Have you got a link for that Josie? 🙂

i have had the grated courgette base pizza tonight it was really good, mushrooms, feta avocado tiny bit of smoked salmon and some olives

Hi collie,
We are very sad people we tape it live and watch as much as we can during the day, we then tape the highlights in the evening! Watch that too, and go and watch a couple of stages if we can. We went to Sheffield when it was in Yorkshire, luckily our daughter who is now living with us for the moment lived in Sheffield, as does our son, he is married with children so couldn’t come with us, we got to our ‘spot’ at 10.30, Angela asked what do we do now, well she wouldn’t believe that we just sat or stood around for the day waiting, she didn’t realise the entertainment on offer, local people trying the hill we were waiting on, then the junior riders came along, then the caravan, then at last at five o’clock the first rider came through.
She gets it now, why we love it, although she doesn’t sit and watch it like we do, so looking forward to getting to France, I haven’t seen my brother for a couple of years, we couldn’t go last year and the year before of course it was in Yorkshire.
I will let you know how we get on, going Sunday back Friday.
Christine

P.S. Getting my head around full fat isn’t easy but must admit I really do prefer full fat Total ….. almost tastes like cream!! Amazing how we have been so ‘brain washed’ for so many years that it really has become so hard to ’embrace’ full fat. But definitely the way to go!!

Hi emjojo – I am in week 9 and at the beginning struggled with getting fat as for years I avoided it . I started doing all my stir frys with coconut oil and if hungry (normally around 4 pm) having a few nuts or a bit of cheese – hugely satisfying. Always full fat yoghurt, some berries and flaked almonds for breakfast. I normally have salads for lunch and add avo or feta or make sure I have mackerel or salmon.
I hope this helps – I try to have no more than 40g carbs a day.

Hi all

I’m also a July starter. I started on the 1st but only cutting out carbs like rice, bread and potatoes for the first five days. So during the first week I only had 2 ‘proper’ days. I still lost 6lb!!!!! I do have a lot to lose! I have followed the plan for the last 3 days and must admit I’m not hungry or headachy or jittery and actually feel really good. Maybe a few days of cutting out the main carbs helps to ease your body into the full on 800cal low carb plan.

So today is the first day of my second week (or maybe first week!) and just hoping this week goes as well as the last one!

Hope you are all still doing well.

Verano

Rummaging through the boxes. Eeeeeeh I like a good rummage, me.

Heee heee a rush to Aldi begins..

I was wondering what fancy schmancy chocolate you were buying… 😉

Same here Lucky, tho mostly rain. I want heat wave, we had for two weeks back in May…

My 86% chocolate was a typo btw, in case people think I’m very precise 😝😝😝

Good thinking Epspecially. Or a ganache.

We never see any adverse weather where I live, whether it’s bad or good. Have you seen The Simpsons Movie, where a whole dome is put over Springfield? Well, that’s how our island is. Snow? No. Three miles away? Kids off school, sledging. Ours trudging off to school, grumbling. Heat? Summer? No. Just varying degrees of cold. All. Year. Long.

Hmm yes not sure about the icing, think I’d probably just mix done coconut oil with dark 86% chocolate and use that as icing, strawberries would stick to that right?

Hope heat wave makes it to me😂😂

Hubby saw it on Facebook so it must be true. A little investigation (Google) sees the tabloids have run with it, whereas International Business Times has pooh-poohed it as a load of balls. They just stopped short of using the word ‘mediocre’. Average and below average were mentioned, as were rain, and brisk winds. Meh.

That’ll be just after I get into size 10 jeans will it?!

Have you seen that we’re getting a 6 week heatwave…?

I’d (personally) only eat the cheese if it was sweetened (like on a carrot cake). But we can’t. Unless… do they do powdered sweetener? Otherwise yogurt would work. Honey or Vanilla extract.

Oh thank God. I didn’t want to pee on your parade or ruin your enjoyment of the cake, but I didn’t like the look of the ingredients in the frosting. Hmmmm…

Actually, come on team, I need an alternative to the icing/cream. Yoghurt with honey? Soft cheese?

I must wait until Monday for my attachments 😩

Yes Epspecially! Janey, you can grate things with your food processor, it will have an attachment!

Hi Keep trying, I have just sat and read from the start of your posting on this thread, I see a lot of myself in the things you speak about. I have never really thought about what I eat or why, to be honest it was a case of if I liked it I would eat it. I don’t have a very sweet tooth but do love my savoury snacks and takeaways so can relate to the feelings of not wanting to eat something but needing to have it.
Up to quite recently I have just kept going and have ended up wearing a size 24 and suffering with my knees so finding this way of eating was a blessing. Reading your struggles has made me think about the issues of self sabotage and although I’m not there yet I am sure I can do it, not sure if you realise it but it’s not the people who come on here and tell us about losing 6 or 7lb in week who are the inspiration but the people like you who despite your own best attempts at putting obstacles in your own way you have moved them aside and have had a huge success, it doesn’t matter how long it takes to get there the important thing is that you will get there.

