Hi Sunshine, I’m up in Brittany been here 9 years and very happy. I just ate a whole cucumber (the poly tunnel is bursting!) and I feel a bit sick :[ – who’d have thought you could get sick on cucumber! I just made a beetroot chocolate cake (Nigel Slater) cut it up and froze it all – how good am I? Tonight I am going to try cauliflower rice – sounds disgusting but we’ll see. I am looking forward to next weigh in (Monday) because I can FEEL I’ve lost weight. I have a trip to UK planned in 6 weeks so I am hoping they will have a surprise when they see me! You must be feeling the heat down there in Bergerac- it’s pretty hot here! 🙂
SaraMck – enjoy the heat in Perpignan!

Resist if you can! Because it may not make you feel any better.

It’s the carbs trying to hang on – pesky little blighters.

Can you say to yourself you will wait till tomorrow to see if you REALLY want the toast?

Step away from the toast! 😀
Oh am so sorry to hear this SCHNITZEL! I ve found that avoiding the carbs has generally made me less jittery and calmer.
Tho i do get irritable easily,maybe due to health probs..its horrible isnt it when you feel grumpy!
Are you feeling tense?
Maybe try a meditation or listening to a soothing visualisation..lots of stuff on ebay. Or watching something that will really make you laugh despite yrself! Or some favourite songs. Or going for a massage or reiki.
Sometimes i get tension just in my jaws as if my mouth wants to eat even tho my tum is ok. Crunching a stick of celery takes the tension out.
Well done on yr ten pound loss..isnt that wonderful to shed a large amount of weight so fast! Such a great start,keep up the good work! X

Hi JMG.
You are very good for documenting everything. I get on the scale every morning and write down what i eat but don’t seem to get around to the cals and carb content. Just trying to find the right foods. Think i made a mistake today with peas and broad beans. Love them. Ate lots of them as i love them but didn’t realize til afterwards they had a high carb load. The scales said i lost 2kg by the morning of day 4 and put 700g back on by this morning day 5. Hopefully tomorrow’s weigh in is at least in the downward direction.

Which country are you in JMG? I am in Australia.
Caro

Beep beep! Cant Wait to join you guys on 7 th September on the back seat of the second wave bus! Look out for me..i will be at the bus stop flagging you down and clutching my senior citizen bus pass ! 😃😃😃😃

Hi SaraMck, if you were asking me about the shakes, I get the recipes out of the MM book, Melon, blueberry, spinach, sunflower seeds and almond milk this morning. Sometimes green tea with blueberries, greek yoghurt almonds and flax seeds. Really nice. Before I started the BSD I bought a Nutribullet and was already hooked on apple, carrot and spinach. I will start to look like Popeye but prefer to be like Olive Oyl. Bonnes vacances à Perpignan, je l’adore.

Hmmm. Maybe a slice of wholemeal toast would make me feel better…

Hi All.. just started the 800 cal 8 week plan on Monday. I live in New Orleans, LA… Very hard to diet here with all the delicious restaurants. My question is Who has gone the full 8 weeks and how much weight (in pounds) have you lost??

Thank you so much for your words of encouragement. I want to get out of this ‘health risk’ trap that I’m in. I am going on holiday on Monday but although I will be careful and choose wisely on the food (it’s all inclusive), I will make a proper start when I return. I will probably have shake drinks for breakfast and lunch and a healthy balanced meal in the evening as long as it all totals 800 calories. I don’t have a problem with a Mediterranean diet (I come from Italian background) but can you give me an indication on your daily meals please? thanks

Really interesting and well done you. Have only just started yesterday but tried similar before. Where did you get the recipe for the shake??? Sounds lovely. I would like to find a variety of recipes so that I can really plan ahead, I work better that way. Want to try and eat food as well as shakes this time. Any favourite recipes (not fish!) or breakfast shakes?? Good luck for the next bit. ps will be in France for next seven weeks, house near Perpignan.

Hi Minnie.
I love your brain messages. Mine is doing exactly the same to the point where i know i just need to go get ready for bed. Distraction is the key otherwise I spend every minute thinking about what I can eat, What I can’t eat and when I can eat. Sound familiar?

