Orange71
Great advice going on here. From my experience I have tried to stick to the 800 calories limit….especially when I started the diet 6 months ago. Have eased the calorie count a bit over the last month but didn’t go over 1200….my weight has stabilized at that.

I regularly exercise more than 6 hours per week. For example… Spin(Indoor cycling)/ Body combat/Body pump/Zumba/tennis and others.
I have played tennis 3 times in a day…morning, afternoon and evening ……without feeling ill effects.
Think if I can manage spin or squash on low calories… as they are pretty intense activities…..my body is coping fine.
Hard to judge how this has aided weight loss but it has definitely toned my body and I have increased my fitness and endurance levels.
Haven’t topped up calories at all before, during or after my exercises.

In case you think I am some sort of gym bunny I was 13 stone with a BMI of 33.

well done Verano – & Sunday’s 4 days away, I’m sure you’ll be fine with that

Went to bed without posting my day last night as I was pooped (busy day is all). So far, I haven’t felt hungry at all and have been experimenting with different menus which, so far, have all been good. So, Day 2 looked like this for me: total calories: 907, total carbs: 32. I have lost 1.8lbs so far and have also managed to stay off the tea. Early days I know but so far, so good 😀

Made my second mini goal!!!

My second goal was to lose 1.5lbs to get me down into the next stone …… have done that plus! with 4 days to spare!

My new mini goals are … to lose 3.7lbs takes me into single figure pounds
then another 8.3lbs to make 10% weight loss!!!!
a further 1.7lbs to get me into the next stone
Would love to lose another pound or so before I go away on Sunday then it will give me more incentive not to go up in stones when I’m away.

Good luck with all your goals!

Hello all!

My week 9 results for today’s weigh-in: down 1.2 lbs from last week which makes me happy because it’s a time of the month when it is difficult to lose any weight!

Walked 43 miles this past week (3 of those days in wretched thunderstorms and was soaked to the bone); saw my doctor for the first time since November. Triglycerides way down; cholesterol down; A1C down; everything better and dr very happy! Wasn’t diabetic before but def pre-diabetic and everything is now squarely in the “normal” range. Dr looked at the book for a bit, handed it back and said, “This is a good diet.” She’s Russian – very dramatic and uses few words. That was an effusive compliment for her!

My interim goal is 9 lbs because it will get me below a number I haven’t been below in probably 20 years! But the 1.2 lbs this week gets me just below 50 lbs to go to my goal so that’s a happy 1.2!!!

Hello! Writing from the east coast in the US!

I started the 800 diet last Thursday with a BMI of 26 and I think about 20lbs to lose. I’ve never been lighter than the weight I am now, but am still carrying around some I want to get rid of at 5’8 starting at 167lbs (female), now at 164 after 6 days (hooray!!). I was 233 in high school, and lost about 60 lbs with learning portion control and spending time in prayer/reading the Bible to deal with my emotional/mental/spiritual needs instead of running to food. So the 60 lbs have stayed off for about 17 years, but I’ve never been able to get the last 20 off. Before this diet I battled cravings for sugar/chocolate around the clock, especially after 3 in the afternoon and again after 9 pm when I’m up late working (but need to be getting to bed!). I’ve started this diet several times but fall off after a few days (longest was 3 weeks), so I’m hoping that staying in touch with the forums will help me be stronger in the face of temptation and honestly, just a busy season of life when it’s hard to plan and prep consistently. I have 4 elementary age kids at home (all day! we home school!) and life is just…full!! But lovely. Working on a better (hopefully) schedule for everyone to follow so I can keep my sanity and stay on top of the diet.

My youngest was so funny today. All the kids enjoy overdramatising their disdain for mushrooms, and if any are seen in the house, they usually freeze in their steps and say “are we having mushrooms?!” Anyway, I had some portobello caps in the fridge and my 6 year old, with very wide eyes, broke the news at the table tonight that there were “giant mushrooms in the fridge…this big (hands outstretched)” and slowly let the feeling of dread creep over everyone. I told them I was having one for breakfast, and the looks on their faces were priceless. A mix of horror and pity. They’re good about eating their vegetables, but mushrooms are public enemy number one for some reason ( : I don’t share their contempt for mushrooms though. I wish it were easier to find vegetables in social settings and at restaurants! I love them!

