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 !!!

I tell you Tokyo, I’m reaching my limit slowly. Everyone has a mad one as a one off, I do, but on special occasions. New Year, birthdays, things might go on until 12 or 1 am. But not every weekend like she does, and we do keep it down to a dull roar. She doesn’t know the meaning of the words ‘indoor voice’. Looks like weather bad for next weekend too, so camping might not be then. Can’t wait to get away from them. I’d rather freeze in a tent and get sleep than be kept awake like that again. I was fantasising about going downstairs about three this morning, with an axe, hacking their back door to pieces and saying ‘Slam it now, mo-fo’s!’. But I was too exhausted to channel my inner Arnie.

No, Josie? What’s that? Hubby has got something on catch up about Mexican army and drugs. I’m off to bed in a bit.

is anyone watching trying to fix Dad

get our janey all chilled and clean !!!!
lucky maybe you too need a spa!!
or send your neiggbour and kids there then you can enjoy the quiet !!

Did you have a steam clean??

Enjoy your meal 🙂

More congrats Izzy – such a great result.
Ruth

I am soooooo chilled out. Have been to a naturist health spa for the evening and now I’m relaxed and super clean! Off to find some Lebanese food – plenty of chickpeas and meat!

Glad you had a nice day out! A Magnum! I used to love those as a teen, white ones. 80’s hands down my best decade for music.

Evening Tokyo 🙂 I spent the day snoozing in my chair, but to no avail. Kept up all night by her, and kept up all day by him screaming at their children because she was trying to sleep! Fancy that! Alright for some, eh? 🙂 Happy days! Watched my favourite MvG win the darts. Didn’t get my 10,000 steps after a good start but I did do an hour’s walk, and 7688 steps, not bad on no sleep. Feeling very tired and very cross indeed. Lamb dinner was nice and had a dark chocolate mousse bar with the darts. Could sleep for a week…

It’s very tough when you’re going through plateaus. And I’m sure most of us have problems with sticking with it. I had a birthday last week and after best part of 2 weeks of really strict intake, I went out with my family and had a normal sized curry. No starter and no pudding and water to drink but a decent portion of food. Gained 3lb. I know I know, it’s mostly water etc but that feels so unfair. Got back on the horse again and hope I will shift this and move ahead again. Feel like lost the push to the extreme I did have it. But this is for life isn’t it? And not getting in a big sulk when the scales go the wrong way and giving up is the plan. Fall down 9 times, get up 10!

Also, remember to judge by MEASUREMENTS and target garments. I found weight would plateau but I would look and feel slimmer and clothes would be looser.

SunnyB is spot on re the carbs – absolutely worked for me to keep them as close to 20g per day as possible.

Good luck! 🙂

Congrats, Izzy, really well done!
Onwards and downwards ! 🙂 🙂

Nurse bean – have mentioned a few times here, re your sweet snack: have you tried 6 baby plum tomatoes eaten really s l o w l y? 16 cals, 2 carbs.

Sweet and refreshing. 🙂

evening all hope today was a good one no baking from me stayed out if the kitchen !!!

Thank you Daniel! Yes, I definitely needed the treat, the problem has been stopping!

I forgot to post yesterday but it was okay. For some reason I thought it was a good idea to cook chili on the hottest weekend of the year. So smart! It was yummy and so hard not to eat all of it.

My totals were:
Saturday kcal 922, Carbs 74.2g
Today kcal 802, Carbs 57g

Bit of a mixed weekend but hoping it doesn’t affect the weigh in tomorrow too terribly.

Hope you have had a good weekend, reversing. On to another week!

I’ ve no idea Nursebean..i was dreading starting it but now that i’m on day 12 and have lost 16 lbs,i’m so glad i did.
Keeping the carbs count very low means you dont get hungry( who knew?) ..also you lose the addiction to carbs..so its a win win situation!
Still got a long way to go tho so i dont want to speak too soon..theres bound to be a few wobbles along the way! X

Thats good news Autumn! Glad youre feeling a lot better…look after yrself x 💐

Oh wow SunnyB that road trip sounds amazing!
Well done on gaining very little ..i’m sure i wd put on stones,i love turkish food. And well done also on getting right back into BSD! X
Sunshine- girl,i’m giggling too at yr story! That is sooooo funny! X

Noooooooo! Don’t mention B&J!! 😱😨 My Kryptonite for sure. It only needs a mention from someone and I’m in the car heading for Phish Food!!!……..I’ve hidden the car keys…. let’s just hope I forget where!
Well, I’m off to make evening shake. A couple of scoops of ice cream in it would be heaven 😈………..now where did I put those keys……😮

Great results John and HappyLife

Thanks everyone.

