Hey Stewart that’s an incredible achievement you’ve lost so much already! I don’t think ‘only’ losing 4lb is a big deal though that’s still a great loss, it’s not really realistic (in my opinion) to expect more than that.

I do think apples for breakfast and lunch possibly are not the best idea, 1 apple comes in at almost 20g of carbs and if you’re having 3 that’s 60g of carbs without counting whatever else you may eat. In addition you are not getting the input of protein and fat that is recommended.

In the book he says fruit should be adding taste and not the main event. I’d say maybe to switch to some berries and nuts for breakfast, have something better for lunch – if you like to keep it small maybe some boiled eggs, or I sometimes just have some cheese and cherry tomatoes.

However you’ve lost an incredible amount of weight by doing it your way – and it hasn’t stopped working. You may choose to just carry on 🙂

hi everyone. I buy almond flour 4kg at once now along with piles of nuts as we all eat them. My husband tries to gain as I try to lose lol. This is the cheapest website I’ve found – it still isn’t cheap but it’s half the price of amazon and I really love some of the recipes I use it for. i justify the cost by remembering that I don’t buy juice/crisps/chocolate/general crap anymore, and this is healthful for the whole family as they all eat my stuff.

http://www.realfoodstore.co.uk/gluten-free-flours/

I like the look of the nutty bread recipe! I might give it a try, but not tonight.

Tonight I tried butterbean mash! It was nice but have to keep your portion quite small however really filling in fairness you don’t need much. I just cooked em, mashed em up with a little cheese, added salt and pepper – yum Some recipes online add cream but I liked my mashed potato plain so I’m guessing I’d not like that. More calories as well.

Well done Josie, that’s a fab amount yourself! And at least you had a loss this week, three quarters of a pound more than I had!!! Always better off than on, no matter how small an amount it is. I’m determined now for this coming week, I’m going to wear that treadmill out 🙂 The diet isn’t enough, I need to show up with the exercise too.

Hey there welcome 🙂 I’d say why wait? Start sooner and you won’t look back!

I’m not a vegetarian but we do have a few here that will be happy to help, in the meantime I have an almond milk shake almost every morning for breakfast which is suitable for you, I use almond milk because it is lower calorie and I prefer the taste. I put 1/2 cup of fruit in the blender (raspberries or strawberries or blueberries usually, or a mix) a dollop of full fat greek yoghurt, 1.5 cups of almond milk, 1 tsp vanilla extract, blitz it, drink it… sometimes I leave out the yoghurt, sometimes I add ice. It has become my morning thing. If I really want a treat I add 1/4 of a banana. I know how to live ya know.

Eggs are very versatile I love having a couple boiled and mashed up with salt and pepper just as it is, but often make a big fritatta type thing with eggs and courgette, onion, pepper and cheese. I add bacon but you can leave that out.

Instead of rice, many of us enjoy cauliflower rice – it’s not quite like eating rice but it is ok if you’re having it with something saucy, courgetti is lovely as a pasta alternative – I like mine fried up a little in olive oil with garlic and chilli.

Tonight with my dinner I tried butterbean mash – suggested by someone here in the recipes. I just cooked them and mashed them with a bit of cheese and salt and pepper – it was the closest thing to potato mash I’ve come across and I will definitely have it again.

so week 5 for me also and have lost 15 1/2 its but only 3/4 this week. Having a roast tonight with many vegetables no potatoes.

And so it goes on. well done on 25lbs thats truly amazing

I thought it might help to share some of the things I have been eating

Stir fry veg (bean sprouts, courgette, onion, red pepper, mushroom, broccoli) finished with yogurt and mustard to make a sauce
Mushrooms fried and then finished with yogurt and chilli
Pardon peppers, fried in olive oil
Baked Beans – 1 can of organic beans is 400 cals and good if I want something simple
Hard boiled egg when I need a snack, very filling and now Pret a manger etc sell them as snack its easy to get
Hummus with chopped low starch veg
An apple
Raspberries
Yogurt

There are so many lovely things to have, I often have the fruit and nuts at Costa 200 calories for a 40g bag, but that is fine for lunch.

Do ask if you need any help…

D

A lot cheaper too, I’m sure! Hey, have you just had one of those paleo newsletters?

http://paleogrubs.com/seed-and-nut-sandwich-bread

Oh. My. God. I might revise my ‘no baking week’ decision… I bet THAT would be lovely toasted with peanut butter on.

It is not about the fat content, it is about protein.

The thing I like about this diet is that it can be very healthy living, and low fat.

So I am doing low fat, low carb, high protein.

