..at the waiter?? 😮

Low-fat/non-fat products are loaded with sugar/carbs to make up the volume. Eat Fage/Total full-fat Greek yoghurt, fills you up, is natural + tastes like a dream!! Yum yum!

My stomach is growling…

Hi Jan & Ziggy,

Thanks for the replies, you’re absolutely right, visceral maybe wasn’t the right fat, although I’d love to think that was disappearing too. Exercise it is then, more aerobic I’m thinking, been walking plenty but nothing too strenuous, guess it’s time to up my game. On the plus side, I may still have the spare tyre from hell but my blood sugars are brilliant (down from 15 on diagnosis to 5-6), I can live with that :).

Rachel

Hi all,

I’m new to the BSD, read the book as recommended by my mother and it all looks swell. However, I am worried about following the BSD whilst being unable to eat gluten – I got diagnosed as borderline coeliac a year ago and struggle to follow diets if they look like like avoiding gluten and wheat would be a problem.
Would it be a good idea to start the BSD despite this do you think?

Thanks 🙂

Just as good! No carbs, and lots of protein!!!

I misread that and thought you’d wrote ‘sparkling waiter’ 🙂

Give me Spanish or Greek heat any day over this! Preferably with a cocktail or cold beer!! Or sparkling water, for BSD purposes… 🙁

Be wary of which non fat or low fat yogurts you choose, some are thin, runny and taste of saccharin, really nasty.

Calm down dear, calm down. When you say over the top on calories, how much over the top? They can make for weight gain. I can feel your frustration, but just keep going, stick to <800 carbs and you will reach your stone lost (another one!!!).

Positive vibes winging your way, SunnyB. Be Sunny like your name!

Hi Marsie, thank you very much 🙂 Yes, I think it is, and here we are many, many posts later! Taking it in baby steps, whatever else I manage to lose between now and the wedding is a bonus, but even if I didn’t lose another pound I’d still be at least 28lbs lighter than I was 6 weeks ago! And guaranteed I’d have put on a fair few more in the interim! I know I have a lot further to go than September though, this is going to be long term, well… this way of eating is hopefully going to be forever (with an occasional treat chucked in if and when I feel like it).

Yes, I’ve heard a lot of people say that, I’ve never been abroad so I can’t comment, but I’m not a heat lover. So when I say that these foreign countries wouldn’t do for me on holiday, people tell me it’s a different kind of heat ‘over there’ than we have here. So I can well believe that you did feel sweatier over here! The thing is, there’s no warning for it over here, it’s all or nothing. My husband is from Lancashire and he’s been living here (Wales) since 2001 🙂 I think he hasn’t lost much of his accent but when we go to his family and I hear other people speaking, it’s amazing how broad they are in comparison to him. And I also find he slips right back into a broad dialect too, when amongst his own kind 😉

Oh it’s helping me immensely, I love the banter. You’ve got to have a laugh, haven’t you? Makes it so much easier when you’re facing a daunting task. And losing another 6 or 7 stone IS daunting! But I’ll get there pound by pound 😀

When I dissolve mine in water it doesn’t thicken up, but then I just down it all in one go straight after mixing. Must put some in a glass and leave it to see what happens.

Am I the only person on the forum who doesn’t take yoghurt? Well I tool my first one last week, but it was non fat, and people on the forum are taking them for the fat content. The other 3 non fat yuohurts in the pack are still in the fridge!

Amazing stuff isn’t it? And so versatile too. I’m absolutely sold on it and make sure I have cauli in the fridge all the time now. Try blitzing it with some fresh herbs too – delicious!

Well, Lucky Maneki, I think this is the second time I’ve said congratulations to you for a milestone moment. Heartiest congratulations and good wishes for further losses before the date you’ve set. I think you will look great, you have such a wonderful attitude.

Before I visited GB for the first time a friend who still has her Lancastershire accent, despite being in Australia for more than 50 years (come to think of it, my dear old Nana who came out here after WW1 aged 30, died at 99 still as broad as could be), this is a terrible sentence, lol, I’ll start again. English born friend said I’d notice the heat more in GB than here in Perth and I think she is right. Felt sweatier at 25 degrees celsius in London, than 30 degrees at home…..who’d guess?

