Hi Igorasusual, I am catching up with a few weeks of replies :-(.
Saw this yesterday and was really pleased to see the practice looking at this so positively. If you read the whole BSD book you may remember MM’s description of the change to ulcer treatment that he did a programme on in the early 2000’s. It showed that many ulcers are caused by bacteria and treatable with antibiotics. I remembered the programme when he wrote about it, what I had not known was that after it was aired, the GMC had denounced it and it took 2 years to get it accepted. It was mainly through people going to their doctor and demanding antibiotics, being given them (probably just to shut them up) and then the GP’s realising it was working that the GMC changed their tune! People power can work!
Keep up the good work.

Hi everyone. Special welcome to loopylou and all new visitors. Many thanks for your kind comments 😃

HappyLife – I’ve not taken BP meds for many months since it went really low. But they’ve only just taken them off the computer!

sunshine-girl. I’ve lost 5.5 stone (77 pounds or 34.9 kg). I know about fat feet – I’ve already had to dispose of a pair of shoes that were too big now (and my favourite pair of fitflops😱). Hope I’ll be able to boots for the winter that go higher than my ankles! Not been able to do that for many a long year because of my fat calves😱

Let us know your results everyone.

Orchid, that was extremely helpful! I was super hesitant to post since I really didn’t want to sound as pathetic as I feel, lol. I’m glad I did though. I think being so lethargic is also sapping my optimism too :). I’ll go ahead and try the higher carb count and see if that helps. I really am loving the weight loss, and I don’t want to quit! Thank you for help.

Hi Igorasusual,
that is a great result from your holidays! I do recognise with the mirrors and the worry that it will all come back on. It has taken me quite a few weeks to adjust to the new profile in the mirror – actually looking in the mirror is a big achievement, I used to manage to walk past them all without looking in them!
I was getting measured for a new bra a week or so ago and was in my idea of a horror chamber – two mirrors positioned so you could see your front and back view simultaneously. I struggled to look and realised, it was ok and also that I still had some weight to lose. Having got to the goal of 80kg (I am 173cm) and 3 dress sizes down I was feeling good. I had assumed I would stop at 75kg – normal BMI. The two mirrors made me see what I now was, and not just that there was a bit difference from before.
So – the new target I have now set is a final goal of 70kg. That is 7kg over my weight in my 20’s and 30’s so not an unrealistic maintenance weight.
Having taken 6 weeks off when I was on holiday and away from home a lot, I put l little back on, but it came off and ketosis set back in within 5 days of restarting 800. I knew I would have put some weight back on and logically I knew it could not be much as my clothes still fitted, but I would not step on the scales in case I found it had all gone back on!
The last few weeks I have been away at weekends, carefully eating, but not too restrictive, so more 4:3 or 3:4 and still losing 0.5-1kg a week. I have also added in a 14 hour fast – that is as much as I can do, I eat breakfast at 8am and have my last meal between 5 and 6pm. After that it is water or redbush tea. I think that helped get back to fat burning quickly, it has also brought my FBS down to low 4’s, but that is not surprising given the body ahs 14 hours to process the foods instead of 10 hours.
So, like you I am on the final stint. Today I weighed in and I am 21.6kg down – about 3.3 stone. 7.2 kg to go which I hope to have lost by the end of August latest. I’ll keep to the 800 for that period so with a bit of luck and exercise, I might get there a bit quicker!
Good luck with your final few weeks.

Have great time camping Lucky! It’ll be brill. Hope stressful packing stage is nearly over. Only the stressful putting up the tent stage to go so ;-))))

I went for a weekend on about week 5 I think, and found avocados good to have because you can just eat them like a spoon and an instant meal almost! Kind of stopped me thinking I was missing out too as they are so tasty. We brought rashers too but didn’t cook them – also smoked salmon was kind of useful. OO and dont forget the water! I brought bottles of sparkling water and kept one around all the time. It’s good as no kitchen or fridge to find delights in either! 😉

Hi there, don’t think I have published my blood glucose results. I take my test every morning before breakfast. I always have a small (healthy) snack just before bed so have not eaten for around 9 hours. I started off at 190 (HBA1c 10.5) and I am now down to 104 or 5.7 this morning. I have been lower but that is not my aim as I want to avoid hypos. I have reduced my insulin from 37 units each evening to 28. I have also reduced my diamicron from 3 tablets each morning to 2.

