Can someone pleeeeeese tell me what an MFP is. I only know it as a multi functional periphery which is something that can be connected to your computer like a printer or scanner or a download device. What are you using it for – I am so not down with the kids when it comes to gadgets but my grandsons don’t know what it is either.

Have a lovely evening Minnie – Enjoy!!
(don’t sit there with the mantra I’m having this because its BSD-OK, I’m having this because its BSD-OK…)
Drink lots of water

I had a strada pizza the other day, and the bit I left was really just a token “I’m not going to eat all of it”!) – and I still lost weight that day, you’ll be fine.

Congrats everyone on your weigh ins. Gav – no celebratory fish and chips this week though please!!

Lucky, I think your stage 2 relaxed attitude to eating and the new found trust in yourself to know how much and what is ok is paying off! This is how I live nowadays and it’s great!

Hope everyone has a great Bank Holiday weekend whatever you are doing 👍🏼😎

Hi oldbluejeans,
Glad I could be of help, if only in supporting you with your family, like mine, they make the weight loss a bit slower for me ’cause I’m afraid I’m basically weak when it comes to some foods, I can leave all the bread, potatoes, pasta, and rice, but when it comes to chocolate and desserts/puddings, I regularly ‘fall’ off the wagon.
Have you tried the ‘I’m so full i couldn’t eat another thing yet? Or giving your meals plumped up for them?
Good luck, how’s your weight loss going?
Christine

Hi Jooles
My cholesterol is normal again (and that was from the tests just 4 weeks into BSD)
In September it was 5.9 – normal is between 2.5 and 5.0
When it was tested in June, about 4 weeks after I’d started BSD, it had fallen to 4.0, and was about 4.2 last week.
My liver is fatty no more
Pre BSD my HBa1C result was 106 – after 4 weeks on BSD it had dropped to 61, and after 13 weeks (and stopping Metformin when I got the ’61’ result back), it’s dropped down to 38, with the ‘normal’ range being between 20 and 42.

So it does work! I hope that your test results next week (week after?) are good.

Two days ahead of my end of week 4 weigh in and the scales this morning said 93.1 kg – that is just over 6 kgs down, which is a whole stone!!!! 🙂 🙂

Yesterday tested my blood pressure and too low – so means that the dose for my ‘high blood pressure’ meds is too high, so time to book a GP appt to get a med review. And sooner than I thought. I had been discouraged when it felt that I was getting breathless again walking the dog on the hills despite being lighter – then decided to check my blood pressure instead.

I am 41 and been on BP meds for over 2 years. Triggered by side effects of other meds but despite coming off those meds at the time I was stuck with the high BP, and a year ago was put up to a higher dose… Well it looks like that will be coming down! I am going to take the tablets on alt days until get appt. (checked with a friend who is a Dr).

Really pleased to have reached such landmarks end of week 4 even with my ‘moments’ off the wagon.

Hello everyone. Lovely reading your latest posts.
Another pound off so that’s a WHOLE POUND in 2 days. Not a lot compared to some of you but I feel I am a slow loser and I’m sticking to accentuating the positive. As long as it is going downwards that’s fine. Of course I’d like it to drop off quickly but that’s too big an ask. However all your posts are inspiring and I feel I’ve joined a great club.
Am going to the theatre tonight with a meal at Carluccios before. Have looked at the eating out thread (thank you Frog) and also looked on line at the menus. Some of the dishes have the calories etc calculated which is helpful but wow, had not realised how high some of the innocuous sounding ones are. Anyhow Chicken Milanaise seems to be the best at just under 600 cals. I will have to very careful as I don’t want to undo in a meal what it has taken me 2 days to achieve. My goal is to stay where I am with no loss or gain.
Wish me luck and strength.

Hi all,
Well done Lynne, again, you have amazing will power, I’m afraid even on my back to basics I find it hard to stay at 800 calories, no problem most days with the carb count though?
I also have the added problem of husband and grown up daughter to contend with!

