Great goals!

Mixnmatch … WOW! you are doing really well and as you say your goals look ‘probable’. Positive thinking is definitely the way to get things happening.

KrysiaD … I’ve read several times on here that if you plateau you should maybe increase your fat intake. Not sure why but it seems to be one way of moving the scales down again. But as you say you are losing inches so maybe you should think positively about that rather than dwell on a ‘number’!

sunshine-girl …. I like your type of goals! Being a slower loser myself it’s good to see somebody else setting reasonable goals. Well done with your HBA1c. I don’t test my blood sugars at home but it was 6.8 on medication when I was last tested by the doctor in April. I’m really hoping that it’s dropped at my next test in October. One of my questions was whether weight loss had to be fast to alter HBA1c but your experience suggests maybe not. I hope that works in my case.

Langerhans …. just keep looking at those trousers and they will motivate you if things get hard!

No loss for me this morning so will try harder today!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!! 🙂 🙂

Well done, Steve, great work for you personally but also for your contribution to your doctor’s health and to medical science!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

Great posts, people, very inspiring.

Sherry Martin, can I ask why you are worried about fasting bloods? I am not type 2 though OH is, and we have been following various threads including Bill1954’s (where he abandoned fasting tests as they are not necessarily indicative of insulin response) as well as talking to doctors about best measurements.

OH has just come off his Metformin and I wondered if you had discussed your fasting results with the doctor? I assume your HbA1c results were good?

Congratulations on your successful BSD 🙂

I have also noticed that slimmer folk will leave food and stop eating when they are full. They also seem to only eat when hungry and not just because it’s a meal time, both good habits to work on I think. One eating plan I read about advised that you should stop and think ‘ what would a slim person eat’ when in awkward eating situations like eating out or family occasions, though honestly I think family would be delighted if I was eating sensibly and not pigging out.

Morning Leasko. Sorry to hear you are struggling but it’s great that you are posting on here and planning next week. So much better than giving up! You CAN do it!
For me, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not about being good (or bad). I try and remind myself why I’m doing this and think about how I’m only cheating myself and making myself miserable, all for just a couple of minutes of eating food I didn’t want to eat.
At the risk of sounding trite, my son’s journal was returned to me after he died in Afghanistan and he had written on it ” do what is right, not what is easy” and I try and think of that whenever I stray. Sorry if that sounds depressing, it’s not meant to, but it does help me. We are all different but I’m sure once you focus on your motivation, you will get there.
Best of luck!

Hi All
I am struggling 🙁
I started the BSD on the start of my two week holiday and in the back of my head, I thought that it would be easier once I went back to work. I have just done a week back at work and it was a disaster. Went back to my old ways and stopped at Greggs twice on the way to work (I do mean twice in a week, not twice in one day…but to be honest, if it had been open on the way home?!)
Reading all the posts since last week has been motivating and I am going to go down stairs and plan the shopping list for this week and aim to do better. I am hoping if I am good at the weekend, I may manage a ‘maintain’ and not a gain?!

I am often away from home with meetings with clients and eating out with them and in the last few months I’ve been watching how the slim people eat. It was working with one particular couple that really started me looking at this diet (don’t know if they were on this or not, I think it was their normal way of eating). Firstly for the breakfast buffet they just had a very small amount of yogurt (maybe a tablespoonful) with a few seeds sprinkled on top then had one egg with one slice of bacon. For dinners if it was set portions they only ate half of what was on the plate and then LEFT FOOD! If it was a buffet they had a very small portion, ate that and then went up for another small portion. Something clicked in my brain watching them eat i.e. you don’t need to eat a lot of everything just to be social. I’ve seen some people actually push some of the food on their plate to one side before they start eating and only eat the rest.

So I think what it boils down to is not only what you are eating but how much you are eating and that really is a discipline this BSD is helping me with. I’m slowly getting over the guilt complex of actually leaving food on my plate, of telling family/friends before we meet and eat that I’m not eating much and no heavy carbs please and if I’m with clients I’m not fussed what they think about my eating habits, I’m not fussed about their’s.

A motorway service station tip – if it’s got a supermarket on site buy a packet of cold meat and some small tomatoes. An expensive option but it’s BSD friendly or just buy a small box of nuts or a small pot of natural yogurt if you’re not that hungry. I go for the nuts or take some with me.

