Well done! I’m on day 4 and am so motivated by reading about how successful people are on this plan.

Hi Babs 🙂

Can I ask why you don’t eat after 2:30pm please?

Just curious – I only eat between 12:30pm and 8:30pm, then a 16 hour fast each day.
Do you not find the evenings a struggle?

Welcome cOsie ,all the best from Oz. I am into Day 3 and all is good so far, we are all here for the same reasons and that is our strength .

Welcome Cosie,good to meet you and read yr story so far!
like so many,myself included, you have experienced ups n downs,.but isnt the human spirit wonderful thatyou will try again..and getting up and trying again is so much more important than any previous falling over!
Theres an awful lot of support on here so browse the forums..lots of helpful knowledge too
Wishing you well and looking forward to hearing how you get on X

Arcanarose,
Thanks for the recommendation of the meditation videos – I definately need some quite/chilled time in my life!

Ruth,
Feel a lot happier at the moment for upping the fat and lowering the carbs already! Dont feel groggy, dont have weird “empty” breathe – just feel better – fingers crossed Im saying this in a week! 🙂

Day 3. BS reading 10.1 mmol/l. This is still dropping and hopefully tomorrow it will be under 10.0 mmol/l. All is good so far. Have to take the dog for a walk and then work on a few paintings that are on the go.
Hope everyone is travelling well and the day is good for you.

Thought I’d add myself to this 🙂

Started my journey on Sunday 7th August, weighed myself first thing in the morning (always): 25st 2.0lb/160kg
Sunday 14th August: 24st 6.0lb/155kg (-10.0lb)
Sunday 21st August: 24st 1.75lb/153kg (-4.25lb)

I’m down a fraction over 1 stone/7kg in 2 weeks. Granted water weight will be a factor there, I’m aware I have lost water in my legs, but hopefully there will be fat loss in there too 🙂

@ruthdownunder
Thanks for the welcome Ruth!
When I eat all this healthy nutritious stuff I love it – I’ve had the most amazing tasting omelette today, a little baked sweet potato, lots of salad – all if which tasted a million times better than any takeaway pizza I could ever order, or any bag of cheesy chips I’ve had before!
Yet I still feel compelled at times to go back to eating that rubbish! :S
Fingers crossed for the future – this forum has a nice positive vibe to it and I’m hoping ill fit right in :)’

@gemgem
Thanks for the welcome 🙂
I’m very open about most things – I think that after so many years of being very obviously obese that I have realised that to succeed I need to not worry about other peoples opinions of me. If I was worried about what people thought about me I would never have gotten my fat ass onto a push bike and cycled past so many strangers to work each day!
As I said above to Ruth, this forum has a really positive vibe to it – I like that, something to spur me on, and hopefully in return I’ll be able to inspire someone to put back to the community 🙂

Hi all,
Today I weighed in at 12.3.2. so back to the weight before our celebratory meal!
Breakfast, tea.
Midday meal, lamb, cauliflower, carrots, green beans, broccoli and a bit of gravy. Fage yogurt and blueberries. One chocolate, one of our gifts from our anniversary.
Evening meal. Pepper with jewelled feta, bsd recipe from the book.
Supper. Coffee, nuts.
Over 800 calories, under 50 carbs.
Christine
Battery going to go any minute!!!!!

Hi ruthdownunder,
Thank you, I was a child bride, we met when I had just started work, birthday in April, left school on the Friday, had a week off and started work the following Monday, first date July, married when I was 19! in the August, first child the following year on his birthday! Just a couple of months after I was 20!
The trouble with having a big family is, there are always birthdays, wedding anniversaries, exam results, you name it we have to celebrate!
I love this diet, I have adapted some of the meals in the book to suit me more, while not changing the essence of the meal. Do you do the meals from the book, or have you done your own thing?
I have got a few cookery books, well loads but who’s counting! I do try to adapt some of my favourite foods so we can all eat them, my daughter is back living with us for a while until she get on her feet. Even she enjoys some of the food from the book!
Christine.

