Hi captainlynne

Sounds really good way to go. I’m sure you’re right not to go back to the carbs of bread, rice, cakes etc. As you say you don’t want them anymore. I reached the ‘not wanting’ stage really quickly but maybe I wasn’t ‘addicted’. The biggest problem I have is fruit. I used to eat a lot more and if I ever get to maintenance I’ll increase my fruit!

Logging and weighing daily is probably the best way to go!

I’m really interested to know at what stage your blood sugar level reached normal. I was diagnosed 6 years ago and I know getting bloods to normal is far more difficult after many years of T2. My ultimate goal is to dump the Metformin!

New name …. how about …I’ve arrived! ….. Reached the end of the Yellow Brick Road!…… The Eagle has Landed! ….. The first day of the rest of my life! …..

Really good luck with the last few pounds and what comes next. You’ll do it!

Hi Frog
I absolutely agree that it is pretty depressing going into the changing rooms excited with a garment… discovering that it is far too small…….and then wondering why on earth you thought it would fit ok.
I used to be rather pleased if I fitted into something that was a Size 16 rather than a size 18 or 20……and that is probably for the
last 26 years……a guess!
It is truly liberating to pick up a normal-size garment and assume you will at least be able to get into it when you get to the changing rooms!!!!
It has taken me roughly 6 months to lose 3 stones in weight.

well done not-so-Plumptious!!
4 stone is a huge achievement

Hi captainlynne
Wow again. Yes you will have already beaten me to my target weight. Really admire your dedication.

My official weigh-in is on Monday but have had NZ friends stopping this week and have been feeding them (and me) too well!!!!!
No alcohol and mostly healthy low carb food but just a bit too many calories for me!!
Oh and I don’t think Eton Mess is in the BSD diet book……oops….. or chocolate brownies!!!!!!

They took loads of photos and I didn’t have to hide behind a tree in embarrassment most of the time.
BUT…….there is one photo of me leaning forward and sitting down which shows…… a roll of fat on my tummy!!!
That photo will be my future motivation……grrr.

I’ve not looked back to see how long I ever used fatsecret for – I can’t even remember dieting in 2010 when the recorded weight goes back to. I started off using a spreadsheet, MFP seemed easier at first, but given the amount of double checking because some of the database entries are pants – I’m not sure it is.
I’m half contemplating moving to a paid MFP membership. exporting the lot, and then resigning and going back to using a spreadsheet.
It wasn’t really a conscious decision to move targets – the 80 kilos was so long ago I’d forgotten it (and probably not weighed anything near that for 30 years!) 60 kilos is a weight that would give me a healthy BMI – but because I know that in the past I’ve got to being a size 12 and weighed lots more than that, I’m not sticking to it hard and fast. If I get to size 12 and stayed at it for a long period though, I think that things that don’t directly impact dress size, like my ginormous never-been-able-to-wear-proper-boots calves would start to get more in proportion though.
I was delighted last night though that all of the size 14 trousers I bought yesterday all fit around the leg.
They are still too small, but I have a few newly fitting size 16s lurking, and I found a just about to close BHS where I bought 7 T Shirts and 3 pairs of trousers for under £20 – YES, I know I posted about that last night, but I am still incredulous.

It is the most depressing thing in the world to try on a pair of trousers and find that you can’t even pull them up to the knee because your legs are too fat.
OK – there are worse things, and if I was a Syrian refugee or living in the the aftermath of an Earthquake, I’d probably think that was a great thing to have to worry about, but there have been occasions when it’s been the most distressing thing in my world!

Had to post earlier than my usual day….trumpet fanfare…..I have just reached exactly 4 stone loss mark!
11 stone was one of my goals on the fitbit site so have had a celebratory e-mail from them…..sad I know (but it helps keeps it at the front of my mind and accountable to myself). I am not counting it as my weekly figure as i’m saving that for Monday mornings.
This week has been a plateau week with a spike uphill in the middle…..even though I had kept to all the rules. It is only today that things have gone in the right direction. Phew.

Thanks Verano😃

After looking at lots of options, and from experiences when away from home during my time on the BSD I have a reasonable idea how I’ll proceed. But it will still be an experiment for a while.

