Haha Lucky blackened chicken, I used to do a really impressive line in blackened fish fingers, burnt one side but hidden by turning it over, it was when we started living together hadnt a clue how to cook, my husband and sons still talk about mums black bits, but your chicken sounds lovely. Might give it a go.

Gretchen,i have ME/ CFS which is very similar…i do hope you havent got fibromyalgia.
I ‘ m sure keeping low carb will help us with inflammation x

LUCKY et al..i know EXACTLY who you mean now! Funny enough I watched Man Down for first time last night or night before and loved it! Yes deffo well done on the tickets TOKYO!
LUCKY.. no that poor child wasnt with me..felt so guilty even tho he was oblivious..he had sat good as gold waiting for his dad to bring him his meal,bless him. Wots the world coming to when i’ m thinking of stealing food from under a little innocents nose! 😼😼 not good. X

Hi Switzerland, I used to play around with a calligraphy kit in my youth! I enjoyed it but I never mastered it. Everything like this is calming I think! I’ve never tried pressing flowers either but we don’t really have any lol.

Mr Stud, I crave your freedom! My desire is to give up my day job, be around more for my kids and write/make/sew/paint things to sell. I don’t know for sure if I can ever make a living this way but I am going to try! It will be a few years before I could ever give up my day job anyway so I can work towards it slowly.

My daughter has a friend who wants me to paint something, and another friend who wants me to make her a keyring, My daughter wants another keyring, and my Mother – liked her painted coaster so much she has become my first paying customer. She called me last night asking for me to make her 6 to give to her friends as little christmas gifts (which is a compliment for me to know she thinks they are nice enough not just for us but to gift to her friends) I would do them for free of course but she wants to pay me. I’ll just ask for the cost of the materials though. Plenty time to be charging lol when I feel my skills are worthy.

Well today I deliberately had lunch at home (I had my usual shake for breakfast and then soup for lunch) so that I didn’t have to navigate eating out, it feels too soon after my slip up the other night. So we had lunch and then decided in the end to take the car and we headed into the city. My daughter now has her school shoes, and pens/pencils/folders etc. A scientific calculator and a pretty nice new pencil case (all the while I was thinking… I could make one of those) and her school bag arrived in the mail so I’m pretty sure that is her all sorted. Oh her blazer hasn’t arrived but it has been ordered so I’m hoping it won’t take too long. 3 weeks before she needs it so it isn’t like I left it until the last minute… and she needs new undies. I did buy the kids some sweets when we were out, and I did consider having something myself, but I stuck to my plan today.

We also went to hobbycraft… I got some paint in colours I was running low on and a new set of brushes, some zips for making things and duct tape with skulls on… just because. I probably bought some other bits but for the moment I’ve forgotten. In the mail I received some iron on vinyl which you can use to laminate fabric – I plan to make a new cover for my mobile with it. I have so much stuff now, fabric, ribbon, beads, key ring hardware, zips etc I really need to make stuff! I wish I had more time. It will get easier as my son gets older but I don’t want to wish his time away either.

I had a lot of holidays at work left to use up so I have a week off booked now at the end of August so I can do some crafting then. In addition my friend and I have tickets for the Rocky Horror show in September and want to make ourselves something outrageous to wear so I may be focussing on that by then! So much fun to be had.

Well it is nearly my sons bedtime and I have a headache so I best go get my glasses. I have bad habit of forgetting to wear them.

Every little helps! 😉

I may have it to log it as ‘other’ activity!’

So, essentially he parked his car in your garage then. Is what you’re trying to say. Did you log the activity in UP?

Ohhhhhhhh it’s charging lady. Currently 9 days of battery in it. I think I’m done for the day though.

Yowzer, you’re lucky not to be excommunicated for your lack of knowledge of GD. He is unconventionally sexy! You’re mainly redeemed by the Ming vase comment, which made me cackle 😆

Turns out ‘visiting the garage’ WAS a euphemism..ahem. We never got there ☺️

Charge it up Lucky. I’m on a walking mission this weekend. Bring it on.

