Yes!! Omg we are so onto something here😂😂😂👏🏻

heee heee I love your suggestions😹😝

X=256 calories “bet you’re sorry you ate that now, aren’t you!”
😂😂

My fitness band gives me really cheery ‘Yayyyyyyyy you GO girl’ type hints when I’m doing well, and slightly patronising ones when I’m not. ‘Hmmmmm, your 211 step count today is slightly under your weekly average. Ten mile walk now? You in?’ Or ‘You’ve slept 2 minutes less than is recommended this week. Bed by 4.30 pm tonight? You in?’ It buzzes at 10 every night to tell me to go to bed. What am I, 12?

‘You really shouldn’t have cooked that, let alone eat it. And you know this. Bananas? No no.’

‘You are aware it’s 800 calories a day, and not 8000… right?’

”Congratulations! You have now eaten your body weight in Gram Flour!’

As long as it’s a good old fashioned cozy murder, they’re ok. Less… murderous than other types of murder 😀

I really like these new style psychological thrillers? In the Gone Girl vein, where you really don’t know what the hell is going on until the end, and even then you’re not 100%. Especially if they’re British ones. Disclaimer was one of the last ones I read, that was really creepy and I didn’t see it coming at all. I’ve got so many backed up on my Kindle if I did nothing but read for the rest of my life, I wouldn’t clear them. And I keep getting free ones from Bookbub every day 🙁 Someone stop me 🙁

Haha Epspecially, hey, there’s obviously a gap in the market… just saying… you could make a fortune!! Or maybe the powers that be could devise an app… (if you’re watching PTB…)

Hee heeee my fitness pal, I can’t believe it doesn’t have options for “BSD disaster: one bite, half spat out: 53 calories. Those app designers have no sense of humour, I’d have put in all kinds of stuff to keep the dieters cheered up😂😂

Ha ha ha Tokyo, you’re very restrained though! 😂😂 I wouldn’t have been able to stop myself saying it was 💩😹😹😹

Books and rain and cats, in there too! Love thrillers and murders too – anyone read Tess Gerritsen? Very good. Also Agatha Christie (repeatedly) and brother cadfael stories by Ellis peters, sooo good. Apparently they cozy murders -none of your real life evil books for me, just the odd cozy murder😂Hey Ellis letters books are in 9th century Wales, lucky you and izzy might like as historic interest too 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Back latish so had thrown together dinner: courgetti and tomatoes and slice of blue cheese and prawns, Tokyo your husband would have been proud😝Also had some Greek yoghurt.

it would more than wilt !!!!

Put down the knife and move away from the bread bin! You need some emergency fruit and yoghurt or a few cubes of cheese. We should bring out the wilted kale of disappointment for you..

i have no idea how or what he did to cock it up needless to say i am f😀😀😀😀😀😀 starving !!!!!!
note to self DONT LET HUBBY COOK
hes done one before and it was lovely so didnt think it was a problem !!!
i could eat some nice hit buttered toast if i had bread !!!!

Omg Tokyo! What on earth did he do to it? How do you cock up a frittata ffs, it’s one of the simplest things in the world to cook? Yes, at least he tried lol.

Thanks Janey, now I know 🙂

ROFL, reading between the lines I’m guessing you didn’t like it!!! 😆😆😆😆 At least you’ll be under on calories lol. At least he attempted to cook…

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/as-happy-as-larry.html You’re welcome, Lucky!

wwll i advised anyone reading this post to realised at the end of every sentence as i write i am removing a certain swear word !!!!
the reason for this is , tea planned for tonight . veg frittata. hubby says i will cook it . i get everything out ready for him when he comes in from work . hubby cooks said tea . and the only way i can describe it is
it was f😀😀😀😀😀😀 awful i wanted to chuck it in the bin !! he was going off how well he done . how lovely it was. i on the other hand was thinking really are you b😀😀😀😀😀 serious !! so i had not even a quarter of . and he asked ” dont you like it?”
” no i am just full” i say. so cannot go and make anything else after that !!
so my fitness pal when i fill you in tonight tea will be written in as a great pile of s😀😀😀 wonder how many calories that is
p.s i had a spoon of sugar in my tea after to stop me from wasting away !!!
i thank you !!!!!!!!!!

Ooooh yes please! Hey, some of these might be worth a 21st century BSD resurgence!

I’m with you there (not like in your bed or anything, because that would be a tad awkward). I have a cuddle chair all to myself in the living room, and I just curl up on it with my Kindle. I couldn’t care less if the telly blew up and was never replaced. As long as I have my iPod and a book, I’m as happy as Larry.

Who WAS Larry?

I’ll have to dig out the peanut curry recipe for you. It goes way back (20 years) to when my friend and I used to have Thursday curry nights (vegetarian) and we tried to outdo each other! Think she found the peanut winner. Bean sprout foogath and aubergine bharta were also stupendous. My sister complained my house always reeked of curry, but I liked the aroma!

Still sneezing here on the sofa with a blanket. Book is ‘The City of Mirrors’. Final part of a post apocalyptic trilogy that my sister got me into. Generally I prefer a murder or thriller but these are good stuff. My perfect rainy afternoon would be tucked up in bed with a good book, cuppa and a cat or two for company ☺️

Yep, I’ll take that recipe. Will post when they’re done 🙂

Hahaha yes, it does tend to linger, but if you like your home smelling like a curry house, then it’s fab! People could smell my curries cooking from the end of the street! No, I’ve never had a peanut curry? Sounds intriguing! Pray tell.

