Thanks Yowzer, I just feel I want to give something back for all the benefits of the BSD! https://mymarathonsept.everydayhero.com/uk/JaneGlendenningmarathon Is the link if you have a pound to spare. 👍🏼

Jan, it ought to be too hot here (North Wales) but the heatwave hasn’t got here and it’s just grey and bleurgh. I take hummus salad to work most days but off today so indulging in some healthy cooking – take that, Paul Hollywood!

Lyn,

I am proof it works, just stick with it, ignore what anyone says (especially doctors – they are so out of touch)and even if the weight doesn’t come off as fast straight away, stay with it. Just think its 8 weeks of your life, you have nothing to lose only the weight. I promise it will be all worth it and it will change you forever (it has me). I eat porridge and quite a bit adding honey/berries, just get the best quality. Maintaining, I’m in my 4th month and go up and down a few pounds, but stay around 10 stone. I do 1 day 500 calories (which is a killer), I don’t count any other day, but as I have been doing this since Feb I know how much roughly is in what. I have days occasionally of pasta or sour dough bread, so I haven’t banned everything for ever, but its about keeping treats as treats. I still use all the recipes in the BSD & 5:2 and just been adding to my own list, I am still experimenting and my taste buds have changed forever.

Good Luck

Langerhans, delighted for you in your motivation. We need peeps like you to keep us all focused. Bril enjoy your casserole, much too hot here for casserole though, I’m going to have a lovely salad.😎😎😎

Congratulations, Peter!

Fantastic stuff – I know what you mean about ‘becoming a bore’, I don’t set out to mention the BSD but there are so many people who say things to me like ‘I’ve lost a lot of weight, but it’s the last stone/half a stone which defeats me’/I feel much fitter, but I’ve put some weight on round my middle and can’t shift it/I wish I could fit into size x clothes but….’ and then I find without even trying I start to say ‘well, you can do this if you want to, there’s no compulsion, but I can tell you how to do that’.

And then of course there are the people who don’t need the diet themselves, but compliment you on how you’re looking and you tell them why, and it’s their OH, Mum, Dad, Sister, friend that they’re worried about.

My stepson yesterday was asking me whether BSD had been translated into Russian as he’d been telling a friend about our success (I think she’d only asked how we were!) and she wanted to buy the book for her mother who IS Russian.

But when you find something so wonderful, you do want to share, don’t you.

I do hope your reviewing of your medications works out for you, and you get your blood pressure sorted. Your doctor must be well impressed with your recovered health and weight loss. Very inspirational, thank you for sharing 🙂

Yowser and Jan,
Re GBBO – I did watch it last night (day 10 of bsd800) and do you know what? I didn’t enjoy it at all! I wasn’t envious, just bored! One contestant used almond flour, but orherwise it was an unappealing starchfest!
I’m currently sitting here with a big bowl of veggie casserole that ‘cost’ me less than a jaffa cake in calories *smug face*

I thought May was going to be my last post having been given the all clear by one of the doctors at the surgery.

But Oh NO they just can’t let go of you and face the facts you have proved them wrong.

So first of all my weight is still in check and in fact have lost a grand total of 3 stone, I check my blood sugar levels every so often (for piece of mind) and all in the Normal range.

So out of the blue they send me for a diabetic eye test!!! Now I find the Expert on Diabetes won’t take it off my record until I do another 2 tests (nice to be told) & informs me he has only taken 2 people in his whole long career off the Diabetic register. So I would be rare case – MAD AS HELL.

They haven’t got a clue, just don’t listen to the Doctors, they are so out of touch, he hasn’t even read the book – EXPERT!!

