This morning I am grateful for…

A wonderful ten hour sleep (which I needed to catch up after staying awake through the night watching the referendum result…)

A great day out ahead of me watching the rugby league team I support, with my family. And I promise not to buy fries at the stadium.

Uncovering my long buried knitting box while I did a mass clear and sort yesterday. This will keep my hands busy at night, when I am tempted to snack.

Morning all! I have just slept for 10 hours straight after starting my massive reorganisation yesterday. I was so tired come tea time (and my tiny kitchen still in disarray) that I nearly cracked and ordered a takeaway, seriously. I muttered ‘Let’s order chicken kebabs and leave the naan bread…’ But I know I wouldn’t have left the naan bread. Nor the free cheesy garlic bread they send. So I pushed on. The boss had come across bacon chops in the butchers, so that’s what he wanted with mushrooms and egg. And we took your advice for the pudding JCH, we had strawberries and double cream, I chucked a few raspberries in there too. I never thought I would ever enjoy fruit as a dessert so much.

Janey, sounds like you did great at the Indian. This is going to be my next big test, eating out. I’ve eaten at Mum’s and stuck to the plan. Previously if I was on a ‘diet’ and went out for a meal, it would be a case of ‘sod it’ for one meal, and I’d have what I wanted from the menu (something, anything with chips lol) but I can’t do that now. Well, no, I can do that now, but I don’t want to do that now.

Tokyo – well done with your M&S visit, that place is lethal, especially the bakery bit 😉 I’ve never tried Percy Pigs but I have heard people raving about them, are they that good?

Janey – ‘Otherwise I think this recipe can be inserted back into Elana’s Pantry’ – by that you mean she can shove it up her…? I’m gutted that they didn’t work out. A few (possibly) silly questions now. We’re allowed to eat butter, aren’t we? So can’t we make these brownies with butter, instead of coconut oil etc, or is it specifically a lower/lowest carb thing? And secondly, I’m not 100% on this, but after trawling around and jumping from site to site the other week, I’m almost certain I saw that Bournville Cocoa powder was low carb on a paleo forum.

Josie – well done on your 10lb loss! I’ve never heard of the courgette pizza base, only the cauliflower one! How did it go? I’ve decided to write a Blood Sugar Diet cook book called; ‘Well, That Didn’t Work!’. So far we have my Smoked Mackerel Kedgeree made with Cauliflower rice, and Janey is contributing her Brownies (I’m sure…). Is the pizza IN the book? Or out… Spill the beans!!

Hi all! Hope everyone is doing well and feel free to share here if you like!
Today is day two of week 9. It’s so exciting to start a new 8 week section!

Today I went for a new hair style and got my shoulder length hair cut short. I like it a lot and my husband loves it. So easy and makes me look fresher I think. My stylist is a best friend so we trade services with each other.

Also went to a book store and splurged on some cool magazines with recipes for this kind of plan. I don’t even eat gluten free as I stay off carbs like that totally or at least 99.9%.

Tonight I found a new recipe online for healthy salmon and my husband made it and it was amazing!! Here it is:

💜Healthy Salmon
Heat oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit
Ingredients:
1 1/2 lbs of salmon
1 TB olive oil
1/2 cup fresh parsley
2 cloves chopped garlic
1 tsp turmeric

Mix the last four ingredients together. Press this on to the top side of the salmon. Place the salmon skin side down on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper (we used foil).
Bake for 12 minutes (check thickest part to be sure it’s done).
Enjoy!!
This makes about 3-4 meals for both of us. So delicious!!

Tomorrow is a day off for me! Yeah! It’s supposed to be sunny for the next 8 days and 75 degrees so it will be gorgeous here. We are at the water and across it are snow capped mountains.

I hope to start exercising a little more on the bike and walking. I haven’t really done much of anything and checked today that my average weekly weight loss has been 3.75. Of course I lost a lot the first couple weeks and it was less after that but there were a lot of 4 lb weekly losses.

I know many of you are in England and Scotland and I wish you all the best as the recent vote makes changed for your countries and lives. 💜

Hugs to all of you as we are a team of friends getting healthy together!!

