(p.s. where is Wendy (Wendleg)- I may have missed something due to being intermittently absent myself)? x

Hi SG, thank you for setting up the new thread 🙂 🙂 🙂

Well done S-G setting up the December thread & resisting the carbs 👏👏
I have just come back with my husband from watching the Royal Ballet filmed production of Cinderella which was very enjoyable but I was very chilled sitting in a cold down draft & have warmed up having a Brandy & some nibbles 🫣🙀
I will be baking salmon for supper with creamed spinach & some boiled sweet potato 😀
We will also enjoy watching the results from Strictly from Dancing on tonight.
How is your house sale going S-G?
Take care everyone & see you in December!
Margaret xx

Thank you s-g for setting up the monthly thread …. again! Odd to think this will be the last one but I’m sure we will all benefit from the new seasonal thread.

In the meantime, I promise to be more ‘present’ this month and post as often as I can.

‘Delicious’ has such a warm, wholesome, and possibly decadent, but not too decadent, feel about it. One of my ‘delicious’ breakfasts is a bit ‘decadent’, ’ scrambled eggs with smoked salmon. Not ‘naughty’ but very nice. I love avocado so another go to this month. I’m trying to eat much more protein but with far fewer carbs this month so that’s my goal for December.

Hope it’s a good month for everyone.

Thread set up under Starting the BSD – Welcome to Delicious December 2025. Some are new starters and they are very welcome but I want to see our regulars supporting this thread.

Nearly had a disaster yesterday. We are thinking of selling our breadmaker as not used in 10 years but had to try to see if it stil works. So hubby made a loaf and the smell alone was enough to drive me back onto carbs. Although not quite. I resisted by having half a slice of the crust end with butter. Yes it was delicious. He asked if I wanted another slice with my brunch this morning and I said NO! Thereby leads to addiction. No more bread and I only gained 0.1 of a kilo. Still down to 73.65 and will be lower still before our night out.

See you all next month,

I hope you are going to join us in this last of the monthly threads. We will be starting a new thread in the New Year with a seasonal theme so dont forget to look out for that.

In the meantime we have just over weeks before Christmas. Plenty of time to get into that lbd (little black dress) or whatever you want to wear. Lets support each other and make this a Christmas to feel proud of ourselves, whether it be a slimmer you or someone who has improved their blood glucose. Can we also include tips and hints for avoiding the madness that leads up to the big day – yes it is just one day so no need to make it the undoing of all your good work.

See you all here.

Sunshine-girl

Hi all, tried to set up a new thread but it kept sending me back to beginning. It will be called Welcome to Delicious December, normally it is in Welcome to BSD but will try to put it in another section.

Hi everyone,
Good to hear your gum is improving Cathy.
SueBlue, hope the reset is going well.
Yowzer where are you?? As Cathy said, it would be nice if we all check in before the end of the year. Not exactly a muster station, since that would mean the ship is going down! But you get my drift.

I can’t believe it’s less than three weeks since my father’s death. Life is sad and complicated. I am trying to resist the carbs, but not always succeeding. Here in NL, Christmas temptations arrive early with Sinter Klaas, and I succumbed. Big time. Anyway, 0.4 kilos back and lesson learned. Total lost since May is 15.6 kilos. I hope you all have better focus than I do!

Wishing you all a good week. xx

Hello everyone & I agree with the suggestions that a three month timed thread would be useful & would enable a longer period to be able to focus on & achieve a better weight loss. Looking back on my last three months all I seem to have done is bounce one or two pounds on & off but really have achieved very little weight loss. I am looking forward to January when I feel that I can refocus & set myself a more realistic goal over a three month period.
A delicious December certainly would represent the food available during the festive period & an enjoyable time to be had spent socialising with friends & family. This time of year can be very stressful trying to plan for hosting, gifting & to not eat or drink too much 😀. Let us try also to be kind to ourselves & each other 👍😍
Margaret xx

Glad you arrived home safely Verano … sounds like you’re getting settled back in nicely. Enjoy your home cooked low carb meal this evening.

My positives for today ….
🌼🌼 lovely date night with my OH last evening
🌼🌼 two catch up phone chats with friends this afternoon and one planned for tomorrow
🌼🌼 all holiday laundry done now … just need to sort out the non-holiday laundry now!!

Hope you all have a pleasant weekend full of wonderful positives.

Hello.
Time to add some positives….

🛩️🧳🛩️ home safely albeit delayed resulting in a post 2am bedtime…. my goodness the bed was freezing! But the positive we’re home safely and the bed will be warm tonight!