16Kg to go to my target weight – think I’m going to be on the full BSD for a lot longer than 8 weeks. Done 6 weeks and lost 7Kg so far.

Daniel, thanks for the Sloppy Joe recipe. I had wondered about that for a while. The blueberries sound scrumptious.

You had better hold off on new shoes as well because your feet may get smaller as well as your waist. My husband – now 83 and not very social – loved his good suits and leather shoes in his day. He still has some, but I suspect the moths might get at them soon. I need to take him on a cruise

Whisky and chocolate are my go-to snacks for after dinner so they have had to be on hold – for some time yet, even they were small serves!

Enjoy your lovely concerts and theatre

Ruth

SO AS PROMISED HERE ARE MY 12 WEEKS HbA1c results sugars are down to 5.5% over 37mmol/mol si units doctor was very happy as was i taken me off one lot of tablets but wants me to stay on the others for another 3 months, then i will do a blood sugar test see were we are exactly so three more months to go i can do that. My doctor is now going onto the BSD He is getting the book.
cheers
Steve

Sandra you have done so well. You would be a poster girl for Dr MM and Dr Taylor with those figures. If you read the forums there are many who have just kept on with the BSD – some over 32 weeks – I do not think you would need that long. But I am sure the 5.2 would be fine also

Many many congratulations
Ruth

Hi all, this is my first posting and I’m just about to finish my 8th week, have had a really good result losing 6kg and just 2kg to go, best result has been the halving then stopping of my diabetic medication together with blood pressure and cholesterol meds prescribed just because I was a Type 2.
I am worried that my fasting glucose is at the high end of the normal range and really want it to be lower – what can I do?
I will be carrying on with the menu plan (even my husband is happy to continue – he says its all been good, tasty food) for at least a few more weeks.
I was a definite carb addict – just five me fresh crusty white bread, pasta and rice (and keep it coming) – I weakened once in the 8 weeks and had 2 slices of multigrain toast and suffered with a brick in my stomach for the rest of the day! I keep my carb addition under control by Konjac noodles – a life saver!

Hi Captainlynne – you mentioned in one of your earlier posts that if there were only bad carbs around you would just have black coffee. That was a real ‘lightbulb moment’ for me. I realised then that I don’t have to eat food just because someone has offered it to me. It has made it much easier to stick to the BSD. As a true coffee addict I am really happy just to sit drinking my coffee. I do also keep a small bag of Brazil nuts in my handbag as a good low carb alternative if I think there won’t be anything low carb to eat.

In other forums, I use jimwilk as it is short for my first and surname.
However, here I use jimnz as I am Jim and a Kiwi bloke.

Jim

Well………I did have a couple of glasses last night but stopped at 2 which is good for me! I normally finish the bottle so pretty happy with that. It is the start of me 7th day and I am down to 90kg! That is a loss of 4 in total this week. Making a huge pot of soup today for my week ahead, I have found it fills me up more then other things so will help keep me on track.
Hope evryone else is managing!

Hi JMG.
I just posted on the starting 8 week forum looking for a fellow mum to do this with to lose the last of the baby weight. May i join you in this adventure. Perhaps we may jolly each other along when we feel like caving.
Ht 167cm
Wt 65kg
Need to lose 5kg to return to prepregnancy self and seriously regain some fitness.
Caro

My next mini target is quite a big one – now just two pounds more to lose for BMI less than 30, so no longer obese. Two pounds after that is 5 and a half stone lighter than I was at the start of last year. Five pounds after that and my weight starts with 12 stone for the first time in about 20 years. Just three stone and a few pounds left to lose then and it is suddenly looking not just possible but probable that I will get to my ultimate target.

Hello.
I am looking for a buddy to team up with to shed the last 5 kgs that I am struggling to shift. I need to be held accountable. I have tried a few times to start this diet (did well the first time. ..2.4kg down in 5 days and put it back on)but i sabotage myself with comfort eating when the joys of life throw hurdles in my way. Example. I will eat 3-4 choc bars per day sometimes in secret. And i don’t keep it in the house believe it or not! Would love to go shopping for a new wardrobe but refuse to buy things at my current size for fear i will just stay this size. Struggle to do exercise as am the sole parent to two young kids while husband works away a fortnight at a time so i know food is my problem. It’s comfort. Excuses. Excuses. Anyway if there is another mum out there and you would like to do this together please say hello.

