Oooooh Tokyo let me know what it’s like! Been dying to try it!

I’ve made a blackberry and apple crumble with a little oats, coconut sugar and butter. Picked the blackberries from the garden 👍 Smells lovely.

I’m toying with the idea of eating more too, if I’m honest, I’m struggling a bit coping on 800 now some days, others I’m fine though. Hubby is too. I’ve never really been bothered with the carb side of it and it was working just fine when I wasn’t counting them. Think as long as I’m sensible, stick to the right foods from the list of allowed things and avoid the flour, pasta, rice, potatoes, junk food, WINE etc. It’s taken me 25 years to get here, I can wait a little longer for it to come off. Will weigh on Saturday then not weighing daily again. Will eat when I’m hungry and stop when I’m full. Common sense. Wish I could move more but my heel is playing up. Docs I think… 😐

Wow.. 26lbs Thats awesome… thanks for your response… yes so hard to smell and not crave but I think I’ll just have to work and head straight home for the next 8 weeks.. got a cruise in November.. want to look decent in beachwear… Have a nice day! 🙂

SCHNITZ well done! I did something similar two days ago..i felt like i was ready for my dinner by about3pm! Cleaned out a cupboard and forgot all about dinner! X diversionary tactics help x!

Oh MIN my Beau is the same! No health probs,very slim except for a paunch which is developing recently. Not nice of me but i view it with glee…its hard to spend time with someone who can eat his fill but not put on an ounce!

I Like yr cunning plan!if its not there,you cant eat it!x👍🏻

Afternoon All
well first week weigh in tomorrow for my post holiday weigh in, i have completed my 8 weeks the day before my holiday and have deceided since my return that although i still have some left to loose
( my next mini goal is 5 kg so will see how near i am to that tomorrow) i am going to take the advice of both the great michael moseley and the even greater janey and not be so restrictive i completed 8 weeks on 800 so now i continue to do that and on the odd day i may have a few more cals and even carbs like janey suggested, it works for me its flexible and it also allows me to have a slice of the nigella olive oil cake that janey made the other week and i have just made with great success!
it looks and smells delish a nice little treat after a busy day gardening
roll on this evening 🍰🍰

Wow …. a big well done

Hallo yowser thanks for your post.
Actually have just had a Baldrick moment, ‘a cunning plan’. OH has to go out to a meeting some distance away this afternoon and I suggested he take the rest of the biscuits and hand them round at the meeting. He took them so temptation is out of the way. Win win all the way.
OH is irritatingly healthy with no aches and pains and not overweight. He does however have a slight paunch, only slight though so he can eat the biscuits with no problem.

Those are great tips thanks Yowzer. I do need to pay more attention to the mindfulness chapter. I chewed some gum and cleaned the kitchen. I have not eaten the toast. Yet. I am going out for a walk now!

I think the carbs are fighting back Ignorasusual. I am going to be move myself from the house until it passes 😁

Sunshine Thanks for that. Will try the shakes. I love Bergerac and surrounds, we were very tempted to buy there but needed better winters! Not so much rain. However, now have lots of grandchildren so spending most of our time in Oxford UK. 30 degrees here today!!!!

CARO i hope you get over this..i used to get it every day at 4 pm and it was horrible..not just tired but cold and feeling miserable and very very hungry. Since i started 5:2 and now BSD i dont get it..i think it stops when yr blood sugars settle down. I hope youve seen the end of it now x

Welcome back! Here is a video from a doctor to make you feel good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XHcPYorSJw

Now what would Spock say to someone coming back for good health?
Live Long And Prosper!

Hi MINNIE congrats ..showing such restraint at book club! Biccies are hard to resist i agree,but when you see good results on the scales and your clothes feel looser,its worth it!
I too have yr problem!..food shouting to me from fridge and cupboards! But hardly ever happens now as ive got past my carb cravings..the cravings can disappear quite quickly and then youre never quite so hungry again!
It must be harder when others are at home too…i feel lucky to live alone right now as can please myself with what to have in. Hey why not get hubby on board with Bsd too..or is he an irritatingly slim person no matter what he eats! X. Have just bumped into my neighbour who is just like that! He had just eaten a big bar of chocco..and said he loves jelly babies too,and eats freely of whatever he fancies! He has always been slim…grrr no wonder he’s always smiling! X

Yes together. Made it into bed without succumbing to the pantry temptations. Hopefully the scales will show a little less tomorrow morning. This morning i was up 700g. That was a shock. Couldn’t understand that one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLkp_Dx6VdI

Well sara, I think she really meant a spot of tea helps the medicine go down!

