Morning all! Today’s discussions are pizza bases and disappointing kids…I’d hate to be young again, well I wouldn’t but I’d like to be 21 with my 43 year old wisdom!!

Firstly, an update on the bread. I had it with scrambled egg for breakfast (2 very thin slices.. Let’s not go mad) and it was yummy! Not sure it would survive the toaster but because it’s quite dense it holds it own under an egg (so to speak).

I found a recipe for chickpea pizza bases the other day but now can’t remember where 😡 In the meantime I found this http://beautyandthefoodie.com/grain-free-stuffed-pizza-bread/

Well done on all the weight losses reported today. I had another wardrobe ‘wow’ moment this morning and am
sporting one of the dresses I had relegated for being too tight. It fits like a dream now and even my neighbour commented how nice it looked (shortly before ribbing me for the unfortunate prosecco hangover at the weekend)

She also said I clean my teeth beautifully.
👏🤓👏🤓👏🤓
I told her I am on a diet, I the toothpaste tastes so sweet and yummy……
Love Lucia
Xx x

Survived the dentist.nothing to do
So she is going to fix an old chipped tooth.

Phew.
I have held my breath since last Thursday.
I can now breathe……

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Hi Indy,

Sounds like we’ve been doing this diet for about the same amount of time and I think your husband’s assessment is probably right 🙂

Because I have so much weight to lose, I made the conscious decision at the start to aim for 1,000 cals a day and under 50g of carbs, (this allows me 2 x 100 cal snacks a day if I feel I really need them, which so far, more often than not I haven’t), so the calorie content of the recipes coming in over the numbers stated in the book hasn’t been too much of an issue for me. It’s just a shame that they are not a bit more accurate in the book, and also that they don’t contain the carb count.

Anyway, thankfully My Fitness pal has saved the day and even with the calorie discrepancies, I still think this diet is doing incredible things!

Hiya,
The menstrual irregularities are not related to reduced calories – it’s to do with fat burning (ketosis) and carb intake. The hormone oestrogen is stored in fat. Loose significant amounts of fat fairly quickly and the oestrogen is released into your system. Increased oestrogen results in a bleed. Because the amount of fat being burnt each day varies and so too does the carbs we eat this leads to variations in when and how much we bleed.

I’m in ketosis and keep my carb intake below 40g a day. I have found that I bleed more at night than during the day – I eat carbs during the day so it makes sense that the low carb/full ketosis at night results in more bleeding. On the days I fall off the wagon and have more carbs I don’t bleed. I make sure that my diet includes good levels of fresh food which include good iron sources, vitamins and minerals. As I am not bleeding heavily as some of you I am not worried about it, knowing that once I reach my goal weight and start adding a few more carbs things will settle back down to ‘normal’ again. (On a side note I too would recommend a menstrual cup, they’re brilliant!)

If your bleeding is a problem I suggest you slowly increase your carb intake (but keep calories the same) until you see an improvement. We are all different and our ‘ideal’ carb intake that balances weight loss and acceptable menstrual patterns will be very individual.

think the chickpea flour base is more appealing to me than the cauliflower one its too far from a normal base the cauli one !!!!! if you know what i mean !!!!

Hi all I did the first 8 weeks as bsd 800 now on med style diet 11 weeks in , 24 pounds down – 28 still to go. My weight comes off in chunks nothing for say 2 weeks then 3 pounds . Frustrating at times but in right direction, this is doable for life though. Every so often I have what I call hunger days and now I just have a few more healthy calories feel better less internal struggle, has not affected my weight loss. This has been the first plan I have done where I do not want to stop . Downsides are always having to plan for eating out or being away. I have not tried to substitute carb foods yet but lots of discussion on this, I may try when at goal. I have 10 weeks before I go on a trip of a lifetime to Afica for a charity bike ride do not want to be the fatty on the bike at the back huffing and puffing. I believe our bodies do tell us what we need but we have not learnt how to respond. High fat low carb just works how odd is that. I want to shout it out as I go around supermarket seeing all that rubbishy food which I may add I did eat !!!! Have a good day all 🙋🏻🚴🐾

Hi Julia 18 to go.
As bill says , low carb has brought his figure now to a James Bond model.
He said not to sweat about the calorie count, if that helps you.