JANEY That is fab re the BHF marathon ..i will happily sponsor you to raise some money x let me know if you set up a place to collect sponsors..have done it before online but cannot remember the name of the site…

LUCKY I think what you say makes lots of sense ..i am grateful for yr observations on Post 8 weeks ,and JANs and EPS too. Different perspectives, they will help me to decide which way to go when my eight weeks is up early September. Its good we have choices! And that we are away from the WW and SW tyranny for ever! i found SW such a swizz,telling me i could eat as much carbs as i wanted,then the weeks i didnt lose,telling me i either wasnt eating enough,or that i needed to decrease my portions! Erm,which one? Cant do both! Hehe! Best thing about SW for me was,on one of my many joinings, i won the raffle the first week and never went back again! So at least i got a few bob back from them..goodness knows i gave them enough over the years!
It might work for some but i will never ever join again.
LUCKY i hope you can get yr heel sorted..if its any consolation,mine is usually ok now,after a massive painful flare up like youre having 🙁 just try not to be on yr feet too long even tho youre such a bizzybee..and keep using the gel insoles to protect yr feet. X

BEAN You have done so well, imy little pal! I have known you for a good while now from the Fast Day forum and you’re an inspiration how you have got to such a low weight despite ill health limiting how much exercise you can do. Good luck with the job! You will be an asset to them! X
X

Yowser agree whole heartedly, I think to support each other during this second wave of BSD we need to bear that in mind, i for one am a long way from being completely under control , I’m loving the food, but still need to make it as easy as possible for myself.🤔🤔🤔

I agree JAN..i wont watch Bake Off! I can resist and walk past goodies in the supermarket,often without a qualm,but watching BO is a step too far for me! Being slimmer and healthier is better than any slice of cake,scrumptipus tho it is!
My advice to all of us cake lovers..look at cake and think ” sugar and fat” and visualise a block of lard and a packet of sugar on the plate instead of that tempting looking delight! It helps! X

Bean, Keep going luvvy, you will get there, we will all get there, this way of eating is the future, don’t forget to measure waist etc, I noticed the weeks I plateaued I was loosing a lot of c.m.

Verano, yes you’ve worked it out, when I got over my plateau which was due to complacency, trying to eat more etc I started also regularly walking and when I did that stuck to 50 below carbs and 800 cals, my weight loss shot up, to the point I am now hoping to continue 3-4 lbs weight loss a week, and if you are able to weigh yourself in kilos, you will may even see a daily difference which I find very inspiring.. I also write a daily diary of how the day’s been and I find that very good for looking at what went right or wrong and why.

I need to get to target more than I need cake and piazza etc, life is short and I don’t want to shorten mine by eating c…p no matter how nice it tastes.

Oh yes Bean the bake of programme, I made myself watch it, trying to sort of desensitise myself to c….. But have decided I’m not ready to look at things like that. Cor blimey I know how an alcoholic feels now. So the c word is a no go for me , loving being slimmer more👙 Well I can wish can’t I, I didn’t even look good in a bikini when I was 19. So definitely not at 58 hehe😎😎😎😎

Hope you have a happy BSD day.🍓🍓🍓

Great news Janet!

You are so right you just have to stick to the plan and it does work.

I’m struggling to get to my first stone but that’s because I’m NOT sticking to 800 calories and low enough carbs. I thought I would ease myself in gently and it has worked to a certain extent in that I no longer feel hungry or crave sweet foods etc.

I use Fatsecret and I checked my progress this morning and whilst my carbs have come down from an average of 91 a day in July to 74 a day this month it’s still no where near low enough.

I decided to make a concerted effort over my last five days and reading of your success just reconfirms that it only works when you stick to the plan rigidly.

Good luck with the next 8 and I hope you reach your new goal of 16lbs … 20 would be a bonus!

JANEY!! That’s amazing – well done you for taking the challenge! You aren’t joking when you say you’ve got loads more energy(!)
LUCKY! Did you ever try the most up-to-date SW? That is much easier to follow and you can eat loads – but as we know, we don’t WANT to eat loads of pasta/rice etc. I love BSD and I love the fact that when I reach my goal weight I can then continue med style and throw in the odd fast. This whole experience is finally working for me – after 20+ years of ‘dieting’ Hoorah!
Now I’ve got to go and prepare myself for my first day back at work in four years – doh!
Bean xx

I’m not very good at posting but wanted to let people know that Dr M M is on the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2 today 25th August 2016 some time between 12 – 2pm