Lynne you are a rockstar for sure!’ Huge congrats on losing 30% of your weight! Wow!
I finally joined the over 8 weeks group as I just started my 9th week! It’s exciting to move forward into another 8 week period!
💜

Hi Izzy,
You are so cute with your crafts! Wish we lived closer to do some together!
Great idea re your slow losing and getting to another stone. It works so well for you!
💜

A day to relax.
Not feeling hungry anymore.
Sitting and knitting.

Hi Mike6,
You’ve already proven to yourself that this way of life suits you – stick with low carb med style with some intermittent fasting and you’ll keep feeling fabulous.
You’ll know how to control what you eat and drink and how often to add fasting.
All power to you.

Hi Lucia,
What a great party in the clubhouse – still going – great to see you and all of the BSDers….we’re all looking good.
Pleased you liked your surpriseogram.

Mixnmatch, hi. Mostly when I eat out I choose fish but today the burgers smelt so wonderful I had to go with it. In future I will ask for other dishes “without” what ever I don’t need. Also my OH didn’t complain at me being difficult.

yes, I have just finished reading the book and am about to start tomorrow! 3 years ago I lost 3 stone at Slimming World and felt great but life crisis got in the way and I put it all back on plus another stone. I feel so unhealthy now. I need to stop shovelling carbs in all day long. I eat masses of chocolate so this is going be a challenge, but reading about amazing weight losses and knowing that it will improve my health is motivating me. I have a lot of very difficult stuff going on in my life now but I know if I wait for the ‘right time’ it will never happen! Scales this morning sat 16 stone 7. I’m 5 ft 5 so this needs to change. I wish everyone else success and I know from my time at Slimming World that chatting to others, especially when the going gets rough, is a massive help.

Good luck with your start, i was very foggy headed for the first couple of weeks, also started taking Metformin at the same time as the diet, feeling slightly better now. its been said on here that it is to do with the withdrawal from Carbs.

Well done Mike you sound like you are on your way to more improvements in your health, its great for us all to come on here and be inspired by other peoples journeys

A squeezed courgette pizza base??? The mind boggles. Although human enterprise prevails in this way of eating! Let me know how it turned out 😃
I aspire to a spiraliser altho TBH it’s as easy to buy them ready spiralled!

if i search the numerous boxes of clothes i have scattered about the house i am sure that i will find clothes in all sorts of sizes, but good to know that its not as difficult as we are led to believe to lose weight when we are in our 60’s.

Sorry yours didn’t work mixnmatch but well done for turning it around and still using it successfully! I’ve started to notice that many low carb recipes are a bit fiddly and need a bit of a knack to make them work.

I’ve got a new craft project to add to my growing list. We have some new tables and we haven’t been bothered with coasters in recent times so they are all lost but not wanting to spoil our new furniture I’m going to make us some! I’ve ordered a set of plain wooden coasters to paint on and I’m going to paint on things that mean something to us. eg son likes spaceships, daughter likes mermaids, hubby likes dragons, I like dragonflies and so on. I will think up more soon. I’ve bought 10.

Thanks so much for saving me the £8.000 i had thought i would give it a go also thanks for the taste test as well. The things we do on this way of eating.

who would have thought that i would be squeezing the liquid out of grated courgette to make a pizza base, but there you are its done now. I have more gadgets that i will probably only use a handful of time but I can spiralize with the best of them now,

Still i am 10lbs down and thats the point of it so am happy with that,

Well done to everyone who has weighed to day.

Evening all! Just made the promised Paleo chocolate brownies. Approximate cost: £8,000 per batch, stress level factor 10, yum factor debatable, kids’ reaction; spat in bin 😱 I think they may be better when they cool down and the coconut ‘lard’ has solidified a bit more so will try again in the morning. Otherwise I think this recipe can be inserted back into Elana’s Pantry, thanks all the same!

I found a pub in the Lakes which served what they called the Skinny burger, with no bread bun, just the burger, toppings and a salad. Great idea for burger lovers like me.

I tried this one today too. With a little less success. I modified the recipe slightly to use what I had in the house and the result wouldn’t stick together at all. I used a Corn-ish pasty filling (normal filling of a pasty but with no potato and with added fresh parsley which i have had in a proper Cornish pasty before and really liked), which I cooked anyway having chopped it all up and mixed it together by the time I decided the pastry wasn’t going to be recoverable, in a small casserole with the lid on. My OH had some for tea with a baked potato and pronounced it very good, and I baked the pastry flat in a baking tin sprinkled with a little parmesan and salt and pepper and they made quite successful low carb crumbly cheese biscuits, which I had for my lunch with some nice cheese.