SUNSHINE i love sage n onion stuffing too but even back in the Bad Old Days of Being Slave to the Carb,i found it hard to digest. I doubt our tums could take it now!
Well done on you serving it up for the children tho..i dont have to see sights and smells that might lead me astray as i live alone….for instance someone mentioned family members making toast..what a lovely comforting and tempting smell that is!
Yes from what i read on here,i am sure we have or are getting orthorexia..and i dont think we even mind!
i have an irrational love / hate relationship with what was my addiction- simple carbs and sugar.
No longer my addiction but i guess like a reformed drinker,never that far away from regressing!
What helps is that feeling Jan talked about of just somehow feeling such foods are no longer an option..which is great, i find it helpful that i feel like that..but until i can feel totally indifferent to carbs around me, i am still a little under their influence! X

Hi Captainlynne – yes I was also accepting food because I didn’t want to ‘offend’ people. But you are right – once they accept that you are not going to eat the cake or biscuits they seem to be ok about it, and it is much easier for them. I don’t really like rice or potatoes but my OH does. He has taken over as the ‘cook’ of the household and he would always make too much rice or too many potatoes and would ask me if I would like them – rather than throw them away. I would always say yes – so they wouldn’t be wasted. How mad is that. Since I began to refuse them he either doesn’t do so many, or he does spiralised courgettes or white cabbage stir fried in a little butter for both of us. Much better for him and for me. He is beginning to change his diet also and cutting down on the carbs. We both want to stay healthy.

I agree Izzy – I try and keep carbs low if I can as I am on maintenance

Over the weekend we have been away.

So – breakfast has been 3 cups unsugared White Americano coffee (no use worrying about full fat milk, just take what I get)
plus scrambled egg and smoked salmon. I don’t eat meat – OH had bacon instead.

Lunch has been M&S picnic on 2 days – feta cheese and tomato Greek salad

Another day it was a cafe salad – we didn’t have potato salad or the rice part, but the rest was lovely – OH had ham and I had smoked salmon (again!)

Two evenings out – one I had fresh fried whitebait with a salad, and the other seared salmon with Niçoise salad (didn’t eat the potatoes). OH had steak + veg

All very easily achievable and it added to about 1500 calories per day with carbs well under 50.

Given I also did a lot of walking about and my base metabolism needs about 1500 calories, I am very happy with that.

Tonight I made my own egg curry and the total calories was 535 calories (coconut milk pushed it) and 19 carbs so daily total still under 50 carbs though calories just above 1500.

I find MyFitnessPal a godsend and now have some go-to recipe bases which seem to be really adaptable.

Mmmm that curry! yum

Happy Monday!! loss of 1.2 last week. starting weight for this week 132.5. And I didn’t really do anything different. A friend has the book of recipes and I’m going to go through and check out what looks good to me. I have to confess I am a terrible vege eater, but am learning to have more and try more. Love my fruit, and have cut right down to 1 apple a day! Didn’t realise how much sugar was in fruit and wonder if partly that was where I was going wrong as well. Water intake increased, so that’s good.
Yah – Onwards and downwards.
cheers all
KJ

Yowzer, like you I cannot face carbs any more. (Except for that naughty slice of pizza which I hated). Tonight I have done a roast chicken dinner and the boys (3 of them) all wanted sage and onion stuffing. Oh dear that is my favourite, but I didnt even sneak a taste, it just scares me now knowing what it does to me. Do you know it has a name “orthorexia”, means fear of eating certain foods and sticking to a diet of pure foods.

From 99kg + my first goal was 95kg as that was for me the border between obese and overweight on BMI . and approaching the start of week 4 I have reached that. Next landmark is 90kg as that would be about 14 st. Not seen for years. If I can avoid work cake and biscuits….

Online shopping didn’t work for me – I tried it when I was on crutches and couldn’t drive. To get to the limit for delivery I ended up ordering treats I might resist in the supermarket itself.

Stick at it Leasko.

