Josie, use the Nigella cake recipe and substitute sugar for coconut sugar. Then tray bake it for brownies. This recipe is PERFECT for that, it’s really fudgy and squidgy. No one will know it’s a healthy option, believe me! 👍🏼

I’ve bought a Jawbone. I hold you entirely responsible for this frivolous purchase Lucky 🙄

i am to embark on the Olive Oil cake later, by the time i have spiralized a courgette and got all the equipment out i have nearly lost the will to live. My daughter and husband and children are visiting so will probably make proper brownies. Fortunately they have always been to sweet for me so i don’t eat them.

Thank you good advice!
Jill

OMG I just dipped my finger into the Oppo salted caramel. I’ve died and gone to BSD heaven 💜💜💜💜

Thanks all, you are so kind!
One other thing info and have clients do is log all our other measurements of success like:
I got off both BP meds!
My bs is normal!
My dog can sit on my lap now!
I don’t need an extender on the airplane!
I can go to the theater without feeling crunched in their chairs.
I walk better!

Just any positive thing you notice IS another measurement of your success do get a little notebook and log those down also.

Whenever you feel discouraged look at your of and remind yourself how many positives have occurred from your sticking with the plan!

Here’s to health! 💜🌷

It is amazing isn’t it, how this way of eating completely changes our view of food! I’ve rediscovered herbs and spices, fallen in love with cauli rice and just don’t want the simple carbs anymore. Haven’t tried the green medley, but will put it on the shopping list.

Yep, I’ve been scoffing them for 3 weeks 🙂 Not all brands are though, so be careful, I don’t think Sharwoods are. Could almost be massive ready salted Discos 🙂

Oh yes! Opted for red wine most of the time when I drank, but also had the odd G&T, a couple of whiskies and brandies and some champagne – had to, as we came home via the champagne region, so it was de rigueur! Didn’t drink everyday though and drank moderately on the days I did – with the exception of one occasion, when I woke with a slight hangover!

Go and enjoy your holiday and the wedding. Just get back on track when you get home.

Nandos sauce is the saviour of all maladies. Good news. I just checked Aldi papadom sand they ARE made of lentil flour 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼. Off to Waitrose to purchase celebratory Oppo shortly!!

You’re all nuts. I will respond accordingly after I have eaten my salad. The joys. It doesn’t get any better than this tonight guys. But at least the chickpea wraps worked tonight so I will have the illusion of something substantial holding my chicken. And for excitement? Nandos sauce. #livingthedream

Going to Aqua aerobics tonight.

I look like a wallowing hippo…

Hoping to wrap up and leave a bit of blubber somewhere. Doing it secretly as it isn’t coming off with the diet these last few days.

If worst comes to worst,, I could always stand near a bacon slicer…. A few rashers off each thigh please….

I will stop, I am going a little weird now. 😋😜

Love Lucia
Xxx

Sounds like we have the plateau sorted.
I bet after all this hard work making it cozy, we will all leave it very shortly and become skinny Minnie’s.
Oh well.

The things we have to put up with.
Love Lucia
Xxx

Epspecially we are trying to get them in stocked in Ireland!

Happylife
Have just read yr results!
Like Jan said,you give us hope! Thanks for sharing! X

Still haven’t started diet properly as I had two periods of lethargy and dizziness at work which scared me as my job requires quite a bit of driving,
Also can anyone recommend good substitutes for carbs please? (I’m a hopeless cook)
I’d really appreciate any advice and tips please?

ps Runforfun – get onto them to stock Ireland will you!! 🙂

Poor OH just texted me to say he wants chips :-0)))))) Haaaaaa haaaa smug I’m 11 weeks into this and am a PRO – so I said NO CHIPS FOR YOU!!!! (google soup nazi – it’s funny;-)))

heeee hee Yowzer – mad cow one my favourite :-)))

Heyyyy I couldnt get on here for a while (was good as actually did some work ;-)) but was thinking it was because we crashed the system :-))) And then I get on and you’ve all gone mental ha ha ha ha so mayb you did!

