Bless him lol. God I hope so! I’m trying to think how big I was the last time I saw some of them. December 2014 I think it was.

Butterfly dress still a way off me looking as floaty and dreamy as I do in my own mind 🙂 Like a three quarter full sack of spuds in a cream floaty flouncy dress lol. I’m going to have to leave it a bit later to get a dress for the wedding, I could be about a stone lighter by then. THREE balls? You could have had a steak for that!!!! Lol. You off anywhere nice?

I should imagine so Josie, would it be flour, butter, milk and cheese? I don’t eat cheese sauce so I wouldn’t have a clue.

Awwww Janet, come on, happy face now 😀 Paul Simon’s Me and Julio down by the schoolyard is one of my favourite songs 🙂 He’s just gone out now to call for his friends and gather phone numbers, bless him. Little love he is.

I still haven’t kept my shopping, been setting up this phone and bloody Instagram accounts and all manner of stuff that I’m not on myself. When I was 10 I was still playing with my newborn baby doll… hmmmmmm…

Ooh Lucky I’ve just had another sniffle, we are all a bit melancholy today aren’t we, or perhaps it’s me, so to perk myself up I am going to put on Paul Simon singing wristband and have a hop around, the past was created by myself, so no point in mewing over my bad choices in life. Onwards, and slimness and wellness.
You have made son 10 very happy no doubt, it’s important for them to feel they are like their friends. Top marks mum. Bit more cals burnt up lucky.
Love jan📱📱📱

does anyone know if its ok to have cauliflower cheese if i make a sauce with chick pea flour

heeee hee Lucky, laser pointer and his head will explode! Though he’s probably slept most of the day the lucky thing…

ooo christening will be great fun – you’ll go and swan around and people will say ooooo what have you done? You look great!!! And you’ll say yes… I am fabulous :-))) Or even if they dont say anything, you’ll have inner confidence and secret joy all over your face 🙂
It’ll be a new beginning for you too – a new public you.

Hey we need an update on the butterfly dress? I really have to get going and sort out this dress for September wedding. Really really really would like to be closer to goal for that – am getting lax I fear, though still sticking to the principles. (except yesterday too many calories and 3 of those bleeding coconut ball things – oooooooo!!!)
Talking the talk I am, but I wonder… Away for Sun and Monday (bank holiday here yahooooooo) but am determined that I will continue to lose this week like the last 11 (except one) so will take any loss happilly, as you said, another bit chipped away…

Hello Izzy:

I am the sinner……. Putting Pringles video up and saying that they ain’t even potato chips!!!!!! Creeps me out that people actually eat that crap (2 years later when quit eating most, but not all, junk food). Atleast ice cream and potato chips you know the ingredients by looking at it!

Cruising up empty highway in the Boonies of New York. Off to the lake house to rest and relaxing. Maybe stay the whole next week. Working on a laptop, I can work with Santa’s elves at the North Pole or Kangaroos in the Outback.

I LOVE MY FREEDOM!!!! I mean freedom from the 9 to 5 slavery we call work and getting stuck in THE MATRIX!

Well, I need a break from the BIG CITY and get away a while from the chav. People with stuffed shirts give me a headache when shopping or doing anything in the BIG CITY.

Well, TGIF!!!!!! Have a great weekend!

Cheers,

The Stud

That’s another thing about slimming clubs too… I think I’ve followed about 6 or 7 different variations of WW alone since I was 16. If it worked so well… why would they need to change it every few years?? If it ain’t broke, right? BSD is what it is, it’s not going to change in three years time and start allowing copious amounts of potato or bread or pasta. Do x and get y result. You can eat these, you can’t eat those. Simple. Why over complicate things?

Awwwwwwww Janet 🙂 thank you 😀 You’re doing so well too, and knowledge is the key now. We know what we’re doing works and thankfully we’re still young enough for it to make an impact on our lives and be able to live a little more 🙂 Ohhhhhhhh you know what? The two main things I’m hearing at the moment. 1. I couldn’t survive not being able to eat rice/pasta/potatoes/bread. 2. Well, I’m in SW (everyone is in SW at the moment, friends, relatives) and I can eat a whole bag of pasta if I want… Good luck with keeping that weight off long term… At the end of the day, they are what they are, these groups. They’re businesses. As Yowzer said, multimillion pound businesses too. Memberships, cooking sauces, ready meals, their own chocolate bars, scales, pedometers, cookbooks, you name it. They get richer, while we end up fatter, and fatter each time we try them out? Ok, Michael Mosley may make some money out of writing his book about this, but that’s it, he’s not selling anything, is he? Only a book full of common sense and results. Results that we can all back up, in the flesh. We’re not case studies, we’re living it. I paid just over £3 for the book on my Kindle… best £3 I have ever spent, in my life. Fact.

