Day 5
Been dreaming that I haven’t lost any weight, so I did a sneaky little pop on the scales, Wowser lost 8 lbs
Can’t quite believe it where’s it gone, so very inspired now, just worried the fat pixies may pop it all back hehe.
Menu the same as yesterday. Need to get the book out and do some new things.
Feeling very well, sleeping well, no side effects.

Day 4
Have to drive to Norfolk and back 7 hour drive, so last night I packed up my yog and blueberries for breakfast.
Lunch prawns and salad all counted
Dinner at the motorway services outside Burger King, don’t like them anyway, and I had a virtuous chicken salad, while all those people coming in and out stuffed burgers etc, down their throats. My slimmers halo is gggglowing.

Got home at 7 pm I got up at 5.30 , tidied up a bit, took the dog for a brief walk, packed up seven parcels for posting and hit bed at 22.30 feeling delighted at my willpower. Wowser mr willpower where have you come from never met him before hehe like I say ggggglowing.

Regarding socialising.

Restaurants, google them and decide before you get there, what you are having.

Have fizzy water instead of pints of beer.

Don’t graze on the bread sticks, peanuts, crisps, prawn crackers etc.

If you slip up, enjoy it, acknowledge its a one off, then get back on the diet.

go for two side portions of veggies and ask they serve it one the one plate as your main.

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Day 3
Feeling very alert and well, which for me is miraculous.
Breakfast blue berries and face yog which is beginning to taste like clotted cream
Lunch tuna salad, I am amazed how many calls and especially carbs are in lettuce tomatoe and cue umber, so counting everything.
Dinner baked smoked haddock with green lentils, peppers and tomatoes

Also had 1 oz of raisins eat them then calculated my total and damn it my carbs are now 77.82 cals 780 being the pedantic thing that I am that really irked me.it won’t happen again, I want to loose weight and get healthy more that I want raisins. I’m trying to really mean it.

But again cannot say I have been hungry.

Hi held,
First, you have done the hardest step, and that is starting.
We can all read about it, talk about it, plan, dream, but to actually be well on the way. My hat is off to you?
😀🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩

I keep motivated by two things, I do different exercises , try different things.
At the moment I try and do yoga, alone in my bedroom as it doesn’t look pretty.
Imagine tying an elephants four legs and trunk together…. Well that’s how I end up.
Sometimes I have to shout for hubby to untangle me before the blood flow stops 😖😖😖😖😖😖
I wear primark pyjamas as I feel comfy in them.
I have tried hoopscotch,
Puddle bashing,
Roller skating
Skipping
Tap dancing
As well as a LOAD of walking.

The second thing I do to keep motivated is this. What we are doing right now.
I blogg, I read other blogs.
I started this blog just as a ‘dear diary’ to myself, as I didn’t think anyone would be interested in a big birds rambling. I just wrote to the ether.
And low and behold, many people read it and lots reply to me.

I have a unique mental attitude, some call it insanity. I look at things differently.
I don’t mind, because while you are smiling at my blogs you are burning calories,

It’s good that you are planning your meals.
If you get hungry, don’t know what to eat, then you can graze on everything in the fridge. And regret it.

My weight?
I have gone from elephant to a young Dolly Parton.

I have gained the best two things…… Health and happiness, and you can’t buy either in any stores.

Blog me back ,

Love Lucia
Xxxx

I wish I was having curry. Even the pink curry is more appealing to me than a salad 🙁

Hello GillyD

Well done on achieving your goal before your holiday, I’m the same height as you and like you I am just squeezing into a size 12, more so on top – still working on the tummy but not so wobbly as when I started! We are going on holiday in 10 days, I’m currently 10 stone 12 and my goal is to get to the top of my healthy weight range before then or as close to it as possible! Have a great holiday.