Anyway, I’m SO encouraged by the helpful comments and ideas I read on here, and that it’s truly support, not constantly having to defend the diet. I’ve tried to lose weight with lots of exercise and a 1200 calorie diet as recommended by the average weight control experts, and it is so slow and discouraging. I generally don’t lose at all, just gain muscle and lose fat, but it’s agonizingly slow.

Hope you all have a great day.

Hi Kereru!!

Well done! 4 kg in 2 weeks! Keep up the good work. Menu planning and keeping the house stocked with proteins/veggies and free of treats is keeping me going. That and some success! I’m down 3 lbs since starting last Thursday the 25th. And I’m just grateful for God’s grace in helping me have strength in the face of temptations. Praying I’ll keep my head throughout the weeks and not sacrifice the bigger rewards for momentary fleeting pleasures! I must say, I’m starting to feel like I’m doing well, and this is the point in the diet that I need to keep watch that I really am sticking to it and not getting too liberal with a pinch of this and a bite of that. I’m awful at nibbling and eating on my feet. REALLY trying to break those habits and SIT DOWN for all meals. It’s a challenge at home with my kids schooling all day long. But I find that we really enjoy stopping everything and sitting down together lately rather than me snacking on my feet and working through lunchtime while they all stop and eat. Somehow that became our pattern as they’ve gotten older and have had more work to do…

Anyway! Hope your week goes well!

Why not try T-Tapp ? you can try it for free at YOUTUBE and or go to T-Tapp.com or check it out on FB. It is low impact high results and FUN! there is an entire support group on FB with lots of info and folks just like us trying to get ourselves healthy for good https://www.facebook.com/TTappWorkout/?pnref=story
This has worked for me, good luck and God Bless your hard work!

Day 2: not the best in meeting my cal goal today. After already reaching my 800 cals, I snacked on watermelon & popcorn. But I’ll do my best tomorrow to keep the emotional eating out of the picture.
Calories-956
Carbs-40g
Steps-8,000

Hi all
Just to let you know that I am here! Although I really started last week

Lowenna I think swimming is considered an excellent exercise for everybody. I am intrigued – must go and find those dangerous exercises.

What about hand weights? Are they out also?
Ruth

Hi Sneak_me great about the veggies and the weight loss. I am starting my second 8 weeks and have taken Igor’s advice and have eased off on the fruit. It is a bit hard when I have pawpaws all over my tree! So I am eating a little of them. I hope you like the avocado. I just love them, so it is so great that they are now considered a very healthy food. However I used to eat large ones – now I eat pieces of small ones. Ah well!

Avocado is wonderful with poached eggs, even without the sour dough toast!

Christine and all, good news. For the plateau-ers remember even our very successful inspirations have had them. I know I had 3 and a horrible bounce just in the first 8 weeks and that was a relatively small weight loss.. Remember the famine reaction and just be kind to your self until things start moving again.

If you have a lot of weight to lose, several studies have shown that if you take off say 10% fairly quickly then maintain till you are comfortable, then another 10% and so on, this works very well. So our bodies are very complex, let alone our minds, and are probably telling us something when we plateau for a little or a lot.

On a lighter note it seems that most of our fat is actually breathed out, more than 80% and the rest is water, so basically we have been carbon sinks and probably need to plant a tree for every 10 kilos we lose.

Onwards and downwards girls and boys! Lynne I am so looking forward to 9 stone something shopping but I feel it will be after Christmas

Congrads on started a an internet business. May you be having prosperity from it.

Well, rest time is over. Serena is ready to finish kicking some Russian Ass! 😀 It is so terrible that there is no Azarenka this time. Well, Andy Murray is here this time. i think he will win again. Del Potro would be a great match for him.

Live Long And Prosper!

Princetonianstud

Day 42

What a hell of a day I am having! This is the amazement of working for yourself: Take the 2 weeks off to watch tennis all day and all night!