I keep pretending to start the diet, Every few week, I try and keep it fresh. I say ok, I will start again right now.
I am thinking of reading the book again, just for inspiration.

Feeling like a satsuma or two something today.
Love Lucia
Xxxx

Hi there Figment.

So sorry we have neglected you, I think as so many people are now using this forum new threads get moved down the listing very quickly, I’ve noticed a speed up in the forum since I’ve been using it which is only 3 weeks.
So to answer your question about an app I am in the uk and use the ‘ myfitnesspal’ app it counts cals, carbs and so much more. How are you both doing the menus look great. Don’t forget to try to get active as advised in the book. Now I have your thread logged in I’m always around if you are needing support, I am only a lit ahead of you but all the more the merrier huh.
Hope your day goes well
Love Jan 🍓🍓🍓

http://thecolorfulkitchen.com/2014/10/20/easy-vegan-gluten-free-chickpea-crust-pizza/

and…

http://nadiashealthykitchen.com/chickpea-flour-pizza/

but I think the first one seems more ‘authentic’ – the second is basically pizza on a fried chickpea wrap. The first is baked in the oven. It’s probably going to be very similar to the pastry I made. It’s all chickpea flour, water and oil in different amounts, isn’t it? Whether it’s a dough or a batter.

Hi Andy has now just started week 6 , despite me weighing and cooking everything to keep to 800 calories he is disappointed that his B/S readings are still 8.4 first thing in the morning , around 7 in the evening , bearing in mind that pre diet and on medication they were 18 due to lifestyle choices , he is worried that they will never be “normal ” , I think maybe it might take longer but I’m no export , we intend going onto the 5 and 2 after the 8 weeks to keep things on track . Has anyone else had this problem . On a good note his blood pressure is normal again with no meds

Hi all
So wonderful to see so many starting this what Personally consider a miraculous healing eating plan. There are always people here further down the path than you who can point you in the direction to an answer or for support. so go for it, live it and love it, and get busy, count everything carbs and cals, and you will be amazed.
Love Jan 🍓🍓🍓

I’m not quite done with Cauli yet Tokyo, I’m not convinced with it as a rice, but I do enjoy it as a mash. The pizza base looks so good though, and with all my favourite toppings on I’m sure I could convince myself to feel satisfied. Make sure the tastes drown out the cauliflowerness of it lol. I eat everything with a knife and fork now too, so not picking it up won’t be a problem per se. Or – who knows maybe there’s a ‘firmer’ chickpea base out there that would do the trick? It made pastry, after all! Really crispy, firm pastry too, so you never know!

Good morning .
Well no replies as yet to any of my questions 🙁 not to worry . I woke this morning raring to go thinking yes this is going ok so far albeit a few ups and downs

Day 2
Portobello toast with goats cheese and pine nuts mmm this ones lovely

Pepper with jeweled feta

Foil steamed fish ….. As I’m not a fishy person this made me feel sick yet hubby loved it .
Thinking can always have someting different next time he has this.

Day 3 poached egg with avocado

Can of tuna in brine with cucumber tomatoes and spring onions

Gingery pork with stir fried veg.

Day 4
this morning I weighed myself 103.7 kilos woot I’ve lost 2.3 kilos in 3 days .
I’m excited but know this will be the biggest 3 day loss of the diet as it’s only the beginning.

Day 5

Middle Eastern

Cheesy baked beans

Ribbons with shrimp

Day 6
Had a sneaky weigh in again today 103.1 kilos that’s another 500 grams or 1.1 lbs

Poached egg and tomatoes … Love this one going to get egg bound,,!

Harissa chicken …. My favourite so far

Oops my friend came round so I ended up having 2 glasses of. red wine

Day 7
This day was stressfull trying to errect a metal shed . never seen so many screws . I was a co bystander helping sometimes but keeping out of the way others.