Good luck again, am enjoying the joshing between friends on your page, it seems to help along the way so thanks all :):)

I am gutted
I have lost weight – since January
my blood sugars (not diabetic) are apparently great

and my cholesterol
has gone up

I just sat and cried

I don’t know what to do
I don’t know if I should ditch the ff yog and cheese
I don’t know If I should eat less eggs
or start eating oat cereal again

dr says if it is genetic there is little I can do

I feel so knocked by this and my head is spinning again because I had sort of settled right down to eating certain things and now I just don’t know

I’m at screaming pitch with frustration and all because I seem to have lost the plot on this whole thing.

I had been just one pound away from achieving a stone lost and since then, I have seen only increases, so that I am now 2.6lb away from that achievement.

Whilst I confess that I have had a few days over the top on calories, the carbs have been consistently under 50g everyday, however, I am seeing daily weight increases and am really struggling to get my head together again and get myself back to loosing rather that gaining. Finding it really hard to find motivation right now and feel like it’s all falling apart.

Sorry, whinge over! I know what I need to do – reign it all in and get back to basics and start thinking positively as well.

That fee certainly sounds amazingly steep and especially when the book, forum and website is really all you need. Consider sugars and carbs as one entity and aim for no more than 50g per day. I cannot comment to the gram count for protein and fat, as I don’t keep a check on these – just cals and carbs. Sure someone out there will be able to offer an insight on these though.

Good luck with it all Kando – looking forward to hearing your results soon.

So back from my morning missions and so far so good. I caught sight of myself in a full lenght mirror and it gave me a fright and a tonne of willpower haha. I will be doing some cooking this afternoon so I have a fridge full of easy stuff to eat. Thanks for everyones support, it has really helped.

Thanks Ziggy, I mix mine into my morning Gk Yoghurt, berries + seeds, that way I don’t notice the sweetness so much.

It’s like glue isn’t it!?

Hello Tokyo 🙂 Thank you my dear, I was doing a sweaty but happy dance in the bathroom! Couldn’t believe it because a sneaky weigh last night before bed (always gives me an inkling of if I’ve lost or not for the next day, don’t judge me, it usually works… 😉 ) had me at 100.7kg. This morning I was 99.7 kg so I must have sweat a lot last night! It was shocking, but I slept through a massive thunderstorm until 5 am, then I closed my window as I could hear the rain hitting things in my bedroom, and went back to sleep until 8 (missed the alarm again!)
I have a jar of that sauce Tokyo, picked it up in B&Ms a while back and not had a chance to use it yet. Let me know what it’s like.
I reckon you’ll be fine you know, and remember, an official weigh day is a self imposed thing too! You might be the same on the weigh day, but a kilo down by the next day! Used to happen to me all the time in WW. Nothing on the day of class, but the next morning, I’d be down something stupid like 3lbs and I’d be hopping mad. Our bodies will lose it when they like, not when we want them to lol

Hi robin_dj

Which model of blood sugar monitor did you go for?

well huge congrats lucky !!! how good is that i bet you jumped off the scales kg is the way to go !!!
my weigh in is usually thurs but putting it to fri with the weekend been a bit of a downer so fingers crossed but wont be surprised if this week it a non mover pop pickers!!!( sound ot top of pops music!!)
i rate all these “celeb cooks” as dreadful really i like stealing bits and bobs from them and their books !!!
not as hot today but last night was awful!!! ended up sleeping downstairs and even then too hot
quick tea tonight cauliflower and paneer cheese cooked in a loyd Grossman mint and curry sayce not much sugar in it !! with the lucky wraps with added fresh mint yep get me paltrow has bugger all on me i tell you !!!!!!!

Yes, I use lean mince Eps, and to be completely honest with you, it’s only in the last couple of months I’ve started using beef mince again. Remember the horse meat scandal? Well, for a long, long time before this broke, whenever I used beef mince, maybe once a week for a chilli or spag bol or lasagne, the smell of it cooking made me feel ill. It was disgusting. It didn’t matter if I dry fried it, or boiled it, it was awful. And I never bought cheap mince either, one thing I won’t compromise on is meat, I’d sooner have less of it and bulk it out with plenty of mushrooms onions and peppers. Always went for the premium one. So I gave up and went over to pork mince after a friend raved about it. We’re all used to it now, and I think it’s tastier anyway. Then the scandal broke and I’ve always thought… could that have been it? How did it go from smelling nice to disgusting all of a sudden? At the end of the day, it’s steak frying, how can that smell awful? The only thing that doesn’t really do with pork is shepherds pie or beefburgers (obvs!) everything else works a treat. But I am partial to a nice lentil bolegnese, if only I could find the bloody recipe for it! It was just as good as a meat one. If not better.

