2 !!!
It has been relatively easy and with the good BG results are keeping me motivated and able to be strong around cake eating people 🙂 and cooking for the OH…. Thankyou MM

I think Pinter is one of those that are so clever it is nonsense to normal people!!

I have not eaten out since being on this plan but I know that after falling off the wagon I find it sets back my ‘taste adjustment’ – it is as if a taste of sugars etc (more tempting than carbs for me) sets off the craving again. And takes a day or so to get beyond that.

Hallo peeps.
Having done research for Carluccios I discovered they were fully booked so we were eating elsewhere. Feel I didn’t do to badly with choices and scales confirmed that with only a 4oz gain this am.
Here’s my problem. The day after eating out, that is today, I have an insatiable appetite and keep wanting to eat and will be over the 800, probably over 1000. Does anyone else have these symptoms? Any tips on dealing with it?
It happens every time so need to have a strategy.
At the moment I am hanging on to the wagon by my fingertips so that hopefully I won’t fall off completely.
Have booked my Aqua class for tomorrow and will try to work hard.
The play was No Man’s Land by Pinter. The theatre was a sellout and people at the door were asking for returns.
The audience at the end thought it was brilliant but it was lost on me,and on my companions. I’m not a philistine but as far as I was concerned it was 2 hours of nothing. Nothing happened. Undoubtedly some of the audience liked it but can’t help wondering if some of them were signed up to The Emperor ‘s New Clothes as in the fairy story.
Min

Hi all, end of week 1 and I’ve already lost 2.2kg (nearly 5 lbs :)Week 2 here we come!!

Hallo tassiedevil, yes I am having the same problem. I have been getting up 3 times a night but have trained myself to not wake up fully and manage to get back to sleep quite quickly.
You may be interested to hear that I recently read an article by a cardiac surgeon who said that if people drank a glass of water before retiring and 2 glasses first thing in the morning on waking they would dramatically decrease their risk of having a heart attack or stroke. Moral keep drinking the water.
Min

Lucky…really…lol! 🙋🙋🙌🙋🙋(that’s me hands up!) sitting here thinking I should be so lucky😉then realised that I tend to be a bit of a worrier too, sooo would probably have been asking the same questions. Congratulations on the fantastic weight loss – Enjoy 🌻

Shame about the egg😞x

Thanks for bringing up that prob LUCKY..could be invaluable info to us following in yr footsteps!

I heard of Amanda Sainsbury- Salis when i was fasting and hit a famine reaction after about thriee months of 5:2 and v good results weightwise….suddenly found i cdnt do fasting any more ,was just too hungry all the time. Body was telling me it was time to eat a little more..someone told me about famine reaction like RUTH just said, so i ate more normally, ie higher cals wihtput going mad(didn’t have a clue about carbs then) for a week or so then was able to return to fasting/ losing.
I think her book is called Dont GO Hungry or Dont Go Hungry Again

So happy for you you’re still on a downward path..you’ ll be hitting that next mini goal before you know it! X

Welcome LOUISE call in tomorrow for inspiration and encouragement on yr first day! I think you’re going to be delighted…day one i was apprehensive, but that changed quickly to feeling vy cheered when i realised this was easier than i expected!x

AVILA i love that proverb! X

congratulations on the Jeans both!

Am beginning to see the point of the egg cooker – I poach my eggs in silicone poaching cups (two for brunch, inspired by all the egg talk on here) – but I can see that if you don’t use those, then poached eggs are messy – especially if you’re doing lots. I either had a big egg the other day, or got distracted putting the cup in the pan, but some of the egg white slipped out into the water, and that was a bit of a pain to clean.
I think I will live without one though!

Yay for the positives 🙂

I spent time with my sister and niece yesterday, which was nice.

I’ve a week off this week coming 🙂 lots to do but not at work!

my size 12-14 pyjamas fit easily, I’ve chucked out all my old bigger ones.

I’ve been rubbish and still not practised the mindfulness (bad Izzy) I think I need to start again.

In other news I finished the Harry Potter book and although I did enjoy it, it wasn’t the best Potter book!

I’ve got on audio The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert having been converted to Eat Pray Love after not liking it to begin with.

It’s a big novel this, and it starts with a really long back story – which at times seems uneccessary as the *real* story starts well in to the book. I’m enjoying it anyway though but not sure I would have had it been to read as opposed to listening on audible.