Hi Arti1 – I have a labrador who wees on every tree also. It is great having dogs because you do have to walk with them every day.
Avila is right – the threads here are great – I read them every day and they have really kept me away from the bad carbs.

Hi Verano, my next mini goal is to lose 1lb. I have been on a plateau for 2 weeks – not sure why – so a 1lb loss would be wonderful. Yesterday I visited London and walked to the British Museum from Kings Cross instead of getting a taxi. After walking around the Sunken Cities exhibition I had water instead of lunch as I really wasn’t hungry – then walked back to Kings Cross to catch my train. I just had a ham salad in the evening (I was jolly hungry by then) and was quite hopeful when I got on the scales this morning that I might have lost another 1lb – but no, the scales still have not moved at all. It is really strange because I have lost inches over the two weeks – but it is just not showing on the scales.

What a brilliant thread! Loving reading the story behind the names!
The islets of Langerhans are in the pancreas and secrete insulin. As a child, I came across the phrase and thought it sounded like a place – I imagined a cross between Narnia and the home of Puff the Magic Dragon! So when it came to the BSD it seemed perfect. I’m on a voyage of discovery…

Oh yes, it is my weakness, just would have been easier to resist on washing up duty!

My mini goal involves my work trousers! I bought some with a zip fly and button at the end of last summer. They’re Craghoppers – size UK18 – so some give in them but not my usual baggy elasticated ones. I think I wore them for a month, and then I put on even more weight and back to the baggies. So, my aim is to wear the Craghoppers to work without showing more muffin top and soggy bottom than GBBO!

I keep meaning to keep up with this and promptly forget!

My daughter has enjoyed her first week at High School and seems happy and settled.

My son has enjoyed his first two days at pre-school nursery and also seems happy and settled.

I made 7 keyrings today.

I feel happy, well and NOT anxious.

Everything is currently awesome.

Date 20/8/16 (Week 1 Day 5 of the Fast 800)

Weight (89.3kg (up 0.3km but down 1.8kg so far)

Well after being well behaved all day and feeling good throughout the day yesterday I fell for the, I’ll just have a couple of drinks with friends routine. Well that turned into overeating and chocolate indulgence (2,000 + calories later)……no one would have seen that coming. So incredibly disappointed after doing so well the first 3.5 days to have fallen of the wagon so spectacularly, with the obvious weight gain as my reward.

But after giving myself a stern talking to, I now have renewed determination not to make this yet another failed attempt to restore my health and reduce my waist line. I am going to hop straight back on the horse (excuse the mixed metaphors) today.

Ah Switzerland no, I’d never heard of him before. I think I will read the Alchemist again I’m sure it is the sort of book that when you reread it you see bits you missed and sometimes read it in a different light. I’ll read some of his others at some point.

I’m still reading Harry Potter – I found it harder to read than JK’s previous Potter books but I think it was just getting used to the format as it is a play script. I’m more into it now but I would have preferred it had she written a novel version.

I’ve not been doing the mindfulness – I keep doing a bit and then forgetting the next day so from Monday I’m going to attempt to properly commit to that so I can move forward with the Ruby Wax book as well.

oldbluejeans, by David Dundas.

Hi Verano, thanks for your reply. Well done for your weight loss and sticking with it. Sorry to hear you also have mobility problems – we can but try, eh? The FatSecret (not the best name!) app is great; I like the pie chart for macros!
Princetonian – I agree that there is good and bad in both pharma and complementary therapies.

Day 5 has been good – head not so achey and as I (inadvertently) got up early, I made soup and a lunchbox to take to work. So lunch was a leek and mushroom soup, and dinner was chicken breast, avocado, tomatoes and red pepper salad with soy sauce and white wine vinegar dressing. I had a small salad with capers for supper. 779kcals.

And some good news at work – a place on a course in October that will involve practising mindfulness!