I’m just gladd to be back after my laptop keyboard died. Now on a cheap plug in one. WHen it died my mouse pad was working then I had the bright idea to try shutting down and rebooting – only to realise too late that rebooting needed a keyboard entered password- ooops ended up with less than I started with! Had to be old fashioned with pen and paper notes this morning followed by emergency trip to PCworld for plug in keyboard.

In other news I am maintaining after my sins, my Jawbone Up2 arrived when the app isn’t crashing on my phone it is going well – extra long dog walk yesterday on new section of the wood near us so did my dog – cue chase, dog lost fortunately Phew!!! but over the 10k in that walk alone.

Yowzer …. That really looks sooooo achievable. You’ve done so well so far just keep going.

Sunshine-girl …. No longer a mountain just a molehill!!! You will do it!

Hi Izzy and welcome to the ‘mini goalers’. Well done on your great loss so far and 2lb at a time is really achievable . You know that because you have done so well so far.

KrysiaD …. the scales don’t always tell the truth. At the end of the day if your clothes are more comfortable and you look and feel better, great, that’s what it’s all about.

Last night I had a ‘treat’. Mmmmm ….. thought I was having an Indian meal in my plan. One poppadum, chicken tikka and chickpeas with spinach, not oily. Maybe I ate more than I should have although it was counted on my plan. Today up 1lb!!! Oh dear! but at least I can tell you and get back on track today and I have been really strict today . Tomorrow’s weigh in will tell!!!

hi all,

new to the forum, although been on the diet for 4 weeks. extremely over the moon with results and generally how much healthier I’m feeling. I started the diet as I was advised by my doctor I have fatty liver and hopefully weight loss would help rectify.

I just wondered if any other people on here have managed to reverse/improve it on this diet?

Hi VERANO and fellow mini goalers..i am on day40 and have lost twenty six and a bit lbs. wd love to reach 30 lb down by day 56 x

I thought I might be able to find a simpler way of making garlic cauliflower mash. I roasted the cauliflower and garlic in tinfoil in the oven whilst I was roasting a chicken. Think I overcooked it …… The cauliflower disappeared to almost nothing and the garlic was really bitter not sweet as I had imagined.

Just goes to show you can’t improve on perfection so back to steaming my cauliflower tonight!!!

Hi JAN i feel like you..its as if sugary carby stuff is no longer an option for me,so its not even really a temptation any more…but also,again like you,still scared i could somehow release the Carb Monster again,so i mustnt get complacent,,dont want to risk it happening! And dont want a sore belly like so many peeps say they get when they have bread or pizza or something! X!

Hi there Linda A

Ooh you are doing so well, and so close, you inspire me. I’m also 5ft 6in . The lowest I’ve ever been in 1979 was 10st 11 so not sure what I am going to be when I get to target whatever that will be. but I am at week 7 and half and lost 14.26 kilo 31.37 lbs in old money, I am amazed by the power of this eating plan, I really feel like refined carbs and sugars are just not for my consumption, decision not out of needing to diet etc just plain sensible choice. I wouldn’t want to take the chance of eating sugar and junk carbs, and sugar free rubbish etc as I am terrified of the monster appetite being triggered of again. If I lifted the lid on the can of worms I might not get them back in again. I also even eyes swerve any one on hear talking about such things as eating low sugar stuff, and things that are not compliment with the plan.I don’t want any thoughts of that even in my mind, still need to do a lot more mind training for when I do get to target hopefully by my birthday at Christmas. And yep I’m also finding walking much easier, I can doo 10,000 and still got more energy to doo other stuff. My OH said I had turned hyperactive.😅😅😅 just amazing. Let us know when you get to target and what you did to celebrate. 😇😇😇👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👼👼👼

