I think you should try the cookies again Tokyo and just adapt and amend. No salt, less sugar, less chocolate 🙂

my query is who is going to get the 1000 post !!!!

Yep Timmy, spot on. Loaf tin is out and everything, lined, pumpkin seeds, butternut squash and pfffffffffft.

oh i see !! mind you since the cookie fiasco i have not dare look at my mixer again its janey baking queen !!! i think she should go up for great british low carb bake off!!!!!

Oh thank goodness, we’re only about a day or so behind, then 😉 hahahaha.

Oh, you name it Tokyo, I’m procrastinating about it today. Housework. Cooking any of these lovely new recipes. Just… pffffffffffffft. Children finish school on Tuesday… that means 6 – 7 weeks of mess and zero point in me cleaning… so I need to give the house a Summer ‘spring clean’ before that happens. Can I be bothered? Can I hell.

It’s PMT time!

Bacon Lettuce Avocado and Tomato salad tonight, with some rather nice looking roasted garlic mayo I picked up in Marks this morning. It’s my cousin’s anniversary and her two little ones have been ill all week, so I picked them up a meal deal with wine, a victoria sponge and some Reese’s Pieces and a large Toblerone. Didn’t bat an eyelid but the smell in that place – evil. Pure evil. Smelled like croissant. Timmy, can you make me a croissant candle?

Getting her bake on I think.

no need to fear lucky i have investigated and we are way behind longest post 36 pages and 1,750 or near enough !!!
procrastination about what pray tell ?

Thanks Sophors, I do take some vits, but maybe need to have a multivit instead so I get everything, Any recommendations? As to the Omega – 3, I eat salmon at minimum twice a week( its my favorite), would I still need to supplement? I also take Starflower oil. I also take some coconut oil on a spoon everyday, so on Bill’s advice, on the days I need to up my calories to the 800, I think I will just have another spoonful, instead of trying to struggle something down.

Thanks for the congrats. Going through my wardrobe last night……….found some things that I was waiting to wear……….tried them on and its too late…….too big now! I should have tried them on earlier, never mind, its worth the good feeling that it gave me:):) Going shopping tomorrow, have to get a few things to tide me over

I probably drink a similar amount. Mind you, I didn’t used to. It’s working wonders.

What is the longest thread here? Do they go over 1000 comments? I’m a bit worried now.

Oooooh a proper toastie. I think it could work, I used to use ‘crap’ thin bread in mine when dieting (Nimble, WW) and loved ham toasties with brown sauce. It could well work. You’re all doing so much better than me. I am currently wearing the Shameful Veil of Procrastination.

Yes we pride ourselves on confusing anyone who dares read this. And because I am competitive I want our thread to be the longest one on BSD!!

Now, I’m thinking that maybe my fart breads could be made into a toastie. Two slabs, goats cheese and tomato in the middle then slammed into the breville. I’m working from home tomorrow. I’m going to try that 👍🏼

Hi greenjanet

To change the calorie count on myfitnesspal…. go to the start page and the 2nd line down is in black and has ‘Goals’ on it (2nd title in).
Click on that and you get to a page that has a box saying ‘Daily Nutrition Goals’. You can edit your calorie count and carbs there.
Don’t know why but it took me ages to find that!!
Hope it helps 🙂

I have a 1 litre jug in the fridge and usually drink 2 of those a day. I also have a mug of green tea, plus a glass of lemon juice and water at breakfast. After lunch I have a mug of black coffee. I probably drink near to 3 litre daily. Mind you, I need to as I live in a hot part of the world so it is a good habit to have.

Oh my God, 900 posts? This isn’t like Mumsnet where they can it after 1000 is it? :-O

Cat Psych 101 Tokyo, keep up, Jesus… 😉

if i was a visitor from another planet and read this thread that started 901 posts ago i would think what the f😀😀😀!!
on second thoughts i am thinking what the f😀😀😀 !!
have i missed something with cats ??
it is the most random thread in the land od BSD !!!!