Happy Anniversary Christine 😃💐

Gavin I have just put on 2lbs in the last week due to family visits, restaurants, theme park visit and looking after 2 grandchildren and feeding them. Hey ho, that 2lbs will be gone in a few days, I am sure of it. Keep on keeping on and never give up on yourself, you can do it.

Hi all,
Today is our 49th wedding anniversary so we are going out with two daughters and three granddaughters for an Italian meal this evening! So probably no weight lose in the morning.

This morning I was 12.3.2. So no change from yesterday. Still 2lb 6oz loss.

Breakfast. Tea, passion fruit and 75 g fage total Greek yogurt?
Midday meal apple and 25 g cheddar cheese.
Evening meal, wait for it! Aubergine, mozzarella and tomatoe sauce. Steak in a mushroom, asparagus and creamy sauce. Tirimasu! Coffee.
Well it is our anniversary?
Another quiet day today a bit of walking and that’s all today.
Christine.

Dogs are amazing. They provide us with much comfort and companionship.

I set a goal of losing 3kg and did that in the first 4 weeks so added another kilo before the end of 8 weeks and did that in a week. That put me under 12 stone so I never want to see that number on the scales again. Set a goal of reducing HBA1c from 8.2 to 6.7 and did that too. So good to reach these mini goals. I have a couple more mini goals in sight, to get HBA1c to 6 in next 10 weeks (test date) and to get into a pair of white size 12 jeans so need to hit another 3kg goal.

Hi Apple
Hopefully I will be right there with you as I know it’s going to take more than 8 weeks.
There is comfort knowing there are others in the same boat.
Good luck with your start. Your little one can be good motivation for being healthy.

Tomorrow is another day Gavin and however bad it is, you’re still pounds lighter than you were 6 weeks ago. We all have those days/weeks – we’re only human. Chin up chook, not long to go now til 5:2!

Well done everyone on Cinderella moments!! Can’t connect to Wi-Fi so on phone briefly before bed. Hope all ok 😊

Hi Avila

As another minister, I’ve been in man similar food-filled occasions (parties, after funerals etc) since I started the BSD last December. I’ve found that people are happy for me to just sit and talk to them while I drink my black coffee. They’ve got used to me not eating the sandwiches, cakes etc. Same goes for home visits.

Oh dear, but was going to happen –

Church planned a high tea to mark 4 x 90th birthdays, 4 x 80th birthdays, a 60th wedding anniversary, a 70th birthday and 60th birthday – all in this year.

Lots of petit sandwiches and handmade posh cakes, cake stands and fancy china. And as minister I am expected to be out front sitting and chatting with people – I fell, mea culpa. I must do penance tomorrow with extra exercise.

Hi Arty1 & GingerandBella, I have started the BSD this week too, although I started on Tuesday. I’m excited to see how much I can lose in the 8 weeks but I think I’ll be staying on it for considerably longer. I’ve seen a few others on the forums have just kept going with it until they reach their ideal weight so it has inspired me. I know from my pedometer an hours stroll is around 6000 steps as Avila said earlier. I don’t have a dog but do have a 5 year old son so our walks start out at quite a good tempo but the novelty soon wears off and he begrudgingly trudges along sloooowly after about ten mins 🙂

Hello Ginger and Bella and Aliva, thank you for the welcome. It is strangely comforting to share this journey with others. Aliva thank you for your pedometer reading my Labrador wees on every tree along the 4 km walk it takes an hour or so. He is an old dog 11 years and beautiful nature.

Loved your three bonuses, Izzy. Made me laugh out loud 🙂 🙂 🙂

https://thebloodsugardiet.com/forums/topic/anyone-else-getting-really-warm-on-the-diet/

lol don’t watch TV for 4 hours then haha. Do something,

I’m playing an xbox game 🙂

Zoo tycoon… Not played xbox in ages but just fancied it. Waiting for my dinner to cook, having this with courgetti…

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/1472/italian-braised-cod.aspx?o_is=Hub_TopRecipe_4

except I don’t have white wine, used white wine vinegar instead, wish me luck!

Hi Arty1.
I started my 8 week plan today as well – and even got my husband to try it as well.
I walk our 2 bichons every day – I know it’s not a lot of exercise as they are pretty lazy 😀.
Good luck with your start.

