Hi KittyHoney,

I read that a matchbox size of cheese = 30g ….so a small matchbox😕!

Hope that helps,

Imogen🌻

Hi collie,
I will, love that your dogs like the music, our 5 year old granddaughter, who we have looked after, while mum is at work, since she was a baby also loves the music, she used to dance when it came on!
Wow I wish I could ride, I think that’s why I admire them so much and love to watch it, I have really weak legs and a bad back so am unable to ride a bike, even an excercise bike is torture for me!
My husband, David, rides most days so he is a mammal or a very old man in Lycra!
Christine

thats what i was thinking the salad and cottage cheese thought yoghurt and fruit for breakfast sorted !!!!!
my hubby loves the lamb !!!
1 oinion lamb mince salt pepper
2teaspoons each. tumeric cumin and cinnamon done i serve with luckys wraps bit salad call me jaime oliver sorted !!

Mmm I may have to try your non faff lamb. Reckon my lot will eat it too so no need for seperate or ‘modified’ dinners.

Big bottle of sparkling water for you at work next week then Tokyo. And salad pack-ups I reckon. I live on rocket, toms, cucumber, a big spoonful of cottage cheese and either a small portion of flaked salmon or chicken pieces most days at work. Fills me up all afternoon 👍🏼

Keeptrying i have just read this entire thread and I have to say I’m so impressed with you for sticking to things. 2 1/2 stone is fantastic well done. Like you I have been struggling with the carbs(today i would have done literally anything for a slice of bread) but I am in this for the long haul just like you and I decided that my health the most important thing. I totally understand that urge to binge on everything that is bad for you and the fact that you made the choice not to is something to be truly proud of. I hope I can be as strong as you and make the healthy choices.
Like everyone else has said please don’t ever feel you are alone-that’s why this forum is here-so we can all support each other when it’s needed.
Keep going and be proud of your fantastic achievement!!

my word its been busy on here tonight !!!
i made my non faff lamb with mint luckys wraps huge success but like you i couldnt eat it all !!!! i feel full quicker i have found
although today i have craved something sweet think its after the blinkin cookies yesterday !!!!!
so back to work for me mon tues weds next week only work part time but have to get organised with breakfast and lunches to take to work then something for tea when i get in !!!!the key is to be organised !!!
but how will i fit writing on here i will have to take a notepad like lucky said or sneak off and use my phone !!!!
i need to get my fluids in too we never have time for a drink so taking a huge bottle of water with me !!!

Ok, so the recipe no-carb ploughmans suggests a matchbox sized piece of cheddar..now my ‘matchbox’ sizes seem to vary dependant on how hungry I feel at the time..Has anyone else had this problem. Has anyone weighed a matchbox sized piece of cheddar?? I find that having a weight to go by helps me stick to the correct portion size.

Query. My sister has just started the bsd 800 she is following the recipes in that book, she isn’t counting the carbs as apparently I haven’t checked but she said the book doesn’t ask you to count carbs. Listening to what she has eaten today, she has obviously gone over her 800 cals and definitely well over her 50 carbs. So out of curiosity I calculated the cals and carbs in the no carb Bircher recipe. The book says there is no carbs and 180 cals. Using my pal app it tells me the cals are 287.50 and the carbs are 38.1. !
Curious has anyone else found this or am I doing this all wrong. I don’t follow the book, I take the recipes and work it out for myself, I have lost 14 lbs in ten days I don’t think I would have done if I had just taken the recipes at face value.

Weighed in today have now lost 14 lbs, keep thinking this is to good to be true, but it is yeahhhhhh.
So end of the day just done 3000 steps with the dog did the walk in exactly half the time I did it 8 days ago.
Breakfast fage and raspberries cals 196 carbs 4
Milk cal 11
Lunch prawn salad 214 cals carbs 18.2
Two fresh apricots cals 60 carbs 7
Dinner mackerel salad cals 347 carbs 4.25

Cals for day 838 and 18.7 carbs.

Feeling well, not hungry and no apparent side effects.

Hi Christi1948
Have a fab time I would love to go , maybe next year. I am off today so watched it on tv Chris C was amazing. It’s really funny here but the collies respond to the music I think they can sense my excitement. Our roads are now littered with mammals (middle aged men in Lycra) ha ha . I’m training for a charity ride in Malawi so a I will abe a women in Lycra !!!!!
Have fun yell out for me xxx🙋🏻🐾🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴

oh collie – I wish I could learn to smile and say nothing – but no – I gob on – and its not at all helpful to people with eating disorders!! why cant I shut it? but I care about them, they care about me
but you are right – I was like them, I STILL am like them, its just that for the moment I have some control

as I walk down the street and see people eating junk food, or watch the piles of crap people put in their trolleys in Tesco – I want to shout from the roof tops
but I AM that person – the one who buys/bought her binge foods in secret – who eats in hiding – who is bitterly ashamed and only lets people see the ok side of her eating habits, who hides food around the house so they are not seen