Ah, pffffffffft to the kids, it just means all the more for you. Hahahaha love it! Yes dear, of course it’s chicken…

Oh no 🙁 Summer colds are so much worse than winter ones, where they seem almost justifiable. I haven’t had one yet, although, I actually may well have done and not realised through my state of perma-allergy. Go to bed with a cuppa and your book. What are you reading, anything interesting? I’ve just started ‘The Tipping Point’. Been meaning to read it for ages. Hope you’re feeling better soon 🙂

Current Day 12/07/16

Week 1
Day 2

BMI: 29.8
Weight: 18 stone 5 Pound (117 Kg)

Current Day 12/07/16

Week 1
Day 2

BMI: 29.8
Weight: 18 stone 5 Pound (117 Kg)

Hi HoneyBeeMee
Maybe your are drinking too much! Possibly not eating enough !
Try cutting down to 2 litres a day for a couple of days and then go up to 2.5 and gradually build up.
I don’t know what your normal water consumption was but if it was quite low then the extra water, all in one go, may just be making you feel bad.
Beat of luck it will work out.

This is a simple log of my starting conditions (Height, Weight etc) and a daily record of the changes. I will not be listing food intake or recipes as there is plenty of information already on this subject. This will only record the physical changes.

Week 1
Day 1
11/07/16

Starting conditions:
Height 6 Feet 6 inches
BMI 29.9
Weight 18 Stone 6 Pound (117 Kg)

Hi everyone.. The end of day 2 for me – my head feels like it’s going to explode for the last 24hrs.. I feel like I have a dehydrated headache but have drank over 3litres of water each day.. Can anyone recommend any thing or is it just my body adjusting??

Those buns look mighty fine (ooh er). A burger could definitely go in one! Lucky, I’m nominating you to try that recipe first.

I also used to cook up vats of curry gravy. My house used to stink for days afterwards!! But great as a base for curries, most definitely. Nowadays I just wing it with my Indian food. By the way have you ever had a peanut curry? It’s the business!!

Kids just judged my beautiful bread creation as unacceptable altho the OH is still quite happily munching through it. I did get my own back by putting Quorn in their Thai noodles tho. 😈

Seem to have acquired a summer cold as the day has gone on. Am sneezing and sniffling like a good ‘un. Did consider sloping off to bed with my book. I should be beating my grey roots into submission this evening but they’ll have to wait another day before I regain my youthful exterior. Snottering nose probably puts paid to the 20sthg look tonight anyway 😷

The new BUNG HOLE method can save the NHS millions!
I’d like to give a hearty belly laugh but…. hey….can’t find my belly anymore. 😉
Thanks for sharing.
N

Hi SunnyB
I have bought some low fat grated cheese – just 30% lower and it goes a lot further, and I still get some fat. I do use some omega grains and seeds mix in salads.

Today I ate a yoghurt for the first time in 30+ years, but, it was a Danone zero fat blueberry yoghurt – so no fat, but the good news was that I could eat it and found it Ok (ish).

I use a vinaigrette at the moment with mostly vinegar and a little bit of olive oil as a dressingl. I make sugar-free jellies with summer berries and can use 12.5 gm of squirty low fat cream which gives me a bit of fat and is only 30 cal or so..

But, I’m at day 9 and am going OK, thanks to your help and others in the forum. As I say I have low carbed for a good few years and it is now a question of tweaking it to be lower carb and cal. TBH, I was allowing the carbs to creep back a bit in my diet and because I don’t test my blood had no way of knowing how my BG levels were. I was due my HbA1c a fortnight ago but told the nurse I was trying a diet and would that I would take the HbA1c after the diet. She was none too pleased, but at the end of the day it is MY diabetes not hers. Tested my BP too for the first time in years as it was always high when I tested at home and lo and behold it was the lowest it has ever been – 119 over 69.

You didn’t gain too much weight over in Turkey so well done on that, I did post my first weeks loss in the 800 forum. It was 5 lb 11 oz. Do you have diabetes? As it is unclear from your profile info but you do mention ketosticks which made me think you might have it.

Thanks for your reply SunnyB it is very much appreciated and motivational.

Keep on losing in the (not so free) world

Hi Forkers

Insert practical for “lazy.” Remember you are training to maintain this pattern for ever therefore you need to adapt as you go.
I guess if you look at the tin under the carb rating you will see how much sugar lies therein. The palate doesn’t lie so something was going on.

Our taste buds and brain chemicals alter rapidly on this plan, I never had a sweet tooth anyway but now any thing the slightest bit sweet has me wincing, it tends to reduce the amount of that item I enjoy….hey presto.

Congrats on week 5. Times flies, I think I replied to you in the initial days.
N

Hi Epspecially,
Thanks for the pep talk, I needed it. Strangely enough I had made some carrot, courgette and lentil soup and followed by chicken stir fry and courgetti for dinner I have now got the bread goblin under control, you talked me out of it. It also helped that I lost 2 1/2lb this week as well, so was glad I managed to resist. How many weeks is it for you? Week 8 now for me and then I intend to do another 8 weeks. I’m going to try the chickpea and chorizo soup you recommended I can see that would be very satisfying. Let me know how you are getting on.😊

Hi all,
I fear I have got lazy in my 5th week as dinner wise I’m resorting to 100g chicken, 1/3 aubergine, 2 mushrooms and half a 400g tin of tomatoes.(plus spice and a splash of white wine vinegar) IS THAT TOO MUCH?
After iv eaten it, my mouth feels weird like it was full of sugar. Has anyone else experienced this?

Sea dog – my free version has let me set my targets at 800 etc?
Ah well Jan you can only nudge! I know it is time consuming but it is worth tracking for eg I did the fish parcel tonight and had no green beans but had asparagus in fridge so swopped them. The asparagus knocked both calories and carbs off the count! Sometimes just dropping a tomatoe or a few raisins from a recipe can really reduce carbs and calls too and doesn’t affect taste!

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.
🌊🐬🐠

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.