Heee hee poooor Janey gets a punishing after enjoying herself FAR too much at the weekend :-)))

Greenjanet has us all making fake smiles at the computer heee heeee the idea of us grinning through our teeth while munching on celery…

Lucky – you know what you need? A nice yoga class :-))))) *runs away before gets a slap ;-))))))
But you sound bored – I think you need some newness. What can you do – grab someone to go to a new class or a new something or oooooooooo my goodnesss could you get a dog?????? Not that I’m advocating people to just run out and get dogs to cheer them up without thinking about it but imagine how amazing it would be to have a gorgeous rescue dog to bring on walks!!! You’d have some time to yourself because you would be doing a job (bringing dog out for a walk) and you could make sure it was YOUR dog – not the kids, not your husbands, but YOURS. And you would be his favourite.

Don’t mind me…. but it just came to me like a flash of inspiration so I MUST be on to something :-)))))))

The plateau is looking great.

Can we have tropical umbrellas and a steel band?

Perhaps a Summer Festival look? The flowers-in-the-hair sort-of-look……not the muddy wellies!!!

Sunny B – can I ask – did you drink alcohol in that 10 weeks? I know it gets burned up first before fat, but on holiday I would prefer not to hold back if I can – I can be good about carbs but may as well stay at home if can’t drink 🙁 I know that sounds terrible but it is part of the holiday mix (especially at a wedding)!
Jill

Yes Yowzer49 its in Waitrose, Co-op, Holland and Barrett and Budgens. Im loving and the free ice cream whenever we want is definitely help! Although not so good when trying to do BSD!

the layout on the back of the book could read
” a story of how one man fought back from the brink of kale and paltrow to be welcomed open armed into the busoms of luckys wraps”!!!!!!
i would read it !!!

The Lucky wrap of Chris Martin’s meltdown… that sounds like a book to me..

How come I’m the BSD punch bag?? I found Oppo ice cream and made the Nigella cake! Wouldn’t be worth clumping Paltrow though – she’d disappear in a puff of kale scented dust. DUST? Is that the **** word?! 😀

The bunk bed is made up with its best Star Wars duvet cover if you need it Lucky!

Oh I wish… I wish…

Hi runforfun! Is oppo available in supermarkets? I have a feeling ive seen it in Holland & Barrett?
Hope youre enjoying your internship at Oppo! What joy to work in an ice cream place! 😋 Specially an ice cream that isnt tooooo bad for you! x

but maybe she divorced chris martin so you could have him ?? eh have you thought of it that way ??
and he would be so grateful for one of your wraps after the s😎😎😎 shes made him eat !!!!

You can all interpret the **** in any way you like. In any eventuality, you will be correct.

You’re welcome Runforfun 🙂 We aim to find ways and means around EVERYTHING. We have wraps, bread and chocolate cake. Crackers. Cookies. It can all be done.

Paltrow? If she were to knock on my door now, I WOULD open up a can of whoop ass on her. Firstly for divorcing Chris Martin. And secondly because she’s a kale munching, smug, patronising ****.

if it gets it out of your system janey would take one for the team surely !!!!!
its in a good cause and all that
OR i will find paltrow maybe thats a better idea you could lay some whoop ass on paltrow imagine how many kisks/ steps that would use up your wristband would be screaming !!!!!

bring lucky back janey
bring her back from the darkside !!!!!

Happylife
What brilliant work you are my new go to role model, keep posting for us that also have a lot to loose. I’m gives us hope
Love jan😇😇😇

HAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAA Yowzer, the last one! Going to tell hubby that one! Yes, I thought so, he’s crying laughing here.

Tokyo bloody hell! You can’t just turn Janey into a human punchbag!

Can you?

Thank you Janey for introducing everyone to Oppo and for the welcome.

Thank you Lucky, cant wait for the diet! Amazing how much you’ve lost! Reading this thread has already put a smile on my face and made me chuckle!

it made me chuckle too that us exceedingly sad !! i am here alone with our cat !!!
i have a vision of lucky clobbering you over the head with the chocolate cake !!!!

I have chocolate fairy cakes in the freezer but I don’t think it’s about the chocolate. Or the cake. I think I’m more in need of a slap than a hug tbh. Tough love etc.

I was so looking forward to it, and so enjoying it though. Ever just feel something that you can’t put into words?

Janet, that has made me laugh. Sat here with a pen in my mouth and my family like 😮 And ‘it also stops me eating’ 😀 Well, yes! Indeed!