However I do avoid any foods labelled low fat as they tend to have carbs added to replace the fat.

So I have full fat yoghurt, but that is cause of the carbs in low fat.

Hope this helps.

Thank you Lolli, it is a wonderful diet, and as long as you steer clear of carbs you do not get hungry!

I hope you achieve you goals…

Kind regards

Doug

Alanhypno just get back on mate. The important thing is to hang in there and not give up. Its all a learning curve and shows you what happens when you slip up. Its an incentive to stay on plan. You are doing great and this is just a hiccup. Besides its nice to indulge once in a while, just not too often!

Seems to be ok! Thumbs up from the rugrats on the cookies. The flour isn’t as fine as purchased stuff tho. Worth remembering for desperate moments however!

It’s nice here now too, eventually… still wet though.

Thanks Eps 🙂 I’ll do my top up walk after my tea 🙂 Burger salad, luvverly.

Has it worked Janey???

So… About to have a massive tantrum at the fact that nowhere in this forsaken backwater actually sells almond flour when I stumble across a website that’s says it’s cheaper ‘and easy’ to make it yourself! 3 bags of blanched almonds from Aldi later and I’m ready to give it a go, under the strict caution not to overdo it otherwise almond butter will ensue. Hmmm, I think I may consign that to the ‘life’s too short’ file. It sort of works, but is an awful lot of faff! We shall see how the resulting cookies turn out….🤔

I have eaten one yoghurt in 30+ years and that was this week – a no fat blueberry yoghurt.

I did the 5-2 diet last year and lost a stone on it. I am looking to reverse my diabetes this time though!

Thanks for the info Middleage1 – I will follow your progress with interest and be silently cheering you on!

Wahooooo yay great walking Lucky, not far to go to target😂😂😂

Nearly there myself and it’s gorgeous and sunny here so will be out again later👏👏👏

Hi everyone – thanks😃

Jan – started at 16 stone (224 pounds). Week 1 lost 10 pounds. Week 2 lost 3 pounds. Week 3 lost 1 pound. Week 4 lost 1 pound. So in first 4 weeks lost 15 pounds. Week 5 lost 6 pounds, week 6 lost 2 pounds. Week 7 lost 2 pounds. Week 8 lost 2 pounds. Total in first 8 weeks was 27 pounds lost. Glad I’ve kept all my notebooks 😃

Next 8 week lost 18 pounds. Next 7 week lost 15 pounds. In last 7 weeks (to date) lost 16 pounds. Making total of 76 pounds!

Christine – glad you enjoyed your holiday 😃 Great that you lost a pound!💐

Hi..it seems there are lots of comments about the differences between the book(which is how i started) and MFP. Ive done about ten days now and it wasnt really until i embraced MFP properly that I had a handle on it all. The app is excellent and seems to have so many listed foods, eg if you type in the pea and spinach omlette into MFP it even offers you the BSD recipie to select. Its all a bit time consuming, but I have found it better that the BSD book in terms of actual carbs/calories. So on that note I would say the way I do it is to get my food idea from the book then check it with MFP and ammend quantities as i need to , again for an e.g I only had one egg in stead of two.( hope this makes sense)
Also very useful is the Diet Dr website, its a bit american but its a great visual aid and has recipies…good luck and BTW the cheesy beans are fabulous.

Hello everyone,
I am going to start this on 2.8.2016. There, I’ve said it and I need to plan.
I am a vegetarian ( I will eat a bit of fish if I have to but happy to eat eggs and cheese)
I have struggled to loose weight being a veggie and whilst I eat healthily, I am over-weight and about to turn 50 🙁
So if anyone can give me an veggie tips, I would be very grateful.

Now I have a question about total carb allowance during the day…is there one?
I am very happy to prepare food, try new things but if I know I am working with 800 cals, it would be useful if I have a carb allowance to work to as well.

Many thanks in advance x

Dear Stewart,
yours is the first post I read 🙂
I just wanted to say well done!

I adored Portmeirion, it’s like a grown up fairyland! My boy was only tiny at the time but he loved the mock ship down at the beach.

Executive decision made, I’m not going roller skating, the weather is too warm. I’m having 2 hours in the garden with a bit of peace and a book while those lot sweat it out in the leisure centre on wheels!

May pop a batch of the Paleo choc chip cookies while they’re away..

Hi Lucia today I am making a fish stew for friends, no sticky carbohydrate laden dessert though as I am serving cheeses. Tomorrow I am helping at a charity dog show / fête for our local hospital. Enjoy your weekend everybody.