Had a full blood count done recently, not sure if that’s in it. The results showed I’d got inflammation going on somewhere. They are wondering if I have fibromyalgia

Yowzer, get your coat

LOL x

Oooooooh I found turnips today in Asda, so I bought two. Remember these? http://blog.paleohacks.com/hacks-turnips-instead-of-potatoes/#

Greg Davies? He’s known for playing the Headmaster in The Inbetweeners, and now he does a show called Man Down, Rik Mayall played his father before he passed away. He looks a bit like Rik Mayall but very tall and quite dishy in a weird way. Really funny stand up too.

Was the child with you??? Or are you trying to take pizza from a random stranger child????

29/07/16

Week 3
Day 5

Diet starting weight: 18 stone 6 pound

Weight now: 17 stone 2 pound (108.86kg)
BMI: 27.7

FROG my skin and hair are looking better for BSD but ive a funny rash across my chest and veering towards my armpits..very itchy! X

My husband has no major health issues and weighs the same as he did in his 20’s (very slim). He does have mildly high bp which should have been left alone but he is on medication. Anyway, once a year he has to have an MOT which includes the heart specialist. Before he sees doctor cardio he has to have a full set of bloods done. He had the test this morning and his results have just arrived by email and everything is fantastic, even though it was not bad before. His fasting bloods are 5.2 down from 5.8, triglycerides were always a bit high but now are way down. Best of all, his cholesterol, again, never bad has gone from 4.8 to 3.8. I wouldn’t care, he is not even on this diet, just dips in and out depending on what I am eating. He has also started to include butter in his diet instead of margarine and eats a very small portion of full fat cheese most evenings. He also has the occasional glass of red wine, maybe total of 6 units a week.

If it can do that for him when he is not fully on the diet I am so optimistic to see what it has done for me. My test is on 8th August.

Hi Karen, I was a little bit heavier than you starting by 5 lbs, and week 8 starts tomorrow and I’m currently 15 stone 5 lbs. That week 2/3 can be a bit of a bugger, but after a couple of hairy days of carb flu the rest of it has flown. The only way out is through, remember! Good luck!

For flips sake! It doesnt make sense,does it?
Only thing i can ask is,have you had yr thyroid checked? It may be underactive and if so,will have slowed yr metabolism right down. I had no idea i had one,came as a total surprise to me. Might be worth asking yr GP to do a blood test x

TOKYO am so excited for you gettin yr tickets ..but i hesitate to ask…in case i might get the cyber equivalent of being marched off the premises..but i dont know who GD is? 😳 And i thought i was quite cool..😕 can you tell me pleease? Deep apologies x

Earlier, was in M n S cafe drinking water * bows modestly * but eyeing up the cakes..to my horror,just stopped self nearly snatching a piece of pizza from a nearby childs plate..and i dont even like pizza..but my hand just went out in an involuntary movement! Just shows,the carb monster is still prowling even tho i thought i was safe now. 🙁
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I’ve had to stick mine on charge Janey, it only had 18 hours left, I had visions of you out on a hike and me sat here tomorrow sobbing, screaming ‘CHARGE!!! FFS! CHARGE!!!!’

Was it a euphemism? The garage? 😮

Heck Sausage. Nom.

Hubby just said ‘I feel like pigging out tonight’. Followed by ‘I’m going to get a tub of Mint Oppo and eat it all myself’. Hmmmm… Not the best idea he’s had all day…

Yes I’m baffled too and I am recording every thing not secretly snacking.

Before I didn’t exercise and now I’m doing 4 swimming sessions a week too plus I’m achieving the 10,000 steps every day too (easy with two dogs)

Barn Owl thats a wonderful result! And you have answered a question i had..can you have sugar free sweets..well you obviously do and have still lost loads!
Sometimes my jaws just want to munch even tho my tum doesnt feel empty! So far celery has done the trick but i might get some sweeties in for dire emergencies! 😋

Gretchen,i feel for you,that must be so discouraging! Specially seeing yr family losing and you dont x
I am baffled too,i’m still quite a newbie on this way of eating and I cant see where you might be going wrong…but there are some knowledgeable people here and I’ m sure one will be along soon with useful advice for you.dont lose heart yet! Sending hugs! X

of course its for you lucky !! next year and hes sold out already here!!! go see him too !!
tea tonight heck sausages andcroasted veg with a lucky wrap and some garlic sauce !!
off to get it so speak in a bit !!

Chipolata coffee 🙂 Years on a Ming vase!! Love it!

