ay caramba and SunnyB

My feeling is that when I get to target I’ll stick with the low carb Mediterranean way of eating (it really is a habit now) and just gradually increase calories until I stabilise my weight. It’s the way I’ll be eating for the rest of my life so I don’t want to complicate it.

many people gain a little or lose little or nothing some weeks (myself included) it’s normal just keep doing the right things and it will come off again.

It is actually simpler than it looks Eps lol, as long as you have a read through and work out in what order to do things. Once that curry gravy is made, you’re laughing. If you ever get a chance to make it let me know and I can send you through all the recipes to go with, Madras, Korma, Bhuna, Vindaloo, Ceylon, Pathia, the list is huuuuuge. You will become so popular, it’s unbelievable. My friends don’t really like me, just my curry 🙁 There’s an email button on my blog 🙂

I’ve got to get up and give a reading in church. That’s if I’m not struck down by lightning (or my children, for that matter) before hand. I don’t want to show her up. Bride’s struggled with her weight for years too, so she knows how self conscious I feel. If I still look like a lump in it I will buy something more appropriate, but again, I will be waiting until the week before the wedding until I do, I want to squeeze every last ounce out of the weightloss hehe.

Oh. My. God. You could put a burger on those, you think? They look like it. Or a burger between TWO anyway 😉 #andthatswhyimfat

Bookmarked…

I see I can’t post this in recipes as it’s not my own but would like to rant about the lovely meal I’ve just cooked from a BBC Good Food recipe. A lovely light fish dish. From Italy – 14th century no less! easy to make and very tasty. I found about half the quantity of fish was enough for me to eat at one go. I cooked 80g of fresh spinach for my veg.. Here is the link http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1653/almondcrusted-fish-with-saffron-sauce
Aldi sell packs of 2 sea bass fillets – have frozen the other one for next time.
I also didn’t have fresh fish stock so used a cube and didn’t have a shallot so used piece of a red onion. other than that… 🙂 Can’t see a way to add a photo so you will have to imagine the result.

http://www.viva.co.nz/article/food-drink/hemsley-flaxseed-buns-recipe/

Though I remember something reading about flaxseeds and estrogen levels so wouldn’t eat loads of these 😹😹😹😬
They look nice tho😂

Thsnks mil for that curry recipe Lucky, it does look delicious… I’d need a whole weekend to do it tho!!!😫😹

Butterfly dresses here we come. I have a wedding in September too and yes will have to get a dress somewhere too, will wait another few weeks tho!

Serious shopping going on there, love the aldi Greek yoghurt, yuuuum. Wonder was it golden linseed you were getting? Same as flaxseed? They in loads of recipes, actually now that I think about it I think I saw one for bread rolls with them! Will dig it out. Suspect it might have been the Hemsley sisters?

Hi
Thanks for asking, she is following the book explicitly as I said previously we both have the same amounts of weight to loose, and at the 5 day mark, I had lost 8 lbs, but she had lost 4lbs, I estimate she is eating 1/3 more than me, so it will be slower, I keep gently encouraging her to look on here but she won’t. Shes very determined, so hopefully she will get on alright.
Jan 🌻🌻🌻

Hi, The ‘myfitness pal’ app is really great, and I find it is spot on for giving you carbs/cals etc, as I’ve checked it against other resources. The only thing to bear in mind is that if you want to set the daily limit at 800 cals,and the carb/protein/fat levels, then unfortunately you do have to pay the monthly ‘premium’ sunscription which is £7.99 a month. But, that’s a lot less than weightwatchers etc is’nt it ! I especially love the fact that you only have to input each ingredient once, you can then make recipes/fave foods etc, and it even has a barcode scanner. I can’t recommend it enough !!

Thanks everyone. Well done Lab a great achievement xx

Hi all
I have lost 16 lbs and an inch of my waist but my poor husband has lost nothing in weight but one and a half inches off his waist so some thing must be happening!
I was thinking, my diet was very carb heavy to put it mildly!! But my husbands isn’t – I wondered if that was the reason he has yet to lose any weight?
What does any one else think cheers Chris

Thanks SunnyB. In the first few days I did not track but just followed the menus in the book- I lost the biggest chunk of weight then (6lb in 4 days) – but then you would as you lose fluids at that stage. I have since started to track and it is true the calories cited in the book aren’t right – some over, some under. I just tweak them if they are high in carbs, especially – my fitness pal is great for allowing you to know what to cut. Like you I am really tracking to keep the carbs under 50.
So at the end of week one – start weight 12 stone 13lbs – my loss was 8lbs 3 oz – which I am thrilled with.
How did your sister get on if she is still following the book greenjanet?

