Had my first swim of the season yesterday
Now lost 4.5lbs on the paid diet. Not going to do the exercises as I am swimming which is enough.
Tomato plants doing great – some tiny buds appearing.

Lost another pound so still going down. Had my first swim of the season yesterday and it was wonderful. Today we have 37 degrees so I am going to wait until this evening before I go for another swim.

I dont know who is going to take on the mantle of starting the next thread as it is 1st June on Monday. I remember Verano saying she would but also Newbie2026. I will let you sort it out yourselves.

For some reason I cannot repost our original words about Michael Mosley so I am going to retype word for word.

I am deeply saddened by the news of Michael Mosleys passing. Thank you for sharing this beautiful tribute. It is clear he touched countless lives with his expertise, compassion and unwavering dedication to improving health and wellness. Beyond his professional achievements, Michael Mosleys kindness and generosity will be fondly remembered. His innovative spirit and genuine concern for others stand as a testement to how one individual can truly make a positive impact on the world. My heartfelt condolences go out to his family, friends and colleagues. He will be profoundly missed but his legacy will continue to inspire us for years to come. May he rest in peace.
His unwavering commitment to excellence and his innovative approach to science and health have left and indelible mark on the lives of many.

olihoachim, how dare you desecrate a memorial to our founder. You are a disgrace. I am going to repeat our words of thanks to Michael Mosley and you can go find somewhere else to post.

Hi Cathy yes it’s been a wonderful weekend in the sun hasn’t it. I confess to having gone way off piste and enjoyed lots of food and drink with friends. No regrets – I’ve had a lovely time – but the scales took their revenge this morning 🙀. My plan is to have a strict day today and tomorrow, then on Thursday I have my lip surgery so I don’t know what I will or won’t be able to eat after that.

Re the online plan I think I’m going to cancel as I’m not really using at all. The only arguments against cancelling are that when I first started using it and stuck to it I did begin to lose weight at a pleasing rate, even though I was only doing the 5:2. And you Cathy have achieved spectacular results using it! So part of me thinks I should keep it going a bit longer and really stick rigidly to one of the plans for at least a few weeks. I never seem to do as well on my own. Will have a think and report back in due course!

Hope everyone else is doing ok? Hello to anyone reading this post, and hope you have a good week x

Hello
Hope everyone in the UK is enjoying the sunshine. My son has been home over the Bank Holiday weekend and I’ve enjoyed a relaxed few days food wise as per my ongoing plan and so today is back to basics. I am hoping it wont be too difficult to keep chopping snd changing but I have to live my life and find a way to make things work. I am going to cancel the online plan today. I need to go it alone now. I hope everyone is finding what works for them.
Going to dig deep now until my birthday in June and see if i can get under 140 lb. I think it could be a challenge but i will be more than happy to be 140. After the weekend i am a few pounds up but it’s water weigh which will disappear once am back on track. Keep strong everyone- we’ve got this.

Can only see 6 at the moment but will not engage with them. They will disappear eventually – keep at them.

Thanks s-g. I just reported 4 more, so we’ll see what happens.

Hi all, hope you are all surviving the heat, we have 36 degrees here in France. Unusual even for us at this time of year. It has got hotter and hotter since we moved here when I hot summer was 25 to 28. Now it is 32 to 36 and we get a week or so over 40. One reason we are coming back to the UK, it is getting hotter there too but not quite as hot.

Enjoy your birthday lunch Verano and seeing your sone. It would be so nice to sit out with a nice glass of rose but not allowed on my diet and I have to stick to it. Getting close to 5lb loss.

Enjoy the weekend and stay hydrated.