Yep September is glorious, usually starts the first day back at school… great…

I do love Autumn and Winter though. But I love them IN Autumn and Winter. Not July.

Wooooooooooooooo Janey! Thread milestone!!

Yayyyyyyyyyyyy Tokyo! I bet you’re so looking forward to it!! When is the show? This year or next? The second ticket is for me, right? RIGHT??? 😉

People are just so infuriating aren’t they? He’ll probably hear about it again one day, maybe from a medical professional and feel foolish for ignoring you. What’s for tea, Tokyo?

I’ve just finished eating, left most of my salad and had a small piece of chicken left which hubby duly wolfed. I just can’t eat when I’m full now, I have to stop. Rugby on TV tonight so we will have some nuts to nibble on while that is on, if we feel like it. Weigh day tomorrow and I know it’s going to be a very small weight loss for this week, but a loss is a loss. Then it’s onto week 8! Doesn’t time fly? I am keeping on with the plan, because I still have so much weight to lose. I’m going to do another 8 week cycle minimum. The first week will be when I’m camping, and as it’s our ‘holiday’ for this year, I’m allowing myself one treat while we’re there. We’re going to go up to this little cafe high up in the back of beyond and they do soup and sandwiches and lovely homemade cakes and scones, I know the soup is GF and vegetable. So I may have soup and a sandwich. I figure one egg salad wholemeal butty isn’t going to be as damaging as fish and chips or a pizza or a kebab. Or a pie. The interesting thing is how I will cope without wine while I camp. Previously unheard of. Or whether I’ll crack and buy some while I’m there. I might buy a couple of those little bottles, the ones that have a glass worth in?

JAN,oh i love it…bunghole surgery is hilarious! Reminds me of my friend’s dear old Mum..we went for a coffee and she piped up,” i’ ll try one of those chipolata coffees please” ( lattes)! 😀😀😀😀

Honestly tho,some people would put years on a Ming vase! Lets just enjoy summer and the long evenings..we often have fabulous weather in September…when autumn finally arrives its beautiful and magical anyway..why not just enjoy each day as it comes! I guess there are gloom makers everywhere unfortunately..gotta feel sorry for them x

Family have continued to eat normally but have stopped drinking orange juice and are eating my low carb evening meal – all have lost weight from 4-7lbs

Hi I have been on the diet for nearly three weeks before I started a typical day for me was

Breakfast – malted shreddies and a ground coffee

Elevenses – cappuccino and 1/2 piece flapjack

Lunch – salad from bar usually tuna mayonnaise plus variety of pasta salads

Afternoon – cappuccino and 1/2 piece rocky road rage flapjack

Home from work couple of digestives and cup of coffee

Whilst cooking dinner couple pieces of chocolate or biscuit

Dinner – pasta based or rice based dish, fruit yoghurt and piece chocolate. Glass orange juice

Height – 5ft 1 weight 10st waist measurement 32.5 inches

Now:

Breakfast – 100g plain yoghurt, sprinkling cinnamon and tablespoon flaked almonds
No elevenses
Lunch – salad with chicken or small spoon of cheese no pasta or rice based elements just leaves sometimes lunch skipped
Afternoon small cappuccino
No snacking at all after work and whilst cooking.
Dinner – from the 800 menu in the book. Fizzy water to drink

Result: weight 9st 13 waist size no change.
Carbs between 20-40g per day. Fat approx 45-50g
After nearly three weeks – feeling baffled, fed up, hungry, miserable. Contemplating wine

novsign of jawbone yet very disappointed!!! but fingers crossed for tomorrow !!!!

Hi Karen

I hope you find the motivation to keep to the diet, I am on week 7 and have found the sugar free sweets they sell in Aldi and 90% carob chocolate – only one square per day (if needed) have been good to keep me on the diet when I have felt like I needed extra. I have lost 2.25 stones so far and feel much better. I hope to keep going after having one day off on completion of 8 weeks.

2000th POST! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Think you are right LACali21. I had a similar problem initially, but now several weeks in, my skin is clear and overall, my skin is much less dry and my bottom lip hasn’t cracked in weeks, having been very prone to do so in years gone by.

Yay Tokyo on the bus! When is your Jawbone due to be delivered?? I’ve done appallingly today on the steps. OH may take me for a quick stroll ‘to look at his garage’ shortly (I don’t think that’s a euphemism but not sure?!). Seeing the latest Bourne film at the flicks tonight. Told OH I will have to walk around the car park a few times when we get there lol.