Can’t even remember what I had for brunch but dinner wow

Sirloin steak with cabbage . This tasted like all my Christmases had come at once especially as I had one glass of wine with it.

Dreading weigh in in morning.
Heck times ran away with me will carry on later

Love fig

Morning Izzy 🙂 Oddly enough, I have that page bookmarked since yesterday, I think (but don’t quote me) that it’s the same site that Epspecially posted the lovely coloured vegetable flatbreads from and I bounced to that from that webpage.

Oh no, that’s a bit of a pain. It’s not something any of mine have ever done but my niece and my great nephew have insisted on going in their pull ups etc and would hold on until in excruciating pain until they could. I had help toilet training the middle one of the youngest three from SCS as he had (has I suppose, but it’s not so obvious now as he’s older and stronger) physical disabilities, but I think as I had three in such a short space of time they followed the example that was set and mimicked each other. That was one good thing about it!

I’ve tried talking to him about it rationally but whether I’m calm or ranty, I get the same mute, blank expression from him. It’s that response than tends to make me ranty, too! I’ve asked him if maybe Uni wasn’t for him, that he wouldn’t be the first, he wouldn’t be the last. Maybe he needed to be more hands on than educational. No, Uni is for him, he wants to go back. He is very bright but he has problems showing it in exams. He’s bright but he needs to study. Where he winged his GCSE’s. We’ve had to have the same conversation over and over, AS, A Levels, Degrees cannot be winged! He has to study, he has to show up and be present, not just in person but it mind. Even I passed all my GCSE’s and I was a terror in school! If it were me, I’d be really pro-active now, realising I’d buggered up, trying to get in touch with my PT, explaining what had gone wrong, asking for help, showing willing. Him? Just meh. I don’t know. I need to check my email. I need to wait for my results. When are they due? I don’t know. Can you find out? Yes. Have you found out? No. Have you applied for any housing? I need to check my email. What about these grants? I’ll do it later. He knows he can talk to me about anything, all of the kids do. Even though I might not come across as such right now, I am a liberal parent. A bit too liberal maybe. That could well be my own downfall here. Just some sort of response from him Izzy, aside from… complete apathy, and I’d help him as much as I could? Grrrrr. Bloody kids.

Soo……close to my target weight……but it keeps slipping away!!!!!!
Was away for a few days and ate more carbs than normal so …..surprise, surprise I put on a few pounds.
But……today my weight starts with a 9 again…..hooray.
Captainlynne I’m 5ft 2in as well so I really want to hit 9st 11….. to just reach my healthy BMI.
It would have been really neat to have reached that weight at my 23 week mark …..but it wasn’t to be.
Unsure of my future route. Should I aim to lose more weight? Do I move to 5:2?
Think I will need to continue to closely monitor my weight in the future. The 2 days of low calorie/carb seems like a good idea
until I find the right balance I suppose.
The shock of a T2 diagnosis is a great motivator unfortunately. Need to keep my BS low. It is now 5.5%… so is in the normal range atm.

go kg is what i say !! thats why i like it because of the 0.1 etc i get that result then convert it to pounds like you say helps rather than sticking at one number !!

am afraid i am a bit fed up with cauliflower recipes !! as lovely as you are cauliflower i feel i have eaten you in as many ways as is possible !!! time for something new
i feel for me to go from a carb loving chocolate munching savory scrumping diet to this low carb diet i have to have something a little bit ” normal” as i would call it otherwise i know eventually i would fall of the wagon
i cant be saintly all of the time and if my bit of naughtiness contains good ingredients that are better for me then all the better but i need that bit of naughtiness !!! and cauliflower isnt it i am afraid !!!

