Hi Arty
Glad to hear that Lucky is home, I appreciate tinged with sadness, but it must be great to have him at home again – have a lovely day with him.

Hi all,
I didn’t get chance to post yesterday’s results, too much going on at home, granddaughters came for day, three of them, had to sort out a hack on my M&S account, £250 taken from my account! Busy day otherwise, went to Birmingham to the ‘new’ library there, they had a great day! We all came back shattered, we walked miles.
However, now for yesterday’s weight and food etc.

Weight was 12.2.0 so well pleased with that, that’s 4oz lost making the total 3lb 8oz in total.

Food,
Breakfast, portobello mushrooms, pine nuts and goats cheese,( my interpretation of the bsd recipe) and a cup of tea
Midday meal, hard boiled egg cheddar cheese, and a small salad, vimto squash to drink
Evening Meal, skinny chilli 1 chocolate and water.
Supper, coffee and nuts.
Also had a cup of tea when we got back from Birmingham.
Walked miles the girls did really well, little five year old Dana was amazing, we got soaked so she was walking with wet feet too, bless her, she just kept going.
Christine

Hi lucky
I’m so pleased you have found a workable way forward for you, I was concerned about you, but doesn’t it just prove how we are all so very different for myself I find the structure of counting, measuring using mfp etc reassuring I couldn’t cope without hem at the moment, and wouldn’t have got where I am now without them but for you the absolute opposite, so delighted for you keep going we will all get there. Wishing you a great week love jan

Hi nikkiD,
I suppose it depends on how you feel about yourself, like the others have said, weigh yourself every day, once a week, whatever makes you feel better about the diet, I weigh every day, then if I have lost it motivates me to do more of the same, if I have put on or stayed the same, I want to do better!
I also got told to up my fat intake if I wasn’t losing weight while keeping to the 800/50 principles!
I hope that helps.
Christine.

Yowser.

I’ve just read out your post about the pregnant terrier to my husband and we are in stitches 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
You are a very funny little budgie.

Good Morning Ladies and Gent(s) 😀

Ooh Yowzer, when do you actually get to your daughter’s to go and weigh? I bet you’re chomping at the bit, aren’t you? You’ve much more restraint that I have 😉

Thank you Ruth, I just went on autopilot for it tbh (the catering) and not so on autpilot (the diet!). I said yesterday on another thread I think, that once we’ve done the 8 weeks its going to be something we need to assess on even a weekly basis at times. I was really gung ho at the start of week 9, I was definitely doing 8 weeks again, and that was that. But by this week, something changed in me (end of week 11 tomorrow). And the results I’ve had over the last couple of days have been staggering, since I decided to chill out slightly. However – I’m not diabetic, I’m doing this simply for the weight loss and the other health benefits that come with being smaller, more energy, less pain with less stress on the joints and hopefully – living longer. Everyone has their own path to travel, don’t they, for their own reasons? Those are mine.

Butterlover – glad your bathroom issue is sorted (that actually sounds worse than it is, hope people read your post properly haha). Most of us have snapped like that and if not, probably we will at some point. It could have been worse. If I’d snapped and done that 12 weeks ago it would have been a packet of biscuits and a multipack of crisps. Maybe it would have been for you too?

Jan, I’m afraid I haven’t been much of a worthy step dueller to you this week, I’m very sorry.

Well, my news. I posted yesterday that I had lost 0.9 kg and that I needed to lose exactly 1 kg to get back down to my pre-holiday weight. I figured that I’d give myself a week to do this, especially as I took the decision to relax a little on the plan now. It’s 2.2 lbs, it’s a decent weekly weight loss at this point. By relaxing I don’t by any stretch of the imagination mean reaching for the takeaway menus or Dairy Milk or things like that. But I still want to cook and I still want to bake, because that is what I’ve done for years and it’s hard to break a habit. People come to me because I’m the cook of my group and family. That’s my role in my world. Take that away from me, and I am very little else other than a Mum. At the end of the day I can only physically eat what I can now, and I eat until satisfied not stuffed because I despise that feeling of being bloated and unable to move. But I made my little healthy (ier!) crumble and I had a little portion after tea.