Welcome,

from my pedometer an hour with my dog is about 6000 steps (could be more in the time if didn’t keep stopping for the dog to sniff).

Lots of encouragement in the threads here.

Well, Verano will one day bet THE BIGGEST LOSER! Yeh, I watch the show! Keep it up on losing! I only lose about half a pound a day. That dissappointed me when I lost almost 7 pounds the first week.

I say you are right: Week to adjust! But different for others.

Progressive medicine? I like modern medicine when it comes to my epilepsy. But, other things I like Accupuncture to make my aches go away. Here is a video on weight loss from Accupuncture:

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

Please do not try accupuncture yourself from what you read online. They are professional doctors…..yes! I said doctor!

I am starting my 8 week diet today the time is 5.45 am and I have just taken my blood : 11.8 mmol/l.
Not sure what is ahead for me as it is only day 1 but I am determined to try and complete the 8 week program. I walk my black Labrador every morning and I am not sure if my walk is 10 000 steps. May have to invest in a pedometer.

I will be interested in different recipes and advice along the way.

Shall write a log each day as a way to encourage my path along the 8 weeks and to see what happens.

Hi Everyone, firstly well done for all your efforts, successes and such lovely supportive advice for each other!
I am 59 and put on 1.5 stone before diagnosis of hypothyroid 6-7 years ago, on 75-100mg Levo……I found the whole Thyroid condition very complex and many of my symptoms have often been blamed or confused with the Menopause too! I don’t have lots of weight to lose at this stage but I’m only 5’2 tall with lots of belly fat around the middle and I watched my mum suffer lots with Type 2 at my age so am just trying to ward off the ‘hereditary diabetes’ if possible. I can feel my health slowly deteriorating, mainly muscle aches, weakness, joint problems, poor sleep, headaches etc.
Thanks to everyone for the many helpful tips p, especially regarding gluten.
Like someone else on this forum said – it’s really SOOoo hard to view ‘FAT’ as being OK!!! after keeping it out of our diets for 30 yrs, this one really worries me, how do we know it won’t be clogging up our arteries? But in these firts few days, I’ve been amazed to find I’ve lost 3lbs, maybe it’s just water at this stage but it’s encouraged me to keep going.
I wish everyone on this forum the very best of success with your individual goals, keep going, it’s great to be part of such a lovely group of people!! 🙂

Hello, I am wondering whether anyone else has felt that they are really warm having started the diet? Why could this be?

OMG! Now you can tell your kids that it pays to do chores around the house! 😉 No such luck in this Nintendo age!

I seem to have the same problem with everyone else that is a couch potato:

Sitting down for the last 3-4 hours before sleep watching TV. While staring at this flat TV, I get the munchies when not hungry.

How on earth do we as humans stop grazing like a sheep or goat?

OMG! I said human! I can’t say that nor forefathers or mankind at Princeton University now! LOL I guess I am now the LSEStud (London School of Economics).

http://nj1015.com/words-you-cant-use-at-princeton-mankind-manpower-forefathers-even-freshman/

Day 31
Friday 19 August 2016

Breakfast: None

Lunch: 11:00
4 Egg Spanish Omlette

Snack: 1:30
carrots and Hummus

Dinner: 6:00
Spare Rib
baked yam
Pea Soup

I hope not to do more snacking tonight as I always do. It gets hard when on the road elsewhere when you pass Dunkin Donuts and Junk food convenience stores. i guess you can say that they are not really that convenient!

Going to see the Philadelphia Philahrmonic this Weekend in Saratoga and Sweeney Todd at Glimmerglass Opera house. I like the cut throat scene in the barbers chairs and then throws his down the chute. So creepy and gory. Yet, entertaining! It is like Edward Scissorhands meet Freddy Kruger!

Day 30
Thursday August 18 2016

Breakfast : None

Lunch: 4 Egg Spanish Omlette

Snack: Around 4:30
1 cup Greek Yogurt with Bunch Of Blueberries

Dinner: 7:00
3 slices of meatloaf
1 bowl of Pea Soup
1 Baked Yam

I snacks on handful of strawberries while watching the Olympics. The Silver Medal for volleyball was tonight for womens. Saturday night is the gold.
I am doing better on not snacking too much at night before bed. I have a bad habit doing that. I know you do too!