That’s brilliant Avila! This way of eating is working miracles for so many people. I’m so pleased for those of you who have (or had!) to rely on medication and are able to reduce it and even stop it 😀

Decided to check blood pressure – and 90/60 which is too low, so suggesting I am ready to reduce the BP meds I have been on for a couple of years. A doctor friend has okayed me taking it alt days until can get an appointment at surgery to have them assess changes.

They told me once on high blood pressure meds always on them – but looking like I can reduce the dose when only 1/4 of weight loss target. Maybe the visceral fat factor – the worst type going first?

Happy dance over here….

Well I’ve struggled a little this past week, not sure why. Anyway my weight has stayed the same so I’m happy with that and I’ve made a minor decision – that for the next two weeks I am going to switch to the BSD way of life rather than 800. I’m not going back to my old ways because I don’t want to undo all the good I have done, but having come to this point where I feel much better about myself I want to at least maintain it, I feel no rush to lose what is left. So I am not going to count calories but I will continue to follow BSD principles, in two weeks I will reassess and decide what to do from there 🙂

Having said that I’ve not had more than 800 today anyway lol.

I’ve been busy again will need to update my blog I’ve made a small batch of alien keyrings, and some paracord bracelets today as well as working on my sisters wallet when my son was at nursery 🙂

I love Friday mornings!

That made me laugh again but also ringing so, so true. How did we eat so much??? Waitrose stuff is such good quality, I don’t blame you at all. Ha, I rarely cook for 6, not one meal. Sunday dinner – that’s it. And even then they all like different vegetables, so it’s not surprising for me to have to cook about 9 different vegetables, just so everyone has something they like!

They sound nice, so, with the cayenne and the gram flour are they bhaji/pakora-ey? Yes I could replace the potato with turnip. If I put them on to boil now… 😉 It never gets old…
Not to me, anyway…

Oh, the possibilities are endless. I love cake made with almond flour/ground almond now, gives it a nice natural sweetness too?

In case anyone uses them for specific products, I had an email from Holland and Barrett earlier, buy one get one half price is back on on everything!

Thanks Frog. Yes, most days are sunny during winter and cool. I do not like the heat and humidity of summer often head south to Tasmania, fly fishing in the cooler world heritage areas up on the Tasmanian highlands.

Yup, round! Veggie burgers not fritters.
they were from waitrose – probably easy to make and achieve slightly fewer carbs – but partly me being lazy, but also what’s worthwhile doing for six of you, or even two, gets very tedious faffing about with tiny quantities for one person.
Even getting them from Waitrose I had them two days running – with lots of salad. Pre BSD I’d have skipped the salad, and eaten all four of them – maybe with a tomato.
Yessterday was 806 cal, 54 carbs, and today was 814 cals, 53 carbs, so not too much damage

The ingredients were: Sweetcorn (43%), rapeseed oil, onion, potato, carrot, courgette, gram flour, curly kale (7%), wheat flour, parsley, free range whole egg, cornflour, garlic, salt, cayenne pepper

– so you could drop the wheat flour, and maybe replace the potato (with turnip?!)

I did by ground almonds today, with the idea that I might make something!

Sounds like a good haul, and when they’re all falling off you it won’t be too bad to part with them, will it?

Oh you just reminded me! One of the things I put in the clothes bag was a maternity dress. Which, incidentally, I didn’t fit into when I was pregnant. Oh no. Just afterwards. Grrrrrr. Determined that next summer it will be floaty, dreamy, girlie shizz. I’ll be gliding around Wales in Laura Ashley.
No, no I won’t. I will still be in black pants or jeans. But still. A girl can dream. And I won’t be in a maternity sundress, anyway. Because it’s gone.

Poor Tokyo, bless her, she hardly gets on to post any more now she’s back at work.

If fritter was round-ish, it counts. Where did you get those from? They sound nice. Or were they homemade?

