Hi 54 a group of us are starting a new 8 weeks on the thread 2nd 8 weeks starting Tuesday August 30th.

We’re a group of some on the second set of 8 and some newbies too. Come and join us if you fancy company.

Thanks GAV! Am sure you will be similarly pleased at your weigh in👍🏻
FROG i did as you suggested via the techies! x

Hi Jooles, I have just finished 8 weeks with slow weight loss. BUT if you want your triglycerides to go down it has certainly done that for me, way way down, along with cholesterol and HBA1c (down from 8.1 to 6.6 official). My husband has also seen fantastic results with triglycerides, cholesterol and blood pressure (he doesn’t need to lose weight, skinny man). He saw the doctor today who is so happy and mentioned that my husband must be on the same diet as me and my husband said yes, but she (me) lets me have chips sometimes. Not fair is it. Anyway, we are both doing well. I will be back on Tuesday with my new stats and goals.

Good luck Mazzak.

Yowser that’s fantastic.

Another inspirational read. Great to see you are all doing so well. Was losing faith a little as after a good start 8 lb week 1 it slowed down a bit. Anyway 12 lb in 3 weeks is not to be sniffed at I told myself. Think I’m impatient. Stepped up the exercise and looked at my portion sizes. Have a good bank holiday weigh in Monday 🙏

So far I”ve had:

Brunch – scrambled eggs, low calorie black pudding and a grilled tomato
Snacks – nectarine and a small packet of pork scratchings (felt the urge!)
Dinner will probably be a mixed salad (lettuce, cucumber, spring onions, green pepper, tomato, pomegranite seeds, mixed seeds (5g) and feta cheese. I might have a few nuts it I have the calories left.

I usually have a proper lunch but I got up late today and have felt full up from the brunch. I seem to be sleeping so much less.

Welcome MAZZAK! You wont regret this!
Just bobbing in to say I got weighed at DDs just now,even tho it was after my lunch and i fully dressed..i ‘ve lost 2 stone in 45 days. Possibly more if it had been an early morning no clothes weigh in 😛😛😛😛
Back laters to catch up with everyone xx

Just bobbing in for now to report…
I just got weighed at DDs,even tho it was after my lunch and i was fully dressed..have now lost two stones in 45 days. Possibly more if it had been an early morning no clothes weigh in!
Back later to read how everybody’s getting on x

Hi all, been traveling last week during weigh in so here are my stats on this week’s weigh in today with a total overview of my 17 weeks or anyone. I stay on the program 99% and only went over or under carbs or calories a handful of times in 17 weeks.
This weigh in today I have lost another 8 lbs and 2.5 inches these past two weeks. I am also now down 12 sizes.
Here are overall stats as I feel when I see these it helps me see we all have little stops and goes in our losses as our bodies adjust.
💗H quick weight review
Overview since I began in case it helps anyone… Stick with it!!

🌷Weekly weigh ins and loss in inches
Week 1 – 9 lb / 4.5 inches
Week 2 – 3 lb / 5.25 inches
Week 3 – 5 lb / 4.75 inches
Week 4 – .5 lb / 1.25 inches
Traveling/stayed on program
Week 5 – nothing lost
Traveling/stayed on program
Week 6 – 6.6 lbs / 1.75 inches
Week 7 -1.4 lbs / 2.25 inches
Week 8 – 4.6 lbs / 1.25 inches
Taken off all BP meds by Dr. 😄
Week 9 -.8 lbs / 0 inches
Week 10 0 lbs / 1.75 inches
Week 11 – 3 lbs / .25 inches
Week 12 – 3 lbs / 1 inch
Week 13 – traveling
Week 14 – 7 lbs / .75 inches
Week 15 – 2.5 lbs/ 2.75 inches
Week 16 – traveling
Week 17 – 8 lbs / 2.5 inches

Hi Everyone

I’m a newbie and just joining the party. I’m a 48 year old Type 2 Diabetic with an underactive thyroid and currently 4 1/2 stone overweight. I’ve had a weight problem for most of my life but have had slim periods (though admittedly not in the last 15 years!) Lots of reasons for that, but historically I have found it difficult to lose weight and have a great talent for self sabotage when things start to look good, so have managed to lose and gain 11/2 stone TWICE in the last year. I’m not on any meds and my HBA1C is actually pretty good and has been as low as 4.9 a year ago but last test was 5.5 so it has gone up. Though my triglycerides were through the roof after my last test, so I have been referred to a specialist next month for that. It was that test result that made me decide to get serious about losing weight.

