Hey Ziggy – good to see you are still losing, if not quite as much as you had hoped. Keep plugging away, it will happen. I tipped over the brink of that illusive stone this week – at last! In fact I have had one of my best weeks’ loss this week – down 3.6lb. Don’t know what was different this week to cause that, but very happy for it nonetheless.
Now my new goal is to get to the point where my weight begins with an 8, which means I need to drop 9lb more. Had thought getting to that point was a dream too far, but it seems attainable now. If I can get there, I’ll be re-evaluating and deciding if I want to go any further or not, but right now, the aim is to get rid of the 9lb to my next target.
Keep on losing Ziggy, look forward to the next report.

Although how much I’ll like Autumn and Winter BSD style is another matter. Once you’ve taken mash, pies, dumplings and stodgy puddings out of the equation… I think it’s going to be a lot easier sticking to it in the heat, because you can always have a salad. Salad in December never seems right for some reason?

Hi Hush,

Thank you! Lots of info to digest here 😊. Do you mind if I ask how the weight loss has been for you? I’ve read different accounts on how a cheat day actually speeds up weight loss, and so I’m curious if that’s been your experience. Since I’m trying to avoid diabetes, I’m also worried about BS spikes, so even when I’m “cheating”, I’m still keeping the calories low, and the rest of the day protein and fat heavy. However, I understand the sanity argument. We need to find a way to incorporate this long term into our lives, and feeling “normal” is a part of that. Although, really, in the end, anything we’re doing to increase our health is better than doing nothing, so kudos! 👏👏👏

Poor Mr Tokyo, maybe he’ll think twice before diving in next time lol.

Thanks Eps but it’s not my Wedding anniversary today, my wedding anniversary is on Groundhog Day, I just meant my life is like that film, wake up and repeat the same day over and over and over… lol 🙂 same housework that I did yesterday. It’s not until February 2nd.

I love Autumn and Winter, my favourite seasons tbh. That said, I don’t like autumnal and wintry weather in the summer!

happy anniversary lucky !! x

Hee heee ooo can just imagine that couple, yes there’s a lot of that around 😂😂😂

Ooo happy wedding anniversary!! 👰👫🎈💑 sounds like a day to ditch the housework to me!! 😹👏😂 if your daughter’s boy is coming over she won’t want thing to be messy so might do some herself 😝😝

Monday morning settling down to work here, ha e to be productive today – start of the week! It’s warm again though and am kind of starting to dream about autumn 😳😂😂😂 cool evenings, leaves falling, dark sleepy mornings!! Never happy eh! 😂

Happy dancing inside today, as I have consolidated the stone down at last – a point I had been struggling to reach for a couple of weeks now. In fact the scales told me that I’ve lost 3.6lb this week, so I’m really happy!!
Have realised that my skin is so much better on the BSD. Where my tan would normally peel almost as soon as I returned from holiday, it has stayed fixed and my bottom lip, which had previously nearly always been flaky, with a tendency to crack in the middle, has been smooth and soft for weeks now.
Got into a favourite dress this morning, for the first time in at least five years – just need an occasion to wear it!

may pasties remain forever unassociated with bad guts!!!! think my OH is regretting his choice from saturday he said it tasted so good but made him feel so bad!!!!!!!!

Only thing is… I can’t wear in-ear headphones. I have to have over ear ones. My nephew rips me to shreds calling me Dr Dre. It’s not a good (outdoor) look for a 40 year old woman. Not a good look at all. According to some forum I’m looking at 20 – 30 mb an hour playing the game. So maybe I can spare them a couple of hours here and there. I saw two people walking up the side of the A55 on Saturday, literally at the side of the traffic. She was carrying shopping and looked peed off and he was glued to his phone. I’m talking a couple in their 50’s. I was wondering… lol. Nobody’s awake yet anyway, except my daughter, whose boyfriend is coming down today, hairdryer is going, the works. Doesn’t seem like yesterday that was me… 🙁 Off out for the day with a boyfriend, done up to the nines. Now, I’m stuck in, doing THE SAME HOUSEWORK that I did yesterday. It’s Groundhog Day! Which, incidentally, and this is no joke – is also my Wedding Anniversary. I got married on Groundhog Day. So I should have expected nothing less really, should I?

Congratulation about hitting the healthy BMI range!!! I am one pound of hitting mine, but I am please to be making progress towards it and to have it in reach now. Had one of my biggest losses this week – down 3.6lb, bringing me under that illusive stone mark I have been striving for. No idea what was different about this week, to result in this drop, but happy to be here.