Hi Bissel – no, it wasn’t me, but I just tracked back and found the recommendation from weescotty
I’m a bit lazy when it comes to cooking and recipes – although the place that runs the monthly cookery club that I go to is about to start a 12 week diabetic cookery course, so I plan to go to that, and a growbag to gourmet, which is about using seasonal vegetables – I think the idea is that if you do the growbag sessions you get involved with the vegetable garden too.

Hi Lucky
yes, I was really pleased with the BHS stuff – still need to try it on, although I think will be bit too small right now.
The T shirts are mostly 14s, with one 16 – Black, white and Navy, one each short sleeved and long sleeved, plus a short sleeved bottle green one. The trousers are a pair of Jeans, then (both with elastic waists, so should fit for a while) some grey cargo style cotton trousers that will be good for walking, and some polyestery type plain black ones that will go with anything for work.

I don’t mind tops being baggy, although it has got to the stage that the ones that were really “comfortable” pre BSD are definitely too baggy (I did actually sink to buying a few maternity tops in a sale after Christmas – convinced myself that they I liked then because they were a good length!!) – but I can’t bear trousers that are too big.

Yes, I thought of Tokyo being classified as a spammer when I read the reply from the tech support people.

No burger for national burger day (yesterday apparently) but the Sweetcorn and Kale fritters were quite veggie burgerish – I had those today and yesterday.

Welcome, melissanz! The diet is amazing, isn’t it? Almost every day the scales shift!
Well done for resisting the temptations – I also received wine and chocs a couple of days ago and I’ve put the bag on top of the wardrobe.
I think I’ll take a big salad with avocado and some veg soup. I honestly can’t see me not having a drink on the night but I’ll alternate with water at least.
Looking forward to seeing your progress.

Evening Frog. Glad I caught you! I wanted to thank you for the almond crusted sea bass recipe you posted a while back. ( I think it was you) Just had it with cauli mash and green beans off the allotment for my supper and it was delicious. I’ve spent a long time trying to be a grown up and eat more fish and this was a good recipe to get me on track.
Thanks

Thank you both so much. Really kind. I have more or less been told everything isn’t as bad as they thought but just need the consultant to finalise that! Back to finishing reading the book and then I can’t wait to start! Will let you know how I get on… Nothing better than a scare inside to make you really how important it is, eh! Have great weekends xx

Sorry Christi1948 – only just picked this up as I’ve been busy at work this week. Thanks so much for your suggestions. I think making a base meal and padding his out with carbs is a good idea. Nothing to stop me having a small steak and salad and giving him a larger one with chips. Wish he’d join me though, he’s desperately overweight. Maybe I can dripfeed little hints here and there and drop his portions a bit. Good luck with your’s as well. Think we’ve just got to get selective hearing 🙂

Frog, I’m glad I wasn’t drinking anything when I read your post or I think it would have been snorted out of my nose 😉 You have such a way with words… I can just imagine you ordering fries, brilliant. That’s a girl after my own heart. In the past, of course 😉

Ah thank you 🙂 it’s a bit less insane than my real life blog which I don’t write as regularly as I should. I’ll just do one big Summer update that will take a year to read. I have a few more recipes to put on the BSD one too though, when I find the time…

That is an absolute WIN in BHS! You couldn’t have got that stuff that cheap in a charity shop or Primark or… well, anywhere! It’s a pain when you have to buy clothes now isn’t it? Because the sizes are going down so quickly that it seems a waste of money to do so. I’m either wandering around in baggy stuff or stuff that’s a bit too tight on me. All the big big stuff though is now in a bag waiting to be donated to charity. Luckily (or not depending how you look at it) my boobage was (and still is sort of, but not as) so big that the majority of my tops were stretchy anyway, and now they just look better on me. I’m actually fitting in to size 20 non stretchy tops now, my size 20 fixed waist trousers and jeans can be pulled down without opening the buttons, but I’m not quite a size 18 yet either. I’m a 19, evidently. Fitting into size 18 elasticated waistbands. Which is a lot better than the two pairs of size 24 trousers I carefully folded up and said ‘So long’ to the other day! But the thought of even being a 16 again is almost incomprehensible, never mind anything lower! I saw a range of clothes in EWM called Country Rose that is me to a tee. There were loads of lovely things, a little pricier than I usually go for, but I didn’t want to buy big clothes, let alone expensive big clothes! The next sale they have, whenever the S/S range comes into play, my Visa card is going to be glowing red. I will be going on a spree. I’m checking the website weekly 😉

I think their spam filters caught up an innocent Tokyo with all the DUK posts yesterday, bless her…

Thank you for all your great relies. Much appreciated.

