I honestly believe you must have a freezer bigger than Iceland! All these goodies being squirrelled away!!!

I have PMT today and my boss is running scared. He has bought us both a slice of chocolate cheesecake, ostensibly as a celebration for our half year results but mainly to placate my homicidal tendencies. I’m not particularly keen on eating it but I may have a little….

Hello – can anyone out there tell me – with the no-carb bircher recipe, do you pour away the apple juice or eat it? Thanks!
Jill

I was discussing them with the boss (ha!) last night and like I said, the wraps are like pancakes, aren’t they? So it makes sense that the batter would (should) produce something like a yorkshire pudding. I won’t risk trying them the first time when I’ve got a roast, I’ll do them before and if they’re ok, I’ll freeze them.

I saw something else last night, soaking raw poppadoms for a few seconds in water so they soften and using them as a spring roll wrapper. As long as you make sure they are the gram flour ones, I think some use rice flour. Looked interesting anyway.

Gram flour yorkshires are a game changer! Defo trying them when I next have a roast.

Hi Christine
How did your celebratory dinner go the other night? Still feeling better?
Cheers
Linda

Don’t they look amazing, Epspecially? I’m trying the pastry in a bit too (making it, not eating it!) I’ll bake a little bit to try and if it’s ok, I’m going to make mini pies with it and freeze them. If not, the pie filling (which is like Shepherd’s Pie) can have mashed cauliflower on top instead. Win win. I am really intrigued by the Yorkshire pudding though, now, if that works, it puts a different slant on having a roast dinner! Can you tell I’m more savoury leaning than sweet? 😉 Although I would definitely have a nibble at least on a chickpea cookie, just to see 🙂

oooo wish I hadn’t spotted that photo of those chick pea cookies!! Will be looking foward to an update – though probably better for me if they are strange more than delicious so I wont be tempted to make :-))))

Breakfast: 1 egg, 2 rashers, piece of white pudding, of black pudding, half an avocado (still had visitor and was avoiding the bread..worked out this was 524 calories – really wouldn’t advise this combination for anyone!! :-))

Lunch: Big green salad of kale, corriander, spinach, parsley from garden, and bit of a nori sheet

teaspoon of sunflower seeds for snack +one piece of 90% chocolate

Dinner: Small portion of homemade bolognese sauce,
28g of fage yoghurt with some cinamon in it.

Managed close enough to 800 calories so back on track. Am noticing how the weird feeling behind my eyes is back again today. Had this for the first week starting out, and it disappeared but it looks like a few too many carbs the day before yesterday and it’s back a few steps – though it’ll be gone soon! Forwards and onwards again! 🙂

Hi Poppy, I am type 2 (diagnosed for 10 years), I take long acting insulin in the evening plus 3 diamicron tablets in the morning. The reason I inject is because I suffered from chronic and constant tummy troubles on oral meds. Obviously my b/g is going to be low on 800 calories but I also have a swim most afternoons and I didn’t want to fall back into relying on things like bread or high sugar juice. I think I probably did the right thing by having some ham and strips of red pepper. Checking through a list of complex carbs I now know I can turn to a small greek yogurt with a couple of prunes. Obviously, I keep checking until it passes. The funny thing is when I had my only hypo in 10 years my b/g was 125 (6.9) so there is no accounting for how your body can react. Fortunately, I can recognise the signs that I am low before it goes too far and I am able to react immediately, either at home or with my emergency supplies in my handbag.

On your last point about reducing meds, this is my aim and I have gone from 37 units to 35 last night in one week and will further decrease by one unit every few days if I continue to see such good results. I see my doctor in 5 weeks and hope to have greatly improved my HBA1C from 11.2 a year ago, to a more normal range.

Thank you for replying.

I love it! Cinderella moment 🙂

I used to read Mallory Towers too, not so sure on the other ones. They don’t ring a bell, I’ll have a look after see if I can refresh my memory. There were so many books. Happy days.