New target is to get to a weight beginning with 8, which means I need to get rid of another 9lb, but it really feel do-able now, whereas previously it felt like it was completely unreasonable to expect to get there. Tried on a dress I have been able to get into for maybe five years and it fits!!! So chuffed, just need an occasion to wear it for now.

LACali21, we totally got this! This forum has been amazing at offering support and great ideas. It’s nice to know we’re not alone in this 👍

Ruthdownunder, I’m definitely planning on cutting down the carbs as the weeks progress, but just these past few days, by raising my carbs, my symptoms have completely dissipated. In fact, I’m thinking about going for a quick jog in a bit! So, yes, I hope to raise my protein and fat levels in the coming weeks, but just now, I’m just reveling in my new found energy on 800 kcal/day! (and I’m in total agreement about the full fat 😊) And aren’t naps the best? I feel soooo much better from just a quick 20 min nap. Maybe because it feels so self-indulgent, lol.

Nursebean, I just tried out the full fat plain bio yoghurt yesterday and wow! SO GOOD! I added figs yesterday, and blackberries today, along with some crushed walnuts. Unbelievable how long I felt satiated. I think a part of me panics a bit when I think about not getting enough to eat (and then the ensuing dizziness and weakness), but I was really surprised at how great this worked 🙂 Eggs, steamed veggies, and yoghurt, my best friends right now!

That’s fantastic news bigP.
Not so big now, huh?!

Ha ha ha yes definitely Pokemon is a good one for walking, my oh comes out for walks all the time playing it😹 Though he was good before too but now it’s a treat! Easier to walk somewhere and back so if you can get steps done on a treadmill you’re going to find it sooo easy outside. If you have a radio documentary app, they great to listen to while walking? The Irish one is doc on one (radio one), you’d like some id say! 👏👏

HEALTHY BMI ALERT!!! HEALTHY BMI ALERT!!!

Pardon the all CAPS, but it’s such a massive milestone, one I never thought I’d reach, that I have to shout about it.

For the first time in my adult life I have reached a healthy BMI!!! While I do take the number with a pinch of salt, knowing it’s a very archaic way of measuring a healthy body and that I should be looking at things like body fat percentage instead, it still feels amazing!!!

25th July 2016 – 81.7kg – 180lbs – 12st 12lbs – BMI 24.8
Weekly loss – 1.6kg – 3.5lbs – I actually hit a low mark of 81.2kg on Saturday morning, but the nice weather and the good feeling of getting to a healthy BMI was reason enough to have a BBQ (protein and veg only) and ice cream (… no excuses).

Loss so far:
Since June 2014 – 58.9kg – 130lbs – 9st 4lbs
Since 1st March 2016 – 42.1kg – 93lbs – 6st 9lbs
Since 4th April 2016 (beginning of BSD800) – 28.8kg – 63lbs – 4st 7lbs

Current Target – Get fitter, adding muscle and get rid of the fat around my belly and thighs, in other words concentrate on getting my body fat percentage down.

Target Complete 25th July 2016 – 82kg – 181lbs – 12st 13lbs – BMI 24.9 – This will take me into the healthy BMI range for the first time since i was a child.

So you’ve noticed a BIG difference in your approach to ‘naughty’ foods since you embarked on BSD then? That’s what we all hope for really isn’t it. A change in attitudes towards the foods that don’t really do us any good!

Well done!

Haha! ruthdownunder – you ONLY had to give up bread, rice, potatoes and pasta?!!! No easy task is it – or is it?! I haven’t found it too bad lately (although I’m struggling to give up chocolate and puddings!!)

It seems that full fat yoghurts such as Fage TOTAL is our new best friend – oh and the wonderful avocado!! 😉

Oh Ziggy! That’s an amazing loss – you must be just thrilled with that! Well done xx

I must admit that, being a seasoned faster myself, I always do a 16:8, so I finish eating at 8pm and don’t eat again until 12-1. I try and split my cals to 400 for lunch and 400 for dinner (but I try to leave more for the evening so I can enjoy a little snack!! 😉 )

Last week I lost 2 pounds – which is unheard of for me! I don’t have an awful lot left to lose now (maybe a stone/stone and a half if I want to be super slim!!) so I’m happy with 1.5-2 pounds loss per week! 🙂

Oh don’t worry Lowenna – you’re not alone! I am unable to do much exercise due to health problems – but I’m still losing weight (more weight than I’ve lost in years in fact!)