🧳🧺🧳 Cases unpacked and first lot of washing done.

🥒🥦🌶️ Fridge restocked. Cauliflower in the steamer and salmon in the oven …. so looking forward to a home cooked, low carb meal.

Going to have a fourth…..
🦶🦶just had a lovely pedicure. My toe nails were a mess after five weeks so really good to see them looking pristine again!

Hope you’re well Sunny and S-g so glad you brought this thread back up. It would be a shame to lose the longest running thread on the site.
Have a good Sunday and a good week.

I really appreciate everyone who keeps the regular threads going….seasonal/ every 3 months sounds great, I’ll be very grateful whatever you decide, just somewhere we can pop in as needed. Is Wendleg Wendy still about? I may have missed her being away or something else, due to not always checking the threads…..?

Love Tulip x

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Hello.
S-g you’ve done really well to keep this thread going for four years. I know how hard it is to be ‘responsible’ for keeping threads going.

Looking at the last few months it seems we have a very small group of contributors who steadfastly post with lots of ‘dipper in and outers’. I agree that a longer thread might be better because maybe then we won’t fall into the trap of ‘the month is almost over so might as well start anew next month, so no point in posting’.

I like the idea of a three month/seasonal thread. I think we have different motivations with the seasons and maybe more people can relate to that.

I’d like maybe ‘Delicious December’ to let the monthly thread go out with a bang. December is a ‘delicious’ month and there’s lots of ‘low carb’ deliciousness about if you seek it out!

Anyway, I’m now home from my travels and I’m really embarrassed to report a 0.6lb gain. Honestly, after my many indulgences over five weeks I was expecting maybe 7 or even a 10lb gain! I guess there’s something to learn from this, well for my body. I was eating three meals a day with no IF. I was walking a lot more than normal but then I wasn’t cooking, washing, ironing etc. so maybe that evened out. I was eating plenty of protein with eggs lots of mornings and I was also eating even when I wasn’t hungry… very naughty. There was also the odd dessert or three! Anyway, I was shocked and it’s really made me rethink about the way I’m eating. I think that maybe switching and changing our eating patterns occasionally ‘wakes’ our bodies up. Don’t know just guessing. Nonetheless, I’m looking forward to some good low carb home cooked meals!

Hope everyone is well and looking forward with enthusiasm to new threads.

Hy,
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Thank you for all your past efforts S-G & four years is a long time . ⭐️⭐️
I have just weighed & amazingly have lost two pounds but did walk 6.500 steps on a day out to Brighten yesterday despite a pasta lunch & a glass of wine. I find December to be a dangerous month for food temptations & the amount of money spent with two more birthdays in my immediate family. It is so easy to go overboard in every way with social occasions & the difficulties in resisting joining in with canapés, snacks, alcohol, & the continual bombarding commercial pressures to buy more more & more of everything. As you can see it’s not my most favourite time of year & I have already completed my Christmas gift shopping for my family with things they have said they would like rather than guessing what they might like!! I do however enjoy eating Scottish shortbread & sherry trifle, no jelly allowed in my family recipe & mincepies🫣🙀
I hope everyone has a good next week 🤞🤞
Margaretxx

Hi all, looks like it is time to come up with a new title for December. Also, it will be my last time at running the thread, I think 4 years is long enough when it is now down to one person. Maybe we could think of a longer-term idea – 3 months, 6 months, a year, or seasonal, spring, summer etc. I am not leaving the site, just giving up setting up this thread.

That said, December is looming and I will set something up in time for Monday.

I am still under th 74kgs but barely. Going out for a meal on Monday so want to lose a bit before so I can never see the 74kgs again. Have a good weekend.

To make this thread relevant to it’s name again, I’ll post some positives ….
🌸🌸 put my first Christmas decoration out last night … a little ‘crystal’ Christmas tree with a sparkly lite interior. Bought it last weekend and it’s so pretty I wish I’d got two.
🌸🌸 managed to get advent calendar fillers for grandchildren finished yesterday … phew!
🌸🌸 one of my close friends has landed a permanent job, after struggling all year to secure something more than a temporary role. So happy he can look to the new year with positivity.

Please post a positive yourself, to keep the thread going …. it’s always uplifting to read all the posts.