Good luck with your acupuncture 🙂 I’m going up!

well done timmy everyone having a ” cinderella” moment ( i have no idea why i call it that but i am sticking to it !!!!!!
cant wait to hear bout your clothes trying on lucky
and for info i am making cookies this afternoon so will post results in the league table of bsd ( bloody strange / delicious? !!) do you see what i did there !!!!
i too am not welsh as mentioned yesterday BUT i used to be dragged on holiday to a farmhouse just outside pwillheli and my favourite place was llanbedrog ( excuse spellings !!) because it had a shop that sold and i am not making this up enid blyton books my favourite were the books about mallory towers and was it st clares i think! so thats my link
aa timmy would say BOOOOM. off to have accupuncture now oom !!!!

I think they’ve been reprinted now, with Jo, Beth and Frannie. And cousin Dick is now cousin Rick. Phew.

Oh you must go on a spreeeeeeee! You’ve earned it!

Narnia, eh? This could be interesting… I’m going to just finish off down here and I will multitask, trying clothes on while cleaning bathroom and keeping too-big clothes 🙂

Morning Janey! Oh my God, you just reminded me of something there. When I was young, I’d say 7 – 9, I was (and still am) an avid reader, and my Mum used to buy me a hardback Enid Blyton book every time one came out, and I built up a lovely little library. Brer Rabbit. Amelia Jane. The Naughtiest Girl in The School. And then there was a series called The Faraway Tree. My favourite. Remember that? Anyway. After I grew up, my Mum passed them down to my cousin, with the instruction to look after them, as she wanted them to go to my children when I had them. The time came. My youngest three sat on the bottom bunk, ready and waiting for me to start reading a few chapters of my favourite. I didn’t get many pages in, because the children were called Jo, Bessie and Fanny. My children were crying tears of mirth, I was crying tears of frustration. I have up after about ten pages. Thank God I didn’t get around to when cousin Dick visited, is all I can say.

Hi Custarlover –
I know you have an issue with your OH tempting you with sugary ‘treats’, so if you can’t resist the sugar completely, perhaps you can make an effort to reduce the amount of sweet stuff you take in. Do you think you can cut out the potatoes, rice, pasta, bread, etc. ‘cos that would be a great start. Then try to cut out cakes, biscuits etc., but maybe allow yourself a low carb pancake, with a few berries and a little drizzle of honey? It might perhaps a way to ease into withdrawing from sugars and you can eventually leave out the honey – maybe swap it for cream.
I’m sure you can do this, it’s just a case of finding a way to make it work for you. Once you start to see results, you will find it easier to forego the cakes and stuff.
Good luck – keep us posted and remember we are here to offer support.

By the way, I’m NOT Welsh but I have been to Wales.. does that count??!

‘Louise’ signing in.. good morning Thelma, Brenda and Timmy (it’s beginning to sound like a Famous Five book.. all we need is a Fanny… STOP) Great to hear that you are all rapidly reducing people (not as in dwarves) 😀 As you all know, I do not weigh but I looked at myself in the mirror in my underwear last night and realised there’s a lot LESS of me than there was 2 months ago!! Happy dance on the landing! Some clothes are actually beginning to look a bit silly because they are hanging off me! I’m resisting the temptation to SHOP, SHOP, SHOP but it is my birthday in a couple of weeks and my boss confirmed I hit my half year bonus this morning so maybe a leeeeeeetle trip out……

Timmy – salt in the cookies?? I must’ve missed that because I put none in at all! That was a costly trial for you then 🙁 The über choccy cookies that Tokyo found online look the business.. I may try my hand! Josie – preserved lemons?? Just.. why??? I think I have seen one recipe ever that requires them???? I challenge you to use the jar up before, say… 2020!!

Lucky – sod the ironing and go and try clothes on. We need to know how they’re fitting! 2 st and several inches off will have to open up many more options in the wardrobe for you.. like Narnia???