Hi Langerhans

I am a bit behind you (on Day 6 today and this is the first time I’ve posted here) and ecstatic to have already lost 2.2kg. It’s amazing how motivating that continual decrease on the scales can be – I resisted the after work BBQ sausage & beer yesterday and surprisingly it wasn’t as difficult as I thought it was going to be (though those sausages sure did smell good!).
In terms of your busy day on the 3rd, not sure what advice I can offer as a newbie but I think eating as well as you can before you go out may be key. Going out on a full stomach (and yes, I think having some fat may be a good idea) may help avoid any unwanted snacking. For me, when I drink wine, I get the munchies so I’m trying to avoid the stuff for the remainder of the 8 weeks – wouldn’t you know it, a friend turned up with a ‘thank you’ bottle for me last night!! Have hidden it from myself!!!
Good luck!

Everyone is doing so well on here. My eight weeks ends on Sep 3rd and I am then away for four weeks. My weight loss is slow compared to many of you despite keeping to a max of 800 cals daily and below 30 carbs but I’m still happy with what I’ve achieved so far – 7.5kg and still a week to go. I’ll join the second eight weeks as I’ve got another 16kg to go. Like some of you I’m really wary of getting sucked back into carbs – I really think I was genuinely addicted. A packet of bicuits or a tray of cakes didn’t stand a chance while I was around and I’d go for any heavy sauce pasta dish in a restaurant. I’m terrified of setting that trigger off again so think the longer I can eat well on this and stay healthy then I’m sticking to it. Well done everyone – you keep me going onwards and downwards.

Hi Arty – great news on the blood results, and brilliant that Lucky is comfortable being back at home.
Don’t you always have beautiful sunny days in Oz? – a bit too hot and stuffy in London today, although there were some pleasant breezy bits around docklands and Canary Wharf this afternoon.

Hi Yowzer – that’s brilliant, thank you – was a bit concerned – techie(s?) are incredibly helpful, aren’t they!
– apparently my posts that went missing yesterday weren’t a direct ban on links to d-uk site, just the spam filters going into overdrive for no apparent reason.

Lucky – so pleased you don’t have a bread shaped child! I read some of your blog today, it;s really good – the rye bread sounded excellent too.

I met a friend for lunch, & thoroughly enjoyed my superfood salad (there’s a phrase I thought I’d never utter – the last time I ordered a superfood salad, I took one look when it arrived and ordered fries to go with it).
Then I went shopping – I came across a BHS that hasn’t closed yet, horrid, horrid queue, with some very noisy bouncy children – but seven plain T Shirts,, some long sleeved some short, and three pairs of trousers for under £20 – all in sizes I don’t plan to need for long, so didn’t want to spend lots on.
I wanted to get a water bottle carrier, but found one of those backpack water carriers – I wanted one years ago, but they were horrendously expensive then, but this was about £12 from decathlon, so really please with that. Will be ideal for the Nordic walking, but also useful for ordinary walks too.

So it’s day 12. Well, on the one hand, I am at nearly double Kcals for the day – on plan but 400kcal brunch, unexpected vistors so picnic on the beach and a roast dinner… and red wine.

On the other hand, I’ve stayed off the simple carbs of br__d, po_____s etc. So my carbs are still only 36.4g and my macros % are 14C/56F/30P, so I’m hoping to get away with it.

