Still losing again after 3 week adjustment or body to getting off all BP meds! Here’s my total overview and I hope it inspires anyone to stick with the program. I have many clients on the program as well and they are all doing splendidly.
Overview since I began in case it helps anyone… Stick with it!!
🌷Weekly weigh ins and loss in inches
Week 1 – 9 lb / 4.5 inches
Week 2 – 3 lb / 5.25 inches
Week 3 – 5 lb / 4.75 inches
Week 4 – .5 lb / 1.25 inches
Traveling/stayed on program
Week 5 – nothing lost
Traveling/stayed in program
Week 6 – 6.6 lbs / 1.75 inches
Week 7 -1.4 lbs / 2.25 inches
Week 8 – 4.6 lbs / 1.25 inches
Taken off all BP meds by Dr. 😄
Week 9 -.8 lbs / 0 inches
Week 10 0 lbs / 1.75 inches
Week 11 – 3 lbs / .25 inches
Week 12 – 3 lbs / 1 inch

Overview since I began in case it helps anyone… Stick with it!!
🌷Weekly weigh ins and loss in inches
Week 1 – 9 lb / 4.5 inches
Week 2 – 3 lb / 5.25 inches
Week 3 – 5 lb / 4.75 inches
Week 4 – .5 lb / 1.25 inches
Traveling/stayed on program
Week 5 – nothing lost
Traveling/stayed in program
Week 6 – 6.6 lbs / 1.75 inches
Week 7 -1.4 lbs / 2.25 inches
Week 8 – 4.6 lbs / 1.25 inches
Week 9 -.8 lbs / 0 inches
Week 10 0 lbs / 1.75 inches
Week 11 – 3 lbs / .25 inches
Week 12 – 3 lbs / 1 inch

I agree, it is really difficult to go into most of the lunch outlets as it is all high carb based. The only place I have found so far that has a filling veggie lunch is M&S – there are two ‘super food’ take away meals with beans and spinach amongst other things that fit this diet, but most other outlets are very heavy on carbs, even when it is quinoa etc. The other alternative is soup – depending on the description, it is a better option and filling, having said that they all come with a very large chunk of bread that needs ditched!
I now ask for a salad instead of chips/potatoes and that helps a bit, but you sometimes get salad plus salad that way 🙁
Some people take a sandwich and ditch the bread, but I do struggle with that. At the gym last week – where they pride themselves on having ‘healthy food’ on offer, all there was I could have was some spinach with two hard boiled eggs!
I take my own lunches with me almost all the time these days…….

Oh now that does look good! Probably best not to cover it then.

Apparently less sweet? What the what? I think not!

Brilliant!

Week 12
Body finally adjusted to getting off BP
Meds and I am going down again in weight!! This week I lost 3 lbs again and also 1 inch. Yeah!!!
💜

I don’t know about you, but that’s a proper cake to me! Yum! If I could be bothered I’d make ganache. But it’s too hot and will be in the car for 3+ hours so I’m not risking it.

Yes, like for like swap plus a sprinkle of stevia as coconut sugar is apparently less sweet..

I’m able to make satisfying, veg filled meals containing modest amounts of carbohydrates at home (20 – 25g wholegrain basmati rice, 30g pasta portions, little amounts of potato, etc) but eating out can be a problem. When I’m in town I’m mostly faced with eateries where bread/chips/pasta bulk up meals. I can find places that have salad bars but it can be disheartening to sit in an air-conditioned ‘restaurant’ eating chilled salad (avoiding the pasta and sauce combos) or the bread buns. Alternatively there are coffee outlets selling cheese toasties and pastry based savouries where the carb count goes from 16g to nearly 50g a portion, and still leave me feeling peckish to the point where a follow-up sponge cake with soft icing on top makes sense, and I reach the end of the afternoon feeling grouchy and snappy (what do they do? – it seems to me that they fill the carbs with air so they feel less substantial!). Fat helps fill us up so the melted cheese fillings seem a good idea at the time (having them warmed is so tempting in air-conditioned, cold cafes). Still, this evening I’m cooking lemon sole fillets with raw chopped fennel and with baby spincach wilted down in the frying pan with freshly squeezed lemon juice and a sprinkling of freshly crushed black peppercorns, plus a new potato (smallish), then strawberries and a small dribble of double cream…then possibly a small bit of cheese and one or two oat crackers, and a third of a small glass of white wine, plus a tumbler of sparkling water. I do notice that keeping the starchy carbs low keeps my stomach more comfortable.

Yayyyyyyyyy! Did you do a like for like swap Janey? It’s very sweet isn’t it?

