sounds idyllic Gavin – enjoy!

It depends which diet you choose to follow really, BSD or whatever the Daily Mail is currently promoting.
If you plan to follow BSD, then piles of carbohydrate, hot or cold, is not part of the plan.

If you don’t have the book, there’s a link above to purchase it.

Found this article today:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-3754358/Say-YES-carbs-eating-white-rice-pasta-WON-T-make-pile-pounds-help-control-weight.html

Interesting findings…does this mean cold (post cooking) rice and pasta is acceptable?

Hey shall we have a whip round and hire a coach and go and see lucky to cheer her up, any one up for it, take her some grapes and flowers. 🚌🚌🚌🌺🌻🌺🌻🌺🌻 it’s so unnervingly quiet without her, it’s not the same without her our little ray of sunshine.🌞🌞🌞

Yeah beans bean good, it will make all the difference my old bean.😎😎😎

22 lbs lost and my liver showing signs of getting better after 4 weeks. This diet is brilliant!

Hi Frog

It is a bit cooler up high on Dartmoor. My weather station is reporting 22.9 degrees C with a WNW wind of 1mph gusting 4mph. 82% humidity. With the slight wind its not too bad but its still hotter than normal.

I love almonds and cashews. Normally have about 5 on a plate to bring me up to 800 calories. Today is my breakfast shake, soup for lunch with a 20g cheddar cheese . Lamb with salad soon.

Hi Nursebean
fingers crossed on interview news

I’ve just eaten a nice salad for lunch – lots of leaves, avocado, salmon and cherry tomatoes.
only 7 carbs so far today!

Hey Lucky,

Hope you resting up after your marathon catering gig!! Word on the thread is you’re not feeling so great…hope you feel better really soon💐

Blimey! It’s so hard keeping up with you guys!
Isn’t it hot today – the hottest day yet?! I’m not a fan of this heat. Had an interview today so am waiting to hear whether I’ve got the job or not. Fingers crossed!
Hope Lucky is feeling better xx
I’ve bean very good on the carbs lately. It took me a while but I’m getting the hang of it. Yesterday I only had 39 carbs – woohoo, get me!
Bean xx

I love cashews too Jan – for me, a teaspoon of peanut butter is far more satiating than the actual nuts (that I could eat, and eat….) – I think it’s the texture of peanut butter that makes a teaspoon enough.
Maybe it would work with cashew nuts too – just avoid sneaking any before they make it into the blender!

HI Gavin
It is lovely, but I’m waiting for it to cool down (and pollution to lessen) before I venture out again
now if I had ready access to the wilds of Dartmoor!

Hi
just spotted a link to recent RSA research on mindfulness and eating – I’ve not read it fully yet
Pretty certain that the content is available to all, rather than just Fellows
There are links to more the more detailed reports on the research that they’ve done

https://www.thersa.org/discover/publications-and-articles/reports/easier-said-than-done

Hi everyone, its such a lovely day today…

Hey Janet – well done on the results, great turnaround.

mind you when you feel ill you just want to curl up and console yourself dont you ? if your reading this hope you get better real quick and the blanket goes away nothing worse than feeling poorly on a sunny day and no cheats to cheer her up !!! 🍰 here’s a slice if sugar free cake !! x

My mini goal is to get through this week without doing any damage but not expecting weight loss. Family are here for their final week and we have just one restaurant meal booked so I might be able to keep control of what I eat. It is the drink that will be calling but when they were here 3 weeks ago I drank very little and let them get on with it. Just finished week 8, met all the goals I set for that time and will think about new ones when they have gone home and I can sit down and think straight. In the meantime I will just enjoy having my family with me.

I fear the blanket of mardiness may be in play for poor Lucky… 😔😰🤒

Oh lucky, heard you might be poorly.

Sending you magic medicine pixies lots of love luvvy. Hope you get well soon 💤👷🐓🌺🌻💐🌷🍎

The back in line plan has worked and I have lost the 2 lbs I put on plus another l lb, only taken 4 days to do it. Today is the end of my 8 weeks and, despite my glitch and pizza tasting, I have lost a total of 9.5 lbs. I am back on track with the plan (I don’t call it a diet anymore) and my b/g are around 90 to 95 (5,0 to 5,3) so very happy with that. I am going to continue with the plan, possibly forever, but definitely for the next 10 weeks before I get my HBA1c done again and see my doctor. I am setting myself new goals as I have beaten all those I set for myself.

