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!

lucky i love doughnut peaches !!!
janey i am glad your back i missed you !!
if theres a road trip can i come ? i may fare better on that than a bus !!!!
lucky – heres my pep rally to you !!! you have kept me going when i first met you and janey on here you both kept me wanting to carry on to the point thats its just my way of life now, lucky you have done amazing when i tell people about this diet i say theres a lady i know thats lost … and thats you lucky your sense if humour and sheer determination has made this the easiest diet i will ever do !!!! so today you can wear your slippers and hold your blanket of mardiness ( if you have one i do! you can borrow mine!!) but i know tomorrow you will be back TA-DAH!! like the super ninja you are !!!

The smell is still burned into my nostrils, three years later…

I take it you HAVE smelled a meerkat house? At a zoo or theme park??

I’m sure there’s a meerkat out there somewhere that’s horribly offended by your comment!

Hi Penny, hope today went well.
I managed to get back on track, after a weekend of indulgence – which is a first for me!
I went to the gym this morning – for approx. 40 mins and ate te following:

Breakfast: Handful of Almonds
Lunch: M&S Spiced Chicken with Quinoa & Rice
Dinner: Chicken Thigh
Snack: Nectarine

Total: 600 calories, 33g carbs

Water: 1.5L
Steps: 11,769
Active Minutes: 69

Not bad 🙂

Thanks for sorting out the plateau Lucia, it’s looking fabulous🙌🎵🎶🎵 – been hanging around here for weeks so it will be good to have some fun! Something ‘groovy’ to dance to please for this child of the sixties🙋💖🌻

XX

Ok flat peaches then! 😝 I’ve seen them called doughnut peaches though so ner! Lol.

Just out of the bath, cleaned, washed, conditioned, vitamin c serum on. Age defying apparently. We’ll see. Cba drying my hair. Unfortunately… when I go to bed with wet hair I wake up looking like Barry Gibb circa 1977.

Yayyyyy Janey! Road trip? Lol.

Feel a lot better now that I don’t smell like a family of old meerkats 😅 Tomorrow will be better 🙏👍

Also by testing at 630am you should get a high reading due to your body naturally putting glucose into your system around 4am so you have energy when you awake.

Hi ziggy i tested my sugars around 630am each morning and during the day once or twice i caved and ate chocholate with little diffrence and dropping back to within the 4 range there will allways be a spike after eating but its how quick our body returns to a normal level that matters and i believe mine are in the normal non diabetic range and i have not gone over 6.5 thru the day .

cheers
steve

I’m a teenager of the late 70s so Saturday night fever is the one for me, leaping aroung burning up those blinking fat lbs the pixies have given me, but yep defo will need a deckchair in the sunshine to recouperate. Yeahhhhh.
💃🎉👠💃😎💃

Fantastically helpful thanks so much both of you!
I will visit that website now!
Jill

Hee hee doughnut peaches, have we come to that 😝😂😂😂👏👏👏

Enjoy your bath Lucky, bomb n all🍸💪🏽

My current end goal is a size 10 – Canadian/US. I don’t know what weight that will be but when I get to it, that will be the smallest I’ve been since grade 8. My first goal of 50 lbs was to get me started, I get frustrated and discouraged when I look at the whole picture so I’m trying to break it down to mini goals. Over 100 lbs to lose is a really daunting task. We have a lot of people here who have lost that or close to that, so they are my motivators. If they can do it, why can’t I?

I love tomatoes!! They are one of my favorite vegs. I usually eat them with my meal so they are not so much of a treat. 😉

Thanks again Igorasusual!! 🙂 I appreciate the support and suggestions.

Hang on till the morning and I’ll come and pick you up!! 😆

Bottom please 🙂 Ace. I’ll leave now. But I’ll have to walk as I don’t drive. Be there in a fortnight. Oh. Wait… bugger.

Oh yes come and lie on my sofa and enjoy the peace. I’ll feed you nourishing BSD food (not quinoa porridge ) My neighbour is lovely, not noisy and she likes a G&T! You’ll have to sleepin a bunk bed though (choice of top or bottom bunk!)

Disturbing quinoa porridge… Christ.

Glad you home safe! Can I come and stay for 2 weeks? I’m not missing mine.

