We all are just a bunch of LOSERS! 🙂 Hey, now I can defend that insult in my childhood as a compliment. You may be losing a bit here and there. Yet, you are winning by losing! What a tongue twister!

We all are fighting a war against Mr. Goodbar, Kool Aid Man, and Pillsbury Doughboy! Please do not let us down in are battles! We all need each other’ support!

If only it was as easy as Eddie Murphy’s hilarious character:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F01j4WWOLnA

Live Long And Prosper!

PrincetonianStud

Thanks Yowzer! 😁 Your profile made me smile. I have also lost and regained stones over the years but since reading the BSD book I am starting to understand why I couldn’t keep it off. The slimming club industry has a lot to answer for. Telling me I should eat mountains of pasta and potatoes to lose weight!! I’m not bitter…

If you like hummus and guacamole you could use them as a dip for your veg. I don’t have my veggies prepared for the week (not that organised yet!) but it wouldn’t take long to slice up veg into sticks and keep in fridge – sliced peppers, celery, cucumber, carrot sticks. Sorry if this idea is a bit simple, I need to learn some vegetable recipes!

Carina, that depends on what you want to achieve. I only have a minute as I have to get my grandsons to bed but if you browse through the posts and maybe type in some key words (you can search for me as I have given a full story about how it has improved my health) you will find lots of help. I will check in and see how you are doing and maybe come up with some comments for you.

I had a pretty poor weekend so have chickened out of today’s weigh in.

Today has been much better largely because I was too busy to eat. I’m off to the gym imminently. I’ve not been for months because of a chronic cough which is just about going. Back to square one with the running but using the very good “Zombies 5K” running app.

Hi
It wasn’t checked immediately before I started BSD, but blood tests identified I had a ‘fatty liver’ last year, and it was still a problem earlier this year (I think it had got worse). I had liver and HBa1c tests done about six weeks in, and whatever they measure in the liver was completely normal.
I had another set of bloods done today, so will get the results at the start of September.

I’ve just got in so haven’t set it up yet, but finally got login details this afternoon to access my medical records on line – all the numbers I can never remember as soon as I leave the surgery!

Thanks Avila

Will re look at my choices….

Hi Lee, I don’t have a fatty liver as such but my triglycerides are always sky high. My doctor tried to coax out of me that I might be an alcoholic but I’m not although I don’t mind a few drinks. After 6 weeks on this diet my triglycerides are way down as is my cholesterol and blood glucose. This diet seems to do a lot of good to the body in general.

Well done PALLYALLY! X

I think it will be easier if youre both on board! You wont tantalise each other with the smell of toast and suchlike! X

Arty1, just don’t be lulled into thinking you can get away with the little cheats and still reduce your b/g. You have to put in some work, just think of it as a painting in progress.

Hi KEEPTRYING ive only read this latest page..so forgivme if this has been covered on previous pages..but could you just be unwell from perhaps an underactive thyroid? If so, you wd feel a lot better once you were checked out and given an adequate daily dose of thyroxine.xx i hope you get sorted out as yr situation is a bit miserable at the moment. Have you lost weight while attempting bsd? X

sorry it’s not working for you. Maybe you should try the Mediterranean diet where you can eat pretty much as many calories as you like (within reason) but stick to the low carb principle. Good luck with whatever you try.

I have just been reading through as much of this thread as I have time to trying to get 2 little boys to bed. You have done brilliant and lost quite a lot of weight. I am a slow loser and have only lost 8 lbs in 8 weeks but for me, as a diabetic, it has been about getting my b.g under control and it has done that for me and reduced my cholesterol. All the best.

Thank you Yowzer49 and Sunshine-girl! I feel better to get your confirmation on that. 800 it is then! So far its going great. I just started reading the book but want to get started ASAP! Today! I am happy to say my hubby is on board. Have a great day!

Day 4. BS 9.1 mmol/L. I thought this morning it would not be lower than 10 because I enjoyed a Chicken Korma (Patak’s curry paste) which has plenty of palm sugar for dinner, plenty of veges and no rice. I followed that up with three single malt whisky and ice. Exceeded my 800 by 200. Am feeling a little guilty this morning but my blood sugar is still falling each morning. I hope this continues and if so, by the weekend my blood sugar should be within normal ranges. That will be a first for many years.
I am off to walk the dog, feeling good.

Hi Texas. I used some of the recipes in the book and also made up my own stuff using some of the ingredients I had bought in. I flick through the book and pick what I fancy rather than sticking to the weekly plan. I track everything in MyFitnessPal. Sometimes I choose a breakfast option for lunch. The pesto chicken was nice. I used some leftover pesto to make a caprese salad. The stuffed peppers from day one were lovely. I get in veggies mainly in salads. Sometimes I measured out some salsa (Dorito mild salsa is low in cals and sugar) and dolloped that on top of salad with some grated mature cheddar. When the weather is cooler I will be getting my veggies in soup form! Chewing gum helped a lot when hungry between meals as I really tried to avoid snacking.