Hi there Napangardi

That’s a good idea, to log in when you are feeling low, I use my iPad all the time for work, and. Im at it 24/7 so I’m always here just let us know, it’s summer where I am in Kent England, and yes it’s much easier, how about some soup, there’s a nice lentil soup here on the recipe section, not sure of carb count, but certainly a good standby when you need a bit of compfort.
Just visualize yourself succeeding everyday, how will that slim person in you feel and act. Try the meditation suggested in the book. I am a practising Buddhist, so I meditate many times a day, it definitely helps to keep the mind peaceful, and that will calm the excitable part of the mind that keeps wanting to crave things and go OTT.
Keep it up, it’s worth it. see yourself as slim and believe. I have a or had a 104 lbs to go have dieted and failed for 41 yrs, if I can do it, anyone can as I am the worlds worst.
Hope you have a lovely day
Jan🌸🍓🌺

Morning Tokyo! I’m always up at stupid o clock too, after having three children in four years, it’s a hard habit to break. Irony is now that you can’t drag them out of bed. If I sleep until half seven I consider that a lie in, how sad is that??

Well done on your unofficial weigh in, it’s a brilliant loss in under a week! I like the idea of kilos now at the moment because my scales are pretty basic. It’s a pound or nothing. I may be a quarter of a pound, half a pound, three quarters of a pound down, but my scales won’t show that until I lose the full pound. I’m figuring because kilos weigh in increments of 0.1, that I’ll see a shift more often. So instead of being cross that I’m ‘x’ weight for the fourth day running, I’ll be able to see that I’ve lost 0.3 kg as an example, and know that I’m so close to another pound off. Hope my rambly explanation to my amateur psychology makes sense! It does to me anyway haha.

The bread did look tasty, didn’t it? Oh, there’s so much more we haven’t touched on yet, Tokyo, we’ve barely scraped the surface. I never knew there was all this info online about this way of eating (or ways of eating we can adapt to the BSD) – but then, I was never looking for it before.

Glad your son got his act together. I won’t hold my breath on mine though. It’s just that he had to push so hard to get there, he did terribly in his AS, which had a knock on effect on his A Level results as he dropped one subject too. He didn’t have good enough results to go to Uni with his friends, plus add to the fact that he’s one of the oldest in his school year, so he was already like 2 years behind there. He did a year in college to get enough points to get on this course. He’s probably going to have to retake this year – if they have him back! So, you’re talking him being nearly 24 when he graduates. Three years behind his friends. I know it’s not the end of the world and people go to Uni at all ages but still. He needs to grow up and show some responsibility.

morning guys well done on that loss Tokyo! I’m up before 0600 on work days I’m not a morning person….

See courgette pizza base mentioned not sure what recipe you have in mind but a few of us like this one…
http://www.greenkitchenstories.com/green-pizza-with-a-cauliflower-base/
It’s a bit less fussy than some of them. I couldn’t be bothered straining it through a tea towel and many of the recipes do ask for that. Ignore the toppings and make up your own.

Lucky I think it might be a ‘son’ thing… My son who turns 4 in October, is refusing to poo on the toilet- great with his wee’s but poo too often just goes in his pants. It’s very tiresome. Yesterday he turned mute and refused to talk to the childminder – for the WHOLE day and when we took him home he just wouldn’t do anything he was told last night.

On a serious note, do you think he is scared to tell you the truth knowing you will be disappointed?

I have a friend with a daughter who did several years studying music with a view to becoming a teacher, before flunking the last year, missing exams, skipping classes. This caused huge upset for her parents of course but ultimately for several years she just stuck to being a waitress. Last year she grew up and realised her missed opportunity I think, and is now training as a nursery nurse and doing well. Some take longer to grow up than others is all I’m saying. If he drops out of uni – he still has a future, it’s up to him to choose it, and make it. You’ve done your job and I’m sure you will support him if he tries to do something positive wether that is now or in the future. If he does go back for his 2nd year hopefully he will realise that the approach he chose in year 1 doesn’t work!

I know it sounds flowery but I’d try to make it ‘safe’ for him to confess. Tell him you can tell something has gone wrong, and if he will only let you in on the details that maybe you can help him. Does he think he made the wrong choice? was he struggling with the course and didn’t ask for help? did he think his natural talent would see him thru? Does he actually want to continue? would he prefer to get a job? those kinds of questions.

