I had a soft spot for Rik Mayall too. So sad that he passed away, but the old dear who plays the auntie is absolutely fab.

You’re so lucky seeing him live! I’ve seen the DVD’s, thought his first one was funniest though. I’ve seen ‘The Holy Trinity of the Phoenix Club’ – Dave Spikey, Peter Kay, Paddy McGuinness, Peter Kay was pants wettingly funny, and – possibly my weirdest crush – Johnny Vegas. I adore Johnny Vegas, he’s so cute and cuddly. But he was very, very drunk too.

Loved Man Down, especially the first series where Rik Mayall played his dad!!

Thank you for the replies. On the subject of animal protein, for non-health reasons (which I no longer buy into) I had given up eating meat and dairy for 11 years, and only this year have I returned to eating these foods. It’s a myth that all vegan-vegetarians are skinny healthy types. You can eat salt and vinegar square crisps all day and be a genuine vegan for example. The point is, during those 11 years I was generally still overweight. But since I started eating meat and dairy I have balooned. I now understand what the cause was: not meat and dairy necessarily, but extra calories on top of the unhealthy processed carbs I had been eating for as long as I can remember. My favourite food is bread. My next favourite food is bread.
I’m generally a positive person, but I’m entirely cynical about the ethical compasses of the major food manufacturers. And in such I believe we are being poisoned on addictive nurtitionally devoid trash.

greg davies is a whole hunk of funniness!! seen him live twice and have to say we never stopped laughing all night !! both times !! do you watch taskmaster lucky you would love it our gregs in it !!!

yes dinner was lovely 🙂

Love a good bargain too!

ryvita, according to my fitbit has 6.7g carbs and I’ll settle for s’s instead of z’s!

I love Big Magic Lucky hopefully you will enjoy it 🙂

I’m considering Elana’s coffee cake, or sthg else involving coconut flour. It’s just about the weekend so I think a sweet treat is allowed. And of course I will be constructing the fart bread toastie for lunch 😉

Son brought home an excellent school report today, although he was in a foul ‘Kevin the Teenager’ mood. A nice Paleo pudding will finish him off!

Winner gets to wear the Robes of Smugness all day 🙂

is there a prize?

i hate to say it but its just more chickpeas in another guise

i have hummus most days with raw vegetables

i love peanut butter, how many carbs in a ryvita does anyone know

Did you Josie, how did you find it? Was it more-ish, too sweet? And how were the falafels?

Haha that sounds a LOT like my son. Absolutely bloody useless.

What’s it called, is it on Catch up? Oh and I missed Man Down last night, I didn’t even know there was a new series due. Thank God for catch up TV. Love Greg Davies, one of my guilty crushes.

Tonight has been a real challenge!!!
We were invited out to an Indian restaurant! Ok. So sat down before we went and added to my diary. Knew I could stay within the plan with a huge amount of willpower. DID IT! Had one popadom with a little mint & yogurt and chicken tikka, half portion, and salad. So really pleased with myself.
Also, I have walking difficulties and noticed tonight, after just two weeks on the plan, that my walking was far easier. Could walk much further (I walk with crutches). Have only lost 8lbs so don’t think that could make much of a difference.
Has anybody else found that cutting carbs has led to more energy even without extra exercise ?

i shall join the confessional, today i had a chocolate biscuit. but i have since paid the penance of the beetroot falafels with salad. So feel almost righteous. Not such a disaster as the dreaded fish cakes.

Aren’t kids wonderful, my daughter once bought her then boyfriend home for a weekend and he stayed or about 11 weeks in the end. He barely seemed to function on any human level. But as she finished at Uni she finished with him by going to Tokyo to work for 5 years.

I am watching a programme featuring Michael Mosley the O H recorded it for me from Tuesday. so far interesting

Oooo make something delicious will you Janey, I’m starving here 😝😝

yes janey what delights are we too gaze over tomorrow ?

Hee hee sorry I lost some zzz there ad added some sssss, sorry Izzy 🎈

Good tips Issy👏🏻👏🏻👍 I liked Room too though it freaked me out after is finished it!

Some people hate Eat, pray, love but I found it really funny😹😂 way to many descriptions of food tho😹

Well done HoneyBeeMee. Amazing how much if a boost losing pounds gives you! Just keep going.

Wow, I bought Big Magic on Sunday, Izzy! I’m trying to work through the older ones I’ve bought first though. I have heard of Eat Pray Love but haven’t read it myself. I’ve heard it’s a bit Marmite. I’ve read Room, a few years ago.

Evenin’ Janey 😉 And what is the next experiment? The slippers of sulkiness are back in their box, still unworn.

Hi Izzy,
The fajitas sound delicious.
4 bras for 9 pounds – I love a good bargain. I recently purchased 100% cotton undies for my daughter. A pack of 5 for $2.50 – skin toned – unbelievable price but it was the end of financial year sales.
Oooh 2 nights in your loft – have fun being creative.