I think my body has settled at a good level and hopefully I will be able to reduce insulin further as it levels out. Two years ago I was using 24 units and everything went to hell after following the recommendations of a nutritionist who added carbs into every meal, told me to cut down on protein (even though I only ate 1 portion per day). The result was 5 kg weight gain and bloods running at over 200 (HBA1c 11). That is what led me to find this diet.

I couldn’t be happier and don’t care if I never see another plate of rice or potatoes. But, there is a box of wine already opened that has been sat there for nearly 4 weeks. If it goes sour I will just have to use it as white wine vinegar.

Hi Yowzer, welcome 🙂 Great weight loss, doesn’t matter what it was, water or fat – it’s gone now 🙂 I am a pastry addict, a whiff of Greggs can reduce me to tears. It is easy as long as you know what you’re eating in advance, I’ve found it’s when you don’t it’s dangerous. I’m currently trying to plan a camping trip and I am at my wits end and could strangle my husband when he said ‘I’d like to stick to the calories but it would be easier to have a bap with my bacon in the morning’… give me strength!

I start week 7 tomorrow and I have lost 29 lbs and my husband 24 lbs. I’ve still got a long, long way to go, so I am going to do it for as long as I need to/can and then switch to 5:2. I like this way of eating, there’s very little I’m missing to the point of craving it and I’m managing fine on 800 calories. If I find that changes, I’ll increase the calories slightly but still keep within the remit of what’s ‘legal’. Which is probably what is going to happen while I’m camping… 😉

Hi everyone and happy BSDing! I am on day 10 after being inspired to give it a go after a pal lost 31 lb in 8 weeks of BSD!
I lost 12 lb in my first week,mainly water i know,but soooo encouraging!
Also pleasantly surprised that apart from the first day i havent craved bread etc though i am sure i am (was) addicted to anything from a bakery!
It seems this diet is not as difficult as it may look at first glance!
My question is :- is anybody doing this for 24 weeks? Or did i imagine i read somewhere that it can be done for 24 weeks!
Thanks for reading and have a good weekend! X

Hi Lynne, don’t know how much weight you have lost (too many posts to read) but a common cause of height loss is getting rid of the fat pads on your feet. Yes you can have fat feet, I have shoes that don’t fit (at the moment). I have all my tests done on 8th August and will see my doctor on the 10th with my results. Can’t wait to see what good this has done.

Thanks Igorasusual, yes cherry tomatoes are a wonderful quick fix, especially just now when they are in season! they kept me sane the first few weeks of the 800 🙂

Hi Pulp. there is no level set in the book, but this forum early on found settled on the 50g level as one that most non-veggies were losing weight on. I am vegetarian not vegan, and found 50g to be very challenging and I was getting leg cramps that did not go away.
I settled on 60g a day aiming to get 40-45g protein from veg, pulses, nuts, seeds, dairy and some soya. I lost nearly 16kg in 10 weeks and the first 2 weeks I used Shakes (without realising they were high carb) and had 100-120 a day! There was someone else who was eating 80g carbs a day and was getting his FBS down from diabetic easily.
For a vegan diet, I would try 60-70g a day as a starter. The carbs you are eating are all slow release so will not cause BS spikes which is what MM is trying to get us away from. I recently read a Rose Elliot book that covered how to do an Atkins diet for veggies (I would not recommend it) but she had a comment about how to count carbs – using net carbs which are carbs minus the fibre. This actually lowers the carb value of pulses etc. I have wondered if that is why I was losing 2kg a week on 60g carbs as a good proportion were seeds and pulses, so all high fibre. It is an interesting possibility, but gets far too complex to maintain that level of food monitoring! I just stick to the higher carbs level.
Hope that helps and good luck. There are a few forums that the non-meat eaters have started that may be of interest to you as well.
The main thing is to follow the foods that he says to avoid, aim for around 800 cals and adjust weekly as you get settled into the diet. Plan a few days ahead using that approach and see what the carbs are coming up to.