I have just read a few of the posts on this thread, and you all seem to have done great with the odd plateau here and there,
YOWSER98, well done you are doing great, how many weeks into the bsd are you? I am on week 30 starting Monday and I weigh daily, however I am struggling to lose the last few pounds, that’s why I have started the back to basics, to make me accountable, it’s only for my own satisfaction/ shaming! (When I ‘fall’ of the wagon)

HAPPYLIFE, GREENJANET, SUNNYB, IGORASUSUAL, IMP98, and last but (definately) not least FROG, you are all amazing, and a good example to all the newbies who are on the forum wondering if this bsd diet is going to work, they only have to look at your posts to see how good it is and so successful.
Christine.

Hi, no I don’t think the paid version will be more accurate, but with the free version you can’t export the data you’ve entered.
I was thinking that if you can sign up for a single month, then resign again, I could export the data (MY DATA!) and set it all out on a spreadsheet.
Or I could just bite the bullet (how many carbs in a bullet?!) and abandon MFP and record all future data in a spreadsheet – I’ve recorded food on MFP fairly comprehensively, I’m just a bit reluctant to abandon it. All those stats and graphs I could do!! Dedicated horder!

Two of the new pairs of trousers actually have elasticated waists! I never wore them at my largest (apart from track suit trousers, etc) – but 14 will be a transitory size, I don’t intend to stay there for long, so elasticated waists will mean they fit for longer.

Thanks @sunshine-girl for the encouragement. It’s good to know that your cholesterol went way down – my doctor was so concerned by my results that he didn’t even want to have the statins conversation this time… he just referred me to a lipids specialist. I’m really hoping by doing this for 2 weeks, my results will be much better after the next blood test on Sept 6.

Morning captainlynne,

Congratulations, 🎶💐🎶you have incredible will power and the success to match! How wonderful to be so very close to your desired weight. Have a wonderful time in York (beautiful city), and a perfect ‘reward’ for your achievements. – am sure they have clothes shops there also😉

Aycaramba…you will be at your goal in no time! Know what you mean about the tummy thing. Was considering joining a PiYo class, thought I would try out a few of the simpler yoga moves at home – caught a glance at myself in the mirror as I did so 😵😰😵😱- hmmm…maybe wait a few weeks, lose a little more fat first… those tight tee-shirts and yoga pants can be a little too unforgiving!!!

I am a relatively slow loser (insulin resistant) and have lost 45lbs over 18weeks on the BSD800 which is half way to my goal weight. I follow the plan and keep my carbs between 30-35g and calories under 800 each day, still some times my weight loss stalls for up to a couple of weeks (once for three weeks…😵).
The good news is that my latest diabetic review and blood tests are all now in the normal range, so am trying to convince GP to remove all unnecessary medications, though some will stay for my heart condition (well, for now😉).

Whenever I am in need of motivation, I turn to the forums and read everyone’s amazing stories, the successes (and the struggles), and it helps me keep on going – so here’s to the next 18 weeks/45lbs loss.

Thank you all so much🌻💐🌻

Hi Frog

I’m obviously really gullible I am taking Fatsecret as ‘gospel’! Do you really think that the paid for version of MFP will be more accurate?

10 for £20 WOW! That must be some record. But now you have something to ‘grow’ into. I’ll just be glad to dump the elasticated waists!!!!!

I don’t know what fatsecret or MFP are but I use Sparkpeople.com for all my food and exercise analysis. Plus lots of good articles and communities to click into.

Hi captainlynne

Sounds really good way to go. I’m sure you’re right not to go back to the carbs of bread, rice, cakes etc. As you say you don’t want them anymore. I reached the ‘not wanting’ stage really quickly but maybe I wasn’t ‘addicted’. The biggest problem I have is fruit. I used to eat a lot more and if I ever get to maintenance I’ll increase my fruit!

Logging and weighing daily is probably the best way to go!