Hi Frog well done for not eating all the potatoes and for losing weight! Sadly my machine is a toyota not a singer and looking online your pedal won’t fit but thank you for thinking of it. My Mum still has an old singer machine 🙂 It was old 20 years ago and she bought a new one to make my wedding dress for me, only to realise she preferred her old singer and gave me her new toyota one lol.

Switzerland I am certainly in bed before the kids sometimes especially my daughter who is 11 now and up later!

The area of the loft I will be using is all floored now, so I’ll have a look at the panel I might be able to use to create a workbench later 🙂

dinner plans were confused as my list I made assumed hubby would be shopping and that hasn’t worked out so the family are having ribs and I’m having some left over chilli in a baked pepper. perhaps with a little cheeeeeeese.

Alan, if you want to explore this subject further, there is a lot of information on the web.

One site which I found helpful in establishing the best proportions of carbs, fat and protein to support the BSD is below.

I believe Michael Mosley set out the BSD to be as simple as possible, so that its users could do the diet without too many investigations/calculations themselves.

However, many people here, as well as my OH and I, have established that planning the 800 calories around 50g or less carbs per day works very well at both losing weight and visceral fat, and helping with issues such as high blood sugar.

Here’s the site:
http://keto-calculator.ankerl.com

If you work out your potential proportions from the site, using the carb levels and calories per day (800 on the BSD)you wish to set, it will calculate your recommended protein and fat levels so that you can enter them into an app such as the one recommended by Christine or MyFitnessPal, which is the one I use – there are a number – and set your targets.

Then entering your food into the app keeps you on track as it shows the nutritional content of what you are eating, and you can monitor your progress, plan your meals, establish how many calories/carbs there are in everything.

I hope that helps.

I’m doing BSD 800, I’ve lost 22.5 lb’s in 11 weeks, only lost 4 over the past 3 weeks. Our bodies are all different, I do take one or two days per week now and allow myself more calories but keeping the carbs low.

I’m mostly at peace with it, I’ve accepted that in any one week my body has lost what it can and that’s ok. In time I will get where I want to be.

http://www.theherbdiaries.com/theherbdiaries/2015/1/19/raw-chocolate-cheesecake

The recipe can be found here, it’s not cheap to make and be warned those with sugar still in their lives may not appreciate it. It is also really rich but oh my days the most spectacular tasting thing ever, it tastes like the naughtiest thing in the world to eat, in fact typing this is making me salivate. I sliced it up into small portions and put it in the freezer so we can have it as a special treat.

Enjoy

And welcome Twist, also – are you doing the BSD or just reviewing our live forum (it does get very LIVE at times!)

oldtyke, once you can start to ignore all the stuff you’ve heard over the years about low fat being good (ignoring the fact that low fat means added sugar), and start enjoying full fat – I promise your life will be transformed!
🙂

Hi Alan B,
On the bsd diet most people do the 800 calories, while keeping all carbs to 50g or under, if you download the fat secret app, it tells you the carb value of all the foods, which makes keeping a check on your carb intake easier.
I’m not sure where you are coming from in relation to your question, however as a general rule if you keep to the 800 calories and 50 g carbs you should lose weight and keep healthy. I hope this helps?
Christine

Hey Pollygarter – well done on hitting the mid point and dropping another pound. Don’t beat yourself up for the small transgression, you still lost so all good and you need a little variation sometimes. It is surprising how things you used to eat happily, suddenly seem much to sweet once you have been on the BSD for a while.
Well done on the exercise regime too – better than I am doing, it is something I really need to sort.

Pots of Hurrah all round!

I’m off home to make healthy chicken curry.. and maybe a chickpea wrap to go with it 😉

Hi oldtyke – welcome! The full fat thing does take some getting used to, but you will find that it really works to help you feel full sooner and for longer. Be sure to keep an eye on the carbs and drink plenty too. Let us know how you get on and if you need any support, someone is bound to respond. Good luck!

