Hello folks I am a newbie I thought I’d introduce myself 🙂 I just started yesterday, so far so good, but I am verrrrry tired today, not sure why that is but otherwise feel OK and not hungry which is a plus!

I actually tried this diet a few months ago but had a major wobble, and then fell off the wagon completely. I did well for a couple of weeks though when I did stick to it, so I’m back to try again. If at first you don’t succeed etc (wasn’t that Robert the Bruce and the spider?)

Yesterday’s dinner was sesame salmon from BBC Good Food website, very nice, tonight trying thai green curry and coconut cod. It has to be tasty if I am going to be eating less 🙂

Hope you’re all having a good Tuesday and sending you all good vibes for a positive day 🙂

Morning Eps, hope you’re ok today 🙂 There you go, that’s your 20K steps from the other day showing now, it doesn’t always happen for our official weigh day does it?

Hahaha that’s priceless, wasting calories on pomegranate. Haven’t had one for years, but I believe you can buy the ‘jewels’ now in bags? My dad used to love them and we’d sit eating them with a sewing needle to get the fruit out. Acceptable in the 80’s. It is a lot easier when you’re not having to cook two meals and watch them eat things you might want yourself.

Need to go into town soon, just having a coffee . Hubby is in smug mode this morning as he’s 0.6 kg down on yesterday too.

Great on the baggy clothes too Lucky – you’ll be bridging that v gap very soon!!👏👏

Good one Tokyo💐💐💐! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

A good morning to you all, first day for OH so have made us breakfast and lunch and dinner planned. This is sooo going to help organising I feel. Great walk last night and scales going down again this morning wahoooo 💪🏽
He s funny, within 10 minutes he had worked out he wouldn’t be wasting his calories on stuff like pomegranate 😹😹😹😹 (I made the jeweled pepper things from the book because I remember thinking they were tasty at the beginning, never did again though – too much chopping😂)

Nice use of Irish Daniel I am impressed 🙂 (given that my own Irish is minimal and I just remember the words for chips, chocolate and ice cream – all the no nos) 🙂

haha I loved the A team growing up 🙂 hopefully my plan does come together, I am hopeful this time around!

Yesterday (my first day) went well. Yoghurt and berries for breakfast, chicken salad (which was a bit bland but OK) for lunch, then sesame chilli salmon with stir fry veg for dinner which was really nice – I used this recipe for the salmon: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/glazed-sesame-salmon (they have a range of 5:2 suitable recipes so worth checking out)

I wasn’t hungry but my big issue has always been more emotional eating – eating for comfort, when upset, bored etc. So it’s my psychological habits I’ll need to work on, to work out what is going on in my head when I reach for something to eat… that will take a bit of work.

Have a good day everyone!

Haha, I’ve made a little progress on mine. Managed to pull them up (eventually) and they have ‘the triangle’ shape where both sides of the front veer off in a diagonal away from each other. I’d imagine I’ve got another stone if not more before I can pull them together and zip them up lol. Oh well, I love a challenge 😉

Am wearing a band T shirt today that is actually now a baggy XXL, as opposed to fitting me like a glove (sticks out in five places) which it was when I bought it. So that’s another plus. I’ve been seeing it more on my bottoms than my tops up to now.

Hey Happy Life

That is totally awesome! How are you adjusting to the change do you see yourself as a different person in the mirror?

I have gone down one size so far but maybe add in another half for wearing clothes very snug! What I’m enjoying is still wearing some of these clothes and thinking oh aren’t they baggy now that is a new sensation! Feels so good but hopefully I will get to the point of having to downsize because they will look ridiculous.

The sun is still shining here in the South east and breakfast was on the deck while it lasts.

Thank you! Thank you!

It really helps to have people on the same journey experiencing the same ups and downs! Feeling much brighter today and back on track. My aim today is to have at least1.5 litres of water. I have struggled even with that simple task! I seem to be forgetting to drink, so today I will make a conscious effort to have my full quota.

Thank you again and hope you all have a good day.

I have now officially weighed in after my holiday. In the past three weeks I have lost 2.5lbs making a total in 11 weeks of 1 stone 6 pounds. As I usually gain weight on holiday this is quite a result.

we certainly have !!!
i shall be reporting back later on ” the jeans of the future” ( as there is no way no how i am getting in those jeans now !!!) x

Yes, it can stay there until Friday 😉 hehe.