I’m really interested to know at what stage your blood sugar level reached normal. I was diagnosed 6 years ago and I know getting bloods to normal is far more difficult after many years of T2. My ultimate goal is to dump the Metformin!

New name …. how about …I’ve arrived! ….. Reached the end of the Yellow Brick Road!…… The Eagle has Landed! ….. The first day of the rest of my life! …..

Really good luck with the last few pounds and what comes next. You’ll do it!

Hi Frog
I absolutely agree that it is pretty depressing going into the changing rooms excited with a garment… discovering that it is far too small…….and then wondering why on earth you thought it would fit ok.
I used to be rather pleased if I fitted into something that was a Size 16 rather than a size 18 or 20……and that is probably for the
last 26 years……a guess!
It is truly liberating to pick up a normal-size garment and assume you will at least be able to get into it when you get to the changing rooms!!!!
It has taken me roughly 6 months to lose 3 stones in weight.

well done not-so-Plumptious!!
4 stone is a huge achievement

Hi captainlynne
Wow again. Yes you will have already beaten me to my target weight. Really admire your dedication.

My official weigh-in is on Monday but have had NZ friends stopping this week and have been feeding them (and me) too well!!!!!
No alcohol and mostly healthy low carb food but just a bit too many calories for me!!
Oh and I don’t think Eton Mess is in the BSD diet book……oops….. or chocolate brownies!!!!!!

They took loads of photos and I didn’t have to hide behind a tree in embarrassment most of the time.
BUT…….there is one photo of me leaning forward and sitting down which shows…… a roll of fat on my tummy!!!
That photo will be my future motivation……grrr.

I’ve not looked back to see how long I ever used fatsecret for – I can’t even remember dieting in 2010 when the recorded weight goes back to. I started off using a spreadsheet, MFP seemed easier at first, but given the amount of double checking because some of the database entries are pants – I’m not sure it is.
I’m half contemplating moving to a paid MFP membership. exporting the lot, and then resigning and going back to using a spreadsheet.
It wasn’t really a conscious decision to move targets – the 80 kilos was so long ago I’d forgotten it (and probably not weighed anything near that for 30 years!) 60 kilos is a weight that would give me a healthy BMI – but because I know that in the past I’ve got to being a size 12 and weighed lots more than that, I’m not sticking to it hard and fast. If I get to size 12 and stayed at it for a long period though, I think that things that don’t directly impact dress size, like my ginormous never-been-able-to-wear-proper-boots calves would start to get more in proportion though.
I was delighted last night though that all of the size 14 trousers I bought yesterday all fit around the leg.
They are still too small, but I have a few newly fitting size 16s lurking, and I found a just about to close BHS where I bought 7 T Shirts and 3 pairs of trousers for under £20 – YES, I know I posted about that last night, but I am still incredulous.

It is the most depressing thing in the world to try on a pair of trousers and find that you can’t even pull them up to the knee because your legs are too fat.
OK – there are worse things, and if I was a Syrian refugee or living in the the aftermath of an Earthquake, I’d probably think that was a great thing to have to worry about, but there have been occasions when it’s been the most distressing thing in my world!

Had to post earlier than my usual day….trumpet fanfare…..I have just reached exactly 4 stone loss mark!
11 stone was one of my goals on the fitbit site so have had a celebratory e-mail from them…..sad I know (but it helps keeps it at the front of my mind and accountable to myself). I am not counting it as my weekly figure as i’m saving that for Monday mornings.
This week has been a plateau week with a spike uphill in the middle…..even though I had kept to all the rules. It is only today that things have gone in the right direction. Phew.

Thanks Verano😃

After looking at lots of options, and from experiences when away from home during my time on the BSD I have a reasonable idea how I’ll proceed. But it will still be an experiment for a while.