Nice! You’ve got the same movie taste as me 😉

Yayyyyyyy I finally get a saying of the day! Nobody say anything witty now until midnight. Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Ace Ventura!

hee heeeee :-))))

Now THAT is saying of the day – Always eat your tuna armed with a laser pointer.

That’s my mantra. I may even have it tattooed on me. Under the pashmina of determination obviously.

You snooze you lose. Or to give another film quote ….. Lahoo saherr.

OK, what film is that from!?

I knew Timmy, dammit stop beating me with phrases, you did it the other day too!

Oh I would have died laughing, that is priceless Janet!

Hello Sunshine girl – sorry to mention water, but I’m not telling you to drink more 🙂 Out of interest, what is your average daily water consumption?

Awwwwwwwwwwwww Eps *hugs and thanks* that was lovely 😀 You’re right. No limits. As long as I break it down into baby steps (because another 7 stone is like sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh!) who’s to say I can’t get down to that size again? It’s obviously how I was naturally intended to be, so if I’m eating foods I’m meant to be eating, and not eating the ones I’m not, then common sense says my body should revert to type, right?

Moral of the story – always eat your tuna armed with a laser pointer????? 😉

Lucky you’re doing a great job by the sounds of it – and now he has the bleedin’ books so no excuses! There were a lot of people who didn’t bother to buy the books when I was in college, it was pretty common. But more to the point you’ve now got a good leverage stick (not sure that’s the right phrase?!) because you’ve just spent money on books for him which was the reason he gave for failing so now all he has he has left to do is pass. And at the end of the day it’s up to him – he has a choice to do what he can before August and if he wants to stay in college he’ll have to do it – otherwise, well he’s made a different choice – guess no harm in reminding him that he can go either way. (especially ‘cos you say he’s bright)

So enough waffle, some cat truths… (feel free to share with him;-)))) When our cat is chasing the laser pointer, he walks himself into his water bowl, bangs his head off cupboards, jumps about 5 feet in the air to get at it. When you want him to get off the counter and stop trying to stick his head in your tuna, he turns into a dead weight and becomes impossible to move….

Illuminating eh…. ;-)))))))

I think you’re great – a great example of restraint and humour and patience – AND on top of all that are well on your way to being a skinny minny, or as skinny minny as you would like to be – NO LIMITS! :-)) I totally agree – aim high, who says you can’t be any size you’d like to be – nobody. Though by the time you are fab and even more healthy than you must be already after all this cauliflower, you might not even care about being a stick – who knows what’s ahead. ***lots of clapping hands***

And Happy Anniversary for Sunday!

Oh God, the meat knot, I was thinking about that this morning… not in a pervy way, just when you mentioned speedos. Or did I mention speedos. I don’t know. But anyway. Yeah. Meat knots. Fnarr.

I think I have an explanation for my slow weight loss. No. 1 Before BSD I used to eat next to nothing anyway but lots of lettuce leaves and home-made soup, but then I would be starving and make myself a tuna sandwich, then there was the wine. Now I eat lots of really good stuff and feel good on it. No.2 I normally swim twice a day, totaling 40 to 60 mins. Since the diet I have not had quite that much energy and managed 30 minutes each day, which is a big reduction. Now I am getting used to the diet I could swim more but it has rained for the last 3 days. No.3 I am not using the toilet as often. Normally twice a day regularly, now it is once every other day. Don’t tell me to drink more water, I do. My body just needs to adjust and everything else is working fine. Do not even feel hungry.

Oh my God Timmy, it just shows how easy it is to do. They say something like that, that it takes 21 days to change a habit. You don’t always equate it with changing good habits into bad though, do you? Just changing our vices, smoking, drinking, food etc? You can do it! We’ll be here like your personal ever-diminishing cheerleading pack 🙂

Yes, no need to waste good alcohol is there? One of the bottles is for 16lbs time when I’ve lost 3 stone. The other, maybe Christmas or something. Can’t believe there’s been wine in the house for two months, untouched! Pashmina of determination! I like it! I like it a lot! I may buy one in three colours!

I love my new friends 🙂

I am going to work him like a b*tch in the house this summer, to pay for the books.