I have been doing daily intermittent fasting (not eating until 11) for about a month and I’m on Day 3 now of the BSD and have lost 3lbs. Not the big losses that others are showing, but I’m pleased so far. I have already lost 8lbs following a different plan previously but must admit to being drawn to the amazing results that people have been seeing with the BSD.

I’m looking forward to connecting, sharing results and recipes over the next few weeks.

Thought I’d post on this threat, to encourage others to keep it alive.

~ Can get in a pair of size 12 crop trousers and 2 size 12 dresses I haven’t been able to get into for some considerable time.

~ Last w/e we had a lovely four night camping trip with four of our grand children

~ My OH and I are just four weeks away from a five week stint in Turkey

~ SW England is enjoying some summer weather, which is always a plus

A cross we have to bear Minnie, but as long as the pounds are falling I’m happy enough. The Turkish yogurt from Lidls is yummy and excellent value too. Look forward to hearing some good results from you soon.

Hey mazzak
Well done on taking the decision to join the crew! Looks like you have been making good preparation – hope you have stocked the fridge and spring cleaned the cupboards too. I’m on my second stint of eight weeks and loss for me had been slow, but it’s still dropping and I’m feeling good.

My advise is to be kind to yourself, don’t panic if you struggle at first because it will all fall into place after a few days. Key things to remember are: drink plenty; be sure to include full fats to help make you feel full and stay that way for longer; record everything you eat and drink; and avoid root veggies as they tend to be high in carbs.

I find weighing daily really helps keep me focused and motivated, but some people prefer to weigh weekly. Find a garment you would love to get into again and use that as a measure for how well you are doing too.

As you will know from looking around on the forum, you will know that there is heaps in information and advise on here posted by wonderfully supportive people, so shout out if you need anything, someone will respond for sure.

Welcome Mazzak! You’ll find newbies and old timers here and we will all be here to support you. You’ll start feeling better pretty quickly and then you’ll wonder why you didn’t do it before! 👍🏼

Hello, I am new and starting the 800 blood sugar this weekend on Sunday, have read and re-read the book and looked around this site so I think I am ready! My reasons for doing this are purely healthy, I need to get my blood sugars back to normal so I can come off my meds as it’s been a bit hit and miss as I was in denial for the first 18 months of being diagnosed Type II and I have been threatened with Insulin if the next HBa1c test hasn’t come down and I really don’t want that to happen, so I’ve got three months before I have my test and I reckon I can do it. I have no illusions about how tough it is going to be for me but I need to do this and I know there are going to be “sod it days” where I will want to give in, but I have to keep my goal in focus and stay positive.

Thank you for your tips sunny B nod for replying to my post.
I saw on another post something about Lidl Turkish yogurt so next time I am in their I will try it.
Sorry to hear you are also a slow loser but nice to know I am not the only one!
Minnie

Go GemGem !!!

The scales are so encouraging about sticking at it. It will be slower after the first week shock – but it does keep going.

Have you got some midway goals that you can be ticking off on the way to the ‘gigantic goal’ you say you have set yourself? It is good to have milestones to celebrate along the way.

Oh JANEY i’m glad ive got something right at last,after all the years of losing and regaining weight! maybe now i can live in peace and harmony with my body! X

I’m in full agreement about the Lidl Turkish yogurt, it is lovely – really thick and creamy. I use this to kick my day off pretty much every day, adding various toppings to ring the changes. Only use between 80g and 90g of yogurt, but it keeps me feeling full until lunchtime.

Today I’m treating myself to a leaf salad with figs and goat cheese, dressed with olive oil and balsamic – yum!

Hi everyone

You may have seen that we are on the lookout for people to share their success story and help to spread the word and inspire others. The Daily Mail will soon we running a series of articles and they are keen to include a few, brief success stories.

If you have reversed your T2 diabetes and/or had great success with weight loss and lowering your blood sugar levels, please email info@thebloodsugardiet.com if you’re interested in taking part.