Sensible advice from Orchid, Julie. Keep the faith it does seem various people respond in different ways and you just have to go with it.

Re a sweet treat, can I also recommend 6 baby plum tomatoes eaten really s l o w l y. MFP says 16 cals, 2.5 carbs.

🙂

Hi Pulp, keeping under 50g of carbs is what the book recommends

I’m vegan and gluten free as I have coeliac disease, I’ve just bought the book and am keen to start. I too am struggling to see how to substitute. There are quite a few veggie recipies, but not vegan. Anyone know what Michael classes as ‘low carb’ in grams? I’m concerned that the amount of legumes, pulses, soya yoghurt and tofu I will substitute will be far from low carb.

It should only take 2 hours, but I’m factoring in M25 Friday evening joy. It might end up taking me 4 hours!

Awwwwww Tokyo, come to your safe place, you’ll be fine here 🙂 I’m getting grumpier and grumpier by the second because hubby isn’t plotting very well with me for this camping trip. Keeps throwing ‘How big do you think this trailer is?’ when I’m saying what I want to bring. This is he who has just downgraded from a people carrier to a Mondeo (downgrade in seat size I mean, from an 8 to a 5, the car itself is much better, in that – it drives and doesn’t break down every 2 weeks).

I’d rather you than me, Timmy, that’s a fair trek! Safe journey.

Hi Autumn,
Like you I am vegetarian and yes, it is harder as a vegetarian to get to the low carb limits some people do as we need the pulses which are carb high – but these are not bad refined carbs, they are good ones!
I started at a BMI of 33 and a self diagnosis of ‘about to be’ pre-diabetic’ when I took my FBS with a blood sugar monitor. It was a shock, and I got started on this within a week. I had two initial goals (I started 1 Feb 16); one was to get my blood sugars down, the second to get my weight down so I was not classified as obese. My blood sugars were down within 4 weeks and my BMI was under 30 in 5.5 weeks. I did 10 weeks of the 800, then have had a break and been doing 4:3 or 3:4 with a few weeks of 800 depending on where I am and what is going on. I am now 20 kilos lighter, my FBS is down at 4 – 4.5 and I should be getting into normal BMI in a week or so – I am also 3-4 dress sizes down.
I did not get the ‘carb flu’ (sounds like what you are experiencing) that you hear people talking about when I started the 800 as I started using Shakes for 3 of the meals and one meal of veggies or soup. This was close to the Newcastle approach to the diet, but without the help of their Shakes which are high protein as you cannot get over the counter in the UK. The ones I took turned out to be high carbs so I was on 100g carb or higher for the first two weeks! I was losing weight (steadily) and not inches off of my waist. I asked the forum and was advised to look at my carb intake. I then went onto my own meals, but after doing some digging on info, decided to aim for 60g a day carbs as this allowed me to balance my diet with enough good veg carbs to get 40-45g protein a day. I also found I was getting dizzy and had severe leg cramps overnight if I dropped below 50g a day carbs.
You may find you are better to increase the carbs to 60g for a few weeks to see how it goes and if you feel you need to cut further the go down slowly to 40g. The key is to remember we still need our 5 a day and 40-45g protein a day so you need enough cheese, full fat dairy, pulses, tofu etc to get that. The revelation is eating FF yogurt and cheese again – and yes a lot of eggs.
Hope this helps = happy to chat more if you want more detail.

oooo fab cake Janey – full marks :-)))))

Leanne, thank you! Knowing that this may be completely normal, and there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, gives me hope :). I’m happy to keep going if I know this weak feeling eventually alleviates!

FRIDAY 22 July

OMG! I felt so alive today! 10:00 Am and on my way to Opening Day at Saratoga Raceway and CASINO. No, I am not alive today from the raceway park. IT IS FROM MY START AGAIN ON PANCHAKARMA< AYURVEDIC INDIAN medicine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG1TakLZCio

A video to watch above on it. It may look crazy getting herbal remedies massaged in skin and steam baths. But, it beats any other way of getting rid of toxins in your body and extra fat. 6,000+ years of Ayurveda Medicine.

