Tokyo on the bus!!! *Crying* Poor Tokyo, can’t we think of anything more exciting for her? You get tennis, Timmy’s lifting tyres, Eps is channelling her inner Pammy, and Tokyo has to be on a bus???

I know what you mean Timmy. Hubby is in 38/40 waist and there is no way on this EARTH his waist is that small. Beats the shiz out of me too. My ‘chest’ is 50 plus inches, but my bras aren’t (thank God, or they’d have to be specially made!)

Oooh tattoos. I’m thinking about more ink when I’m back in shape.

There’s one thing about clothes sizes and me that I don’t get. All of my current trousers/shorts are 34 inch waist. There’s no way in hell my waist is 34 inches, when I measure it with a tape measure it looks more like 36/38! But my 34s are too baggy.

Also, everything was tight before and now it’s loose, and according to my measurements, I havent’ really lost much from my waist, and sweet FA from my gut. How TF does that work?

Lucky.. you can be on your treadmill, Tokyo you can be on the bus, Eps.. swimming costume shot a la Baywatch!??

LMAO .. count me in! My secret tattoo would be on show then! I’m not dying my hair blond though. I’m brunette and proud now!

Janey could bare her backside like the tennis girl out of the athena poster…

That’s a good idea. When we’re all in cracking nick we should do a charity calendar. I could get all greased up and lift up some tyres like that bloke out of the athena photo (as if!)

We now have BSD monthly pin ups???!

I love this WOE because honestly I cannot be bothered to have lunch! In the past, working from home was deadly as I used to graze my way through the cupboards! Today I had ham and egg muffins for breakfast and since then I don’t want anything! I’ve just given in and had some yog and strawberries to use them up.. otherwise.. bothered? Me? Not!

Well, you could be Mr August I suppose…?

Well Timmy, that’s a good excuse as any to go shopping. Reminds me of my poor hubby who seems to be going from one extreme to the other without any Cinderella moments in between. Everything he’s trying on that was too small for him, is now too big. He came down in some shorts on Thursday and I could have squeezed a leg in them too. He was mortified that he looked stupid in them. He’s having to make notches in his favourite belt now as the pre-punched ones have finished. Now THAT is going to be bloody costly, because without wanting to stereotype, you know how women are about clothes shopping? Well, that’s my husband. Me, I buy what I need, when I need it. And even then I’ll go through charity shops first. Him? Like a bloody Kardashian sister.

Yep Janey, mine were both (supposedly) size 18. Same shop, same style jeans, same bloody rail even only one was traditional denim and the other was the dark blue. Never ever had a problem there before, as long as I know what size I am, I just replace the jeans the moment they wear out. Usually between the legs… because I walk a lot? *nods*

Just back from beach and it was amazing. Had a great swim in the sea andceent body boarding with the kids. Just had a coffee made with coconut oil and milk – all weighed and counted of course. Feel full now. Also drink loads of water.

Hi Lowenna,

There’s a few people on here that have found decent bread replacements. If you put in “low carb bread” in the search box up the top of the screen, then it will show you all the results of the discussions.

Come on, I know you lot by now. You’d probably want to see a photograph of it!

Yet another image we don’t need at lunchtime!!

I am in white shorts today. Yes. Shorts. White. I feel like I am 15 and down the beach! I also have a pair of nemesis jeans in the wardrobe that claim to 14, but I reckon are 12’s (like you Lucky, I bought them supposedly the same size as another pair). They are my target, long with some suit trousers that I bought secondhand and never squeezed into!

I’m nearly out of all of my clothes now. The only things I’ve still got are a suit that I’ve never worn and also my tuxedo. All of my shorts are too baggy, all or my trouser are nearly falling down were it not for my belt manfully keeping them in check. And that is becoming too loose now too. I need new belts pronto!

A also need more shorts, my board shorts are getting way too baggy now and the good folk of Brittany will be getting a view of my pasty cheeks when I’m bodyboarding in the sea if I don’t sort something out soon!

Hooray a doodles???? Lmao! Yes I am on a two day smug streak today! Or is that three? But definitely two with getting my two stone, and then my BMI down in the 30’s! Hubby has also lost 4lb so far this week, he’s catching me up too, think he’s 4 or 5 lb off his 2 stone now, I’m a bit confused with the kilos thing. It’s ok for weighing but as to what it means weight wise – no idea! I know where I am with stones and pounds!

