Morning everyone!
Please count me in. I am 53 and I managed to lose a substantial amount of weight earlier this year doing the eight weeks. While I have kept the weight off so far, my doctor thinks I should keep going until I reach the correct bmi.
I would love to have back up this time, as I feel I am in danger of becoming complacent because this time it is his idea, and not mine. Good luck to you all.

Good luck all other new starters for tomorrow.

Think ill post weight every day and hope it will encourage me

I am going to try and stick to the menus for first 4 weeks and see how it goes.

I may then switch to own 800 cal options

Good luck again

Puhutakawa

Great to have you n board with us

Hi Bloke 41

Good to see you on here with us. I’m the same loads of weight to lose… full starting stats revealed tomorrow day 1 !!!

Thanks Twinklyt

Good to see you made it week 4 and beyond. Encouragement for us all I think !

Hi Ren65

Thanks for joining us,

would be great to get your advice on how to ‘survive’ week 5 !!

Gem Gem

Great advice thanks, thanks for your post

Will remember to plan. I am a write it down person also,

Dory Back, Healthy again , sandrea

Great to have you on board , we can do this

Day 9: Quick update before I head off to work. Total weight loss in 9 days: 5.9kg (13lb). I weigh myself at the same time each morning just before breakfast.

I would say my over-eating tendency has pretty much completely gone. I haven’t felt cravings for several days. I do get Hungry of course but it is very very different hunger. Its not compulsive. I don’t crave bad foods and I’ve now gone to three different social events and survived the day.

My method on some days where there has been a dinner or a lunch to go to, has been to choose carefully from the menu, and skip a meal, so I stick to the approx 800 calories. I’ve also had a vodka cocktail one day, a glass of red wine on Saturday, so I don’t feel i’m missing out.

One trick I’ve learned is to make sure I eat my evening meal when I feel hungry rather than wait till ‘dinner time’ which for me used to be 8pm. So I find I’m eating it much earlier than normal, around 6.30-7pm.

That’s my update 🙂 I’m delighted with the results so far, it is starting to be noticeable now in my looks, people have started to comment, its a bit embarrassing having people come up to comment on how I look 🙂 But definitely nice!

Hi Sarah

Yes me too, lists made, food in fridge, tape measure ready… long way to go for me too so heres good luck to both of us.

Day 10:

Breakfast: 2 boiled eggs
Lunch: Salad
Dinner: Roast Lamb/Salad
Snacks: A small piece of chocolate
Drinks: 2 tea with milk
Water: 8 glasses
Calories: 705
Carbs: 34g
Steps: 26023 (including 6km walk)
Weight loss: 300g (62.6kg)
Fast: 16 hrs

Day 11:

Breakfast: 1 fried egg and mushrooms
Lunch: Pumpkin Soup
Dinner: 2 boiled eggs
Snacks:
Drinks: 2 tea with milk
Water: 8 glasses
Calories: 617
Carbs: 36g
Steps: 16405 (including 6km walk)
Weight loss: 300g (62.3kg)
Fast: 12 hrs

Day 12:

Breakfast: 2 boiled eggs
Lunch: Pumpkin Soup
Dinner: Pumpkin Soup
Snacks: Camembert, Cashews, a piece of chocolate
Drinks: 2 tea with milk
Water: 8 glasses
Calories: 696
Carbs: 62g
Steps: 26438 (including 7km run and 6km walk)
Weight loss: 300g (62.0kg)
Fast: 16 hrs

Hey Caro, well done on your 2.2kgs. That’s awesome. Glad the miso worked out. I made pumpkin and mushroom soup on the weekend so I will be living on that for a couple of days. I love soup! Had a good weekend despite going to several social engagements but I made sure I ate before I went and didn’t eat too much while there. I know what you mean about a long bath. I always promise myself one and I’d be lucky to have one per year. Just have too much to do with my children around.

Hope you have a good week.

yup everyone here has been a great support to me 🙂

Today I have been lazy, spent most of the day playing with bits of paracord trying to make bracelets and keyfobs lol.