Daughter has arrived today so not so much pressure with the little ones but the first thing she did was open a beer (okay I hate beer) and ask for a snack. I made a pot of hummus with veggie sticks. She was happy with that and she will be sticking on the plan with me but not so strict calorie-wise and we have a restaurant booked for Thursday lunch to meet up with a group of friends.

See you all in a week when they have gone home (sob) and I will be completely back on track. Thanks for your support.

oh no nothing serious i hope janey ???
🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
please send her these flowers to make her better and let her know i am thinking of her xx

Hmm ok I’ll pass on that. Probably.

I think Lucky is ill today. Best wishes and get well soon!! 💩😷😍💜🙏🏼

Cor blimey they wouldn’t stand a chance of being made into butter with me I’d eat them, I adore cashews🤐

life is too short mrs janey !!!!!

first Lesson today – really enjoyed it, despite the sweltering heat (even though we kept to shady bits, it was still really hot)
Hampstead Heath is amazing – looking forward to rediscovering it!

I’m considering making cashew butter with the large bag of them I randomly bought. Or is life just too short?! 😆

I’m with Timmy on the controlling of ‘sweet’ urges with a teaspoon of no-sugar peanut butter.
I’ve forgotten which brand, but it just contains… peanuts.
I didn’t like the meridian one much, I found it a bit gloopy.

How were your Peanut Butter Muffins Lucky?

Hi Nursebean
If you haven’t read it already, I really enjoyed Girl on a Train – and everyone I’ve mentioned it to says they did too.
It took me a while to get into it – I found the trick was to pay attention to the dates of each chapter (and who is ‘writing’).
It’s described as a psychological thriller, so I think it would meet your remit.
The film isnt being released until October, so you should be safe from having it as the in-flight movie.

When I mentioned the book to my sister she said that she’d started it and didn’t really like it – after I’d explained about paying attention to chapter dates, she texted rather grumpily a day or two later to say she was really tired because she’d stayed up til 4am reading it. Once you are hooked, I’d say it’s an ideal book to read on a journey such as a plane where there are lots of distractions – you really won’t notice them.

I loved ‘Kevin’ Yowzer – the friend that told me about it said ‘you might find it a bit shocking’ meaning the idea that some children are born evil.
Nope, don’t really do Children, I start of with the premise that they all are, but some redeem themselves!

Here is a good video on your losing weight diet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42m_9eXIU74

All of life is a roller coaster! Enjoy The Ride!

Live Long And Prosper!

Hmm Tokyo and janey

You are exactly right I’m just to frightened of my as in the past monster appetite, and if I let the lid of the can of worms I will never get them back in, but I must admit I have no urges to eat anything sweet, despite having what I thought was a sweet tooth, which I now think was just a sugar addiction. Each to their own, it’s important as you say to digest the avail info here and make your own decision. Never mind that get stepping girls, it’s a hot day, but no excuses. We want calves and bottoms like a supermodel don’t we. 👙Well I’m wishing for some anyway a girl can but dream. Where’s lucky got to, I expect she’s exhausted after feeding the five thousand, what a task. Respect.👏👏👏

Not Strange! Your body not starving from sugar. It is such useless calories in sugar found in: Cola, Energy Drinks, Starbux! Read what is on the news this morning from American Heart Association:

http://cbs4indy.com/2016/08/22/american-heart-association-releases-new-sugar-intake-recommendations-for-children/

Make sure it is 80 % or more cocoa. I make a mean hot chocolate with it. Add bit of moo juice and one stevia packet. That is my splurge food when I start seeing Chips Ahoy dancing around:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KvWslZlgko

32 days and strong! Not lost as much as I wanted, but I am a LOSER! 🙂

Live Long And Prosper

You keep going Caro, it’s not uncommon. At least, it happened to me, I took quite a few weeks to get over the slumps! Was difficult to even go up the stairs. Ride through it and keep drinking water and it’s well worth it.

Hi Jan
Congratulations on your results – that’s brilliant.
I had HBa1C and other stuff tested yesterday, so keen to see the results.