Remove the slippers of sulkiness for the hills are once again alive with the sounds of dieters. I have had chicken jalfry which was on the cheeky side along with quinoa and a Lucky wrap. Two Willies for pudding ☺️

As I’m ‘working from home’ tomorrow I think I may cook my next experimental recipe…..

yes the bookthief has been around a while. I don’t normally enjoy books set in wartimes but the perspective it was written from and the story was a real surprise to me I loved it. I’ve read it twice. The movie is rubbish tho…

If you are interested in creativity Try Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic. The same author as eat pray love. I never liked eat pray love and never finished the book, but I’ve read Big Magic twice.

I enjoyed Girl on The train as well.

I loved Stephen Kings The Green Mile – I expected it to be a heavy read but it was very easy to read and the movie was reasonably close to the book.

Room- I forget the author but an interesting tale of a girl abducted and held prisoner for years in one room.

The Chimp Paradox – an easy to read book about why people behave in certain ways. Not a novel but a book I’ve enjoyed nonetheless.

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, an odd but interesting tale about a world that exists underneath London that no one sees.

A morning bush walk. Enjoy the cycling, gym, yoga and tap class.

No, I’m still here Tokyo 🙂 I read a few pages and then I check my email 🙂

Awwwwwww that’s sweet lol. But I don’t really mind, there will be another milestone. Imagine if there’s a really good conversation going on and I’m asleep or shopping or cleaning and everyone would have to be in limbo until I showed my face 🙂 I may have started the thread but you’re all equals on the journey and in creating the laughter and friendship 🙂

am here and now your gone lucky always the way !! i am impressed with how many sayings we have conbled together !! a feast of them !!
i have given the 1000th post sime thought !! and i am nominating lucky to write it she started this whole escapade on this thread only fitting shes takes the 1000th !!!! and i know you lucky you will make it a good one !!!!

Well, am I glad you two showed up! I was just about to go and retrieve the ‘Slippers of Sulkiness’.

I haven’t heard of yours Eps, but I think I read yours Izzy (Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiii back 🙂 ), is it a few years old now, set in WW2?

I’m sat with water. I had a bar of mousse chocolate just. I reorganised kitchen cupboard. It looks like the kitchen cupboard of people I would try to avoid barely two months ago lol. Flaxseed… coconut flour… chickpea flour… sesame seeds… pumpkin seeds.

I’m finishing off a self-help type book that I hadn’t quite got to the end of. Next I think I’m going to go forrrrrrrrrrrrr…. Between You and Me or Bone by Bone. Or I might read Gretchen Rubin’s Better than Before, I liked her last two books. Ooooh just found ‘Goddesses Never Age’ too. Stop me buying books!

Awwww is the cat on a mad one, Eps? Bless 🙂

If I remember correctly there was a lady here who went 5 weeks without losing so there is still hope! Have you been taking body measurements?

courgettes and green stuff tend to be lower calorie than other veg like onions and peppers. It’s still ok to use a lot though. You certainly get a lot more within calories and carbs with these than potato!

My fitbit app tells me the following to give you some comparison.

1 serving iceberg lettuce 10 calories, 1.3g carbs
1 red pepper 31 calories and 7.1g carbs
1 medium courgette 31 calories, 6.5g carbs
1 medium onion 46 calories, 11.1g carbs

When I use courgetti with bolognaise I use a whole courgette. I will often stuff a whole pepper or courgette too. I use onions a lot as I love them but as their carbs are a bit higher I typically would use half an onion.

hiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

lol at spinach fetish!

Have you read The Book Thief?

Hee heee was at cinema, kind of funny, called Maggies plan.

Did you find a new book? Hmmm my next one to read is called All the light we cannot see – haven’t started yet but looks good?

Hungry but just having cup of herbal tea😳😂 Have to play with the cat, he’s chasing up and down the corridor pretending to see ghosts so I think that means he’s been bored all day, there was nobody home.

Hey figment, just google low carb recipes and you will find heaps of ideas 🙂

Sounds like you guys are doing great on the plan well done!

here are some of my favourite websites I’ve taken ideas from… Many suggested to me by other members here.

http://www.ditchthecarbs.com/recipes/
http://allrecipes.co.uk/?o_is=TopNav_Logo
https://elanaspantry.com/
http://www.ibreatheimhungry.com/

3 hours and 16 minutes later, Lucky is sobbing. “Where IS everyone?” she wept.

change to tonights menu, inspired by you guys and your posts I’m making fajitas with lettuce wraps 🙂 the chicken is cooking now.

I’m glad it is Thursday and the end of my working week, I’ve been late a lot this week which was ok as husband was here to collect our son but still it’s been a busy week. I think I might just chill tonight, my husband is working late for the next two nights so I could be in my loft then 🙂 I have many ideas. I may try to write a little bit tonight.

