Oh God. I do not ‘baby love’ Spinach. I do not, I repeat, I do not have a spinach fetish. I ‘love baby’ Spinach.

*Facepalm*

You’ve done really well to get to where you have done! Keep it up!

I’m off to Yoga followed by a Tap dancing class. No time for any tea so this will make my Fast till Breakfast….whoopee.
Enjoy the cycle ride and the Gym.
The sun has just come out here. Have fun. 🙂

Ah is it one of those, is it? Before I know it the whole pot is gone and I’ve got 150 calories left for tea? I’ve just had my BLAT salad, oh my days I enjoyed it so much. I baby love spinach leaves and peanut butter.

Haha, thank you 🙂 But I can’t take all the credit. It’s a team effort. And remember. There’s no ‘ME’ in ‘TEAM’.

Unless you move the letters.

Sorry, just seen that on Amazing World of Gumball and it tickled me 😉 I’m a total child, I know.

Now – what new book to start reading? I’m still in a novel mood now after Girl on the Train.

Thank you Timmy! yes at least we know what we are battling with now and can make a long term plan.

Well done on your weight loss and keep going!

In the mood for a nice long cycle ride after work.
Gym tomorrow.
What are you in the mood to do this evening?
Love Lucia
Xxxxx

see you think that’s loads and then you’ll taste it…. :-)))))

You can add in roasted peppers and other delicious stuff too if you make it from scratch – I should again… soon…

Just had a tub of green leaves and a spoon of peanut butter there – delicious. It was all that talk of it before, reminded me!

The glossary is hilarious… you’re wasted on procrastination. 🙂

Hi all

Day 13 in the fat loss household. I’m measuring everything I’m eating with the myfitnesspal app and am keeping my calories at <800 and my carbs <45. What about sugar though? What should that be? Without paying for the app it thinks I am on 1200 calories for weight loss (can only tell it 800 if I pay a monthly subscription). On my recommended calories its says I should have 150 carbs (which I’m not), 40g of fat, again not usually anywhere near this, 60g protein which I usually go over, 25g of fibre, I usually manage about 5g and 45g of sugar which I am sometimes close to. Is 45g of sugar too high on this diet? Would that explain why I haven’t lost a lot? Only 7lb in 13 days 🙁

Thanks

How did I forget the Pashmina, it was only like, an hour ago or something!! Didn’t Tokyo come out with another one around the time of the pot of hurrah? Something to do with ‘me’?

Never forget…

– Eat your tuna armed with a laser pointer (for when cat based psychology is required)
– don your Pashmina of Determination (for when the going gets tough and you can’t have a biscuit)

WRITE THESE DOWN LUCKY!

Haha Tokyo, you would make a good defence lawyer!

Eps, I think it was about 150 for a quarter of a tub, which would be ample for me with some veggie sticks. Glorious orange colour too. I hope it is spicy.

Yes Jill. I have a good feeling about this. 24/25 years of slimming clubs, at the start only about half a stone to lose, going up to 18 stone 10 at my highest, when I did my last stint in WW after my father’s heart attack, and having half my body weight plus to lose. I lost 4 and a half stone then… put all but half a stone back on by New Year’s Day. I’m only short too – five foot one and a half. It feels different because I don’t feel like I’m on a diet. I don’t feel hungry. I don’t feel denied because we’re all working in our little way to come up with acceptable alternatives (chickpea ‘wraps’, farty flatbreds, scones, cookies, muffins, crackers, breads) but I think the main part is, and I don’t know if anyone agrees with me, is that we’ve kicked/are kicking the carb and sugar addiction. On other diets/plans, you can still eat chocolate, still eat crisps, still eat potatoes. It doesn’t work. You always end up wanting more. So I think if any plan is going to be successful, it’s this one. Apart from a tiny bit of carb flu, there’s been no adverse effects on me. It doesn’t feel like a diet. There’s nothing to fall off the wagon for, we don’t want it any more, we don’t need it, we have alternatives – as long as we plan and adapt, and know what we can and can’t eat. I think we all have an element of what you were saying before about being on the road a lot and it being hard (not all of us to your extent though) but it can be done.

Going to have to go through this thread with a fine toothcomb and get a word doc sorted with all the different expressions… Shame we can’t do a FAQ or pinned post at the top.
Pot of Hurrah – Commonly served after successful avoidance of cake all afternoon.
Tutting at Wilted Kale – When something doesn’t quite meet your exacting standards. See: KALE; YANKEE CANDLES
How Much! – See: HOLLAND & BARRETT; ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING TEXTBOOKS; JO MALONE CANDLES
Robes/Capes of Smugness – Items of clothing worn by those feeling righteously smug. This can be for cake avoidance, getting into a lower size, or just because they are of a smug nature, ordinarily.
Shameful Veil of Procrastination – When you’re just sat looking at a PC/phone/tablet screen, waiting for someone to answer your last post, rather than baking the pumpkin seed bread.
Meat Knot – Ahem…
Keep your Chickpeas Chunky – self explanatory. Don’t blend them to a pulp. Fool.
The ‘Well, That Didn’t Work’ Cookbook – For the time being, a mythical, but also very real cookbook of BSD recipes that we hoped would work, but didn’t.
Farty Bread – A brocolli based flat-bread that smells of fart.

Any more for any more?