Well done S-G.
I have weighed a day early because of going to an 80th birthday tea & my youngest son is arriving tonight for a couple of nights stay so temptations of wine & extra food. I have lost 0.75lbs so not much but I am still losing weight in my third week of going back much more strictly to the BSD diet.
I hope everyone has an enjoyable long weekend. 🤞🤞
Margaret xx

Hi everyone,
I feel today is the first day I’ve managed to get back to normal eating wise in a while and enjoyed some cheesy ham and tomato pikelets for lunch and chicken fajitas (using lettuce as the tortilla) for tea, both very tasty. I think the antibiotics have worked as I feel my kidney infection has probably gone but I will finish the course and hope that they haven’t damaged my gut bacteria too much (I take a probiotic every day so hopefully that will be helping). I’m going to weigh myself the morning we head off to the Scottish Highlands so I still have over a week to get a bit more weight off and we are self catering whilst we are there and will most probably be having breakfast and evening meals in and just lunch out so food wise it doesn’t have to be too disastrous (though I will definitely be buying a cake or two from a gorgeous little bakery we like in Glencoe).
Articfox well done on your belt going down another notch. We used to have a nice thread titled ‘None scale victories’ NSVs and it was lovely to read about people’s various goals being met.
I hope everyone is having a good week, nice to see that the weather in the UK is due to be nice for half term week.
Dawn X

Well done s-g …… keep on keeping on…….

Yes. I finished it yesterday. I really enjoyed it and definitely an interesting ending.

A couple I’ve read recently are Lisa Jewell ‘Then she was gone’ and Claire Douglas ‘The Wrong Sister’ both worth looking at.

I also love John Grisham and have just Red ‘The Judges List’. If you like him it’s definitely worth reading.

Looks like there has been a clear out of the scams and ads, we have to keep on top of this by posting so their posts drop down the list.

Still doing well on the Fast800 but not seeing much by way of inch loss – only lost half an inch so far but down 4 lbs.

Have you finished it yet Verano

The positives, If I comment on this thread it will push at least 5 scams down a few levels. My positives today

Pool has reached 20 degrees, so only 4 more before I swim
Heat wave, but not sure that is so positive – 35 degrees by Saturday, that used to be heat wave weather, now seems to be pretty normal
Enjoying following the Fast800 paid for diet – chicken with balsamic and cherry tomatoes for dinner.

Hi arctic, just report them but without mentioning it on their post or you will just bring them back to the top. I have reported over 30 of these posts with no response from admin.

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Seems we have to keep posting regularly to keep the thread above all the spam. I don’t think the email address for reporting is being monitored anymore. I certainly never got a reply when I sent them a message about my old profile not working anymore.
Anyway, just popping on to quickly report that my belt has gone in another notch (almost 2, but not quite comfortably yet!), so I guess I had my jump all of a sudden since I last posted 3 days ago. I have been working really, really hard in the garden. At least 2 hours a day of weeding, some days more, plus planting. I fasted for over 20 hours on Sunday because I stayed outside until I got a job done, but unfortunately then made a mistake about how I broke that fast and ended up with some gastric upset, and then I didn’t feel like eating much for the rest of the day. So my downward trajectory may be largely due to that episode. But I’ll take it however it comes!

Positives

Lost 3.5lbs and 1 inch on the Fast800
Not planted courgettes out yet but they are doing fine – prefer to lose 2 or 3 or will be living on courgettes in summer
Looking forward to 34 degrees temperatures on Thursday – not really, it is too hot too quick.

So glad you ‘got’ it. The ending is amazing.

My weight loss for the week on the paid site is 3.5lbs. That is okay as I am always on a diet so not like someone just starting out. I did say I wanted to lose 1kg a month from mid April and I have already reached that as I weighed more mid April than I did last week. Going to keep going even after my free 7 days has now ended.

Verano, great to hear from you and that you had a great cruise. I know from experience that ours was particularly bad and quite unusual so will be looking for something for next year. As for your weight, I personally would weigh in as soon as I get back home as you will lose something after a few days just by normal eating and that will make you feel good about yourself. Then you can crack on with the diet at a convenient time i.e. I like to get a weekend over with.

Hello!
While I’m here thought I would just pop in and say ‘hello’.

We had an amazing cruise with probably the best service we’ve ever had. My fizzy water with a little ice and a slice was at the table almost.before we were ! Anyway, just one rough night but unlike you s-g no champagne at hand to dull the motion!
I must say that on this trip I’ve been finding it far more difficult to make reasonable choices now we are back on dry land,

I had an episode of my autoimmune disease for 48 hours so that hasn’t helped matters. But anyway I’m managing to find reasonably good low carb stuff now although I’ve had to resort to eating quite a lot of fruit to stay away from bread. I have to decide if I weigh as soon as I get home or wait a few days? Very difficult decision!