I hope you will keep adding your thoughts on here and maybe one day we can both say, yes it’s been a struggle but I am now where I want to be!

That looks amazing too, any you’d never think it was a cake tailored to a specific diet, would you?

And then they give me a cake recipe! 😳💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽 Damn that looks good

Hee hee Janey wouldn’t bother grating, just stick in blender/mixer thing. Or noodles would be even better!

Yum those fish parcels sound great. Tell the husband he can have that or pizza😜😜

Pizza is a funny one, it always smells delicious but never tastes as good as it smells and always makes me feel sick afterwards so ditching it has been easy. I guess I more of a sweet lover

Hi keep trying
I find that most people say can’t stick to that, what is odd I can and am enjoying it with the occasional wobble. I have now decided that the negativity of my colleagues and friends will not affect me and I just don’t discuss it unless they bring it up, I am trying to show them by example, now the weight loss is more apparent they are asking questions .when they say oh can’t do 800 or can’t manage without bread etc I just smile and say nothing because I do not want to persuade them, they have to find out for themselves as I was once that negative person until something snapped in my head and I thought I could do this.But some have started and it is fun discussing menus.
In my head I want to be zealous and shout about it but discretion is the better part of valour.
Well done keep going I find the forum very supportive , by the way I am the queen of emotional eating and find that side of me has defo reduced over the past few weeks .🙋🏻

http://freshplanetflavor.com/easy-chocolate-strawberry-cake/

THIS. for dessert tomorrow at the BBQ.

I know. It’s a cross I have to bear though, because I’m simply having too much fun!

GENIUS. You’re wasted on here..

Not courgetti, but you know what I mean. I posted this once and it wouldn’t let me.

Buy butternut squash courgetti. Snip into tiny pieces. You’re welcome.

That loaf looks good.. Although grating squash?? Really??? I’d better do that before I have my nails done tomoz!!

I feel I should bake something now…

Hi, started the 800 cal diet on Monday. My sig gives all my information, apart from the fact that I am on Ramipril tablets for high blood pressure. I did tell my practice nurse I was starting the diet and should I come off my BP meds and she said ‘Sure, why would you come off them?’ I reckon if I start getting dizzy I may stop them, as during my last diabetes MOT she said your BP is fine, you should ask the Dr to take you off the meds, I did ask the doc and she said ‘Sure, why would you want to do that’ – yes, singing off the same hymn sheet.

So, hi to all the other losers here. Many of you vgetarian? I’m making up my own diet as I don’t like most of the recipes in the book.

Will do a bit of reading now.

Janey, how about you try out your new pan with that??? (And send me some next day delivery)

So envious of you going to see Tour de France , even my dogs react to the music now!!! 🐾🐾

Oh Epspecially, how good does that look?

Thank you! I will persevere. Just got a little worried as I didn’t think it would go up. Will see what happens next week.
My first test was in the afternoon of the 3rd day as the monitor didn’t arrive until then ! my second was first thing in the morning on the 5th day – I thought this would be better, but as I write this I realise I perhaps need to give it more time . Patience is not my strong point!
Thank you for taking the time to reply , it means s lot.

Awwww lol – I’m not always this good, you know! I’m a bit of a pastry fiend myself, so there was a slight selfishness in my actions 😉 Salmon sounds nice though, I haven’t had salmon for years, the hubby isn’t keen but he will eat it at a push. Used to do it in soy, ginger, garlic, chilli flakes, lime juice and spring onion, in little parcels in the oven. I’m not eating enough fish, I know that. I really need to get my act together in the next couple of weeks. The children will be finished at school and I will be tearing my hair out and eyeing up pizza.

Oh! I had my favourite pizza in the freezer. And to be honest, I’d planned on ‘treating myself’ with it, probably after my first week’s weigh in, but after losing a stone in the first week, I couldn’t bring myself to do it. It’d keep for another week, I decided. And another. And another… It’s been calling me on occasion, bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, crisps… not bothered. But this bloody pizza! So, tonight, I cooked it for my son who is home from Uni. It’s gone now 🙂 So I know I can’t lose the plot and go and cook it if I’m having a bad day 😀 I nearly cried cutting it up though, I won’t lie.

*Toddles off to hunt down the chickpea flour pizza base…*

https://www.thehealthychef.com/2014/06/paleo-pumpkin-bread-2/

Thinking of making this though using butternut squash and no honey. Know it’s not under the ground veg but mightn’t be too bad for just a slice, will have to check

Good luck with the bbq Janey, loads of yum stuff to eat from there, wonder could you bring some mushrooms and peppers on sticks with pork or something delicious on them too? Though if someone else’s bbq that mightn’t be possible-enjoy it anyway!