Everything in life is a trial and error! Good luck!

Live Long And Prosper!

I will be a late arrival on the second wave bus on 7 Sept! Please keep me a seat!
Hi BRENDA! Welcome x i feel for you re restaurants,after walking past several last night and smelling all the smells to die for! No calories in smelling thank goodness!
take a look round..lots of folk here have completed eight weeks and lost tons in the process! All the people signing up for second wave ! Plus check out CaptainLynne and LuckyManeki…you will come across many more as you browse round! I am a mere beginner just completed week six and lost 26 lbs..or more,havent weighed in this week.
Good luck with yr journey! X

Thanks for reply Caro, nice to meet a fellow sufferer. We must keep strong together.

Hi Sunshine, I’m up in Brittany been here 9 years and very happy. I just ate a whole cucumber (the poly tunnel is bursting!) and I feel a bit sick :[ – who’d have thought you could get sick on cucumber! I just made a beetroot chocolate cake (Nigel Slater) cut it up and froze it all – how good am I? Tonight I am going to try cauliflower rice – sounds disgusting but we’ll see. I am looking forward to next weigh in (Monday) because I can FEEL I’ve lost weight. I have a trip to UK planned in 6 weeks so I am hoping they will have a surprise when they see me! You must be feeling the heat down there in Bergerac- it’s pretty hot here! 🙂
SaraMck – enjoy the heat in Perpignan!

Resist if you can! Because it may not make you feel any better.

It’s the carbs trying to hang on – pesky little blighters.

Can you say to yourself you will wait till tomorrow to see if you REALLY want the toast?

Step away from the toast! 😀
Oh am so sorry to hear this SCHNITZEL! I ve found that avoiding the carbs has generally made me less jittery and calmer.
Tho i do get irritable easily,maybe due to health probs..its horrible isnt it when you feel grumpy!
Are you feeling tense?
Maybe try a meditation or listening to a soothing visualisation..lots of stuff on ebay. Or watching something that will really make you laugh despite yrself! Or some favourite songs. Or going for a massage or reiki.
Sometimes i get tension just in my jaws as if my mouth wants to eat even tho my tum is ok. Crunching a stick of celery takes the tension out.
Well done on yr ten pound loss..isnt that wonderful to shed a large amount of weight so fast! Such a great start,keep up the good work! X

Hi JMG.
You are very good for documenting everything. I get on the scale every morning and write down what i eat but don’t seem to get around to the cals and carb content. Just trying to find the right foods. Think i made a mistake today with peas and broad beans. Love them. Ate lots of them as i love them but didn’t realize til afterwards they had a high carb load. The scales said i lost 2kg by the morning of day 4 and put 700g back on by this morning day 5. Hopefully tomorrow’s weigh in is at least in the downward direction.

Which country are you in JMG? I am in Australia.
Caro

Beep beep! Cant Wait to join you guys on 7 th September on the back seat of the second wave bus! Look out for me..i will be at the bus stop flagging you down and clutching my senior citizen bus pass ! 😃😃😃😃

Hi SaraMck, if you were asking me about the shakes, I get the recipes out of the MM book, Melon, blueberry, spinach, sunflower seeds and almond milk this morning. Sometimes green tea with blueberries, greek yoghurt almonds and flax seeds. Really nice. Before I started the BSD I bought a Nutribullet and was already hooked on apple, carrot and spinach. I will start to look like Popeye but prefer to be like Olive Oyl. Bonnes vacances à Perpignan, je l’adore.