Ah, that’s the beauty of weighing in kilograms. 5 kg sounds less than 11 lbs 🙂

We’ve got a whole wardrobe of garments now to wear lol 😀

well done Izzy! good to read. Did you watch ‘fixing dad’ on telly? It was inspirational and hankies needed – especially for end credits with photos. I was BAD last week – it was my birthday. Getting back on wagon pronto. Today I find I haven’t got a foodplan which wearies me. I don’t really like spending so much time thinking about what to eat. Getting further with collecting recipes and ingredients – just need a final shove to get a rhythm of a menu up an running. Love hearing about your crafty doings too. I don’t tend to make much in ‘Summer’ but later on will continue learning how to draw Celtic shapes and writing blessings to go with them. I also knit and sew and like photographing nature. Filmed a wee baby coot on a local pond last week cute bundle of fluff. It is a late baby the rest are now bolshie teenagers.

we shall put the blanket away in my cupboard of “in case if emergencies” !!
very pleased going back to thursday weigh ins so may only loose a bit more this week but thats ok i have lost a stone !! which at the start of this i never thought i would !!!!!!!!!!!!!
i dont know why but 5 kg doesnt sound that much really !!!! i have 2 and a bit weeks to hols so if i could just loose have of that before then that would be great !!!
i feel very smug today i am wearing my fab robe of chuffness with my shoes of wonderment !!!!!

thanks Igorasusual. Now measuring myself is one thing I’m having a problem doing. Just going to have to get my head around the fact that my waist is no longer 26″ (going back many years here!). I have no idea of any of my measurements only that M&S and Next size 16 fit me sometimes loosely and sometimes tightly. Maybe I’ll grit my teeth and find my long hidden tape measure – either that or try on my velvet trousers which I doubt I can get past my kneecaps at the moment. Will let you know when I can get them on (a small size 14). thanks for advice.

Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy you got your stone!!!! Well done cupcake! 😀 That’s brilliant, bet you’re over the moon!

Here’s to the next 5 kg, and may it provide more laughs and fewer disasters than the first 6.5 did lol. You could be closer to it again by Thursday/Friday! Your blanket of mardiness is folded up on the chair, I don’t need it today 😉

Good morning everyone
Well had my cheeky mid weeker and i have lost 0.2 kg which is 0.4lb!!!and enough to get me under my first goal of 6.5 kg lost which is 14.33 lb or 1 yes i said 1.02 stone !! woo hoo i reached my first goal in just over five weeks i kicked its ass !!!!!! this fat thing
now as the sat nav says ” recalculating”!!
two next goals first one to loose 5 kg more !! and the next is i have a pair of jeans i used to wear i want to get into these jeans comfortably ( emphasis on the comfortably !!!!!! ) i shall be having a try on on of various outfits later to gauge where i am on the clothes fitting scale and when my next cinderella moment may arrive !!!

Old lady – don’t focus on the weight, what about the MEASUREMENTS?

Have you measured? Do you have “target’ garments? Often the weight varies or plateaus whilst inches melt away.

Don’t sabotage yourself.

Onwards and downwards! 🙂

Bril work keep going, we will all do it together
Jan. 😎😎😎

Bril work happy life 😇😇😇

Morning ladies, sorry, I was so relaxed I fell asleep last night! 🙂 Bathing is the future! (My husband WILL be pleased 😉 )

Poster girls????? You hear that, Janey??? Although, to be fair – with the size of my head, it’d have to be one of those massive posters they put on sides of buildings in City centres…

Sadly, I can’t crochet, Janey. But what I can do to make it seem worse, is knit you a dolly toilet roll holder, and a tea cosy (and egg warmer!) to match your knitted blanket of mardiness??

Well, you’ll be pleased to hear that I’m not going to be whinging today! Lucky has woken up with her big girls knickers on (and – unfortunately, then had to put her actual big knickers on) and is getting on with it. Another 0.1 kg off, which was a surprise considering a dying slug probably covered more ground than I did, yesterday. Just sat with my first coffee of the day, enjoying the silence.

Here’s to (hopefully!) a good day for everyone! Let me know if you had your cheeky mid-weeker, Tokyo!

Oh Clarissa that is funny! I wish! I too am going off on holiday for a week to Denmark in August – all those pastries! And whilst I will stay as true to the food principles as I can I can’t expect to stay in 800 calls as it is my sons wedding. I expect to wake up 10 stone heavier overnight, in my nightmares.
Let us know how you get on? Yes I must say, once the quick weight loss of week one has ended, it has been a real surprise to me how little you can lose in a week of eating so little. I gues everyone is different.
Jill

Good Morning all 🙂

I weighed in this morning and it’s hovering around 11 st, so I’ll make that my official -1.5 down this week. Hopefully by next week I will be properly established in the 10’s, so I’m still happy. I haven’t measured as my tape measure is in the loft. I might be up there tonight so I’ll bring it down and measure tomorrow. My work trousers are definitely looser anyway.