Wow! Your successes are inspiring! I am just starting and have 70 pounds to lose….from what I am reading it can be done! Appreciate your tips and advice!

So today’s baking experiment was using this ‘pastry’ recipe, if I remember rightly I think weescotty posted it? anyway thanks to whoever it was!

http://www.ibreatheimhungry.com/2012/03/brazilian-chicken-pies-2.html

I only used the pastry recipe not the filling. For the filling I chopped up and fried chicken then added curry powder, a little tomato puree, and a bit of chicken stock and then simmered it down to thicken. I used dairylea cheese spread, and my efforts looked a lot darker in colour than the pictures in the article but were still nice.

It took a bit of trial and error to get them right, I made two batches and for the second batch I added a bit extra coconut oil. I found that when the dough cools the oil hardens and I think that’s what makes it hard to then work with as it goes crumbly, as well as if you roll it out too thinly. Rolling the dough into a ball in your hands seems to be enough to warm it up a little and rolling it out thicker than you might have thought, adding the filling to the middle and then using the baking paper to fold it turned out to be the best method. These made perfectly reasonable chicken curry pasties, around 160 calories per pastie and 7g carbs. I like them, my son likes them, my husband likes them… My daughter isn’t here but probably won’t lol.

I’m going to see if they freeze/thaw well and if they are any good cold as these would make a good addition to my packed lunch menu if they work. Either way the day’s experiment has been a success woohoo.

After today’s countryside walk with dog and OH we went for a pub lunch. I chose a naked burger that had Bacon and cheese on it with some chips on the side. I enjoyed it all but left half the chips. My downfall was a pint and a half of beer (it was very refreshing). I didn’t miss the burger bun at all and the waitress thought that was a good idea.

Hi,

You seem to be weighing yourselves a lot and if your weight fluctuates you are disappointed.
How about weighing every week, or every three days?
Your weight will change hour by hour. It will go up for no good reason. Then you will lose loads when you don’t deserve to.
Please don’t set yourselves up to be disappointed.
Try and think that you are getting your bodies as healthy as you can.

I read that someone was eating their last bar of chocolate. It may not be. You may fancy a square or two of the dark chocolate if you have a craving. You may just crave a chocolate bar. Don’t kick yourselves. Enjoy it, acknowledge that you can’t do it all the time. Then come back to the diet.

I have been on the diet a handful of months now. Yup, I have had ups and downs. I have had crazy moments and zen like moments when the penny dropped.
I am slimmer but more importantly, I am healthier, happier, more energetic and basically in a great place.

If you read my blog, today I have had a slice of toast, a bit of birthday cake. I have enjoyed it, not felt guilty. I acknowledge I cannot do this tomorrow, nor do I want to.
So as they say, don’t sweat the small stuff,

Keep losing, keep moving, keep blogging, keep smiling

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Haha Lucia

Hi Californiagirl. Thanks😃

Congratulations on joining the 16 week club 💐

Are you keeping going, to reach the 23 week club?

Great to see so many ‘recycled teenagers’ on here 😃

I was 66 on Monday, and today my total weight loss to date (after 27 weeks) is 68 pounds😃 I’ve now lost 30% of my starting weight😱

Californiagirl – I used to love mini skirts, they were the only ones I didn’t need to shorten LOL.

I’m not sure about jeggings either. Or jeans. I like cotton casual trousers – more like chinos. Being short (5ft 2ins) I tend to look better in more fitted clothes. 😱 Now it’s definitely no more elasticated waistbands on trousers or skirts.

What I do hope to find later this year is some nice boots, higher than the ankle boots I’ve always had to wear in the past. Even extra-wide leg wellingtons were really tight😱

Hi Captainlynne — when I started this diet in March, yours was one of the first posts I read, along with Bill and Hashimoto — your journey was so inspiring — now 16 weeks later I am joining the 16 week club and still being inspired by your weight loss. I have enjoyed reading about your journey — thank you for sharing all your adventures! And huge congratulations on continuing success, wow 30% down — that is truly epic.

Hi everyone.