Hi Tassie Devil
I get up probably once or twice – but this is way fewer times than I used to when my sugar levels were out of control.
I find I need to get up more on days when it’s got to the evening and I’ve realised that I’ve not had a lot to drink thru the day, and then drink 1 – 2 litres in the hour or so before I go to bed. – So don’t cut back on liquids, but try and space them evenly through the day.
Also more recently when it’s been very hot – I think I wake up because its too hot, or can’t get off to sleep so am restless – and my automatic reaction is to go to the bathroom, rather than waking up because I need to go to the loo.

Caffeine is a diuretic – try avoid caffeinated drinks late at night.

Are you diabetic – could it be to do with sugar levels? – Although I would have thought if that was the problem it would be improving with BSD rather than getting worse, but may be the route of the problem.

Failing that – may be a urinary tract infection completely unconnected to BSD

plus point – the more you pee, the less your weight will be when you weigh in the morning 🙂

roast chicken and salad for tea and bits of greek stuff for lunch !!! ( falafel koftas halloumi etc all low carb good old m and s !!!! )
yay on your jeans of now then !!!
hows the boot quest going ??

Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy well done Tokyo! I’ve got in mine today!!!!

I’m trying to chill now. Just made eggs for everyone in the new maker. And dropped mine on the floor. No, I tell a lie, I dropped my husband’s on the floor and gave him mine instead. So I am now in what can only be described as a foul mood. And I have eaten a Pepperami instead. 0.6 g of carbs. Tried the boiled today, medium boiled, looked perfect. Well, mine did until it rolled off the ******* egg cup and onto the floor, and was flat! I don’t mind a flat poached or fried egg, but not in it’s shell, with bits of said shell now embedded in it. Veg is all peeled for Sunday dinner. Will try a poached egg tomorrow. But all in all, simple to use, and will make life a lot easier, and less cleaning! Yay! Hate cleaning pans after poached eggs!

Hi gang,

I know I am normal, my moods go up and down.
My enthusiasm goes up and down.
My IQ also goes up and down.

I cans feel so ‘smarty pants’ one day
Then the next one , I feel, am I the only one on the planet that need s to lose four tons of weight?

But
I like to look at others blogs here on Thursday website.
I didn’t know if you had a really really good one.
Am I looking for pixie dust?
Probably.
Some but of magic to get me to my healthy size 12 sooner.

So gang, we will all keep going, keep swimming, keep walking.

Love luica

Gday all,

We have started our 8 week journey today. My mother-in-law stumbled onto the book while serving a customer at the library, asking to renew a loan on a book, Having taken insulin for last couple of decades and with the threat of losing her eye sight, she decided to have a crack on the bsd. And omg, half way through, she no longer needs insulin. My wife was talking to me about it, and as you do was curious what all the fuss was about. Doing a google search on the book l realised l had watched a documentary on the author about doing fast burst exercises. It got the better of me and ended up getting the bsd book. Read it all last week, we did the big shop yesterday and here we are day 1. My wife is a type two diabetic who is on the verge of having to go on insulin. Im a morbidly obese 42 year old husband who has yoyo dieted all of my life, losing all my excess weight several times during the years and always putting it all back on and some more. Day 1 stats, weigh in 159.9kg waist 158cm. Goal 99kg. Felt very hungry around 7:00 pm, a ginger/lemon grass tea helped a little to stop the cravings and a you tube clip l watched few days back about doctor oz explaining the feeling you get when you think that your body is craving food or hunger pains, is actually your metabolism working hard burning your fat, that one thought helped me tonight. Good luck to everyone on their journey .

i have just tried my JOF on and the triangle where the zip has gone and they meet up wont fasten but they meet up !!!! getting there!!!!😇👖👖👖

As one of those people who always said the only thing that fitted me in most shops was the belts and bags, it’s fascinating to be able to go in ‘normal’ clothes shops on the hunt for something to wear. And guess what. Now I seem to be a ‘common’ size – the one everybody else buys. And they got there first😱 Story of my life LOL Whatever size I am is the one that’s out of stock!

Add in a history of buying for others and feeling I’m not worth spending on – I don’t deserve it – and it makes for interesting challenges now.