It’s from Beavis and Butthead the Movie.

Hi Jill.
How did you get it to accept the 800 count, played around, with it no go for me ?

Timmy
Enlighten us we are dying to know

Hi figment
I am at day 15 and have now lost 19 lbs, but I have a lot to loose, it was 104 when I started, so it’s speedier for me, at the moment.
Regards
Jan 🤗

Don’t start her on the willies again! We’re not talking about meat knots are we?!

Firstly, do not drink the Prosecco or you will feel as utterly awful as I did on Sunday! Better to hit him lightly over the head with the bottle, thereby conveying your frustration but preserving the contents! Take 5 mins, have a mousse bar or Willie or something nice, and then realise it wasn’t THAT nice and that you are doing BRILLIANTLY on the BSD.. plus you have a new bunch of crazy friends; chandlers, accountants, quilters, readers, yoga doers (?!), all of whom are cheering you on as well as counting on you for moral support and giggles.

Tut at the wilted kale then don your pashmina of determination (a new garment) and soldier on!

p.s. As the mother of a son I am under no illusions that I would also want to batter him, but then would cough up for the b****** books!

That’s a good idea with the photo. I’ve got a photo of myself on honeymoon in Cannes in nothing but a pair of shorts. 6 pack out and looking lean (and dashing of course). I might pin that up for inspiration!

Funnily enough that was the beginning of the end. I used to go to the gym 5 days per week and lift. I was fairly rippling with muscles. I had a week off to get ready for the wedding, then 2 weeks honeymoon. So for 3 weeks I did sweet FA exercise (apart from usual honeymoon exercise, cough, cough). I never could get back into the gym when I got back, and 11 months later out popped two sprogs! Game over, massive balloon in weight from a slender 13st to a chubby 15st.

I’ve since got back into exercise but haven’t shifted the weight until now. In fact that was 12 years ago to the day when I let it slip! It’s my 12th wedding anniversary on Sunday. It’s crazy how the time flies and the excuses we make. 12 bloody years of being a skinnyfat.

No more I say. My 6 pack is coming out again this year.

Really Timmy? That’s great, well done for turning it around. I’m not holding my breath though, there’s just no oooomph in the boy. Well, he’s a man really, he’s 2 months off 21. I said, didn’t I? I said that he thought he could wing his degree. Surely he knew that he couldn’t without at least the textbooks he needed? Christ on a bike…

Tokyo, my kid ratio is 3 boys 1 girl. The girl is nearly 14 and she is my punishment for my teenage years. Everything I put my parents through, she is putting me through. And some more. This is karma in action. The boys have been zero trouble in the real sense of the world, not a scrap of trouble at all. I’d raise another fourteen boys over another girl, any day. Love them all though 😉

Morning BSD peeps.
Weigh in today day 16 total loss now 19lbs, have now passed a new stone mark, wey hey , haven’t been this number for 9 years. Also have sorted all my big winter clothes and they have gone to charity. Yeah so no going back now, otherwise I will be naked . There’s an incentive for me LOL

Hope your day is a good one.
Love jan😊😊😊

I will get it on, Tokyo, it’s getting there. I know it will come because I used to have quite nice pins, for a shortarse anyway.

Do you know what, all these diets I’ve been on, especially the ones since I’ve been big (and by big, I mean no offence to anyone, just by my ‘teenage’ standard, me being ‘big’ – for me – is 11 stone upwards, and I’ve been up to 18 stone 10 at my absolute highest). I’ve always ‘held back’ a little. If I can get down to 12 stone, I’ll be happy. If I can get into a size 16, I’ll be happy. And the bigger I get, the less ambitious the goals seem to be. Now it’s – if I get down to 14 stone, I’ll be happy. If I can get into a size 14, I’ll be happy. I found a picture of myself at 16. I was tanned, beautiful, still had a huge bust and a curvy bum but my waist, oh my God I’m sure it was smaller than my thigh is now. I was probably about 9 stone. And I’ve been looking at that picture and wondering if all my ‘aim low’ goals have been a sort of self-preservation, because in my heart of hearts I knew that I’d never get down to that size again? I knew I’d never stick to SW or WW or cabbage soup or whatever it was I was on that month long enough to ever get there? And now… I don’t know, there’s a shift inside my mind, as well as my body. I’ve pinned the picture to my kitchen cupboard door, where I can see it daily. I don’t want to get too far ahead of myself but… I wonder if this is it, this time? I hope that makes sense to someone.