Hi Indy.
As I said previously my sister has also started this diet and she is 9 days behind me, but when she tells me what she has eaten everyday, as she is following the BSD 800 recipes explicitly, I calculate she is having on average 3-400 cals more than me and about 80 carbs a day, hence her weight loss, even though she has as much as me over 100 lbs to loose, her weight loss is a tiny fraction of mine, she also experiencing, great tiredness and feeling very low, whereas I have only experience the absolute opposite. I know we are all different, but it’s an observation.
I am like you when something is important to me I prefer precision, I don’t rely on others to sort things out for me. For me it’s a case of give me the information and I will do the rest. I like the sound of the Fitbit, just don’t fancy a rubber bangle. I find myfitnesspal app good, is the count as reliable as the Fitbit.
Hope your day goes well, happy munching.
Jan😎😎😎

Jan you are fast becoming my beacon of motivation. It is so cold and wet here that all I have been craving is tea and toast! So I steamed some cauliflower and made a mix of mashed avocado and feta. It was filling. I am having a fruit tea so all is good. I think I just need to log on when temptation rears its head to remind myself that it is just one meal at a time!

Only 1lb.

Is this normal? I’ve been really strict with carbs and calories. Never been over 900 cals

Em x

Hee hee Switzerland there is no deadline on the homework so read/listen at your leisure!

It is weigh and measure day, my scales went up 0.2, so my official end of week 12 is 0.5lb’s down. measurements show another 0.5″ off my bust though 🙂

So 12 weeks on BSD (albeit the past 4 my own mix of it) and I’ve lost 23lb’s which is great, and several inches, at least 2 clothing sizes smaller.

I’m thinking that I would really like to breach the 11st barrier and get to just being overweight instead of obese, it’s only 3lb’s away after all… so I think for the next weeks I will go back to sticking to 800 all week, once I am in the 10’s instead of 11’s I will reconsider my next move and decide what I want to do.

I’m not overthinking this weeks low loss, because it is still a loss, and I know everyone has slow/stop weeks.

I’m a little low again, the previous stressy thing is still there, and I’m tired. A mix of being up too late too often and not sleeping as well when I do go to bed. I wasn’t too late last night but woke up a lot. It was a struggle to get up this morning, but here we are breakfast shake drank and herbal tea in progress.

2 more early mornings and then 3 gentler mornings though. Not so far away.

Lunch today is soup again because I didn’t actually get around to making crackers last weekend lol. I won’t have soup all week though, I will have a salad one day and I still have pickled eggs as well. Dinner tonight is chicken, going to make chicken ‘nuggets’ for the kids but homemade with coconut flour, and for us I’ll do a spicy coating. The rest will have rice and I’ll make some cauli rice I think.

Well I best be off and wake my son, who was very naughty yesterday 🙁

Have a nice day all

morning look at me up early !!! why is that ?? when i could have a lie in no work today !! i wake up as if i am going to work !!! whats that all about !!
well done lucky that really is amazing weight loss !!
i had a ” cheeky weigh in” not my official one till thurs but since last thurs i am 0.7 of a kilo ( it doesnt sound much ) but when you convert it to pounds its 1.5 thats good and i have another couple of days to go till thurs !!!! as it stands this morning i am 1.5 off my first goal which will be a 6.5 loss!! but even now i just realised its a 5 kg loss !! yay me !!!
janey that bread looked good i need to get back on the trial of possible recipes !!!!we have done pastry we have done wraps even a cake there must be more out there i tell you !!!!
lucky so sorry bout your son but my son was a bit the same he did 4 years at uni and i had to keep prompting the form filling etc!!! but he got there in the end however he did come home to live once he finished at which point we thought he would never leave !!! however he now has his own flat good job nice car etc been gone 6 months and i miss him secretly ( even tho he lives not far from me !!!)