Oh dear. I have had the same in the past. I think drinking water and or tea does help though. Good luck it is tough but it works. xx

How are you doing? Started yesterday and still very hungry! Just spoke to a girlfriend, 11 weeks and 12 kgs and she is pleased and says it does get easier!! I hope so! Sara

This morning i did the food shopping. Bought some English breakfast tea. Only drink herbal tea normally. So had two cups of black tea around lunch time and didn’t have the slump at all. Will do the same tomorrow to either prove or disprove my theory.

Hi, I am halfway through my second week. Enjoyed food so far and pleased with results (down nearly 10 pounds yay!). Today I feel really irritable. I am a grump! I am not usually like this (I hope). Anyone else experienced this?

Antigone, I have gone from 8.1 to 6.6 so obviously want to be below that, I have a number in my mind but, as I keep saying, I have family staying so I am kept pretty busy. Right now 2 little boys are on ipads and daughter is having a well earned nap. Which is why I am able to get to the computer for half an hour.

Where are you in France, I live 20 km from Bergerac in a village called Le Fleix, for 11 years now. Love it.

Hey shall we all sit on the back seat of the bus together. When I was a kid we had a bus to come and get us to go to school and the popular kids always had the back seat. Now we can all nab a the backseat, Verano and who else , it’s a very long back seat, will take hundreds. Join us it’s the bus to the best party. The BSD party.🎉🎉🎉

Sunshine girl

You have your priorities exactly right, well done for keeping focused I’m sure your next HbA1c will be better than before and that is your invisible good health indicator. Enjoy the ride on the second wave bus 🚌🚌🚌

greenjanet, for me it will be just another 3 or 4 kgs. I am a slow loser but partly because of the insulin, I am happy that I have lost 3 kg on this and 1 kg before so a total of 4 kg. I am more interested in getting HBA1c down even further but will look at the figures next week when I have more time. All aboard the 2nd 8 week bus

Pleased to see you back on track Sunshine. I had a bit of a blip in week 3 too. I’d lost half a stone in the first two weeks but then had a fall out riding which stopped me being active for a few days then dinner out and too much wine – I’m off wine all together now as it made me really sick after eating so few calories 🙁 No weight loss in week 3 but I’m hopeful this week (4) will get things moving again (weigh in on Monday). I’m not diabetic but need to lose weight and I like the philosophy of this. Keep the faith Sunshine – you’ll look back and laugh one day 🙂 PS I live in France too!

I started this diet 10days ago and it has been a qualified success in that I have yo yo ed between 10.12 and 11 stone with all stops in between. At the moment I am back where I started, 10.12, but today feels more positive so am working hard at it.
Have decided to, in the words of the song, accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative.
Also need to plan more.
My brain keeps trying to please me with little suggestions like, one biscuit won’t hurt, then, well have another, oh well you’ve blown it may as well finish the packet. I need to pay more attention to what I am doing. Have to have some biscuits in the house otherwise OH would not be too happy.
It was book club ar my house today and I provided biscuits for the others BUT I did not eat any and they are now packed away out of sight
Did consider wearing boxing gloves but decided not really an option.
Love reading all your positive comments and promise to better this next week.

Yep found it I’m on it, The BSD second wave bus 🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌 we is going for it. How much more do you want to give to the fat pixies.? I’ve got 73 more of the little blighters to go. Phew better not think about that one, just aim for the next eight weeks.😅

I need to get this week over until the family go home sob sob. Then sit down and look at where I am now and set some realistic goals for the next 8 weeks. As Arnie says, I’ll be back. Keep on keeping on (losing)

greenjanet, verano has started a thread on welcome to BSD but can’t remember the exact title. Sure we will find it.

Captainlynne
Just wanted to say finished my first 8 week rotation inches down, 33 lbs down, all bloods now normal, and it has been partly to your excellent example. When I feel challenged I think of your amazing journey, and it is one of the many things that has helped me enormously, wishing you all wonderful things for the remainder of your journey.
Thankyou 😊😊😊

Hi there
I’m starting second rotation of eight today so beginning of week 9 I’m also on hols now for 3 weeks and a bit, sticky times ahead, wedding high teas with relees my poor sister who lasted a week and a half on this plan, I’ve promised a high tea in a superb, tea room in north Norfolk, had one last year, Michelin star standard, but not sure how I will handle that one, event he jam tart was divine home made jam lemon pastry, ooh dear not controlled yet, need to really train my mind for that one.
But I want 16 to 20 lbs loss in these next eight weeks more than I will want a bl……..y jam tart, not very keen on jam.🤔🤔🤔🤐🤔🤔🤔

Hi I have done … 2nd 8 week ….. on Welcome too BSD. Can’t remember the exact title! But I’ve said starting Tuesday …. All welcome.

