Me too, and not just in what I want to eat, but feedback from others (like you and Janey) about how things are affecting people after eating this way is also having an impact. I was the same about pastry Tokyo, that was my undoing. I don’t know if this makes sense, but I’d rather not eat it and be put off for life by the fallout? If I ate a pastie now and it made me feel ill, I’d be devastated lol. I’d rather remember pastie the way he was, than someone who gave me heartburn and left me off colour for days. The memory of pastie shall be preserved as I remember him. Lol.

Monday Start of Week 2 Weigh-In:

14 St 13 lbs BMI 30.49 Loss to Date 8.5 lbs

First Target Achieved! – Weight now below 15 St

Next Target: BMI < 30

Thanks for all the help re carb counting and associated meal planning. It’s only been 1 week and I am still a newbie but it seems it does take significant planning/research to get the daily menu balanced correctly. Still, now I am retired (but still waking at 6 a.m. as per my working life) I have plenty of time to do so.

What’s not to like about this food.? Last night we had a modified Harrisa Chicken (swapped out the beans for Cauli Rice) – Fantastic and so filling.

So – Three weeks in – time to weigh

Male, 6ft 1in, Type 2 diabetes for 7 years, Not taking any diabetic meds, On Ramipril for elevated BP. Slim build – TOFI maybe

04th July 2016 Starting Weight – 13 st – 01 lb – 04 oz
11th July 2016 After One Week – 12 st – 09 lb – 09 oz
18th July 2016 After Two Weeks – 12 st – 06 lb — 10 oz
25th July 2016 After Three Weeks – 12 st – -05 lb – 06 oz
This Weeks Loss – 01 lb – 04 oz
Total Loss = 09 lb – 14 oz

My thoughts on the week:- Was hoping for a bit more this week as I had upped my exercise to maybe 200% of normal, but at least it is going the right way. Onwards and downwards folks. 😎

it has changed the way I am looking at food have to say !! oh was really ill after just a bit of pastry!! chocolate still my downfall but not bithered bout much else !!

it wasn’t much about the actual diet more about the process, and one mans reversal of his diabetes. It was on BBC 2 at 10.00 pm last night

Oh yay. A Paltrow cake. Thanks… 😉

Of course you haven’t, you’ll be fine! It’s like riding a bike! Everyone’s been a bit quiet, it’s summer, isn’t it? Everyone’s going to be off doing things. I only give the illusion of being omnipresent because my PC is in my living room, on from sun up to sun down and I can see the notifications from Google lol 😀 I just drop whatever I’m doing and come to see whenever I see that little yellow box hehe. We’ll be here waiting for you 🙂

Don’t know what I’m going to do when I’m camping. There’s wi-fi up at the farm shop and bistro but it’s a bit of a walk up every time I want to post or check something lol. Might check in once a day, and have a nice glass of wine up there as I do so 🙂 Stagger back because thanks to the BSD I’ll now be a very cheap date indeed!

Well said, I think you have expressed what most of us have delightfully discovered, that the monster appetite isn’t part of us, it was a side effect. Well done you, keep up the excellent work, we can all do it together. There are a lot of people on here like myself who have 100 plus pounds to loose. So long term support. Great huh.
Hope you have a great week
Love jan🍓🍓🍓

Well angie baby,
Just look at you,
Way to go girl!
Just keep happy.
Love the idea you are zen like.
A warrior in stealth mode.

Keep blogging.
Love Lucia
Xxxx

Hi Jan
Ooh the Jans are in it together , us Jans have got to stick together, we are a dying breed, my weigh day is Wednesday, not been planning very well this week so we shall see.

Love jan🍓🍓🍓

Hi josie 53.
Sorry, didn’t see you there, with you losing all that weight.
You are a genius!
I have been on the diet longer than 8 weeks.
I am still enjoying it, unless I plateau, then I sulk.

As I am only taking 800 cals, I will not reduce them any more than that, I change my exercise. My weight will move again, I just need a good lesson in patience.