Thanks Bill. I do have a snack of yogurt before bed as previously suggested by Cherrianne . Have currently given up testing fbs for a few weeks . Pre meals seem a good idea but have often snacked in between due to hunger and aware of not losing more weight! Have read threads on high glucose readings before which I found helpful. Blood test hba1c on Thursday… Fingers crossed. Thanks Tofa

Epspecially??? Bootcamp??? … Fantastic idea! Even if only as a threat. I’ll get some brochures. Hey, you don’t need to have kids to know what to do with the little sods 😉 You’ve been a kid once, right? There we are, that’s all the qualification anyone needs 🙂 I feel better today after venting so thank you.

I am also another two pounds down this morning, wooooooop! But this also takes into account the stray pound that went on over the weekend, so it’s one off my ‘grand total’ now 15 stone 11 lbs on the scale. 2 lbs away from my 2 stone, which if I don’t get in Week 5 (and I have until Saturday) then I should definitely have by week 6! 2 stone in 6 weeks is not to be sniffed at! If hubby has a loss this morning too, we’ll change the scales to kilos for a bit. Live dangerously…

Another 2 hours or so before anyone is up… bliss! So I’m going to make my shopping list and meal plan for the week! Every recipe that anyone posts on here that I like the look of I’ve been bookmarking (thankfully). I think it’s ‘bread’ that needs my attention this week; the pumpkin bread, the vegetable flatbreads. I like the chickpea wraps but only when they’re freshly made, I don’t find that they freeze brilliantly well and imo don’t taste as nice the next day, nor when cold, so I do need alternatives there, I also have other chickpea flatbread/wrap recipes too. Going to try Josie’s courgette base pizza this week too.

Onwards! 😀

Hi everyone:

Today I start week 2. Week one went OK. Had a lot of temptations. One big family dinner, a huge festival for Eid, and a birthday party. Somehow I got through and didn’t cave. Throughout the week I did cheat a time or two with a homemade chocolate but didn’t go crazy. End of week 1 and I am down 5 lbs. I have a total of 30 pounds to lose to 25 more to go. Did have a few headaches and lack of energy but feeling much better at the start of week 2. I feel like I am through the worst of it.

I’m changing it up a little this week as I am also going to practice as much as possible intermittent fasting 16:8. I’m allowing myself a window from noon to 8 p.m. to eat my 800 calories. No parties to deal with this week so I think it is doable.

Onward and Upward! Good luck everyone.

Hi Hush:
Great timing on your post! I started logging food on my Fitbit on Friday (about a week and a half into the diet) and immediately found that the book counts were, on average, about 50-100 calories per meal. And I checked, worrying that – even though brands match on the app – the app was off: I pulled containers out and looked up vegetables and ran averages where I saw minor variations. Doesn’t matter what I do – the book is under any other count I can come up with.

My husband – who is also doing the diet – joked that maybe the reason people feel so good on 800 calories is because they’re actually eating 900!.

I think you’re right that checking yourself is a good plan and what I’ve concluded is that, whether it’s 800 or 900 or 936, it’s totally working! And it has made me conscious of what I’m eating (and being sure I’m burning more calories through exercise than I’m taking I’m through food).

But I was pretty shocked when I realized the variance, so I’m really glad to see I’m not the only one!

Hello
I started today, 11th July. The day went well and the recipes I tried, red peppers and feta and Moroccan lamb meatballs were delicious. I’ve drawn up my meal planner for the week and managed not to give in to temptation whilst food shopping today. I’ve found reading everyone’s posts really encouraging. Good luck to you all whatever stage you’re at on the BSD journey.

Hi Igorasusual,
That is an incredible result and shows that it is a fallacy to presume that you only get significant weight loss when you have loads of weight to lose.
I am going to go back and search all your posts to help inspire me and get any extra tips!
I haven’t yet followed any of the recipes in the book and just try and aim for 800 calories and low carb. I will try and see if I can more accurately tally up my carbs, as although I use myfitness app I don’t always get a carb result as I just match the best I can to someone else’s food entry….if that makes sense.

How lovely to see your daughter’s reaction.