HappyLife – if I buy a coffee while I’m out, I buy espresso. When the barista points out the sugar I tell him I don’t use it – and get some strange looks LOL. Picked up the espresso habit in Italy.

Just found a real Italian cafe in Durham, not part of a chain. When I ordered espresso with a glass of water the man serving me commented that I was drinking it the Italian way 😃

Great job John and I am sure you will fit them sooner than you expect!
Friends are coming over or lunch today and I put on a shirt I bought two weeks ago which was tight and today it is clear I have lost a lot of inches in the past two weeks as its almost too big.
It’s fun! I only buy one thing every two weeks or month since I am going right through them which is good.
Soon to give away all my too big clothes but haven’t had time to get to it.

Hi Wheelie, and great to see you being creative. I guess that many of us have had to make adjustments to the “rules” and yet have had good results. My wife, for example found that having no bread upset her tum, so she has just two half slices a day at the time of taking pills which have to be taken with food. She has lost loads of weight.

Don’t forget also, that the initial university study on which so much of this is based involved the consumption of “replacement meals” and so you’re following in a well-trodden and approved path.

Do keep posting, and let us know how the weigh-in goes in September. You must have the patience of a saint.

John

I have just shelled out £60 on a pair of “Target Oriented” jeans.

The story of my diet could almost be told against the framework of 3 pairs of trousers.

1) At the latter part of last year I bought a pair of very reduced (but still expensive) cycling trousers. They were hopelessly too small, but I intended to make a bit of an effort on weight in the New Year (as always) and hoped I could shrink into them. Tried them in March (having rather forgotten them) to see if I was any where near getting them on. They were already too loose. I am still using them (I’m too mean not to), but after my ride yesterday, I had great probems stopping them falling down.

2) A month or two into the diet, I bought a pair of jeans (also “saving myself a fortune”, if you know what I mean 😉
They were really uncomfortable, but by now I have to wear them with a belt to keep them up.

3) Well, as quite a few of us seem to be finding out (apart from Lynne, who sticks to it and gets her well-deserved rewards) it can be quite hard getting that last stone off. SO – I thought another pair of trousers was worth a try. Again, I have lashed out on a pair of jeans which were too expensive not to take seriously, but they are uncomfortably tight. I tried wearing them today when we went out for lunch, but thank goodness I was wearing a longish shirt not tucked in, as I had to undo the waistband surreptitiously. Hopefully the mean streak in me will ensure that I make the final push.

Onwards and downwards,

John

WOW! First time I ever ate one. Followed the directions.. Drizzled with a good amount of olive oil and sprinkled salt. broiled for 3 mins.

Didn’t have goat cheese and pine nuts, so I threw on feta & pistachios.

broiled for 3 more mins. To be honest after this I drizzled on even a little more olive oil! can’t have too much of it! healthy stuff!

Didn’t have chives so sprinkled on thinly sliced scallions

WOW just delicious! I’ll be having this often. Made it for my man and myself. (First time he ever ate a portabella as well — he also thinks it’s amazing!) The combination of flavors & textures is so amazing! And this was just the first recipe I tried! Can’t wait to try more now! Amazing!

Very interesting links and info. Thanks Ziggy.

Hi Autumn,

I plan in a ‘cheat day’ once week. I’ve been doing the BSD Fast 800 for 4 weeks, (although I aim for 1000 cals a day after calculating the book recipes and realising that the calorie counts were a bit ‘light’), and although I’m loving the BSD, (never thought I’d say that about a ‘diet’), I’ve found having a ‘cheat day’ is essential for my sanity.

Essentially, I know I’m only human and so having a ‘cheat day’ once a week helps me through the other days of the week if I start feeling a bit carb ‘crav-ie’.