One thing for certain – I’ll still be keeping carbs low and no bread, pasta, etc. Strange to say for a former bread addict (anything between 2 slices of bread was fine with me) but I honestly don’t miss it. I’ve learned that if I say ‘no’ to the bread, ice cream, cake etc, it gets easier each time and now I just don’t want it. My blood sugar is now ‘normal’ after 7 years of being diabetic, so I’m not doing anything that may upset that. The medics didn’t believe this was sustainable, do I’ve still got something to prove to them!

So, stay low-carb. Gradually increase portion sizes or calories. Continue to weigh daily so I can carefully monitor what’s happening. Record everything (I never found an app I was happy with, so have used notebook and pen – started with cheapish notebooks (3) then bought a Moleskin which I’m still using. Might just have to buy another one ready for the start of maintenance!). Oh, and continue to post on the forum – it helps me, keeps me accountable. Need to think of a name for a new thread 😃

Wow, 32lb in 7 weeks! That’s fantastic. I’m just getting started and have 40lb to lose. I tried the Dukan diet but ended up worse than before. I’m so encouraged to hear about your loss.

Hi Frog – not yet. Will come UPS, probably next week. Hmm I’ll be away so they may need to re-deliver😱

Hi Janet – yippee, many, many years since I was this close to target. Booked b&b in York for Tuesday to Friday. Wonder if I’ll manage to find something new to wear? Even if not, lots of shops to explore 😃 And lots of places to get my black coffee 😃

Yes know what you mean about the name! I came across it by accident. I tried MFP and couldn’t get the weights of food to change so gave up. Fatsecret was the next app I came across and it seemed really flexible so I stuck with it.

I think you’re really brave upping your goal. I’m frightened to even think about my ultimate goal so really am just taking ‘baby’ steps. At least I’m tackling the problem at last! I would just love to stop taking Metformin. It’s the only medication I do take so it would be lovely to be ‘FREE’.

I do know Balsen, yummy, but my real weakness is McVities Dark Chocolate Digestives so I just don’t keep them in! When I have a ‘just have to have something’ moment I now have a Nairns Stem Ginger oat biscuit or two, and that does the trick. I have noticed that since I’ve stopped eating sweet stuff that the ginger tastes really strong so I enjoy the couple I have much more than I used to.

Well done for keeping the rest of the packet in the fridge! Just shows how far you’ve come along the ‘healthy eating’ road. I know some people just can’t have any temptation because it leads to a slippery slope, but for me I feel that life’s too short for complete deprivation! At the end of the day this is an eating plan for the rest of our lives so for me I have to be realistic and incorporate the odd higher carb food otherwise I think I would just flip and go back to my old ways.

I thought I’d better post as I haven’t for a while. My week has been a bit patchy. Generally OK but really poor yesterday. Eating a low fat blueberry muffin at 10am (as a treat) left me literally shaking two hours later and I succumbed to chocolate mid-afternoon. When will I learn?! Also not tracked this week which is pretty fatal for my dieting efforts.
Away for the Bank Holiday weekend and we’re planning a big walk today. Breakfast imminently at the hotel but if I stick to low carb, I think it should be OK.
Hope everybody else is doing OK

Bril Gavin delighted for you

Woo hoo nearly there 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

27/08/16

Week 7
Day 6

Diet starting weight: 18 stone 6 pound

Weight now: 16 stone (101.60kg)
BMI: 25.8

Morning Frog, we’ve noticed this, Mr Lucky and I. Despite sometimes the measurements (specifically hips and waist) being either the same, or in some cases an inch higher than last time, when we’ve studied the underwear pictures (cringe…) you can clearly see that things are lifting upwards and changing our shape. I totally get what you’re saying and can second that 🙂

Gavin, I’ve been up for about 45 minutes waiting for you to post because I wouldn’t have posted mine until tomorrow if you’d been disappointed today. HUGE well done on not only achieving your goal, but topping it by an extra pound too! Despite reading the book and seeing ‘case studies’ in there with huge weight losses, did you ever think that it would be you so soon into the plan? 6 weeks? Madness. Brilliant. Absolutely wonderful news to kick the thread off today 🙂 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand I am going to add to it too!