I didn’t have breakfast, and I had chilli with cheese for lunch. Dinner was a kind of lasagne dish but only with bolognaise mince no cheese sauce, and pasta made with almond flour – which I won’t post the recipe for because it was only ‘okay’ and I won’t make it again! I also had some nuts and a hot choc made with almond milk.

Hi
I’m starting tomorrow. Also 54, and really need to get life back on track. Feel like there’s a long way go but going to embrace it all! Lists made, shopping done, here goes.

CaptainLynne, I think your nurse is going to be the one who looks foolish. We are all losers here because we are all winners, or should that be the other way round.

I too have had a break, family arrived 3 weeks ago, drinking and eating, but not me (maybe a little wine), family left and left grandchildren with us, days out, days away at theme park, family back to collect the boys, more meals out. So hard but I have kept faith with the carbs, maybe not so much the calories.

I am from Yorkshire and love York, you will enjoy it. Have a good time. Stuff the critics.

Hello itstime – fabulous losses! I’m at the same point as you – day 14 today. I’ve committed to weigh in on Tuesday though on another thread of mixed newbies and 2nd rounders. But I know its working.
My top tip – don’t look for substitutes for simple sugars and starches as this is your chance to change your tastebuds forever!

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Goodnight folks x lots to catch up on here but will save it til tomorrow xx

Hi ARTY good to meet you..how did it go at the doctors?
Sending big hugs to you and yr beautiful dog. Lots of pet lovers here and we know how hard it is when a precious
four legged friend is unwell xx

Puhutakawa

This isn’t a ‘diet’ it’s a new way of eating which will revolutionise your life!

May take a week or so to get into it properly as you could have ‘hunger’ in the first week but after that you will just start feeling better and better.

Yes you could ‘cheat’ but you have to persevere . Once you ditch the high carb foods such as bread , potatoes and rice you will soon start to feel like a new person and any low feelings will start to recede.

Good luck!

Hi TIMEFORCHANGE! What impressive results! Well done x

Hi Arty
Birthday wishes to your wife, and hello to Lucky
What’s a Gemini cake? I googled it to see, but only came up with cakes with twins iced on them, and Gemini birthdays are May and June, so that didn’t make sense!

Welcome TimeForChange. Great results 😃💐

Hi Frg

I remember jumping out of the way of cyclists on Regents Canal towpath😱 Funny how they never seemed to have bells!

I’ll report in from York when I can 😃

One place not on the agenda is Betty’s. Last time Imwas in there – years ago – I had a Fat Rascal and it was really dry!😱 Not what you expect in there!

I’m not making any plans,. Need to chill so will go where I fancy, when I fancy 😃 Weather permitting – a lot of walking. Don’t think it’ll be as long as yours, but who knows!

Now over 32 week line – not bad for a diet that was going to last 8 weeks. Thank you to Drs Mosley and all the contributors here who have spurred me on. In the 32 weeks I’ve lost 53 lbs and my BMI now 22 and a bit. BP at the low end of normal and BS generally in the normal range. I still can’t eat carbs without a spike but I am in control and have no desire to go back to bad habits. I’ve been fighting my weight for 20 years but now know I have a chance of winning. Thank you all.

the other thing I do to warm dishes (bowls mainly, as they make less suitable pan lids) is drain vegetables over the bowl, the water warms the bowl before you throw it away.
OR – the second recycling is to pour the vegetable water in a used cat food tin after the bowl to partially clean the tin, and also to let the label peel of easily so the dishwasher doesn’t get bunged up. Then throw it away.

You could try the ramblers – although Orchid was saying that they can be a bit variable, some are very nice, others less so (or weird).
the one that we went with a few weeks ago wasn’t part of the ramblers, so worth googling
As you aren’t walking regularly, there is a national scheme called Walk4life that may have something in your area

I used to run a walking group a few years ago – on one of the walks our group ‘kidnapped’ a rambler. She’d joined up with our group at the station by mistake, intending to meet up with a group for the ramblers. It was quite a while before she realised the error, and by that time she had a discounted ticket on someone’s network card – so she never got to join the ramblers that day!