Thanks to everyone for your advice, support and guidance, especially at the moment about clothes.

Been a debate on here about undies, especially lacy ones. Can I add in (sorry for picture in head) that I just bought size 12 😳😃 and instead of sensible ones, one pair had ….. wait for it ….. any guesses? Not only Minnie Mouse, but frills and sparkles too!!!!! Well, I can’t be serious all the time. Can I? 😃

morning all
good news on the non hangover janey !!!
and congrats to lucky on magnificent weight loss!!!!😀
how good is that? go with it and enjoy
must admit i am been a bit relaxed like i said the other day but will have a cheeky weigh in tomorrow to make sure i am not too relaxed!!!!!
at least then i can pull it back !!!
but what are weekends for if not too enjoy life have fun and have a little if what you fancy i work hard enough during the week and life is way too short x

just completed a questionnaire on a click and collect order I got last week – asked for dress size in addition to age group, etc.

Size 16 🙂

I know that sounds a bit coy, but some people are sensitive! Since I started this five weeks ago, I seem to have to get up up to three times a night to go to the loo. I am eating fairly low carb, under 70g amd I know this has something to do with it, but good grief, this is ridiculous! Clearly I am not suffering from water retention!
I usually have to get up if I fast but every night is getting silly. Anyone else having the same problem?

Go for it! We’re week 4 in, and following the menu in the book.
The recipes (in the main) are delicious.
You have to shop ahead, and have weighing scales/ tablspn measurinng spoon on hand all the time!
But dare I say Im actually enjoying it

Have family from NZ visiting shortly so that may slightly affect things – but know that even if it does – we’ll be back on track in no time.

So I may be joining in your thread on a relatively even footing at the end of September!

Good luck… and enjoy your journey!

Morning Lucky
Amused by the jeans of the future – remember the jeans I found in the wardrobe, that I realised I was getting close to fitting in to, then did eventually? (now too big 🙂 )
When I started BSD, I was M&S size 20 (so that’s 22 in real life, you know when you’re getting to the top of a size range, and only the M&S ones fit comfortably????)
Once I could wear the JotF, very happy – after a few days, I found the label to check the size – allegedly a 22!
I was 18 in pretty much everything else at that stage, but the favourite JofF were iconic – so discovering the size tag was irritating, to say the least!

I have a giant suitcase of ‘small’ clothes and a couple of boxes in the car that I retrieved from the storage unit yesterday, and I really ought to go through the wardrobes here properly too – I just did the trousers yesterday.
I did try on a couple of jackets at the unit yesterday, one old favourite, and a really nice navy slightly fitted blazer style jacket that I have no recollection of whatsoever.
One casual jacket, the ‘pull’ thing on the zip has broken off – the zip mechanism itself is fine – I need to see if I can fix that somehow. It’s a purple zip and kind of a feature of the jacket, so would be difficult to replace. Bit loose, but I was pleased to see it again!

Just in answer to your comments about not being ‘worth spending decent money’ on clothes, Lucky, I really empathise.

I’ve said elsewhere that I work in Fashion, and one of the things I did was to explore special ‘Plus-size’ brands for the department store chain I worked for. It was quite evident that most women would not spend a lot of money on clothes if they fit the definition of ‘Plus-size’ and this seemed to be because they always felt they would not be that weight for long – would be dieting it off – and you have just suggested to me that it is also because they felt they didn’t ‘deserve’ it. This makes me very angry, actually. So although we often got requests for more ‘Plus-sizes’ the sales never justified it.

Now I believe more brands are covering more sizes and it makes sense to me that most women want their favourite brand, the one their friends buy, in a larger range of sizes. Not something specially categorised as Plus, or whatever the terminology would be. IF, that is, they think they’re worth it 🙁

I hope you enjoy your new jeans and the other clothes you’ll soon be buying as you fit into them! 🙂

Thanks Frog,I wish that I thought it’s just a number but that’s not the way my mind works. There was a danger/excuse I could just throw it all in the air and give up! I KNOW I’ve lost 10lb so have time travelled and added 10lb to start weight and subsequent weights.This seemed to be the difference between the two scales???🙄 on holiday now for a week and sticking to the diet with an odd glass of wine or two as a treat.Then hopefully fully on it from Monday 5th September. I’m good at starting diets been practicing all my life!!