I was wondering that the other day, in respect of the ‘no added sugar’ squash that I probably average a couple of glasses of a day, although I mostly have less sweet flavours like lemon or grapefruit, and dilute it tons more than the bottle suggests.
Although I loved the jelly, have only made it once so far (but did buy some more at the supermarket) – I did ponder buying gelatine and making my own, but it seemed a bit of a faff.
Difficult to say what impact it’s having, as I haven’t tried not having it.
I certainly haven’t had the ‘it’s too sweet, I couldn’t possibly eat this’ reaction to foods like cake or fruit etc, that other people have reported, although I have been able to resist them, so not sure really.
I’ve been using Stevia occasionally as well – but I only used a teaspoon with a kilo of rhubarb, so that was still quite tart; I just checked a recipe and that was suggesting 85g of sugar to 550g rhubarb – so that would be about 30 teaspoons for a kilo, I think that would make me gag.

I must admit when I made the jelly, I did eat all of it (one portion first, then went back for a bit more and a bit more…..)

Apologies Butterlover – probably not my best suggestion!

i agree with you janey i have a little bit of what i fancy and i have still lost weight and if like today i eat a little too much i pull it back tomorrow whats that saying is it horses for courses ? or did i just make that up ??

Day 34
Monday 22 August 2016

Breakfast: 11:30
4 egg spanish Omlette

Snack:
1 Peach
Carrots and hummus
Handful sunflower seeds
1 Cup Cottage Cheese
3 Ounce Swiss Cheese

Dinner:
2 Bowls of Chicken Soup (the rest is frozen)

I hit the cheese too much. CHEEZ WIZ! Well, I have cooked enough soup for 3 weeks in the last 2 days. Pepper Steak looks good for dinner tonight! Gotta use the veggies up before they go bad. The chicken soup was amazing because I add a secret ingredient: A Mighty Large Summer Squash. Add more color to the soup. It is more like a stew than a soup because of the veggies all tossed in.

Each to their own in the ‘treats’ stakes. I eat stuff that has coconut sugar in it with no spikes in appetite at all. I think everyone finds a way to deal with cravings. Let’s face it, we’ve all had decades of eating badly, so an occasional treat won’t kill us! Plus if I had to be 100% ‘legal’ all the time I’d get demoralised and we all know what happens then!!…. 🤔🤔🤔

Just going to bed at the end of Day 3 and I think today was much easier than yesterday when I had a hard time calculating and adding up what I could make to meet the calories yet still satisfy my super duper strong hunger but overall, I think the hunger is partly because I’m used to eating so much food, big big portions. I was just so so ravenous by dinner time and had to ignore my inner voice saying “Eat all the cheese! Eat all the mince!”.

Yes Princetonian Stud I am drinking my lemon in hot water, which I have to admit I don’t like cos its so sour!! I litterally screw my face up and wince with every sip 🙂 🙂 but I know its for the great good 🙂

I did notice today, Day 3, that I was not as pre-occupied with food and eating as I am usually before this diet! I normally think about food a Lot, about what I might eat later, or convince myself I should go buy a latte and some little ‘snack’ which would probably be choc full of calories. But today, for the first time in months, longer maybe – I went for several hours from breakfast to lunch without any hunger at all. Strange!!!

One other thing that is also very strange is that my cheeks have been hot and slightly burning-feeling, as if I am blushing, or flushed from running, even when sitting still. I can only explain it is a tingling feeling in my cheeks. Hot tingling.

For the first time I came under 800 calories (730 for the three meals) so I allowed myself an after-dinner sweet treat of just a tablespoon of yogurt with a teaspoon of cacao powder stirred through and I heated up blackberries in the microwave and stirred through. A Delicious if tiny dessert ! It made me feel like I wasn’t missing out and it was only about 40 calories!

Can’t wait to wake up tomorrow and see if I look any different 🙂 I swear I look Slightly thinner after three days already!

that’s excellent Lee, congratulations

The good thing about fatty liver is that is completely reversible.

I felt that today, which was day 3, so I skulled several glasses of water in a row, went for a ten minute walk just to get outside and some air and had a snack of 6 celery sticks dipped in about a tablespoon of hummus, plus a cup of green tea.

Hi frog

Don’t you find the low cal jelly sets of your appetite the way I understood it if its low sugar, the body thinks it’s getting sugar, then in response releases insulin which it doesn’t need to that then triggers of your appetite and you eat more as a result. I know it would mess me up, as I have spent 41 years playing around with low cal stuff hence why I ended up with the monster appetite. Or perhaps this doesn’t happen to you.
🤔

Yes! me too. I’ve just finished Day 3, and I noticed slightly yesterday and Very much so today that my face was hot.