Hi all,

After dinner here, on a rainy Saturday winter’s night, so we’re staying in Well, we would have anyway as OH is still in recovery mode, though doing well.

Gym for me this morning. About an hour on Pilates equipment, then a bit extra on light weights ( bung shoulder) and cardio. As it was too wet for any tidying up in the garden this afternoon (my story, and sticking to it!) so did some much needed bookwork, now aching back from too much computer time. Would much rather it had been back aching from too much gardening. Just about to run a warm bath, oh that sounds good…

Dinner tonight = Chicken breast rubbed with EVOO, seasoned with fresh tarragon, little bit of Murray River pink salt, pepper, along with potatoes, carrots all in oven, and steamed broccoli and green beans. Yes, yes, potatoes, I hear you but I haven’t had any for a week and the entire meal came to 271cals & 24.3g carbs. Much, much less than I would normally have had, and Oh, I did enjoy it.

Lucia, I’ve been reading your blog for a while and admired your “just do it” attitude, along with all the other contributors to this and other forum streams. I’m hoping for you that this plateau you’ve landed on will very soon start to be a downhill slope again. Not a slippery one, mind you, but one that you will once again be gracefully negotiating.

Good wishes to everyone from on-the-wagon–off-the-wagon–back on again Marsie.

Well I have made lentil soup but haven’t eaten it as I got distracted with the idea of pasta! which worked pretty well!

https://glutenfreegirl.com/2011/07/gluten-free-fresh-pasta/

I used chickpea flour, and a tbsp of milled flax as I didn’t have psyllium husks. It was yummy but higher in carbs than I like to spend on lunch (I’ve detailed it in another thread)

The soup will be frozen for lunches, and I need to motivate myself to get cleaned up and tidied! I’m happy to spend ages cooking not so happy to clear up!

In other news I’m wearing a pair of jeans that didn’t fit a month ago 🙂

well I decided to just jump in…

I used this recipe https://glutenfreegirl.com/2011/07/gluten-free-fresh-pasta/

I just used gram flour, partly because I don’t like it in baking so I wanted to use it up. I also didn’t have psyllium husks, so I added a tbsp of milled flax.

It actually turned out pretty well and I would eat it again, however once I typed it all into my fitbit- I’d eaten 1/4 of the recipe and the pasta alone was 24.7g carbs, not counting the veg and tomato that I served it in. I can’t afford that amount of carbs regularly but as a one off I’m sure it is ok.

Interestingly substituting almond flour for the same quantity is lower calorie and very low carb, so next time I want a pasta fix I’m going to try that instead. I hope it works as well because this lunch was nice!

When you compare my serving of gram flour pasta to a serving of normal pasta it still compares well, Fitbit says the following…

pasta twists/serving – 266 calories, 54g carbs
my portion of gram pasta -165 calories, 24.7g carbs
if the almond flour works it would be – 134 calories and 1.7g carbs.

Did you like Portmeirion? I love it there. I only live 30 miles or so from there.

I absolutely adore Justin Fletcher, I think he’s a comic genius and he is WASTED on children. Wasted. My favourite character he does is Dina Lady. Some of the looks he gives cracked me up.

Mind you don’t bump your noggin again. Didn’t knock any sense into you last time, now, did it? 😉

I hope she’s out shopping or something. Avoiding cake and will join us for a pot of hurrah late afternoon.

OK, so I started the 8 week diet on the 26th April and so far have shed 65lbs (that is 130 bars of lard!) and dropped 8 incase in jean waist size.

I am aiming to loose another 70lbs but notice I have slowed down, and this week only lost 4lbs.

So the big question, what do you do to keep loosing?

I think a mistake I have made is apples, as I have lost a lot of my interest in food, (I used to be obsessed by it) so I ten tot have an apple of two for lunch and maybe one for breakfast (all within the 800 calories) but maybe they are too carb rich (they do not make me hungry)

So people over eight weeks, what is your average weekly loss, and how are you keeping the weight dropping off.

Doug

I am giggling here, I have inspired hubby to go on for a little walk himself. He has his headphones in and he’s having a … erm … marginally LESS angsty sing along than mine was? The Wanted. Three tracks so far. Bahahahahahaha! I kid you not.

JLS now!

In my experience it rains in Wales 98.88% of the time!! Although it was sunny the day I went to Portmeirion. Justin Fletcher was trying to film some ‘Captain Adorable’ scenes and my sister and I shouted abuse at him as we didn’t know who he was or why he was dressed like a nutter! Well done on the walking so far today. It’s the roller disco later altho TBH I could happily spend the afternoon engrossed in a book too.