Inevitably having a cheat day does hit the speed of overall weight loss, and after losing a lot of weight in the first week, I was disappointed when some of that loss went back on after my first cheat day, but I’m in this for the long haul/life, (I have a huge amount of weight to lose), so if it takes me longer to reach my target weight, so be it.
I’d rather it that way than total abstinence causing me to fall off the wagon completely.

The key for me is to make sure the ‘cheat’ food is not still in the house when I’m back on the BSD. If it is, then it’s a disaster!

As others have found, I get fuller, far quicker on my ‘cheat days’ than before I started the BSD and because my brain occasionally checks out of my body where food is concerned, there are the odd occasions when I’ve gone to bed on my cheat days feeling over stuffed and incredibly unwell, which in some ways is a helpful reminder of the bad old days.

Warwick done, knights definitely worth an ogle, 👍Over 11,000 steps so allowed myself a magnum …..yummy.
Janey you are a youngster, I had a significant birthday last year 3 weeks of celebrating made it bearable, but I still think I’m in my twenties and when I hear songs from the eighties I have a shock when they say it was 30 years ago….. I can’t be that old ! Enjoy everything and always say yes to new challenges that push you out of your comfort zone.

Hey Yowzer, your Nelson Mandela quote made me giggle. Not because of the quote but there was a young girl on TV who, at an interview as given a photo of Nelson Mandela and asked to talk about ‘the person in the photo’ for 10 minutes. She went on about how he had started the family business when things were bad, he had probably never cooked before, the rice he made was a special family recipe. At the end of the interview she was asked why she thought Nelson Mandela knew so much about rice and she said…… wait for it… ‘I thought it was the man on the Uncle Ben Rice packet’. Your quote made me think of Nelson trying over and over again to get his rice right. Oh well, I suppose you had to be there 🙂

Positive thoughts – just had a right giggle.
40 minutes in the pool today and no hunger pangs
Blood glucose steady at 101 (5.6)

Thank you for the congrats you guys, I’m so happy!

My visit to my family went well and they seemed to like their gifts, it is sad in some ways though as my Dad in particular has a few health issues at the moment and every time I visit he seems to be struggling a little more. However he is still here and is not by any means on his last days (I hope) I am grateful and fortunate at 40 years old to still have both of my parents.

Daniel I already have 2 blogs, one where I post places I visit, a craft one, and my diary here I’m not sure the world needs any more of me haha. If I did start one it would just be a repeat of what I do here. The thing is – I do this diary for me, selfishly. I do it because coming in here every day keeps me honest and on track, and there has been so much support over the months and friendships formed. I like to support others too of course and I’m very happy for anyone that feels my diary has helped them, but primarily I write here for myself. Anyway two blogs, one online diary, two kids, one husband, one job, on crafting den…. I don’t think I could fit anything else in!

Pork stir fry for dinner soon 🙂

So, been the gym, cycled, walked hit my 10,000 steps, house tidy, washing done.

Sensible eating.

I really have changed a lot.

Before I started the diet, I had a load of chocolate in the fridge.
I thought , I will start once I have got rid (eaten) the lot.
But I thought about it.
If I ate all that lot I would gain another pound or two.
If I didn’t eat it, I would have ‘lost’ that pound.
So I didn’t
And I haven’t ate like that …. not in that frame of mind either.

So don’t eat the problem in the house, start now and don’t eat it.

Simples!

Love Lucia
Xxxx

No, its just the final weigh in for the week. I tend to weigh daily, but only record the final weigh in for each week. I use the daily ones to keep me focused and to give me an indication of how things are progressing. I did seven weeks, then went away on a road trip out to Turkey for ten weeks, during which time I didn’t count cals or carbs, but tried to stay low carb and keep track of things using ketostix. Worked quite well as I only gained 2.8lb in the ten wks. Started the 800 again on returning home and I will be at the end of my fourth week tomorrow, on my second round, so to speak. My intention is to stick with the 800, until I get below the 9st mark, not sure how much below yet, well take a judgment call on that later.
Love the Mandela quote by the way Yowser49 – very appropriate for us losers!

Hi Bill
Could you give me some pointers about how you did it without counting calories? This is for my son. As I’m an avid counter I need help to advise him!
Thanks
Penny
PS. Back on forum after a few ‘events’ interrupted me! Glad to see oldies still around.

