Be warned GemGem, you may have just started a vege/marmite war. Marmite of course will be the undisputed winner because vegemite is what the devil himself eats. 😉

Great suggestion Igorasusual thank you! And thanks for the tip about salt, I didn’t think of that… for two days I have not added any at all … hmm and i’m already over my day’s allocation of food… I might go dip just the tip of a teaspoon in the Vegemite jar and stir it in some hot water for some salt! (I’m Australian, Vegemite is the best thing ever!)

I’ve never made curry from scratch, that’s impressive! This diet really does make you think about food so much more doesn’t it! Flavours, spices, nutritional content. I saw another of your posts on a different thread about My Fitness Pal showing a breakdown of your nutrients, I had a look at the website. I’ll have a shot at that for tomorrow’s meals. Thank you 🙂

I am getting back into soup mode. Go here go there; fly here fly there: Amtrak here; Amtrak There……. Summer is exhausting and tiring! I thought it was vacation time!

What a big weekend: Japanese First Lady visited Pearl Harbor. No Prime Minister or any high end politician in Japan ever visited it before in Hawaii. Tyra Banks teaching at Stanford Business School? You got to be kidding me! Thanks god I went to a less liberal school in Hamburg!

Well, getting ready for my travels next week for the US Open and some shopping bargains. Who wants to buy a Rolex in Chinatown for 50 Bux? LOL

I wondered where you’d go to!

Thinking about investing in some new scales. These caught my eye. There’s been a few times on this forum when people have been unsure about the accuracy of their weight because of uneven ablutions. This will solve that problem once and for all 🙂

http://news.iheart.com/onair/klinger-31984/toilet-seat-scale-drop-a-sea-14448415/

Jacob’s Creek: Them Aussies do make some good wine, mate! 🙂

That lemon you put in the water should be the first thing you drink before that good old cup of joe in the morning! It makes your digestion into a power machine from that 8 hour rest!

I use this digital scale all the time and I weigh myself 3 times and get 3 different numbers. I should go back to the old fashion scale. What should I expect from buying chinese junk on ebay?

The first week is water weight. Expect less weight numbers later weeks. That was a dissapointment to me. But I still and a LOSER! 😉

Live Long And Prosper!

Thanks for the feedback, very welcome. I have also measured my waist around the belly button, so will keep an eye on that as well as the scales.

Oh the weight varies enormously day to day and hour to hour! Water, food, whether you’ve been to the loo, all can have an effect – which is why it’s really important not to get too attached to it (though I completely understand why you are focusing on it!!)

People do different things, but it may help to weigh just once per week on a pre-planned basis.

Also – have you MEASURED? Very important to get some measurements – you could use clothes – to see if weight is shifting on your body, if not on the scales.

But you are very very early on in the BSD programme, so best not to draw any conclusions – it’s an 8 week plan, so take it nice and calm and slowly. Your body will sort you out! 🙂

well done on the weight loss Imp – but Christmas already??!
Have started seeing Christmas cards in shops – very depressing!

Hi Barnett – plateaus are so frustrating – I sympathise
Something else to consider maybe constipation – with BSD you probably have a lot less junk to eliminate, so probably need to poo less than you did – but it may take your body longer to adjust to not having less food waste to process, another cause could be low salt – easy to achieve without realising if you’ve cut out lots of processed food..
And essentially if you aren’t eliminating waste, it’s inside you, and adding to your weight.
There are a number of threads on constipation – use the search box in the top right hand corner to locate them.

Hi all, well done everyone, welcome newbies, and thanks to all for your inspiration 🙂
After 4 weeks I’ve lost 11.6lb (it was 12.5 but a pesky lb snuck back on overnight 😡). I started to feel a bit downhearted but then realised that I’ve still lost 2lb this week, I was just a bit miffed as I was hoping to have lost a whole stone – but I’m only a couple of pounds away now so I’ve pulled myself together!