A bit broke of the edge ‘while I was checking it’. IT TASTES OF PROPER CAKE! Nigella, we love you still :*

Just crossing my fingers that swapping satan’s sugar for coconut version is ok..

Eps, as a general rule I don’t like people, children, babies, animals, insects and several (most) celebrities. It’s a catch-all situation. It’d be easier to tell you who I like rather than who I don’t. Hubby goes mad at me. He’d get on with a tree, him. But women can be shocking. I was sat behind a trio on Sports Day and some poor bo was copping it (like that? Can’t do the accent on the o though lol) the bitchiness was shocking and whenever any of the in-crowd were passing it was all ‘Hiya!’ and kisses on both cheeks. Sort of behaviour they should have left behind on the school yard. No thanks. I’ve always got on better with men, but I get on much better with women online. My husband however, monopolises my RL female friends. If they phone up to speak to me, he’s on the phone with them for a good half hour before I get the phone 🙂

Fingers crossed on the cake Janey, I’m sure it’ll be fine. It’s Nigella.

Well I was going to say about man logic, but I’m scared of you lot so I didn’t.

I’m liking Timmy’s idea of trimming the circumference.. that’s a man’s logic lol…

It’s still cooking.. come on cake! There IS a lovely chocolatey cake smell in the house though, which is promising.

Most of my working life has been in male orientated industries (handy for husbands!) and I much prefer it to the bitchiness of an office full of women. The one job I had where that was the case (inside sales manager for a well known buggy manufacturer) was just cattiness central! And I also avoid yummy mummies at the school gate!!

cake is DONE. I’m leaving it to settle a bit in the oven – it’s almost moussey consistence.. but cooked!

Or take a couple of mm from around the entire edge so it’s still a circle?

hee hee all you lady haters :-))))) I find it’s people in general that can be quite annoying really – Is that better? 😉

You could slice it down the middle Janey, and then remove a good chunk for tasting purposes, and then put icing in the middle ;-)))

Well I couldn’t find an antipasti thing in M&S so I had a quinoa and spelt nutty thing with soy sauce and ginger. Lush. And, I also had…… wait for it…… a scotch egg! Boom. Big protein hit. Feel full now.

I’ve got a small pot of cashews in case I feel peckish this afternoon.

I don’t think you’ve missed too much Tokyo, I still haven’t made my cakes yet, youngest is bored to tears, so I’ve promised him we’ll plan and book our camping trip in a mo, just need to check my diary and see what dates aren’t taken with something.

I agree with you Janey, completely. Some women are shocking. I am very, very selective where my female friends are concerned. I don’t care that I’ve only got a few of them living locally, I’d rather quality than quantity. Never been one for standing on the school yard being false and fickle. Like to know who I can trust. Three of my closest friends I actually met online, two I’ve met, one I haven’t yet. Nobody has yet been murdered. Result.

Yes, they will notice. Unless you take a good quarter of it, cover it in yellow fondant icing… Bingo! Pacman cake!

You’re welcome.

Present company excepted, women are a pain in the ****! That’s why I am the only woman in my office!!!

Well, the cake is looking pretty good although still not cooked through (always the same with Nigella recipes) Annoyingly I forgot to leave a bit of the mix to cook seperately for tasting purposes.. do you think anyone will notice if a cut a small slice?! 😀

😊😊😊

i wrote something trying to correct a persons posts regarding what i went through last year someone was quoting stats and figures that just were not true and i have corrected them and in the process kicked a great big blinking hornets nest of quite nasty opinions !!!
its not like here all safe and warm i tell you !!!!!! blinking ladies !!!
back to BSD matters what have i missed ??

Sorry to hear your sad news. It is so hard to come to terms with a sudden death, hope the two of you are managing to stay strong.

Congratulations on your great achievement to date. You should be really proud and your determination is an example and inspiration to us all. Like you, I have an ultimate goal – which I am taking one stage at a time – and I will keep going until I have achieved that ultimate goal, regardless of how long it takes.

Keep going – can’t wait to hear how you progress.

Hey Tokyo, stand tall and ignore to negativity out there. Just because the trolls are writing, doesn’t mean you have to either read or take on their comments. You are as entitled as anyone, to your own opinion. Don’t permit this negativity to poison your life. Try to take a little time out for some mindfulness, to help get yourself refocused. Stick with us here and we’ll be sure to offer a hand up, rather than squashing you down.

Take care and have a great w/e.

It’s a good idea to save a few calories for an evening snack – or maybe just save part of your dinner to use for that. If you make sure you are drinking plenty and have enough fat in your calories, you should find you don’t get the hunger pangs quite so badly. It might not happen over night, but your body will adjust, it just needs to get used to being deprived of those simple carbs.