End of week 27 today. Another pound gone, making a total of 68 pounds. That means I have now lost 30% of my starting weight😱😃

Patrice and Christine, sorry to hear about your situations. Well done on keeping going – it’s not easy to keep to something like the BSD when life intervenes.

I would love some retail therapy – buying clothes of course. Trouble is I usually can’t find anything I like. When I do, guess what size they don’t have! Yes, that’s right, the size I am. Over the last few years many of my clothes have come from British Home Stores, but I’m struggling there now. Don’t know where my store of choice will be after they close 😱 . It’s so long since I was able to buy clothes in ‘normal’ shops that I’m not even sure what to buy anymore. 😳

I’m not really a jeans type of person – more chino type trousers for casual wear. I was given some tops yesterday 😃 Sizes 14 and medium. The 14s were snug, but the mediums were fine – different styles too. Not bad – when I started this I was size 24/26 ish, or XXL😱

I’m collecting free dressmaking patterns off magazines, ready to start making my own, as I can’t find anything ready made. But waiting until I reach my target, otherwise it will be too big by the time I finish sewing LOL.

This is so much fun to be recreating ourselves at age 60! I am just finishing up my 16th week — oh my goodness — so far from when I began in wet, cold March! Yay! I get to join the 16 week club at the end of the week! I have so enjoyed this journey, everyone’s postings and musings. I fell off the wagon a lot but I always got back on the next day. I am down to a size 10 — I can wear a mini-skirt (well, just ignore the wobbly knee stuff). Who knew, when I picked up that BSD book at London Heathrow in February that it would result in such a giant change in my life. Thank you to all the folk giving support and connection worldwide and thank you to Michael for his brilliant book.

End of week 27 and another pound gone. Total now 68 pounds. That means I have lost 30% of my starting weight😱😃

Hi
Well I started at 12.11:5, (80.5kg) was on 12 week Paleo then last Thursday switched to BSD! I weighed this morning expecting a gain ( as 4 glasses of red🍷🍷🍷🍷”grape juice” just jumped into my hand & mouth!!)
I now weigh 12.4:5 lbs! 7 lbs off!!😂😂😜🍾
77.11kg😍😍😍
I’m happy…. Now to carry on!!!!
G c

H Greenjanet, just a little thought, I don’t have the book with me but seem to remember something mentioned about warfarin users, doing it, you might need to check with your gp first, see what the book says, there might be mention of it on this site too. Otherwise the bsd is absolutely amazing. I’ve lost very slowly but still enjoying it 12 weeks later and a lot of people have had huge losses. Good luck.

Congratulations on getting your life back Mike! Very pleased for you that this has turned your life around and thank you for posting your story.

In the book he suggests that if you want to you can take a multivitamin, so maybe just a general one for overall good health would do.

I googled mouth ulcers and deficiencies and iron, B12 and vit D are all mentioned, so if I were you I’d just pick up a multivitamin making sure those were present.

I take iron, and a mix of vit B’s anyway for other reasons that pre-date me being on BSD and I’ve felt very well and had no problems.

Tokyo14 am having the same trouble re logging on and posting. have learned once I am logged in just to write in the box at the bottom of any page in the relevant thread and your reply will get placed in the correct order. If lots of us having this prob maybe techies could have a look?

My son is great haha. He was in bed at about midnight last night but you know what kids are like I didn’t expect him to sleep late in the morning. I went to bed about 0100, and woke up about 0900 thinking… oh he isn’t up yet but I guess he will be soon. I drifted off to sleep again and had some weird dreams involving my husband, a long dead relative, jigsaws and a cow. Yes – a pet cow!

I next woke up at 1145, when my son came into my room! I guess I needed the sleep.

I’ve started the day with an almond milk and strawberry shake nyumnyum, I may have a snack later in the afternoon and then we’re having mince for dinner. So I’ll either have bolognaise with courgetti, or I might make some crackers flavoured with chilli powder to have with some chilli. hmmm choices choices. I’m going to stick to 800 today I think after having what I did yesterday.

The two books I ordered with clothes customising ideas have arrived, already excited having browsed a few pages!