I made bread rolls yesterday. They were made with spelt flour. I don’t need to know if it’s allowed or not on the plan nor the carb count in it because I’ve done my digging and I know precisely what the N.I is on it and the health benefits/drawbacks, and I don’t care. Cooking with spelt is endorsed by Bowel Cancer Uk because it’s high in fibre, so I’m happy with my choice. They were a healthier choice for everyone than pulling a Warburtons white roll out of a bag, and they were absolutely lovely. My husband looked like he would marry me all over again when I presented his burger in the bun. My children, every single one of them, wolfed them down and declared them the best bread they’d ever tasted, and they turn their noses up at anything new. I’ve never made bread before. I’m going to make these, and the loaves, a few times a week for my children, so they are having a decent healthy bread that isn’t full of preservatives and additives.

And by this morning, I’ve lost a further 1.1 kg. I am now at my lowest that I’ve been on this WOE. Ok, only by a smidge, but I am at my absolute lowest now. Do I credit it with relaxing? Maybe. Do I advocate anyone else doing it? No, this is right for me and me alone. Maybe I wasn’t eating enough, as has been suggested twice. But I do know that – for me – things are now shifting along finally, and it all started going wrong for me when the ‘c’ word came into play. My weight loss was absolutely fine until I started stressing about bloody carbs and shoving things into MFP when I had successfully used the other ‘c’ word up to that point – common sense. If it ain’t broke and all that… That’s just my take on what’s happened to me. Some need to be more regimented. I didn’t. So I am still committed to getting healthy, but thankfully I can afford to take a more ambling, leisurely pace in doing so, with the occasional treat, because God knows the rest of my life rolls at such a frenetic pace that I don’t need to stress myself out unduly! And the minute any weight loss plan or way of eating becomes stressful or a chore? That’s when things are going to start going wrong. I think most of us can agree on that, from experience. It had started to become a chore for me. So I am taking it back to how I was doing it at the start. Common sense, with a few treats chucked in, made from healthier ingredients. Some allowed, some not. But there won’t be white flour or white sugar or crappy margarine or low fat things involved. I’ve managed to shift 37 lbs in 11 weeks doing it this way, so I’ve obviously been doing something right – for me, my life and my needs 🙂

So – 15 stone I am on the final day of Week 11. Started at 17 stone 9 lbs. And I am thrilled to bits with that. I’m in the process of overhauling how my whole family eat now. Head off any problems before they begin. Everyone have a lovely Friday 🙂 Hope the sun is shining for you too.

Nikki

Have you MEASURED? Are you testing against clothes?

There is lots of experience here on the forum about weight slowing but measurements shifting. If you look me up in the search box you will find my thread about “not too much to lose but….”

So I would recommend a couple of things

See how the measurements are doing.
Weigh as often or as little as you need – don’t get attached to what the scales say, you are doing yourself good and you need to commit to the 8 weeks.
Divide your target into small chunks.

Also – how many carbs are you eating? Less that 50g per day within your 800 calories can kickstart the weight loss.

Hope that helps.

Hi Karen

I exercise already too.

I swim 3-4 times a week for 30 mins or more, but don’t feel its doing good and I am told by my GP Ill never lose weight by swimming’ so looking to do the fast exercise with this plan.

I am doing the 800 and I have NO disciple and will go ‘off piste’ badly with the 5 ‘off ‘ days.