Hey sunshine, I’ll swap you the fog and rain for that heatwave 🙂

anyone else struggle with an OH who doesn’t ‘do’ diets (or anything vaguely like healthy eating) and consequently doesn’t appreciate the effort that needs to go into it? I get comments like ‘that’s not enough to eat’, ‘one biscuit isn’t going to kill you’, ‘you can’t eat like that when we’re out’ etc etc. Mind you OH would be very happy if I was 60kg tomorrow (currently 75kg), just doesn’t like the effort of the journey of me getting there. I just ignore it to be honest but if I’m wavering it’s another hurdle to get over. Anyway OH is obese – I’m not anymore 😄

Although still on my plateau I have reached one of my other mini goals. I bought a lovely long and close fitting size 12 micro fleece 3 weeks ago – even though it was much too tight. Today I wore it and it was not tight at all – it fitted beautifully. I was so pleased as it looked really good and it was so comfortable for my walk (although I did get quite hot).

well Gavinfabulosa, it is set to reach 42 by Tuesday. We just shut the house up, turn on the air con and watch a few box sets. Hot weather is not all volleyball on the beach and ice lollies.

Thanks JANEY and GAV..yes i’ve Claimed The Claws and Tamed Those Toenails!

Well done IZZY on passing the TN Test! X

SUNSHINE You’ ll get there ! If i can,anyone will.i had to do wild contortions trying to drag one leg up onto my knee and stabbing wildly at nails.. And i needed long distance glasses on as tootsies seemed so very far away with a big tum impeding me! X

36 degrees. Wow . Best enjoy that. It’s 14°C and even foggier.

Great work Yowser49 with the toe nails 🙂

I wonder how Lucky is doing:)

Naughty! Naughty! You eating high carb foods last night! I guess You are going to the moon! 🙂 For that sin, you get to drink THE UNIQUE SODA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=verzNYAOQ7s

I had a wild time this weekend at Opera House and visiting Philadelphia Philharmonic. Today I am going crazy like the Mad Hatter:

I have 2 mega pots cooking today:

one is for beef stew

one is for chicken soup

The chicken soup should be done by now. It was 3 hours. One only needs to cook it for 2 hours, but I like more flavor from the bones. I guess I am bad to the bones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NkfY4F-jvY

B B B B BAD! 😀

Thanks sunshine-girl, I’ll have aa go at that; it defo spikes over night.
This week has been plateau week but keeping the faith as I know I haven’t gone off track. Intermittent fasting today; just had my first meal and I’ll have my dinner about 6ish. I didn’t mean to fast exactly but just didn’t feel hungry, so decided not to just eat for the sake of it.

Claire

I am not a chicken soup eater now in the hot weather. But, starting next month I going Chicken soup again as a meal!

What I do is a have 2 32 quart pots and cook both on any day. When they are done 3+ hours after, I store them in freezer for when I need it! I have 2 weeks of soup ready for use.

So, maybe you should do the same! Pre plan all your meals for a week! You have no worries on whats for dinner!

So, Annie What’s for dinner? Inviting Daddy Warbucks? 😉

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tviyAIS9c_U

The morning spikes can be cured by having a bedtime snack. I go for a bit of ham or some tuna on a ryvita (not sure if thats allowed but it is less than 2gm carb). Or sometimes I save a little of my lunch or dinner to eat. Tells your body your not starving so stops your liver from pumping out glycogen.

That’s amazing, well done!

you’re getting there sunshine girl 🙂

I’m not there yet (toenail painting) unless I stand up and put my foot on a chair.

*puts hand up* I pass the toenail test haha

I love reading this, I am the same. So many failed diets behind me and BSD has really given me confidence that I CAN do this.

I like mini goals too and I like playing with numbers. My last mini goal I just met (10 st 12) which was 2 stone lost on BSD. My next mini goal is 10st 10, because being able to say ‘ten ten’ sounds cool and also that will be 30lb’s off on BSD. I’m a slower loser but I will get there. My goal after that will be 10st 7 🙂

I hadn’t though beyond that until now, but my *next* one after that will be 10st 5, which will be 20% of my bodyweight gone since starting BSD.