I had a friend (the keyword is had, as she was a nasty toxic piece of work and I set her free in 2008!) who was – so said she – diabetic, gluten intolerant, lactose intolerant. She was vegetarian, not because of ethical reasons, but because she ‘didn’t like the texture of meat’. I’m sure there was one more intolerant in there too. I say ‘so said she’ because she was so vain about her looks, it wouldn’t surprise me if she imposed these restrictions on herself to keep her figure. Caught her out a few times where she said she’d eaten such a thing. Plus she was a liar and a complete headcase. I remember her calling up to order a takeaway one day, an Indian, and she asked for – no word of a lie – ‘Vegetables, stir fried in their own juices’. How hubby and I kept a straight face is beyond me. What WAS the point of that??? Paying for THAT??? That’s not a takeaway? She could have gone to Tesco and whipped that up for herself in 3 minutes for about a quid! She was a bloody nightmare to cook for. But I did, every time. A two course meal every time.

You think that’s what did it for the others? The Lentils? I love lentils. Lentil soup, mmmmmm.

hee heee – would Madam like the green or the red today? :-)))

Pie man Andy :-))) Looked him up there as had never heard of him. I’m sure he’s a lovely man but he’s a bit skinny??? Needs to eat more of his pies :-))

what about lean mince? That’s well worth the calories and protein and good fat, and v filling. I like lentils but like to be able to see them you know? No dissolved stuff…though maybe I should try that once and see – maybe then I could actually have a full portion of it.

Traffic light soup!!

I sneaked lentils into the infamous cottage pie… 🙁

Definitely cookbooks are better in the flesh. Especially James Martin ones. And that bloke who makes pies. Andy something, those eyes! Swoon! Andy Bates. I would, anyway. At least once.

Don’t know about the salt, I just use normal sea salt. There’s a salt local to me, called Halen Môn. Sometimes you’ll see it in foods, like crisps, in special editions. Those posh crisps as I call them. It comes to something when you have to start buying different salts, doesn’t it?

I currently have a) red soup and b) green soup in my freezer lol.

Has he shown any interest in joining you? The moment he does, pounce. Before he changes his mind 😉 I’m so glad hubby is doing this with me. I have to say, he’s a good egg like that. And at the end of the day, he’s not doing it for me, it’s benefitting him in the end. But it would be harder to do if I was watching him tuck into pie and chips and things like.

It’s just the thought of it Janey, I am a bit funny about food in some ways, I’m very adventurous in one sense, but in others, if I’ve taken against trying something, there’s no budging me. And it doesn’t matter how many people tell me you can’t tell the difference, it’s lower cal, no. I can’t even think about putting it in my mouth, and if someone ever tricked me into eating it I’d be very cross lol. I’ll stick to veggies and lentils when I’m doing a spag bol 😉

I’d like to get my OH to try it for a few weeks, but he is panicky about not being able to obsessively eat ham rolls for lunch every day at work.. the nutcase! He eats a version of the BSD for dinner, and for brekkie at weekends (you know, add a bit of toast, or rice) so he’s halfway there already.

Celtic sea salt is just.. salt as far as I’m concerned. These women go a bit overboard at times!

I don’t mind a bit of quorn Lucky. Quorn mince is often sneaked into the mix with normal meaty mince, either to stretch it further or make it lower cal. No one in my house can tell when I’ve done it… Muahahah. I don’t mind chicken style pieces either, although I don’t see why a veggie would want to taste something chicken-y! I have this argument with my sister, who’s been a terrible veggie for 30+ years. Doesn’t like potatoes, tomatoes, peas, pasta makes her ill, she has IBS etc.. I told her it was time to give in and eat a steak because her diet wasn’t making her healthy!

I’m just taking mine with water, I tried cold water, but it got clumps in it, I now dissolve it in warm water and it dissolves fully. A couples of tablespoons of apple cider vinegar before meals is meant to lessen the sugar spike of the meal, but just before the meal so the food stops the cider eating away the lining of your stomach!!!

Can you test your Cholesterol at home? Cholesterol is quite a complex issue as it is much more than just good cholesterol HDL and bad cholesterol LDL. It also includes triglycerides and LDL can also be subdivided into VLDL and benign LDL particles, etc.