The Winners made me excited today at the US Open:
Del Potro (Dont cry for me Argentina)
Ferrer (My favorite because he don’t get pissed off)
venus Williams (SHE WON TONIGHT!!!)
Serena Williams (Skipping her for an Andy Murray match!)
Andy Murray!

There is no:

Monfils
Nadal
KohlSchreiber( Go germany!!)

Well, going to probably get something to eat. I should be careful being in Cheesecake and Pizza city!715 and the match starts at 8. I like walking around the park and seeing the structures they had at the Worlds fair in 1982.

Hi I started the BSD at the beginning of June and I am female, 5ft 3 and was 64.8kg and so at that point was within the BMI. My motivation to start was that since 2009 my liver function readings were getting progressively worse. My BP was going up and so was the cholesterol. I was fed up as although I am 65. I keep really fit. My doc said I had fatty liver. When asked what I should do about it she has no answers except to give up alcohol. I only have an odd wine if I am out socially so hardly a hard core drinker!
Anyway I spotted MM’s book at the airport in Sydney and by the time I got home I had read it and it made so much sense! At the end of the 8 weeks I was 58kg and had another blood test and returned to the Doc. She looked at the results and was amazed that all was really back within the normal range. The other amazing thing was that I have been taking a steroid puffer for years for asthma and all my symptoms have stopped. So I stopped using it with no adverse reaction. I monitored by BP all the way through and it was consistently around 115/70. In spite of all this she was reluctant to take me off the BP tablet (I only take half a tablet). Her only comment was ‘Well don’t lose any more weight’. She was highly skeptical. Time for a new GP I think!
The forum is a great motivator. The ideas are amazing. I am finding ongoing that my ‘little treat’ is a couple of pappadums just cooked in the microwave , a small piece of brie cheese a couple of olives and a small red wine.
I just really wish we could get the medicos to change their mantra. This juggernaut is going to be a massive one to turn. Maybe MM should joint venture with Jamie Oliver (who is trying to improve the diet of children too) and together they could retrain the western world via their TV profiles.

Day 14:

Breakfast: 2 boiled eggs
Lunch: Mushroom Soup
Dinner:
Snacks:
Drinks: 1 tea with milk
Water: 8 glasses
Calories: 423
Carbs: 19g
Steps: 22,300 (including 4km tempo run and 3km walk)
Weight loss: +100g (61.9kg)
Fast: 16 hrs

Total Loss for week: 2.3kg

Day 42
Tuesday August 30 2016

Breakfast: None

Lunch: 1130
4 Egg spanish omlette

Snack: 600
1 apple
1 peach

Dinner: None

Gotta go now since break time is over for Venus. I hope she kicks kozkova’s ass now. 630 and sitting at the US Open in Queens.

Yowzer – staying close to Museum Gardens & railway station. Comfortable. Bit noisy at the moment – hope it quiet end down soon! Waiting to see what breakfast is like – reviews say it’s great 😃

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn276/yowzer2008/44086208a5de3d2882f79f3dc2a85465_zps7ytomnoz.jpg
Sleep Sweet x

Well done @trelawney … Best of luck with it.

I’m on day 4 and I’m your diet twin 😄. Also 5 ft 3 and am just down to 13 st 4.5lbs today and aiming for 9 st … A bit of a stretch but it would be great to make it there… Sounds like you have similar goals.

Janey – all in Waitrose
I wasn’t looking, but don’t think I saw the green one – looks intriguing!

Gavin – not quite a gadget, but my silicone egg poachers are brill

Night GAV and BSDers everywhere! X

Ahh so glad youre having a good time LYNNE X sounds like a lovely day!
Hope yr accommodation is comfortable. I love York,but have a rather unpleasant memory of falling down all the steps at the train station! Didnt hurt myself at all – too well padded – but felt foolish 😃😃😃😃
Hope you pick up some good bargains tomorrow x sweet dreams after all that walking x

Hi Cojo

I am sticking to the menus and have no hunger pangs yet !!

I am having some 2-3 litres of fizzy water with lemon so this may be helping !!!