Hope everyone is doing well. Two thirds of the way through May so still time to make an impression and really make May Monumental. Best of luck to everyone. I’ll be joining in again for the last few days of the month.
Happy Bank Holiday!

So, after digging down below all the ‘scam’ I finally found this thread again!
Reading ‘The Husband’s Secret’ and must admit I’ve found it a bit ‘slow’ and maybe a bit ‘tedious’ but finally got to page 167 and now know what the secret is. I must admit I ‘gasped’ when it was revealed but now I’m really into the book!
Can’t wait to read the rest!

SG and Dawn, thanks for adding positives.
Dawn, belated happy birthday, hope you had a wonderful day and the year ahead brings lots of good things your way.
SG, sounds like the paid programme is working out well for you. Hope your courgette plants survive and are productive.
My positives are ….
🌸🌸 Dad doing well again and is starting to get out and about now
🌸🌸 have started to move things into our villa, should be moving in, in about ten days time
🌸🌸 meeting up with old friends today, looking forward to eeing them and catching up on news

Hooe you all have a great weekend full of lots of positives x

Happy Birthday Dawn! Sorry you’ve been feeling poorly, but hopefully you will be on the mend soon.
I am carrying on with trialing meds. But I think I may have found one that will work long term now. I was wondering if it was doing anything at all as I was having absolutely no side effects, but after being on it for 8 days in a row, I am definitely noticing a difference now. I am starting to be able to task switch much better and even though I have been able to eat more and eat regularly, it has been fairly easy to make good decisions regarding food. I don’t think I have lost much more this week, but it tends to go in jumps for me anyway. I was at physio yesterday for my usual SI joint issue and it was my regular physio that I haven’t been able to see for the last 18 months due to her getting cancer treatments. She said I am nice and strong! So that is good and means I haven’t lost much in the way of muscle.
I’m in the middle of my super busy season right now on the farm, and of course I had to go and make things even busier by taking the nutrition course. And then there is pottery. I am planning to enter a couple of art shows this summer, so am trying to get some things finished up before the entry deadlines. I picked up one of my teapots yesterday and it turned out really well, and I was getting compliments on it from the other potters, so I think that will be one of my entries. I have had to set swing dancing aside right now as I am just too busy, and the dance studio is only doing classes in beginner west coast swing right at the moment, and no lindy hop for the summer which is disappointing. I might try and find another studio later in the summer when I am less busy.
Anyway, I have had a productive morning in the garden. I think the meds are responsible for me being able to get things done very quickly and to keep going without the mental fatigue that I used to have that would cause me to quit before I had completed all the tasks I needed to do. I am waiting for my lunch to cook (butternut squash stuffed with spinach, asparagus and topped with kalamata olives and mozzarella cheese), and then I will finish up my first assignment for my nutrition course before hopefully getting back out into the garden to plant some cucumbers and dill before the evening thundershowers start.

Very well done Newbie with your weight loss 👏👏 It is always such a good feeling buying new clothes😀
I weighed this morning & have lost 1.5lbs which I am pleased about & getting back into the routine of daily meal planning recording everything in my food diary that I am planning to eat before I do to check the calories. I have five weeks to go until my river cruise & have still to get out my summer clothes to check what I can still fit into but hopefully losing more weight will make them look better 🤞🤞. I have just booked an airport lounge at Gatwick because we will have to be there at 5am which will be horrendous because I am an owl not a lark & hate getting up so early!! Oh well one of the penalties of flying anywhere.
Enjoy the weekend everyone
Margaret xx

31 scam and advertising posts today – I wonder if they are paying to be on this site.

Hi Newbie, great about the 1lb loss and so close to your goal. I am sure your bloods will be good – not sure about the measurement you use but if you know thats all that matters. I do finger pricks in the morning and that measure in 2 different rates i.e. for me between 80 mg/dLand 120 mg/dL is good. Then I have my HbA1c and that measures 5.8 or 6.9 or whatever, so both different.