Ooh love lidls and aldi mind you to get to either of them I have to drive at least 40 mins, so defeats the object of money saving, but last week did an enormous shop, and as its next to the coast went for a long walk, the dog loved it. So all happy.
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No I’m in jolly old Britain and the Ostrich steak came from Lidls. Have to be careful not to over cook the ostrich steak, as there is almost no fat in it, best cooked pink to keep it tender. Have used it before and it’s very nice.
I’m guessing the sauce you were keen on is the thai style on with the cauli rice and prawns – it’s yummy and an old fav, for a lighter sauce, you can leave out the oil and soy and it still works.

Hi
Yes men do seem to always loose faster than women. I’m sure once you start producing lovely new counted meals, he will be equally enthusiastic. Some people just like the assurance, of laid out things sometimes don’t they.
Hope it’s going well
Regards
Jan🤗

Many of us have found the weight loss slower than described in the book, but if you stick with it, you’ll get there. I have been plugging away for ten weeks (with a ten week break between weeks seven and eight) and I’m still a fraction of a pound away from being a whole stone lighter than when I started. If you have hit a plateau, it’s worth reviewing your intake of carbs (too much?), fats (not enough?) and fluids.
Keep going – you are already seeing the benefits and it can only get better!

Hi Jan
At last a reply . Thank you so much . I will install the ap right away . Mt biggest problem is hubby is quite happy sticking to the same 7 day menu for the duration . But I’m not. Some of the food on the menus is lovely and liveable but there’s lots I don’t like . I want to be able to say I fancy a small pork fillet and be able to add veg and beans or whatever a little bit of flexi.
He’s lost 6 kilos already it’s dropping of him.
Love. Fig

Wooh ostrich steak, do I take it you are one of the down under BSD peeps. More to the point was it nice.
🐓🐓🐓 haven’t got an ostrich. Ooh love your sauce, have put it over to memos to try out later, was that nice.

How’s it going Gingerbird? Hope you are seeing positive results now. Let us know hoe you are getting on.

Like Igorasusual, I have not used the recipes in the book and so have not had to calculate the carbs in the meals there. I do remember carb intake is not discussed in grams in the book, just the imperative to cut out simple carbs. However, I lost initially cutting back to 800 cals a day, but then hit a plateau and only started losing again, once I started looking at carbs and cutting down to 50g or below. Even now I don’t have any big losses, just the odd pound here and there, but it is all adding up.

I would say that on the evidence found on this forum, there is a need to keep a check on the carbs too.
Good luck and please keep us posted.

thts the spirit i really pwetty pwincess !!

They look good too, Janey, bookmarked! They would be ideal for picnics and days out too!

Yes, I survived Tesco who no longer have an Ethnic aisle. I was told it would be going back but the store was chopping and changing atm, things moving aisles so all the stuff from that aisle was in the back. So a really lovely young lad helped me, he went looking in the back for ages, and then he went to customer services to check stock, and went back again to find my brand of chickpea flour. I cannot make wraps with the KTC stuff, it’s fine for cooking, but not wraps. I savvy shopped in Tesco as I had a money off voucher, went to Home Bargains for my olive oil (same brand, same size, half the price), pumpkin seeds (69p as opposed to over £2 in Tesco) and then I went to Aldi for my meat, greek yogurt, nuts and salad bits. I bought some golden something seed in Tesco too as I remembered seeing it in a recipe posted here over the last couple of days and now I can’t remember which one it was… anyone?

Just a quick FYI – as far as I can remember the next lot of Aldi super 6 coming up included cauliflowers, chantennay carrots, and courgettes. Not too shabby for the cauliflowers, anyway!

I know Tokyo, one day it will not only fit but I will look like a Pwincess in it 🙂

B – yogurt, raspberries and tahini
L – cauli rice, prawns, spring onion, and dressing of fish sauce/soy sauce/chilli flakes/lime juice/garlic
D – Ostrich steak, creamy mushroom sauce and veggies

My loss is slow, 3.5 lbs week 1 and only half a pound week 2 but my aim is to reduce blood glucose and this diet has done that fantastically. I would like the weight loss but happy to stick to the diet and not worry about my weight.

Sorry for the late response Ziggy. Try grating the cheese, so that a little goes further and/or try a few pinenuts (you’ll be surprises how many there are in 10g) – they are high is cals, but a few go a long way sprinkled over a salad, adding fats and flavour. If you can make friends with yogurt, that would really help. Lidls do a really creamy one that is 10% fat (125cals per 100g, of which 4.2g are carbs) and is only £1.40ish for a litre tub – it’s the Turkish Style one. Also, tahini is oil and makes a good dressing – again high in cals, but a little goes a long way and it makes a nice dressing, drizzled over salad or even cook veggies.