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Hello All. I am back from my travels at last. I had hoped I could continue my healthy eating and regular fasts while away but it was not to be. I have not yet had the heart to step on the scales to see the damage! In my defense, I had some unexpected difficut events to negotiate which also steered me off track somewhat. So good to have this friendly and supportive forum to report to. Will read through the posts to catch uup…

Quick pop-in to post more positives….
🌞🌞 driving to the post office on a bright chilly morning and really appreciating the beauty of the Somerset countryside
🌞🌞 set up a mango chutney ferment today … excited to taste the results, have to wait a few days though
🌞🌞 more online Christmas orders placed. I’m enjoying ticking things off the list!

What positives blessed your day today?

Quick ‘hello’. Welcome back Kazz.

Just three more sleeps before I’m back in my own bed, own home, own kitchen and able to eat my ‘own’ food again. It’s been wonderful to have such an extended holiday but food wise it’s been a disaster. In saying that I’m so looking forward to getting back into my healthy eating routine again. I just hate eating carbs!

Hope everyone is doing well. November is almost over so maybe soon time to start thinking about December???

Can’t believe this year is almost over. I’m not going to look back to January rather I’m going to focus on looking/moving forward from December onwards…. one day at a time!

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Hi everyone,
Cathy it’s good to hear that your gum is healing and you are feeling a little better. Sorry to hear the consultant was so horrible though! You are right that a lot of us haven’t had the year we had hoped for and it’s definitely completely knocked me off track for the last 4 or 5 months so I very much doubt I will be at goal by the end of this year (yet again). I’m away this coming weekend at the Burghley Christmas fair and know I won’t be sticking to healthy eating whilst I am there, maybe once I’m back I will have a couple of healthier weeks but I’m not going to worry at the minute, I’m definitely lighter than I was at the start of the year so I guess that’s something. I hope everyone else is ok, as you say Cathy, it would be nice to hear from everyone before the end of the year.
Dawn XX

Apologies for a lengthy absence from this thread … a little over two weeks of sun, relaxation and a bit of a tech detox in Tunisia to recharge the batteries after a difficult summer. Back now and looking at positives to report….
🌻🌻 being able to escape for a little winter sun before the festive season
🌻🌻 four rose bushes I ordered a couple of months ago, arrived the day before we got home, just need to get them planted up now
🌻🌻 only been home four days and already ticking things off the Christmas gift list

Hope you are able to find positives in your day … let us know about one or two of them please.

Hello everyone
I am feeling a bit better, my gum is healing and I’ve got an appt to discuss my treatment and to plan how am going to manage the gum going forward. The consultant at the Max Fax Unit was rude and very disparaging about my dentist last week when I attended for follow up. He said I should not have been referred to his service as he is a cancer specialist and I told him my dentist thought it was cancer. He told me that my dentist should have attended his lectures and then he would have known I had a periodontal abscess. As I left I said “I’m sorry for wasting your time”. He was so rude! I’ve been having problems since July with this gum! I’ve been in the most severe pain but things seem to be settling at last.
I’ve got some invigilating shifts in December and next week I am singing Monday and Tuesday in the Bridgewater Hall with my choir. As for losing weight- it’s not happening! I’m not even trying! Clothes are tight! I’ve bought bigger sizes! When I attended my MRI scan on Saturday I had to let them know my weight and I didn’t know because I’ve not weighed for months! I just guessed! I have enjoyed eating without feeling any guilt which has been a revelation. Ive enjoyed saying yes to things and not feeling bad about food. My years of dieting always steers me towards healthy options but being more flexible feels so liberating. The stress of trying to be slim has overwhelmed me this year and I’ve accepted myself more in the last three months. I am disappointed that I’ve not achieved anything weight wise this year- I tried and tried and failed and failed. I’ve had lots of ups and many downs but I’m doing ok. This year just wasn’t my year. Many of us haven’t had the year we hoped for but that’s life. I was convinced I would get to goal weight this year but hey ho! Well done to everyone who has lost weight, it’s hard to keep chipping away but when it begins to fall off it’s so exciting to see the new you emerging. There have been some big weight losses too! Well done.
I hope before we come to the end of the cruise we can all get together, if we have lost or gained we have sailed together for a whole year and it would be lovely to catch up before we disembark. 🚢 🌊

Decided to make a comment to bring this thread up over all the scammers who are posting. Admin, please do something about them.

My positives are:

started to lose weight again and definitely under the 74kg bete noir.
thrown out the DVD player but managed to find my favourite exercise on Ytube, Shaun T. Glad I can still keep up with him even with the asthma.
120 days to our next cruise, got to get Christmas over first with hopefully little or no damage to my weight. Not much chance of that.