I started doing yoga at home again but have recently done my back in (don’t know if its because of the yoga) so am hoping to see a chiropractor this week. I’m hoping for miracles!! 🙂

Thank you Eps, it’s going to be the increased walking that’s doing it. I’m looking out at the weather and wondering if I could con a child to walk three miles to town with me if I download Pokemon Go on my phone? Only thing is, I only have a small amount of monthly data, because it’s something I’ve never done before, used internet on my phone, so I only went for 500 mb a month, and I have noooooooooo idea what that even means in terms of usage. I only use it to check my emails when I’m out and about. Would really like to get my 10,000 today, sometimes I ace the treadmill, other times it’s soooooooooooo bloody boring.

Omg Eps well done on the steps yesterday! 23000? That is absolutely immense, I bet your legs were (are?) aching off! That is definitely going to impact on the scales in a couple of days time! Lady pounds are the worst because you haven’t eaten anything to show for it 🙁 lol. It’s showing in inches too 🙂 Pounds and kilos don’t make the clothes fit, it’s inches. Increased weight could be a multitude of reasons, do you want me to give you the poo pep talk again? No? 😛 hehe. I think you’re doing great, try not to dwell on it, press on now.

She is on very, very thin ice with me. Very. I’m sure it was, as was the darts booming and me shouting ‘GET IN!’ every leg MvG won! 🙂

Just catching up on posts now – good one Lucky!! Keep it up for the team 👏👏👏👏💐

Such a great weekend but noooooo, as suspected first week in 10 weeks I haven’t lost weight, in fact gone up – only by .6kg but annoying all the same. Especially when walked 23000 steps !!! yesterday and 11000 the day before 😳😭 and pretty much stuck exactly to plan for last 3 days anyway.

Maybe it’s the water as I didnt drink as much over weekend (though still a good bit) and that seems to make massive difference to me. That and lady pound – guess it could be a lady .6kg!!! As Timmy said, as long as it doesnt become a trend. Tried on pair of trousers which were tight before and fit fine now so inches are still going or stating gone anyway. I knew it would get harder as I got closer to my goal but hopefully that thought isn’t becoming real because I think it! Anyway, this week is another week, lots of water, keeping up walking, and tracking again. Hope you all have better weigh days!!

Janey spa sounds fab and steak yuuuum.

Lucky I would have been v cross with neighbour…hopefully sponge bob revenge was sweet!!

I do squats and step-ups which are working amazingly for me.

Hi Lucia,
You are absolutely on the perfect way to lose weight. Just keep going and you will reach your goal. Best wishes.

Me too, and not just in what I want to eat, but feedback from others (like you and Janey) about how things are affecting people after eating this way is also having an impact. I was the same about pastry Tokyo, that was my undoing. I don’t know if this makes sense, but I’d rather not eat it and be put off for life by the fallout? If I ate a pastie now and it made me feel ill, I’d be devastated lol. I’d rather remember pastie the way he was, than someone who gave me heartburn and left me off colour for days. The memory of pastie shall be preserved as I remember him. Lol.

Monday Start of Week 2 Weigh-In:

14 St 13 lbs BMI 30.49 Loss to Date 8.5 lbs

First Target Achieved! – Weight now below 15 St

Next Target: BMI < 30

Thanks for all the help re carb counting and associated meal planning. It’s only been 1 week and I am still a newbie but it seems it does take significant planning/research to get the daily menu balanced correctly. Still, now I am retired (but still waking at 6 a.m. as per my working life) I have plenty of time to do so.

What’s not to like about this food.? Last night we had a modified Harrisa Chicken (swapped out the beans for Cauli Rice) – Fantastic and so filling.

So – Three weeks in – time to weigh

Male, 6ft 1in, Type 2 diabetes for 7 years, Not taking any diabetic meds, On Ramipril for elevated BP. Slim build – TOFI maybe

04th July 2016 Starting Weight – 13 st – 01 lb – 04 oz
11th July 2016 After One Week – 12 st – 09 lb – 09 oz
18th July 2016 After Two Weeks – 12 st – 06 lb — 10 oz
25th July 2016 After Three Weeks – 12 st – -05 lb – 06 oz
This Weeks Loss – 01 lb – 04 oz
Total Loss = 09 lb – 14 oz

My thoughts on the week:- Was hoping for a bit more this week as I had upped my exercise to maybe 200% of normal, but at least it is going the right way. Onwards and downwards folks. 😎

it has changed the way I am looking at food have to say !! oh was really ill after just a bit of pastry!! chocolate still my downfall but not bithered bout much else !!

it wasn’t much about the actual diet more about the process, and one mans reversal of his diabetes. It was on BBC 2 at 10.00 pm last night