Eps! Afternoon my old mucker! 100 calories? For a ball? Altogether now… HOW MUCH!!!!? And yay on the poppadoms but beware, always read the ingredients carefully. I know Aldi and Asda ready to eat plain ones are lentil only. I’ve found the spicy ones sneak in rice flour, and it’s much further along in the ingredients list. I’ve loved eating them with something sloppy, where chickpea wraps aren’t so good, or I can’t be bothered making them. Pointless walking until you see how those steps add up. Even waking up, going to the bathroom for a pee and walking downstairs to make a coffee of a morning affords me 100 steps so they all count! I thought my hair looked the business back then though! I was quite offended 😮 lol. We’ve got a Christening too in 3 weeks or so, haven’t seen a lot of his family for a while so will be nice to shock them 🙂 Haha, cat on a proper mad one then. You’ll have to get the laser pointer out when you get home. Really make his day 😉

Hey Yowzer 🙂 Definitely didn’t appreciate it then. Took it for granted in my teens, keep warning my daughter now, who is slim, that she probably won’t be able to keep scoffing the crap she does and keep that figure, not if genetics have anything to do with it! I became a mum at 19 so that’s when things started to go awry, so I can’t even say I had my 20’s at a weight I was happy with. Four pregnancies, three to full term in five years destroyed my body, bigger and bigger each time and I ended up at my heaviest 18 stone 10 lb. I’m already starting to look like a deflated balloon around my stomach! So I’ve missed out on all of my 20’s and 30’s really, all these lovely fashions and dresses, and feeling confident. Weight gain has destroyed my confidence, I can see that now, and I’ve shut myself away rather than have people talking about me or judging me. Even if a lot of the time, that’s just paranoia. Thank you too for your lovely words.

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh we’re all a bit brilliant today, aren’t we? So we keep on going, chipping away, ounce by ounce, pound by pound, kilogram by kilogram, inch by inch. There is no such thing as a quick fix, especially when we’ve allowed ourselves decades in some cases to end up like this. But it seems there is such a thing as a quicker fix… and think of how much healthier our bodies are on the inside too!

10 year old now has an iPhone 4… and in all fairness, he’s paid for that himself, a protective case and his first top up. I think his life is made, he’s so excited, he’s not the odd one out now amongst his friends.

How has lunch gone Janey? And where is Tokyo???

Hello Imogen:

I was skin and bones as a kid on that crazy NO CARBS AT ALL diet for epilepsy. Well, what do you think Atkins and others got this low carb philosophy from? I looked like a kid from Bangladesh. Now 300+ and starting to lose. Except in Las Vegas and Monte Carlo, it is fantastic to lose.

Seizure from for 5 years and going. Miracle workers that do brain surgery. Uncle Sam gets amazing doctors at NIH (National Institute of Health in DC):

http://www.nih.gov

I hope your struggles turn into successes. It is hard, but we both will be climbing to the top of K 2 together!

Here is a video on my lake in Adirondacks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75IBArJRNFg

And The Big Mountain To Climb:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl2p2erGJP0

ADIRONDACK MUSEUM (Has lots of TAIT paintings):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS19GNWqziY

Hello, i started on Monday too, had real sugar cravings on Weds and my daughter decided to freeze some sugar free drinks so i could enjoy a lolly, it work :). The only thing i have not enjoyed or i couldn’t get right was the almond butter this morning!. So far i have lost 8.5lbs and i am already beginning to feel so more better. I have recommended to several friends and they have now brought the book……

Its good to read other peoples comments , it seems a very active forum and easy to log on to at work which is a bonus 🙂

Alicia

Disappointed with the nomnom site, it promised a free 50 page virtual recipe book, came out at 26 pages of which about 20 were blank. Still going to get the daily email recipes though

I’ve started the BSD a few days ago and not having any issues so far and really enjoying the options that I can create for breakfasts and lunches in particular.