Stay positive and it will eventually come together. Keep us posted.

Noooo.. Tokyo, don’t take to your bed again! Ignore trolls – everyone is entitled to an opinion. Just because it isn’t theirs is not your problem!

The cake is in the oven! It looks like a cake, but I have to be honest, you wouldn’t want to lick the bowl (is that a euphemism?!) 40 mins till I see what the oily goop metamorphoses into. My boy came home, saw me cooking, and said ‘ it’s not going to be like those brownies again is it?’. When I reassured him it was a Nigella recipe ‘just like the Guinness cake’, he cheered up a little 😉

Now.. lunch. What do I need to use up? I have humus and cottage cheese.. ooh and some crackers from yesterday. Add a bit of salad (I eat it EVERY DAY) and I’m sorted! Although Timmy’s antipasti sound nice.. *wistful sigh*

Oh God Tokyo, Fridays are becoming a disaster! Oh bugger, was it something controversial you were giving your opinion on? Best sometimes to just shake your head and let the keyboard warriors tear themselves apart. Stay here. We’ll be nice to you 🙂

Hi Daniel. I can’t eat dinner later as I eat with the kids but I am thinking of saving a few cals for an evening snack. By eating extra at lunch I didn’t have enough for a decent dinner and then got too hungry and had an attack of the f*uck its! I wasn’t even hungry at lunch I just wanted to eat. Grrr. Feeling better today just need to get used to my new eating pattern.

After previously doing a vlcd I know it’s a head game and if your head is in the right zone it’s easy – just need to get there now! I might go and try on my too small dress that should do the trick.

well i am having a bit if a morning of it !!! in future i shall stay in bed on friday !!! been to m and s and picked a few low carb things up popcorn of all things !!!! little bags of salted popcorn !! 10 g carbs but may just do for a treat !!!and some mini poppadoms crisps !!!!
and i am also been is it “trolled ” on a website !!!
i have put my opinion on a post written and all merry hell has broke loose !!!!!
should just have said nothing !!!!!!!!
is that my bed i hear calling !!!!

Just after I wrote the last post I got a phone call to say my husband’s cousin had died suddenly and unexpectedly. It has thrown us both into a state of shock. He was fit and active and only 62 years old. It always puts it into perspective when someone dies how precious life is.

Sorry I have taken so long to update, but will do so now and make an effort not to leave so long in between in future. On the positive front – I have lost more weight. Negative front – my blood sugar meter has been playing up and I am due to get a new one in the next few days so will post an old meter reading and a new meter reading when it turns up.

Monday 11 July – Day 142 Weight 9st 11lbs
Blood Sugar 8.2

Day 143 Weight 9st 9lbs
Blood Sugar 9.3
(Blood sugar has a habit of going up when the weight goes down)

Day 144 Weight 9st 9lbs
Blood sugar 10.8
Wore size 10 jeans all day 🙂 🙂 🙂

Day 145 Weight 9st 8lbs (22 pounds lost 🙂 only need to lose one more pound and I will no longer be officially overweight)
Blood sugar: 8.3

Day 146 Weight 9st 8lbs
Blood Sugar: 9.8

Day 147 Weight 9st 8lbs (end of week 21)
Blood Sugar: 10.1

Day 148 Weight 9st 8lbs
Blood Sugar: 8.6

Day 149 Weight 9st 9lbs
Blood Sugar 8.4

constipated for 3 days

Day 150 weight 9st 10lbs
Blood Sugar 8.5

went to loo after weigh in

Day 151 Weight 9st 8lbs
Blood Sugar 8.3

Day 152 Weight 9st 8lbs
Blood Sugar 7.9

Today Day 153 Weight 9st 8lbs
Blood Sugar 8.1

Its taking longer than the initial 8 weeks I thought it would, but I am keeping going until my blood sugar goes down to where it should be. Husband says I can keep going until my size 10 jeans are loose and then he will start feeding me up, but if my blood sugar isn’t sorted by then, I will buy a pair of similar size 8 jeans (not tell him) and keep going. 😛

I don’t know Timmy, that sounds quite a sensible breakfast to me??? Hardly living dangerously 😉 Breakfast was nuts, geddit?? I know, crap 💩💩💩💩 joke. I’m capitalising on the fact that salad is going down a treat atm. This will be the fourth time this week.

Haha ‘suspect tips’ Eps, love it. I’m going to do a lunch box of mixed salad and chicken tikka and a drizzle of hot sauce. Black Nandos or Sriracha. One of my Hemsley flat baps. And a chocolate muffin. Will take a few nuts and some celery for munching on just in case. The children want to eat at the ground. I don’t blame them.

oooo I’d love chickens!! Really!