Many thanks!

Yowzer, you’ve essentially hit the nail on the head. Avoiding carbs removes the need to calorie count religiously because we no longer eat junk and can not eat vast amounts of the ‘good stuff’ anyway 👍🏼

You beat me to it Frog!!! Bread shaped kids??!!! 😆😆😆😆

Maybe it’s the BSD Magic.. Anything diabetes related just disappears!!!!!!

Got fingers,eyes,legs and toes crossed for you GAVIN! xx
Isnt It great we can all still eat delicious food and still shed weight!
Right i better get moving and use up some calories !

Hi, I’m 53, been type 1 disbetic 43 years on insulin, pumping since Sept 2015 which I love. I am wanting to lose about 50lbs to get and feel healthier. I realise eating refined carbs despite the pimp, plays havoc with my blood sugars. My blood sugars definately improve on reduced carbs. So this is my week 1 and I am following the BSD 5-2 regime.
Here’s to losing weight, better blood sugars and feeling better.
I go swimming when I can. I work fulltime, married, 2 kids. Phew!!

EPS I think we have found the key now to losing weight and keeping it off..i think low carb is deffo the long term answer. I used to think i was just greedy but i now understand that simple carbs that i expected to fill me up made me emptier.
Well done on yr weight loss! XX and i think you can maintain well or lose more by simply watching yr carbs..you may not even need to look at the cals as long as you Curb Your Carbs!x

Some of us lose much more slowly than others, so you have company. Hitting a plateau is very frustrating but seems to happen to most of us at some point. It will come right at some point though, so don’t despair. It’s worth reviewing you carb in take – when I plateaued it was because although I had kept to the 800 cals, the carbs had snuck up a bit.

I’m sure you will be posting some positive results soon, so stay focused and keep soldiering on.

ooo Lucky brilliant news about progress – and future plan all sounds v rational and logical! So great about it changing whole family’s way of thinking about eating/food too – they will SOOOOOO thank you when they are older!! I would definitely do the same if I had kids – not make them obsessive but just aware of what they are eating and choosing.

Hi Toyko! 🙂 Glad you have de-spammed yourself :-))

Thanks for the comment about the 5/2 Yowser – glad to hear it works for some. It’s the flopping between losing and putting back on that I want to avoid so hopefully will get my head around something that works for me too.

Lots of us lose slowly Minnie so you are not alone! I seem to be lucky if I drop half a pound a week at the moment, but I’ll take all I can get. Seems you are doing well on the exercise front – much better than me, as this is an area I really struggle with. Keep drinking plenty of water, but remember to include enough fat, as this helps you feel full and to feel that way for longer. Maybe save a few calories for a little full fat yogurt in the evening, so you don’t have to go to bed feeling hungry.

Keep going and please keep us posted on your progress.

Day 6 of 800 calories a day is drawing to a close, and What an almost-week it has been! Here is my latest update tonight, because I can’t believe how much life has changed, and I have changed, in just six short days.
First of all – Hahaha that ChipsAhoy commercial is very cute, we don’t have them in Australia. Thankfully, one less thing to tempt me…
Thanks for your lovely message greenjanet 🙂 Congratulations on sticking it out 9 weeks!! Very inspiring. And thank you too, Avila!

So at the end of Day 6, I have lost 4.4 kilos. Yep. Six days, 4.4 kilos. That is 9.7 pounds in six days.

Mind. Blown. I’ve never experienced such success on a diet in my whole life and i’ve been on so many diets! I have to admit that losing 4.4 kilos in just six days seems too good to be true so I weighed myself three times to make sure, then again three hours later, but its true. My first few days were not very easy I can’t lie. I was hungry and 800 calories a day is not for the faint hearted, at least not at first and I have discovered just how much planning and counting and measuring needs to go into each and every meal!!! But after six days, my hunger has changed completely. Now I don’t have cravings, not at all! I feel temptations, but tempted isn’t the same as I NEED THIS. I wanted, not needed. Different.

It has become very liberating! And it makes me feel like I’m getting control of my addiction to eating – my hunger is not driving me and i’m not thinking constantly about what I can eat, or what sugary coffees, hot chocolates, etc I will have, and i’m not missing at all my too-late mid-morning breakfasts of lattes and toasted ham cheese and tomato sandwiches with melted butter on top from the cafe downstairs from my office!! Who’d have thought. I want one but don’t crave one.