Keep going, you are looking great!
Love Lucia
Xxxx

i would not forget you and to surprise you I would bake it in a paltrow cake !!!!!
i feel a bit more back in the game today been a bit distracted lately( had a lot of lifes shit on ) so hoping not lost my BSD game and buddys !!!!

Hi green Janet,
Please can you tell me what channel so I can do catch up?
I need more bsd info.
Thanks
Lucia
Xxxx

Hi all

Well it is 8 weeks today and my first weigh in after I started. I am a bit freaked/ OCDish by frequent weighing so have tried this new tactic of avoiding it. I knew the diet was working as my clothes were getting looser. So Ta Dah I have lost 27 pounds. But even more amazing is the fact that I don’t get hungry, want to cheat, and have loads more energy. I had had three years of difficult physical health lots of surgery and the lovely steroids so was pretty broken by it all. I found walking outside difficult as a consequence of the eye surgery so had bought a treadmill a while ago and looked at it a lot!! Now I can walk 40 minutes a day which is awesome for me. Helped by some lovely memory foam trainers what a discovery.

I went on holiday for two weeks to the Med but kept to the diet except for one birthday meal. It was interesting how it could be done I can’t believe I didn’t eat the custard tarts! I have had to curb my inner saleswoman a it as I want everyone to try this diet who needs it so am in danger of becoming an MM bore.
I’ve been reading the posts and find the company humour and support a huge help.
I will continue on the 800 for the foreseeable future as I have a long way to go but feel calm about this. I was thinking about how stressful I found different diets in the past I am now a sort of zen woman with a smile. I think I feel better about weighing in more frequently maybe monthly maybe weekly I will see how I feel
Meanwhile hooray!!

Morning Tokyo, hope you have a good day 🙂 No, she behaved herself last night, thank God. Couldn’t have taken two nights on the trot, or I would have been in police custody! Remember the file in the cake 😉 x

morning another day at work for me so up early when all i want is my bed!!!! but at least i stick to my food plan today somehow i dont cheat here odd i know !!
anyway hope all good and that lucky has not been arrested for the murder of her neighbour !!! i will bake you a cake lucky!!!!!

Good morning all 😀 Bear with me while I just check if smug mode is engaged… there!

Oooh Josie, that does sound interesting, might try and get that on catch up, if it’s on a catch up channel?

Tokyo, thank you 😉 Feeling in a much better mood after a decent night’s sleep. Still very, very tired, it’ll take days to even out, but I’m not feeling as… homicidal today.

Oh no Janey! But! In retrospect, chickpeas v steak, no brainer, and it is your birthday weekend so… win! Hope your meal was good and you didn’t keep the poor owner to his word! Ah you simply MUST try the steam next time…

And let’s kick off the week’s wins with – 0.9 kg down from yesterday 🙂 After yesterday’s day long downpour, the sun is shining, the sky is blue. Just have my black coffee (didn’t fancy the cheesy smelling milk) as I work out what we’re eating today 🙂

thanks Janet I thought about watching it but forgot! I will see if I can watch it online later 🙂

I have a better system for grocery shopping mostly – I get my husband to do it lol. He works in a store so he brings the bulk of ours home with him and we just top up from the local store. I do try to get up early to write but I never quite manage it, but nor do I always get to bed early enough.

Good Morning everyone 🙂 weight still the same so fingers crossed for tomorrows official weigh in. I’m wearing my new smaller work top today 🙂 Clothes that fit are instantly slimming does anyone else see that?

Something I realised years ago (to my benefit) was to not care about certain numbers – I care about my weight, but age for instance isn’t worth worrying about, and nor is the number in that little label inside our clothes. Sure it’s nice to see the number/size reduce, but the actual number matters less. I have clothes in Uk 12-18 that all still fit a ridiculous variation, and I have some 16’s that are just too big. too big or too small clothes generally are not flattering. Clothes that fit almost always look nicer.

I am having a new interim target, I straightaway set my target yesterday to 10 st 7, but I’m aiming for 10st 12 first as that will be 2stone down on BSD. Slow but steady wins my race 🙂

I did a little painting last night but I wasn’t managing to get the effect I wanted so I gave up for the night. The great thing about painting though is you can paint over what you don’t like and try again as often as you like.