One thing for certain – I’ll still be keeping carbs low and no bread, pasta, etc. Strange to say for a former bread addict (anything between 2 slices of bread was fine with me) but I honestly don’t miss it. I’ve learned that if I say ‘no’ to the bread, ice cream, cake etc, it gets easier each time and now I just don’t want it. My blood sugar is now ‘normal’ after 7 years of being diabetic, so I’m not doing anything that may upset that. The medics didn’t believe this was sustainable, do I’ve still got something to prove to them!

So, stay low-carb. Gradually increase portion sizes or calories. Continue to weigh daily so I can carefully monitor what’s happening. Record everything (I never found an app I was happy with, so have used notebook and pen – started with cheapish notebooks (3) then bought a Moleskin which I’m still using. Might just have to buy another one ready for the start of maintenance!). Oh, and continue to post on the forum – it helps me, keeps me accountable. Need to think of a name for a new thread 😃

Wow, 32lb in 7 weeks! That’s fantastic. I’m just getting started and have 40lb to lose. I tried the Dukan diet but ended up worse than before. I’m so encouraged to hear about your loss.

Hi Frog – not yet. Will come UPS, probably next week. Hmm I’ll be away so they may need to re-deliver😱

Hi Janet – yippee, many, many years since I was this close to target. Booked b&b in York for Tuesday to Friday. Wonder if I’ll manage to find something new to wear? Even if not, lots of shops to explore 😃 And lots of places to get my black coffee 😃

Yes know what you mean about the name! I came across it by accident. I tried MFP and couldn’t get the weights of food to change so gave up. Fatsecret was the next app I came across and it seemed really flexible so I stuck with it.

I think you’re really brave upping your goal. I’m frightened to even think about my ultimate goal so really am just taking ‘baby’ steps. At least I’m tackling the problem at last! I would just love to stop taking Metformin. It’s the only medication I do take so it would be lovely to be ‘FREE’.

I do know Balsen, yummy, but my real weakness is McVities Dark Chocolate Digestives so I just don’t keep them in! When I have a ‘just have to have something’ moment I now have a Nairns Stem Ginger oat biscuit or two, and that does the trick. I have noticed that since I’ve stopped eating sweet stuff that the ginger tastes really strong so I enjoy the couple I have much more than I used to.

Well done for keeping the rest of the packet in the fridge! Just shows how far you’ve come along the ‘healthy eating’ road. I know some people just can’t have any temptation because it leads to a slippery slope, but for me I feel that life’s too short for complete deprivation! At the end of the day this is an eating plan for the rest of our lives so for me I have to be realistic and incorporate the odd higher carb food otherwise I think I would just flip and go back to my old ways.

I thought I’d better post as I haven’t for a while. My week has been a bit patchy. Generally OK but really poor yesterday. Eating a low fat blueberry muffin at 10am (as a treat) left me literally shaking two hours later and I succumbed to chocolate mid-afternoon. When will I learn?! Also not tracked this week which is pretty fatal for my dieting efforts.
Away for the Bank Holiday weekend and we’re planning a big walk today. Breakfast imminently at the hotel but if I stick to low carb, I think it should be OK.
Hope everybody else is doing OK

Bril Gavin delighted for you

Woo hoo nearly there 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

27/08/16

Week 7
Day 6

Diet starting weight: 18 stone 6 pound

Weight now: 16 stone (101.60kg)
BMI: 25.8

Morning Frog, we’ve noticed this, Mr Lucky and I. Despite sometimes the measurements (specifically hips and waist) being either the same, or in some cases an inch higher than last time, when we’ve studied the underwear pictures (cringe…) you can clearly see that things are lifting upwards and changing our shape. I totally get what you’re saying and can second that 🙂

Gavin, I’ve been up for about 45 minutes waiting for you to post because I wouldn’t have posted mine until tomorrow if you’d been disappointed today. HUGE well done on not only achieving your goal, but topping it by an extra pound too! Despite reading the book and seeing ‘case studies’ in there with huge weight losses, did you ever think that it would be you so soon into the plan? 6 weeks? Madness. Brilliant. Absolutely wonderful news to kick the thread off today 🙂 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand I am going to add to it too!

I really don’t know what is going on with me this last couple of days. I am down another 0.7 kg today, making 2.7 kg over the last three mornings alone. I am more excited about this morning’s weigh in than I have any other, almost to the point of feeling quite emotional about it, because I really thought I was going to have to work for this one. Four days ago I was bemoaning the fact that I’d still need to lose another kilo to get me to pre-holiday weight, and yet now, I’ve already reached it and smashed it.