I presume we are all supposed to concoct disturbing quinoa or other some such grain porridge or Bircher in winter. Eggs and mushrooms may win through in that case!

Finally home after our epic journey. House is quiet as we are now child free for 2 weeks. *sniff* missing the rugrat already…

We need many more programmes like this.

Hell Yeh @ sunnyb. take quite a while to get your head into motion. Takes a while. I seem to fall off and nibble on my Kryptonite: anything dairy. I lost two good friends because of this dieting/lifestyle: Ben and Jerry! I love the Chunky Monkey.

KEEP active and forget about dieting. Time flies very fast until next meal.

AND REWARD YOURSELF EVERYDAY!

Got some Oppo Salted Carmel Ice Cream today – 77.3 cals and 6.7g carbs per 100g, so a 50g portion certainly isn’t a disaster, give it a go!

That’s it Penny, straight back on track. Wasting time beating yourself up, is not going to change the past or help you drop those pounds! Love the positivity and look forward to reading some great results from you soon.

Jill

Try looking at this website, which you enter your details on, have an estimate of current body fat, and it will tell you your base metabolic rate so how many calories you need to maintain weight.

You can then set your carbs and it helps you set your fat and protein levels. I had carbs set at 20g – you can of course have higher – and it will show you the best balance which you can enter on your app.

I have had great success, and I hope this helps you too.

Also a graph at the end showing what loss you can expect over how long….

http://keto-calculator.ankerl.com

In small quantities and as long as you count the calories and watch the carbs, they are not a disaster and with things like maple syrup, as you progress you will find you only need a tiny bit, because you won’t want things too sweet. I sometimes add a quarter teaspoon of honey to my morning yogurt and am pretty sure it’s not hindering my progress.

Hope you find a way to make the BSD suit you. Think we all have to find a way to make it fit us as individuals. Keep us posted on your progress.

this morning on Monday July 25, I abstained longer from eating my break fast!

12:30 Ate my everyday 4 egg spanish omlette

3:15 Drank half cup of milk and 3 tablespoon of flax powder

Not hungry. Not craving for my kryptonite: Cheddar cheese, Haagen dasz, or anything else dairy.

I really need to make a stop at Shoprite and corner the market on Almond, Soy, and Flax Milk.

Here is me at HersheyPark:

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

6 Months later needs to become the Princetonian Stud instead of the PIllbury Doughboy in the Macy’s parade:

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

lots of fun every year in Flushing, NY to blow it up and walk down 5th AVE…… IN THE NORDIC FREEZING COLD!

Glad to here you are in a better headspace now VIP66. Let us know how you get on and give us some posts on your progress soon.

This is something I don’t measure, but I think I remember seeing somewhere on the forum, that one of the folks posting believes it to be around 40g, but from a quick search on the web, I think it should probably be nearer 30g. As I said, I don’t track fats as such, but I do ensure I eat full fat yogurt, use olive oil in small quantities, have tahini sometimes, eat a few nuts most days and have the odd cube of cheese too. I weigh everything I eat and work out the cals and carbs, trying to stick around the 800cals and less than 50g carbs.
Not sure any of that helps, but maybe someone else can give a more definitive answer on this one.

Thanks SunnyB for the encouraging reply…I feel tons better already just speaking to you two today….yes I think I will be making my own dishes very soon and a positive from the book is that it’s given me some self discipline plus seeing the weight come off yes…so that is pretty amazing. 🌹

Today’s Evening Standard had an “new diet” feature – Lots of full fat, Omega oils, no refined sugars and carbs.
Sounds familiar!

http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/health/the-big-fat-fix-meet-the-diet-doctor-changing-the-way-we-eat-a3303726.html

Yowzer49 – Waitrose do giant packs of berries for around £2, so I expect other supermarkets have similar offerings

Verano, don’t waste energy beating yourself up for the transgression, just set you sights on getting back on track and move on. We all hit bumps like this and sometimes struggle to refocus, but it sounds like you are already planning good meals again.

I agree greenjanet, this forum has boosted me several times, when I have been struggling and lost motivation. It’s great to have people who understand just a few key taps away, to give you encouragement and the occasional reality check, because we can all do this and somewhere deep inside we know that to be true – we just need reminding of it when we stumble.