LindaA thank you for your post, I started on a similar weight to you and my aim is also 65kg and I can definitely do this for another 14 weeks – in fact it’s 17 weeks until Xmas hols (sorry!) so that is my target. Also my friend at work is on a mission too so we have a pact to be good together, which will help 🙂

Onwards and downwards we all go!
L xx

Bit low tech – I found a website that calculates estimated calories used for exercise when I’d done my taster session of Nordic walking the other week. I forgot to bookmark it, but found a similar one just now:

https://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc

You put in your personal stats and how long you’ve done a particular exercise, and it works it out – would work fine for a regular class like aquacise.
I tried walking and it came up with a result fairly close to my pedometer.
I didn’t bother to calculate the calories used cleaning my teeth – it didn’t specify manual or electric toothbrush for starters!

First Nordic walking lesson proper tomorrow!

Day 1 starting weight was 77.3 kg this dropped to 75.7 on Day 3. I was very pleased with this but today (Day 4) my weight has gone up to 76.5 kg. Can’t understand this. I have also done one aerobic & one resistance session during this time, also been drinking lots of water. I have stuck to 800 calories/day, with recipes from the BSD book.
Maybe unduly worried, not sure.
Has anyone had something similar happen to them?
Any feedback welcome.

Not an issue to go slightly over the calories, GemGem, it should be an average of 800 calories.

One thing I noticed on the BSD was how good spices taste! I added more ginger and garlic to recipes, additional salt and pepper (don’t forget with all the water we are eliminating salt from the body and therefore need more), and I adore chilli.

So you could experiment with those and find that with very little calorie additions, you’re making really tasty food. Have just got into making my own curries and though I say it myself, they’re delicious! 🙂

I’m in the car on way home 😊 welcome home Timmy hope you had a good one! Speak to you all later!!! ☺

A spoonful of chopped nuts, a spoonful of natural yog and a few berries. Fair play, I’m absolutely ravenous now. Lunch will be a mixed salad with brie and bacon. Tea tonight will either be a chicken curry or bean curry with popadoms.

There’s a penny sale on at H&B too so I might have a few pistachios this afternoon.

Day two.. I admit I struggled a bit trying to get the calories correct.

My breakfast and lunch were from the book and fine, but I had a few between-meal almonds and walnuts as snacks – not realising as a newbie just how high in calories they are!! I had no idea nuts were so high.

Which left me with only 170 calories to play with for dinner.

Dinner was 100g minced turkey, 150 g cauliflower rice, with garlic, a sliver of finely chopped onion, parsley and some herbs. This brought me to approx 170, but then it tasted quite plain so I sprinkled some parmesan over it – Ended up going over 800 by 50 calories.

I was prompted by a pre diabetic scare and have yet to go back to my GP (due in September) – just finished the 8 weeks today and have lost 33lbs (15kgs) and I am delighted with my result and having the self control. I am hoping the specialist diabetic nurse will be delighted with my weight loss so far when I go back with my blood tests.
I have decided to continue to eat sensibly my wife and I invested in a Kenwood electric spiralizer and discovered things like courgette spaghetti and have thoroughly enjoyed other things like celeriac, butternut squash, swedes and other vegetables we just wouldn’t previously have thought of cooking or even having in the house.
By substituting these for the potatoes and pasta we would previously have eaten and eaten far more fish and chicken we have both enjoyed the last 8 weeks.
We have used the suggested treats like the red wine and dark chocolate and I have only had 2 meals on weekends which has been harder to do but we think we have changed our eating habits for good. It did take longer for us to cook meals to start with because everything is new but we are looking to devise healthy versions of the meals we would previously have cooked and if we can make them as interesting and as enjoyable as they were previously we will include them in our future meal planning.
My belts have moved up 2 notches so far so the weight has gone from the right places – I am putting off buying new trousers until my waistline has stopped shrinking – my face has gone thinner and my watch strap has gone loose – I don’t want to look skeletal.
I’m now aiming to get back to my rugby playing fighting weight of 14 stone 10lbs of 30 years ago which means I am looking to lose another 23lbs – I have set myself a target of the end of the year.
I’d like to thank everyone who has been involved in pulling together the Blood Sugar Diet – it has worked for me and has been relatively easy and straightforward and given outstanding results.