The exercises on this course at intermediate are not difficult – they are mainly resistance training with weights or push ups etc. The difference from the easy is that it was seated. Today I have a Pilates session and the only difficulty is my computer is in our little office which has a wooden floor so I will have to put down a duvet and then my exercise mat. I will also be straining to see the screen. As for the diet, it is the same as you can do on this if you use the BSD or Fast800 menus in the back of the books or even the recipes on this site. The difference is the whole day is planned out for you (you can adjust for preferences). For me I would have 2 boiled eggs but would also have a Ryvita with butter, lunch today was a chickpea, red pepper soup but again I would have a Ryvita. Since starting this plan I have not had any Ryvita. Hubby did grilled cod with a salad for me and chips for him, then he piled about 7 or 8 chips on my plate. Maybe before I would have been tempted but now I just put them on his plate – he had quite a bit to eat 🙂

Dont know where everyone has gone but for those following just keep on keeping on…

Hi everyone and thank you for the birthday wishes.
I had a lovely day but have been feeling pretty poorly for the last few days, really bad aches all over, uncontrollable shivering, high heart rate and temperature, generally feeling out of sorts. I felt it was a uti but it felt worse than ones I’ve had before so I decided this morning to go to the nearest nhs walk in centre as, if it had become an upper uti, a pharmacy wouldn’t have been able to help (whereas apparently they can with lower ones). I had to wait a couple of hours to see the appropriate nurse but it could have been worse. She’s pretty sure it’s an upper uti, kidney infection so has given me a 10 day course of antibiotics. I’m not sure how closely I will be sticking to my online plan menus whilst I’m taking them but intend to try. I don’t feel as if I’ve given the plan my best go after the first few weeks so really want a few months of doing that now then will decide whether to cancel or not.
Dawn XX

Hi DCT
It made me feel better when i read that even though you spent 20 years working in education you found exam invigilating stressful. Having spent 40 years working in a medical world this is completely different and i do find it stressful as the JCQ rules are stringent and complex. I had to supervise a group of 15 quite challenging students over a 2.5 hour period who had a clash of exams this week and then go straight into a 3 hour sports hall exam. I think ill be glad when the exams are over and I might look for something different going forward as i am not sure it’s the job for me. Also I have to travel quite a way to get to college and parking can be an issue. I will enjoy my wages though!
Like you, I don’t do the exercises on the programme and I think I too will cancel when my free month is over as I have printed the recipes I like and I need to learn to go it alone now and eat more variety. I have learned what works for me which is low carb and low calorie. I am only eating fresh unprocessed food and not eating between meals. These rules should keep me on track. I think my new rule of being strict unless it’s a holiday or a festivity will also help me to stay on track. Once I get to my target then it’s going to be a weekly weigh in and strict rules when my weight creeps up. I can’t afford to get out of control again!
Have a lovely weekend everyone. Keep doing what you can. We’ve got this!

Good morning all, just reporting a little 1lb loss this week and the lightest I have been for 20+ years. I have been shopping and brought new clothes which is lovely. I feel like I am at a sensible weight now with maybe 3lb to go to cover my ocd symmetrical even number brain that I have and will allow myself a half stone wiggle room. My last hba1c blood test was 54 so I’m heading in the right direction, I shall either request one or pay privately for one in a few months to see if I am continuing to decrease it. Had yet another meal with cauliflower rice yesterday and I couldn’t eat it, i need another rice substitute.
Anyway, Sunshine-Girl it sounds like you are doing well with the online plan, how did you get on with the more advanced exercises? Monthly blips i feel will always play a factor in our gains and losses, but we just need to be mindful of this and not let it upset our overall losses. I have yoghurt, berries and granola for breakfast each morning and I really look forward to it, but I am going to try your caprese salad as I love it but never make it at home and yet it is so simple and flavoursome.
Wendy so pleased you are not on the infected cruise ship, it sounds terrible, but hopefully everyone isolating will be ok.
The sun is shining here and the washing is on, so a day of chores is ahead of me and maybe a bike ride, I’ve been struggling with a cold the last few days so I’ve not been able to run, but today it seems to be on it’s way out so all is good.
Have a lovely weekend everyone x

DAWN Happy 60th! I hope you have a lovely birthday and a great year ahead.