My friend and I are planning to go to The Rocky Horror Picture Show in September 🙂 so last night we decided that we would (or I would lol) make us something individual and outrageous to wear! We were looking at black dresses online that we could add detail too, but now I’m thinking a rummage in the 2nd hand stores is the way forwards. We can find dresses there that we can then adapt and add things to. I should be quite a bit smaller again by then as well! Not sure of exactly the date we are going but it’s 10 + weeks away. I’m thinking even with a slower rate that should be at least another stone gone by then.

Well I’m off to browse online to decide what I should bake today, it’s become a regular weekend thing to stock up on crackers and try something new! mixed in with amusing my son, catching up on the laundry, changing the beds, cleaning the toilets and looking at my new books. Fun packed day for Izzy lol.

Have a lovely day 🙂

having a bit of a nightmare trying to post on here keeps logging me out so no idea were this will end up as on page 1 of 4 every time i go on bam it logs me out !!!!
well just returned from my saturday visit to markus and sparkus ( m and s!!) and was checking every item i bought for carbs bought no bread or cakes which i can usually demolish a whole aisle !!! even ignored the ” percy pig sweets ” which i love and have three bags sitting lonely in my kitchen at the min !!!
its a whole new way of shopping thats for sure salad and mackeral for lunch today am interested to hear how the brownies turnout as could do with a hit of chocolate right now !!
have a lovely day and hope the suns shining for everyone x

You definitely can 🙂

Gaaaaah I’ve realised that I’ve forgotten an ingredient for the gold bullion brownies 😱 Back to the shops. These better taste amazing…..

By the way, forgot to admit earlier.. Went out for an Indian last night! Not too sinful though. No alcohol for me, a tandoori mixed grill with raita and just a small piece of naan… Considering I would’ve caned an entire portion of pilau and the majority of the naan in the bad old days I’m taking that as a result! My stomach was soooooo gurgly afterwards tho, probably a protest vote against bread after 7 weeks!

Hi gang,
Many thanks for your kind wishes on my errr…. 23rd birthday. 😉

I have decided to suspend my membership for 24 hours, so I have turned my mobile phone off.
Had a lie in, and opened my cards and presents.
Took my Fitbit watch off,
loosened my belt.
Let my hair down.
Eat whatever I want.
Left a few dirty cups in the sink ( well that is HUGE for me)
Ordered an extra pair of specs. This is a luxury for me.
Bought a newspaper and read it outside ( usually read the free one on the web)
I have completed two sedukus and a cross word puzzle.
Had a cooked breakfast, had one slice of toast in a garden centre.

It’s been great so far.

Just off to our club house for a shandy, socialise and a boogie. See you all there in a few minutes.
Hope there is a strip o gram , I’ll put my specs on and warm my hands 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

Love Lucia
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Hi Patrice,
I haven’t posted for a bit, have been Dealing with my own demons! However, I just had to say, I am so happy for you on so many levels that some of your issues are slowly being resolved in a way, I truly admire your fortitude in the face of so many problems, and so you should be very proud of how you have dealt with everything while still being strong and keeping to the diet, and well done on your weight loss
I am finding my loss has slowed somewhat, I’m only losing the odd pound here and there and mostly ounces, but, it’s still on the downward path so I’m keeping going
We have had lots of things happening in our family these last two months, may and June are very busy in our household, so that might explain my slow weight loss, too many people to look after and please, so not much time left for me to organise my own needs, same old same old, when you have a big family I suppose!
Finally, I will say that you are definitely going to enjoy a bit of retail therapy when you get chance to get yourself out to the shops, so do enjoy that phase of your weight loss!
Take care I will be thinking about you even if I’m not posting on the forum.
Christine

Thank you JCH 🙂 We’re still sickeningly smitten with each other. I thought there was a honeymoon period? Never mind, not that I’m complaining. I think we’ve only argued about three times in all these years. Your suggestion sounds really nice! I could pick up some mince and make a nice thick chilli burger, and fry some onions up in olive oil, eat it with a knife and fork with a salad. I have been fancying gammon the last couple of days, with a poached egg. We’ll see what the wholesaler has in. I also need to make sure that tea is ready just to heat up when we get home tomorrow night, or that’s when I’ll snap and shove pizza in 😉 Pudding though, yes that sounds like a plan, I keep forgetting about cream, I’ve been so hooked on the greek yogurt. I’ll let you know what we decided on later 🙂

Wooooooooo go Janey! Well done on size 14, I’m pleased for you, proud of you and jealous simultaneously. Bahahahahahaha that’ll teach you, won’t it? I’ve given up bending down in front of mine a long time ago. Lesson learned. I get ‘Don’t bend over like that in front of me, I’ll be like a rat up a drainpipe…’ How crude.