I really don’t know what is going on with me this last couple of days. I am down another 0.7 kg today, making 2.7 kg over the last three mornings alone. I am more excited about this morning’s weigh in than I have any other, almost to the point of feeling quite emotional about it, because I really thought I was going to have to work for this one. Four days ago I was bemoaning the fact that I’d still need to lose another kilo to get me to pre-holiday weight, and yet now, I’ve already reached it and smashed it.

Week 12, Day 1. I am FOURTEEN stone 13 lbs. I am in my fourth stone bracket since starting in June. I am 4 lbs away from losing three stone. I’m not putting a time restraint on it because I’ve had weeks of yo-yoing and disappointment, but then I’ve lost 5lbs in the last three days, so it’s obviously not undoable either by this time next week. We’ll see. But still. 14 stone something I am now. Unbelievable…

Thanks Frog

No waist and neck changes since last week. Overall its 4 inches on the waist and 2.5 inches on the neck.

Hi Gavin- that;s fab, well done – that’s loads in six weeks.
From your blogs there’s going to be loads of super thin gadget geeks around very soon!

Is that no waist or neck changes overall with that weight loss – or just in the last few days?
I only measure monthly – but often find that although a measurement hasn’t changed, I’m wearing smaller clothes – I guess when you’re smaller but still kind of at the “which bit is actually my waist?”stage, it’s a bit of a movable feast.

You really are an inspiration for us all! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

You have so little left to lose now and I was just wondering what your plans are for maintenance??

Enjoy York !

naah, much more ambitious – 28k to go now, I want to be 60 kilos rather than 80kilos

I think it was the name of Fatsecret that put me off the site!
I should probably have just turned off the notifications, but I didn’t reset the target there!

Agree with you on the “diet” front – now I’m past the initial 8 weeks, I definitely still have the odd indulgence, so am losing slower than I might be, but not feeling “deprived” – but still averaging a kilo a week.
You know those Balsen chocolate biscuits? the more chocolate than biscuit ones? Half price in Waitrose this week.
I bought a packet, had two, admittedly not the most nutritious use of calories in the world, but counted within 800 calories and I think it was about 56g of carb that day.
BUT the rest of the packet IS STILL in the fridge – pre BSD would absolutely have eaten the entire packet.
(plus never got them when full price, and most often BOGOF than half price – and yes, eating two packets not entirely unknown!!!!)

So today is 6 weeks on the BSD. I will have a full update on my blog on Monday, along with photos of all the meals, and other bits 🙂

So headline figures at 6 weeks.

Weight loss is 2st 3lbs. I now weigh 19st 7lbs. I have lost just over 10% of my start weight. Blood pressure is totally normal today. Blood sugars are normal too. No neck or waist changes.

Morning everyone.

End of week 36 brings a loss of another 2 pounds. I’ve now lost 6st 4lbs (88 pounds or 39.9kg) and only have another 3 pounds to lose to hit the top of my healthy BMI at 9st 7lbs.

Going on the height I thought I was, I’d have done that today, at 9st 10lbs. But another 3 and I’ll hit the target weight I’ve had in my mind.

Clothes wise it seems I’ll be a size 12 depending on style and shop.

Slight change of plan for the week ahead. I’ve taken a few days holiday and was doing day trips to do clothes shopping. But now I’m going to York Tuesday to Friday. It cuts the amount of money I have for new clothes, but I needed the break. And who knows what I’ll find!

Thanks Frog.

Hey that’s great just 8 to go, if it’s to the same goal!

I think I have travelled that same road but at least we have now found the right way to eat. I can really say that I only get an odd craving and even then I could probably get past it with a little more willpower. I’m very rarely hungry and I don’t think of this as a ‘diet’ like all the others I’ve tried. Diets really don’t work.