Well my dears it is time for me to go face my Monday! So First I will say that food today is raspberry shake, cheese salad and courgetti bake later .

Have a great day life changers 🙂

i am also at the lowest weight for at least 25 years, good job i have kept all the clothes

Bissell that is great thanks so much for responding, it does reassure me. I especially like the fact you have reintroduced some wine! I can give up carbs but what a misery to face a tea total future 🙁
What a great community this is thanks again!
Jill

Thank you greenjanet

Yes I still have a lot to lose but will stick with it as it is the lowest I have been in 25 years .
I cannot believe how much better I feel and look and I am in this for the long haul.
Although I didn’t post before I followed all of your journeys and it really made me believe that the setbacks were only temporary and that if I persisted then like all of you I would succeed.

Regards

Jan

Morning Jill. Like you, I was terrified of regaining some/all of the weight when I reached the end of the 8 weeks. I was lucky enough to squeeze under the BMI of 25 (OK, 24.8, but still under 25!) after 8 weeks and thought, “now what?” It’s been a month so far and i’ve followed a regime of 5:2, low carbs throughout, with 800cals on the “2” days. No snacking between meals, no unprocessed carbs, the odd glass of wine, lots of fats, plenty of water, 10k steps a day (mainly!) PORTION CONTROL (my nemesis ) and so far so good. I gained a couple of pounds initially, panicked, sulked, felt frustrated, but they disappeared after a few days and overall I’ve lost another 2 lbs, I think.
So not out of the woods yet by any means, but realising this is it for the rest of my life really. And that’s ok, I’m happy with what I eat and how I look and most importantly ( who am I trying to kid?Nearly most importantly) how I feel. And I feel so much better than I did.
Hope that helps a bit. Best of luck with it.

Thanks Katharine. My plan at the end of four weeks is to move to the 5:2 (due to working away a lot). I accept weight loss may be slower then but on this evidence it seems it will bounce straight back up even when cutting out carbs. Any assurances out there please?
Jill

Hi1942desprate
Big welcome now you’ve revealed yourself. This eating plan is amazing isn’t it. Sounds like the plan has done the same for you as it has for me , a transformation, in pacifying our monster insatiable appetite into a normal appetite, wanting healthy food. Brilliant work, have you more to loose. Do let us know we are all friends here. I’m approaching the end of my fourth week, and still have a lot to loose, but loving the plan, will never revert to carbs, feel to well.
Hope you have a great week.
Love Jan 🌞🌞🌞

Perhaps a little more protein and a little more fat (avocado, nuts) and a little less carbs. You really seem to have changed your diet dramatically. I always ate a tonne of non starchy veg, and practically no sugar so only had to give up booze, bread, rice, potatoes, pasta (sob), so did not have too much of a carb flu. You are eating full fat not light as Yowzer suggests above?. Lovely big green salad with avocado and a smidge of EVOO, yum. Lots of steamed greens with a teaspoon of oil or butter.

I think you are doing very well – esp the 3 inches of the waist. It is the only measurement I am following as it is really the only one that really matters to me.

I too have a ‘nanna nap’ every day

All the best

ps I am not diabetic but I would guess your doctor would be very very pleased with your BS readings

I can only say ‘wow’ and many congratulations. Steve you do not say how tall you are but I guess by your waist you will still be going onwards and downwards. Inspirational

In going through the recipe section I notice there are quite a few with things like maple syrup, rye, and spelt, these are foods we should keep away from!

24/07/16

Week 3
Day 1

Diet starting weight: 18 stone 6 pound

BMI: 28
Weight: 17 stone 5 pound (110.22kg)

Hi Ziggy
Hope it goes well with the weigh in today.Good luck my friend.
I am lucky so far in that I have had no cravings.
I do not exercise as such but my job involves me continually moving around and lifting moderately heavy items for 7.5 hours a day, 5 days a week.

Day 6 – I don’t know if it’s my imagination but the clothes are feeling a little looser. LOL I could be hoping it felt that way too. Since I just took measurements yesterday I will need to wait a bit to see how that goes.