Yep – Lovin’ it @frog … It’s great that I can even choose specific products … Makes life so much easier. I also like that it shows percentages of fat / carb / protein. I had thought I was being relatively low fat (not intentionally) yet on average I’m 40-50% each day on fats! Which I’m pretty happy with.

Good night everyone.

And Avila – No to that egg thing 🙂 The only gadget with street cred is the egg boiler !

I love a coffee and love milk in it

Mind you now down to 4 cups from 12 !!

and I too weigh out 50 ml each morning to have in it

Chookymama

I have been ‘exercising’ like mad for months. I swim 3-5 times a week and am going up not down

Dr finally tells me no good for weight loss but great for relaxing the mind if enjoy it !!

End of life care is not good to watch so I do feel for you, must be very trying and sad.

Years since ive been on a sleeper train , holiday to Cornwall long ago I believe !!

Please do keep chipping in here as I find the stories and tips very encouraging

Hi Frog. Yes, York until Friday 😃

Hi Yowzer. It’s been great today. Lovely weather 😃

Lots of shopping done (not clothes) and walked over 10k steps 😳😃 Sat in Museum Gardens for a while, just relaxing and enjoying the sun. 😃☀️

Might be going to the Designer Outlet Mall tomorrow – see if there’s anything I like at a price I like!

Bought a salad from M&S for my tea – tomatoes, cucumber, olives and Feta cheese.

hey denisesunny… welcome on board.

I too have loooooooaaads to ose and expect to be here for way over 8 weeks.

lots of inspirational stuff posted here which has been great for me to read and hop encourages you also.

I have stuck to the menus and not found anything I don’t like yet (mini bonus)

Good luck on your weigh in

Hi all,
Tuesday week 30
Weight today 12.2.4 so no change again.
Breakfast 2 egg omelette with cheddar cheese, and tea
Midday poached egg and half an avocado.and wTer
Afternoon, tea.
Evening meal lamb meat balls bsd recipe, with home made tomato sauce and courgetti spaghetti.and water
Supper, coffee and nuts,

Doctors today I am no longer pre-diabetic, sugar 42 liver function normal, cholesterol 5.7, good cholesterol 4.4, thyroid 6.1 slightly up on last test, q score 14% and finally HDL 1.2.9.
He did suggest that I might relax the diet for a few weeks then get back to it and the final half stone will melt away!
So I am having a few days to decide, then get back after I have decided what to do.
Thank you everyone again for your support.
Christine.

Ooh Frog, now I fancy ice cream! Where did you find the alternative ones? I saw a couple of different brands in Waitrose but they were much higher GI than the amazing Oppo…

CHRISTI hope the Notts trip goes ok and CAPTAINLYNNE i hope youre enjoying York! XX

Hi Lynne
Is it this week that your in York? have a great time

Hi, I have been lurking in the background for a while. Read the book, believe in Dr. Michael Mosely and ready to start tomorrow.
Had an awful August with my mother-in-law on end of life care. It took a horrible 2 and a half weeks, funeral has now taken place. A friend has been staying for a week and just seen her off on the sleeper train. We live near Fort William (Scotland).
So have a clearish schedule for 8 weeks and off I go. Reading posts from some early starters of this woe (particularly captainlynne) I’m hoping to really feel the benefits of this change in lifestyle and stick to it for a lot longer as I have too much weight to lose in 8 weeks.

Hi Lynne,
Thank you I’m so pleased, I am going to give myself a few days to decide what to do next,

we are off to Nottingham in the morning to see one of David’s cousins who is not well, so probably won’t be able to ‘do’ my diet anyway.
Christine.

Hi neohdiver,
Welcome back, love the picture.
Christine

Great news Christine 😃💐🌻🌹🎈

Welcome back neohdiver. Great to hear from you again 😃💐🌻🎈

Hi yowser49,
Thank you, it is great news, I feel so relieved, it’s silly really.
My doctor is the best doctor I have had since my childhood doctor, he used to call me christine, from when I was a child until I move to Southampton after my marriage. Then when I returned to my home town to have my first child, he looked after me again, and he was there when I gave birth, ( my husband was away at the time) and I was only just gone 20 living with my in laws, he was more like a father to me than my father, who left home when I was five.
Golly and don’t know where that came from! This forum certainly is very therapeutic!
I hope youre doing well with your weight loss and keeping to the 800/50 principals, I have to decide what I am to do now after seeing the doc.
Christine.