I’m a hybrid too, Welsh Mum, English dad. Sais-land 😂👍🏽. I did a stint there but home is where the heart is. I go back to Manchester for gigs (concerts really, but I want to sound hip 😂) but there’s no way I could live in a big city again. I’ve never been to South Wales which is pretty shameful really.

Yeah I’m a Jack. Really speaking I’m a mixture of everything. Born in Scotland to a Scottish mother and Welsh father. Moved back to Swansea when I was 4. Grew up there so I consider myself 60% Welsh and 40% Scottish!

Moved to Sais-land when I was 19 and have been here for the last 20 years! So I’m a true Brit.

Not that I’m a Cymro, mind, I’m a Cymraes 😛

I find giving up the wine (and beer, and cognac, oooh and cider and gin and ….) the hardest too. I can be impeccable with my eating, but then every so often a bottle will disappear! Like last night for instance.

If you really do “need” to have the odd drink, then I believe the slimmest drink is vodka and slimline tonic. You should specifically buy grey goose vodka, because not only is it the nicest, but it has the least impurities of any other vodka.

Everything in moderation of course!

Are you another Cymro Timmy??? Ychafi??? That made me smile 😀 Great that the cookies worked eventually, just a shame all this trial and error is so costly! Did you see the ones Tokyo posted last night, the chocolate chickpea flour ones???? Holy pooballs they looked lovely, although they do say we eat with our eyes.

That’s absolutely fab news about all your clothes, between you and Tokyo, you’ve (almost) inspired me to go up to my bedroom and raid my wardrobe now they’ve all gone caravan hunting. The only problem is I have loads of ironing to do… What’s that? It can wait because I may be ironing clothes that don’t fit anymore and will only end up going to the charity shop? Oh, ok!

It does really work. It does. Not yet four weeks in and nearly 2 stone down. It’s the stuff of fairytales.

Well I tried the paleo cookies to the recipe. Ychafi! Salty much!!?? They went straight in the bin. I remade them with the tinniest pinch pf salt and they were lovely!

In other news, on my way home yesterday something possessed me to do up the top button of my shirt. Normally this would be quite restrictive, but to my delight there was room for a few fingers in there! Inspired I tried on a suit that I haven’t been able to wear for about a year. Would you believe it, not only do I fit in it, it’s too bloody big! Again inspired, I tried on the suit that I’ve never worn, and that just about fits too! It’s a little on the snug side, but only just, so I reckon I’ll be in that for sure by mid summer.

I also tried on the tux that I bought for honeymoon. It was too tight really, but I ACTUALLY MANAGED TO GET IN IT!

Well chuffed. This really works. I’m 0.5kg down today too.

BOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

oh bless you and thank you SO much for your encouragement and praise
and for working out that percentage!!
it looks good doesn’t it

those demons will have to bite another day because today I am happy
and although I could still happily munch through lots of digestive biscuits – none are coming into my home!!!!

Hi everyone. Day eight (I feel like the big brother commentator). Hunger has gone. And so have the cravings. Went out for coffee yesterday and didn’t even consider eating the little biscuit on the side of my saucer. Only had 400 calories yesterday. Can’t quite believe it. I meant to eat in the evening but wasnt really hungry and then ran out of time.

I will ensure I up the calories today to ensure I get proper nutrition. I have had breakfast today which I don’t normally.

6 1/2 pounds gone. Hopefully never to return.

Dates???? No thanks lol. I’m not sure about Davina, she doesn’t seem too bad, just churns out DVDs every year or so, doesn’t she? I think I bought one from Poundland once, and I did ten minutes then sat watching the rest of it with a kebab and a bottle of wine 🙂 Not joking 🙂

Hi Ruth

Well done! Guess it’s just one day at a time. Funny how we would never think of eating 4 doughnuts but red wine slips down so much more easily without too much thought! Maybe that’s the secret … think a bit more!