I didn’t have time to pre-organise a lunch for myself today but came across Pure (www.pure-madeforyou.co.uk) and just a delicious lunch that, although I need to check on the calories, is within the food range. I’ll definitely be returning there another day.

Does anyone else have other good shops that are particularly good?

Thanks 🙂

Hi Mary,i think when you cut out junk and start to eat better,you get more in touch with what your body needs.
I remember craving oranges when i first did 5:2.. I took this as a message i was low on vit C so i ate oranges to my hearts content til the craving passed
Being on BSD tho,we need to watch carbs and cals,like Syb said. I use mynetdiary to log what i eat and according to there,a navel orange is 75 cal and a whopping 19 carbs! Amazing isnt it..all fruit for me apart from berries is a once a week treat now,as they are high carb,tho so good for you. Maybe you should try a vit C supplement? And have a juicy orange as an occasional treat!
xx

I would think most Asian food outlets would have the meat/veg/sauce options that would be fine without rice or noodles. As long as the meat was not in batter, beef and black bean, chicken and cashew etc?

Oh well that’s good news! Their website says each peach weighs about 100g, but I guess that must be a beefier one! Another website says Paraguayo flat peaches ( if that is what they are!) are 44 cals and 11g! I should choose the lowest one and just go for it!

Odd thing is, I never normally eat oranges! How many carbs do you think?

LUCKY! Flippin heck! You so casually mention..four stone lost between the two of you in seven weeks!…
OMG! this BSD thing is amazing isnt it..it should be headline news!
And yes i totally understand yr regrets for that lovely young woman in the photo..me too…so slim in teens and twenties! at least we had that even if we didnt appreciate it at the time..but like GREEN JANET said you are still a lovely young woman ..and look how much youve achieved since you were that permed girl! A lovely family and now a new lease of life for you ..just keep doing what youre doing and you wont go far wrong and keep that great sense of humour and self deprecation..worth so much more than girlish good looks anyhoo! X💐💐💐

GREEN JANET I Love what you wrote! Yes all those misinformed years of giving money to WW and SW …grrrrr… Adding to the multimillion pound slimming industry ..gah! We know better now! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

JANEYCOUGHDROP Hope you have a lovely lunch,nice that yr birthday celebrations are continuing! X

It is hard. I have been having a mandarin a day as my fruit snack. You will need to count the carbs and calories though.

Bissell – have just checked out my Tesco flat peaches – they are 38 cals per 100g as you say but each peach is nearer 50g, so 20 cals about right? Carbs still 3.5 ish but not bad (not as good as zero carbs granted)
J

Hello, I was just wondering how people found the first week? I had big sugar cravings yesterday. Do people eat oranges?!

hee hee no baking for me today either after making some raspberry, coconut and date balls yesterday, adding up their calories and discovering that 1 was 100 and something calories ha ha ha – gave some away this evening and the rest are in the freezer, best place for them :-))

Hey had some popodoms last night (checked only lentil flour and oil in them) – delicious, a version of crisps! Yum… Found them as remember you all saying something about them and then OH was talking about crisps. As usual, can’t eat too many but guess hard to eat too many as long as not sitting there on the table.

Feeling alive again today yaahoooo and lighter already – even if all in my head that’s ok. Great lunch with me and no extras today and loads of tea. Must get up from desk and walk like Janey – ha ha yes it’s kind of pointless walking I do sometimes but it’s all good anyway.

Lucky that’s funny about your hair! It’s kind of nice your son didn’t even seem to register the difference in weight though – maybe he always thinks you’re the same and doesn’t see the outside anymore – you are just you. You’ll have another fab photo up there someday soon – on the mantlepiece though! One of you wearing something you want to wear and looking great and the husband too! At the rate you two are going it wont be long. Good work!!

In cat updates, cat was going mental this morning… was all fluffed up as must have been cold and squeeeked at me for a few minutes when I came down. Then tried to chase OH around the house, lying in wait for him behind doors and pouncing. Maybe we in for a storm! :-))) Though he is pretty unreliable as a weather forecaster… even the behind the ears thing doesn’t work.