For future reference, I have a very busy day next Saturday 3rd – approx four hours (there and back) travel toLiverpool for hospital treatment then a pub crawl leaving do for one of my favourite colleagues who is moving to Vancouver, Canada. Should I eat normally for BSD and accept I’ll have wine in the evening? Is it better to eat mostly fat in the day, e.g. Avocado?

I have bought pretty new underwear and two new swimsuits for my holiday in Portugal. How will I manage with food and drink?! Who knows? I am home for the Bank Holiday so I am going to be very very good with food and alcohol in the meantime.

Gavin keeping everything crossed for you! Hope you hit your goal 🙂 Glad to see you partook in National Burger day, it would have been rude not to, eh?

Hi Mazza, welcome and good luck 🙂

Yowzer – wonderful!! Well done, that’s absolutely brilliant news! And the time of day too, and after eating, and with clothes on, I bet you can add an extra 1 – 2 lbs to your total – if not more!
My son has been complaining about onion breath of late too, Yowzer, on both hubby and I! I’ve noticed it on my husband too and I never used to before. I think it’s one of those things, like garlic, you either don’t eat it or you (others lol) have to put up with it. I love onion too too much to give it up 😉

Hi all, this isn’t my second 8 weeks but it will be my second attempt after I struggled to get back on track after a holiday. The posts and support on here are really encouraging so I’m hoping to see it through this time. good luck 🙂

No, the child isn’t bread shaped, the bread is though… it turned out awesome! I dropped it on my husband too 🙂 The bread, not the child. They want that bread all the time now, apparently 🙂 Win! My youngest, the slightly chubby one, he requested and sat down to a (larger than mine, actually!) roast chicken and beef salad tonight with a homemade roll, and he scoffed the lot without complaint, left a tiny bit of lettuce but that was it. Skinny one had cheeseburger. He’s going to be a tough nut to crack, I think.

Have you asked the powers that be if there’s a reason for that, Frog?

Yeah Eps, well it made sense really, no point us being all healthy and then letting the children eat all the crap that we’re avoiding… I’ve warned them that there will be big changes once all the stuff is gone from the house, it won’t be getting replaced, only with fruit and healthier snacks, and that things like cakes and biscuits I will be baking myself as a treat for them. Just the skinny one, he’s Autistic and very very fussy with food. He eats so little and would survive on pizzas and lately cheeseburgers if I’d let him. In the past I’ve chosen my battles and that wasn’t one of them. Might be time to get in the ring on that one!

Day 8 4.25 am – BS 5.5 mmol/L. This reading came as a bit of a shock, did not expect my BS to be so low and within the normal range.

Lucky is still breathing well and sleeping on our bed every chance he gets, my wife keeps chasing him off. If he is not around it is a sure bet he is asleep on my side with his head on my pillow. Got to love Black Labradors they are true characters.

Be heading out for a walk with the dog looks like another beautiful sun rise this morning here in Oz.

SunnyB
Positive thoughts:
Yesterday I bought a Size 10 pair of denim crop jeans in the sale….what is happening to the sizing these days????
(this time last year I would have been looking at a Size 20!!!!!)
Yesterday I was shown a video taken in 1994……everyone else looked so much younger then……. I looked so much fatter !!!!????
Beautiful sunny day SunnyB.

Enjoy a lovely Bank Holiday Weekend UK folks.
Keep all the good intentions going around the world BSD friends.

IMP itsHappy Life not me who’s lost all that weight! But watch this space,perhaps i’ll lose same after seventeen weeks! I can only try to follow HLs example! X

Friday’s weigh in today I weighed 12.2.4

Breakfast. 2 egg omelette with cheddar cheese and cup of tea

Lunch. Red pepper feta cheese, cherry tomatoes, spring onion, cucumber pistachio nuts, olive oil water.

Evening meal. Prawn salad, magnum mint ice cream ,water

Supper, coffee and nuts.
Christine

LOL!! Know the feeling. My OH isn’t following any plan but must admit he has given up potatoes . Still eats scones , jam, custard tarts. He’s also T2 but only just into the 7s and has only been on metformin for a few weeks.