On wednesday I had a drinks/dinner event to go to which i was dreading, but I ended up doing really well! A vodka, lemon, lime and soda cocktail is only 80 calories, and I chose the roasted veggies with lemon ricotta from the menu, all in all including my vodka drink my dinner was only about 370-400 calories. Phew!!! I half expected myself to say “what the heck its a party, order what you like!”

I’ve been strict, i’ve not fallen off the wagon at all, it has been hard work in many ways but six days in, its becoming easier and easier. I’m in the habit now of writing in my food journal every meal, every ingredient and its calorific value (is that a word?). I’ve had the same breakfast three days out of the six and I made the same lunch twice but I’m trying not to be too repetitive because our bodies need more of a variety of nutrients so I’m mixing it up as much as possible, different vegetables, different protein sources etc.

So if anyone is reading this who is just starting or about to start and feeling daunted and overwhelmed like I felt, six days ago, with the thought of only 800 calories and with the thought “its so much effort!!!”, don’t be! It really does get easier and the feeling of momentum towards losing weight – moving towards the gigantic goal I set is So good!

Have a lovely start to the weekend everyone! 🙂

What about something with lentils? I usually find them very filling and satisfying (and I have a very big appetite) 🙂 I adapted this chicken and lentil curry a bit and it’s lovely (I add a little coconut milk for flavour and I didn’t add spinach, but I daresay it’s nice with spinach). And I tweaked the amounts so that it was around 380 cals per portion (using MyFitnessPal)
http://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/red-lentil-and-chicken-curry/

Or you could make lentil soup, which is also very filling. Stews with beans and lots of veg are also filling – although with all of these I guess watch the carbs, but if you’re cycling maybe you’ll need more 🙂
some nice ideas here you could tweak:
http://www.dalepinnock.com/recipes/

I’d probably go for a hearty soup with beans or lentils before yr cycle and then a stew or curry with lots of veg and cauliflower rice after – or cauliflower mash with steak and vegetables is lovely and filling too, try this garlic cauliflower mash it’s lovely! http://nomnompaleo.com/post/1356203768/garlic-cauliflower-mashed-potatoes

Good luck, hope you find something nice

Karen 🙂

Morning all

Good news Lucky and well done.

I am so close today to reaching my first major goal of 10% weight loss from my starting weight. So at 6 weeks tomorrow I should have lost 2st 2lbs. (Fingers crossed)

I had a healthy homemade beef burger and sweet potato chips for dinner last night. All allowed and within my daily plan. It was so yummy.

I’ve been on the Fast800 for a week now and am looking for some recipe suggestions for before and after my weekend cycle rides. I do a 40 mile 2:30hr cycle ride and used to load up on toast and peanut butter before and have pasts e.g. beef lasagna after to ‘recover’. Obviously this has to stop.

Any suggestions for BSD type recipes for before or after my ride. I think I need something slow release before hand and something satiating for when I get back as I’m usually ready to nore my arm off by the time I get home at the end of the ride.

Any suggestions appreciated.

Thanks

Den

Hi fellow BSD’ers

I’ve been on the Fast800 for a week now and am looking for some recipe suggestions for before and after my weekend cycle rides. I do a 40 mile 2:30hr cycle ride and used to load up on toast and peanut butter before and have pasts e.g. beef lasagna after to ‘recover’. Obviously this has to stop.

Any suggestions for BSD type recipes for before or after my ride. I think I need something slow release before hand and something satiating for when I get back as I’m usually ready to nore my arm off by the time I get home at the end of the ride.

Any suggestions appreciated.

Thanks

Den

Hi Tokyo – but there’s only 3g of carb per hundred in spam – what’s wrong with that!!!

I made an interesting discovery with the issue of disappearing posts yesterday- anything with a link to the diabetes uk website disappears, no error message, warning, or explanation – you click submit, and it disappears into the ether!

Bread shaped child?

Thank you greenjanet. Auntie was fast asleep last night snoring her head off all through visiting 🙂
Mum hasn’t got a clot on her lung – so no further forward ???!!!