B – yogurt, raspberries, seeds and a drizzle of balsamic
L – Parma ham, cheese and two Finn thins
D – Salmon, salad and Caesar dressing

hi timmy, – i am doing bsd – but not counting calories – although i seldom if ever go over 1200 and mostly around 1000

i used to do the fast diet and that worked well re. weight loss but cause big reflux/throat issues which are still not completely gone – hence changing to healthier eating EVERY day

i certainly need to build muscle mass as i would think i have very very little of that!! thank you for your advice

hi frog and cherry – yes, i also have a very similar amount to lose to both of you
i have lost just over 2 stone since January – that is 3 months on the fd and then 8 weeks on bsd – with a few glitches along the way
i agree we should celebrate ALL weight lost and i find it easy to do for others but so much harder myself

well done frog for having ‘occasional’ treats, as i think if i tried that they would rapidly escalate into old habits

most of my fat has been around for some years
but i put on 1 1/2 stone in hospital in just 3 months, 3 years ago – and it took me the first 5 months of this year to shift it
it feels good though – to be rid of it, like i can perhaps start to rebuild bits of myself perhaps

off for chicken and veg now

best wishes xx

Hi LindaA,
I have had a bit of a hiatus with my weight loss, illness, being away and plateaus have meant that I have been losing ounces not pounds, however I am happy with my weight loss so far so I can’t complain.
I have had a virus, and not understanding why I wasn’t recovering, being told by doctor that it was linked to Virus! Then one of the forum posters, cherrianne, I think it was solved my problem, it’s too long and boring to go Into!
I am now back on track feeling SO much better, it’s amazing that I struggled for about a month, not posting, feeling awful, finally I did post and got my answers almost immediately, so one word of advice, if you have a problem, get on the forum, it works!
We are out for a meal tonight, at an Italian restaurant! I will be having steak and salad, it’s a joint 70th birthday for my hubby and two friends, they all went to uni together, and we have stayed friends ever since.
I have decided to keep on losing slowly until I’m happy with my weight, then possibly do the 5-2, I haven’t decide finally yet though.
I admire your determination, I wish I was so strong, keep on keeping on!
Christine

Same Tokyo, it’s so much fun this 🙂 definitely helping to keep me going.

Day 2 I’m going to be very controlled with my carbs as I really want this to work.
Breakfast. Raspberries and forage yog
Lunch. Prawns and salad
Dinner braised chicken on a bed of lentils, from the 800 book ooh so tasty. My delight was realising that I had doubled up on carbs for the lentils.
Cal 766. Carbs 41.7

Feeling unnervingly in control and already feeling the effects of the science of what I am eating feel very alert able to go for a 3000 step walk with the dog. Can I do this I hope so, this is my last chance to turn around my health. Not hungry at all, in fact haven’t since I started. Great

Love the cherry idea Bill, I’ll be trying that out for sure.

Hi shopgirl0423, sounds like you are all prepared and ready to go. Good luck for tomorrow, I’m sure you’ll do great. Keep us all posted on your progress and shout if you need any support, as lots of people here will be willing to help out.

Annadongela – well done on progress to date and resisting the temptation of CAKE. There are bound to be days when you are a bit hungry, a spoon or two of full fat yogurt or a cube a cheese is great for staving off pangs and makes you feel full for longer. You can do this, so stay focused and plough on.

Keep plugging away there JK, sounds like you have this thing cracked.

janey i physically laughed out loud at your summing up of today !!!
timmy get that suit out ready for your ” cinderella” moment
and lucky poor paltrow ( not really i am with you on that one )!!
thank you ladies( janey and lucky) and gentleman i was thinking as i cut up my mushrooms and tomatoes for tea how in all previous diets i have never had so much fun on a diet normally at this point in the day i would be ready to my grandma ( if she wasnt dead !!) for food of any description !!
you truly are a god send x

Fantastic! Well done Gilly! Congratulations and have a fabulous holiday!