I did 7 weeks before I went to Turkey, losing 13lb and post Turkey (having gained 2.8lb back), I’ve just started into week 3, so I suppose technically I’m over the 8 weeks mark, but I’m treating them as two separate events, so I’m on week 3. While I was away, I didn’t weigh and measure, but I tried to stick to the principles of the BSD 800, avoiding all the high carb nasties. I did transgress, which explains the gain, but I used ketosticks to give me an idea of how I was doing, so that helped to keep me on the right track and not gain heaps.

Anyway, please let us know how you have been doing and if you are seeing progress now. Keep going, it will come right I’m sure.

Hi all, I am preparing myself to start the diet – possibly the 5-2 as I am on insulin/metformin. I have a GP appointment to discuss everything and hope my doctor is receptive. I developed type 2 diabetes at the age of 39 and am now 60. I have had success with weight loss in the past, but due to mental health issues, find it extremely hard to maintain ongoing health and low bsl’s. Now I feel I am once more approaching “the zone” where I can successfully follow the diet. When reading the 8 week blood sugar diet, I was struck by Michaels’ reporting of doctors telling diabetic patients to eat carbohydrates. As a patient at RAH diabetic clinic when first diagnosed, I told them in vain that carbs put my bsl’s up, but was dismissed, even when I pointed out that, duh, carbs are converted to sugar in the body. (This was 21 years ago). Sometimes the inflexibility of accepted medical opinion is scary, as our lives depend on doctors’ advice. The other priceless advice by one GP was a lecture on how there were no diabetics in Auschwitz because everyone was starving, and if I stopped eating, I would be cured. Needless to say I was totally humiliated. I am sure this forum will be a more supportive experience!!

Thanks SunnyB

When I tried to get my LHD down I ate nuts, avocado and olive oil and butter. Doctor couldnt believe it, the only thing he approved of was they nuts

My OH went to an NHS dietician the other day, he has high cholesterol (both good and bad). I was a bit dismayed to see that he was recommended a low fat diet. Now I’ve only been doing the BSD for a week, and he doesn’t really understand it, but it will be interesting to see what happens in 6 months when he goes back.

Hope day 2 went well for you pennyrua. I personally find I need to avoid simple carbs as stringently as I can, as some time later, I will get bad hunger pangs and crave more. If I do eat them, it’s after taking a conscious decision to deviate from the regime and in the knowledge I will need more determination to resist the cravings when they arise.
I found once I was past the first few days, I actually didn’t miss the bread/potatoes/rice/pasta etc. If you can make it past the first week without these food stuffs, you will probably find the same.
Good luck, please keep us posted on your progress.

I only added the truffle oil ‘cos I love it, but you could use olive oil, basil oil, garlic oil – possibilities are endless. Give it a go and enjoy!

Yes seeds are high, but you only need a very little of them, so the impact on your daily intake is pretty low. I quit often have a few grams of Tahini on yogurt or as a salad dressing, as a little goes a long way and it’s tasty too.

Hi Keeptrying, don’t give up! Often getting fixated on that pound or part kilo can get demoralising. Sometimes your body is getting smaller or more toned without the scales telling you it! Have you measured your waist to check if its getting smaller? I bet it is!

A lot of the guys on here know I am a committed NON weigher! I go by how well my clothes fit and if I can get into those forgotten garments in the wardrobe.. which I can! I’m on week 10 now; started on strict 800 cals, relaxed into a more 2:5 version (ie. less worry at weekends) and now generally follow a med diet but with an eye on portion size to make sure I don’t overdo it. And I’m still losing weight and fitting into clothes I thought were consigned to the charity bag! I’m in it for the longhaul and the health benefits 🙂

So chin up, and you will get there 🙂

Ooh yes meant to say earlier, not used any seeds, yet, but sesame seeds are bonkers, have you looked them up, horrendously high. I’m on warfarin so seeds are a bit of an antidote food.
Happy eating. 🍅🍅🍅

Haha that made my day! It’s amazing that people don’t realise that eating properly can work just as well as surgical intervention!! Keep up the good work Jan!

Thank you. I will try that app. Just got a smart phone so can do. Yes in the UK, Suffolk.

hello i see i have not missed much today !!!
get trying that butterfly dress on lucky so you can waft and float like a teeny tiny butterfly !!!!!
yep janey we alls want your bread mrs!!!!
hope the shopping was painless lucky !!!

SunnyB

Have just seen your Italian ‘rice’ which looks really nice apart from the truffle oil which isn’t to my taste. Will give it a go.