I did wonder about that as most diets allow more for men. As long as they are all managing fine.

Hi and welcome! Yes i guess its 800 for both of you! According to the book that is..tho you wd still lose if you upped it a little bit! But maybe more slowly.
I can understand that question coz on 5:2 fasting the guys are allowed more cals than the girls.
How has yr day gone? Hope you will browse round,lots of info amd some very inspiring and motivating stories! X

LUCKY johnny is very funny and that makes him attractive!
Ooh nooo i dont like unwashed either ! My dandies have to be scrubbed-up! And i cant bear dirty nails or greasy hair….. gahhhh!
Howzyr heel Lucky? It cdnt have done it any good stood all that time preparing the buffet 😁😁😁😁

JAN a three week hol! You know how to live! 🎈💕🎈💕🎈 Well done you on not being carby! X 👍🏻
Have afabulous time,you deserve it! X

I am going back to more carbs
have seen dr and my last bloods all the electrolytes were totally fine so it was not that causing pain/tiredness
I CANNOT lose weight on this diet at the rate others seem to
and it is leaving me tired and depressed even after 3 1/2 months
I will still try to avoid sweet/bad foods
but I just cant do this anymore

I am glad it works so well for some of you
but it doesn’t for me

Day 34 Monday

well, I went to the supermarket today just looking for what is on sale. I bought out all the butcher today! 4 Chickens, 5 chicken livers, cow tongue, sweetbreads (Don’t ask if you don’t know!!!!), rib steak. It was a huge sale that i had to buy it all. Cooking one of the gutted out chickens to make a chicken soup. More soup in the freezer. My kitchen smells like Katz’s Delicatessen in the Lower East Side!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbjlHUYNWuU

Here the fake everything on Canal street NYC!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC-Yv_glwvc

Well gotta check on my boiling pot. It is so easy to make soup. Why don’t people cook it more often? Eating at my brother’s house is quite an adventure for this diet: bagels for breakfast, granola bars for snacks, and pizza for dinner. Cook? Wash DIshes? What is that, asked my sister in law. We wash dishes? I only use paper plates.

Back to cooking my week supply of soup! I should ask the Soup Nazi on new recipes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6wpYS15Gag

Hi there, today is our first day, (Hubs and I) should we both have the same amount of calories 800? Thank you!

Hi all

I’m on my first day of a three week hol, lunch out was in a patisserie very French and luscious but was amazed when I ordered crayfish avocado rocket salad woo hoo the alien has come to stay. OH had take out cake as he was too stuffed to eat it there and he didn’t have salad he was very carbu say no more. Hope you all have a bril week Janey and Lucky get those as…..s moving movin as in the song 🎼🎼🎼

Hello I too have fatty liver and want to start the BSD at 800 calls per day for 8 weeks. I’m going to get my holiday out the way first then really put my mind to it.

7 pounds in one week. I have 4 words of wisdom for your success in the diet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu1qa8N2ID0

PrincetonianStud

SandraJH and rugby2642
Just spotted both your posts and extremely impressed by your success stories.
Congratulations are in order.

Hi Lee.j09
Plenty of success stories on here if you check out the various Forum posts.
captainlynne has lost loads of weight. Lucia’s thread is really funny and inspiring at the same time.
Many people on the Forum have reduced their Diabetic or Blood Pressure medication.
Stories where the Medical profession have been rather surprised by the numbers recorded on their tests.
Generally everyone is reporting that they are feeling fitter and healthier.
Personally my Hbac1 is now in the normal range and have reduced my Metformin from 4 a day to none at all.
Blood pressure is vastly improved too and have reduced my medication here too.

Good luck with the diet. Welcome.

I’ll get my coat…

Hi Yowzer

Feel fine just frightening that I could be ill again but must admit feel better than I have in a long time! Must be as you say taste buds changed. Just after being really ill I guess you get a bit obsessive!

Thanks

Well, I think maybe a buffet sized sausage roll and a barm cake might have been a few less calories Yowzer lol. But I did deserve it for getting a buffet done for 70, between 4.45 am and 9.15 am! Loads of compliments on it too. I rock. I am suffering though.

Meh, it’s not my cup of tea, but the trends are different now to when I was growing up. I liked and still do like my men (man) clean cut, not looking like they need a good wash. But then, I also have a thing about overweight men too. Johnny Vegas is my absolute crush 🙂

Get well soon LIZEE..so sorry this has happened to you x
No idea if its linked to 800 cal diet or not. Whichever,its rotten luck x
I wonder what MM wd say?

Couldit just be yr taste buds getting more cleansed VERANO? So youre more taste sensitive?
Do you feel ok..if you feel at all unwell,see yr gp xx

Sorry, you must have been in such pain. When my dad had his gall bladder removed from gall stones he was in total agony and this the man who had dental work with no pain relief as didn’t like feeling numb all day, so a pretty high pain threshold.

You seem to imply, or are concerned that, the BSD was involved in the attack – did the doctor’s suggest there was a link? Or was it just an accident of timing – which also happens?