Sunshine girl and Verano yes please I will join you on the last eat BSD bus. I reckon I will be doing three more rotations, if I am fortunate like captain Lynne. But aiming for target by Xmas how about you both🚌

Verano, do you want to start it off, we have a few people on around the same time as us, just finished or finishing the first 8 weeks. So we need something to show we are continuing with the BSD and setting new mini goals.

greenjanet, Verano and I are going to carry on with another 8 weeks on the BSD with a thread which you could start or jump into ours when we get going. We are waiting until 30 due to family commitments although we will still be sticking to the plan in between. We will have to come up with an appropriate name showing that we are committing to a new set of goals to carry us through the next 8 weeks.

Hows It going MO. The mealtimes youve chosen wd suit me as i think its helpful to push meals back in that way.
I dont eat til noon or later,i always have yog and berries for lunch, as the fullfat yoghurt fills me up… in the evening,sevenish, i have my din-dins. Hope youre finding this do able..first week can be a bit tricky..i know i felt more tired and a bit weak,but that passes as does any carb cravings. Once the carb cravings pass ( it might only take a day) you wont feel very hungry coz it’s the carbs that make you want to eat more x

Welcome back KAREN xso sorry you’ ve had a bad time lately. Good on you for getting back on track xx

You really seem to enjoy this FROG and it must be so good for you!
Hampstead Heath…good memories of going to pubs round there..i can only remember one name ( it was alongtime ago!) the Old Bull and Bush. Is there a Jack Straws Castle as well? X

So, I had delayed my 6 monthly HbA1c test until about 5 weeks through my BSD Fast (I eventually only did six weeks losing over 21lb )

And the result of the effect the 8 week Blood Sugar Diet (I only did 6 weeks) on Ziggy’s HbA1c and has his diabetes been reversed ????:-

Doctor -“there doesn’t appear to have been an HbA1c test done – I’ll phone the labs. No, they say none was done either”

I left, with the doctor trying to tell me I have pernacious anaemia. Which I am sure is a result of the diet and will be fine again once I return to eating normally.

Again – not the result I was after! Rather dejected. Back to the drawing board methinks.

Some of you have asked what I am going to do now, more of the same lots more, I have enjoyed this plan so much I have no reason to fix what isn’t broken, so another 8 weeks of 800 cals and below 50 carbs. I have about 5 more stones to loose, so long way yet. Also no I won’t be integrating any treats or anything, I want to get this done as quickly as possible, and my treat is loosing sheds loads of weight, and feeling amazing, I have lugged this lot around for 41 years, I do not want to do anything that will impede me getting rid of it all.

I am fortunate I haven’t needed treats etc to keep me going life is to short and I don’t want to shorten it more by eating what I shouldn’t. We are all very different and approach this plan differently, it’s so important that we manage our plan in a way that feels controllable. I wish everyone continued success.

I love this plan and even when I have achieved goal weight, I will continue the same eating plan, as I have great trust in its benefits.😊😎😊😎🌞😎😊

Way to go Lucky, flaunt those beataly boobs with pride.🌺

Wow well done greenjanet that is fantastic x

Wow!!! Congratulations!! GreenJanet that is marvelous. What’s your plan for going forward,I have managed to drop a couple of stone before but it creeps back on ,so interested to hear how you plan to keep your wonderful achievement for life (only so I can copy 😉) Huge congratulations you have come so far in such a short time !!! I hope to be right behind you x

Come and join us when you’re ready Yowzer. The more the merrier.

Hi Bean join us anyway. I’m away for three weeks from early September but I’m so determined not to lapse I thought a new pledge might just be the way to go!

OK. Into my last week of the first 8 and only lost 1lb in week 7. I don’t think I will make both of the goals I was hoping for but I may just make my first stone with one last concerted effort. I really need to evaluate this first round before starting the second. I know I need to be more vigilant.

I had a really bad day on Monday for many reasons but yesterday was great. I had eggs for breakfast and just soup for lunch. I think having a good shot of protein early in the day kept me feeling fuller.