But fingers crossed for you

Hi 54, love your moniker! Actually exercise seems to have surreptitiously crept up on quite a few of us now we are feeling more healthy! The fitness apps and bracelets are making us all more aware of how much we move. I for one have benefitted massively from having the little bracelet nag me and try to walk for at least 30 mins a day, more even at weekends (previously I walked to my car and back!) I’ve even been inspired to raise money for charity on this basis. Specific mindfulness.. Not sure. A few of the ‘flock’ use yoga, for me just having quiet time with my OH as we wander in the evenings seems as therapeutic.. It’s about switching off from the day’s stresses and finding time to relax 😀

Hi nikki
I weigh daily, and yes I did plateau, sometimes for days, sometimes weeks. I am on week 9 and lost 33lbs but I am sticking absolutely to it, I do not eat what isn’t permitted and I eat 50 and below carbs a day. But we are all very different, I had 104 lbs to loose when I started so my loss may be faster than those who only want to shift 20 lbs. I was also very ill prior to starting this plan so I had a huge motivator, which will now last the rest of my life as I have now turned around serious symptoms.
So do what’s best for you, if I stay the same or put on it motivates me, but if it demoralises you then perhaps weekly. Keep us posted.
Regards jan

Hi everyone, can I ask, does everyone weigh themselves daily or weekly? Because I have been adhering the to diet so strictly, I can’t wait to weigh myself each morning to see the result, however I am then disappointed when there is no change for 2-3 days. I am 2 weeks 5 days into the BSD and have lost a total of 4.4kg. (9.7lbs) so far. My goal is to lose 15kgs (33lbs) down from 87 kgs (13.7 st). The first 2 weeks I lost much quicker than this week. I am adhering to the diet strictly and thought the weight would come off quicker after reading other peoples results.

Hi Verano

I’m a Jan by the way yep Tuesday sounds good to me trying to spread the word bril idea, this thread there are so many moving of the 800 and I think while I am doing it as per the book I need to be around others in the same boat or bus so to speak, I think it will help to keep us focused, I find it hard to read about others eating choc, cake whatever its not where I want to be. I have so much still to loose scared of the old Jan returning and commitment running of down the road like Yowser said her appetite or something went of muttering down the road cor she does make me laugh😀😀😀

Yeah I’m doing the same although not sure if doing the 800 or the 5:2. I already exercise and don’t think I will have energy to do so on 800 calories so wondering about doing the 800 on days I don’t exercise. Good luck !

I am new to the forum – and the website – I am keen to loose weight not least I will be able to cycle up hills easier and hopefully cheat my family genes of heart disease and type II diabetes! I am already a regular exerciser doing weights x 2 weekly and cycle about 75 miles a week. It doesn’t seem fair that weight loss has eluded me but it has and I have come round to the not all calories equal point of view. Anyway how do you manage when on 800 calories and doing a lot of exercise? I am worried when out on a strenuous 35 mile bike ride I will literally run out of energy!

Very true Lucky….have stories…just not much of a writer, so maybe a challenge would help!!
My 20’s to 30’s were full of possibility, challenges and crazy adventures…since then… not so much! Last 20 odd years have been devoted to raising and home educating my son. Now feel that I want to reclaim ‘me’, so spent last couple of years sorting my head 😵(not convinced that worked😉) This year been focussing on fixing my physical health.
Then maybe the list….work in progress…60 things might be a stretch, better get started!
Thanks for the inspiration,🌻

Oh Yowser that’s so funny😀😀😀

Hi ruthdownunder

Us July girls are still going strong yeahh verano has started a thread for those of us still doing the 800 Cals who are still committed to getting healthy, and who are at week 9-16 i think of it as the bsd bus and the back seat is for us all, those of us on it are going for it full blast if you are carrying on join us and we can all enjoy the journey together, inspire, share bring it on. Hope you have a lovely day😀

well done you all, good on everyone.

As a new start I am curious. lots spoken about the ;new way of eating; but how did the exercise go and the ‘mindfulness’ are these still big parts of new lifestyle post 8 weeks ?

not a lot is mentioned

Yowzer! Thank you so much! In the notification email it only gave your ‘real world’ name that I didn’t recognise but when I checked my page out online it told me it was you! Now I have another mystery name to work out as well. In so chuffed with the support I’ve had so far on this and it’s not even 24 hours yet!

Re 5:2, I also did very well on it originally but lapsed due to lack of control on the non fast days. That’s why I like the re education of the BSD. I never have a day now where I think I’m ok to stuff a choccie bar!!