Oh Lucky, I had a tear in my eyes when I read this post from you, I am so delighted that as a young woman of 40 you have found this plan and doing it. I have lost 41 years of putting things of or worse still not even doing them because all I ever did was put on weight, I have been with my lovely husband since we were 18 he 19, he still looks the same fit and healthy, what a different life we may have had if I had, had that plan back then. But as he succinctly puts it, I haven’t lost weight, because I have only ever put weight on so it isn’t a loss. He’s trying to help. So anyone wondering should I do this plan. Yes you b********* well should, don’t procrastinate, just get it done. Get a life, start living and feeling alive.
I amstill 80 and a half pounds away from my target but I am on it, and nothing will stop me. If I flag, I remind myself how ill I felt when I was slowly killing myself yes I did say killing myself, with so called slimming club advise, scoffing carbs by the ton. I know I had a choice I didn’t have to eat it, but I was ignorant then, but now I’m b************ well not.
So now I am going into my kitchen to have a quite private weep of relief, that things are getting better everyday, and then I will have a lovely wait rose rose lemonade herbal tea my favourite.
Loving you all dearest BSD peeps, no pressure, you are my lifeline.🍓🍋🍆🍅🍒

Thanks Frog, that Is really good to know that it came off just as quick. I keep telling myself this woe is so much better and I felt so much better in myself on the past 7 week during the BSD, I just have slipped and need to go cold turkey again!

Thank you for your replies,
I was so good all day – back in the zone … omelette for lunch today, need to do some shopping too after work.
The target is very reasonable, I want to be 10.7lbs – I suppose its just been so long since I was there last that it seems unachievable on some front.
I WILL do this!! x

Ooh ditto to all of that, I have never felt so supported on a eating plan that I am technically doing on my own, even my own little village slimming club never made me feel so unjudged and supported, it’s quite incredible, to have all these supportive BSD peeps, but we don’t even know each other’s name even, hehe perhaps that’s the secret.
Love real name Jan💤💤💤

Are you watching the amounts you eat. Portion control is very important. Especially if you are eating fat rich foods like avocados or nuts. Just a small handful of nuts can soon mount to over 100 calories and half an avocado is sufficient as one portion. These things should not be avoided as they are very good for us both as nutrients and as feeling fuller factors. Start weighing or measuring until you are used to what a portion should look like. Keep on keeping on.

Hi Izzy,
Brilliant idea – setting a timer before you go to the loft. As you know, when you’re being creative, the space/time continuum morphs into something that Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox would no longer recognise (although they would have experienced it when they were formulating new theories).
It’s great that your weight starts with a ’10’. Well done.
I’ve been pressing some flowers. Beautiful purple violets and white violets. Truly, I didn’t even know I had white violets in the back garden until I was ‘scratching around’ last week-end. I’m also starting to do some calligraphy again. I’m best at Old English font. I’ve always loved how perfect it is.
Enjoy your days off and good luck with catching up on some (much needed) sleep.

karen the cauli mash sounds great, plus I have just signed up to the nomnompaleo web site to receive more recipes. My daughter has been doing paleo and has lost over 3 stone in 6 months. It is just another source of good healthy recipes. Thanks.

I know. It’s at the very least a small child.

Haha mine doesn’t bother buzzing any more although it is set to two hours. Hopefully get in a few thousand now in town. Want to get there and back asap as it’s grim oop North Wales today. See you all in a bit!

4 stone.. that’s most of Paltrow! You could shed ALL of her by Xmas!

My ‘get off your fat a***’ alarm just buzzed on my wrist so I walked upstairs, around the boardroom and back down. My boss thinks I’m a lunatic. Maybe so, but I’ll be a fitter one 😀

Karenv that is great to know – so pleased for you and very interesting too! I will tell my GP about it at end of diet if it stays as good as this.
Jill

I Chiangmai, I would say that any improvement is fantastic. We are doing this to avoid the sort of things that have already happened to you and I am so sorry for that. Sorry that some of us didn’t know about this diet before, there are stories that it has been around a long time but I think that was just the general advice to eat healthily (which means different things to different people) and even doctors cannot agree on what that is.

It is so good you have now found this diet and are already seeing results in your blood sugars. Way to go and keep on the diet, it is a life changer.