I suspect the neighbours would complain though :-))) Centre of the city living. Maybe someday!

Hmm.. not sure what for lunch, which in itself is a dangerous situation to be in. Soup of some sort I think. I am usually the expert on packed lunches though if anyone wants any (suspect) tips 🙂 Usually green salads with tuna, scallion, yellow peppers, radishes and some fishy stuff. Or chicken… Maybe I need to get more adventurous…

Tried on three pairs of trousers this morning, previously too small, all fit comfortably now – yippee!!
Have a boot full of unwanted stuff to take to a village charity sale – double plus, a bit of decluttering and raising funds for a good cause.
Booked two lots of flights – one for a friend’s wedding in Edinburgh and one to go out to our apartment in Turkey in September.

Breakfast was nuts, yog and berries. As per usual. No idea what I’ll have for lunch. I’m getting a bit bored of salad. Might go to sainsburys and see if they’ve got any anitpasti.

No idea about tea either. I’m off to the outlaws this evening for the weekend. The missus is already there with the kids. I’ve told her to forwarn her parents that I’m not eating carbs, and I’m bringing my trusty bucket of peanut butter and ryvita for a snack later.

And that answers my question. I’ve just cleaned my kitchen ready to mess up again 🙂

Timmy that sounds… delicious!

Put sweetcorn and spiders in the yoghurt and they’d smash it in.

‘No, the cat comes WITH the house.’ 😀

What’s on the menu for everyone today, then? Hubby wanted King Prawn salad tonight and I was a bit meh about it so I found some smoked salmon in the fridge for me, win! Nice easy tea for us tonight! Need to sort my packed lunch out for tomorrow so I don’t get tempted by the lovely, lovely food on offer there. Hopefully these chocolate cakes will be good… have you started yours Janey?

My boy’s father has chickens but I’d probably get reported if I sneaked down to the allotments bearing tubs of yoghurt!

Actually I suppose I could make a yoghurt based curry as that wold cook the bacteria out???

Anyway, enough of that.. I’m off to the kitchen to make the cake!

Dear me, no. Can you imagine what sort of vomit would ensue from 950g of Greek yoghurt in a cat… I’d have to move house. Without the cat.

Have you got chickens? They’d probably eat it. My chickens eat everything. Spiders, slugs, curry (not chicken curry, that would be weird). They go absolutely mental for sweetcorn. Saying that, they go equally mental for spiders and ants.

The cat. Greek vomit…

Well I Googled it (because Google knows everything) and it seem quite common that some people get a reaction to some brands. What I’m not clear on is why. Some sites state lactose intolerance (although Greek yog has less than most yogs and no other dairy affects me), some cite the bacteria involved in production. Seems to be trial and error on sorting it out though 🙁

And apparently if it is down to bacteria, the stomach cramps are a good thing as it means your body is expelling bad stuff.. gee thanks, I don’t really want to feel like death after I eat it!! Now.. who can I give my other pot to…?

Hi, noticed you have had no replies. Hope you are still enthusiastic and sticking with it. Let us all know your progress.

Sante (French for cheers)

Denise

11 lbs is 22 packs of butter, try carrying that around, although it might melt in the heatwave.

Very odd. There must be something different in it? Maybe its the bacteria they use to make the yog??

I have no problems with Waitrose, Morrisons, Aldi or Tesco versions.. Weird eh?! Put those guns away, your staff are being put off their concentration! Definitely don’t strip off and start limping tyres around in practice for your calendar shoot 😆😆

Thanks Ziggy
Yes I am pleased with the progress.
It has not been as easy in this second week to lose as much as the first. The number of trips to the toilet for a pee have reduced dramatically though. I think the fluid loss is starting to balance out.
Your weight loss is mightily impressive. I started with a lot more weight to shift and there is a tendency that if you weigh more you lose more initially. It should be interesting in the next few weeks to see how things progress for us both.

I don’t like the consistency of the Greek stuff. Too thick. Have you tried just normal full fat natural yoghurt?

Yeo Valley do a massive tub that lasts me a whole week.

I don’t know, I’m out of circulation for less than an hour and there’s pooh on the screen and guns out in the office!

In my continuing (unwitting) experiment on how sick can Greek yoghurt make me feel I can now add Ocado brand to the list of culprits. Maaaaaaan have I felt ill for the last 45 mins or so 😷 There must be different processes involved in making the stuff. I’ve got 2 bigs tubs of it in the fridge 😱

Wow Middleage1 – that is nearly a stone!

So glad that you and I (cause we started at approximately the same time) didn’t have a competition between ourselves. Well Done, you must feel chuffed!