Verano, it’s all about the trend! I’m not even two weeks in so my losses are a great boost for me. I expect they’ll slow down soon but as long as the trend is downwards and my health is improving I’ll be happy! Looking forward to seeing everybody’s results…

Hi all. I don’t have a dog or cat so I’ve been trying to calculate how many Goldfish to a kilo so maybe Ive lost 500 fish =5kg .it sounds like a lot when you say it in these terms. Happy to report a good trip to the GP yesterday.BP down,DR was happy that I have stopped taking BP medications. I rarely remembered anyway.Ordered some tests and asked how I was loosing the weight. He already recommended 5:2 a while ago when I didn’t think that I could do it,so he was impressed that I was doing BSD. On the down side, a very stressful day dealing with trades people quoting for a new bathroom and planning the disruption of living with a mobile ensuite .I lost the plot and went to my son’s room for a chocolate biscuit. Thankfully one was enough to get me through for a while, then another issue sent me to the pantry for potato chips about half a packet, of course the result is weight up slightly today. I managed to get all the trades for the bathroom set up and within my very tight budget so back on track today. Going out for a walk before it rains. cheers

Hi Langerhans

I just thought that if everybody reported their losses on the same day it would be easier to judge our own performance. Although, in saying that I know only too well that some people lose faster than others …. I’m one of the slower ones but that’s because I’m not as vigilant as the ‘fasties’!

Hi Fifo64 , Im also not diabetic but I use my blood sugar readings as a guide to how Im traveling. According to the BSD book I am prediabetic with fasting BGL above 5.5.So I check it every morning and record it in my app.then when I feel starving or tired or in any way off .I will check again, this helps me control emotional eating. If I ague with hubby or get stressed, I usually start scoffing food but when I know my BGL is adequate around 6, I know Im not hungry and I can do something to keep busy till the hunger passes or its actually time to eat.The other trick which I tried this week was to enter all my meals that I have planned into my app in the morning,so when I check if I can have a snack ,I see that the calorie count for today is too high so no snack.This also means Im planning my meals early in the day , not eating on a whim when Im hungry. welcome to the journey

I know what you mean Wilma. I have deviated (yes I like the word) from the full 800 diet over the last few weeks. I hit a great milestone when getting completely off all medication, and I didn’t so much fall off the wagon, instead I’m hopping behind it with one foot stuck on the tail board.

I’ve still a few kilos to lose but my mass is in a much better place now.

I chomp on 90% cocoa chocolate, having a touch more than I really should – if you can call eating half the block instead of one segment “a touch”. Still my weight has been maintained fairly evenly.

My partner and I are transferring to the 5:2 diet with low carbs throughout. That way we lose weight and still get the yummies we were avoiding.

Hikari Miso – Instant Miso Soup (Wakame)

Hi feltwicked,
I have deviated from the diet slightly when i need a chocolate fix. Haighs milk chocolate frogs are 75 calories each and satisfy the sweet/chocolate craving especially the peppermint frogs. I figure i am going to be on this longer than the 8 weeks and I will binge if i completely deprive myself so i would rather have a small quantity of the real thing.

Lucky – your baps look wonderful but where is the recipe please?

Should have checked the spelling in previous post. That is swipe text for you on a Samsung. Should say looked and tofu

Have sorted shopping list for next week !!

I am starting my 8 weeks Monday 29th August. Have a long way to go

Is anyone else reading this and looking to start at same time ?

if so perhaps we can all ‘buddy up’ here and help each other along by posting here as we go.

Provide help, support, someone to listen to, share our success etc etc

Please do join and lets make it happen

Hi JMG. another good day for you! Which Miso soup brand do you buy? I used to love it but when i have liked recently the only brands i can find are full of preservatives. I enjoy todu so could add that also. Caro

I have lost both of my dogs – not too much to boast about as one is 3kg and the other 3.8! Very small toy poodles. I wish I had a rottweiler!
Yowzer the modelmydiet is really fun.
Avila I love Charlies -gorgeous dogs

Gavin you will do it I am sure.