Lucky pie sounds delicious – wish I was a husband whose wife made me tasty and healthy meals!!😹 Just had baked salmon and threw in fennel which I found at back of fridge and some spring onion, and lime juice and it was actually pretty nice! Forgot how nice salmon is baked. Definitely full now tho as usual still dreaming of chocolate😜 Will have done herbal tea…

Hi Switzerland,

Hahaha, I really don’t know what I would wear, we are limited in what we can pack too! I could say I would wear a white, red, yellow or spotted hat, but that would be no use would it, a couple of years ago we were at the finish in Montpellier when a woman near us kept a red umbrella up to keep the sun off her! We had to,ask her to put it down as no one could see anything, I could do that but don’t think I could get away with it? She was English too! Although I could see her point, we were there from about 10am and the riders didn’t come through til 5pm! All the French were there nothing on their heads arms or legs! We, my brother, husband and me were covered up and coated in sun cream! We didn’t get away until after 6pm so it was a long day but we loved it.
I could do a big banner with BSD written on it and hold that up? Not sure what the two David’s would say! ( brother and husband).
What has happened to Cadel Evans? We always rooted for him before Wiggins and Cav came on the scene?
Christine

Hi MikeC,
Ah you live in Australia, sorry didn’t realise, of course.
I love olive oil, I used to use coconut oil, however my daughter, who is living with us while she retraines from a job she hated to something she loves, a no brainier really, well she doesn’t like the flavour, she says it taints all the food!
I use butter when I do omelettes, mmm they are lovely too.
I don’t drink really, the occasional glass of wine with dinner on a Sunday, sometimes when we are out for a meal too, otherwise I drink tea, instant! coffee, and water, my family despair of me being so ordinary!
I have been doing the diet for 22weeks, I have lost 33lbs I have had a lot of problems with ill health, and a few holidays and celebrations that got in the way for a couple of months, then we go to France on Sunday to stay with my brother, we will be going to see the Tour de France for a couple of days with him, so there will be problems eating well there!
We look after three of our grandchildren here, then we go to Sheffield for three days to look after two there, we come back for the weekend then head off to Scotland to look after four there! well three really the eldest is nearly 19! so we are kept busy and I’m kept on my toes trying to make the diet fit in with all the comings and goings!
Here’s hoping you do a lot better than me, with your doing the diet with your other half. Good luck and keep posting.
Christine

You are not alone in getting that reaction for others, when explaining what the BSD is about. However, when your results become obvious to all, those friends will be back wanting to know how they can achieve the same. Meanwhile, you know you can get support from those of us on the forum.

I don’t personally know how it feels to be trapped in a binge cycle, but emotional eating and I are not strangers, so understand self sabotage is hard to control, but if you can recognise the triggers, perhaps you can start to find ways of taking evasive action. Have you sought any professional support in your mission to combat your bingeing? It might be the best way to break the cycle.

Have a good w/e and try to start believing you have the power to do this, ‘cos I’m sure you can.

Make sure you are including enough fibre in your meals too. If you are in doubt, take some Psyllium Husk to be sure, but again, make sure you are dinking plenty, as this will make a difference.

I’ll have a root tomorrow then 🙂

Ooooooooooh are you baking something tonight?

Pie meal was a bit of a revelation… it was only a small piece of pie, some mashed cauli, some steam veg and some mushy peas. I tucked into my veg first (habit, because I love veg) and… I left about a quarter of a piece of pie and a load of veg. Not because it wasn’t nice, but because I was done. Hubby ate his pie and peas and left most of the other veg. Both stuffed. I need to stop filling our plates like how we used to eat, because even though we’ d had very little to eat all day, and in the past we’d be starving and clear it, we just didn’t want it now, I couldn’t think about eating another mouthful. My stomach must be the size of a chickpea or something 😉

Not a medic but used to be a nurse. I very much doubt a diet can CAUSE haemorrhoids. Have you suffered with constipation during the diet and this can push them down or make them bleed. Drink plenty of water.

Tops are quicker to start fitting!

My loaf tin has arrived….

Fourth week in and suffering really bad from haemorrhoids, is this down to the diet and if yes has anyone suffered the same and what did you do to combat this I am in so much pain and discomfort and been to the doctors twice, please help if you went through the same.

Looking forward to your comments if you have experienced the same side affects whilst on BSD

I’ve not even thought about my tops yet!

I know Tokyo, who’d have thought indeed. Pastry on the BSD! Thank you 🙂

I’ve got many, many more Cinderella moments to come, in many different sizes too 🙂

janey- what about some chickpea flour cake sure theres a recipe out in the chickpea recipe universe or a cheese cake of some description i am sure i have seen a key lime pie in the recipes on here
lucky – you have done so well and kept us smiling too !!
a pie for tea who would have thought it !!! and hurrah on clothes we have all had our cinderella moment this week !!