Hi Avila,
I learned a long time ago to put my ‘mask’ on as I walked out of the door, my poor children were the ones that suffered though, ( I have five children) the first three all girls were born very close together and were great friends together, my trouble started after we moved from Lancashire to the midlands while I was expecting our fourth child, after eight years! After he was born life became difficult for a number of reasons, too many to list here, after about 12 or 18 months I had my breakdown, that was when it all started, then when our youngest was born, they kept an eye on me, however the trouble really started when I was pregnant when no one was keeping an eye on me!
It’s only now that I and my husband have retired that I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, I see the triggers and can do something about it, all my friends know about my problem and those that matter support me, those that don’t, I accept don’t understand?
I hope you will see the light at the end of the tunnel soon, you will be in my prayers.
Christine.

Did you enjoy Julietta Yowzer?

What is it with Oppo – third supermarket I’ve been to to specifically get it, shop has oppo, but only the dreaded mint chocolate!
Do they only buy in one flavour, or does everyone else feel the same way I do about mint and chocolate?

Intent on buying Ice Cream at this stage, I tried two others that they did have – Frill intense Chocolate – amazing, just one more carb per 100g – and Almond Dream, which was good, but I found a bit too sweet – and while it has fewer carbs than regular ice cream, it does have 14 carbs per 100g.
Two teaspoons of each to compare and contrast! now squidged into the freezer.

Typical values Per 100ml
Frill – Intense chocolate
Energy 70kcal
Fat 1.8g
Carbohydrate 8.5g
Oppo Salted Caramel
Calories 77
Fat 3.9
Carbs 7.4
Almond Dream Salted Caramel
Calories 101
Fat 4.4
Carbs 14.2

I got both of them in Waitrose – frill is described as a frozen smoothie – on special offer at £3.32, there was also a berry flavour – and “Green” that I would love to try – avocado, basil, spinach.
Almond dream in also on special offer at £3.32 – other flavours include vanilla, praline crunch – and the dreaded mint and chocolate

And it’s been a good one. Have been following the 16:8 fast for a long time, haven’t lost weight but may possibly have gained health benefits. Did follow a well known slimming club for first 6 months of this year and lost 17lbs, put it back on in 6 weeks during house move, and a particularly greedy period of my life. 4 stones to lose. Starting weight 13st 5 1/2lbs, 5ft 3ins, office worker, sofa lover, but do like walking and yoga, but out of practice. Share my house with a friend who loves to feed people (and I love to eat!! Don’t need much encouragement there I’m afraid) So 1st day of the rest of my life and it’s been a very good one.

Lots easier isn’t it, Jooles!

Hi Arty – sounds like Lucky is doing well – new boat – wow, that sounds great.
The boat club resumes Kayaking sessions next week – they stopped in the summer because they were doing out of school clubs and stuff.

Also depends on what you are going to add for the extra calories. It would need to be nutrient rich low carb, like yoghurt or cheese, a few nuts etc.

Suits me I just couldn’t come to terms with MFP. Glad your finding if easier to use!

Orange 71 – you need to listen to your own body about its needs. Lots here were starting (I think) on low exercise and able to increase it on 800 cal a day. But if you need high levels of calories for very energetic lifestyle then you may find it better to adjust. In the book it says 800 was a good figure for rapid weight loss whilst still giving the nutrient rich calories. Not giving the easy sugar/carbs means the body adjusts to using the stored carbs/fat. But if you need to work to 1000 cal on exercise days then go for it, as long as input less than output you will be losing.

yesterday I took the dog on an 8 mile walk – and then hit the nuts later in the evening, upping my calories for the day. Would have preferred not to (as showed on scales this morning) but my onward and downward journey will continue, and if my body needed it then…

Thanks Verano for recommending My Fat Secret UK … I had been using My Fitness Pal, but this is much better as it has UK brands!