CATHY great results for you in terms of maintenance. As you say, it will take a while to get into a new groove but I have every confidence that you will do it. Hope the invigilation goes well too. I worked in education for over 20 years and always used to find exam invigilation really stressful. Not sure if it’s better or worse if you know the pupils but I always used to worry about inadvertently doing something wrong.

I’m vaguely back on track and have lost 2lb this week which I’m pleased about. I say “vaguely” because I’ve had a couple of strict days then other days when I’ve had events that involve eating out and I’ve done my best but the options aren’t always great. And I’m off to a big family event today and don’t know what will be on the menu. Wish me luck!

Those of you on the online programme, how are you doing? I’m thinking of cancelling it soon. It was great to start with and I stuck rigidly to the plan. Maybe that’s the answer – I know it worked really well for you CATHY. But now I’ve used a lot of the recipes I find I’m not using it as much, just doing my own thing along the same lines. And I’m not doing the exercises or the reading part either. So it’s a bit of a waste unless I really get back into using it religiously every day. I’m tempted to just make a separate note of all the recipes I’ve really enjoyed and make my own plan based on that. Any thoughts from anyone else on it?

Anyway, heading off soon, so hope you all have a wonderful weekend X

PS SUNSHINE GIRL thanks for your post too and I hope you’re doing well. I completely agree about all the spam on these forums. I do wish admin could do something about it – perhaps a more rigorous sign up procedure or something. But I don’t know what these spammers are trying to achieve with their often nonsensical posts. Even if I were in the market for anything they are offering, there’s no way I would use a company that employs those kind of tactics! Like you SUNSHINE GIRL I often report them but don’t post on them as engagement is what they want. Let’s hope they get the message!!

Dawn- I believe it is your 60th birthday this week. Just want to wish you a very happy birthday. 🥳 🎂 🥂 enjoy your special day.

Hello everyone
I weighed this morning 10 days after coming back from my little holiday to Kassiopi and upping my calories and transitioning from keto to 3:4 which I’ve not found easy. This morning i was 142.8 lb which was 1.2 lb increase. I am ok with this and mindful that I am eating more calories, feeling hungry as i am not in ketosis and have to learn to eat well, eat enough and keep my weight steady. Ideally i would like some wiggle room so am still aiming for 138 lb by 15th June and then maintain between 138-142. I’ve not been on my walking pad for 3 weeks as I had an issue with my knee pre holiday and i hope i can get back to exercising a little more next week between my busy invigilating schedule.
My plan for the coming week is to get back on my walking pad, lose 1.8 b so I am 141 lb next Friday and to try and eat intuitively without following the plan too rigidly.
I know that maintenance is going to be difficult- I can’t go back to how things were and some food is off the menu for me unless it’s a special occasion.
How is everyone doing?

I know you have got this but can I just put you back up to the top, above the scammers and adverts which are driving me mad.

Putting this back to the top

Positives are:-
Eye test today and everything is fine. They keep trying to find something wrong with me but at least I am being looked after.
Doing well on paid for Fast800 and not feeling hungry as I did when I tried to get back into the BSD after the holiday. Maybe because it is costing me money and I am being monitored – although by a computer programme not an individual person.
Did 20 mins of resistance training. This programme doesnt bother with aerobics as maintaining muscle mass is more important when on low cal.

Keep on posting.

Good for that. Mostly the hygiene is down to the customers. Do they always sanitize or wash their hands after the toilet. Did they have an infection before they joined the ship. These are the things the cruise line cannot control. I know on our cruises (Cunard and P&O) they practically chase you around with sanitizers. We think our next cruise will be a river – possibly the Rhine or the Danube but not for at least next year.