There was also that “We are Team GB” thing yesterday that may be a way of tracking down local groups – or buy an OS map and go with your family. I found out the other day that if you buy an OS map these days, you get a code that lets you download it to your phone.

Great work KJ! A kg a week is an awesome effort. Just think, keep this up for a year and you would have lost 50kg!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Day 10 BS 7.4 mmol/L this morning, still be monitoring closely as no Metformin last night. Off to the GP today to see what he thinks he should be blown away. My wife’s birthday yesterday had a very small bite of some delicious Gemini cake made by the Welsh Lady.
We have been buying her cakes for 22 years for birthdays that is how good they are.

Off to walk the Dog ,have a good day everyone.

Hi Lynne – they might have been! As long as I don’t have to contend with too many bikes/pushchairs/scooters, I think it’s brilliant!

Have an excellent holiday – I haven’t been to York in ages, but really enjoyed it last time I was there.
(there is a Prezzo, and a Cafe Rouge!)

This is true. But at least MY plate could be warm… 🙂

Ten and a half miles? That’s the sort of walk I dream of undertaking but never manage it. Sounds wonderful. Well done 🙂 I need to find a walking buddy. Or join a group or something. There must be one locally.

I actually dug my coastal path pack of maps out yesterday, found them in the drawer with the tape measure. Dropped them on hubby’s lap, which is as much of a hint as I needed to give him. 125 or so miles of coastal path. I want to do it. It’s on the list. Hopefully we can make a start on it when the children are back at school.

Or they could be still the Notting Hill Carnival!

Wow – that’s a great walk. 😃

Hi, my name is Julia and thanks for starting the group, and yes, happy to join in with my friend, we both start our diet tomorrow, however I had a day 0. today fasting – just taking in water and running 6.25 km.
I have been dieting all my life. From being an obese teenager (cca. 100 kg/176 cm) I have lost all my excess weight in 6 months (to 65 kg), but with some ups and downs over the past 10 years, all has crept back up (especially during the past, very stressful 2.5 years).
I’m no longer happy with my life and when I look into the mirror, I don’t recognize myself anymore. Besides the aesthetics (which are very important for a single, 30 year old woman), I’m growing more concerned about the long term health implications of carrying excess weight, given my family history of diabetes and morbid obesity. I have been dieting more intensively in the past 2.5 years, but caught myself dieting to fatness, as one cheat-day became 2 or 3, then came the guilt and self-loathing, drastic cutback on calorie intake and daily aerob exercises, until became overconfident or felt lonely and lost control completely.
So here I am, once again, still believing I can break the vicious circle and kick-start a happier life and happier self with the 800 BSD.
Good luck for all of us!!! IT’S ON!!

I went for a really nice walk this afternoon – my usual along the tow path; The destination I usually have in mind is Victoria Park, but I often start flagging and checking maps and my pedometer after about two miles or so to see how much further. I got to the park without even thinking about it, so I must be getting fitter -then continued on and came back along the Thames path.
A lot less busy that it normally is on a Sunday – I guess lots of people have gone away for the bank holiday – either that or the sky was a bit dark as if it was going to rain.
About ten and a half miles altogether.

sunshine-girl, I do know that people sometimes don’t hear what’s really been said, or focus on just one bit of what they hear.

But a few months ago I invited a health educator to speak to my ladies’ group. She knows about the BSD, and we’d been talking about it. She was interested and could see its effectiveness. But when she started to talk t the group it was the party line about carbs. The ladies know what I’m doing, what I’m not eating. So listening to her was difficult. It was the ‘everybody needs carbs at every meal’ mantra.

Sometimes I really do despair about our health care professionals – or at least some of them.

I worked with medics for several years, some were great and others less so. So I do know they vary, and everyone has a bad day. But said nurse told me she was handing out BSD info to patients. Apparently she did not do that in this case. Which makes me wonder 😱

At least I’m not due to see her again for a few months – unless I want to go in to see her. I think I’ll wait!

Might feel better after my few days away – I needed a break so as I said earlier, 3 nights away in York 😃 Need to get my head back in gear after a more stressful than usual few weeks. Nothing BSD related. I’d got the days off booked, but only decided on Friday to go away. B&B booked. Train tickets booked. Just need to pack a few things tomorrow.