Verano

What I do is take them, upload them to my pc and rename them, and the file extension 😉 So if someone were to find my pics on my computer it might say ‘Chickpea flour wrap 1.doc’ but really it’s ‘Underwear pic week 1.jpg’. Then delete from your phone (and cloud if it’s on there 😉 ) When you want to look at them, just rename the file back to .jpg 🙂 Sorted!

your braver than me taking underwear pic!! i have visions of taking them on my phone and pressing the wrong button and sending them to the whole universe !!!! can you imagine !!!
i think the weight loss you have achieved is amazing better than this bunch in lorraine !!! bikini plus one shes just feeding them dates !!!!!! omg now davina mcall is on now about weight should she join the paltrow cotton club?

Yay, keeptrying! Fabulous stuff, 2 and a half stone, and under 13 stone! What great results!

You need to tell that little inner demon which keeps comparing yourself to other people here to get on its bike and cycle off (insert suitable alternative words), as it is YOU doing this, and your body has its own agenda for reasons. You may not know what those reasons are, but trust it.

That little inner demon is also suggesting to you that you will fall off the wagon – well, what you know now is that if you fall off (and we all do) then you can GET RIGHT BACK ON AGAIN. There are no tests to say – oh, if you’ve fallen off, you’ve failed, leave the room. It doesn’t matter how many times you fall off, if you continue with the BSD you WILL lose the weight, and you WILL feel much better and get your life back.

I’ve just worked out that if you’ve lost nearly 2.5 stone, and are now under 13 stone, then you must have lost 17% of your starting body weight? WOW WOW WOW!!

What fantastic results!!!

Onwards and downwards – and CONGRATULATIONS! 🙂

I can feel it in my clothes, I don’t see it in the mirror yet, but hubby says so. I mean, it’s nearly 2 stone so I must look a bit different. I need to take underwear pics Saturday, I haven’t done so for two weeks. I’ll probably see it better putting the start and now ones side by side.

That is a brilliant inch loss, Tokyo, and 5 inches from your waist? That’s amazing. I’ve done nowhere near that yet, so it goes to show we’re all different and it shows in different ways 🙂

I haven’t done yet, no, my in laws are in my room until later. When they go out for the day (I’m not going today) I might just do that, take some time for me. I won’t have too many clothes that are going to be too big for me, because when I’m big, I don’t buy clothes only what I need and then it tends to be from charity shops. But the wardrobe I have in ready and waiting for me in smaller sizes… I am chomping at the bit to get into them! It’s pouring with rain here so once I have done my housework and bits I am going to get on the treadmill and make sure I reach my 10,000 steps today.

well today is 6 months since I began my weight loss campaign
did fd for 4 months and been doing bsd since may

am now under 13st 🙂 for first time in about 7 years
so have lost nearly 2 and a half stone

only what people here seem to achieve in a few weeks
but anyway
I am pleased to see a 12 on the scales !!!!

now hoping not to sabotage it as that seems to happen so often

woo hoo to you thats is bloody amazing !!!! you go girl !!! ( and hubby too)!
you must see a difference and feel it too
i have done the inches and in total i have lost 2/3inches of my bust ( seems to bee staying put for some reason here 5 inches of my waist and 2/3 of my hips but i am always going to have a booty !!! always have !!!
its the clothes were i see a difference i have decieded when i reach my first goal and clothes that are a big size are going i am going to be brutal !!!!!
have you done your cinderella bit yet ( trying stuff on etc!!) ?
and i agree about the walking think it made a difference for me this week !

Save me a cookie too. I’m going to have a crack at the pastry this afternoon, I’ve bought some lean minced beef and the plan is to make a minced beef and onion (and extra veggies in) pie. Just a crust on top of it though.

My lemon and blueberry scones were out of this world too. It’s a good job I froze the rest of the batch because hubby was hankering after another. Less milk next time though and they might look more like scones than extra thick cookies 🙂

Josie, just realised I missed your post last night – preserved lemons? Why on earth did you buy those??