Take care and concentrate on healing from the op – hopefully your research should be helpful. I don’t recall my dad having any huge differences in life, eating etc as a result of losing his gallbladder.

Oh TIMMY how i envy you ..still sometime to go til you’re forty!
Treasure It,dont wish the days away! I’ m a crumpled old troll now and wd love to be 39 again!
LUCKY you are truly amaaaaaazing! Between doing the buffet and holding back on the goodies👍🏻!
What’s a couple of bottles of red in the big picture! How else is a gal sposed to keep going!
Ps sorry to say,but I love guy-liner! i adore that dandy look! Think Russell Brand when he did Big Bro…frilly shirts and long hair ..i love it..yes i am stuck in a sixties timewarp! 💕💕💕💕 xx

I seem to have a new issue …..salt!

I had some wafer thin tongue at lunch time and it tasted really salty. Tonight I’ve just had half a cracker and it tastes really salty!!! I’m bemused.

I was very ill several years ago after contracting septicaemia and I remember after a few months I became completely intolerant to salt.

Had anybody else experienced this on this plan?

I may need to see my GP

Any thoughts really welcomed

I’m currently vomiting into my mouth a little bit thinking about him tbh. Wasn’t my finest hour. But then, when you’re 16… you do as 16 year olds do…

Thank you so much for your advice so far 🙂

Day 8

Headaches have stopped. Im drinking soooo much more water now 🙂 im drinking up to 3ltrs a day 🙂

I did my first waist measure today and iv lost 3 inches so far! One of my work colleagues who i mentioned about has lost 7lbs! I forgot to weigh myself last week but weighed myself this week so i can monitor lbs from now 🙂

Im having eggs most mornings now or having yoghurt and dipping apple in it 🙂

Iv noticed im enjoying the food i do have more now too! Im also having three meals a day which i never did before. I would skip meals often. I find myself thinking about my food more. Im really enjoying this diet so far! Even resisted at the weekend! I found a vegeterian substitute in the supermarket that was sooooo tasty!

Anyone have any alternative to takeaway ideas for weekends? Iv heard there is a pizza you can make using cauliflour as a base xx

Hi,

Some people keep to 2 meals of 400 cal each in a day. I try to have breakfast.

At the moment with the summer I am having a lot of salad leaves or spinach. Add tomatoes and capers for a salsa effect. The calories for that are negilible and then add a salmon fillet at 200 calories.

Can you have the breakfast without cheese? Cheese costs a lot of calories though allowed and yummy.

I guess I aim for 100/300/400 in meals across the day or 200/300/300…. except when I blow it! It is an average 800 so I don’t get twitchy about being a bit over for a couple of days. The 800 cal is good for faster weight loss but the book says it is not a magical number, just a low enough but not too low. So if you are at 900 cal most days you will still benefit but just a bit slower – but if that means you can stick with it then it is a win

but whats the dad like ????

Hello chickpea! Glad you missed me 😀

Well, it doesn’t come any more hilarious than the above. Just what I needed with a raging hangover… Daughter says ‘You might know *boy’s* Dad. He’s your age and went to your school…’

And it just went downhill from there. I warned her a few years ago to find out instantly the names and ages of any of her potential love interests parents. Precisely because of things like this. And then I’d let her know if she was allowed to date them. However, she threw me under the bus with this one.

oh lucky and timmy how i have missed you both let the hilarity commence !!!!!!!!

Following — have the same issue!

Day1 -week 6. (second 8 week block)
Another 3 and a 1/4 pounds off…..thank heavens.
Haven’t done as much walking as I would have liked to this week because of the appalling rain/storms and high winds. Still managed some though.
More ” fat clothes” out of the house and a few more nicer smaller items in , courtesy of e-bay.
Have now started getting the “I think you have lost enough now” comments …oh Goody!!! one of them is now bigger than me for the first time ever!?
I am now 11, 1 and a 1/4….can’t wait to get under that next stone marker and begin with a 10.
My crunching knee has really improved and doesn’t complain half as much.
I can really see the light at the end of the tunnel….
Off for more water…….

Yes, I bought some for the first time last week and put them in the freezer. I took one out last night and had it for lunch today with cheese, it was lovely and when I tested my BS 2 hours later, it was a lovely 7.

Is it best for me to do the 800 calorie BSD for the 8 weeks or the 5:2? would like to hear how others have got on with the daily 800, what sort of food you ate and how it helped with your diabetes? thanks

Lidl are now doing a high protein bread roll and it only has 9 carbs. It’s really filling so you only need one and they are really nice.

Hopeful

It’s not bad at all is it Janey? Most bread like of the breads so far.

Yes Timmy, I am rough as today. Rough as. And I just found out I copped off with daughters new boyfriends dad when we were 16 😜😂😂😂😂😂😂 and told him too. Poor lad was cringing. He went purple under his foundation.

Janey, what you keep in your cupboard is up to you!

I’ve still got Willies in my cupboard! Just tried one -even that tastes too sweet 🤐

Did you have the dreaded BSD hangover as a result?