Ok holiday season is winding down, lets all kick a**e and have a good week.

Cheers guys. I’m all raring to go this week again. The truckload of wine and beer that I brought back from France can stay firmly in the cupboard for now.

As of typing right now, I have 102 days, 12 hours, 41 mins and 30 seconds until I’m 40.

My present to myself is going to be a flat stomach and great cardio fitness. I think I’ll reach my goal way before the 100 days are up. Holiday mode is completely and utterly gone. My next holiday is in 172 days and I’ll be training hard before that one anyway as I normally do (skiing holiday).

I am loving the sound of that one Captain…
I’ll be trying it if I can ever find any of these flours in these little towns where I live.. hehehe I will track it down.

Look at Garmin. They do swim proof fitness devices and also a swimming heart rate strap too.

Later this year Fitbit will be releasing its new devices, one of which should be swim proof.

Hang in there Barnett. Some really good advice from others here. Adding my thoughts
1. Too much protein can raise blood sugar in some people
2. You might also be intolerant to certain foods (eg Dairy) which I have heard can stall weight loss
3. You could try introducing a 16/8 intermittent fast to the routine (eg eating only between 1pm & 7pm and fasting outside these times)
4. Doing some resistance training could also help

Of course stress is the other factor to consider as cortisol will certain disrupt your weight loss.

Hope one or two of these might help kick start your loss.

Just done 2 weeks and lost 10lb!! Very happy! I like the food as I am a big veg/salad fan! I’m also used to going without carbs as I’m wheat intolerant and while holidaying/eating out tend to go without ,if there are no alternatives (which is a large percentage of the time ). Have felt hungry but I weirdly quite like the feeling ,is that odd? It makes me feel like it’s working! I did have a brunch type English cooked breakfast after nearly two weeks and my stomach felt very uncomfortable ,I think it has shrunk? Is that possible after only two weeks?

Does anybody know if there is a waterproof thing that acts like a fitbit?
I do 4 aqua aerobic classes a week as my main exercise, but so far haven’t seen anything to measure the amount of effort put in.

** Ignore this have found some through Amazon**

Hi All – So week two has come and gone and below I have one again tracked my day by day progress.
Saturday the 20th of August was my weigh in and as predicted my weight loss this week has not been as spectacular as week one with a loss of 1.5kgs now weighing in at 82.3kgs. (Complete weight loss for 14 days has been 4.6kgs). On the 8th of August I measured my waist which was 37.5 inches on the 17th of August I measured it again and it was down to 32.5 inches.

15.08.16
DAY: 8
WEIGHT: 83.8 kg

My hunger seems to have returned this morning due to a certain monthly friend making its untimely appearance. I am managing well except I made the fatal error of having another shake option which later resulted in me feeling like part of the cast from The Walking Dead come the afternoon. My current mood has swiftly shifted from 0 to giant bitch in 0.5 seconds as I believe my body has become so used to me feeding it on all of life’s temptations i.e. Kit Kats, Chocolate Chip Muffins and the likes that it really doesn’t know if its Arthur or Martha.

16.08.16
DAY: 9

Sorry Gents…but Ladies beware the arrival of Aunt Irma!. She will be sent to tempt you and will send you on a roller coaster of so many emotions you may feel tempted to dip you fingers into the biscuit tin or reaching for the nearest sugary laden item you can find.I wouldn’t suggest that any female start this diet during this part of their menstrual cycle as it could well set you up for a giant fall. I was lucky enough to start the BSD before this monthly agitation struck so to be fair my sugar cravings have not been as bad as they used/could be.I incorporated more nuts into todays daily food allowance as they are high in magnesium and helped immensely with my sugar cravings. Try not to weigh yourself at this time of the month as some women do suffer from water retention which can cause weight gain. I would recommend a weigh in the week after as seeing that you may not have made a loss during this time could see you turning back time and giving in and eating a shed load of crap to make yourselves feel better. DO NOT REACH FOR THAT BISCUIT TIN!