Raspberry shake for breakfast, chicken salad for lunch. Baked potato for the kids tonight and fajitas for us. I’m going to do home made salsa yum yum. Lettuce wraps for me, normal ones for the lean hubby.

I had a good day at work yesterday and was in the right place at the right time to install some new controls for a customer which is a bit more interesting than what I do most of the time, and had some lovely customers too.

My daughter wants me to make a too small onesie into a summer one with short legs and sleeves so I might have a look at that, she also wants me to make her a cushion, and a bolster cushion, and I have the mermaid tail thing still to do that she doesn’t know about. So many things so little time lol.

Well I got to go, few things I want to do before getting my son up, have a lovely day 🙂

Lost 4kg in the first 2 weeks but 3kg of that in the first week and am weighing myself daily. I’m not sure this is a good thing as some days my weight goes up instead of down. I know weight can change daily but it’s a motivational thing and a pound loss makes me smile and a pound gained makes me miserable. I lose weight slowly (apparently an age thing – boo) and I’m pretty careful on the 800 cals a day (plus multivit). Scales this morning say I’ve put on a pound yesterday so instead of a smiley face I’ve got a sad face. Mad I know but that’s how my brain works but reading all the successful messages on here I’m carrying on for the full 8 weeks regardless.

I would think so brrrr. Seafood is good, just can’t sop up the garlicky tomatoey sauce with lots of of Italian style bread – maybe next year (sigh)

Reasons to be cheerful

1) the fancy panties I hesitated over buying in the sale fitted!
2) I now weigh 10 stone something. (13 lbs actually)
3) I’ve worked out a low carb buffet menu for my 60th party in a few weeks.

Morning 🙂

I feel calm and settled.
We’ve finished buying my daughters school uniform – and I’m grateful we can afford what she needs as well as a bit extra.
just the fun stuff to buy now – pencil case, stationery etc
I managed to get up a little sharper this morning.

Fantastic Happy! Isn’t that a great feeling? 10 sizes down! Wow! 🙏🙏🙏

thanks for the post. completely forgot about this.

26/07/16

Week 3
Day 2

Diet starting weight: 18 stone 6 pound

Weight now: 17 stone 4 pound (109.76kg)
BMI: 27.9

Hi all,

It’s the original poster here. I wanted to give you guys an update. As I said before I’m not diabetic or pre-diabetic. I am strictly here to lose weight. My starting weight overall was 257 lbs. Diet, exercise, and fairly clean eating helped me lose 30 lbs over the coarse of about 8 months. So I know what it takes to lose weight. My fear in the beginning was that this diet was so restrictive that wouldn’t me it a week without pigging out. We’ll I’ve been at this diet since May, and I’m in onederland for the first time in over 3 years. I’ve lost about 32 lbs in 3 months for a total of 62 lbs and I’ve lost about 23% of my body weight since I started my weight loss journey.

Now let’s talk about a cheat day, cheat days, and cheat weeks. I’ve had em all since May. I hit a plateau 2 weeks into the diet and took about 4 days off. The next week I lost 5 lbs. Every month I seem have a little plateau to overcome. I’ve gone off diet up to six days in a row (Just being honest) but I got back on the diet and still achieved success. When I’m on the diet I try to stay between 800 and 900 calories and it’s really working for me and knowing that a cheat meal or day off diet won’t destroy my progress makes the diet fairly sustainable.

It feels so weird to be this close to my weight loss goals. I only want to lose about another 20 lbs. The weight really does melt off. Don’t sweat the cheat days, but don’t make them a habit. When I’m on the diet I’m really strict about sticking to it. Count everything!

Hi, Mussels?? Can we have mussels on the BSD?

Congrats on jumping in and starting this way of eating. The people on this forum are very helpful and supportive. I’m only on day 6, but they’ve helped me a lot! The first week was hard, I had a lack of energy and felt tired, but not everyone feels that way and we just have to fight it off and look at the end result.

Good luck!

Hi Clarissa. Well done so far with your terrific weight loss! I tend to get out of routine on weekends, so I can see your ‘fear’ of facing a holiday and trying to stay on track. I take the opportunity on weekends to do more exercise and the dog gets walked twice a day and I get of to gym both mornings. So make sure you take time on your holiday to do lots of exercise and remind yourself how great you look and don’t undo the hard work you have already done. Don’t go near the buffet!!