Congratulations on your hard work and determination

🙂

Congratulations sydneygirl that is brilliant news on your weight loss. Great to hear that you have started the 20 min workouts and it sounds like you managed the eating out really well.
Today was my first official weigh for a week, I’ve put on .6 of a pound. I knew that the last week would be one where I couldn’t, actually that is wrong I should say where I chose to not strictly follow the 800. Part of me had hoped I would have stayed the same weight but that’s ok. On a positive front I’ve certainly kept active so hoping that by next week I will have dropped the .6 and fingers crossed another lb or two!
We go away in just under 6 weeks, I would really love to have lost 9lbs, so that is my short term goal. That would get me to a weight where my favourite summer clothes fit.
I’ve been on an estrogen replacement patch since Jan, so unfortunately don’t think the supplements would suit me, but keep us updated as to how you feel they are working.

Keep up the great work

🙂

Hi Caro,
You could try grating it. I’ve not prepared it this way but have read it on the froums.

Hi everyone,
Great results everyone! It is so inspiring to read how well everyone is doing.
So the results are in from the first week, down 2.4kg which I’ve calculated to be approx 5.3lbs. Very happy indeed. I did check my carb intake over the last week and found that I was sitting around 100g instead of 50g (I blame the daily banana) so I’ll readjust that for week 2 and hopefully that will make a difference.

Welcome to HoneyBee and MaryH!

SunnyB – You were right! Weighed myself this morning after 7 days on the program and hey presto! had lost another 1.1kg. So the result from the first week is down 2.4kg which I’ve calculated to be approx 5.3lbs. Very happy indeed. I did check my carb intake over the last week and found that I was sitting around 100g instead of 50g so I’ll readjust that for week 2 and hopefully that will make a difference.

Congrats and good wishes to all the july starters

shopgirl as SunnyB said don’t panic. I actually started on 27 June and for 3 days in the first week I was the exact same weight, went up one day as well – can’t keep off the scales I know – but ended the week nearly 5 pounds down. Am now in week 3 and down 8 pounds.

Sometimes you know that you have eaten too much and can balance the next day.

Best wishes to all

Ruth

Hi All. Any suggestions on his to do cauliflower rice without a food processor? Really want to try it but don’t have the appliance.

Thanks for the info! Going to check it out.

Carrying on from earlier. After seeing the article in the daily mail uk back in January the seed was planted to perhaps show my hubby and give this diet a go. Alas at the time he showed no interest. Miraculously last month he said to me “I’m thinking of going on this diet . What do you think.?”
Of course I said what a great idea. He read the book and made me read it too.
It took a while to get us both into the right mindset but we eventually started on the 4th July .
My starting weight ( can I hide please) !!!! 106 kilos fatter than I was at full term with my lad. Oh I did get gestational diabetes and was told would more then likely get it in later life. I realised then what a bad disease it is as on 2 occasions I temporarily lost my vision for a couple of minutes all from too much sugar. Anyhow that’s another story.

So while all America were celebrating I was sat here at day one

Breakfast poached egg and avocado

Lunch No carb plough mans

Dinner : Vegetable curry with cauliflower rice.

Feelings that day were ok we can do this. My downfall is rice so a little grin and bear it was needed on that one.

Can’t wait to start some recipes but think I need to be reading a little more on the what’s what. Even though I’ve read the book and so much . I have a brain like a sieve and need to recap constantly.
I think it will take a few days to try and catch up and get to where I am now which is week 2 day 1
If anyone has any ideas on anything to help me in any way that would be great .

My feet have not hit the ground today. I am so happy! I had my check up with my dr and blood sugars were normal and blood pressure was so low. My dr said what in the world have you done! He was not familiar with Dr Michael Mosley, but was eager to hear. I am off all my meds now. I go back in 6 months for a follow up. Left there and had my appointment with my eye doctor and the pressure was down in my eyes.

The change of eating is the best thing I have ever done for myself. About to hit 25 pounds then 30, then 35. I have to make small goals. I am so thankful for sticking with this and I will do 8 more weeks before I start the 5:2. Thanks for all the support!

Hi BSD peeps. Day 13 in the bag, couldn’t resist weighing myself, have now lost 17lbs👼 Yep my halo is shining, someone actually told me I had lost weight, don’t know how she could tell, I can’t really at the mo.