Well, I washed and dried my ‘fat jeans’ yesterday with the intention of charity bagging them. I held them up against me and it was amazing how much smaller I am. I wanted to get rid of all my massive clothes but I am going to hang on to these so I can see how far I’ve come. The new pair of ‘fat jeans’ that replaced them, even they are going a bit baggy and loose on me now. I don’t have another pair in a size smaller waiting for me and I really don’t want to buy any to be honest, I like my clothes to last. I might have a look in a charity shop to see if I can find a cheap pair of 18s to have on hand to do me in the meantime, don’t mind paying £3 or £4 quid, but if I’m not going to be in them long, I don’t want to pay a lot. I do have the 16s that are masquerading as 18s waiting though, my nemesis that I have never fit into. I am determined to get in them! And get out of them too! Baby steps, although at this rate it won’t be long 😀

yes i thought i put a post on saying hooray a doodles !!! this morning but it must have disappeared in the great web of posts !!!!!
you have done so bloody well you must be chuffed to bits !!!!!
not long now and you will be having more cinderella moments !!!!!!

Mine does all that except a watch 🙂 I didn’t choose it, it was a Christmas present from hubby!

Just let the results of your weightloss do the talking Tokyo, and when people ask you how you’re doing it, go off on one 🙂 Did you see I lost another 0.7kg today??? 😀

Yes that’s the one I have, I have the grey one and I just ordered a black one for hubby. But he won’t be much competition for me as he’s not too good atm.

You’ll be fine, we’re rooting for ya!

Hurrah for skinny minny long may she be so. Bril 😇😇😇

well done Lynne – that’s brilliant
Unfortunate relationship with height and BMI
My parents both got shorter as they got older – I measured myself this morning, and I am still 164cm high – only my waist that’s shrinking thankfully.
I feel as if my posture has improved a lot with BSD and losing weight – someone said I looked taller the other day, rather than noticing I’d lost weight.

i dont know i come for my dinner and have to read about naked ladies and me shopping and banking !!!!!
what on earth is going on !!
just had my cottage cheese salad surrounded by people eating pasta , jacket potatoe and chocolate not all the same meal i hasten to add !!!
i want to scream stop eating sugar but fear i may become a BSD bore !!!
lucky i looked again at those jawbones on amazon and found one called up2 at 32 quid am i looking at the right ones ??
big weigh in day tomorrow !! ( bites fingers in anticipation!!!)

I see there are a lot of low carb breads on the market. Are these an alternative to giving up the beloved bread?

If items are free from wheat and low sugar can you eat them or does it have to be rigid?

Sorry for all the questions and thank you so much for all the great support you’ve already given me

Just did two month measurements – at one month, I’d lost pretty much two inches everywhere – now its more targeted
bust -3.50
under bust-2.50
waist-6.00
thighs-4.00
upper leg-2.25
right calf -1.25
left calf-1.50

I picked up another pair of trousers yesterday that I was pleased to fit into at around week three or four, but when I tried them on are now huge and past their window!

I’ve got a Fitbit which is great as it also doubles as a watch,and you can challenge friends which gets quite competitive. You also enter what you’ve eaten and drunk to keep track of calories

Lunch will be some sort of salad bowl from a sandwich shop. Tea is a repeat of last night which is stir fry vegetables with chicken. Home alone tonight so keeping the cooking simple!

Now I have visions of a human coin dispenser. Please make it stop!

Halfway through day 2 and almost frightened to report how easy the first and a half has been…

When does the suffering start?

Caroline

Hmm. I dunno, I guess it would be good from a fraud perspective. Not many places to stuff stolen money!! Well, one or two, but I wouldn’t fancy it!

Dinner? I fancy something involving ratatouille! I have the veg to make it!

Hahahaha, us Brits wouldn’t do it as a family holiday.. but our european cousins do! It doesn’t bother me – naked beer and tapas is order of the day. I DID laugh at the man riding a bike in nothing but trainers tho 😀

And the supermarkets make you get dressed…

I’m glad I haven’t eaten yet today *retch*

Yayyy for food, what is on the menu today? Spanish Pork meatballs for us today with some lovely steamed vegetables.