17.08.16
DAY: 10

Today I feel like a train wreck if I had a pound for the amount of nuts I have consumed I would probably be close to a millionaire. On ones arrival home I decided it was time to do a full body measurement graph and after measuring my waist again it would appear that I have lost yet more inches bringing my waist down to an amazing 32.5 inch’s (result)!

18.08.16
DAY: 11

I have to say that I am finally coming out of my PMS haze and my energy has returned. Today I visited Abokado (http://abokado.com/menu/) again as I like the way all their food is calorie counted and I am able to purchase something that is rather tasty, edible and is also within my calorie count for the day. Todays choice was Miso Soup (81 cal) and a nice Salmon and Egg Salad combo (238 cal). My hunger pangs have once again subsided and I have struggled to actually finish my lunch so this must mean the old beer belly is shrinking into submission.

19.08.16
DAY: 12

Yay its Friday and almost another week down and completed. I had lunch out with friends today at a great little place called The Natural Kitchen (http://www.thenaturalkitchen.com/) and chose their Seared Tuna (398 cal) My breakfast was the Bircher Museli (180 cal) so for my dinner option I chose was Portobello Mushrooms with Goats Cheese (150 cal).Today I have really started noticing how clear my skin is looking and that I almost have a angelic glow. Its hard to believe that I have nearly completed week two of the BSD.

20.08.16
DAY: 13

Today I met friends for a Ladies lunch we went to Bills (https://d1k0w6lyhojuj5.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/03151916/Summer-Lunch-Dinner-12.5.pdf) and whilst my girlfriends sipped on their alcoholic beverages there I was on the real stone cold sober hard stuff – sparkling water with lemon. After lunch the waiter slipped the dessert menu’s under our noses and for the first time in a very long time I declined the sweet temptations in place of a green tea. Today was my weigh in and as predicted my weight loss this week has not been as spectacular as week one with a loss of 1.5 kgs now weighing in at 82.3kgs. (Complete weight loss for 14 days is 4.6kgs).

21.08.16
DAY: 14

Today is my first day free from Aunt Irma. I visited my in-laws as they had just returned from Italy and gifted us with a multitude of biscuits and lemoncello. Needless to say my Husband will be packed off to his office tomorrow with those biscuits and a stern reminder that they had better not return in his handy Mandy backpack!

Hi Sneak Me, there is also evidence (not sure if it’s empirical or anecdotal) that sugar free sweet things can be equally as bad as sugary things for messing with blood sugars and promoting fat/weight gain. Dr Mosley mentions it in the book.

Another tongue in cheek way of saying it is how often do you see skinny person drinking diet coke? Hardly ever!

For me, if I get that craving I find that a teaspoon of meridian peanut butter (it has to be meridian as it doesn’t have anything else added) is perfect. It’s not only packed with protein, good fat and is filling, but it also satiates the sweet cravings for me.

One thing you will find on this WOE is that your tastebuds will change so you may find that you start to like things that you previously didn’t.

I’m quite lucky in that I have a fairly good balance with eating food as a function or simply for pleasure. By that I mean I will quite happily eat something that I don’t particularly like the taste of if I know my body needs it. Before I started the diet there were only 2 foods in the world that I really didn’t like and wouldn’t eat. Olives and oysters. Now there is only 1, oysters.

If you can begin to introduce a greater variety of foods that you previously have avoided, not only will your body thank you for the increased range of nutrients, but it will make each meal different, and hopefully this WOE more sustainable in the long term.

So Happy 😃😃😃week 2 done and now have lost 10lb !!!! Was so excited forgot to do waist measurements 🙄 I can feel it in my clothes!! And I cheated a little over the weekend as we bought a Motorhome and went away in it ! There was a complimentary bottle of fizz in the fridge it would of been rude not to share it with my OH !! Managed to keep with food even while camping (took most of it with me ) got to say I’m a little bit proud of myself !!

Frog – you have inspired me to have a go just ordered a keyboard having watched youtube instructions. The external keyboard is ok in the desk setting but just annoying in the lap!

Week 4 day 1 weigh in – 94kg stable more than loss but having fallen off the wagon a couple of times over the week couldn’t expect any better.