Hmmm. Maybe a slice of wholemeal toast would make me feel better…

Hi All.. just started the 800 cal 8 week plan on Monday. I live in New Orleans, LA… Very hard to diet here with all the delicious restaurants. My question is Who has gone the full 8 weeks and how much weight (in pounds) have you lost??

Thank you so much for your words of encouragement. I want to get out of this ‘health risk’ trap that I’m in. I am going on holiday on Monday but although I will be careful and choose wisely on the food (it’s all inclusive), I will make a proper start when I return. I will probably have shake drinks for breakfast and lunch and a healthy balanced meal in the evening as long as it all totals 800 calories. I don’t have a problem with a Mediterranean diet (I come from Italian background) but can you give me an indication on your daily meals please? thanks

Really interesting and well done you. Have only just started yesterday but tried similar before. Where did you get the recipe for the shake??? Sounds lovely. I would like to find a variety of recipes so that I can really plan ahead, I work better that way. Want to try and eat food as well as shakes this time. Any favourite recipes (not fish!) or breakfast shakes?? Good luck for the next bit. ps will be in France for next seven weeks, house near Perpignan.

Hi Minnie.
I love your brain messages. Mine is doing exactly the same to the point where i know i just need to go get ready for bed. Distraction is the key otherwise I spend every minute thinking about what I can eat, What I can’t eat and when I can eat. Sound familiar?

Oh dear. I have had the same in the past. I think drinking water and or tea does help though. Good luck it is tough but it works. xx

How are you doing? Started yesterday and still very hungry! Just spoke to a girlfriend, 11 weeks and 12 kgs and she is pleased and says it does get easier!! I hope so! Sara

This morning i did the food shopping. Bought some English breakfast tea. Only drink herbal tea normally. So had two cups of black tea around lunch time and didn’t have the slump at all. Will do the same tomorrow to either prove or disprove my theory.

Hi, I am halfway through my second week. Enjoyed food so far and pleased with results (down nearly 10 pounds yay!). Today I feel really irritable. I am a grump! I am not usually like this (I hope). Anyone else experienced this?

Antigone, I have gone from 8.1 to 6.6 so obviously want to be below that, I have a number in my mind but, as I keep saying, I have family staying so I am kept pretty busy. Right now 2 little boys are on ipads and daughter is having a well earned nap. Which is why I am able to get to the computer for half an hour.

Where are you in France, I live 20 km from Bergerac in a village called Le Fleix, for 11 years now. Love it.

Hey shall we all sit on the back seat of the bus together. When I was a kid we had a bus to come and get us to go to school and the popular kids always had the back seat. Now we can all nab a the backseat, Verano and who else , it’s a very long back seat, will take hundreds. Join us it’s the bus to the best party. The BSD party.🎉🎉🎉

Sunshine girl

You have your priorities exactly right, well done for keeping focused I’m sure your next HbA1c will be better than before and that is your invisible good health indicator. Enjoy the ride on the second wave bus 🚌🚌🚌

greenjanet, for me it will be just another 3 or 4 kgs. I am a slow loser but partly because of the insulin, I am happy that I have lost 3 kg on this and 1 kg before so a total of 4 kg. I am more interested in getting HBA1c down even further but will look at the figures next week when I have more time. All aboard the 2nd 8 week bus

Pleased to see you back on track Sunshine. I had a bit of a blip in week 3 too. I’d lost half a stone in the first two weeks but then had a fall out riding which stopped me being active for a few days then dinner out and too much wine – I’m off wine all together now as it made me really sick after eating so few calories 🙁 No weight loss in week 3 but I’m hopeful this week (4) will get things moving again (weigh in on Monday). I’m not diabetic but need to lose weight and I like the philosophy of this. Keep the faith Sunshine – you’ll look back and laugh one day 🙂 PS I live in France too!

I started this diet 10days ago and it has been a qualified success in that I have yo yo ed between 10.12 and 11 stone with all stops in between. At the moment I am back where I started, 10.12, but today feels more positive so am working hard at it.
Have decided to, in the words of the song, accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative.
Also need to plan more.
My brain keeps trying to please me with little suggestions like, one biscuit won’t hurt, then, well have another, oh well you’ve blown it may as well finish the packet. I need to pay more attention to what I am doing. Have to have some biscuits in the house otherwise OH would not be too happy.
It was book club ar my house today and I provided biscuits for the others BUT I did not eat any and they are now packed away out of sight
Did consider wearing boxing gloves but decided not really an option.
Love reading all your positive comments and promise to better this next week.