Still feeling tired and today I just felt plain lazy. I was planning on doing some things and then just lazed around the house, watch some tv and read my book. I got some lc soup cooked up for lunches because DH decided he is going to join me on LC. We’ll see how long that goes.

Weighed in this morning and only 3.6 lbs lost so far. I can’t say I was completely upset about that because it’s still weight that has come off and this time it better not come back on. I’m curious to see what my grand total will be on Tuesday for a whole week on plan.

SunnyB thanks for the encouragement. I wasn’t going to beat myself up for the potato because given the choice of flour, rice, grains or potato, I thought the potato was way less processed too. LOL Now that could be my brain making excuses, but I know that I will be throwing potatoes in there from time to time, especially since it’s summer right now and the baby potatoes from the garden are fresh. As long as I am not giving in to them on a daily occurrence and just every once in a while, I can live with that. 🙂

DATE WEIGHT SUGARS 630AM WAIST
17/05/2016 130KG 12.7 140CM
18/05/2016 129.2KG 9.2
19/05/2016 128.6KG 8.6
20/05/2016 127KG 8
21/05/2016 126.5KG 7.5
22/05/2016 126.3KG 6.3
23/05/2016 126.3KG 6.3
24/05/2016 125.9KG 4.3
25/05/2016 125.9KG 4.3
26/05/2016 125.7KG 3.4
27/05/2016 125.1KG 4.3
28/05/2016 124.2KG 3.8
29/05/2016 124KG 4.7
30/05/2016 124.2KG 4.2
31/05/2016 124KG 5
1/06/2016 123.8KG 3.2
2/06/2016 123.4KG 4
3/06/2016 123.5KG 3
4/06/2016 123.6KG 3.9
5/06/2016 123.6KG 3.6
6/06/2016 123.6KG 4.6 135CM
7/06/2016 122.6KG 5
8/06/2016 122KG 3.9
9/06/2016 122.6KG 3.7
10/06/2016 122.3KG 6
11/06/2016 122.4KG 5
12/06/2016 122.1KG 4.9
13/06/2016 122.8KG 5.5
14/06/2016 121.7KG 4.7
15/06/2016 121.2KG 5.2
16/06/2016 120.6KG 6.8
17/06/2016 120.6KG 4.8
18/06/2016 119.6KG 4.3
19/06/2016 120.1KG 6.1
20/06/2016 120.6KG 4.6
21/06/2016 120.3KG 5.6
22/06/2016 120.4KG 4
23/06/2016 119.5KG 4.3
24/06/2016 19.2KG 5.2
25/06/2016 118.6KG 5.4
26/06/2016 119.3KG 5.3
27/06/2016 119.0KG 5.4
28/06/2016 119.8KG 6.2
29/06/2016 119.1KG 4.4 127CM
30/06/2016 117.7KG 4.7
1/07/2016 117.5KG 5
2/07/2016 117.5KG 4.8
3/07/2016 117KG 4.2
4/07/2016 117.4KG 5
5/07/2016 116.9KG 3.8
6/07/2016 116.7KG 4.8
7/07/2016 116.1KG 4.1
8/07/2016 115.6KG 3.1
9/07/2016 115.2KG 5.1
10/07/2016 116.2KG 3.8
11/07/2016 115.7KG 4.1
12/07/2016 115.9KG 4.8
13/07/2016 115KG 5.7
14/07/2016 15.2KG 4.6
15/07/2016 14.5KG 4.8
16/07/2016 14.3KG 4 123CM
17/01/1900 15.5KG 3.8
18/07/2016 14.3KG 4.8
19/07/2016 13.1KG 4.4
20/07/2016 13.6KG 4.9
21/07/2016 12.8KG 4.2
22/07/2016 13.3KG 6.9
23/01/1900 12.7KG 4.4
24/07/2016 13.1KG 5.6
25/07/2016 112.6kg 3.8

Autumn, awesome results. I’ve felt really tired and have no energy this week, so exercise has not been much, but I’m hoping that by next week I should feel better too. You give me hope. 🙂

This is my first post but I have been reading the posts almost from the beginning.