Oh I know what you mean GREENJANET! holidays I guess are the most difficult times aren’t they. But wow! You’ve lost so much you must feel light as a feather! (I have to say, though, that tea room? Man Alive! That sounds like heaven!)
Brenda BRENDA427 I wish you all the best on your new adventure. You are definitely going to be embarking on the Lose Cruise(!) ready for your Real Cruise!! This is an amazing way of eating and is surprisingly easy to stick with. I’m coming to the end of week 8 and have lost around 11 pounds. Not as much as the others but I’m nearer to goal PLUS I have health issues including an underactive thyroid and weight loss throughout the many years of trying has always bean slow for me. This method is the fastest way of losing weight – but also the best because it completely changes the way you look at food. It won’t just be for 8 weeks, your new healthy low-carb way of eating will continue forever! Isn’t it exciting!!
Bean xx

Will do Janey *hands clapping*

Great about progress – hopefully it’s contagious 😉

Wow! That really is impressive. I think maintaining is in many ways the hardest part – but you both sound as though you’ve taken it like ducks to water! Its interesting when you try and over-indulge and discover that it just doesn’t have the same appeal anymore. I’m hoping that one day I won’t crave cereal – but its still a work in progress!!
Well done!
Bean xx

Hi all.
Hope you are all having a good day. Now I am day two of the beginning of week 9, and 33lbs down, I am feeling amazing, walking all day, limitless energy. Still tacking this plan seriously, have no wish to hear about eating cake etc. I’m in it for the long haul. This plan works for me because I don’t eat cake etc, I wouldn’t want to trigger of the appetite again. I am following captainlynnes excellent example she has lost 86 lbs to date by sticking to this plan, not adding extra bits, calories carbs or whatever. It may work for some but not for me. My mind isn’t trained enough yet.
I’ve come back from life threatening symptoms, and have no wish to go back there again. Sorry to keep repeating myself, but it helps me to stay focused. Being on hol is lovely but throws up so may obstacles.😅😅😅

Just pleased as I can be, from obese to, yesterday, day one of not overweight. P.S. not showing any signs of pre-diabeties either now.
I managed it on one meal a day, always around 800 calories plus some exercise.
I had trouble with my blood pressure as I was on medication and despite drinking a river each day, it plummeted.

Changed my medication and my weight stopped dropping for 10 days but I was no longer taking water tablets, part of my blood pressure treatment, so I assume that that was the reason.
This part was so very frustrating as I was just sat there with the weight bobbing up and down, but never dropping below the lowest to that date. I was also getting lots of suggestions from folk saying that maybe I had reached a Plato and this was my bodies way of saying, low enough.
I was never convinced that 800 calories a day was doing this but those siren voices were !!!!

This week I have had to go back on some additional tablets for the blood pressure, it started going up again, but still half of what I was on. I am still monitoring and still keeping my doctor work in work. It would be nice if I can manage on the lower medication but I guess time will tell.

As I posted on Facebook, I am “Chuffed to bits” and really want to say a big thanks to Michael Mosley and the way he has brought this and the 5/2 diet to my attention. I may become a bit of a bore with this as it was, for me, so impressive.
Thanks to all in the community and MM from a, now, healthy weight Peter.

Welcome back Eps! Mad eh? But the Jawbone/Up has done a great job of nagging me into activity so I thought I’d give it a go!

Sticking to the Med Diet with the occasional lapse works for me. Clothes still getting looser and appetite largely unchanged. Keep on with us old timers and we’ll keep you on the straight and narrow (most of the time!)

Great about British Heart Foundation’s MyMarathon Janey – YES!!!

Hope your heel is fixed Lucky?

hee hee caught you all!! :-)))) HIIIIII! hope you all well xxxx No excitement here, just working away and enjoying the end of the summer. Leaves looking gorgeous around here, think this is my favourite time of the year. Lucky wedding time soon! :-))