Oh my God Timmy, you would have been on the sh*t list fo’ sho’. That is priceless. I can’t imagine this morning’s bank meeting had my foofoo been on display. Although, saying that, he did enough gawping at my cleavage. Do the bank staff have their bits hanging out too?

I almost booked a holiday to a nudist town once. I fancied getting the train down to the south of France and looked at the quickest route. It’s to a place called Cap de Agde. I was that close to booking tickets and accommodation then I noticed on a google search something about naturists. Did a bit more digging and it turns out half the town is designated nudist! Not just the beach.

You can go to restaurants with your schlong out, do some banking with your foofoo on display. You name it, you can do it mother naked in this place.

I’m not sure my wife or children would have ever forgiven me.

DAvid Dickenson in speedos… my breakfast eggs nearly came back at that!

I am also a rubbish tanner (not as in preserving leather). Back in my youth I used to sunbathe and go brown but now I just tend to burn.. which makes the naturist sunshine holiday a challenge! Its a punishable crime to have white bits of any description out there! my boy is like his dad – goes brown at the merest suggestion of sunshine. Not that I know where my child is; he’s buggered off out round his mate’s for the day with vague promises to pop home later. I might as well have gone to the office!

In other news, Ocado has delivered! We have food!

That’s a good look Lucky 😉

I used to be really brown in my teens, as I was always out and in skimpy dresses and shorts, but an aversion to sun as a (fat) adult and with the exception of my face and arms, I scorch. So currently, I have a brown face. Red nose. Brown arms. Red shoulders. Red cleavage. White legs. It’s not a good look.

Skin like teak lol. Conjuring up images of David Dickenson.

Like my dad (RIP) before me, both me and my boy are blessed with crazy tanning ability. Someone only has to mention the word sun and we go olive. My daughters are blond and blue eyed and not as lucky!

I remember one year I went darker than my hair and I’ve got dark brown hair (well it was, I’m a silver fox now and I’m only 39!)! If I remember correct I was about 14 and my parents were splitting up. I went to Malta for 2 weeks with my mum in the summer hols, came back for 2 weeks then went back to Malta again for another 2 weeks with my dad!

My hair went a sort of browny gingery colour and my skin was like teak.

Brilliant results captainlynne! We all start to shrink after we get to 35, so don’t worry about that. It sounds like seeing your results, is bringing others to the BSD, which can only be to the good.

So, Skinny Minny, keep up the good work and maybe you will get off that diabetic register in the end.

A tan, huh? *Looks down at burnt breasts*

My budgie smugglers are currently drying on the line as I’ve upped my swimming to every other day. I’m lucky enough to live really close to an outdoor swimming pool that has adult lane swimming every evening from 6.30. So not only am I getting fit, I’m topping up my tan too! Win win.

I can confirm that the muffin top is shrinking, and hoping that it will be all but gone in the next few weeks!

Haha, love it Janey, you being all smug and healthy at your sister!

Oh. My. Gaaaaaaaaawdddddddddd. Hello Chandler Tim. Shameless Janice from Friends impression there for you.

Of course we missed you. Glad your beers haven’t ruined your beach body 😉 I still haven’t surrendered to the wine, I’m a bit worried about it tbh. I’m already a hopeless drunk… I moider really badly. Best stay off it I think. For now anyway. Think it’s been about 9 weeks since I’ve had alcohol. I am partial to an ice cold Bud too Janey. Camping is going to be the big test for me, that normally involves at least 2 boxes of wine. At least.

I’m going to do the one Eps put up, but I’m going to do it in cupcake form (better portion control) and I’ll make half the ganache up and pipe it on in swirls. I like knowing exactly how much is in each portion, and if I have to be trusted to cut it into slices then, I’m in trouble. I’ll make mine tomorrow so I can pack one for the rugby on Saturday.

Saw nurse today for test results.

HbA1c now 5.2 (in April it was 5.5, down from 9.6 in December). Now well in ‘normal’ range 😃. Been told will not be taken off the diabetes register as “it could return at any time”. Grrrrr.

Blood pressure today 139/78. I’ve not taken BP meds for months and now they’ve been taken off ‘repeat’. Pulse and kidney function improved.