Week 12, Day 1. I am FOURTEEN stone 13 lbs. I am in my fourth stone bracket since starting in June. I am 4 lbs away from losing three stone. I’m not putting a time restraint on it because I’ve had weeks of yo-yoing and disappointment, but then I’ve lost 5lbs in the last three days, so it’s obviously not undoable either by this time next week. We’ll see. But still. 14 stone something I am now. Unbelievable…

Thanks Frog

No waist and neck changes since last week. Overall its 4 inches on the waist and 2.5 inches on the neck.

Hi Gavin- that;s fab, well done – that’s loads in six weeks.
From your blogs there’s going to be loads of super thin gadget geeks around very soon!

Is that no waist or neck changes overall with that weight loss – or just in the last few days?
I only measure monthly – but often find that although a measurement hasn’t changed, I’m wearing smaller clothes – I guess when you’re smaller but still kind of at the “which bit is actually my waist?”stage, it’s a bit of a movable feast.

You really are an inspiration for us all! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

You have so little left to lose now and I was just wondering what your plans are for maintenance??

Enjoy York !

naah, much more ambitious – 28k to go now, I want to be 60 kilos rather than 80kilos

I think it was the name of Fatsecret that put me off the site!
I should probably have just turned off the notifications, but I didn’t reset the target there!

Agree with you on the “diet” front – now I’m past the initial 8 weeks, I definitely still have the odd indulgence, so am losing slower than I might be, but not feeling “deprived” – but still averaging a kilo a week.
You know those Balsen chocolate biscuits? the more chocolate than biscuit ones? Half price in Waitrose this week.
I bought a packet, had two, admittedly not the most nutritious use of calories in the world, but counted within 800 calories and I think it was about 56g of carb that day.
BUT the rest of the packet IS STILL in the fridge – pre BSD would absolutely have eaten the entire packet.
(plus never got them when full price, and most often BOGOF than half price – and yes, eating two packets not entirely unknown!!!!)

So today is 6 weeks on the BSD. I will have a full update on my blog on Monday, along with photos of all the meals, and other bits 🙂

So headline figures at 6 weeks.

Weight loss is 2st 3lbs. I now weigh 19st 7lbs. I have lost just over 10% of my start weight. Blood pressure is totally normal today. Blood sugars are normal too. No neck or waist changes.

Morning everyone.

End of week 36 brings a loss of another 2 pounds. I’ve now lost 6st 4lbs (88 pounds or 39.9kg) and only have another 3 pounds to lose to hit the top of my healthy BMI at 9st 7lbs.

Going on the height I thought I was, I’d have done that today, at 9st 10lbs. But another 3 and I’ll hit the target weight I’ve had in my mind.

Clothes wise it seems I’ll be a size 12 depending on style and shop.

Slight change of plan for the week ahead. I’ve taken a few days holiday and was doing day trips to do clothes shopping. But now I’m going to York Tuesday to Friday. It cuts the amount of money I have for new clothes, but I needed the break. And who knows what I’ll find!

Thanks Frog.

Hey that’s great just 8 to go, if it’s to the same goal!

I think I have travelled that same road but at least we have now found the right way to eat. I can really say that I only get an odd craving and even then I could probably get past it with a little more willpower. I’m very rarely hungry and I don’t think of this as a ‘diet’ like all the others I’ve tried. Diets really don’t work.

Yeah, that’s amazing, congratulations Lynne
Did your new uniforms arrive yet?

Just think of all the exercise they’re giving you Caro!

Morning. Today’s official weigh in shows a loss of 2 pounds. Total loss now 6st 4lbs (88 pounds or 39.9 kg). Only 3 pounds still to lose before I hit healthy BMI.

Langerhans
I drink occasionally, often wine, but prosecco is good! (or champagne!) with lots of water in between – about 90 calories and 1.5g of carb.
A standard measure of wine is often 175ml for a small glass (250ml for a large one) champagne or prosecco is usually 125ml

I had lunch in a restaurant during the week, had wine rather than prosecco, but drank 2 litres of water during the course of the meal, and still had half a glass of wine left when I’d finished eating.