I feel so alive because:

Mucus gone in nasal passage
skin is smooth
digesting much much better
less hunger pains
hair is smooth silky and shiny like a diamond ring

It is worth every penny doing this once a week. Maybe I should do it 2-3 times….. but gets costly.

My Ayuveda Doctor said keep it up on your Kryptonite: Dairy and cheeses. Cheese and Ice Cream: My Kryptonite. What is your KRYPTONITE? Chocolate and sugar I can live without. But not dairy foods. GREAT TO HAVE A DOCTOR SUPERVISION ON THIS STUFF. Yes, they are doctor, just like accupunturists.

I never used Indian medicine before moving there 5 years ago to Pune, India. I was healthy then. And then life changing experiences came and made me gain 80 pounds in the past 5 years when moved back to Jersey Shore. Time for a change. That is why we all are
here today.

CHANGE IS GOOD! KEEP IT UP!

Up to you if naturalist doctors are a good ingredient for your health success. I love it and find it worth every penny.

Daniel, The PrincetonianStud

Timmy, I’m hoping this image works. But if not, it’s mostly eggs, fish, veggies, and fruit.

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And no, this past week I haven’t exercised at all. I’m just too dizzy and weak to even attempt it.

40 more minutes (just enough time for a cuppa) then I’ve got a 2.5/3 hour car journey to look forward to. At least it’s sunny and I can get the roof down. Although I’m not sure I fancy no roof on the M25.

Hi Autumn, I’m now on week 21 but felt quite ill for the first 2 or 3 weeks. No energy, tired, aches, etc. I put it down to my body adjusting to a lot less food. I even couldn’t keep up with my 3 miles walking each night as I felt so worn out. This did improve though. I found upping my protein helped with the lack of energy. Keep at it, it’s still early days and it will get easier.

Hi Julie13,
Don’t panic. Some weeks are better than others, and if you are in the UK just now and in the heat-wave zone, you may just be retaining fluid! The body is designed to retain fluids as the heat goes up and not let them go until the temp drops for a few days! I always put on a kilo or so when the heat goes up suddenly – for me in Herts it went up 10 degrees in 2 days! Once it comes down a little, the fluid goes in a day and my weight drops!
I am also a comfort eater and yes, there have been some days that I have had a coffee and cake when out. I have avoided having cake in the house, so it is never more than one slice when I am out. Other than that I find a couple of pieces frozen fruit (eg rasps) defrosted with a tablespoon greek yogurt & cinnamon is a help when I ‘need’ something sweet. I also take cocoa twice a day – no milk or sugar only hot water and 5g cocoa powder (I use Green and Blacks Organic) and it is 17 cals per cup, 1g carb, 1g protein, 1g fat. I started taking this over a year ago, long before this plan started, when there was talk of it helping with dementia. Without milk, it was an acquired taste, but I now really like it and it does give me a chocolate fix during the day and does fit in with the long term goal for a Mediterranean diet. I rarely if ever go for chocolate now when I am out.
In terms of what is likely to be the 800 – If you were disproportionately more around the waist than you used to be, and you find your waist has gone down more than the rest of you, that is likely to be the 800. In the past I have found I lost proportionately over my body, but this time, I was almost like a tube not an hourglass and the first changes were weight loss around my waist as I was losing the visceral fat there faster than elsewhere.
As you say – you are not hungry, yet you will be eating a very balanced diet – what’s bad about that! Keep going…. and have a great weekend!

Hi Autumn, sorry you’re feeling rubbish. what sort of foods are you eating? It sounds like a typical carb crash/withdrawal but I would have thought it would be nearing the end by 2 weeks.

Also, are you doing much exercise?

Hi Embob,

If you are eating more protein that might be taking longer to digest – or else requiring more stomach acid to work on the meat? You might need to experiment a bit.