Day 188 weight 9st 5lbs
Blood sugar 8.4

I haven’t been sleeping very well and have been getting up late. I’m going to try to get to bed sooner tonight.

Just to say, Karen, you might give the 800 a try. For many people energy levels go up, not down – your body changes to get its energy not from refined carbs (with resulting bs spikes) but from fat.

So I would give the 800 a try – you should commit to say a week to give your body a chance to kick the carbs – and you may find that your energy levels increase! Mine certainly did!

Hope that helps!

Just a quickie – I’m going to make a spelt loaf – for the children not us. Just had a talk to them all to tell them things were changing and that size wasn’t an indicator of health. One child is pudgy, the other hasn’t an ounce of fat on him but the skinny one eats less healthier than the chubby one.

Will post a pic later if it turns out bread shaped 🙂

Glad you’re back too Tokyo, a spammer? You hardly ever post! That’s the sort of thing that should happen to me not you…

I’ve just jinxed myself, haven’t I?

good morning all
had a nightmare yesterday could not post !!! they thought i was spam but back now !! thank goodness how did everyones day go ?? lucky what delights are you baking today ???

thanks for the reminder Trudi – I just found it
the interview starts at about 1 hour 10 minutes into the program for anyone that wants to find it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07p13vf

Maybe I’m being cynical but GP’s used to get paid a bonus if they kept their diabetic patients blood sugar levels below 7. Can this be part of the reason they don’t want to lose us!!!

I just listened to this interview on iPlayer. So good to hear this thinking spoken on national radio.

It really is just common sense – but maybe that is only to those of us used to ditching sugar and sorting out our carbs! 🙂

Hello all.
Was very careful yesterday,went to bed hungry in spite of protein and veg for dinner BUT I was strong and scales this am said half a pound loss so better than nothing. Did drink a lot of water, 8 full glasses, but did not get rid of much so I am saying that there is a bit of water retention. It makes me feel happier.
Overslept this am so no time for 30 min gym session before Aqua class but did 45 mins there as usual and tried to work a bit harder.
Have not done many steps for the last 2 days as it is so dammed hot here in the south but am still focussed on the plan.
Please keep posting everyone. When I read of the fantastic losses some of you have made I am in awe. It also makes me feel a bit wimpy but don’t worry I am holding on to your coat tails and being dragged along.
Ta x

Imogen – exactly how I felt. I’d been a mum from 19, got pregnant just as I was due to go to Uni, and things have always got in the way of that, other pregnancies, deaths in the family, personal issues. My youngest is 10 now, one more year til secondary and my oldest is about to hit 21. It is going to sound corny as hell, but I have no idea who I am any more? Other than mum, carer, housewife? Time for some me time. And some you time, by the sounds of it. 60 things might be a stretch, I know others who had 100 on their lists, I struggled to reach 30, but they don’t have to be big things mind? Just silly little things can go on too 🙂 Set up a blog to chart your progress too, with pictures of the things you achieve!

Ruth – the baps are here – https://www.dovesfarm.co.uk/recipes/spelt-bread?offset=1
It made 8 decent sized burger rolls, but if you wanted smaller ones, you could probably stretch it to 12? Really good too. I hope they freeze well. I want to make the bread for the children for the weekend. They will be a really good, but very occasional treat for me, and handy for long car journeys and days out. I’ve done so little with the children this summer purely because I’ve felt tied to my kitchen with this diet, and I feel really guilty about that.

54 – I am much more active now that I was, like Janey says, these newfangled devices help, a few of us duel regularly, unfortunately a foot issue has slowed me down this last week or so.
Mindfulness – for me, going from being a proper gluttonous greedy sod eating man sized plates of food, to having to stretch 800 calories over the course of a day? That in itself made me mindful – of what I was eating anyway. You can’t just mindlessly wolf your food down and not realise you’ve eaten any more, because there’s probably going to be so little of it now that you appreciate it more.
Other exercises, the HIIT? No, not once. 37lbs gone in 11 weeks. My husband – incidentally 54 if that’s your age too, started at 18 stone 4 and is 16 stone today in same time frame. 32 lbs. He hardly moved due to ill health, but he bought a Jawbone a few weeks ago and is now moving more. Just walk more 🙂 Good luck!