I don’t want to be like that any more

Starcyl – thank you for your reply also – I was a similar size to you – was wearing 20’s but lots were too tight
– now they are loose but don’t seem to have fallen off yet
I wonder how I managed to walk around like that, but I did,

it is very humbling to hear that you think of me as inspirational, although I don’t feel like that at all, but thank you

and I have no doubt YOU will do it too, you will keep going, and pick yourself when you fall

xx

Ooooh I will give that a try soon 🙂 Thanks 🙂

no i remember reading it somewhere, just grate courgette and then squeeze the water out of it, mix it with some egg and then press flat on the pizza tray. bake in the oven for a little while until its dried out a bit
i mix some tomato puree and passatta and spread on the top and then just add everything else and bake until it looks done
A fairly medium courgette is enough for one pizza

Have you got a link for that Josie? 🙂

i have had the grated courgette base pizza tonight it was really good, mushrooms, feta avocado tiny bit of smoked salmon and some olives

Hi collie,
We are very sad people we tape it live and watch as much as we can during the day, we then tape the highlights in the evening! Watch that too, and go and watch a couple of stages if we can. We went to Sheffield when it was in Yorkshire, luckily our daughter who is now living with us for the moment lived in Sheffield, as does our son, he is married with children so couldn’t come with us, we got to our ‘spot’ at 10.30, Angela asked what do we do now, well she wouldn’t believe that we just sat or stood around for the day waiting, she didn’t realise the entertainment on offer, local people trying the hill we were waiting on, then the junior riders came along, then the caravan, then at last at five o’clock the first rider came through.
She gets it now, why we love it, although she doesn’t sit and watch it like we do, so looking forward to getting to France, I haven’t seen my brother for a couple of years, we couldn’t go last year and the year before of course it was in Yorkshire.
I will let you know how we get on, going Sunday back Friday.
Christine

P.S. Getting my head around full fat isn’t easy but must admit I really do prefer full fat Total ….. almost tastes like cream!! Amazing how we have been so ‘brain washed’ for so many years that it really has become so hard to ’embrace’ full fat. But definitely the way to go!!

Hi emjojo – I am in week 9 and at the beginning struggled with getting fat as for years I avoided it . I started doing all my stir frys with coconut oil and if hungry (normally around 4 pm) having a few nuts or a bit of cheese – hugely satisfying. Always full fat yoghurt, some berries and flaked almonds for breakfast. I normally have salads for lunch and add avo or feta or make sure I have mackerel or salmon.
I hope this helps – I try to have no more than 40g carbs a day.

Hi all

I’m also a July starter. I started on the 1st but only cutting out carbs like rice, bread and potatoes for the first five days. So during the first week I only had 2 ‘proper’ days. I still lost 6lb!!!!! I do have a lot to lose! I have followed the plan for the last 3 days and must admit I’m not hungry or headachy or jittery and actually feel really good. Maybe a few days of cutting out the main carbs helps to ease your body into the full on 800cal low carb plan.

So today is the first day of my second week (or maybe first week!) and just hoping this week goes as well as the last one!

Hope you are all still doing well.

Verano

Rummaging through the boxes. Eeeeeeh I like a good rummage, me.

Heee heee a rush to Aldi begins..

I was wondering what fancy schmancy chocolate you were buying… 😉

Same here Lucky, tho mostly rain. I want heat wave, we had for two weeks back in May…

My 86% chocolate was a typo btw, in case people think I’m very precise 😝😝😝

Good thinking Epspecially. Or a ganache.

We never see any adverse weather where I live, whether it’s bad or good. Have you seen The Simpsons Movie, where a whole dome is put over Springfield? Well, that’s how our island is. Snow? No. Three miles away? Kids off school, sledging. Ours trudging off to school, grumbling. Heat? Summer? No. Just varying degrees of cold. All. Year. Long.

Hmm yes not sure about the icing, think I’d probably just mix done coconut oil with dark 86% chocolate and use that as icing, strawberries would stick to that right?

Hope heat wave makes it to me😂😂

Hubby saw it on Facebook so it must be true. A little investigation (Google) sees the tabloids have run with it, whereas International Business Times has pooh-poohed it as a load of balls. They just stopped short of using the word ‘mediocre’. Average and below average were mentioned, as were rain, and brisk winds. Meh.

That’ll be just after I get into size 10 jeans will it?!

Have you seen that we’re getting a 6 week heatwave…?

I’d (personally) only eat the cheese if it was sweetened (like on a carrot cake). But we can’t. Unless… do they do powdered sweetener? Otherwise yogurt would work. Honey or Vanilla extract.

Oh thank God. I didn’t want to pee on your parade or ruin your enjoyment of the cake, but I didn’t like the look of the ingredients in the frosting. Hmmmm…

Actually, come on team, I need an alternative to the icing/cream. Yoghurt with honey? Soft cheese?

I must wait until Monday for my attachments 😩

Yes Epspecially! Janey, you can grate things with your food processor, it will have an attachment!