Oh yay. A Paltrow cake. Thanks… 😉

Of course you haven’t, you’ll be fine! It’s like riding a bike! Everyone’s been a bit quiet, it’s summer, isn’t it? Everyone’s going to be off doing things. I only give the illusion of being omnipresent because my PC is in my living room, on from sun up to sun down and I can see the notifications from Google lol 😀 I just drop whatever I’m doing and come to see whenever I see that little yellow box hehe. We’ll be here waiting for you 🙂

Don’t know what I’m going to do when I’m camping. There’s wi-fi up at the farm shop and bistro but it’s a bit of a walk up every time I want to post or check something lol. Might check in once a day, and have a nice glass of wine up there as I do so 🙂 Stagger back because thanks to the BSD I’ll now be a very cheap date indeed!

Well said, I think you have expressed what most of us have delightfully discovered, that the monster appetite isn’t part of us, it was a side effect. Well done you, keep up the excellent work, we can all do it together. There are a lot of people on here like myself who have 100 plus pounds to loose. So long term support. Great huh.
Hope you have a great week
Love jan🍓🍓🍓

Well angie baby,
Just look at you,
Way to go girl!
Just keep happy.
Love the idea you are zen like.
A warrior in stealth mode.

Keep blogging.
Love Lucia
Xxxx

Hi Jan
Ooh the Jans are in it together , us Jans have got to stick together, we are a dying breed, my weigh day is Wednesday, not been planning very well this week so we shall see.

Love jan🍓🍓🍓

Hi josie 53.
Sorry, didn’t see you there, with you losing all that weight.
You are a genius!
I have been on the diet longer than 8 weeks.
I am still enjoying it, unless I plateau, then I sulk.

As I am only taking 800 cals, I will not reduce them any more than that, I change my exercise. My weight will move again, I just need a good lesson in patience.

Keep going, you are looking great!
Love Lucia
Xxxx

i would not forget you and to surprise you I would bake it in a paltrow cake !!!!!
i feel a bit more back in the game today been a bit distracted lately( had a lot of lifes shit on ) so hoping not lost my BSD game and buddys !!!!

Hi green Janet,
Please can you tell me what channel so I can do catch up?
I need more bsd info.
Thanks
Lucia
Xxxx

Hi all

Well it is 8 weeks today and my first weigh in after I started. I am a bit freaked/ OCDish by frequent weighing so have tried this new tactic of avoiding it. I knew the diet was working as my clothes were getting looser. So Ta Dah I have lost 27 pounds. But even more amazing is the fact that I don’t get hungry, want to cheat, and have loads more energy. I had had three years of difficult physical health lots of surgery and the lovely steroids so was pretty broken by it all. I found walking outside difficult as a consequence of the eye surgery so had bought a treadmill a while ago and looked at it a lot!! Now I can walk 40 minutes a day which is awesome for me. Helped by some lovely memory foam trainers what a discovery.

I went on holiday for two weeks to the Med but kept to the diet except for one birthday meal. It was interesting how it could be done I can’t believe I didn’t eat the custard tarts! I have had to curb my inner saleswoman a it as I want everyone to try this diet who needs it so am in danger of becoming an MM bore.
I’ve been reading the posts and find the company humour and support a huge help.
I will continue on the 800 for the foreseeable future as I have a long way to go but feel calm about this. I was thinking about how stressful I found different diets in the past I am now a sort of zen woman with a smile. I think I feel better about weighing in more frequently maybe monthly maybe weekly I will see how I feel
Meanwhile hooray!!

Morning Tokyo, hope you have a good day 🙂 No, she behaved herself last night, thank God. Couldn’t have taken two nights on the trot, or I would have been in police custody! Remember the file in the cake 😉 x

morning another day at work for me so up early when all i want is my bed!!!! but at least i stick to my food plan today somehow i dont cheat here odd i know !!
anyway hope all good and that lucky has not been arrested for the murder of her neighbour !!! i will bake you a cake lucky!!!!!

Good morning all 😀 Bear with me while I just check if smug mode is engaged… there!

Oooh Josie, that does sound interesting, might try and get that on catch up, if it’s on a catch up channel?

Tokyo, thank you 😉 Feeling in a much better mood after a decent night’s sleep. Still very, very tired, it’ll take days to even out, but I’m not feeling as… homicidal today.