I like lots of mini targets, it gives me manageable achievements and lots of little celebrations 🙂

Good Luck Smudgie, Hope everything turns out to be well x

Welcome to our little madhouse 🙂

Yowzer, I think we should add the ‘toenail test’ to our glossary of terms as it had been a valid benchmark for several of our happy band (remembers Lucky’s griffin like toenail story 😂)

Not sure about saintly baking today Tokes.. Although just found my shop bought linseed loaf in an advanced state of decomposition.. Yuk)

Hello my lovelies 🙂

Yesterday was busy and I did eat a couple of non BSD things but not much.

Drove the 65 miles to my parents house and then between me, my daughter and niece we emptied my parents loft. It wasn’t actually too bad as they had a big clearout a few years ago it actually only took about an hour or so. Then I took down some light fittings for them as well.

My Dad had a bit of a train collection so we’ve come home with a train set for each child among other things… I’ve taken some old tools he doesn’t use. I had on my amazon wish list a soldering iron for craft in the future, I found a couple in my Dad’s stash so I’ve snaffled them. He doesn’t use any of these things anymore and is happy for them to go to any of us. So more stuff for my Den and scratch that off my wishlist lol.

Hubby cooked us spag bol last night and I taught him how to cook us courgetti 🙂

He was talking about regulating his carbs a bit more as well and having them when he trains, he doesn’t need to lose any weight but is always interested in his nutrition.

Today I made a batch of almond flour pancakes and ate those with some raspberries. I’m trying a batch of nut brittle (Elana’s pantry recipe) making it with wallnuts instead of pecans just because we have more of those spare. Will see how it turns out.

Thank you. This is a great forum!

I’m very fortunate to still have both parents

I’m very grateful they are moving into sheltered housing next month 🙂 This will make their lives so much easier.

I’m grateful that after a difficult thing my niece is happy and moving on with her life. I’m very proud of her.

Wow that is amazing! Well done!

Oh the small joys of losing weight!
Just painted my toenails without a big tum getting in the way
Off out now..Wearing trousers and top that feel so so much comfier than they did 5 1/2 weeks ago when i had to battle my way into them! X
36 degrees SUNSHINE GIRL…phew thats hot! X good job you can take a dip!

Hi Gavin going to be 36 degrees here today, going in the pool in a minute. Keep on keeping on.

Hi Dianeworthy – welcome.

Great result!😃

In 35 weeks on 800 BSD I’ve lost 6st 2lb – another 5 pounds to go.

I was type 2 and fasting blood when Imstarted was 10.9 with HbA1c of 9.6. Metformin was being threatened. Now my fasting levels are in the normal range, I get readings of 3.8 and 3.9. When my levels stabilised I stopped testing daily, now just randomly. Last two HbA1c (April and July) were 5.5 and 5.2 – again in the ‘normal’ range.

From size 24 (tight) I’m now in size 12/14.

I know that Bill doesn’t count calories, only carbs.

I think that trying to overlap too many concepts will never work, Popcorn is processed so probably not in keeping with BSD, chick peas are – just control the quantities for calories. Melon is not recommended on BSD due to the sugar content which is what makes it high GI.

What I have done myself is that mostly I follow BSD principles. If we are out for a meal I don’t bother with calories but I try to choose something in keeping with BSD. Some nice salads out there… and if that isn’t grabbing my attention I may choose a compromise dish. For example chicken in BBQ sauce knowing there will be some sugar in there but ask for extra veg instead of rice or pasta. Very occasionally I will ditch the BSD for ONE meal – I had chips whilst out a few weeks ago. Very occasionally I will have one small bar of chocolate. Whenever I have my deviations I just jump back on BSD asap. Sometimes at the weekend I go over calories but still try to keep my carbs low. My progress is slow but most weeks I lose a little and I’m enjoying this way of life so I am pleased to continue this way.

If you had popcorn now and then, or melon – it won’t kill you.

Hi Annie – I also have done exactly what Izzy has done. Most of my old favourites were easy to make BSD friendly and I only chose recipes from the book that contained ingredients that I liked. I knew this was the only way I would be successful and more importantly be able to keep off the refined carbs long term.