Enjoy your new toy Lucky. I have used mine for nearly 2 years every morning, apart from the last 6 weeks.

Hi I am also starting my 8 weeks from tomorrow! Getting everything ready for the big day! Have been on it before but became too confident and fell off the wagon in the middle of week 5! Ready to start again and actually finish the 8 weeks on the 800 calls! I know from past experience how much better I felt and want to get back to it! Hope you are all taking your measurements as this is an even better guide to fat loss than weight! Hope we can spur each other on!x

Hi Karen, I will join you. I am restarting after taking a week off to go on holiday. I am very active, exercising for 45+ minutes 4 or 5 times per week. I was fine on 800 calories. Drink lots of water, make sure your meals are filling and you will be fine. Seeing the results will keep you on track.

Hi Ange1ine
You know what’s happened with scale change over – I think I’d just leave the old weights there – you can;t really edit if you don’t know what the real weights were.should have been. I discovered a few weeks in that my old scales were giving weights in the right ballpark , but could vary by up to a kilo by reweighing within a couple of seconds, but just replaced them and was happy knowing the weights are accurate form that point on.
It’s just a number!

Thank you so much Ruth, I will definitely Google Amanda once I have peeled and put on my veggies for my Sunday roast! We are complicated beings, no doubt about that. I felt a bit of an idiot posting this question, because of course, nobody could tell me what was going on in my body any more than what I could tell anyone what was going on in theirs. Lynne hit the nail on the head, it’s all new to us, we’re in unchartered territory. This WOE isn’t going to work how WW or SW worked. I think it just panicked me a bit. Never thought I’d see the day that I’d worry about a big weight loss! Just need to chill out now and try and be as good as possible.

I’m going to try my new toy out in the kitchen too! Always have our Sunday dinner around 5/6 so I can fit in an egg, I reckon! Enjoy Vera 🙂 and thank you once again.

Had to do some time travelling on my smart phone ,changing the date and time on my phone to do it! It’s done so here I go starting all over again!!

Hey count me in! Have ‘dabbled’ with this diet for a couple of months. Hard core when working dark to dark; time consuming to prep. Now ready to do it properly. Love the flavours and foods on this. Will keep you posted. Today weigh 130kg, 5ft 10″, bs 15.

Thank you so much for that Lynne, it’s interesting to see your weight fluctuations on your different jaunts away versus what you ate. It’s trial and error isn’t it? I too have sat with black coffee while out and other people have been shoving baguettes and baps in their mouths! It was tough at the time, but I’m fine now.

I totally appreciate that about your normal blood results. I daresay I would be so complacent right now if I was diabetic. I would forego anything in return for better health, I can’t say everyone in the world would, but I think most right thinking people would.

Yes, that is exactly what the thousands of pounds of slimming club fees have ingrained in me. Big weight loss week one (but still nowhere near the BSD one!) and then 1 – 2 lbs was the acceptable weight loss per week. So I think this has shook me a little bit so far into the plan, as as you say, much overthinking going on. Just didn’t seem right, but then – right against what? Right against previous experience of… WW! Precisely!

You and Igor have both been a lot of help, thank you so much, between you you’ve covered more than I was anticipating in response to my ramblings 🙂 Onwards with eating the right things and not worrying too much about the scales. Can I have a quick hands up of how many of you are shaking your heads at me worrying about losing 8lbs in four days and thinking ‘ungrateful fool’?

Lesson learned, in future I will try clothes on in the changing room! But to be honest, I was so big that I would actually cry when I got home after seeing myself in the mirrors of changing rooms? So I avoided them like the plague. No longer! Clothes never looked good on me, no matter how pretty or supposedly flattering. I’d just come back out and put things back on the rails and wear cast offs or charity shop clothes because I didn’t think I was worth spending decent money on at that size. Sad, isn’t it?

See CaptainLynne was writing sage advice even as I spoke. And I completely understand about the hunger. It has always stymied me in the past, but I can cope with this WOE much better because I know nice food will come soon, albeit not too much!

Have a lovely Sunday all. I am going to watch Vera for all you Yorkshire lads and lasses. Sunday night telly.

Lucky, Igor is as usual full of wise advice. I concur with it all. We are very complicated beings!

I have read a lot over the past few years and I put a note on Roxanne”s post about staying put for weeks after losing 18kgs on bsd.