Lynne, oh foshbinkeepforgetting to mention that I am so glad you mentioned your taste buds changing. This last week I am drinking espresso (1/4 of one with lots of water) and a little stevia and I love it. It’s very bitter and I never would have had this before ever. It made me think of what you said re your taste buds. I agree!! They clearly change on this program!!

Happy day to you all!

Thanks everyone for sharing your targets!!
I just had my big target originally but find that since we measure in lbs in the US I am thrilled every time I drop below the next 10 lb mark.

What’s crazy is it seems this week (13) my body thinks I just started the diet again. I am literally melting just like week 1 again after a couple weeks plateauing due to getting off BP meds.

Other targets aren’t really in my head but trying on all my bathing suits and discovering the one that fits now is 10 sizes smaller than the one that was falling off of me is great! Kind of like a surprise target!!

I also measure every week to note how many inches I lose which really helps if I haven’t lost weight that week.

My main target is to get to a healthy weight so I can be healthy, live long, and do more fun activities!

As for weighing at target weight I definitely will probably still weigh daily. I do now and I have always found that keeps me honest and on track always. It’s just too easy or a scale to go up.

I will think about a new target to add as you all have inspired me to get new ideas for a target but it has to ring true to my soul for me to own it.

Wishing you the best always!
💜

Oh my gosh Lynne, I shouted out your achievement to my husband – I am so happy for you!!!
💗💗💗

Your HaB1c is an average of how your BG (bs) has been over the last 3 months, with the latest 4 weeks contributing more to the data (weighted). It measures the amount of glucose sticking to your red blood cells, and uses a formula to calculate what the BG has been over the past 3 months. Grazing little and often is probably better than eating less often but eating bigger carby meals than the amount you would graze. If you are worried, a lot of chemists and pharmacies do free diabetes checks. That’s how I was diagnosed, I went on to check my cholesterol and they said ‘Did you know that you are a diabetic?’
The easy explanation – http://www.tudiabetes.org/forum/t/the-hba1c-for-dummies/36836
The in depth explanation – http://t1dn.org.au/our-stuff/all-about-type-1-articles/hba1c-explained/
and one more for good luck – http://www.diabetes.co.uk/what-is-hba1c.html

Hello Izzy:

Congrads! You kick butt! You ought to write a blog on your achievements. 100’s of thousands in Western World alone would read it! Actually your weekly diary is kind of a blog site for me and my starting a weekly diary. 😀

Bond, James Bond was right: Live Or Let Die! We choose to live on this site and forum and lifestyle. 😀

Great that you use ginger now. It does wonders for me. Also, get a Neti-Pot(any pharmacy or grocery store has them) to eliminate the stuffiness in your nasal passage and mucus buildup. I am sipping my ginger tea now. It refreshes my head and throat.

Yeh, I do a lot of weird stuff in my style of dieting and exercise. I got a lot of the Eastern (India, China) influence on it. Chi Gong is one thing I do everyday! I suggest many others do it also. It is better known as Tai Chi. The basis of Kung Fu. Relax bones and muscles. I wish I had a Tai chi club up here in Albany that did Tai Chi every morning in the park. Maybe I should start one on MeetUp.

I am yapping too much again. I just can not…… Once you type, you just cant stop. Or is that Pringles commercials. LOL :O

Daniel

Another week done, and another pound gone! I don’t weigh myself every day anymore so I wasn’t sure what to expect when I stepped on the scale. I thought I might be ‘up’ because I’m feeling a little bloated – but I’m down a pound. I’m happy! I cheated one day – we were out driving to a place a couple of hours away so we ate fast food for lunch and then came home and barbequed hamburgers because it was so hot and I didn’t want to heat up the kitchen. I thought all those carbs would take my weight in the wrong direction but it didn’t. I won’t do that too often, though.

How are you doing, Indy? Is your fitbit motivating you? And loopylou, haven’t heard from you in a bit — let us know how you’re doing!

Hello Mate!

OMG! I am starting to talk like an Aussie. I stayed too long in Christ Church, which still is fixing up from that crazy earthquake. LOL

Anyways, fasting a whole day is quite unsuccessful because of mebabolic system goes into a crazy starvation mode.

What I do instead is:

Intermittent fasting: Eat 8 hours, Fast 16 hours

I suggest on starting 12 and 12 hours. Then change to 8 and 16.