Sometimes the sleep thing does odd things in that you have to have a fiddle with it and manually confirm what you’ve slept. Click onto the graph and sometimes it will have a bog standard 8 hours, and if you can remember when you woke (which most people can), and edit that in, it should (!) give you the details of your sleep for that night. Hope that makes sense and helps some.

Ooooh enjoy your meal out! I am famished this morning, absolutely famished for once. I doubt it would be Mumu inducing, I think I know the sort of place. Steak the size of a postage stamp, sprig of rocket, drizzle of jus… you leave hungrier than when you arrive, and have to call for chips on the way home? Sounds like perfect BSD eating place to me.

Yeah, I’m not baking either today, still got assorted frozen muffins to get through first. Mr G (as he is known in these parts) woke up 0.7 kg lighter too today, so between us, in 7 weeks, we’ve lost a smidge over 4 stone between us. Today I have a huge craving for chicken on chickpea wraps so that is tea, chicken as spicy as I can make it too. Cajun or blackened I think. Lovely salad too. Nom. Now to brave town! Wish me luck!

Morning Imogen 🙂 I know, right? Couldn’t make it up lol x

Such a lovely day here in Belfast 🙂 I hope it’s lovely where you are!

My three things:

1. Sun shining on my bike ride to work with a refreshing wee breeze, so I cycled with a big grin on my face
2. It’s FRIIIIIIIIIIIDAYYYYYY
3. Like JillF, I’ve had tummy issues for years…but on this diet…no probs (such a relief!)

Have a lovely day and weekend folks x

Hi

You may find it helpful to get an app like MyFitnessPal which will tell you the nutrients of what you eat.

Tesco Coconut yoghurt is shown as per 100g = 495 calories, 15g carbs (of which 14g are sugar), 4g fat.

This looks to me to be too much sugar, and therefore carbs. Ideally minimise sugar if you can. You can check the components of your favourite coconut yoghurt in the shop, or if you get MFP you can enter it and see what the nutrients are.

Hope that helps.

Onwards and downwards it is 🙂 I have noticed some downward changes for sure but don’t want to pre-empt things till I step on the scales on Monday. But the scale seems to be moving in the right direction so hooray!

I take it the weight loss in the first week, a lot of it is water weight though…so I don’t expect it to be as dramatic every week…

Food has been good last few days – have enjoyed my meals. Still getting used to the less/no snacks between meals (but not hungry so that is a bonus)

Wednesday
Omelette with avocado
Lentil dahl and a flatbread
Turkey chilli with 2 tacos (delicious – I added cumin and chipotle paste to the turkey mince and tomatoes)

Thursday
Greek yoghurt with berries
Frittata slice and salad
Salmon burgers (home made) with broccoli and carrot and cucumber salad

Friday (today)
Scrambled eggs with chorizo and grated cheese
Frittata and salad
Chicken curry with lentils

Felt less tired when I woke up this morning, so that’s a plus. Will see how yoga class goes tonight 🙂

Oh no!! My Fitness Pal was my oracle 🙁 thanks so much – I did not stop to check the packet, that is a blow – fewer of those then!
Jill

You gotta love kids for telling it like it is! Or not!

My Jawbone has had problems syncing sleep data this morning – had to restart my phone. Seems ok now but think it might have lost some detail (which I was interested in!)

Boss is taking me for lunch today – late birthday present. I have found a swanky gastropub which means a. NO CHIPS b. (hopefully) tiny portions of pretentious food. Heaven knows how I will input that into MFP to calc!! Hopefully Homer’s Mumu will not be required 🙁

I think it’s going to be a BFZ today – Bake Free Zone. Unless Tokyo dons her ‘Butterflies’ apron again!

😄😆😅😀 xx

I don’t want to rain on your parade Jillf, but they are 38 cals and 7.6g carbs each, according to Mr Tesco. 😥

Can anyone tell me if i can replace the dairy yoghurt with coconut yoghurt please.? I am just starting out on this plan and want it to work so my facts have to be sorted. I do not do dairy of any sort usually and cannot tolerate soya milk products. Thankyou to anyone who can help.

I am new to the diet, but did not know about the time limits. I had diabetes for 20 years, controlling with diet, exercise, and metformin. Then I ended up in hospital with a stroke, sepsis, kidney failure, and a ruptured. I am putting myself back together now that i can walk and talk, etc, but my blood sugars spiraled out of control. I started 5/2 4 days and have decreased my blood sugars to almost normal levels and lowered the insulin that i take by several units. Is this diet not supposed to help me if I have had type 2 for so long?