Thanks you’ve encouraged me I’m going to give it a go x

Verano
You’re there!!! 0.6lb is a single pee – round it down
Congratulations

I haven’t used the Fatsecret site in years, but get the odd “25kilos to go” emails
6 years ago the last time it appears – just logged in and now 8 kilos to go on the target I set myself then (that was an awful lot of diets & lapses ago!)

Well….. AT LAST!!! Scales have moved down and now only need to lose 0.6lb to get to my first mini goal of my first stone and I still have 3 days left of my first 8 weeks.

I am sure I can do that.

My second mini goal is now 2.1lb to get down into the next stone. Not sure that’s possible in 3days but I will certainly be able to do it before I go away on September 4th …. what a great incentive that will be for me to stick with BSD while I’m away!

Hope you’re all doing well.

Hi Langerhans

Put yesterday behind you. It’s gone today is a new day!

Saturday …. not sure about eating fats … sure someone else will! Some people suggest gin/vodka and slim line tonic as the best drink. Personally I’m a red wine girl so I think your idea of water between drinks is a great one. Order the water, maybe sparkling, with your first wine and hopefully you won’t do too much damage!

A long bath – don’t know what one of those is! With 2 young kids a reward is simply 5 minutes of peace.
My reward will be new clothes a bit at a time.

Hi Nursebean – I forgot to ask, did your training day go well?

I love these forums! A month losing weight and we all help each other! The one advice I actually learned from myself is classic from the EAGLES:

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

Take it easy and Live Long And Prosper!

PrincetonianStud

Hello Catsbd!

Good luck and great decision!

I’ve just finished my first 8 weeks on the fast 800 and have lost about 33 lbs (have more to lose so sticking with it), but started the diet with my husband who is a Type 1 (20ish years) and on the pump (probably about 11 years).

Despite the fact the book discourages Type 1s from the fast 800, he did it and had great weight loss results right away but had some very low blood sugar readings and his endocrinologist was not happy with him for trying it.

He has modified the fast 800 and still lost but we’re looking at the 5:2 for the longer term so I’ll be interested to see how you find it! My husband’s basal rate is much lower now and he uses far less insulin, so the whole Mediterranean plan seems to be a great fit for him!

Good luck!

Keep it up! And do me a small favor:

Reward yourself daily on your successses!!!

Just a long bubble bath is a reward I do for myself!

Live Long And Prosper!

Hi Den
I don’t regularly eat to include the calories that I’ve used exercising (some posters have asked about adding back), as it rather negates the point of doing the exercise – but on days when I have done way more exercise than normal – for me that could be when the pedometer is hitting the 20+ thousand steps rather than languishing at around ten thousand – I will eat more than 800 if I feel I need it.

I agree that beans and pulses are a good option – plus anything high fat will be filling.
The peanut butter is a good one, but I too look mournfully at the jar because I’d really like it on toast!
I’d suggest a cooked breakfast with eggs, bacon, tomato, avocado, mushroom – maybe even a gram flour pancake.

Someone did post about eating a banana before a big hill walking day (or after, it was a few weeks ago) – on a similar principle, not strictly BSD, but if they were spending several hours doing strenuous exercise, it wasn’t going to make too much difference.

Happy Life – that’s amazing – that’s 25 kilos!!!
I was going to say makes me feel a lightweight, but if I’d lost as much as you, I’d be 11kg lighter than I am!!

Hi Yowzer – when I was weighed at the GPs the other afternoon, it was about 2.5kg higher than my morning weight (the three litre of water has to go somewhere!) – you’re probably closer to two and a half stone. Even if it is only two, that’s still really great.

Congratulations Gavin, just spotted your post from earlier – that’s brilliant
and tiggy looks lovely

That rather depends what you put in it – bread made at home with wheat flour is going to be as high carb as wheat bread from a shop.

there may be some recipes – Lucky Maneki has experimented with various low carb breads, and there’s also a thread that you can search for on the subject of low carb bread. The search box is in the top right hand corner of the screen.
Variations I’ve seen people writing about include courgette, cauliflower, rye….

with any home recipe, you really need to work out the nutrition of each ingredient in the recipe, then divide by the number of portions.
Websites like My fitness Pal or CalorieCount can help with that, and let you save recipes