I am writing this as I am starving to death on a religious fasting day today. I WANT FOOD! LOL How do Muslims fast a whole month ??????

If you dive in all the way, you will fail. Do so gradually and it becomes a habit. My personal schedule for eating is:

12:00 Lunch (Skipped breakfast)

15:00 Snack (Cottage cheese or other high fiber high protein)

18:00 Meat or fish dinner (Soups do wonders for me)

Fast until Noon the next day. 8 hours in bed asleep, and 8 hours awake.

If you have medical problems, I suggest to get a doctor’s A OK first.

Cheerio,

Daniel

Izzy that must feel so good! Congrats! X
Sunny,is it final weigh in as its now8 weeks? Well done X i hope you teeter and fall into a whole stone lost!
My positive thoughts today
Feel blessed…Have got plenty of lovely nourishing food to eat for the week ahead and a roof over my head ( its raining outside)
Blessed again…Just spent time having cuppa with DD and SIL ( refused a scone with jam and cream – of course!)who now live round the corner after living away for several years
Loving this Nelson Mandela quote :- ‘ Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.’. Makes me feel better about the several times ive tried to lose weight but havent..and the times ive succeeded in losing weight and regained it!

Thank you much! 🙂

SunnyB gave a word of wisdom: Make smaller goals to accomplish THE BIG GOAL!
I actually need to do more of the self-rewarding more myself (without my two friends Ben and Jerry) 🙂

Absolutely right: Football today is so overpaid. The same with Tennis, the Gentleman’s Sport! 😉 Yeh, i wear a cardigan when I play…… I am Old School. Like who else wears a Charlie Chaplin tophat when putting on a tux with a Houdini Mustache!????

I need Wells’ Time Machine go back to 1890. LOL

What I need to do Myself:

1) Cut the dairy more (My Kryptonite, not Nestle, Frito Lays or Pringles)
2) Reward myself more often (thanks for the refreshing enthusiasm on that)
3) Skip voting in November (oops wrong list) 😀

Live Long And Prosper!
Onward and Upward…….. Or Downward!!!! 😀

Daniel

Hiiiii ZZ good luck on yr new start!👍🏻
I am on day 12 and for about the first 10 days i felt very weak,so go easy on yrself with heavy gym stuff for now,like Sunny said
Its so worth it..ice now lost 16 lb in 12 days. Maybe its just the scales have gone berserk but i feel a lot lighter,clothes are looser.x

Hi LACali21 – Don’t panic about being 100 cals over. There are bound to be days when you are over and some under. This is a long haul thing, so overall it will balance out. It is quite common to have some lethargy and fatigue in the early days – I certainly did. You will come through it and feel fitter and more energised, once your body has got used to no longer being given carbs.

Also, don’t stress about the baked potato yesterday. Yes, it would probably have been better not to have it, but don’t worry about it now, that’s in the past. Just stay focused and push ahead. Make sure you use enough cals for fat in your meals, that way you will feel full sooner and for longer.

Well done on your results so far. Stick with it, keep counting the cals and keep an eye on the carbs too and you will be posting great results and finding resisting the carbs is no big deal.

Look forward to hearing your results tomorrow.

At the moment 11st 8lb. I may never weigh less but I like this way of eating. It suits me very well. If I did loose another 4lb then I would be at the very top end of my ideal weight. Something to aim for. OH says his trousers are now looser. 🙌

Hey Izzy, that ‘s brilliant news!!! You must be so pleased, you can’t stop smiling. Onward and upward – can’t wait to hear you’re results start with a 9.

My positive thoughts today:
Raised £310 at a sale yesterday for a local charity.
Had a lovely meal out with my husband last night and managed to still get a positive result with my ketostick this morning.
I’m tettering on the brink of a full stone lost, so hoping to a great result at final weekly weigh-in tomorrow.

Wow!! Well done on getting below the 9st mark – how I dream of that. I think I can do it, it’s not beyond the realm of possibility. My week end weigh-in is tomorrow and I’m hoping to see a full stone lost at last. If I do, I’ll be aiming to get into the 8 zone myself. You can definitely get to your goal of 8st 10lb, just stay focused and push ahead. Look forward to hearing you’ve got there … good luck!

It’d do me good after my sleep, can’t even think to get moving now. Good job I’ve done over half my steps for the day!