Hi everyone, Kazz nice to see you back – tip of the week, share the cake or only take one really mindful bite of yours just to get the taste pleasure. We are dragging out our breadmaker this week to try it out before we put it up for sale, that means having lovely crusty bread in the house. Will hopefully get hubby to freeze half.

Hi Tulip1, it is not easy to get motivated to exercise when it is cold and miserable (yes, even here in France). I managed 2 sessions this week.

Lost another smidge and down to 73.5kgs. Will try not to be tempted by the bread.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Hi all, I’m not feeling very chatty, but determined to carry on my weekly check-in! Thank you for all your good wishes.

Congrats SueBlue on the reboot. Your food diary looks delicious, and I am sure it helps to be less calorie focused and more quality focused.
Dawn I hope you have recovered from the stomach bug and can press on with op recovery!
DCT thanks for the good wishes. I am in Europe so two countries rather than continents to negotiate in all this sadness. That makes it a bit easier!

It is nearly six months now since my 25 May reboot, though the last month has been a bit patchy in terms of carbs. I am getting back on track. I see from my last post that I must be down 0.7 kg this week, since I have now lost a total of 16 kilos – though some of that has been on and off a few times! Keeping on keeping on. Good luck to everyone this week.

Welcome back Kazz 🙂

I’ve been not terrible (re healthy eating), but not perfect either……although I have lost a few pounds so the overall trend is going down a tiny bit….really, not enough consistency as yet tho!

Exercise-wise, I have been regularly putting in what is needed to increase fitness, so that is one positive.

Love to all xx

Hello, returning “oldie” here! Lovely to see a few names that I recognise, such as Sunshine-girl, Verano, Wendy1947 and Tulip1 to name a few. “Waves”. I think it must be about 5 years since I was last here. What a lot has happened since then…. I’m newly retired (5 months) and still battling on with my Achilles heal – white crusty bread! I am hoping by re-joining I can give myself the incentive I need to get back in control. Since retiring, I’ve got into a rather naughty but nice habit of taking mum and I out / shopping twice a week and we then have a nice coffee and cake or share a fish and cone of chips each week for lunch – I need to reign it in and become accountable again! It is good to be back and nice to see a few familiar faces! 🙂 I hope everyone is well?
Kazzeexxxx

Thank you for this thread and being able to post a tribute. I’ve not posted for a few years, but I wanted to say how grateful I am to have stumbled across Dr Michael’s BSD website back in 2017 when I was very low and quite desperate – searching for answers to my digestive issues…. he taught me so much and since then I have been on a marvellous journey, learning and educating myself.
However, utter disbelief and immense sadness when I first heard the news of his passing. He wasn’t afraid to try things out for himself – such as the tape worm! I’ll never forget that experiment! My thoughts are with his wife Claire and family who are carrying on with his legacy and that is just amazing! What an awesome man and family. Thank you, Michael and his Team, for all you have given us.

Gone down to 73.6kgs so that is progress. It takes me back to having lost 7lbs since September. Not the 14lbs I wanted but still 3.5 weeks left. Only one night out during that time.

Hope you are all doing okay. Feeling sad I seem to be here on my own most of the time.

Hi all, still dithering around 74kgs, Dont know why I worry about my weight so much as it is my BG that is more important, but the 2 can be connected.

Still trying to get down to 71kgs for Xmas but it is looking bleak.

Thanks Sue, I bet it was awful having it on holiday. The worst part for me was the agonising stomach cramps which were as bad as the worst kidney stone pain I’ve ever had. If my sister hadn’t had exactly the same I would have been concerned that something had gone wrong with my surgery! I’ve been out and about this morning for the first time since the operation, I let my husband drive as not sure I could do an emergency stop yet if needed but am hoping to be driving again by next week🤞Dawn XX

Oh Dawn how awful! I had Norovirus on holiday once about 10 years ago and it was up there with the worst I’ve ever felt illness wise 🙁
Take care and I hope you feel better soon x

Hi everyone,
I will catch up on posts later today. My recovery was going well until Friday when I started to feel quite poorly and think I may have had norovirus or something similar, my sister had it too. The stomach cramps were the worst I’ve ever had with a stomach bug and I had uncontrollable shivering and a migraine alongside it which may have been connected. It’s set me back a bit but I feel a lot better now. Hope everyone is having a good week. Dawn XX