Yeah, that’s amazing, congratulations Lynne
Did your new uniforms arrive yet?

Just think of all the exercise they’re giving you Caro!

Morning. Today’s official weigh in shows a loss of 2 pounds. Total loss now 6st 4lbs (88 pounds or 39.9 kg). Only 3 pounds still to lose before I hit healthy BMI.

Langerhans
I drink occasionally, often wine, but prosecco is good! (or champagne!) with lots of water in between – about 90 calories and 1.5g of carb.
A standard measure of wine is often 175ml for a small glass (250ml for a large one) champagne or prosecco is usually 125ml

I had lunch in a restaurant during the week, had wine rather than prosecco, but drank 2 litres of water during the course of the meal, and still had half a glass of wine left when I’d finished eating.

Thanks you’ve encouraged me I’m going to give it a go x

Verano
You’re there!!! 0.6lb is a single pee – round it down
Congratulations

I haven’t used the Fatsecret site in years, but get the odd “25kilos to go” emails
6 years ago the last time it appears – just logged in and now 8 kilos to go on the target I set myself then (that was an awful lot of diets & lapses ago!)

Well….. AT LAST!!! Scales have moved down and now only need to lose 0.6lb to get to my first mini goal of my first stone and I still have 3 days left of my first 8 weeks.

I am sure I can do that.

My second mini goal is now 2.1lb to get down into the next stone. Not sure that’s possible in 3days but I will certainly be able to do it before I go away on September 4th …. what a great incentive that will be for me to stick with BSD while I’m away!

Hope you’re all doing well.

Hi Langerhans

Put yesterday behind you. It’s gone today is a new day!

Saturday …. not sure about eating fats … sure someone else will! Some people suggest gin/vodka and slim line tonic as the best drink. Personally I’m a red wine girl so I think your idea of water between drinks is a great one. Order the water, maybe sparkling, with your first wine and hopefully you won’t do too much damage!

A long bath – don’t know what one of those is! With 2 young kids a reward is simply 5 minutes of peace.
My reward will be new clothes a bit at a time.

Hi Nursebean – I forgot to ask, did your training day go well?

I love these forums! A month losing weight and we all help each other! The one advice I actually learned from myself is classic from the EAGLES:

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

Take it easy and Live Long And Prosper!

PrincetonianStud

Hello Catsbd!

Good luck and great decision!

I’ve just finished my first 8 weeks on the fast 800 and have lost about 33 lbs (have more to lose so sticking with it), but started the diet with my husband who is a Type 1 (20ish years) and on the pump (probably about 11 years).

Despite the fact the book discourages Type 1s from the fast 800, he did it and had great weight loss results right away but had some very low blood sugar readings and his endocrinologist was not happy with him for trying it.

He has modified the fast 800 and still lost but we’re looking at the 5:2 for the longer term so I’ll be interested to see how you find it! My husband’s basal rate is much lower now and he uses far less insulin, so the whole Mediterranean plan seems to be a great fit for him!

Good luck!

Keep it up! And do me a small favor:

Reward yourself daily on your successses!!!

Just a long bubble bath is a reward I do for myself!

Live Long And Prosper!

Hi Den
I don’t regularly eat to include the calories that I’ve used exercising (some posters have asked about adding back), as it rather negates the point of doing the exercise – but on days when I have done way more exercise than normal – for me that could be when the pedometer is hitting the 20+ thousand steps rather than languishing at around ten thousand – I will eat more than 800 if I feel I need it.

I agree that beans and pulses are a good option – plus anything high fat will be filling.
The peanut butter is a good one, but I too look mournfully at the jar because I’d really like it on toast!
I’d suggest a cooked breakfast with eggs, bacon, tomato, avocado, mushroom – maybe even a gram flour pancake.

Someone did post about eating a banana before a big hill walking day (or after, it was a few weeks ago) – on a similar principle, not strictly BSD, but if they were spending several hours doing strenuous exercise, it wasn’t going to make too much difference.