Epspecially, I need you and your psychology please. Even if it is only cat psychology. It worked with the scented stuff…

oh lucky !!! that truly was a rant poor you but i guess what as a mum did he expect you to do ? you did what i and thousand others would do buy the books i would say kids ( but only had a son !!) are sometimes gormless i think its a boy thing ( not sure what girls are like !!) probably a whole different ball game but at least he pasted three , hope you calm down treat yourself to a chocolate mousse bar !!! x

So pleased for you, that yesterday was a supportive day for you. keep up the good work, one meal at a time.
Regards
Jan💜

If it’s any consolation I was a lazy tw*^ at uni and didn’t pass my finals. But now I’m a chartered accountant and am running 3 successful businesses.

This is four children of this particular ‘calibre’ that I am unleashing on the world. You’re welcome 🙂

Oh my God – for those who remember my rant about my useless son. I had to have a talk with him today. It was building up inside me. I told him it wasn’t that he failed his year that I was so cross about, it was his complete apathy. The ‘I don’t know/I’ll do it later/I’ll check my email’ and I asked him if he’d feel any less frustrated if it were his child. He shook his head. So it emerges he’s passed three (I think) exams, but he failed both the maths ones. So I pointed out that if he was resitting, shouldn’t he be studying? August is but weeks away after all! He can’t study. Guess why? Go on, guess…

HE HASN’T GOT THE TEXTBOOKS. He hasn’t got… the bloody textbooks. Why? Because they were – and I quote – too expensive. Some were £60…

Yes, all you parents out there, no – scratch that, you don’t need to be a parent, just possess a modicum of common sense – my first sentiment was to ask ‘How much do you spend on a night out’. Which was met with a surly ‘I don’t know!’ Taking into account pre-going out drinks, and now pubs are open late, not like ‘when I were a lass’ and you were chucked out on your a**e by half 11. I then pointed out that – shock horror – that’s what his grant was actually for! Expensive textbooks! Not his bloody social life.

So, to cut an already long story short… guess who has just been landed a very large bill for 4 of the five (secondhand) textbooks from Amazon this morning? He could go and whistle for the fifth one, which was over £60 second hand! Guess who is NOT a happy ******* bunny. I haven’t wanted a drink during this diet, and now all I can think about is the two bottles of birthday Prosecco and Cava that have been chilling in my fridge since May. And how good it would feel hitting him over the head with one.

Fin.

i want to say it looks delicious janey ! BUT its the thought of the new wonder fart loaf i cant get out of my head !!! i preferred your date bread !!
still cleaning bloody windows but i did stop for lunch !!!!!
well done lucky on the boot front (soundtrack playing in my head is these boots are made for walking !!!!! ) visions of you strutting your stuff round your house in your boots !!!

So my first day didnt end well! So i have a new plan, i will go low carb following my usual high fat low carb plan, then when i am in the zone i will go low cal and follow the diet properly. Back in a few days!

Oh God, forgot they were cauliflower based… wonder if you could do a brussels sprouts one???

I wonder what it’s like toasted…

I need to stop wondering. I’m making the baps on Saturday to go with our burger.

I was thinking rather the farty smell of the bread rather than the resulting trouser trumpets.

No idea on cals.. I have transcended calorie counting now in week 10/11 or whatever I’m on! Plus the methane it will inevitably create will offset the cals!! Hee hee! Carrot or beetroot ones may be less offensive (although I believe there is still cauliflower involved).

The ‘fallout’ from it is to come, Timmy. Which is worrying as I have a customer meeting in a couple of hours!! 😮

Lucky you’ll be toasting before you know it 😉

That looks delicious Janey!! I’m totally making it next… who cares what it smells like :-))))