Hi Daniel,

You seem very disciplined with your eating.

It sounds as if you had to be very very strict with your ketogenic diet for the epilepsy treatment when you were younger – that must have been tough! Hope that is fully resolved now?

Going ‘to the lake’ for the weekend sounds lovely…enjoy!

Imogen🌻

Thank you and I’ll try it. Sometimes things are difficult to get hold of in Thailand.

I just wanted to share two positive things..the first is not huge but hopefully helps – flat peaches (yum) have 20 calories and no carbs according to mfp. They have become my chocolate biscuit of choice!
The second is amazing if the diet has caused it. I have been taking omeprazol for acid reflux for about five years now and have taken none now for a week with no ill effects. I have lost a stone but not sure that is why, as I was this weight when I started taking the tablets – so it looks like the absence of carbs has changed the constitution of my tummy for the better …fingers crossed but a great side effect of the BSD if it lasts.
Jill

Thank you everyone for your advice.

I’ve been using My Fitness Pal for years but have reset it now with 800 and going to make a clean start.
Yesterday went ok, although I caught my kids cold on the same day, so now a big sniffly mess. It turns out I had 100 spare calories yesterday so maybe I was too strict, could have had a chocolate (ha ha).

I have a headache this morning, which could be the cold or this diet. I have been drinking loads of fluids though.

My head was playing lots of games yesterday, trying to say that ‘one snack’ will be ok, I have a feeling the next few days will be tough. I find planning ahead difficult too, but really need to sort that out so that meals are ready, rather than my usual chaotic approach!

Three good things yesterday – I started on this; I did some painting; Played Monopoly with my littlest.

Hi
Thanks for your advice. I’m doing the Shrewsbury triathlon, well, I’ve opted for the Quadrathlon which has an added kayak bit 🙂 I did a tri in Chester this month too. I stick to the short sprint distances, I never have enough time to train for the longer distances :/
Good luck for the Blenheim, how far is that one? Sounds like a fab setting.

Thanks for clearing up the carb issue, that makes sense. I think I’d got it in my head that I couldn’t have any carbs, arghh!

Cheers

I’m going to try the garlic mash tonight with roast chicken!

One more recipe:

Cauliflower and Red Pepper Soup
Approx 6 servings

1tbs olive oil
1 medium/large head of cauliflower, cut up
4 red peppers, skin removed & chopped (grill/roast/flame leave in sealed polythene bag to cool, skin)
1 large onion, chopped
2 or 3 sticks of celery, chopped
2 vegetable or chicken stock cubes
1.5 litres water
1tsp smoked paprika
salt and pepper to taste

Saute the onions and celery together in olive oil until soft.
Add smoked paprika and cook for 30 seconds or so.
Add cauliflower, stock cubes and water and cook for about 20 mins.
Add red peppers and cook for a further 20 mins or so.
Whizz with stick blender/liquidise.

Makes a really lovely creamy soup.
About 80 cals and 10g carbs per serving.
I haven’t tried freezing this yet as we ate it all in a couple of days! Think it will freeze well though.

Oh my GOD – I have to tell you all this, Yowzer just broke it for me with her Simpsons reference. I don’t know if you remember me rambling on a few days ago about finding an old photo of myself, verra verra thin. I was only a teen. And I was, imo, very beautiful. I looked lovely and happy. And I’d thought about how, the bigger I got over the years, the lower my personal ‘goals’ became, for example. When I’d gone up to a size 16 and I dieted, my response was ‘I’ll be happy if I can get down to a size 12’. When I’d gone up to a size 18 my response was ‘I’ll be happy if I can get down to a size 16’. When I’d gone up to a size 22, my response was ‘I’ll be happy if I can get down to a size 18’. And so on. And I’ve thought about how I’ve sold myself short all these years. I wouldn’t have been happy at all with the weights/sizes I was aiming for. I was just aiming low and settling for what I thought I may achieve, because I never believed that I could ever get down to the size I want to be. Too much hard work. Too many years away in the future. Until now. So, if you remember, I pinned the photo up on my kitchen cupboard, for inspiration.