Excellent day
Fage and blueberries
King prawn salad
Chicken and green lentils
Cals 799 carbs 45.7

More than all this though my well being is through the roof, my body has experienced over the last 6 years a barrage of serious illnesses, I finally feel I am on the other side of those physically and psychologically. Last felt like this when I was 19.

Happy day all of you tomorrow.
Goodnight Jan 🍓🍓🍓

So I behaved myself today… v low carb and under 1000. Tomorrow I am aiming for less calories to be back within 800. Managed a run at lunchtime. I like the chia pudding thing for breakfast. Soaked in almond milk and with rosewater and orange flower water and cinnamon. Yum. Night all.
Julia

Oo great about bread Success! 👏🏻

Hmm poor Lucky, it’s a tough life being a mammy I’d say! No kids myself, yet anyway so I know nothing clearly.
he sounds like he needs one of those bootcamps where they shout a lot. Or maybe the opposite, to do some humanitarian charity work for free or something! Hopefully something will resolve it soon.

Won’t know until this mythical letter arrives Janey, and I tell you, nearly 21 or not, he’ll be opening it in my presence!

Brilliant news! Do you think it would toast? Make a sandwich?

Oh dear Lucky, try not to strangle him (easier said than done, I’m sure). Can he retake the year?

Now, the bread. It’s actually not bad! Quite a dense texture but definitely more bread-like than cake. Released from its tin after 2 hours and tried with a scrape of butter…OH even approved (but then he loves walnuts). It’s more savoury than sweet but I’m not sure you could put marmite on it!

Pizza, Dr Oetker Ristorante Speciale pizza. Nothing special, but I want it so much. I bought one two days before I started this diet. I cooked it for my son the other day. I’m surprised I had the restraint not to eat it, knowing it was there.

Epspecially, he’s so frustrating. He hasn’t looked for anywhere to live for next year, and I know he won’t want to live at home, just keeps saying ‘Oh, I need to check my emails’. So, if he gets back in that means ME running around like a blue assed fly trying to sort it for him. When we ask him what happens now he was saying he needed to wait until August to get his results. Well, of course hubby was seeing all friends and family posting ‘Well dones’ to their lot for passing first year on Facebook. So we make discreet enquiries, results are out now, and resits are in August, not results! He hasn’t done anything to sort his grant out, as hubby and I need to fill in the forms too, I had to keep him until November last year as he cocked his application up and didn’t have a bean to his name. Waiting now for ‘a letter’ from the Uni to see if he’ll be allowed back. He either doesn’t care, can’t be bothered or is lying to us and whichever it is, it’s aggravating me. If he even showed some remorse about it, but it’s just blank stares and silence and ‘I don’t know’ whenever we ask anything. Found him absolutely paralytic drunk last Friday morning, eight empty beer cans on the floor of his room, and a can – an open half full can – leaned between his sleeping body, and his plugged in laptop! He’d started drinking well after 11 when we’d gone to bed. I said to him, who the hell starts drinking at that time of night, on their own, at home, on a bloody Thursday? I asked him if this was the sort of thing he was doing in his halls? And he must have still been drinking up to about 6 am. It’s equally frustrating and frightening to be honest. He’s giving me a wide berth at the moment after I told him never to do that under my roof again or he’d be packed off to live with his father.

Hi Izzy,
I’ve not read either of those books – thank you for posting about them and the link. (Now you’re giving me homework)
I’m glad you’ve had a good day.

Thank you Izzy that is really good advice about carbs. I will definitely keep an eye on them. Your diary is an inspiration!

Hello reversing_prediabetes ! Thank you for sharing your diary. I find it really helpful and I hope you do too. Well done on all the steps, I’m going to try and do more on day 2.

Best of luck!

Tuesday morning update: down another 1.5lbs!
Finally broke through the 10 6lbs, seems what I have been doing has been working regardless.

Also meant to say I have been taking some new supplements advised by Dr Hyman for estrogen metabolising as most of my weight goes on my hips, might be too soon to see a difference with them but yay this is a feel good day!