I would like to thank everyone on the forum . I have been onBSD for 12 weeks now with very mixed results but because of all the advice I stuck in there and am now starting to believe that I can really do this.
I often became very discouraged as I was losing and regaining the same kgs and didn’t seem to be getting anywhere but I keep reading the forum and kept persisting and now am seeing regular losses.
I would just like to assure everyone that if you stick to the principles you will start to see results.
Just hang in there this does work.

Well, Izzy….. Your selfishness in keeping a diary is very generous for being greedy. I hope mine does the same to others.
I guess Gordon Gecho was right: GREED IS GOOD!

I watch too much TV and movies. It took lots of Drakes Coffee Cakes and Pizza to gain the spare tire. Well, we all do not need a spare anymore! 🙂

5 Minutes to Ray Donovan and then hit the hay! people call my insane for getting up at 4:00 AM. Yet, I taught myself the good habit. Maybe that is the good thing about working for yourself: you make the hours you want.

You ought to see the grocery store at 6 AM. Great time to shop at your leisure.

Here comes Liev Schreiber!

Keep it up on your short term and long term goals everyone!

Cheerio,

Daniel

Jill – I am with you. Heart breaking to get on the scale and see a kilo come back, when I had a normal meal ie. steak and salad and the next day some 1 piece of sourdough with goats cheese and hommus. I have been exercising every day and count and measure everything! But this morning I am more determined and off I go again for another week.

Thanks yowzer great losses

Lynne, that’s so funny we both do that! Thanks for sharing!

Sunday 24 July 2016

fasting all day long. I give up now at 630. I am STARRVING!!!!!! But not eating a Boston Creme Donut. 😀

Breakfast: Skipped

Lunch Skipped:

Snack:
handful cherries
Peach
1 Cup cottage cheese

Dinner:
Chicken breast
1 cup Lentils

Tomorrow another day. Keep moving and start losing!

But I find that scary that we can gain 3 lb by even eating one ‘normal’ meal. How are we ever to stabalise then? Any long term friends out there with advice to stop me having weight gain nightmares when I reach end of diet next week?
Thanks!!
Jill

Its wonderful so far have lost 17 and a 1/2 pounds as i approach the eight week mark, will continue until li get where i am going

What time!!!!! Are you watching the BSD prog on BBC 2 at the moment
Love jan

So,
Anyone over 250 pounds and want to come out and play?

Fancy cutting the carbs tomorrow? And having a little walk, maybe around the block.
If you do these two things, you are on the way, on the path, on the wagon and one of the gang.

So meet you here tomorrow night and you can call yourself a member.

Great isn’t it?

Love Lucia
Xxxxx

Failed with Lebanese and ********* place was shut. Open till 23.30pm, my arse! 😡 However we have stumbled on a random, slightly eccentric Italian steak house that the owner has proudly proclaimed is open all night for us! Not a moment too soon, I was beginning to lose my sense of humour from starvation! STEAK for Janey!

And no, foo foo not steam cleaned but sauna’D and jacuzzi’ed ‘etc’ 😆

Hi all if you aren’t watching bbc2 programme on BSD then you need to watch, foe encouragement on reasons to keep going. It’s called fixing dad.

Hi Penny,
I’ve had a fab weekend thanks – but totally off plan.
I’m too ashamed to write what I’ve eaten, but I will not dwell on it. I’m going to act like it didn’t happen and give the coming week 100%.

I shall stick to less than 50g carbs; maximum of 800 calories; no less than 10,000 steps per day and use the gym 3 times this week. Oh, and a minimum of 1.5L of water per day. Sounds difficult, but the fact is, I know that it can be done, as I’ve done it before 🙂

Looking forward to week 3.

Its about trying to reverse type 2 diabetes by lowering carbohydrates, very scary but interesting

I’m in the same boat, want to start with shakes but unsure which ones.

Well done! What shakes did you use?

do it lucky i shall scream from the gallery at your trial ” she was pushed to it m’lud”!!! i shall explain how hard you have worked on BSD and all the baking success you have had !!!! sure that will go in your favour !!!