In other unrelated news I forgot I bought 4 bra’s the other day all of them for only £9. not each but all in! They were in the sales rack at Asda when I went in for a look at something else. They aren’t colours/designs I would have paid full price for, but they will be fine to wear for the moment at that price! I know I will go down at least one more size possibly more so I don’t want to spend a lot of cash on them. Years ago when I was a healthy weight I was a tiny but curvy 32D, I’m wearing 36’s just now. I guess we will see what happens in a few months!

well I best go eat!

Hi honeybee
Delighted for you, keep up the excellent work
Regards
Ajn😊

I’m so pleased to say my constant headache has gone😊 Eggs for breakfast are my favourite new breakfast food (I always skipped it before and snacked on crisps and chocolate at 10am) scrambled with smoked salmon or poached or an omelette with mushrooms and tomatoes keep me going well until lunch. I couldn’t resist stepping on the scales this morning after only 3 days -5lbs!! Amazing. It has motivated me so much.. Early days but it’s going great!

Hi figment
All sounds yummy, we will all come to dinner tomorrow. Hehe going well huh, are you enjoying it. Seeing an instructor, wow ho of to boot camp with you then. Bril.
Love Jan 🍅🍅🍅

Hi to all
Getting some great tips from you thanks.
My soup turned out really nice

3oz brown lentils dried ones
2.5 oz chopped onions
I diced carrot
1oz of chorizo
1 clove of garlic
1oz cooked chicken
I used some stock I made from boiled chicken bones and broccoli
1tesp virgin olive oil
I worked it out to serve 2 people 443. Calories so 221 calls per serving
Struggling to work out the carbs but don’t think over the top

For dinner we had shepherds pie with Cali mash an adaption of the forum recipe. That was stunning
Hubby lowered the amounts to make enough for 3 so we shared the last portion for breakfast this morning.

I spent all afternoon potting painting and planting so hubby made butternut and cashew nut soup really loved that . He messed up on the amounts and we had over our lunch calorie allowance so had to make do with no carb plough mans for dinner .

Not even started excersizing yet , but I am seeing an instructor tomorrow see what I can do .
Really wish there was a fast 800 1001 recipe book to buy.

I can’t abide yoghurt and am allergic to coconuts so it rules out a lot of nice recipes.
Heck that’s the door
Bbl

I am not a doctor however I am an attorney and it seems to me they are the same thing — if the low calorie diet effects weight loss such that diabetes in no longer evident, does it matter if the weight lost (and end of the diabetic state) was caused by the low carbs or the low calories? Either way the result is the same. As to your second question, whether increasing carbs in the diet after losing the weight will result in a return of diabetes, that I cannot answer because I am not diabetic. There are several people posting on these forums who are diabetic — many of them have started to transition to a 5:2 diet and have undoubtably increased their intake of carbs as they do so. Perhaps they could share their experiences on that issue.

Also iv hit a plateau which I know is to be expected but am in week 6 and don’t think iv lost anything since the second week and am unsure of what to do.
I’m considering just going to the 5:2 if I’m not going to lose anymore.
However I need to lose more!
Considering I’m only eating 800 calories I’m surprised i haven’t lost more

Hi there,
I’m just counting calories and avoiding carbs, but I was wondering what the deal is with veg like peppers, courgettes, leafy greens?
I was really limiting myself as the recipes would say 50g of green beans etc so I assumed I needed to be strict with them but iv since read people are filling out their meals with veg to make more filling.
So am I ok to do this? As long as I count them in?
I felt more controlled making sure my portions were small but now I’m rethinking it

Having read slightly more on the forums I am starting to wonder whether the BSD is being misrepresented as a cure for diabetes and is not just a low calorie diet which, by its nature, limits blood sugars from rising. From a clarity point of view i would be concerned if the quote from page 10 of Dr Mosley’s book should more correctly read ‘.They remain free of diabetes provided they keep the weight off and continue to follow a low carb diet’ . That would not be the same thing at all!Alternatively it is possible that this issue is clearly addressed somewhere else in the BSD book and I have missed it.
Any chance of an informed reply? Without meaning to be rude surely someone on this forum (perhaps Dr Mosley) must be able to make an informed comment.

Thanks everyone for your input! I’m looking forward to figuring this all out. I’ll definitely give the recipes a go 🙂

Hello!

Day 4 has gone okay. I am still struggling with sugar cravings and wishing chocolate chip biscuits were just protein…alas not.

Breakfast was yogurt and blueberries, which I am thankfully not sick of yet
Lunch was a bit of a mix: some chicken breast, a red pepper, 2 falafel balls and a tiny bit of hummus
Dinner was really yummy: 2 grilled portobello mushrooms with halloumi and a tomato

Total: 770 kcal and 57.7g of carbs (mostly from the falafel)

I might have a square of 70% dark chocolate later which is another 56 calories, but I’ve had a square at night for the last two days and I don’t want it to become a habit.

My step total right now is 6098, but I am going to go out for a walk soon, so that will increase my total and hopefully get me to 10k.

I am a bit concerned about how I will manage the weekend, but I have to get through day 5 first!

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