Good diet can definitely reduce your cholesterol, but the widely accepted theory that eating ‘fatty’ foods increase your cholesterol is no longer accepted by a lot of experts, they blame high cholesterol on too much carbohydrates, especially the carbohydrates in a lot of processed foodstuffs.

oo yes, though I like Kindle for normal reading, I just cant get head around the cookbooks on it. Seem to spend my whole time scrolling backwards and forwards and cant see the whole of the book in my head and it disturbs my brain :-))) I like cookbooks I think, the nice thick paper and cool photos – maybe more for the niceness of the book than the actual recipe info!! Funny. I have you lot for keeping me up to date with the online stuff anyway ha ha ha. Elena is good though a bit annoying sometimes – like what’s Celtic sea salt??? ha ha ha… They all seem to have their fascinations – think with the Hemsley ones it’s cauliflower which is ok cos I can say ooo me toooooo :-).

Freeezer gravel hee hee – yes I do that with the bags Lucky – and soups that you’re not sure what’s in it until defrosted:-))

Currently working on getting Oh to join in eating plan – he’s healthy enough as he is but I think he’d really like it if got into it. I’d love another guinea pig anyway – it’s so interesting watching what happens physically and mentally.

I used to go every Saturday morning without fail (until I discovered sex and drugs and rock and roll. Ok, ok, snogging and snakebite and rave music… and then Saturday mornings were spent working and hungover instead). I remember being really into Sweet Valley High.

Oh God, the thought of Quorn makes my hackles rise, I’m sorry if I offend any vegetarians here but I find the idea of Quorn as offensive as you probably find meat. If I had to eat a vegetarian diet then it would be just vegetables and pasta and rice and stuff like that. Actually, I did eat a vegetarian diet and it WAS just vegetables and pasta and rice and stuff like that. Add to the mix that I don’t eat cheese = crap veggie. No wonder I put on 10lbs. Not the best ‘diet’ I’ve ever been on. Won’t ask how you know what grannies’ knickers smell like…

Yes – your visceral fat does not show on the outside of the body (AFAIK – unless maybe when you have stones of it), the spare tyre is subcutaneous (under the skin) skin. Exercise can tighten the muscles in the area and reduce the appearance of the spare tyre by up to 2 inches (trust me I’m a doctor – http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3391275/Eating-breakfast-later-sitting-supper-early-key-slimmer-waistline.html ) but dieting is the way to go!

Good luck – you are doing very well as it is, 2 stone weight loss is brilliant.

I loved libraries as a child and teenager.. was always lurking about the shelves.. would read anything that took my interest! I am probably a qualified surgeon, psychotherapist and architect based on my voracious reading. In recent years my visits are less frequent, possibly due to the availability of E-books and Amazon prime fast deliveries! I would much rather read a proper book, but I agree, Lucky, there’s just not the space to keep them. I had to get rid of 3 or 4 big boxes of books after I sold my bespoke 6ft long bookcase (too big for the house..)

I’m also an avid collector/non reader of cookbooks.. guilty as charged! Hence, Fearne is on my sideboard, unsullied apart from the cottage pie recipe (and we all know how that turned out!). I downloaded a few paleo/low carb/coconut/almond flour recipe books that were free on Kindle. There were a handful of useful recipes and tips to be had. Otherwise Elana and he Wholeheartedly Healthy bird are giving me (dubious) tips!

Freezer gravel… muahaha.. break out the quorn ‘fish fingers’! No one likes them AT ALL. They smell like grannies’ knickers!

Brilliant work, keep it going you will be amazed.
Love jan🌸

End of week 3 have lost 23lbs or 10.46 kgs for you foreigners. Amazed, such a wonderful eating plan, loving every moment.
Love jan🌺🌺🌺

We’ll end of week 3 total loss 23lbs so pleased, can now fit into my jeans, and so many other things. Continue to have no side effects, other than mid week, spontaneous couple of eating bouts, one was a visit to casualty with a relative, very distressing, and a sudden offer of some down time, so I eat 6oz of Yorkshire ham wrapped around pickled gherkins, very yum but not planned. Anyway observed my uncontrolled mind for a moment, then back on the plan.
What drives me is the lovely feeling of being in control of my eating, and feeling very calm because I am able to do it, and the amazing feeling of waking up in the morning, and first thought ooh what’s happening today, another wonderful day of gorgeous healthy food. The lovely feeling of hope.
I also have a family wedding on 3 Sep, so want to surprise everyone, I won’t get to my target, but hoping to loose about the same again, might be stretching it a bit, but I say aim for the stars. I will get there eventually but definitely want to get to target by my birthday at Christmas. So still have a lot to loose but a lot less than when I started.
I wish strongly for you all also to have amazing happy results.