So you need to do 17% of your starting body weight (232 is your target of 282?). Well done for your loss to 266.4! 🙂
Or are you going for 216?

May I suggest that instead of fruit you try 6 baby plum tomatoes (eaten slowly) at 16 cals or 3 carbs?
Great re the water.

Keep the faith and though it may plateau you have a great chance to get there! 🙂

Awwwwww thanks guys (gals!) I’m ok, I won’t give up now, just having a crap day. Which came as a bit of a surprise because I woke up in an ok mood, especially after my weight loss. I’ll take your advice Eps and go for a candlelit bath, take my iPod. Might even use one of the expensive bath bombs I had for my 40th! It’s the only place I’ll get any peace. Have an early night. Going to write today off as a no exercise day. I know I’ll be on the go tomorrow, have to go and get some shopping for camping and ding meals and pizzas to leave behind for the boy or he’ll probably burn the house down. I’m still tired after my stupid neighbour keeping me up, it has a knock on effect for days, and so I’m getting wound up at the littlest thing. Including hubby, who doesn’t deserve it. The car thing isn’t really his fault, the old one was dead, we had a limited budget, it was a bargain, we needed it, and it’s saving us a fortune in cheaper insurance, tax and fuel costs. Over £500 a year on tax and insurance and breakdown alone. He’s naturally worried about doing something he’s never done before, which I would be too. But he’s not a quitter and he’ll ace it. Thank God he’s not on this forum lol.

I know Yowzer, what are our choices in the winter?? I find frozen berries very sour? Apples have really surprised me. I don’t like them much, never have. But you’d think they’d be really good on something like this? And now I know they’re not, I fancy one now and again lol. I’d kill for a peach! Been eyeing up those flat doughnut peaches, I love those… I suppose that in itself is an improvement, eyeing up fruit? Ah well…

Thanks for the tips Igorasusual and thanks for the affirmation. 🙂 I thought it was doable after I got off the scale this morning but then started doubting when he put it into numbers. I religiously put everything in MyFitnessPal and I bought a Garmin when I started back earlier this year that counts steps, floors, cals, etc. so I can see what I’m doing physically to reach my goal. I started at 282 to begin with and I’m at 266.4 today, so I’m pretty proud of that but I have a LOOOONNNGGG ways to go yet. I have been limiting carbs mostly to veg, just throwing in a fruit from time to time when I’m craving sugar. And I’ve been drinking half my weight in water – about 160 oz a day – a tip I learned by reading Jillian Michael’s book years back. I wanted to use Disney as incentive because I keep setting this goal and then falling short. I want to try to set monumental gifts for goals so that I can motivate myself to do this for more than just weight.

Yes i saw it! But i wish they’d gone into more detail..what a wonderful family tho x

SunnyB do you have any idea how many grams fat we ought to be eating please?
Jill

Lucky,you mentioning this morning about autumn/ winter really made me think!
i live on so many berries these days i’m growing a beak and wings..much as i enjoy atmospheric autumn,there wont be a ton of juicy strawbs,luscious raspberries etc in the shops…
Thank goodness,i guess theres plenty of berries in the freezer section 🙂
Ps Its weird…a small apple and a peach are now just a once weekly treat! X 😋😋😋

Hi Yumcheese
Don’t despair, plateauing is common, but no less frustrating for that of course. I too have had experience of a plateau and the tips I was give and followed, were as follows: check your carb intake and try to limit it to 50g per day or less. Drink plenty, as this really helps to keep things moving. Lastly, make sure you are including enough fat in your calories, as they help to kick start fat burning.

Of course, it would be helpful to try to reign in your calories too, although there are lots of people on the forum, who only count carbs and not calories and successfully lose weight. Unfortunately, this system doesn’t seem to work for me, so I personally track carbs and calories.

Hope you will be able to get over this blip. Don’t get disheartened and don’t waste time beating yourself up for the transgression, just make this a new start and try to get yourself back on track and losing weight again. It will happen and you can do it!

Lucky you’ve done so well so far don’t be hard on yourself,you are not fat… as my friend always says there’s just a little more to love 😘 You are a wonderful role model with your attitude so keep on going we need you X

Just watched Fixing Dad on the iplayer. What an inspirational programme.
I think I must have something in my eye.