Hi Keep trying, I have just sat and read from the start of your posting on this thread, I see a lot of myself in the things you speak about. I have never really thought about what I eat or why, to be honest it was a case of if I liked it I would eat it. I don’t have a very sweet tooth but do love my savoury snacks and takeaways so can relate to the feelings of not wanting to eat something but needing to have it.
Up to quite recently I have just kept going and have ended up wearing a size 24 and suffering with my knees so finding this way of eating was a blessing. Reading your struggles has made me think about the issues of self sabotage and although I’m not there yet I am sure I can do it, not sure if you realise it but it’s not the people who come on here and tell us about losing 6 or 7lb in week who are the inspiration but the people like you who despite your own best attempts at putting obstacles in your own way you have moved them aside and have had a huge success, it doesn’t matter how long it takes to get there the important thing is that you will get there.

I hope you will keep adding your thoughts on here and maybe one day we can both say, yes it’s been a struggle but I am now where I want to be!

That looks amazing too, any you’d never think it was a cake tailored to a specific diet, would you?

And then they give me a cake recipe! 😳💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽 Damn that looks good

Hee hee Janey wouldn’t bother grating, just stick in blender/mixer thing. Or noodles would be even better!

Yum those fish parcels sound great. Tell the husband he can have that or pizza😜😜

Pizza is a funny one, it always smells delicious but never tastes as good as it smells and always makes me feel sick afterwards so ditching it has been easy. I guess I more of a sweet lover

Hi keep trying
I find that most people say can’t stick to that, what is odd I can and am enjoying it with the occasional wobble. I have now decided that the negativity of my colleagues and friends will not affect me and I just don’t discuss it unless they bring it up, I am trying to show them by example, now the weight loss is more apparent they are asking questions .when they say oh can’t do 800 or can’t manage without bread etc I just smile and say nothing because I do not want to persuade them, they have to find out for themselves as I was once that negative person until something snapped in my head and I thought I could do this.But some have started and it is fun discussing menus.
In my head I want to be zealous and shout about it but discretion is the better part of valour.
Well done keep going I find the forum very supportive , by the way I am the queen of emotional eating and find that side of me has defo reduced over the past few weeks .🙋🏻

http://freshplanetflavor.com/easy-chocolate-strawberry-cake/

THIS. for dessert tomorrow at the BBQ.

I know. It’s a cross I have to bear though, because I’m simply having too much fun!

GENIUS. You’re wasted on here..

Not courgetti, but you know what I mean. I posted this once and it wouldn’t let me.

Buy butternut squash courgetti. Snip into tiny pieces. You’re welcome.

That loaf looks good.. Although grating squash?? Really??? I’d better do that before I have my nails done tomoz!!

I feel I should bake something now…

Hi, started the 800 cal diet on Monday. My sig gives all my information, apart from the fact that I am on Ramipril tablets for high blood pressure. I did tell my practice nurse I was starting the diet and should I come off my BP meds and she said ‘Sure, why would you come off them?’ I reckon if I start getting dizzy I may stop them, as during my last diabetes MOT she said your BP is fine, you should ask the Dr to take you off the meds, I did ask the doc and she said ‘Sure, why would you want to do that’ – yes, singing off the same hymn sheet.

So, hi to all the other losers here. Many of you vgetarian? I’m making up my own diet as I don’t like most of the recipes in the book.

Will do a bit of reading now.

Janey, how about you try out your new pan with that??? (And send me some next day delivery)

So envious of you going to see Tour de France , even my dogs react to the music now!!! 🐾🐾

Oh Epspecially, how good does that look?

Thank you! I will persevere. Just got a little worried as I didn’t think it would go up. Will see what happens next week.
My first test was in the afternoon of the 3rd day as the monitor didn’t arrive until then ! my second was first thing in the morning on the 5th day – I thought this would be better, but as I write this I realise I perhaps need to give it more time . Patience is not my strong point!
Thank you for taking the time to reply , it means s lot.

Awwww lol – I’m not always this good, you know! I’m a bit of a pastry fiend myself, so there was a slight selfishness in my actions 😉 Salmon sounds nice though, I haven’t had salmon for years, the hubby isn’t keen but he will eat it at a push. Used to do it in soy, ginger, garlic, chilli flakes, lime juice and spring onion, in little parcels in the oven. I’m not eating enough fish, I know that. I really need to get my act together in the next couple of weeks. The children will be finished at school and I will be tearing my hair out and eyeing up pizza.

Oh! I had my favourite pizza in the freezer. And to be honest, I’d planned on ‘treating myself’ with it, probably after my first week’s weigh in, but after losing a stone in the first week, I couldn’t bring myself to do it. It’d keep for another week, I decided. And another. And another… It’s been calling me on occasion, bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, crisps… not bothered. But this bloody pizza! So, tonight, I cooked it for my son who is home from Uni. It’s gone now 🙂 So I know I can’t lose the plot and go and cook it if I’m having a bad day 😀 I nearly cried cutting it up though, I won’t lie.

*Toddles off to hunt down the chickpea flour pizza base…*