Where IS Tokyo?? She hasn’t been seen since vowing to end the day at 16.30 yesterday 😕

I bet it is Izzy! Haha! I do things like that though, if I need to stuff a tiny knitted toy or tree decoration I have in the past washed an old pillow and used the stuffing rather than wait until I get to the market or craft shop lol 🙂 I’m kind of impatient like that.

Well, I did exactly an hour on the treadmill. Burned over 300 calories. 6313 steps today according to band, so not much to go, might have a ‘top up’ walk a little later but for now I am chillin’ with my homies and I am going to reeeeeeeeeeeead all afternoon! It was a dual purpose walk too, I got the angsty tunes on and I had a good sing along at the top of my voice. Killers, Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco. Let a lot of the ‘lady rage’ out of my system! 😀 I think even my teeth were sweating! All good!

Brunch? In the garden? Is it only raining constantly in Wales or something? It’s very, very close though. Still waiting for my celery soup to defrost a bit.

I think Tokyo should make the cake. Where are you anyway, Tokyo? I think she needs a kitchen cake win more than any of us. She could take it into work with her and share it with colleagues so she doesn’t eat it all, and it might stop them offering her stuff she can’t eat. I am giving concoctions a miss this week now, I am sticking to the plan devoutly and the only thing I am cooking is the occasional chickpea wrap. All the reviews looked promising though Janey. I will definitely make it.

Hi Lynne,
Well done again! I can only imagine what that weight would look like with me!
I have had a great week in France with my brother, and I came home and had lost a pound! So you can imagine I am very pleased, my sister in law couldn’t grasp the theory no carbs, she thought I could have anything other than potatoes and sliced bread, so I got pasta one night, breadcrumbs on salmon another, of course I just ate what was in front on me!
Christine

Here I am! What a lovely lazy morning (no bloody stepdaughter getting us up at 7.30). We’ve just had brunch in the garden – smoked salmon, rocket, poached eggs 😋 OH had toast with him, I toasted the final fart bread which worked in principle but really doesn’t go with salmon. It’s relegated to the side of the plate…

Ignore the lady inches like you ignored the lady pound Lucky. And tell your hubby to come out from behind the sofa! Poor man is running scared.

Please can someone make the Nigella olive oil cake and let me know if it’s any good? Reckon it will be as she knows her way around a cake. I would cut down sugar (in whatever form) though as she does go overboard on it. Have done this on a previous recipe of hers. Anyway if it’s any good after one of you has tested it I will take one (not your one obviously) down to the Isle of Wight for my birthday next weekend 🎉☺️

Hi
It’s 11.30 where I am so I am working in my shop, tomorrow, loads of gardening to get under control again, oh and a crack of dawn wander around our local frightfully posh bootfair, where all the stall holders speak as if they still have their silver spoon still stuck in their mouth, it’s a hoot, some of them are so posh they say the funniest things.
I would like to add I am not posh I am normal, hehe well I would be now Jans been beamed up and this nice alien who has will power ,motivation, etc, etc is now in her place.
Enjoy whatever you are doing, smile because we have found this forum and healthy eating. Yeaaahhhh
👽👽👽🍓👽👽👽

Hi
Don’t worry the wagon is waiting for you to just hop straight back on, you know you will love it when the weight starts melting away again. Go for it get excited about what you can eat, and eat it, and loose weight. Win win.
Go for it jan

Walked around a local lake with my daughter this morning. Accomplished a lot of work in the garden this afternoon.
What’s everyone else up to?

You will get your 8000 🙂

Thankyou for your comment, and the living room bean bag was one of those xxl ones but it’s a very sad looking just now lol. I’ll get a pack of filling for it though soon.

Bookmarked this time! 🙂

When you said bean bag, I don’t know why but I thought you meant like a little one, idiot I am. I have to ask now – how big is your living room bean bag??? To have scavenged that many beans out of it? Or is it now just… well… a bag? Lol. The picture of the dragonfly on the dreamcatcher is beautiful too 🙂

Right – the treadmill and my iPod beckon… make a start towards my 8000 step target! See you all later 🙂

Has anyone tried to make their own low carb pasta? I know you can buy chick pea pasta but I was wondering if I could make my own.