Hope you are all nearing your goals.

Well I’m on week 8 now. I guess in total I need to lose another stone/stone and a half (to get to my lowest, lowest weight EVER) so I don’t really want to stop this way of eating until I’ve reached that. I can join you for some of the way – but I’m off to Canada in 3 weeks (for 4 weeks) so won’t be around for a bit! My sister is tiny, though, and eats so healthily that I’m hoping I won’t put anything on whilst there. In fact, I may lose some as my sister and the boys are always so active!
So, yes! VERANO – I can join you for some of the way! 😉
BEAN xx

Brilliant news Greenjanet, congratulations!

I’m nearly on my second round! This is Week 8 for me. However, I’m off to Canada in 3 weeks’ time so there’s no point in me starting anything at the moment. Four weeks with my sister and family (my scrumptious nephews) is something I’ve bean aiming for these past 3 years – I can’t wait!!
I look forward to hearing how you get on VERANO and SUNSHINE – and you YOWZER when you start again – you’ve had such incredible results – I’m so excited for you!
BEAN XX

THIRTY THREE POUNDS?!!! I’m speechless! No wonder you are on Cloud Nine GREENJANET!! Well done! I look forward to hearing your results over the next 8 weeks!
Bean xx

Oh thanks YOWZER!!
Ooooh that book sounds good 🙂
Bean xx

Haha! KITTYSMUMMY! I love the fact that MFP gives you a warning!! I always look forward to pressing ‘complete day’ – maybe its just me!! 😉
You are doing amazingly well on your first week. I was like you in that I didn’t worry too much about the carbs but concentrated on the calories. As time goes on you become aware that high carbs equals higher cals so you try and lower them. Now I don’t go over 50g and rarely go over 40!! You’ll get there and probably won’t even notice it!!
As for exercise, being a full-time mum must surely provide you with plenty of activity I would have thought! You are doing really well – keep going!!
BEan xx

Very Well done getting that job BEAN! XX
FROG Was Girl on a Train serialised on radio 4…if so,yes wd be a great read BEAN x

WEll done ARCANAROSE!! Great results there – and I love the fact that you are still tweaking your carbs and things. Brilliant stuff!!
Here’s to your next 4 weeks 🙂
Bean xx

I am checking in after my first week. I have not been sticking strictly to 800 calories – once or twice I went over 1000 – and so I’m down to 13stone 10. It’s not been difficult but once or twice I have noticed myself reaching for a post-dinner biscuit or have added a bit of rice to my supper, so I am aware of where my weaknesses are at the moment. I am looking forward to my daughter going back to school tomorrow and will be able to ramp up the exercise a lot when I’m not looking after her so much. My weight has fluctuated a lot and I can see that an evening meal involving rice or carbs definitely bumps it up a pound or two. The best thing is that I am not craving chocolate – not in any form. I’m kind of aware of it but it’s not pushing any buttons 🙂

my goal for the coming week is to do my physio exercises and walk more, while sticking more closely to 900 calories. Farewell mayonaise!

24.08.16 – 13 stone 10. (4lbs)

Haha! YOWZER I love your Cinderella moment!! Don’t you just Love, love, LOVE clothes getting baggy?!! Wow! I had to buy my favourite trousers from Next in a Size 10 because the 12 was so baggy I could pull them off without undoing them. I can’t tell you how good that feels!! I have to remind myself of that feeling every time I want to eat something silly – although lately I haven’t really felt like straying. Like you, JAN, I am on my last week. I’m the same height as you. I’ll find out my total weight loss on Friday as that’s my weigh-in day. I’m hoping to have lost maybe a stone in the 8 weeks. I mean, I know that’s nothing like as impressive as the results you guys are getting but for me its a miracle!! Its my measurements that amaze me. I’ve lost 10 inches from my waist and 10 inches from my boobs – woohoo!!
Will you continue with BSD now JAN? Are you where you want to be or do you have a little way to go? This way of eating is so easy – and produces incredible results doesn’t it. I don’t think I can stop now!
BEan xx

Arcanarose Your scale bmi sounds very suss to me unless you are incredibly short. I checked mine on the NHS and it is quite correct. I think you are much slimmer than you think you are.

Congratulations – especially the blood sugars
Ruth(::