Yep found it I’m on it, The BSD second wave bus 🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌🚌 we is going for it. How much more do you want to give to the fat pixies.? I’ve got 73 more of the little blighters to go. Phew better not think about that one, just aim for the next eight weeks.😅

I need to get this week over until the family go home sob sob. Then sit down and look at where I am now and set some realistic goals for the next 8 weeks. As Arnie says, I’ll be back. Keep on keeping on (losing)

greenjanet, verano has started a thread on welcome to BSD but can’t remember the exact title. Sure we will find it.

Captainlynne
Just wanted to say finished my first 8 week rotation inches down, 33 lbs down, all bloods now normal, and it has been partly to your excellent example. When I feel challenged I think of your amazing journey, and it is one of the many things that has helped me enormously, wishing you all wonderful things for the remainder of your journey.
Thankyou 😊😊😊

Hi there
I’m starting second rotation of eight today so beginning of week 9 I’m also on hols now for 3 weeks and a bit, sticky times ahead, wedding high teas with relees my poor sister who lasted a week and a half on this plan, I’ve promised a high tea in a superb, tea room in north Norfolk, had one last year, Michelin star standard, but not sure how I will handle that one, event he jam tart was divine home made jam lemon pastry, ooh dear not controlled yet, need to really train my mind for that one.
But I want 16 to 20 lbs loss in these next eight weeks more than I will want a bl……..y jam tart, not very keen on jam.🤔🤔🤔🤐🤔🤔🤔

Hi I have done … 2nd 8 week ….. on Welcome too BSD. Can’t remember the exact title! But I’ve said starting Tuesday …. All welcome.

Sunshine girl and Verano yes please I will join you on the last eat BSD bus. I reckon I will be doing three more rotations, if I am fortunate like captain Lynne. But aiming for target by Xmas how about you both🚌

Verano, do you want to start it off, we have a few people on around the same time as us, just finished or finishing the first 8 weeks. So we need something to show we are continuing with the BSD and setting new mini goals.

greenjanet, Verano and I are going to carry on with another 8 weeks on the BSD with a thread which you could start or jump into ours when we get going. We are waiting until 30 due to family commitments although we will still be sticking to the plan in between. We will have to come up with an appropriate name showing that we are committing to a new set of goals to carry us through the next 8 weeks.

Hows It going MO. The mealtimes youve chosen wd suit me as i think its helpful to push meals back in that way.
I dont eat til noon or later,i always have yog and berries for lunch, as the fullfat yoghurt fills me up… in the evening,sevenish, i have my din-dins. Hope youre finding this do able..first week can be a bit tricky..i know i felt more tired and a bit weak,but that passes as does any carb cravings. Once the carb cravings pass ( it might only take a day) you wont feel very hungry coz it’s the carbs that make you want to eat more x

Welcome back KAREN xso sorry you’ ve had a bad time lately. Good on you for getting back on track xx

You really seem to enjoy this FROG and it must be so good for you!
Hampstead Heath…good memories of going to pubs round there..i can only remember one name ( it was alongtime ago!) the Old Bull and Bush. Is there a Jack Straws Castle as well? X

So, I had delayed my 6 monthly HbA1c test until about 5 weeks through my BSD Fast (I eventually only did six weeks losing over 21lb )

And the result of the effect the 8 week Blood Sugar Diet (I only did 6 weeks) on Ziggy’s HbA1c and has his diabetes been reversed ????:-

Doctor -“there doesn’t appear to have been an HbA1c test done – I’ll phone the labs. No, they say none was done either”

I left, with the doctor trying to tell me I have pernacious anaemia. Which I am sure is a result of the diet and will be fine again once I return to eating normally.

Again – not the result I was after! Rather dejected. Back to the drawing board methinks.