What are my chances of success?

http://dragonflydreamseeker.blogspot.co.uk/ there you go 🙂

I haven’t pictured the troublesome phoenix yet tho

Righto, 8000 steps it is Eps! I accept your challenge! I will post a picture of my UP thingy after. Somehow. I’ve just cleaned out BOTH my ‘full’ freezers! Shall we just say hubby has kept shopping last three times and after a little careful reorganisation, I now have a full freezer and a chest freezer with about seven things in it 😉 Found a lovely big freezer tub full of celery soup (nom) so that will do a light lunch for us. Burger salad for tea, for the simplicity of it so I’m not faffing in the kitchen, and at a push, hubby would be able to make it. Always thinking, see? 😉

Point me in the direction of your blog again, Izzy, I thought I’d bookmarked it but can’t find it 🙁

Fell off wagon last week
Couldn’t believe how pounds returned
Wow
Too embarrassed say how much on
Alanhypno

My day so far:- a Baby Bel, a hard boiled egg, a tomato and some bluberries for breakfast. Tried on swimsuits passed down to me by youngest daughter. Giving back the size 14 and keeping the size 12. I have never bought a size 12. I am also giving her my two last years size 18 suits. Today I weigh 11st 7lb. At Christmas I was 13st 5lb. Onwards and downwards with a smile on my face and a skip in my step. Enjoy your day.

amazing job Lynne 🙂 getting so close to the finishing line!

it’s been mentioned a lot that the calorie counts are not accurate, most of us make up our own menu’s and count it up before cooking so we know what we are having. There are some great recipes in the recipe section here as well as many other sites online.

Good luck to you both and don’t worry about your current weight. Stick to the BSD principles and it’s the last time you will see that number.

lol don’t kill him, he is trying to be supportive! those inches will be gone soon too. Don’t overthink it, our bodies will always fluctuate.

Yes I was creating 🙂 my replacement sewing machine pedal arrived so in order to test it (it’s old and not been used in years) I ran up a beanbag! just made it up as I went along using an old shirt and a pashmina type scarf, scavenging the beans from the living room beanbag lol so now I need more. I put it on my blog 🙂 Then I was trying to paint a phoenix on a coaster for my mother in law that she asked for. I got most of it ok but one damned wing caused so much trouble it got painted out and I went to bed. It’s still sat up in my loft with it’s one wing waiting for me to try again to paint the other lol.

Totally true though, like the extra water weight has to go somewhere smd most likely to go in fat cells as gets stored there, I think😂 Delightful eh! But I wouldn’t worry, it’ll all go, it’s just storage just in case of something I don’t know what. Dandelion tea is meant to be good for it, or fennel? Denny lovely, dandelion is.. An acquired taste😝

Ok, 8000 steps today – totally doable but will have great effect. Go team 👏😹👏😹😹😹😹😹😹

Hi sunshine-girl

We are regular visitors to France and I particularly love the Cote d’Azur (sad events in Nice withstanding) and had a great time in Menton and Villefranche in the last 12 months. However, we are not French residents although there are probably more than you think.
We have friends who lived near Casteljaloux around which there lived a number of Brits.
Bon-chance

Hi All, today is the day I start the BSD800 in earnest. I’ve spent the last 2 weeks using up whatever is left in the cupboards, tried some of the recipes in the book, cut out rice/pasta/spuds etc and was feeling good because my clothes have already been feeling loser.

Hopped on the scales for my first weigh in this morning and was horrified to find I’m 1 stone heavier than I thought I was 🙁

Never mind, I’ll just have to deal with it.

Me and hubby were planning on following the 4 week menu suggestion in the book. I logged into MFP to enter the first few recipes only to find the cals don’t match up – by quite a lot. I’ve tweaked the quantities to keep the cals around 800 but was wondering how others have approached this issue. So far I have enjoyed the recipes I’ve followed without worrying about the cals but don’t want to waste the next 8 weeks effort by exceeding on a daily basis.

Anyway, as it’s the weekend we are doing brunch and dinner. I can’t’ wait to have a go at my cheesy baked beans on mushrooms!

Good luck to everyone here on the forums 🙂

Ooh Captain Lynne
What a amazing role model you are for us all, I have lost 20 of the little lighters, and have 86 more to go, hoping to get there by my birthday at Christmas. To give myself an amazing gift of life back.
Your average weight loss is very good may I ask how much did you loose in the first four weeks.
Hope your weekend is great
Regards
Jan

I do my Fast days on my busy work days, Monday and Thursday. I don’t eat after 6pm the night before and then have breakfast when I get to work around 9am. So 15 hours fast to start. My lunch varies but usually chicken /egg salad and evening meal is usually fish and veg. Then leave my breakfast as late as possible on the following morning. And lots of water – I’ve found I can keep going as long as I’ve had plenty of water. Hope that helps.