My cheeks felt hot to the touch like I was blushing or like I had a fever. Not all day, but most of the middle of the day. My cheeks were slightly pinker than usual.

Just a hot feeling in my cheeks, I can only describe as that flushed face feeling that kind of burns like when you’re embarrassed.

Hi. Hoping people who are further along this diet could give me some tips on avoiding the afternoon slump. It hit me today day 4. It’s more than a slump. Completely floored me around lunch time. I put my little boy down for his nap and literally put myself to bed also. Couldn’t have stayed awake if you had paid me. Slept for an hour till son woke up. Could have kept sleeping though. Lasted till around 5pm and felt like i was dragging myself through the afternoon. I’ve had a go at this diet before and the same thing happened starting in day 4 and continued day 5. I stopped after that. Massive fail. I don’t want to fail again so any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Day 184 weight 9st 5lb
Blood Sugar 8.7

A very mixed day made some bolognase and tried making the courgette & apple muffins I used gram flour, apple juice and cinnamon instead of coconut flour, orange juice and mixed spice. Not too bad taste but might add some artificial sweetner or some sugar free flavouring as lacking something.

Mum had a funny do at lunchtime but refused to go to hospital in the ambulance – three hours later she changed her mind went down to see her at 4pm and got home from the hospital at 11:45pm by the time I got off the phone to everyone I got to bed about 12:45am.

Day 185 weight 9st 5lbs
Blood Sugar 8.0
Trying to be very good today and catching up on jobs I didn’t get done yesterday. I made some Gram flour pancakes for lunch. 3tablespoons of flour, 1 egg, some milk, some water and some salt – I should have sifted the gram flour first as it had a lot of lumps. This made 3 pancakes – the thinner ones were better – you have to watch them because they cook really quickly in rapeseed oil. Going to the hospital to see Mum tonight.

butterlover = make some jelly & have it with a dollop of fage!
the Jelly is only 9 calories for quarter of a pack – very refreshing.

Thank you oldbluejeans, you’ll get there! My mum is still heading onwards and downwards with a way to go but looking very different.

Hi Orchid
when you do your marathon walk, it won’t be nearly as hot – as tomorrow or the walk last week.
have fun tomorrow – take LOTS of water
I did my first nordic walking lesson this morning – I’d forgotten how amazing Hampstead Heath is, I hadn’t been there in years – not sure if I’d ever been to the bit that we were walking in this morning.
I’d also forgotten how pleasant it is to be in a gym with beautifully kitted out changing rooms – we were outside, obviously, but the walking is attached to an independent gym. The Nordic taster session in Hyde Park was ‘meet at the bandstand, loos nearby for 20p!).
Mostly walked in shaded woody parts, but still extremely hot.

that’s really good news Baristagirls. That’s my goal, some way to go yet but well done you.

Thank you Julia It’s so good to hear others input. I was complimented today on how strong my will has been considering my family although very happy for me are reminding me how much crap I actually would consume on a far too regular basis. For now I am feeling better than I did when I started and will continue. This is a really supportive place and I’m really grateful. positively moving forward a day at a time…!

Hi LizEE,

Hope you recover fully and soon! 💐🌻💐

The book does say you should have doctor’s approval and that a small percentage of test subjects had this problem. i think it is to do with the flushing of the existing fat that leads to this problem. When I feel better I will try to find that info in the book. I highly expect it is just a problem for people who have this existing condition and do not know it – versus the diet causing the problem, but there was definitely a mention of this. Thanks for the encouragement. Never had surgery before. It’s not for wimps!
I do think you should be careful if you have gallstones, though. Look for the info in the book, or maybe google. I am pretty active and not bad shape for being on the low end of obese, only lost 15 lbs in 5 weeks, and it might not be related, but did come out of the blue for me, suddenly. Ended up in hospital for five days before surgery as Liver Function Test results were so high, due to blocked bile duct, from stone or sludge. This definitely may have happened with or without the diet.
Day 5, Post Op and on the mend!
Glad to be heading in the right direction, and still thankful that this diet reminded me that I have control over the shape I’m in. I will get Dr advice before proceeding again. Definitely glad to be 19 lbs lighter.