My yoghurt maker turned up today so I will be in a yoghurt making competition with Mr Chandler when he checks back in!

Thats good news K x hopefully the weak phase has passed! Have a groovy weekend! X

Hi sunshine-girl – couldn’t find your rant wither. Did find a post where you ask me for the address of the diabetes forum which espouses LCHF – http://diabetes-support.org.uk/diabetes_forum/

Did I read a post from you where you talked about insulin and hypos> I take it you get testing strips on prescription or buy your own.

Am very interested in what your news will be – and am interested in what mine will be too.

HI
on the bus home after leaving phone in locker all day !! so just caught up with all comings and goings!! no baking for me today but lucky
I HAVE TWO GREG DAVIES TiCKETS !!!!!! woop de doo!!!!!!!!
there is someone sat behind me with a takeaway and sorry to say it smells bloody delish!!!!
tried salted caramel oppo better than vanilla still a slight sweetner taste but had it with strawberries so ok
tried to convert a type 2 diabetic today at work but he was having none of it he had a healthy diet dont you know( he said whilst stuffing his face with biscuits and crisps !!!) and he cycled so that cures diabetes!!!!!! i gave up in the end !!!!

That is priceless Jan. Bunghole! I think I commented on your thread when you posted about that, but I did definitely read it on my travels around. Well, let people remain in denial, we can only tell them, can’t we?

I’m sat here with blackened chicken salad. Chicken breasts, coated with 1 tsp cayenne, 1 tsp paprika, 1/2 tsp cumin, 1/2 tsp mixed herbs, 1/2 tsp garlic powder, salt and pepper. Literally burnt on each side on a griddle pan, then whapped in the oven on a tray to cook. Made my wraps, or should I say tried to, they’re playing silly buggers again today, so I have one. Nice salad to go with, and Nando’s Extra Extra hot sauce drizzled over it all.

I manually log mine when it’s being daft Janey. Normally happens if I stay in bed longer than 8 hours. What you watching at the cinema?

Where is Tokyo???

Cheer up Janet, it’s the weekend! Try not to inhale as you walk past the chip shop either! There are lots of lovely things to eat , you just have to be creative 😆😆😆

My customers are so depressingly funny, one has just said to me ‘ I can’t believe it’s only a month and then it will be autumn’ and now I have to walk past the chip shop and the sweet shop to get home muttering, I am a BSDer I don’t need those. It’s as bad as what another one said to me last week She said to me in a hushed voice, she was the only person in the shop, in hushed tones she said, ” you’ve had that operation thingy , haven’t you, ” I said sorry what operation thingy, is that , then she said in a way like she was talking about flogging me some stolen goods or something. ” you know that bunghole operation they do when they tie up something to stop you eating” how I didn’t laugh I don’t know. So I told her all about BSD she then went into that glazed look and said oh no you can’t diet without eating pasta etc, I then thought about what someone posted on here where her husband gave the look oh I can’t do the BSD I will die without pasta etc. I then proceeded to tell her I had lost 18 lbs by eating beautiful foods. She walked away convinced I had lied to her I think, how can anyone loose weight doing the BSD look. But honestly aren’t fold funny I ask you bunghole, she meant keyhole.
That was funny, but Autumn wasn’t. So of to think about poached eggs and avocado, or it might be smoked salmon, ooh the excitement of it all. What you all having, I’m in a mood for talking about food.

It’s sort of half sorted. Not showing the breakdown on the screen unless I go into edit it and then it tells me I already have sleep logged for that period and shows me the detail. I’ll see what happens tonight. Do you manually log yours? I did that the first night and it behaved better!

Off to cinema tonight (still child free) so more sitting on my bum. Grrrrr, need to get those steps up! Don’t think I’ll have tea – I’m still full from lunch!

sick and tired of being tired

at no point since going low carb have I had the fantastic energy other people seem to get
sometimes I wonder if I am not human as I seem to react the opposite to other people

i try to walk each day now but when i get home i just start to fall asleep
i honestly think my body is not capable of adapting to burning fat
the only time in the last few weeks i had bags of energy was after bingeing on chocolate

i keep on and on sticking to low carbs and avoiding so much
but i literally can barely stay awake after about 8pm and often doze off in the afternoon if i sit still

i am not expecting an answer because i don’t think there is one – except go back to carbs

fed up today
and the ‘messages’ telling my brain they don’t want food/carbs – don’t seem to be happening

Frog my skin is also rebelling against the BSD diet. My face is breaking out worse than when I was a teenager. I’m wondering if it’s not some of the toxins from the bad food I was eating coming out?