Lucky I take my hat off to you – ‘dips me lid’ for weight loss and catering for 70.
Frog always full of good sane advice
Good luck for the job Nurse Bean

I am in week 9 – not sure whether I am just thinking about it or starting a new 8 weeks. Will ponder a few days more.

This is quite good fun..see how you look before n after!x
http://www.modelmydiet.com

EPS you asked if 5:2 works..yes it really does..I have lost one and a half stone three times on it over the last three years. I put it back on each time coz i wd get unfocused and go back to bad old habits,but theres lots of folk on the fast day site who have lost lots and kept it off for a few years now.
The fasts become quite easy,similar to how BSD becomes easy or at least easy – er!
Plus the post BSD fasts allow more cals?

I just struggled sometimes with non fast days..that sense of having freedom to eat is hard to resist..but of course if you eat too much, the weight will return 🙁
I dont think it will happen that i will regain with BSD as have now conquered my carbs monster..she was last seen loping off down my street shaking her head and muttering to herself. X

Day 9:

Breakfast: 2 boiled eggs
Lunch: Ratatouille
Dinner: Roast Lamb/Salad
Snacks:
Drinks: 2 tea with milk
Water: 9 glasses
Calories: 672
Carbs: 26g
Steps: 18374 (including 6km walk)
Weight loss: 1.1kg (62.9kg)
Fast: 16 hrs

Thanks PrincestonianStud! Same to you. Caro, I use a Garmin and find it really good. I sync it with Garmin Connect on my iphone and then it automatically links to MFP. I have always used Garmin watches and have never had a problem with them. Nice that your OH is back home for a while. Have you tried Miso Soup as a snack. I find it very filling and low cals. Also, you could have a glass of milk. That would fill you up. Also, try brushing your teeth straight after dinner. It might deter you from eating after dinner.
Hope you have a good day today.

I’ ve lost a fox terrier ..my fave breed! ..and a miniature dachshund! Havent been weighed for several days,so it could poss be a pregnant terrier/ dachshund! 😃😃😃
Night peeps x 🌙⭐️⭐️🌙⭐️🌙⭐️🌙⭐️

Hi Janey
thanks – no it wasn’t a last page issue – there was only the initial post on the thread. I’m pretty certain it was because I was trying to post a link to a diabetes uk web page
it didn’t work three times on the initial thread, or on an alternative thread – but was fine as soon as I removed the link.
I don’t know if that’s censorship, or diabetes UK not allowing links. I did ask technical support about it before I identified the problem, so will be interesting to see what they say. If it is what I think it is, a more helpful error message would be useful, instead of just deleting or not posting the comment – wasted about half an hour faffing with it.

Never mind!

Hi Medinstructor.
I know what you mean about feeling like you are always thinking about what you can eat – how much you can eat and when. I’m hoping this obsession part ends soon. I am day 7 week one and it definitely feels restrictive at the moment. Though others further along say that subsides. Can’t wait for that! Good you have a partner in the house to share your experiences with. Must be very motivating. Apart from my food blowout last night which i just posted i find the “when” is my Saviour really. Trying to space my meals out. Breakfast after school drop off while i chase my young son around. Lunch around 1pm and dinner around 7pm.
Wishing you success.

I donated at teatime JANEYCOUGHDROP ..i put my real name and my username but maybe they only showed my real name! X