Anyway. Night before last, 12 year old. Autistic. Extrovert. Very dry sense of humour. Makes some cereal, sets bowl down, and comes through to the kitchen.

‘Mum? Who is that in that photograph? On the cupboard door? Is it you???’ he asks in amazement.

I sit in my chair, with a beaming smile. Wondering what he would say when I said ‘Yes!’. Would he say ‘Wow Mum, you were really beautiful when you were younger! You were so slim…’

I nod at him. He cocks his head to one side and says… and says…

‘Why is your hair like Disco Stu’s?’

I thought someone had set my husband to ‘vibrate’, the way he was violently juddering in his chair, behind his newspaper.

Curse you, dodgy 1990’s perm. Curse you.

I may or may have had a one hour walk, Janey. Needed to walk off some frustration, I didn’t plan on doing an hour to be honest, it shocked me when I moved my speaker and looked at the timer. Paying for it this morning in pain though 🙂 And I am soon to be dragged out, in the pouring rain, with a child with birthday money to burn… so I may get a few steps in there too…

We shall finally lose it Janet! However old it is. We don’t need it as a reminder, do we?

I was in bed not long after 10, I didn’t realise how early it was until I heard my son whinging that ‘it was only early’ when his father told him to close down his computer. I couldn’t keep my eyes open! UP reports nearly 9 hours of sleep, and more of that was sound than light – vast improvement.

I feel the same Yowzer, this place is keeping me sane and in fits of laughter! Ok, there have been a few crap days, for most people I think, if they’re honest. But mainly me lol. I really don’t like seeing the scales going up. At. All. But we all do a good job in talking the other down. If I’d been in WW or SW and seen weight fluctuations like this, I’d have cheated. Definitely. I do feel accountable to you guys, especially so the more weight I lose, I don’t want to be the one who cocks up something that is – essentially – so simple. The weight loss has never been so simple for me. From WW to cabbage soup to the lemonade cleanse thing – I’ve tried it all. I don’t want to throw away this weight loss when I know the struggle and I know the desperation that some people are feeling when they look through these forums wondering ‘Should I do this? Is this finally the answer?’. I don’t know if that makes sense, I’m not trying to hold myself up as some sort of… example I guess, but in a way, I am an example, especially to the larger ladies amongst us. Week 8 starts tomorrow and I’m 31 and a half pounds down. Can’t argue with that, or feel disappointed with it. It can be done. It will fly.

Oh that made me laugh, Homer’s Mumu… I loved that episode. I think that needs slotting into the glossary somewhere, how about for days where we’re feeling the bloat?

Homer’s Mumu – a day where nothing, absolutely nothing you possess fits you. ‘At this rate, I’m going to have to borrow Homer’s Mumu for the wedding…’

In other news… 0.6 kg of the 0.8 put on over the last two days has disappeared. Yes, I know. Yes, you all told me so. Yes, I knew it would. I’d have been happier if I wasn’t re-losing already lost once weight, but there we go. Better than nothing.

Tokyo, no baking today, ok? That is all.

well done GreenJanet! we can make it through another day too I’m sure !

Michaelmas Daisy – I keep forgetting about that, I’m going to watch it NOW. My son is busy cutting the grass in the lounge with his toy hoover lol so I’m sat here with my herbal tea.

Thankyou Switzerland, I know you empathise with how it starts to feel for us tired people! I think I’ve just been carried away lately with getting the loft all done. I was thinking that when I go up there I should set a timer on my phone – decide before I go up that I want to be in bed by 2200 for example, so set my timer to remind me because once I’m busy with a project I don’t notice the time.

I need to be generally more disciplined with myself I think.

Midweek weigh in shows my weight the same at just under 11st, so pleased to see a 10 at the start still lol. So I will keep moving forwards. Less than 2lb’s to my next mini target (which will be 2st lost on BSD)

My son has sooo much energy today! I will need to take them out later I think! I don’t like taking them shopping but we still need to get my daughter school shoes and also some new stationery for school so I might take them out and go for those things and maybe a park on the way home. Or we could take the train… my son likes the train. Hmmm decisions decisions… and in town there is a Hobbycraft… haha I’ve spent soooo much on craft stuff! But if I take the train it will be a deterrent as I will have to carry what I buy and I will get more steps too…

might have a look at the train times and decide after breakfast.