No, I know Janey, who knows what could happen between now and then. I’m going to leave it until last minute, I know I shouldn’t but pffffffffffft. Haha, those teas I call ‘freezer gravel’. Where everyone has a completely different and utterly random tea, of all manner of meat,fish and breaded chicken (or at least we think they are because I have a habit of decanting odd bits from bags into clear freezer bags, is it chicken? Is it scampi? Try it and see!).

It is I with the collection of cookbooks and the more I own, the less I cook Eps lol. Have you got Kindle App? It’s worth checking what’s free on Amazon if so. Just put in low carb recipes or spiraliser recipes and then hit the results to show you cheapest, and there may well be some free on there. I have Kindle Unlimited which is really handy and worth it if you spend more than £8 a month on books, and the way I look at it now, is it’s £2 a week. It’s not even a glass of wine, is it? I don’t smoke, don’t drink, don’t go out, don’t splurge on clothes, and I’m not buying junk food any more, music and books are my loves, so it’s a small price to pay. But agreed, we should use libraries more, we’ll be moaning when they’re closed… I just love the convenience of ebooks. Plus – I hate getting rid of books as I get attached to them, and small house, so this way I don’t have to store them 🙂

I’d say you did better than steps, and yes, chatting works the jaw, will stop you going jowly 😀

Apparently it’s the last bit to go, your visceral fat as I understand it is the fat in and around your organs. Don’t despair, if it’s going from somewhere then it will all eventually equalise out I’m sure, you are doing brilliantly keep up the good work.
Regards jan

Yum mushroom and eggs are delicious together though yum Janey.

Very exciting then Lucky, you’ll find a gorgeous dress to wear this time (maybe the butterfly one even) and you’ll feel fabulous!! I must keep reminding myself about that for the wedding I’m going to in September too – can’t wait.

You beat me on the steps yesterday – I had plans for walk after the freeezing sea swim but didn’t happen as there was too much chatting. 🙂 Swimming counts too though and surely cold water burns something…not to mention the chats!

New plan is to go to the library and get a new cookbook later. I have loads already but think someone mentioned the more cookbooks they have, the less they cook! that seems to happen to me too… Saw a spiraliser one so think will get a loan of that and then pick some recipes that fit each week. Libraries are great! I should use more…

Grr it lost my last post!

8 weeks till the wedding.. you could have lost another 2 stone by then! Don’t buy a new dress yet!

Think I have chicken skewers for dinner, with salad or veg and chickpea wraps to save the day! I’m generally ok on dinners (can rustle up a meal from things I forage from the freezer, fridge and cupboards), it’s just breakfast that I struggle with, especially when I’m trying to get my heat lethargic son out the door for the last day of school! Honestly I’ve never known a child so grumpy from the heat!

On a recent holiday I was reminded again of the scuba – mindfulness link, some 25 years on since my last dive, and 35 years since I completed the PADI Certificate in a pool in Dallas and a river near Austin. In diving, the slower and steadier you breathe, through a regulator attached to an oxygen tank, the longer your air lasts and the calmer you feel. Underwater there isn’t much to distract you from the outside world – it is a world removed from phone calls, e-mails and other interferences. You concentrate on what’s in front of you – the wonders of the reef and sea life – and the present.

We had a dive instructor/leader who helped my daughter through the basic scuba qualification and whose ability to connect was noticeable. It’s a bit special interest, but since we came home I accidentally discovered this programme on youtube, which explains why he was so good [and mindful]. Mauritius and scuba was a lovely antidote to our news and catastrophe driven culture that leads many of us into unhealthy lifestyles as we try to escape. Mindful breathing/meditation is an everyday alternative.

https://youtu.be/fXBbmNbk4ow

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Janeyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!! I tried it on last Saturday after I’d weighed and threw tape measure across the room. Fits better. Still look like a sack of spuds in it, but a sack of spuds after about a fortnight’s use of said spuds. So an improvement, but not wedding-worthy yet. Might not be wedding worthy in time, but at least I’ll be able to hopefully go to a ‘normal’ shop and buy a dress this time! My last wedding I had to wear trousers and a top and I looked like I was going out for a casual meal, everyone else looked lovely in their pretty dresses and suits. I was nearly 19 stone then though. Wedding is on 17th September so I think that’s eight weeks on Saturday. Be great if I could lose another stone by then.