Still doing well although my weight had a blip up but when I look at the date (middle of the month) I know that was always my time of the month and still after all these years I feel myself bloat up. So it should drop down.

The scammers and advertisers are still driving me mad. Maybe the answer is to keep posting on topic and not letting them stay at the top. Have a great weekend.

No I am not thank goodness S-G my cruise with Viking will be on 21st June & as they are one of the more expensive cruise lines I sincerely hope that their hygiene standards are as good as they were a few years ago on our Rhine cruise🤞🤞
My return to the BSD seems to be still going well with getting used to eating low carb food & MM’s recipes.
I hope everyone is doing well?
Margaret xx

Hi all, just seen the cruise ship in Bordeaux with norovirus and hoping that Margaret (Wendy1947) is not on it.

So many scam posts it is getting impossible to find genuine posts about BSD or Fast800. I am well informed if I live in Mumbi and want my teeth sorting out. It is a disgrace.

Still enjoying the paid site and doing very well.

Come and join the few of us who are still here.

So much for reporting scams and adverts to admin. Today there are 30 non site related postings. Yes, some from a couple of days ago but these should have been removed as I have reported some of them twice. Losing all faith in this site as it has become an absolute mess.

Hi ADD, happy birthday.

What do I have as positives today

lost more weight on the paid Fast800 site
Bought 6 courgette plants – hopefully at least 3 will survive as is normal
Raining so cant plant out courgettes but my tomatoes are getting a lovely drink
Keeping this at the top

Just scanned down the posts and there are 28 today. Okay some are still from yesterday. Do I have the time and energy to report this lot or am I still expecting admin to do something about it.

Another loss today and still enjoying the recipes. Today I had yoghurt, blueberries and strawberries for breakfast and a caprese salad for lunch. I was just tomato, mozzerella and torn spinch with olive oil but it was so tasty. Also doing the exercises, todays is 25 mins of strength training. Not long but better than promising to do half an hour a day then doing nothing. Because this is right in front of you on your days plan it is easy to remember and just get on with it.

Hi Sg,
I just wanted to pop on to say well done for reporting all of the advertising, it’s becoming ridiculous. I haven’t posted on positives for ages but will start trying to remember to. Here are a few for today:
I turn 60 tomorrow and weigh lighter than I did at the start of the year so am happy about that.
Some nice presents have been arriving in the post:)
Once tomorrow (and a few treats) are over with I feel in a positive frame of mind to continue the Fast800
online plan which I started off well on but which I haven’t made the most of!
Dawn X

I am posting today because this subject has gone so far down under the scam and advertising posts it was getting totally lost. So my positives for today are:e

reported around 25 scam posts – hoping to see lots more genuine posts
doing well on my Fast500 paid for plan in my 7 day trial
having lunch in the garden every day – before it gets a bit colder again.

I have just reported 25 scam ads, it is making it impossible to seek out genuine posters who might need help or advice. Please report them and dont say anything in their post box as you will just keep them at the top of the listings. I am now going to comment on Positives because it is about 29 posts down and lost in this mess.

Can I ask when admin are going to make an effort to stop these posts from even getting on the site. I have just counted 23 in the first 25 posts. From dental treatents in Mumbi to computer programmers in somewhere or other.

When we log in we have to register and if we make a mistake on log in, say something a bit off topic or out of turn, or break some silly rule, we are blocked straightaway. How are these posts even getting onto the site.

Hi Newbie, after much confusion and still finding my way around, I have settled in. Strict day yesterday 850 what they call fasting day. I have lost 3lbs overnight. Yes, fluid but a I am always on a diet I didnt expect that to happen. Did one set of exercises but they were seated so it took me a while to work out that because I said I hadnt been doing any exercise (true I have been lazy since my holiday) so it listed me as sedantary. Found where it was logged and changed it to something like fit to do standing exercise. So today I have a hiit session for just 5 mins. If I find it too difficult I will adjust me level again. it is all connected so if I cant eat something it will let me change it and it automatically changes everything, the calories, carbs etc and also my shopping list. Think I am going to get on well with it but I will still be here.

Shame we cant post photos on here, I have some lovely examples of paint by numbers.