Thought I was at the end of 24weeks but it’s 25, so 71.25lbs (5st 1.25lbs) down That’s unbelievable!
Nearly halfway there – not that I’m setting such a big target. One week or day at a time.
It’s strange to think I’m proud of nearly reaching your starting weight Lynne. You are doing so well Gratz on the 32 week new forum I’ll be joining it in a few weeks.

Oops my error sorry

It was the last question that didn’t accept my entry. But all fine now and still dont understand it lol

Keeping mfp at 50g carbs and fat higher than protein seems ok

Thanku for ur help

My offer price UP2 arrived saturday. so far ok though the app keeps crashing on my phone so takes ages to get in to get to the info. But that might be my phone capacity (bottom of range of smart phones).

Igorasusual,

I can’t do the cherry tomatoes… I won’t ever be able to get used to tomatoes or mushrooms but I will try to find something else.
I understand what you mean about the lollies. I have about 15 left so when they are gone I won’t get any more..
Ok thanks again.
Off for a shower.. then to make something for dinner.

Hi Sneak_me

if the sugar-free lollies help, well that’s fine. Though just consider that although they don’t have sugar in, they are continuing to train you to regard sweet things as treats…….which might sabotage you later.

When struck by an attack of the munchies I tried to keep myself to BSD friendly baby plum tomatoes. 6 of these, eaten really s l o w l y are 16 calories and 3 carbs. Yes, they are sweet but not in a sweetie type of way, more in a vegetably sort of way if you know what I mean.

You will have a bit of time to go through whilst your body – which has evidently been working on a carb-driven metabolism – to switch to another way. But stick to it, and you will see the benefits as the carb fog lifts! 🙂

Really? The Keto-calculator site wouldn’t accept 50g of carbs per day?

Did you fill in the personal details at the top, and your best guess of body fat percentage? You do need to do that first.

Because for me it will accept 50g and upwards.

Everyone is different (interesting to see what your Base Metabolic Rate is for your age, fitness level etc), but my macros are as follows if I set carbs at 50g per day (I currently have them lower for mt own purposes).

50 g Carbs (20%, 200 kcal)
79 g Protein (32%, 316 kcal)
54 g Fat (48%, 484 kcal)

ruthdownunder,

I will leave the exercise points alone and think of them as bonus…
Oh yeah I will grab the spinach next time to cook with my sausage and see how that goes. Thanks
Yes well with your friends doing it then I am sure I can do it too as I only need to lose 10-15kg… so hope so…
I will look out for others who post their food ideas too.

igorasusual,

I will again leave the exercise alone…. Keep doing it but not eat more food to compensate. I haven’t so far but wanted to check.
I am already finding that I am not as hungry, but still look around for that little something to nibble. I have gone on to sugar free lollies to suck on at the moment during those times unless someone can tell me they are not good.
It is funny you should mention what you said about carbs and the sleeve… I was more of a sweet tooth after the sleeve and couldn’t figure out why and I was always hungry…. Now what you said might just explain it a bit better…
I can’t wait to be springing out of bed in the mornings full of life and energy!!! I need at least 9 hours at moment and then could easily go back to bed… Sheesh! what have I done to myself….

Wake up girl grab hold of you life and start living it heheheh i keep trying to tell myself that to keep me motivated….
I can do this…. I am gonna get off my medication too …. all of it…..
MFP keeps telling me I am not eating enough…. sheesh! That’s gotta be a first..
Thanks again ladies….

Captainlynne,

Thanks for the info, I am off to read your stuff…

Hurrah timmy is back !! Goid news on the hol food front
like janey says all back in post hol mode ready to start again !!
i am coming ip to my first week weigh in again on thurs so fingers crossed
hoping for at least the 3 lb down that i put on whilst on hol
you have been missed mr timmy !