🙂 🙂

Welcome greenjanet – you are certainly focused! Many of us feel the same about the wasted years, but no point dwelling, it’s onwards and upwards. It is scary when you start on this new regime, with full fat everything but hardly any carbs. It’s so counterintuitive, given all the propaganda feed to us up ’til now, but there are many people on here that can prove it works and works well.
Anyway, good luck with it, post your results to let us all know how you are doing and be sure to shout out if you need help or support, someone from the forum will be there to respond.
Keep loving the diet!

Really well done you !!!

Well done Tokyo. Now, stop buying clothes lol.

Haha Timmy, that made me laugh, nat’s chuff. I commented to hubby today that his t shirts no longer looked like they’d been ironed over a wok 🙂

Don’t get me started on bloody Paltrow. Grrrrr…

So, to sum up today..

A pot of hurrah all round
Half a me
All round smugness on new clothes fitting – yaaaaaay Tokyo!
Chickpea facials
Sausage wraps
Impending pastry

A good day’s work I think!

Oh and Timyy, you know who serves up Shadows and Lies On Toast? PALTROW. 🙁

3 weeks down and still going strong.
Went to a family BBQ at the weekend, resisted everything and had two pints of water.
down to 100kg now a loss of 12kg and have lost another inch around my belly button, down to 44 inches.

This week has been scrambled eggs for breakfast (2), chorizo and chickpea soup and skinny chilli for tea.
i think roughly 810 calories a day.

i know it seem boring to eat the same thing, but the results are keeping me so focused that i dont care.
Also, the skinny Chilli is a novel way of cooking chill, but is really nice!!!

thanks

JK

Hi Jnd, I’m not sure if they are higher carbs, but my understanding is that the original 5:2 was based on a lower calorie day. Something like 500 cal per day?

Hi everyone,
I just started the BSD last week and I’m a little confused about the meal plan. It’s simple to follow but I wanted to trial different meal options which I also purchased the 5:2 diet recipe book to do so . Does anyone know if these recipes can be substituted for ones in the BSD? Or any they higher in carb content?

Any help or advise would be appreciated
Thanks 🙂

Yay! That’s awesome. I’ve still got a draw full of Tshirts that I used to wear when I didn’t have a gut and moobs. Can’t wait to get back in them!

My ultimate aim though is to get into the Tuxedo that I bought for honeymoon. I haven’t worn it since!

A few years ago I slimmed down a bit (not as much as I am now though) and bought a pre-emptive slim suit for work. I haven’t worn it once! I think I’m a Nat’s chuff away from getting in finally! Can’t wait!

I am writing this belatedly as I started on the 29 June. Since I started I have felt so amazingly well, I have been tell my nearest and dearest, and my sister is starting very soon so this is for her to follow, and help her she is very busy.
I had 99 lbs to loose, I have wasted 41 yrs trying to loose weight, only as my lovely John says all you’ve done is put on weight.
I trained my mind for five weeks before starting this, planning looking at all the research. It’s the total antithesis of everything I have learnt to date. Felt scary, so badly need this to work. I am prediabetic, on warfarin for lupus anti coagulant, so need to watch my hydration. A fatty liver, and feel dead most of the time.
Day 1 brunch the cheesy beans from the book, lush
Dinner steak with peppercorn sauce and mange tout, very lush.
Went to bed feeling virtuous, my dieters halo was glowing . Loving it so far.

Very strange thing happened in the supermarket, I physically felt my eyes zooming in on carb stuff. But I wheeled my virtuously filled trolley around with a strange feeling of control.