Thanks Jan. I was getting concerned about me, believe me! Yes, we’re all different, and I do find that if we find our own way to do it, and it works, it’s best to just stick to it. Different needs, different problems, different metabolisms, different health issues, different lifestyles, different levels of exercise, these all play a part in the whole picture, not just how low we can get our carb count on a day to day basis. But – in saying that – for some people, it is just that, too! It really is that simple! Luckily for me, it’s not. UNluckily for me, it seems that I can’t drink wine ever again… 😉

I think this is the way forward for me now, for now though, as I said, it’s something I have to keep reassessing as I go along, even on as short a time frame as a week to week basis. Maybe on weigh day. But I can’t go back to eating how I used to. The cake I had on holiday was too sweet. I don’t desire 99% of the things I used to eat any more. But the ones I do, I know I can make with almond flour, coconut flour, coconut oil, olive oil, flaxseed, besan… my kitchen cupboard is like bloody Paltrow’s! If I knew I could have – for example – a small homemade spelt base pizza once a week (and I mean small because the amount of food I can put away now is less than my youngest son) on a Saturday, I think I’d gladly be able to coast through the week on 800 – 1000 calories a day. I will still be counting calories, and I will still be sticking (mainly) to the list of allowed ingredients, swerving the higher stuff for the lower stuff when I can to get more bang for my buck. But the carbs, no – I can’t do that as well, not on so few calories. It’s driving me batcrap crazy. I’ve seen from my own data that some days it was 30, and some days it was 50 and that’s without trying to limit myself, just with what I wanted to eat on that day, so seemingly common sense alone let me make choices that let the carb total come in at a totally acceptable level. I appreciate that you need this at the moment, and it’s great that we live in a time that exists for us to have this information and these tools on hand so easily. Imagine trying to do this twenty, thirty years ago? 😮

Yes, week 12 tomorrow. We’ll see how that goes and reassess in a week’s time. I may end up eating my words. I may not. But it feels right for me at the mo, and Mr Lucky too. Have a great weekend, I think I am being hauled out by the children as it’s the last one before school! And other sister in law is coming down to stay in her caravan so heavy duty cleaning ahoy too 🙁

Sorry about that Jan!

Yes I think this thread may good for keeping many people focused. Hope it will do that for me too!

I’m coming to the end of my first 8 and have been evaluating my new way of eating and I realised, for the first time, this morning, that I’m now in control. I have managed to jump off that fast train heading towards diabetic complications.

I enjoy this way of eating and don’t feel deprived at all just feel healthier, even though I have only lost 12lbs, hopefully, 13 by Tuesday. It’s amazing what you can do with a cauliflower or a courgette!!!

I have lots to loose too so looks like we’re both going to be here for a while yet!

Hi Arty
Glad to hear that Lucky is home, I appreciate tinged with sadness, but it must be great to have him at home again – have a lovely day with him.

Hi all,
I didn’t get chance to post yesterday’s results, too much going on at home, granddaughters came for day, three of them, had to sort out a hack on my M&S account, £250 taken from my account! Busy day otherwise, went to Birmingham to the ‘new’ library there, they had a great day! We all came back shattered, we walked miles.
However, now for yesterday’s weight and food etc.

Weight was 12.2.0 so well pleased with that, that’s 4oz lost making the total 3lb 8oz in total.

Food,
Breakfast, portobello mushrooms, pine nuts and goats cheese,( my interpretation of the bsd recipe) and a cup of tea
Midday meal, hard boiled egg cheddar cheese, and a small salad, vimto squash to drink
Evening Meal, skinny chilli 1 chocolate and water.
Supper, coffee and nuts.
Also had a cup of tea when we got back from Birmingham.
Walked miles the girls did really well, little five year old Dana was amazing, we got soaked so she was walking with wet feet too, bless her, she just kept going.
Christine

Hi lucky
I’m so pleased you have found a workable way forward for you, I was concerned about you, but doesn’t it just prove how we are all so very different for myself I find the structure of counting, measuring using mfp etc reassuring I couldn’t cope without hem at the moment, and wouldn’t have got where I am now without them but for you the absolute opposite, so delighted for you keep going we will all get there. Wishing you a great week love jan