Hi Verano

Giving up wine is horrible – 9 days so far – but I will take that doughnut idea on board which may make it less difficult.
Good luck to us all!

ruth

Yayyyyyy Tokyo, well done! That’s a fab weight loss for someone with so little to lose (I mean no offence there) and from what I hear you say it’s coming off more in inches, with all these clothes you’re getting in to! Have you done your measurements today???

I have news to report too… Remember I said I needed a pound to get into the 15 stones? Well, I got that today. And an extra pound to boot! Today I bounded out of the bathroom weighing 15 stone 12 lbs, so today, I scratch not one, but TWO goals off my list 😀 – get in the fifteens AND lose 10% of my body weight 😀

My next two goals now are – another 3lb will give me my 2 stone lost and 4lbs will put my BMI under 40.

Hubby has also lost 2lbs this morning, he’s lost a respectable 17lb too in the same amount of time. I attribute this to all the walking we’ve done this week, it just goes to show it does help to get the weightloss shifting.

So Thelma and Brenda are happy today 🙂

Oh
Usual yoghurt and a bit of banana,not a whole one

Ham salad

Pork steak, cauliflower cheese

And a mint imperial

And a funny Pepsi, in a black bottle, zero everything. No cals no carbs no sugar, so it’s probably just water and a chemical. I got fed up of water…💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧

Love luica
Xxxx

String breaker,
You can’t beat me on laughter.
If I sent you a video of me attempting yoga you wouldn’t be able to breathe with so much laughter!

But I can touch my toes,
I can clap my hands behind me.

Two very important things,,,,, when I work out their uses I will let you know 😀😬😀😬😬😀😬😀😬😀😬😀
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Love Lucia
Xxxx

90 minutes exercise?
Great, you are in credit so you are making yourself turn the clock back.
Positive thoughts 😀⏳⌛️⏱⏲⏰🕰
I try a little in the morning but don’t have much time.
Do my 10,000 at lunchtime in an hour.
Then do a bit whilst watching the telly or singing along with the wireless.

Does anyone remember leg warmers?

I just feel energetic wearing them
( they really are two sleeves cut off a sweater😀👍🏻)

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Hi gang,
I agree with Switzerland, we are now all busy doing summery things.
But
We are not sad for you, Switzerland, you live in the most beautiful place on the planet!
The coastline, the outback , the mountains, the cities, and you have koalas.

I had the temperament of a koala, now I hope it’s a kangaroo! Hoping about.

Yes, we have got some great sport on the telly at the moment…. Like buses… Nothing for weeks then a pack of them turn up at once.

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Had 2 days on the shakes (I hate those things, why are they so sweet?) to get me ready, lost a couple of pounds already and now ready to start the food! Looking forward to all the benefits I’ve been reading about and feeling motivated!

Morning Happy and all 🙂 It’s ok to be busy so long as you are staying Happy!

As for coming to do floors I’m very much an amateur, fine for lofts and shelves lol but I’m really very pleased with how it has all gone 🙂 Last night I arranged all my things up there and it looks fab, very rustic with no walls and carpets of course but it just ‘feels’ right and great. It rained last night and I loved sitting there in my chair and listening to it battering off the roof, I love listening to rain. I can’t wait to get my better ladder now but finances dictate I must.

My daughter was saying she isn’t liking her rug in her room anymore so I might bring it up and use it, it will soften the floor a bit and quieten my chair as it wheels across the space. I’m calling it my ‘Den of Dreams’

Breakfast today was fage and strawberries, lunch will be crackers and cheese, dinner will be chicken something or other. My son just presented me with a single pistachio kernel so I’ve eaten that as well. I’m going to be a rebel and NOT count it. It’s awesome that he will sit eating a bowl of strawberries and mixed nuts though- my son eats all sorts of good stuff. We still give them bread/pasta/potato but have stopped buying cereal. Still get cereal bars but I’m planning on making my own once I lose all my weight.

Well I gotta go get him ready for childminders, and get to work, but it is Thursday and just incase anyone forgets I don’t work on Fridays so everything is awesome!