BSD wise – cooked breakfast at B&B. I usually eat a cooked breakfast, so that’s ok – just watch portion size, avoid toast etc. I don’t normally eat during the day, so that shouldn’t be a problem. In the evening I may find somewhere to eat, or I might just buy something in the supermarket to take back to my room, depending on what I fancy doing. And Imshould get lots of extra walking done, going round all the shops. 😃

It’s the end of week 7. I have lost 4 pounds this week but it has felt very disjointed. Went to pot slightly this week when I overindulged for a couple of days.
Hopefully week 8 will be a more tranquil week.
My 8 week log will be completed next week but it may take a couple more weeks to hit a 3 stone loss.
I will decide after next week how to continue with my weight loss goals.
Best wishes and good luck to everyone.

that won’t work as well if you’re cooking for six Lucky!

Hi Christi

Everything I had that day could be added to for non BSDers

Breakfast could have had added mushrooms and toast.
Lunch could have had bread and soup added
Dinner could have had rice or potatoes added

I cooked the salmon dish as I described it for my family – 6 adults – with the quantities multiplied up and gave them bread as well. They all loved it

I think you should plan your meals around yourself and then add the non BSD extras for the family.

Hope that helps!

What a great idea! Using the plate as a lid to warm it, never thought of that! Stolen!

I know this is an old thread. I just want to say I am freezing!! I am wrapped around a hot water bottle at night. Would love to know the biology behind this. Brrrrr!

Frog, but he was right, squatting everytime. Just not from a taxi driver

Understood 😉

Thank you

well, they’re tidily stashed away in the storage unit, so the tidy ones did, hoarding not so good!

Silicone egg poachers are great (not to diss your new toy Lucky!)
I used to find the eggs stuck a bit, then I stopped coating the cups with olive oil, and they’ve been fine – sometimes I have to peer at the empty cup to see if its the dirty one or not.
The only time the eggs get too hard is when I forget what time I put them on!
Added bonus is that towards the end of cooking I add tomatoes to the water to warm them through, and replace the pan lid with a plate so that I have a warm plate.

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😂😂😂😂

They worked then…?

Most evenings, I have been giving my OH the same meals as me but in larger portions, sometimes with the addition of carbs, sometimes not. Sometimes he will look for something else afterwards – ice cream, or a few biscuits, but quite often not. He has lost almost a stone in the period that I have been doing the BSD and dropped 17lb.
Hope you manage to find a way forward oldbluejeans. Maybe get yourself an internal mantra to keep you focused and on track. Keep us posted on progress.

28/08/16

Week 7
Day 7

Diet starting weight: 18 stone 6 pound

Weight now: 15 St 13lb (101.15Kg)
BMI: 25.7

Not sure about that book Lucky, but last time I had a big clear out, I think there were about 8 books on tidying/decluttering/hoarding – they’re probably all in the storage unit somewhere!

Thanks Yowzer49 and Ziggy
Yes I am a happy bunny at the moment. I am getting closer and closer to hitting a healthy weight for my height. Hopefully this should be in the next 2 to 3 weeks.

wow – I’d never really thought about the mechanics of how you lose fat Sunshine Girl

And the sitting down comment reminded me of a recentish ‘conversation’ from (note, from, not with, more of a monologue) a taxi driver who went on all the way home from the west end about the benefits of squatting to poo rather than sitting.
You know when you’re in an enclosed space with someone and you’d really prefer not to be 🙂

per person – sorry to be short, X Factor coming on

Monday, it is still Sunday here, have a good week where ever you are

Looks like you have a plan to move forward Kereru. We all have stumbles along the way, with temptation getting the better of us and with some days being more than 800cals – but I bet you have some under too, so it balances out long term. Why not try omelette with salad for a change, or fish and stir-fried spinach perhaps. It’s always a good idea measure as well as weigh, as it can be surprising how measurements can shrink, even if the scales are being stubborn.

Keep going and I’m sure you will be posting loses again soon.