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!

Visceral fat IS the hardest to get rid of, but we WILL get there!

Don’t know why but that’s just reminded me of one of my favourite Fast Show sketches…

“What’s for tea mother? Shadows and lies on toast?!”

It was a gut measurement, that’s true, maybe it will eventually shift. I definitely look thinner elsewhere

its to go with a cup of excitment !! ( its been a long day and i am hungry )!!

I like the sound of a pot of hurrah!

What waist measurement are you doing? I do two, the bit where my trousers sit, and what I like to refer to as the gut measurement (i.e just under the belly button.

My trouser waist measurement has defo gone down. I know this as my trousers are definitely looser. My gut hasn’t really changed at all though, even though I’ve lost a stone and a third, with only 1 stone to go. I’m pretty sure I’ve lost from my moobs and jowls though. I’ll measure those tonight (not my jowls, I didn’t actually measure them).

My theory is that because visceral fat is the hardest and last to shift, the gut measurement will be the last to reduce.

that should say pot of tea !!!! its like i left it blank for you to fill your own idea in !!!!!

good afternoon
well on my way home after a day out and managed to avoid all temptations just had a pot if hurrah !!
but will eat ny tea tonight !!
am out tomorrow but its a brunch date and just looked at menu and scrambled egg and bacon or full english without toast and sausage !!
so will handle that one ok i think !!
its a tricky old buisness this eating out !!! but keep going girl i tell myself as the cookies and cakes were calling me !!!!

I don’t know what I’d do without eggs. They are a staple of my diet. I’ve got 3 chickens in the garden which is even better ’cause it means my eggs are even more awesome!

As frog says, lean meat and fish are your best bets.

I’ve got to ask, do you not eat eggs out of choice or do you not like them/alergic to them?

Hi Bill, I posted today for the first time and someone recommended I read your posts. As far as the ‘Dawn Effect’ goes, try to save a little of your daily allowance to eat just before you go to bed. For instance, my b/g were down to 125 (6.9) on day 2 but back up to 178 (9.8) on day 3. That night I saved just a couple of mouthfuls of the veggie frittata and half of beetroot falafel for a bedtime snack. The next day it had gone down, then down again the next. Eating breakfast will help too , try having a blueberry and green tea smoothie if you cant stomach a meal.

Good luck.

JCH187 shake on it, I haven’t lost any inches round my waist since I started. Can’t understand it!

So we are all off on holiday tomorrow… Cases packed ( well almost) cat off to the cat hotel. House tidied ( well almost) and I did my last official weigh in before we go. Originally My target was to be 11 stone and then I decided that wasn’t enough and I wanted it to say 10 something. I weighed in at 10 stone 13 1/2 !!! Yippee yippee yippee!!! I’m not finished though so work will continue whilst on holiday 🤗 Actually it doesn’t feel like work anymore and I don’t miss those carbs at all. I am looking forward to wearing all those lovely new clothes I have needed to buy 😉 Good luck to everyone currently on or about to start the BSD. Best thing I have ever done. Fact.

Right, I’m joining the club!

Current weight is 91.7kg or 14 stone 6lbs

Target weight is 85kg or 13 stone 5lbs

I started off a few weeks back at 99.5kg (I was NOT 100kg) which was 15 stone 10 lbs, so I’m well over half way there.

Only one other thought – have you investigated what your Base Metabolic Rate is, to see how many calories you actually need to maintain weight?

There are a few different methods of calculating this – you need to use your height, current weight, age and activity level as information – I used this site
http://keto-calculator.ankerl.com

and was somewhat surprised to learn that I only need 1382 calories per day. Thank goodness I’m not planning on adding in doughnuts, is all I can say.

I’m not eating that much currently, but it was quite helpful to know that figure. Surely if you keep the carbs down, average around the target maintenance calories, the weight should stay level?

Captainlynne has started a thread which is called, I think, TARGET WEIGHT, so that people can post to keep themselves on track.

Hope that helps 🙂