Have a nice day 🙂

good morning !!
well had my weekly weigh in , third week weigh in and another 0.7kg down or 1.5 pounds!! i know its not a lot but its steady i guess and just 2kg to my first goal ! so i am pleased and i will keep plodding on slow and steady !!
my actual final goal is 7 kg away and when i started this it was 11 kg away so i have to be pleased . although i would like it to be more but in the grand scheme of things i hadnt a lot of weight to shift as i am never going to be a sixe 8 a nice comfortable healthy 12/14 would suit me just fine thank you very much !! you can keep your size 0 kate moss !!!!!
anyway up and at em early again as for accupuncture for hot flushes later !!!! its all very zen like !!!
and my online shopping coming in a bit !!!!! see what bsd goodies i have got then this afternoon i am making the cookies !!!!!!!

Hi Indy

Thanks for the reminder. I’d forgotten that sentence!!! Wouldn’t dream of eating 4 doughnuts!!!
Think it will just come down to a little willpower really.

I’ll just keep thinking this isn’t wine it’s ‘doughnuts, doughnuts’ !

Hi Seadog

Yes I use Fatsecret as my diet diary. I couldn’t get to grips with Myfitnesspal that most people seem to use. My problem isn’t starchy vegetables it’s fruit! Every morning I have berries, walnuts and yogurt, was low fat but now use full fat Total. I hadn’t realised how many carbs there are in strawberries etc. I used to have an apple as well but think that will be a treat from now on!

Yes not sure that fizzy water and lemon will do it but certainly worth a try!

Hi Treanna and welcome!

There are a number of apps you can use – I use MyFitnessPal, which is free.

You can put your food on this (as well as water and exercise) to keep you on track.

It also shows nutrients from food – carbs, protein and fat, which is helpful.
If you can keep your carbs under 50g per day, that is really helpful to the BSD as well as all of the other principles.

Good luck! 🙂

Just remember it’s not your self control that’s an issue – your body is addicted to the sugar and your hormones drive you to it to respond to your body’s demands.

The refined carbohydrates create the blood sugar spike and then when you ‘fall’ away from it, it cries out for more.

one of the things Michael recommends is not to have the sugar temptations around – is it possible to clear them out from your house and not even have them available?

You will be able to do it in the end – always support here 🙂

Hi everyone,

Wow, it’s just so obvious that you’re all in Summer and (ahem – clears throat) I’m stuck in Winter.
Bissell – I have another Welsh word – cariad – very nice. I’m afraid my dream team (Wales) will not be in the final of Euro 2016 (weeps openly).
John – You’re off to the cricket. I’m soooooo jealous. Cricket is so much better when you’re there in person watching it. I hope you have a good day.
Lucia – I’ve been exercising, mainly walking and I regularly have a smile on my face when I think of things mentioned on this thread.eg. if I walk for 90 minutes does that make me 90 years old? (or maybe only makes me feel 90 years old!)
Hels – The Hampton Court Flower Show. Honestly, you’re killing me. It must have been beautiful.

I’ll just slink off and dream of warmer climates….maybe watch some of your tennis on the tele… at least I can eat strawberries and cream and not feel guilty about it!

Have a great day everyone.

Thank you for this SunnyB. Apologies for tardy reply – I was giving it a try. I am having real problems with the sugar thing and every effort to overcome it seems to have resulted in a binge on the stuff. The rewards never seem better than the sugar, even reminding myself of the harm its doing. Time to re-read the book and try again I guess. I am frustrated that my self control is so weak but grateful thanks to everyone who offered advice.

Hi all.
Started on Monday with this lifestyle.
Lost a lot of weight over the last few years but it is starting to creep back up.
Most of it is stress related but hoping this eating plan will help with that anyway.
Also can we do a tracker on this site or is there one that I can use.
Many thanks

Welcome to all the newbies and great first couple of days loss shopgirl! Even water weight loss is great as it takes pressure off our joints and makes our hearts not work as hard for sure!

Wishing you all the best!