As some of you know, made it through the 8 weeks quite happilly and lost 1 and 3/4 stone I think in the end. Since then I was doing well for a few weeks and then stuff started to creep in again! (Putting it like this makes it sound like I had nothing to do with it ha ha ha) It is true though, that the whole process makes a lot of sense, so I haven’t totally lost the plot and started gobbling rubbish, but I have had a few pieces of toast and definitely few too many pieces of dark chocolate – I’m back to being able to eat half a bar… Sometimes I think it’s just to test the boundaries ;-))) Anyway, I definitely think this is the way forward and even though I have gotten way too sick of Myfitnesspal and filling in everything, I think I might have to return to it again a bit, just to remind myself what the amount of food I can eat in a day looks like. Though if some of you have been doing it and still losing weight though not spending hours imputting stuff on Myfitnesspal maybe I could do that too – just stick to the carbs! Haven’t weighed myself in a few weeks as am scared to now – not that I think it’ll be terrible as clothes still feel more or less the same – it shouldn’t be as I have stuck to the principles I’d say 70/80% of the time… But the thought of having to relose weight again is discouraging!! Better that than have to relose the whole lot eh ;-)))

Does the 5/2 actually work though? I don’t seem to lose weight when I go much above 1000 calories I think, even if they are allowed calories….

Hi Nursebean – yes both OH and I are on Maintenance now.

I am still using MFP, and I am continuing to avoid refined carbs. We were away at the weekend, and ate out, and I had no difficulties in avoiding potatoes, bread, rice etc whilst really enjoying the food (one meal was some lovely fresh whitebait – starter size was plenty ) with a tomato salad.

OH indulged himself in some chips with a steak at one point, and had immediate indigestion (perhaps from the volume of the chips rather than the potatoes themselves!) which made him think that they weren’t worthwhile having.

Both of us weigh every morning, and I continue to drink as much water as I can.

So I suppose I am maintaining the principles – however I did have a bit of a moment with a carton of Oppo yesterday where I found I was not really able to stop at one portion and that certainly threw out my calories – and my carbs!

The effect we have both had from reducing carbs to low levels has been so wonderful that I think I will try and maintain it as much as I can. But am working on how to include pulses, and other relatively carb-heavy veg, and still am not sure how many grams of carbs my body will accommodate.

A work in progress, therefore! Off to have a set of blood tests on Friday to see what BS and Cholesterol is – haven’t been pre-diabetic or Type 2, and tests some time ago were ok, so interested to see what the levels are now.

Aha, tracked you down! I’m well beyond 8 weeks and living the Med Style diet quite happily, with the occasional treat. Food seems so much more creative when we’ve been experimenting with new ingredients (sometimes with catastrophic results!) so I am game to continue 🙂

And you’ll never guess what? The increased energy and recent discovery of the enjoyment of walking has just led me to be crazy and sign up for the British Heart Foundation’s MyMarathon in September! I know full well I can do 26.2 miles because my Jawbone tells me I can!! And if I can raise a bit of money to put back into research then all’s good!

Thanks for your support. Perhaps a secret supply of cheese is the answer!

Maintain currently by doing 1 or 2 fast days depending on how good/bad I’ve been during the week. Find weighing myself everyday keeps me on top of it.

Will obviously not do 5:2 while on this but probably return to it with hubby once we’ve completed BD.

I rarely miss any of those things now, I’d say of them all it’s probably rice that I miss the most, and tortilla wraps, as we used a lot of those. SW and WW do work for a lot of people but I find only to an extent, and that’s from several years of experience and thousands of pounds spent. I’ve done at least 6 different versions of WW. At least. The worst one I found was the points, I would eat junk – and then either starve or cheat! What’s the point in setting yourself up to fail? No Lucky, you can’t have that pizza on this plan. End of story, non negotiable. It’s your choice, do it or don’t. Much easier. Never quite liked the SW in the past either, either loads of carbs and an ounce of meat, or three kilos of meat and a spoonful of carbs. I wanted both 😉

Hey, steak is a posh burger Bean, but you’re celebrating so go for it! 🙂

Frog – gurning and posing? Love it! No, it was my great nephew’s Christening last Sunday, we were away Friday to Monday. There’s no more away days now apart from the last rugby match of the season, and a wedding in Norfolk mid September.