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Happy Monday all 🙂
In an effort to keep myself accountable, I thought I’d post about the last couple of days.
I’ve been focussing on gut-healthy foods in an effort to reduce the IBS symptoms I’m experiencing, rather than dieting as such. I’ve been recording foods in My Fitness Pal more so to keep a track of what I’m eating and to see which foods hello. Calories have averaged about 1000-1200 per day. It’s early days yet but I do feel slightly better, and as a bonus have lost 600g in the past 5 days – (most likely water weight, but hey a loss is a loss).
I’m enjoying getting back into cooking and preparing healthy meals – I forgot how cost effective this can be! As an example, I bought a whole chicken for $7 and followed the gut healthy broth recipe in the Clever guts diet book to make 3 litres of bone broth in my slow cooker. I removed the chicken once it was cooked. Since then I’ve had chicken salad, chicken and wholemeal pasta and a few servings of both chicken and veg soup, and just plain bone broth. I still have a couple of servings of soup in the fridge, and 6 cups of broth as well as a couple of portions of cooked chicken in the freezer! All this for under $10 🙂

For breakfast I’ve been having Greek yoghurt with berries and seeds, or chia pudding made with kefir. This morning I had some egg, Haloumi, mushroom and tomato.
For lunch I’ll have some more soup, and then dinner I was going to make up a bowl with some protein, small amount of cooked brown rice and some veggies.
I’m sticking to a financial budget this week as have had so many household and car expenses in the past month, but going to plan a weeks menu and go shopping at the end of the week.
DAWN – I hope you are continuing to recover well, also HEID I hope your husband is getting better.
YOWZER – Hope your are doing better too x
MARIET – Hope your holiday is going well, I must admit, in your shoes I’d be just enjoying myself and not worrying about diet, because for me it would be a once in a lifetime trip 🙂
CATHY and DCT – how is the reboot going for you?
And for everyone else I haven’t mentioned hope all is well in your world’s too 🙂

xxxxx

Heidi I am so very sorry to hear the sad news about your father. Sending you lots of love and hope you are ok. Also hope your husband’s surgery went well. Busy and stressful times for you, especially with responsibilities on two different continents. Take care of yourself – we’re all thinking of you xx

Mariet hope you have a fabulous trip despite the weather!

Hope everyone else is doing ok xx

Heidi – thinking of you and sending love at this difficult time. Wishing your husband a speedy recovery from his surgery.

Heidi I’m so sorry to hear about the loss of your father, take care x

Heidi, sorry to hear about your father and best wishes for your husband’s recovery after surgery.
We arrived in Dublin last night, in slashing rain and wind and a temperature about 9C, after leaving Sydney at 31C. It woke us up I can tell you, after a 30 hour journey! Now sitting in a pub with a glass of Prosecco and reminding myself that holidays are fleeting but the weight can remain for months!

Thanks for the shout out, DCT. And good to see the thread buzzing with news. Very pleased to hear that operations have been successful, a new job about to start, and wishing a happy holiday to Mariet.

Since my last check in here on 25 October, my husband has had surgery and my father has died. I spent the last few days with him last weekend and head back to the UK tomorrow. Speaking selfishly, it has been difficult to keep on track with sadness, stress and travel, but I am doing reasonably OK. Just 0.1 kilo is back. So 15.3 kilos off since end May. I shall keep on keeping on. As Cathy says, there is still time to make a difference this year, Best wishes to you all. xx

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Hello everyone & I have just weighed & have gained 0.5 lbs & looking back half a pound is all that I have lost since 1st October! It’s very frustrating & with my husbands birthday tomorrow & a family gathering with the extra wine nibbles food & cake on offer I am sure to gain more weight. Next Wednesday it’s my birthday & we will go out to dinner next Friday but I will try to do better the week after next 🤞🤞I keep on trying but am finding it difficult to get back to eating low carb with the temptation this week of some excellent seeded wholemeal sour dough bread! To cap it all my husband lost two pounds this last week after eating much more than me but good for him of course & rather demoralising for me 🤔
Oh well the weeks running up to Christmas & then the new year is going to be very challenging diet wise & I suppose it’s just trying to monitor eating on a daily basis!
Keep on going everyone all we can do is try to do our best to look after ourselves 🤞🍀🍀
Margaret xx

thank you for the welcome back lovelies- I am really very on off…I think mostly due to ongoing stresses and other people to sort out…..I am just finding it hard to prioritise my own healthy eating…I must though!! Love to all xxx

Hello.
Just wanted to pop by. I obviously haven’t been sticking to any sort of plan lately! Anyway, we leave the ship on Monday for 10 days in a hotel where food will be far more ‘controllable’ …. hopefully!
Sorry to see the November thread is so quiet but I’m guessing that’s because everyone is so busy sorting out recipes and making food plans for the winter?? Hibernating can be healthy !
Hope everyone is well.