Love this diet today

and the smugness contains m and s had a sale and its was mobbed but there was this one lonely dress that looked so sad so i thought come with me to my wardrobe of dreams little dress ( as there are many items in there that just scream “dream on “when i go to pick them out !!!)
anyway when i got in after my smug walk i thought go on i will try you on little dress and bloody hell it fit it was like cinderella all over again woo hooo oh yes i am too smug for words !!!!

well 5lb in 4 days and been feeling great other than the migraine on day 2. Had an unexpected visit from the inlaws so we took them out for coffee yesterday AND I DIDN’T EAT CAKE!!!!! Loads on offer, typical! there usually aren’t that many, so I sat with my back to the cakes. Hubby and inlaws all bought cake and I just said, that’s fine, wait til I’m thin! I’m peckish today though which is the first time I have been. Been busy as well which normally stops me munching. Anyway, have had 4 grapes and drinking another cup of tea in the hope it goes away.

Well done everyone, we CAN do this!! 🙂

I am making chickpea flour pastry tomorrow. I shall have pie.

I go out for five hours. FIVE hours. And the lunatics take over the ruddy asylum! 😉

No it’s not massive Tokyo, but it’s a Ribeye. I’ve decided not to have it tonight and when I do have it, I’m on dust and celery for the rest of the day. Tonight, instead, we’re having a salad. Yay. My favourite. You can detect the sarcasm, right?

Hahahaha Janey, I bet that looks filthy. Shall not be uploading ‘facial’ photos, tyvvvm!

Yay, Timmy well done. I find that you can’t put anything too moist on them, but they’re ok for dipping in. Really versatile, I had a sausage this morning :-). On a chickpea wrap.

I too am up for a pot of hurrah, I am laughing here and my kids are looking at me. I did well today, had one roast beef and onion chickpea wrap all day, and a bottle of water. It was boiling in Llandudno and we made a hasty exit ‘to pick the children up’ just as sister in law said she wanted to get something to eat. Hubby just taken youngest for eye test, and is getting me coconut flour as I couldn’t find H&B there, and I got some organic coconut oil from B&M quite cheap, under £2. Well, I assume that’s cheap, I don’t know, never bought it before. I’m wearing my smug knickers today too!

You’re all crackers.

Thanks Paul but really all the plaudits belong to Michael and Prof Taylor.
Without them there wouldn’t have been a second picture so all my thanks and respect go out to those two guys.

Looking great in the second picture, Bill! Huge congratulations on all you’ve achieved.

Hahaha Tokyo, your posts are turning into a 2 Ronnies sketch! A pot of hurrah and half a me please!!!!!! 😆

Hi doushie and welcome 🙂
You know what’s amazing about your post? That one little phrase “referred to it by my doctor”
There are loads of folk on here who only wish they had a doctor like yours.
Try simmering some sweet cherries in a little water then add gelatin or sugar free jelly and let it cool
Great for those sweet tooth moments if eaten in small amounts

Hi jbartnz
started Feb 2nd, the pic was taken June 21st

Hi sunshine-girl
Yes I’ve been doing that for a while now and it does help to an extent but to be honest, I don’t really bother with the fasting readings now as they’re the most innaccurate of them all, and they used to have me going out to work worrying about them 😉
I tend to concentrate on pre and post meal readings which I find more accurate.
Add to that the fact that when I go for my HbA1C tests, I always get an afternoon appointment so the morning reading has become irrelevant really.
May I wish you the best of luck with the diet, ignore the small pitfalls, this works – in spades 😀

Even a friend said in comment to a picture (she lives in Australia) wow you look thinner! I was pleased because the last time she saw me I was only 7 or so pounds heavier than my current weight. But in pictures between now and then my face must have got chubbier and chubbier…. and my clothes ARE looser, we will get rid of it because we know this is right! The AU friend was the first one who commented so I was bucked!

thats it ha ha now laughing in the street!!! nutter but a smug nutter no cakes and walking !!!get in !!!

Ohh sir, yes sir, suits you sir, Ohhh!

well not only have i avoided all cookies and caked i got of the bus at least half a me from my stop and as i write this am walking thinking was it ” ooh sir ” from the fast show ??

I’ve even got cheek bones and indenty bits which used to be my chubby cheeks but my gut is the same size, although if I tense my stomach I’m sure it looks smaller than before. It will definitely go on this way of eating!