I did Bean, and it was lovely 🙂

Burger day here I come! Not even bothered about the lack of bap! Yayyyy 🙂

OK here’s where I am at. After banishing the biscuits and being as I thought careful yesterday with cals controlled, lots of water as it was so damned hot and a few nuts as snack I stepped cautiously on scales today to find I am exactly the same. What a bummer.
Today I have declared hostilities and it is all out war in the Battle of the Bulge.
Will be writing everything down. Tried MPF and FatSecret but spent so long trying to make them do what I wanted that I have resorted to pen and paper. On FatSecret I wanted 5grams of butter but it kept showing me 100 grams. Gave up.
Hopefully scales will show some progress downward tomorrow.
Minnie x

Oh you’re in maintenance mode are you IGORASUSUAL?! What method are you using to help maintain the wonderful weight loss you’ve achieved?! This is an issue that a lot of us are unsure of. We can’t do BSD forever – but what happens at the end? Just keep low carb and up the cals? I’m looking into going wheat free as cutting it out seems to produce great health benefits!
Useful link there, thank you
Bean xx

Thanks LUCKY! You are so right, of course! There’s no such thing as CAN’T give up carbs – but WON’T plays a big part. If only people would understand that it doesn’t take long before you just don’t fancy any of the above things, do you! That’s the best part of going low carb I think
I know what you mean about WW and SW. I’ve bean with SW for over a year now and my weekly weigh-ins were very slow. Recently, however, doing this way of eating I have lost 11 pounds in just under 8 weeks – that’s incredible for me!! At SW if somebody hasn’t had a good loss they are always advised they are not eating enough(!!) something I’ve never understood – AND you can eat as much pasta/rice/potatoes as you like! Really?! Mind you, it DOES seem to work for a lot of people – but the weight is dropping off me since I’ve cut them out! I can’t really advise anyone at SW though – doh! 😉
I bet you are feeling good LUCKY being at your lowest weight in years – its such a fab feeling isn’t it!!
D’you know what? I think I’ll join you in a little steak today – why not? It is burger day after all 😉
Bean xx

Have a look at the website below which will tell you how many calories you need to maintain your weight (may be lower than you think, mine was) and then build your BSD round that as Nursebean suggests.

I have very successfully finished the BSD and am following this principle to maintain my weight.

http://keto-calculator.ankerl.com

Hope that helps. Good luck!

So I need to get “Girl on THE train” and “WE Need to talk about Kevin” and I’ll arrive in Canada without even knowing it?! Fab! Thank you xx

National burger day?!! Well I never!
Thanks Frog! I start my job (training) today! Nothing like getting thrown straight in there! Hope I like it, I really do – I have to do a whole four hours a week for heaven’s sake!! 😉
Wow! GAVIN – You’ve lost 2 STONES – in just 6 WEEKS?!!! That’s truly amazing! Do you have a main goal you’re aiming for?
I am on Week 8 now and have lost another 2 pounds this week. I’ve lost 11 pounds in this time (which is miraculously fast for me) and I’m now just a stone away from reaching my dream weight – the weight I haven’t bean since I was in my twenties (many moons ago!) so its all pretty exciting! I can’t believe how many notches your belt has gone down – what a fab feeling!
Oh Lucky? Did you have to say the word…crumble?!! Watching Bake Off last night was bad enough. Man Alive! The cakes looked out of this world! I was literally salivating – luckily I had my 85% dark chocolate to munch on!! 😉
Hope you all enjoy Burger Day! A day to get your veggie burgers out YOWZER?!!
Bean xx

Well it’s definitely ‘Thumbs Up Thursday’ isn’t is?! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 Great to read so many positive reports today! Well done to you all! As Lucky and Tokyo pointed out the small glitches are ALWAYS offset by a downward trend in weight and upward trend in health.

I am several weeks beyond the 8 week stage and the med style diet is a way of life for me now. Ok I have an occasional treat (because we all need them!) but I love this WOE and how it makes me feel far too much to throw away the initial work. Tokyo.. I’ll track your thread down… Muahahaha!