There is a woman in Australia called Dr Amanda Sainsbury or Sainsbury Salis who has been researching weight loss for many years. She talks about a famine reaction after some or, in your case a lot of, weight loss. You being kind to yourself and not stressing, just eating what you needed, without going crazy, was just what you needed, and now you are on your way down again because you are still eating fewer calories than you need to maintain your current weight, so you will lose. It is just science. If you look at HappyLife’s loss she had several weeks with static or no loss and quite a lot thereafter. I think CaptainLynne will agree as well. Google famine reaction Dr Amanda and you will find some interesting stuff. She also lost weight about 30kg I think

Please be pleased; you are going so well. Esp. great about the JOTF. Enjoy your eggs. And do not worry.

Igor, that makes perfect sense, thank you so much 🙂 But just to make sure I have understood, in my own terms, my body is finally playing ball. I would imagine after losing over two stone that quite a lot of the visceral fat has been dealt with (I hope anyway!??) and so now, it’s the actual wobbly bits on the exterior that are copping it, and that fat (probably?) weighs more, hence both the insane weight loss and the jeans of the future fitting?

I do tend to overthink things and I am a bit of a worrier. Can you tell? 😉

Yes, I’m not coming off the plan as such, because it’s working for me. Most of the time. I can do most of it at 800. But I know some days will be 1000 – 1200 now. I don’t actually need so much more on the days I feel hungry, I don’t eat breakfast as a rule, never have, but some days I wake up famished and if I have breakfast, I have to forego lunch or have a smaller tea. I know this is psychological, but as I was a big eater, and I mean big, I could eat my tea and then be grazing well into the night, crisps, ice creams, chocolate, biscuits. The thought of being hungry at night terrifies me in that if I do snack, it won’t be on good things. So I always make sure my tea is the largest meal of the day, even if I have to leave some of the vegetables, or salad. I can only eat until full now. And it works, once full at tea time, I’m ok until the next day. So it will be the same foods, but just maybe more when necessary. Me + hunger = big problems. I am bonkers, I know.

Thank you so much, once again 🙂 And onwards indeed 😀

Hi Lucky

Great results.

I think we need to remember that our body will do what it wants, when it wants. Sometimes we have a surprise loss, sometimes we stay the same or even have an unexpected gain (especially for ladies).

I’ve been away from home several times while on the BSD. A day conference, a 4-day residential conference, 5 days in Prague and 10 days in Italy (plus an overnight hotel near Heathrow). Each has been a learning experience.

The conferences came first and I had a good idea what food would be available. Being out of my normal routine made life ‘interesting’. I normally eat breakfast then evening meal but we didn’t finish until later so I ate a tiny amount at lunchtime. Dinner was 3 courses, but I ignored dessert and made the best BSD choices I could – and stayed the same. Prague I was definitely out of my comfort zone for many reasons. I gained a few pounds, which disappeared with interest within a week. I learned that I needed to be more careful with portion control.

Italy I stay with friends. We went to the supermarket for me to buy food I could eat when they have their breakfast carbs. Eating out I ate BSD friendly foods (which led to some interesting conversations), even drinking my black coffee while everyone else tucked into fantastic-looking ice cream dishes.

But I was diabetic. Having dropped my test results to ‘normal’ levels I font want to do anything to raise them again.

I’ve found I don’t get hungry during the day, that I don’t crave the foods that I used to live on, and that I feel so much better in many ways. I try to plan if I’m travelling and have been known (when nothing else was available) to buy a sandwich, eat the filling and throw the bread away!

I think we often over-think things. Can I suggest that you continue sticking with the BSD, doing what you’ve been doing on plan. Don’t spend too much time worrying about why the scales are changing. Just be happy that they’re going in the right direction. I think those of us who have spent time and money at slimming clubs worry that our loss is too quick, because of their mantra of ‘one or two pounds a week’ and being told we need to eat more if the loss is more.

The BSD has stood many of our old beliefs on their head and it takes time to adjust.

I hope at least some of this is helpful. Anything else, just ask.

It’s annoying when that happens with clothes. I’ve had 3 or 4 uniform blouses, all labelled the same size, but would sometimes try them against each other to see which was the smallest or largest depending on which I needed because they all measured differently!