Morning. Week i am please to say yesterday was a success. Stuck to the right foods. While temptation was around me in the school playground after school (we stay behind on Fridays with a group so the kids can play ) I avoided everything. Then at home same thing.
Anyway to cap off the end of Week 1 – I have lost 2.2kg. Happy with that.
So am motivated for day 1 of week 2 today. I know the weight loss will slow so I hope to lose 1kg this week. Maybe that is a bit too ambitious given less to lose overall but I will try.
JMG – bought some Miso soup so will put that to good use today. Hope you have a good weekend.
The one down side of my OH being home is that my routine is thrown out and I don’t get out to walk with my son. We run around doing jobs which mainly involve driving. Another reason the weight loss will slow. Never mind. So far so good.
Caro

lots of online recipes for yoghurt coleslaw on line – the first I found had honey in it, but the others didn’t, The Jamie Oliver one used mustard and olive oil with the yoghurt, but another one just added tahini paste – I guess tahini has some oil in it.

quite a few for vegetable fritters too, and TBH, not that different to the vegetable frittatas that I made loads of when I started BSD and first got my spiraliser.

Just been through two shelves full of trousers that were too small – most have passed their window already! A couple of pairs are wearable. Its odd – I usually just see if the waist fits, but they all feel weirdly baggy around my hips and tops of my legs.

Day 38
Friday 26 August 2016

Breakfast: None

Lunch: 1130
1 Cup Greek Yogurt with 5 strawberries

Snacks:
2 handful Sunflower Seeds
1 Apple
1 Peach
4 Celery Sticks with Heinz Mustard

Dinner:
2 Bowls of Chicken Soup
1 Slice of Meatloaf
French Fries

Day 37
Thursday 25 August 2016

Breakfast: None

Lunch: 4 Eggs with Mozzarella

Snacks:
2 handful sunflower seeds
3 velveeta slices

Dinner:
Stirfry with 2 burgers (Minced meat)

BSD has given me so much confidence, I really feel like I can control my weight now, and still lose more. I love that it is flexible and that we can jump between the levels without feeling like failures! i think this is one of the secrets to it’s success.

Frog it does *feel* minor, I do feel I have some great new habits 🙂 major would be giving it all up!

Mr and Mrs Lucky – Good luck with your plans 🙂

Is it OK to eat home made bread with this diet

Yayyy Frog! I remember now, so much has been covered in this thread since June, you’re the other one with the calves (sorry, that sounds terrible!). I haven’t tried the boots on for about 4 weeks, I’ll do that before bed… Haven’t measured myself for a few weeks either, come to think of it. Haven’t bothered with yo-yoing those couple of kilos after my breaks away, but that doesn’t mean my body shape hasn’t changed, does it?

Oooh I’ll look out for that too, I like the idea of yogurt coleslaw, probably much lower in calorie. There’s so much stuff in Waitrose it’s hard to know what to buy, so I appreciate endorsements.

they’re not overly spicy – but not too bland either. I’ve also been eating a yogurt coleslaw from waitrose that is really tasty – and wet enough that you can have it with a whole pile of spinach or other leaves and not need any dressing. – Again, I could probably make that myself…
the T shirts – more 16s than 14s – BUT THEY ALL FIT – trousers sort of go on and do up – but definitely too small right now – but all the calves are big enough!!!!
Have lost count of the number of pairs of trousers I’ve tried on where I never get as far as seeing whether the body part of them fit, because my feet go through the leg holes, but the legs are too tight to fit my calves. Not any more 🙂

Avila – I was on blood pressure meds for a while a few years back – but it turned out the high blood pressure was caused by meds for something else – just needed a sensible consultant to assess all of the meds together and say that if I stopped taking Med A, I wouldn’t have side effect B, and that would mean that I didn’t need Med C – and so it went on. Good luck with your GP visit, I hope that goes well.

Must be something in the water this week Izzy, Mr Lucky and I have come to a similar decision over the last couple of days. Everything was feeling a bit too intense and I wasn’t enjoying it any more. It’s going to take time to shift these last 6 stone, whether I am on 800 calories or 1200 and coping better, it will come off. I too am going to stick to the right stuff as best I can and if I feel the need to have something naughty, it will be made with good ingredients. Not shop bought, processed rubbish.

Hi Izzy – that’s a biggie – not a minor decision!
Lots of luck with it, I’m sure that its all so ingrained now that you’ll do really well – maybe the struggling it just your body letting you know that it is ready for a little bit more now.