Oh and how come everyone is weighing ‘in pets’ today??? Do people actually put their pets on the scales too??!! 😆😆😆

Just checked – it was “girl on THE train” rather than “girl on A train” – looked back and it was serialised on R4 about a year ago, I think I missed that – but Kevin is good if you’ve not read it yet.
I enjoyed Emma Donaghue’s ‘Room’ too (both the book and the film were very good)

Firstly, well done on your lowest weight Bean! I’m still a way off from what I should be, but – I’m still the lowest I’ve been in a fair few years, maybe 5 now after a WW stint. Before that, sheesh. Couldn’t tell you exactly the last time I was 15 stone something, 2002/3?
Secondly – well done on your job! I remember you posted on my thread that you’d had an interview. Baby steps 😀

It’s wonderful how this diet is changing things for so many people, not just health wise in relation to diabetes or weight wise but in other ways too. I’m moving more (well, until the heel thing, grrrrr!) I’ve seen so many people on this forum growing in confidence and coming out of their shells, it’s lovely to see. If you can tackle something like this and succeed, because let’s face it, it does take balls of steel to give up all we have done, you start to wonder what else you could do. I don’t have time for the whiners who say ‘Oh! I could never give up pasta/rice/bread/potatoes’. Yes you could. You could, what you’re saying is, you won’t. I was at the point of sheer desperation, I’d tried everything. WW and SW with their – you can still eat x doesn’t work for me. This, with – you CAN eat this, you CAN’T eat that, does work. That doesn’t mean, however, that I won’t ever eat cake. Or a biscuit. Or pizza. Or bread. What it does mean is that I will keep baking, keep cooking, keep trying to make these things in as healthy a way as I can using ingredients that are allowed on this WOE. Sometimes salad doesn’t cut it. Sometimes greek yogurt doesn’t cut it. And for me, it’s better to do it this way, than to phone for a Dominos or grab a cake in a box from the supermarket, full of god knows what artificial rubbish.

Today is National Burger day, so it’s Waitrose Peppered Steak Burger salad for tea!

Maybe if you are worried about your own weightloss being too severe perhaps you should eat slightly more cals and carbs each day than your husband. I think its great that you two are going to be trying this together. I think being low carb and increasing your daily fat intake is the way forward anyway, no matter how low your weight. Snack on cheese! 🙂
I wish you and your husband all the best on this exciting experiment – you won’t be disappointed!
Bean xx

Morning – and Happy National Burger day – everyone

Izzy – good luck with eBay etc. What’s the recipe that you use for your nut brittles?

Well done on getting back on track post holiday Tokyo

Fantastic Gavin – that’s brilliant, huge congratulations
Mini goals? The number of kilos, number of pounds when its a round number, stone (and with those, the number that you’ve lost and the number that you’ve reached can both count as mini goals) the number of cans of catfood equivalent, new clothes size, days that I’ve put some on it becomes getting back to where I was, and as you say % of weight lost.
(but then there’s % of weight lost since immediately pre-BSD, % of weight lost since heaviest ever weight……) reaching a weight that you were on a significant date in the past…..
You’d need something bigger than your phone to stick it on if you wrote it all down, but yours are BIG strategic milestones!

Lucky – well done on thought out decision to ease off on BSD and sensible path forward – hope that goes well for you. I take it that’s one of your children’s christening, rather than your own 🙂
I suppose that I’ve sort of drifted into ‘relaxed BSD’ without consciously thinking about it – not very mindful, but liveable with, and still losing weight. AND I did have pizza on Monday – Strada pizza Mondays. (Yes, it’s a pizza restaurant, they have pizza every day, but £5 on a Monday) I really fancied my favourite with egg & spinach, had the fish one ‘better value’ as normally more expensive – very good, didn’t eat it all.
Yes, that’s right on the bloods! (another mini-goal -well, it wasn’t, but I will celebrate it now I’ve got there!)
I don’t mow anyone down, just give them long enough to cross the road, and then start hooting if they are still gurning and posing in the middle!

Congratulations on the new job Bean – that’s great news, do you start soon?

Just about to start 8 week diet. I have had a lot of success following the 5:2 over the past two years and it is now a way of life.
I have persuaded my husband who is a long term type 2 diabetic to embark on the 8 week blood sugar diet and he is very keen.
As I know it won’t work for him unless I also do it I’m just a little concerned that as my weight and BMI BP and sugar levels are spot on it might be too severe for me and too much weight loss.
Have any other partners had this experience?