Morning chickadees!
Welcome back TIMMY and well done on just very modest consumption of holiday goodies! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ X

Thanks
Not sure I got right figures tho
As it wouldn’t accept the 50g carb a day

Hi captainlynne
Just logged in and spotted your post. You are amazing…..huge hats off to you….. brill work.
You may have guessed by my congrats that I’m …..STILL not down to 9st 11lb but I’m getting there….just 1lb to go for me.
(Confession…..out for the day yesterday and along with my healthy picnic. I accepted the tempting offers of others for a cream scone and 2 glasses of wine……oops. Strange but my scales seem to have registered this!!!!)

Been hovering around the magic BMI number but it’s not official unless it is official weigh-in day. So 9st 12lb it is 🙂
Week 30 of strict BSD 800 should do it!!!

Good news is my body has really been working on my tummy muscles in the last few weeks.
The ‘when-is-that-baby-due’ look that I have been sporting for years is long gone.

Just a very small tummy-wodge to go. Body pump this morning might help!!!

Hi Timmy, welcome back! Sounds like you had a great time 👍🏼

We are all in post holiday mode – need to get back on plan! Altho I think most of us were a lot better behaved than we feared prior to the BSD!

Clothes rather than tape is very good shout. I’m waist barely appears to have changed according to the tape measure, but trousers that I used to shovel myself into are hanging off me now. And yesterday when I caught a side on glimpse of me in the mirror my previous protruding gut wasn’t very protruding at all!

Another thing

Look at this site

http://keto-calculator.ankerl.com

And see if your nutrient balance is right if you set carbs as 50g or under. You MAY be eating too much protein and too little fat.

Didn’t have time to jump on the electronic scales this morning (plus my FIL is staying at the moment, and I wasn’t going to run through the house half naked to get to them), but the old fashioned scales looked like I was around the 88kg mark.

My initial target weight was 85kg, and it still is, but I think that would be me with more muscle mass than I currently have, so I’m setting an interim target of 80-82kg with a view to then build muscle back up to 85kg. I think that is the only way I will achieve the flat stomach that I’m after!

I’ll do a proper weigh in on Friday and report back.

DO stick with it. Many people have plateaux and it’s hard to understand if you’re in the middle of one.

I tried a few things

Increase the water even more!
Up the exercise just a bit
Do just one day at a time
Weigh less often and try more clothes as measurements rather than tape measures.

Fingers crossed for you. 🙂

That sounds sensible. 15% is a lot – 10% is also ambitious but should be achievable.

Go for the lower target and if you smash it then no reason not to up the ante! 😉

You could try having a look at this website where after adding your details it suggests nutrient percentages.

I found it very helpful and continue to use it now I’m on maintenance.

http://keto-calculator.ankerl.com

Hope that helps. 🙂

Bonjour people. I’m back from France. Think I put on 1lb or there abouts in 10 days. Instead of eating croissants for breakfast every morning I stuck with my yog and nuts. I did have croissants on a couple of occasions and some nice french bread, but on the whole was pretty good. Apart from the copious amounts of stinky cheese and pate and booze (although far less booze that I would have previously drunk!). I kept moving a LOT, and actually learned butterfly whilst I was away. I’m well chuffed. I’m a very good breast/crawl swimmer but have never been taught fly, so I was whooping like an idiot after my first length.

I then stupidly did tough mudder on saturday. 10.6 miles of torturous running/obstacle courses. I’ve got two mammoth bruises on the backs of my legs and a lovely one brewing on my hip, but it’s got to be said, it was brilliant fun. I’m signing up for next sure definitely!

Just looking for tips here and making sure I have added Goals in it right…

I have set the

Carbs to 50g = 25%
Fats to 40g = 45%
Protein to 60g = 30%

Does this seem right?

Thanks for the link to your blog Izzy – I’ve added it to my Feedly so I can follow you 😃

Hi All

Not sure if this cheating but I’ve downgraded one of my goals. At the start of the plan I wanted to lose 15% of my body weight but have adjusted that down to 10%. I still want to lose 15% plus, but thought if I broke it down into smaller chunks it might spur me on more or am I just fooling myself????

Anyway have lost half of the pound I put on after my Indian Meal ‘TREAT’ on Saturday night ….. no treat at all! will be more careful in the future.