Hi everyone! I’m hoping to get some advice. I’m almost done with my 2nd week, and aside from one day that I went over by 150 kcal, I’ve been consistently between 750-850 kcal/day. My problem is I’m feeling very weak, and more than a little faint. Moving around seems like such a monumental task, and climbing the stairs to my apartment (4th floor) is soul draining. I’ve been reading all the lovely posts of folks who feel awesome on this diet. People have even said that they have *more* energy…but I’m really struggling!

A typical day is looks like this: 250 kcal for breakfast, 200-250 kcal for lunch, 300 kcal for dinner, and a coffee mid afternoon. I’m a vegetarian, so it’s been rough getting my carbs low enough (although eggs are my best friends just now), although I’m usually around 35-50% carbs. I’m also drinking about 2L of water a day not including my coffee or tea. Does anything jump out at anyone? Any ideas on what I may be doing wrong?

Even though I’ve already lost +8 lbs, I’m just really getting discouraged. Maybe this just won’t work for me 😔
Any help or suggestions would be *greatly appreciated*! I really don’t want to stop the incredible weight loss.

I try to drink several ordinary sized glasses of water each day, usually between three and five of them. Despite criticism of the value of drinking plain water, I’ve found that three glasses of water (drunk over about half an hour or so) help settle heartburn. I try not to eat a heavy meal in the evening, and try to eat before 7pm to leave time for dinner to digest. I take two spoonfuls of liquid Gaviscon before bed if I need to. I no longer take anti-reflux medication. I try and relax my stomach to help my digestion. The other thing is to deliberately eat more slowly.

i am having a real dolly downer day again bloody fridays !!!! i cant even spell now !!

A LIVELY cake?! I like the sound of that 😆

Hey Izzy!!!
I’ve been reading your posts in my email but haven’t had time to get on with clients and launching website items this week. I will get on at least once a week I hope. So happy about your new uniform and your taken in top!! Yeah!!! I am so proud of you my friend!
I can’t believe we have been at this for 12 weeks Izzy!! 3 months and it still seems super easy and no cravings at all for me. We are melting. Literally melting our fat off – haha!
All my clients on it are doing fantabulous as well!!! In just 4 weeks one lost 35 lbs, another had to buy smaller clothes twice as she kept shrinking, another lost 6.5 inches in her first week – it just honestly seems to work for everyone no matter what their history is with diets and weight issues.
Today is my first day of week 13 and here’s all my stats at the bottom of this post in case they help anyone.
Hugs and best wishes to all my fellow fat melters!!!!
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

M&S is a definite life saver for me. Bought my lunch there today. Sainsburys also do some good low carb meals (salads, bean salads, etc).

Haven’t actually eaten out yet but will be doing so for the first time tomorrow. Going for a curry. I’m just going to ditch the rice and opt for popadoms instead (which are normally made from lentil flour or gram flour). Most French and Italian restaurants (proper Italian ones, not cheapy chain ones) should be ok to avoid the carbs in too.

yes janey that looks like a lively cake well done x

(1) The cricket is on and no one else in the office – listening to TMS at work!
(2) Seeing my mum and sister this weekend
(3) Coming out the other end of a stinking cold!

Lynne, fantastic job – you are amazing! So happy you also are off your BP meds and even if they don’t know your blood sugar will stay low, YOU DO!! And that’s really all that matters for now. Some day they will absorb all the miraculous changes and understand it’s the real deal and you have manifested a new healthy (and permanent) life for yourself. It takes the medical community years to come around (even my doctor said that this week albeit she’s now telling her clients about BSD because of me).
Re being shorter – ugh – I went from 5.6 years ago to 5.4 a while back and so did my husband! It’s just gravity pulling us down it seems. Ha.
You are a shining star always to all of us in here with you and as always I thank you for your ongoing and kind inspiration!!
💜🌷💙

if you eat fish Michaelmas then Pret a Manger’s nicois salad has been a life saver for me. I think they also do “protein pots” with avocado and boiled eggs? Them and m&s as Orchid says are my go-to places if I am trying to find something on the go.

But I have now taken to bringing my own hard boiled eggs with me if I am going to be anywhere new with work in case I can’t find anything for lunch.

It’s amazing once you start looking for low-carb lunches, how carb saturated all the normal lunch options are!

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…