Frog – not sure about gram flour pasta but you’ve just broken something there for me from weeks ago – gram flour yorkshire puddings that I still haven’t tried! I could gladly forego roast potatoes on a Sunday dinner if I could have a couple of decent authentic tasting yorkies with it!

Haha! I’m with you on that Lucky! Not that I’m into pizzas but I don’t like phoney other stuff either but I think its just fabulous this way of eating. It doesn’t just help you lose weight, it changes your mindset completely. Like Tokyo you discover you don’t even WANT to eat that much – and continue to lose weight despite eating a tad more!! Its great isn’t it.
I weighed myself this morning and I am now officially the lowest I’ve bean in many many years. If I can lose another stone I’ll be back to my lowest weight – EVER!
Oh and I’ve only gone and got myself a job! I haven’t bean able to work for four years due to health issues – and now I’ll be working 4 hours a week – woohoo!
Bean xx

Me too! You know it’s the only thing that’s really, really bothered me this whole time, the lack of pizza! And the funny thing is, I didn’t have any when I was on holiday, wish I had now, instead of having that slice of cake! I’ve seen a few recipes online and they all seem to be 4 or 5 star recipes for spelt base pizza. I don’t WANT courgette pizza, I don’t WANT cauliflower base pizza. If it’s not doughy, it’s pizza topping on courgette or it’s pizza topping on bloody cauliflower and I’d rather do without than mar the memory and experience of pizza. End of. You can’t polish a turd, as they say.

I’m excited about this now too and the thing is, I probably will only reach 800 on a lot of these days, because I simply CAN’T eat that much any more but I think taking away the ‘having to only eat 800’ is going to make it a lot simpler for me. It’s still denial of sorts, isn’t it? Yesterday I had a bowl of soup. I had planned to make a beef stir fry with turnip wedges AND a small amount of quinoa because I do miss a grain with things like that. And then my dessert. I was still so full at tea time from my small bowl of chunky soup that I knew I’d never eat all that. Small portion of beef stir fry, six small turnip wedges, and then a small portion of crumble and a spoon of yogurt on it. I’m still full now.

Hurrah for lucky i am looking forward to a new eight weeks and seeing where this takes us !!!
interested on pizza front i shall be having another slice of nigellas cake tonight !!!!!!!!!

I have no doubt you’ll do it Gavin 😀

Well done Tokyo 🙂

Given up BSD 800 almost at the end of week 11. I need more on some days, not all. I’ve never been obsessed with the carb count thing and managed to lose over 2 and a half stone in 8 weeks without counting carbs once. Just sticking to the list of allowed foods and eating things that are reasonably low in carbs anyway. The last three weeks have been scuppered with two trips away and primarily the reintroduction of wine to my diet. Looking forward to following the plan in the way I intend to now for the rest of my life. Common sense.

done it bring you pizza your cakes waiting !!!🍰

I have a note pinned on my phone. My key goals are
10%, 20%, 33.3%, 40% and finishing at 45% weight loss from start weight. That equates too 2st 2lbs, 4st 5lbs, 7st 6lbs, 8st 10lbs and 9st 3lbs respectively. Target at 45% is weighing 12st 7lbs from a start weight of 21st 10lbs.

If you make it, I will come and share crumble and cake and turnip mash with you, Tokyo 😉

Save me a slice of the Nigella cake…

I’m buying spelt flour today, if my local Aldi stock it that is, and I am making pizza for Saturday night! Real pizza and the only bloody veg that’s going ANYWHERE near it, is the peppers and jalapenos that are going on the top of it!

Well i have finished my eight weeks and had a holiday and increased cal and had the odd cheeky carb and still lost weight !! so carrying on with new way of eating as it has become second nature now and just a bit more relaxed on the occasional day !!

Like magic 🙂

Thank you very much. Bloody hell, Gavin, I’m sure I’d crossed off about thirty mini goals at the stage you are lol. No, ok, slight over exaggeration there, 10% was my seventh mini goal though. Aren’t you counting things like going down into a different stone bracket? Not judging, just curious. Things like that were a biggie to me.