Oh no Janey! But! In retrospect, chickpeas v steak, no brainer, and it is your birthday weekend so… win! Hope your meal was good and you didn’t keep the poor owner to his word! Ah you simply MUST try the steam next time…

And let’s kick off the week’s wins with – 0.9 kg down from yesterday 🙂 After yesterday’s day long downpour, the sun is shining, the sky is blue. Just have my black coffee (didn’t fancy the cheesy smelling milk) as I work out what we’re eating today 🙂

thanks Janet I thought about watching it but forgot! I will see if I can watch it online later 🙂

I have a better system for grocery shopping mostly – I get my husband to do it lol. He works in a store so he brings the bulk of ours home with him and we just top up from the local store. I do try to get up early to write but I never quite manage it, but nor do I always get to bed early enough.

Good Morning everyone 🙂 weight still the same so fingers crossed for tomorrows official weigh in. I’m wearing my new smaller work top today 🙂 Clothes that fit are instantly slimming does anyone else see that?

Something I realised years ago (to my benefit) was to not care about certain numbers – I care about my weight, but age for instance isn’t worth worrying about, and nor is the number in that little label inside our clothes. Sure it’s nice to see the number/size reduce, but the actual number matters less. I have clothes in Uk 12-18 that all still fit a ridiculous variation, and I have some 16’s that are just too big. too big or too small clothes generally are not flattering. Clothes that fit almost always look nicer.

I am having a new interim target, I straightaway set my target yesterday to 10 st 7, but I’m aiming for 10st 12 first as that will be 2stone down on BSD. Slow but steady wins my race 🙂

I did a little painting last night but I wasn’t managing to get the effect I wanted so I gave up for the night. The great thing about painting though is you can paint over what you don’t like and try again as often as you like.

Well my dears it is time for me to go face my Monday! So First I will say that food today is raspberry shake, cheese salad and courgetti bake later .

Have a great day life changers 🙂

i am also at the lowest weight for at least 25 years, good job i have kept all the clothes

Bissell that is great thanks so much for responding, it does reassure me. I especially like the fact you have reintroduced some wine! I can give up carbs but what a misery to face a tea total future 🙁
What a great community this is thanks again!
Jill

Thank you greenjanet

Yes I still have a lot to lose but will stick with it as it is the lowest I have been in 25 years .
I cannot believe how much better I feel and look and I am in this for the long haul.
Although I didn’t post before I followed all of your journeys and it really made me believe that the setbacks were only temporary and that if I persisted then like all of you I would succeed.

Regards

Jan

Morning Jill. Like you, I was terrified of regaining some/all of the weight when I reached the end of the 8 weeks. I was lucky enough to squeeze under the BMI of 25 (OK, 24.8, but still under 25!) after 8 weeks and thought, “now what?” It’s been a month so far and i’ve followed a regime of 5:2, low carbs throughout, with 800cals on the “2” days. No snacking between meals, no unprocessed carbs, the odd glass of wine, lots of fats, plenty of water, 10k steps a day (mainly!) PORTION CONTROL (my nemesis ) and so far so good. I gained a couple of pounds initially, panicked, sulked, felt frustrated, but they disappeared after a few days and overall I’ve lost another 2 lbs, I think.
So not out of the woods yet by any means, but realising this is it for the rest of my life really. And that’s ok, I’m happy with what I eat and how I look and most importantly ( who am I trying to kid?Nearly most importantly) how I feel. And I feel so much better than I did.
Hope that helps a bit. Best of luck with it.

Thanks Katharine. My plan at the end of four weeks is to move to the 5:2 (due to working away a lot). I accept weight loss may be slower then but on this evidence it seems it will bounce straight back up even when cutting out carbs. Any assurances out there please?
Jill

Hi1942desprate
Big welcome now you’ve revealed yourself. This eating plan is amazing isn’t it. Sounds like the plan has done the same for you as it has for me , a transformation, in pacifying our monster insatiable appetite into a normal appetite, wanting healthy food. Brilliant work, have you more to loose. Do let us know we are all friends here. I’m approaching the end of my fourth week, and still have a lot to loose, but loving the plan, will never revert to carbs, feel to well.
Hope you have a great week.
Love Jan 🌞🌞🌞

Perhaps a little more protein and a little more fat (avocado, nuts) and a little less carbs. You really seem to have changed your diet dramatically. I always ate a tonne of non starchy veg, and practically no sugar so only had to give up booze, bread, rice, potatoes, pasta (sob), so did not have too much of a carb flu. You are eating full fat not light as Yowzer suggests above?. Lovely big green salad with avocado and a smidge of EVOO, yum. Lots of steamed greens with a teaspoon of oil or butter.

I think you are doing very well – esp the 3 inches of the waist. It is the only measurement I am following as it is really the only one that really matters to me.

I too have a ‘nanna nap’ every day

All the best