Hi all,
This isn’t a weigh in but it’s a shocking and amazing target to me so I have to share it. I just went to buy a couple shirts because my shirts are too big and my clients are telling me I need a couple new ones and I am down 10 full sizes from when I started this program. 10!!!
I will probably be in shock about this for another week so bear with me, but it’s amazing and I thank each and everyone of you for all that you share in all of your inspiration.
💜

After a couple of weeks of contemplation (procrastination) I have decided to take the leap and give the 8 x 800 a go.

With a rich family history of insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, the dementia that often follows and a waist line that has expanded over the past 2 years it is time to grasp the nettle and take action.

At 43 years old 5’11” and 91kg (200 pounds) I am hoping to drop 11kg over the 8 weeks and hit reset on my insulin sensitivity.

I cannot only imagine the program is going to be really challenging in parts – particularly for someone who enjoys a wine or three after a long day at the office. However, I am looking forward to the support of the forum community and the tips and hints for making a success of the program.

I am thinking of tracking and sharing my progress and experience on the forum board to help me stick with it. Have others found this to be beneficial?

All tips welcomed.

“The

Congratulations bigP. 💐

You must be feeling fantastic

Just watched it on iplayer😃

Monday 25 July

Breakfast: none….. 🙂

Lunch: 4 Egg spanish omlette 12:30 pm

Snack: Half cup milk and 3 tablespoons flaxseed powder 3:15

Dinner: Stirfry with Cod and Coconut sauce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ump-IwBigkI

Ahhhh….. This is the only city that has Brotherly Love! Philly is the place. But, not a place for skinny people. they invented Pretzels, ITALIAN ICEs, and Cheesesteaks. And my favorite:

donuts! I am drooling on Federal Donuts. The Italian Market was a place for the not so skinny. Skinny people were in Chinatown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIig2Mwwjkg

Moving 3+ hours north far far away was a good step on losing this poundage. Wish you all luck in your goals!

Oh my goodness, I’m pleased it’s not just me. Im 5weeks and 1 day in and I’ve lost 23 pounds in total, however the last 2 weeks I’ve only lost 1.5 pound per week, when I’m struggling it’s disheartening (I know 1.5 pounds in the scheme of things is still a loss) I’m going on holiday on Saturday and I’m terrified I will tumble of the wagon and feast for 2 weeks on bread and potatoes !, I fast for 16 hours and eat within an 8 hour window having 2 meals, any chance I will wake up tomorrow 10 stone lighter?????

Great results Steve – you must be feeling great.

1. The native birds are acting like Spring is here.
2. It’s been very windy……so I’ve thrown caution to it. (!)
3. Good things happen.

Bring me a blanket of mardiness. I want a crocheted one because when you’re down, anything crocheted makes life even worse!

Someone beat me to it on the ‘lively words’. I think lively words are what everyone needs! Tokyo, you are still a legend in the bus nightmare stakes. We couldn’t do this without all our BSD calendar girls (and Timmy’s speedos!)

Napangardi where in Australia are you? My DH and I traveled the East side of the continent about 2.5 years ago and I absolute loved it. I want to move there. We can be BSD buddies since we are on the same road to weight loss. 🙂

I need to keep posting or I lose motivation. I love this group. They have been so helpful!

oh yes you and thelma are quite famous round these parts!!! you for your BSD achievements and thelma for the sheer fact she makes me laugh and her BSD bakes!!!!!!! you are the poster girls of BSD ha ha 👭

Lively words? Damn you autocorrect…

I go through knitting phases but my mum will churn out a cardigan a night, she astounds me. I’ve really got to be in the mood. I love knitting decorations for Christmas trees, little animals, stockings, Santa hats. Cute!

Hi, LACali21, what an achievement. We have a similar challenge. I am working towards a hundred pound weight loss, although being Australian, it is about 40 kilos. I am working towards 20 kilos by my sons 21st. That is three months away and three days. If it is doable I am doing it… Just measured my waist this morning and thought what a way to go but with way of eating it is achievable. Keep writing !

Should of said, I don’t go low on purpose, it is just this diet has had that effect and rather than eat more I have been able to reduce meds. Right now I have stuck to the same amount of insulin for 1 week to see if my bloods stabilise. If they are still keeping low by tomorrow I will reduce my insulin again.

Until this forum/eating plan i knitted all of the time. Have lost interest/focus on my current blanket project the baby is now overdue.

Blanket? Of mardiness?? 😍😍😍😍😍 I love it!!!! In fact, I’m going to knit us all one! And it’s going in the glossary too lol.

Thank you for your lively words. I can’t believe you tell people about lil ol’ me! I feel much better after my pep talks and my bath 😊 Tomorrow will be better. I’ll get my finger out and start packing for my trip. And get more steps than 936 lol xx

You gals rock!