Hmmm. Day 6 started out great. Had a baby sitter for a few hours so i was very efficiently crossing of various jobs and errands. Then came the hunger. Late afternoon. Hasn’t been like this before. Had some chickpeas. I am allergic to nuts so i can’t snack on those like others do. Was passing time at the shops early evening while my daughter does an after school activity. I had Lindt chocolate – one of the snack sizes bars they have brought out. I actually sought out the chocolate aisle when all week i have avoided it. If there is a positive from it i can say that I felt a bit off after eating it so no enjoyment there. A good thing I suppose. But the evening got worse. After we got home and my lovely dinner of chicken and salad I got the munchies. Muesli bar. Cereal. And finished with 2 slices of toast. Aaaaargh. It was as if I couldn’t stop myself. This is the type of evening I would always have. An overload of carbs from Crunchy things. So now having thought about it – It is the crunch I am missing. Suffice to say I didn’t count my cals yesterday just noted the foods down.
Anyway today is a new day. OH is home and can keep me on the straight and narrow for a week if i look like straying to the pantry. He has enough willpower for a whole country and will happily eat what i eat to make things easier for the family routine. Maybe I won’t get on the scales today. Tomorrow morning will be day 1 of week 2 so i will weigh then.
Ordered a Garmin fitness watch thing last night. Actually for father’s day so might get one for myself once i have seen it.
Ok. Confession complete.
JMG – look forward to your itemized day. I did try Mfp but it took me so long i lost interest. So i just write it down.
Hope you are all having success.

Week 2 Day 4
Weight 88.3kg (up 0.3kg but down 2.8kg overall)

Struggled a bit over the last 2 days. Exceeded the carb quoted on each of the last 2 days and it shows in a stalled weight loss.

Have to behave myself today to get the kg’s dropping again.

Hi Brenda,
I just started this past Sunday. I’m in New Orleans too, so I know how you feel. It’s definitely hard to not want to eat all the delicious food around here. I’m on Day 5.

Hi Frog, sometimes you need to make sure you’re on the last page before you try and post a reply. I had that issue previously.

By the way did someone from BSD donate on MyMarathon? I don’t recognise the name due to the pseudonyms on here. Whoever it was, thanks so much!!!!

I love the idea of a mixed group of newbies and more experienced BSDers! So, do we just post the week’s (hopefully) loss on Tuesdays? And subsequent weeks the total within this new eight week cycle?

25/08/16

Week 7
Day 4

Diet starting weight: 18 stone 6 pound

Weight now: 16 stone 1 pound (101.60kg)
BMI: 26

Hi green Janet,
You know big bird from seseme street, you have the size of me with the personality of a blue budgie.

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Hi Janet

Glad you’re feeling good at the moment and with your achievement why not!!!

I was thinking that maybe next Tuesday everyone could log on with their aims and goals for the next 8 weeks . Some will be on week one or two some on week 9 and some on week 10 like you. That doesn’t really matter we can all take the same new 8 week journey together.

It will be great to have the ‘elders’ for their wisdom and some of the pitfalls and the enthusiasm of the ‘newbies’. I think we’ll make a great group helping each other along the way. Think it could be helpful if we all report our progress each Tuesday even if it’s not your ‘official’ weigh in day, which I think may make a more cohesive group. Don’t know what you think.

Hi med instructor,
I am SO jealous of you.
You and your partner are doing this together.
Mine won’t do it. Won’t encourage, Wont support etc.
So that’s why I ramble to myself here in the blog, to support myself.

I wish I could have a fitness buddy.
I wish I could have a bs buddy.
To slap me around and keep me on the path.

What are your plans?. Are you throwing yourself feet first into 800 cals and low carbs or are you doing a ‘gradual’ week?

Love Lucia
Xxxxx

Hi Antigone
Thanks for the reply. I seem to have lost my enthusiasm over the last few days. I had been scared to weigh myself because I have had a couple of naughty days. Not too dramatic but have been eating twice the calories that I have been used to. The last 2 days I have been good again and was pleased to have lost 2 pounds when I weighed myself today. I now just want to see my weight starting with a 15 instead of 16. All the best to you.

My wife and I start the BSD on 08/21/2016. So now I’m on day 5. The struggle is real. A few weeks ago I started going back to the gym and working out consistently. I’ve combined both the BSD and my gym workouts. I’ve scaled my gym workout back a little bit. I workout for 30 minutes in the morning and walk for 30 minutes each night. My wife and I each have had temptations this week. I don’t really feel hungry, just really want to lose this weight. I found myself constantly thinking about the BSD almost obsessively.