Hope you survived shopping expedition?! I found that other pizza recipe! http://powerhungry.com/2016/06/63-mini-deep-dish-chickpea-flour-pizzas/

Hi Caro
If you’re in the UK you can buy ready made cauliflower rice in a packet! Sainsburys do it and I’m sure other supermarkets do too. Easier than grating cauliflower but more expensive !
SunnyB
Which herbs do you use? I guess some spices are better than others if you’re not cooking the cauliflower .

Well I rejoice that you and I have found the BSD , everyone will eventually I’m sure become aware of this, but it’s a sad fact that unfortunately no matter how logical and good something is until it is valued the person won’t take any notice of it. But a year from now with many hundreds of thousands doing this eating plan, and singing the I feel fantastic song, I will radiate through out the western world.
👼👼👼 slimmers halo for you

Hehe
I do a wide swerve with my eyes of things like that now, although can’t say I feel remotely tempted, so strange after 41 years of stuffing all these things down my throat, as my lovely John says 41 yrs od dieting has only made me put on weight, but the funniest thing was on my first day I went shopping for the ingredients for this plan, and when my eyes fell upon a stack of Pringles I physically was aware of my eyes zooming in and out, so I found I don’t touch, sniff, connect in any way with the high carb rubbish.
Sounds like your colleagues are pushing at your boundaries a bit, some people love to sabotage, something that they can see as working.
But it’s all good training for our minds, we have to live our lives outside of our BSD bubble.
Keep up the good work.
Jan🍅🍅🍅

greenjanet – I’m the same now; we have Haribo sweets, biscuits and sometimes cakes on the table at the meetings I attend where I work.

I used to think this was a sign that I was working in a pretty nice place, (which, to be fair it absolutely is), but for the last two weeks, since reading the BSD book and starting the diet, I sit in meetings now and watch people amassing piles of empty sweet wrappers in front of them and wonder how soon it will be before, as a society in general, we wake up and realize what we’re absentmindedly loading into our bodies.

I then immediately feel incredibly hypocritical because up until three weeks ago, I used to do exactly the same.

The last meeting I was in a week ago, without me noticing, someone plonked a box of chocolate digestives next to me. When I spotted them, my instinctive reaction was to jump out of my skin, like I’d seen a wasp, and swiftly pass them down the line, muttering to myself as I did ‘who put those there?’. It must have been quite an extreme reaction as the people on the other side of the table just burst out laughing.

Just a thought this book was published in 2015, so is badly in need of a re edit, but it’s good if we count everything, as it will give us the equipment if we are aware of the value of the food we eat, to live the rest of our lives, I for one will never return to my old eating pattern, of high carbs. I view them as poison now, and I want to know how much of a poison each blighter is. Gives me peace of mind.
I’ve hopped of my box now.🌷🌷🌷 Jan

I have just started the 8 week blood sugar diet with the intention of losing 12.5% of my body weight. My understanding is that this will reduce blood sugar levels to within the normal range provided that circa this weight is maintained. This view seems to be supported by the forward at page 10 of Dr Mosley’s book, para 3 which states ‘They (type 2 diabetes patients) remain free of diabetes provided they keep the weight off.’

If the diet prompts drainage of fat deposits from my liver and pancreas for the purpose of again enabling correct insulin production as suggested by Dr Mosley a significant ingest of sugar such as that of the glucose test conducted by diabetic clinics should therefore result in readings within the normal blood sugar range. Can anyone say if this likely to be the case?

Many thanks in anticipation of an unambiguous reply.

No I have 100g fage its 96 cals and 3.5 carbs, if you are in the uk you could try’ myfitnesspal ‘ app it counts everything and so much more, also logs it all for you. Or you will have an alternative app, but this one is easy to use after a little play around.
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Hi greenjanet thanks for that. I just checked my calorie book and discovered that sunflower seeds are terribly high in both cals and carbs. Can you recommend an alternative please? I will definitely try that one it sounds yummy. Am I eating too much yoghurt ? I think I will stay off the sunflower seeds, pity as I have loads left.
Thanks for help much appreciated mary

I have just made the Spanish chickpea and spinach soup recipe which show 210 calories per portion. Put it into my food calculator and it is 320. I did just say chorizo and not fat drained so maybe that saves a few calories but this is such a big difference. Will have to adjust other meals for the day.

Only lost half a pound this week, but my blood glucose morning measurements are fantastic, all around 100, highest 106, lowest 79. This is the BSD not get slim quick, but you get the best of both. Looking forward to another week and possibly a good loss.

Hi Ziggy
If you want to test, there are reasonably cheap units for sale on Amazon – I bought on for about £12. I only test occasionally, as this wasn’t a particular issue for me, but I wanted to know where I was when I started, so that I could see if there was A) a potential issue on the blood sugar front and B) keep an eye on any changes.
Look forward to hear how you get on.

I’m done. I need to go shopping now. Mehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.