Must admit I don’t miss the scones etc and he is very happy to have cauliflower ‘101 ways’ but is drawing the line at cougetti spaghetti !

Sure I will get him round to my way of thinking . He doesn’t realise I’m doing BSD !! But I’m slowly changing his diet and he doesn’t even know!

Hi Yowser

Ooh I’m so delighted for you luvvy, the dedication to the cause is paying of 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😅😅😅😎😎😎😎

Wow happy life

You are doing an amazing job, it’s good to see someone else also giving the plan 100% just shows how you can get those amazing results. Keep up the good work.
Regards jan

Wowsers Yowzer -55lb in 17 weeks!!! That is amazing! You must be so proud of yourself 🙂 x

Message to all, just because I cook chips for my husband doesn’t mean we can eat them. He is not on the diet except what I force him to eat.

Hi all

I am geared to start Monday 29 th… have been to the shops and spent the money, now just organising my exercise routine !!

I have a 17 year old son who gos to the gym 3 times a week (I give him a lift) so I might as well go in too.

I’m looking to log my weight and post it every week to a) give me encouragement b) give me an incentive (wouldn’t like not to post one week cos of ‘bad results’ !!

Also like idea of new start 8 weekers and old repeat 8 week starters.

Do most people use ‘the diet menus’ for the 8 weeks, or go ‘freelance ‘ and do their own ?

looking forward to traveling with you all

Thanks HAPPY LIFE! You and Hubs are great role models…and CAP’N LYNNE of course!..i feel i am flagging a bit now as i come close to starting my last week..will most likely be redoing another 8 week cycle,so will keep yr advice in mind !🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 Xx

Oh bless!GAV it took me a minute to work out that that is a darling doggy’s snout!
Soooo funny!
Ithink you will smash it tomorrow dude!
On a less pleasant note,DD told me today i smell oniony all the time! 😀 I must admit,i’m eating tons of red onion!
But thought i was using adequate amounts of mouthwash!
Whats a girl to do..i dont want to break out the mints or the sugar free mints either..i need even more mouthwash I guess! X

Thanks SUNSHINE! I dont eat muchbutter either,only if i have buttery scrambled eggs,or if i put a pat of butter on my veg. I do have quite a lot of TOtal full fat yog tho..i swear its what has made this eating plan possible for me! Every other diet ive craved fat so much ive wanted to climb into a vat of cream! 😋
Cant wait to get my bloods done next month! 👍🏻 x

Hi Yowzer49,

Just stay with it! Captain Lynne has done very well also and has been doing it a long while.
Find things you enjoy that you can have on your program and be sure to prep food so you don’t get caught off guard without something on your plan.
I am 61 and my hubby 67 in a few days so anyone can do it at any age.
💜

To celebrate losing 2 stone and hopefully a bit more by tomorrow I took this pic 🙂

https://twitter.com/gavinfabiani/status/769204593901305856

Yowzer, my husband told the doctor he has been eating butter instead of the statin margarines plus full fat yogs instead of the Danacol (reduced cholesterol) for about 3 months now and his cholesterol is down. The doctor said, just shows the power of advertising over good sense. Butter every time now although because I don’t eat bread or pots I don’t use a lot of butter except for cooking but I used to measure out oils almost to the quarter teaspoon now I splash it around, especially olive oil. Don’t use veg oils except for rapeseed.

Hi SUNSHINE! So pleased you mentioned cholesterol has come down
I’ m not having blood tests til september and ive felt slightly anxious re cholesterol..could i really get good results eating full fat?! Seems you and yr hub have,so hopefully i will too. Every day mynetdiary tells me ive had too much fat!

HAPPYLIFE thanks for stats..theyre amazing! Do you have any special tips as an oldtimer of 17 weeks? X

BUTTER thats excellent news coming off the bp meds…my hope is that i can do same soon.
Understandable you needing a little comfort dealing with your home issues! Was a case of damage limitation just having one biccie and not the whole packet! Half a bag of crisps instead of a whole multipack! 😀😀😀 x

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