Going to go and put tea on… same old, same old…

Hahaha, I wish I had a ‘like’ button for your last post Tokyo! Chuckling away here. Just as well there’s no one in the office to witness it!

not yet janey but i have offered you to lucky so she can thump you to ease her bad mood !!! every time i write it i laugh !!!!

Lucky, i hope a few “thats how the fight started” jokes might make you chuckle..

I took my wife to a restaurant. The waiter, for some reason, took my order first.
“I’ll have the strip steak, medium rare, please.”
He said, “Aren’t you worried about the mad cow?””

Nah, she can order for herself.”

And then the fight started…
~~~~
My wife and I were sitting at a table at my high school reunion, and I kept staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sat alone at a
nearby table.

My wife asked, ‘Do you know her?’

‘Yes,’ I sighed, ‘She’s my old girlfriend. I understand she took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear she
hasn’t been sober since.’

‘My God!’ says my wife, ‘who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?’

And then the fight started…
~~~~

My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary.
She said, ‘I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 150 in about 3 seconds.’

I bought her a scale.

And then the fight started…~~~
XXX

oh lucky what can i do ? kick your arse for you ? set janey on you ( bit like that scene from steel magnolias at the end you may have to had seen it to make any sense!!!)
you have done so bloody marvellously and you keep everyone smiling
i could bake you a cake ??
maybe not janey could bake you a cake !!
maybe its the thought if the camping once you get there you will be fine
sending hugs ( and janey if you need someone to thump!!!!) my god i made myself laugh !!!!

hmm, how many carbs do pencils have *wonders*…

I can see you Tokyo! Although I keep losing posts today.

Have you ordered it yet?

Perhaps make a big banner I have lost 32 lbs so bril just be patient a low mood always gets worse if we allow our mind to relate to it, one trick that helps me is to release endorphins to help you feel better is to put a pen or pencil sideways in your mouth so it is sticking out either end of your mouth so simulating your lips into a smile, this opens up pathways for endorphins to flow.
It also stops me eating. Try it and let us know 😃😃😃🖍🖍🖍

OH Lucky, don’t be down. I think you have the blanket of mardiness wrapped too tight around you 🙁 If I had any Nigella cake left I would UPS you a piece, quick smart. Also if I was closer I would come round and give you a BSD hug, or slap your legs and tell you to cheer up!

I agree with eating the sister in law actually. She will almost certainly be under 800 cals and definitely low carb..

Being 40 can seem to be kind of rubbish, but remember you are now 40 and 32lbs lighter than in May. I was on a real downer when I was 41ish, but I’ve got through it, and life now is the best its been! And I have you nut jobs to entertain me as I lose weight as well 😀

I can see you Tokyo 🙂

i cant get logged on again !!! hoping this posts me and technology!! its like theres a little man sat somewhere saying NO !!!

Hey old lady (wish you picked another name as we should always tell ourselves positive words) so I change it to young spirit and will call you that. Haha)

Anyway yea get the tape measure and measure your chest, waist, hips, one thigh, and one arm. I have clients do this weekly and do it myself as well. It’s an amazing motivator when the scale isn’t moving much certain weeks.

Hugs!!
💜💜

Oh SunnyB you are an angel – thank you for that reassurance, I had visions of all the good work going out of the window whilst I was away. I take great heart from your example – I will also get some ketostix! Thank you so much
Jill

Amazing just how much delicious and nourishing foods mentioned on this thread and elsewhere?!
Like Autumn says above,eggs,steamed veg,yoghurt are some of our best friends ..and filling too. 🙂
Really enjoying eating this way..i’ m craving green veg at the moment..have you tried Birds Eye green medley with a hint of garlic…tastes wonderful xx

Hey Sunny!
I have a lot to lose also and have lost 39 on this plan (in middle
If week 13 now) and 59 total since February.
Still have 100 or a little more to go like you but just keep going. That’s the trick! It’s easy once you are rolling with it.

And anyone on here saying they can’t lose due to age – it’s not true. I am 61 and doctors told me for 25 yes I couldn’t lose weight due to being hypothyroid. It was a crock and now those doctors are sending me their clients and I work with them and help them lose weight.