Ahhhhhhh Janey, you’ll be fine as a one off. There are going to be one offs through our lives or we’ll end up going cray-cray. Think how bad it could have been? Or would have been once? I’m sure a few breadcrumbs aren’t going to undo weeks of good work. And you’re allowed dark chocolate. I didn’t do Lighter Life and I would never do anything that was like milkshakes because I would have had those and eaten too. Those days are over. Never again. Even in the unlikely event that I should fall off this plan, I’d never, ever go back, I’d just start this over again. Walk after tea, Janey! 😉 Or before tea even.

Jan, omg, I had to think about what on earth you were talking about then! I was sat here looking at the post thinking ‘Yep! Finally lost it. Plot for Janet, please!’ And then I remembered putting the pencil in the old mush to make you smile. I tell you, I’ve got the memory of a goldfish sometimes!

Did you sort your sleep on the UP app, Janey?

Nope have set the fitness pal app to what is recommended carbs between 25/50g I’ve been really strict on. I weigh everything and this week absolutely no snacking at all. Even if I wasn’t on the specific diet but still cut out all puddings, snacking etc I would have expected to lose some weight. Today I’ve put the inch back on round my waist that I lost. It feels more like my body is saying okay we are down to 800 lets readjust an conserve that fat.

I’ve been swimming 4 times this week followed by a scrummy glass of water that’s the dedication

Tonight I’m having a couple of glasses of wine and saying to hell with it. I feel fatter now than I did at the start!

Colleagues at work have lost a lot on this diet they are all surprised too by the non loss as they say I’ve always eaten less than them anyway ;(

Lucky yep got the pencil in as I type, trying not to dribble on the iPad,
Jan

Helloooooooo! I’m back from a moderately healthy lunch, although not sure I can plug the numbers into MFP realistically! Starter was shaved (?!) beetroor with goats cheese mousse and hazelnuts – all pretty good there (and small portion). I ordered the pan fried chicken for main, with pickled cucumber and a side salad instead of chips or potato products. Was slightly aghast that when it cam out it appeared to be battered/breadcrumbed, but I figure that as it a small portion on a big plate I will wing it on the carbs. Shared a dark choc dessert with the boss. Bad Janey, but at least it was only 50% of the portion! Oh and one G&T. So, not perfect but a whole lot more restrained than pre BSD!! I need to find an opportunity to walk a bit today but it’s proving difficult 🙁

Haha love your comments about WW and SW Lucky. I have always refused point blank to get involved in those groups. In a previous job my boss was on Lighter Life, which to my mind was essentially starving yourself and becoming ill. And have you seen the SIZE of the creators of that programme?!! What rot. As you say, make the changes longterm, see the effects!!

Hi everyone
I have been doing the bsd for three months and have gone from 13 stone to 11 st. I am not doing 5:2 but would like to know how to maintain my weight of 11 stone and not lose anymore. I have the book but am not quite sure what the maintenence plan is. Can anyone enlighten me.

The answer is to do some strengthening exercises, build up a little bit of muscle. Apparently muscle burns more calories than fat so the more muscle you have the better. I have just read that after the age of 50 we lose 1lb of muscle each year so need to reverse that trend and do a few weights and squats.

Sorry to hear you are still struggling Lowenna. If you have stalled/gained, then check your carb intake. There may be something you are eating, that is sneakily higher in carbs than you might suspect. When I plateaued, it was definitely carb related and addressing carb intake resolved the issue. The other problem is, some of us are by nature much slower to lose weight than others – I’m one of them. It can be disheartening to be putting in the effort, but seeing little reward – especially when others are reporting massive losses each week.

Stick with it, your body is probably still trying to adjust to the new regime and that can take a while to settle. Stick with the 800, count all your calories and carbs, drink plenty, include fat in your diet to help encourage the fat burning process and stave off hunger and you WILL get there.

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…