Yikes, have you got anything in for tea tonight??

Thanks Eps 🙂 I’m chuffed to pieces! It’s gloriously sunny now but with a nice breeze. Had a mahoosive thunderstorm last night, still going past 6 this morning, so the air is clear. It’s hot but nowhere near yesterday, which was ridiculous. Decided on burger salad again (lol) with one of my flat baps underneath it. Going to really push on in the house today, it was just too hot yesterday to do anything at all. My half hour treadmill walk really took some doing. Hopefully today it won’t be as galling 🙂

yaaaaaay, capes and robes DONNED for smug celebration! Have you tried the butterfly dress on to see how it fits?? Am so pleased – you’re a trail blazer for this WOE 😀

It’s terribly hot here. If the boss wasn’t in I’d be in me vest and pants!

Breakfast tribulations this morning as the fridge and cupboards are largely bare until the Ocado delivery tomorrow. Realised the only thing I could have was mushrooms and eggs, and had about 4.1 nanoseconds to cook and eat them! Consumed and legged it out the door, 10 mins late for work but never mind!

Lowenna
Everyone seems to be on holiday…

I am not that concerned with cholesterol but was with a blood sugar spike after illness. The BSD 8-week plan, which involved reducing carbs and eating plenty of veg, pulses, healthy fat, along with meat and fish, worked for me and my glucose and cholesterol levels are [back to] normal. I choose to continue with more sensible eating and drinking and have read and watched much in support of the Mosley approach. There is however much disagreement within the medical and nutrition community, with older ideas still dominant at official level. If you haven’t read the BSD 8-week book you should and/or watch the original Mosley documentary:
https://vimeo.com/103656060

A basic understanding of the science is one motivation for following through on a change of diet/lifestyle.
In short, excess sugar is the problem not fat. If it is not used within a short space of time after eating it is converted to fat for the body to store. Some of it is obvious and some less so – internal fat interferes with proper organ function, including production of insulin, thus blood sugar can rise and cause lots of problems. If you limit your carbohydrate intake, whilst eating harder to digest protein and healthy fat, then you make your body use stored fat as an energy source instead, hence potential for significant weight loss. It is a form of calorie restriction and/or fasting. We eat too frequently and too much as well as the wrong balance of food and drink.

Thanks Switzerland – I thought I had posted yesterday but obviously didn’t press submit.
Day 3 – weighed 121.4 so since return from holiday have lost over 10 lbs in a week. My FBS was 7 yesterday but up to 8.2 this morning obviously still trying to settle down.
I find it hard to walk any distance because of the claudication in both my legs but managed over a mile on Monday and 3/4 of a mile yesterday. Will do another mile today but have gardening to do for several hours today.
I have spent several hours reading the various posts on the site and you are all a great inspiration to me. My personal 8 week goal is for 20 kg but more importantly is the BS levels and riding myself of diabetes. I don’t really get bad hunger pains and tend to go 17-18 hours fasting.

Thanks so much everyone :). I’m not using myfitnesspal at present but just going off the recipes in the book. I think I read somewhere that the calories listed against some of them are wrong? Fingers crossed the ones I’m using are ok. I’ve stuck to just a few recipes as I’m very busy with work and need to keep things as simple as possible :). Each morning I’ve just had the yoghurt with passion fruit and almond flakes, lunch has either been the haloumi and zucchini salad / prawn pho / avocado and tuna, and dinner has either been baked fish with veggies / Mexican hash or omelette with peas and baby spinach if I’ve snuck in a coffee during the day (no sugar).

I’m still struggling with sugar cravings but it’s starting to get easier. I’m missing bad carbs lol

Hi all, anyone else having issues not losing the dreaded visceral fat? I have been going well, lost 2 stone since beginning of May, but so far only my boobs, face and legs seem to be smaller, a paltry 1/2 inch off my waist 🙁 Any suggestions on how to the target the “spare tyre”?

Middle names twinkle!

Just been the dentist.
I was so brave.
It’s the foot on my chest , keeping me in the chair , that I object to!

Aren’t I loud now that I have had it done. Boy was I quiet walking into the dentists reception.

I am going to treat myself for my bravery, not with food, but with a foot spa tonight.

Keep going gang. Keep happy, and keep brushing your teeth. You only get the one set in Adulthood. So look after them. We do damage with all the junk food.

Love Lucia with the clean teeth.
Xxxx