But ….. She checked my height, and I’m an inch shorter than I was 😱 Top of my healthy BMI is now 9st 7lbs. 😱

But ….. she’s recorded all my information to show the GP who is complaining about non-complient diabetics at the practice (and blaming the nurse!). She’s also telling patients about the BSD 😃.

And a different nurse (who took my blood last week) has started the BSD after she asked me how I’d lost so much weight 😃

Oh – and I’ve apparently got a new name – Skinny Minny 😳 A few people have started calling me that!

So a bit of a mixed morning, but really the only ‘bad’ bit was that – along with the rest of me – my height has shrunk 😱 so I shouldn’t complain 😃

I’m ten weeks in so the name of my topic is a bit out of date but, hey, it’s my thread and I love it.

I have just come back from a holiday in the UK. We travelled about a lot and lived mostly on salads (Marks and Spencer are the best), Greek yogurt, fruit, hummus and eggs. I informed all our friends about the diet so that they would not be offended when we didn’t eat their carbs. (Two of them went out and bought the book so that they can have a go) I usually weigh and log everything so it was a bit of a challenge to control portion sizes. We had a great holiday and I came back 1.75 pounds lighter and my husband lost 4.5 pounds. Official weigh in for week 11 is next Monday.

We indulged in a lot of retail therapy. Our income (pensions) come from the UK and are paid in sterling so we got one pound for our pound. Not so if we spend our pounds at home where the exchange rate is terrible at the moment. Living in a hot country I spend nine months of the year in t-shirts so I bought loads of size 18’s (still a bit snug on me) and loads of 16’s (which don’t go anywhere near me……..yet). My husbands trousers were falling down and his shirts are a bit spacious so we bought him new ones and are having his existing trousers altered as well. Thank you UK for having sales.

Happy birthday for this weekend Janeycoughdrop!

Yay, Timmy the Chandler with his six pack (of beer!). You’ll be in those budgie smugglers yet! 😆 It’s been a challenge for me to turn down a cold Bud over the last few days.. But I managed! One white wine and soda slipped through..

Paleo choc cake looks Delish altho icing and filling is more than I can be bothered with! Nigella wins this time round I think. I told my sister I was baking a cake and she was all ‘I don’t eat refined sugar so no cake for me’. To which I replied, ‘neither do I. Or refined flour. This cake is legal!’ So now she’s all excited at the thought of a slice 😈

hurrah timmy is back i was wondering were you and your speedos had gotten too!!!!

I think this is the perfect diet for avoiding gluten! My brother has to avoid gluten because of his trigeminal neuralgia. So many of the meals that I’m now cooking are gluten free that I’m recommending loads of ideas to him!

Me too! Love my actifry but never thought of doing cauliflower in it. Great idea!

Hi Kando, my current exercise includes swimming and weights.

In both sessions I try to add in a part of HIIT. For the swims, I normally do a mile of front crawl followed by 5 sprint lengths absolutely flat out (i.e. 5 x 1 slow breast stroke length followed by 1 full tilt front crawl). Also, after my weights sessions, I do a mixture of sprints on either a running, rowing or cycling machine or the horrible leg cycle ones on the TRX.

If you’re out of practice I would suggest just starting off with a couple of minutes, and building up over the course of several weeks.

Thanks Timmy, makes perfect sense, might just walk a bit quicker for now and add the exercises the book advises at home. It’s a journey to get everything in place and a habit but I’m getting there!

Hi GrumpyT2, I was always under the belief that visceral fat was the hardest to shift, but I’ve been re-educated in this. Apparently the visceral fat, whist the most dangerous, is also the most transient and is always the first to come and go if we over eat/diet.

As Ziggy pointed out, it’s the subcutaneous fat around the middle that is the dreaded spare tyre, and the hardest to shift. Walking is a great fat shifter, so I’d keep that up. Make sure you don’t get caught in the myth that cardio (running, cycling etc) is a good fat shifter. It’s not. That’s not to say it’s not good for you. It’s great for your heart and cardiovascular system.

The most effective exercise to torch fat is a combination of HIIT, weights and sub 60% max heart rate “cardio” (walking being a perfect example).

That said, as the saying goes, abs are built in the gym and uncovered in the kitchen. And a rule of thumb is fat is shifted 75% by diet and 25% by exercise. So regardless of how much exercise you do, diet is the main key to getting rid of it! Keep up the good work, sounds like you’re well on your way.