Absolutely love hummus – Lucky you’re in for a treat! 🙂 Though not a very big portion of treat – I don’t seem to be able to eat that much of it on 800 calories a day!!! It’s those chickpeas… or the oil.. both good but I guess calories build up and combine to create such deliciously creamy goodness!

i am posting in defence of m and s !!! most saturday i go in and we have a m and s tea !!! i have still gone in whilst doing this and avoided putting all the things i normally put in my basket but found plenty of things i can have so my defence rests in the case against m and s !!!
and no i dont like hummus!!! the very thought shudders my bones !!

Did someone say humus?? Love it. Bloody kids love it too and keep dunking their cocktail sausages in it when I’m not looking 😡

SVP – Shameful Veil of Procrastination. Hahaha, we are divising a complete wardrobe of mood swings. Someone needs that robe of smugness back on.

Think I will cook the Paleo cookies for my boy’s summer party this weekend. Leave the Willies out tho, they’re too good for small boys. That’s sounds very wrong actually 😳

Challenge on who hits the 1000th post.. We will be slowing down and speeding up, trying to hit it!

I’m with Caramba on that advice. I am using it on my Ipad as it is soooo much easier to navigate
Jill

Lucky – it WILL be this time – if you are like me and have decades of fruitless anxiety about weight and failed or abandoned diets – what I now tell myself is ‘this WILL work and I will stick with it because I don’t want to have to do this again’
Jill

Hi Timmy

Yes I have read the book and it doesn’t tell you not to eat carbs and yes it does teach you to focus on good carbs, but most people on here are talking about carb allowances and cutting carbs, so it gets confusing.

Thanks for advice 😊

Hi Caramba
Great thanks for that will have a go later.
Regards
Jan😊

Never, ever, ever.

Yes I have measuring teaspoons but they’re like slidey ones so you can change the measurement and besides which, I like my teaspoon of peanut butter better. Or, my finger straight in the jar. No judging, it’s only me that eats the stuff in this house 😉

I’m curious now about this thing you call hummus. Is it that good? I do see a lot of people go on about it, just never appealled to me. Might try mine for lunch tomorrow then.

You’ve never had hummus? WTAF? We get through buckets of it in my house every week! I thought it was a staple of everyones diet, lol!

We’ve got a proper teaspoon measuring thingy. Makes it far easier when you’re cooking.

Unfortunately most standard weights/calories of a teaspoon of peanut butter and MY idea of teaspoon of peanut butter are not the same thing 😉 Level vs heaped etc. I watered some down ever so slightly the other week, added some hot chilli flakes and used it as a dip for celery and cucumber. That was nice. I’ve never had hummus before, I’ve got some in the fridge, a chilli one from Tesco.

Don’t live in France, but go there at least twice a year and also my brother lives there.

Hi SW, have you read the book? If not I’d suggest grabbing it and reading it. Like you I’m not diabetic either and just wanted to shift some timber.

I the main focus of the book is about reducing refined and starchy carbs and really getting a grip on your carbs whilst also making sure you get enough lean protein and good fats.

The book is also a bit of an eye opener about what “good” carbs actually look like!

JollyRoger, the Menton lemon festival?? Is that a trip to France for you or do you live there. I ask because I live near Bergerac and wondered if there were any other people from France.

Just eat it straight off the spoon! My son eats hummus off a spoon. It make my missus wretch.

I am looking at starting this diet, but don’t really want to count calories, carbs etc …

I’m not diabetic, but very overweight and really want to give this diet a go, if I just count my 800 cals a day and focus on good carbs will I still have success?

Peanut butter on wholemeal toast…

Peanut butter on chickpea wrap, toasted?

Can you toast a chickpea wrap?

Hmmm…

See Timmy, I’m hoping I feel like that, because I’m seeing it in the sweetness of normal things. Almonds for example, never noticed before how sweet they were. Just normal fruit. I haven’t had anything I shouldn’t have had in the last nearly 5 weeks, so I won’t be able to tell until I do. But I do know I found the scones I baked overbearingly sweet. I am lucky in that I am more savoury inclined anyway.

Eps, I finished Girl on the Train by the way. Oh my. Did see it coming by about 2/3 of the way through, but not… completely either. Vague but not spoiler-ing it for Janey. These books don’t half creep me out. Makes you look at people in a different light.

My missus makes amazing cakes and she cooked a batch of cupcakes yesterday for the kids. She left the icing off one for me which I duly ate after my steak. To be honest, my tastebuds have changes and although it was nice, I much preferred a bit of peanut butter on ryvitta!

Ah ok. I have to say I’ve been constantly ‘good’ on this, I haven’t eaten more on weekends than during the week, so it’s hard for me to say at the moment if things like this affect me. I’ve made blueberry muffins and the blueberry scones and aside from the one time each – they’re languishing in the freezer lol. I’m not a biscuit person myself anyway, but damn they don’t half look good. The smell nearly finished me in Marks, I tell you. I’ve only just managed to start walking past Greggs without openly weeping. Will have to give M&S a wide berth, I think.

Oooooooh Timmy that sounds good. Just smells you have to have at Christmas 🙂

hee hee sorry, got a bit ahead of myself there.

Not sure about those chick pea cookies though – I even reduced the coconut sugar by two thirds (which made them taste kind of almost sweet) but even then they definitely affected scales for a few days. Now weekends are never as good as during the week but still, I hadn’t really eaten much else over the 800 so suspect No.1 is those biscuits… BE WARNED 🙂

ha ha ha ha M&S and that damn cookie smell they pump through the air conditioning… they do!!

I dare say I could. But I’m currently thinking about an apple strudel one for Christmas to go with my Noelle candle, which smells like mulling spices.

MEEEEEEEE!!! :-)))))

It could even be tonight. Ooooooooooh exciting!

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… 😉