The worlds most expensive brownies, ever. I think you need to get some of that gold cake spray to emphasise the fact further, Janey. Cut them into gold bullion shapes.

Right, off to the wholesaler and hardware store, hubby is putting shelves up for me today. House isn’t small but it’s stupidly laid out, with zero storage, and like most people, we have too much stuff. Emptied one of the little junk rooms, and I’ve uncovered my rowing machine that I am now light enough to use!! (Bye bye bingo wings!) An exercise bike, and one of those little bikes that are just the pedals, you can use with your arms or legs. Wish me luck, have a lovely Saturday! 🙂

If you have an iPad, go to the blue square box with an upwards arrow in it on the right hand side of the search box.
This gives you options of where you want the page (recipe in this case) to go. Scroll sideways until you find iBooks, an orange icon with an open book. Press this and it will download the page to iBooks, which you can then view off line if you want on the iBooks icon on the iPad.

Hope that’s not too confused!

Bissell.

time with good friend, sharing, laughing, setting the world to rights – priceless!😄

walking on the beach under a wide blue sky watching the skylarks perform 🎵🎶

eating a BSD friendly salad in a lovely restaurant… with a basket full of bread and butter sitting next to me on the table…and not being tempted. Then saying ‘ no thanks ‘ to all the sweet cakes and sticky puddings on menu only to be offered a bowl of berries and cream (not on the menu) bliss 😇

Coming home to find no dirty dishes waiting for me…thanks son😊

A very good day🌻

I found weeks 3 and 4 really tough, I think I lost 2lbs across both weeks but week 5 saw a big loss. I’m not losing inches but it’s going from somewhere so I just keep plugging away knowing that these plateaus will come but also go too!

Over the 23 week

Happy Saturday I crossed the 23 week line yesterday and I’ve been married 33 years today.

My news update….. My father is still in hospital and has now been sectioned but should be moving to a very nice home next week. Mum is struggling with her Parkinson’s with all the stress. My husband had some good news that his secondary kidney cancer that broke his femur has after 18 months shown some signs of new bone growth. We have still not moved but chain is now complete (again) and fingers crossed I can start living without boxes by end of July.

I have stuck to the plan for 23 weeks now and I’m not using food for emotional or energy boosting needs. I defiantly see food and need food in a different way now.

I have lost 4 stone 12lbs or 68bls in total with another 2 stone I think to go –I have lost every week but it’s slower now but I’m happy with that– and as Lynn said I’m very pleased to be in the ‘over weight ‘ BMI section!!! I wasn’t on any medication for my T2 but my fasting bloods are now normally in the 4s so I have stopped testing. My blood pressure is more often in the normal range than not.

Friends and family all see a difference in me. As with a lot of people writing now after they have lost a lot of weight are finding clothes shopping a happy experience but not sure what to choose!!! — what fun!!!! I fancy the 58 year old rock chic look but still having my classic navy and pearls look handy!!

Here’s to the next 8 weeks and hopefully summer and a house move!! X

Patrice

Way to go Plumptious, in those size 16’s!! Glad your few days away went well. It s amazing how our food preferences can be changed in a relatively short space of time isn’t it? I’m quite happy to watch the rest of the family enjoy desserts etc without feeling hard done by now. I had a small treat last night as we went out for a payday Indian. But I stuck to tandoori mixed grill and raita, and NO alcohol. I had a small piece of naan bread as my sin but no rice.. Unheard of for me!! Stomach seemed to be gurgling a lot after.. Wonder if that’s a protest against bread after 7 weeks?!
Get those pink trainers on and keep up the exercise! They’re a cheery reminder of how far you’ve come 😃 I will probably hit the roller disco again later with the kids. Still need to factor in a bit more structured exercise but trying to walk more!!!

Wow you guys are good! Thanks for your replies. I’m starting today feeling more positive and determined, you’re right, I can do this!!

Good morning all and happy Saturday! Great to read so much positivity today 😃
Loving the tales of big clothes being cast by the wayside too. I took delivery of a (secondhand) dress in size 14 today (not sure that size dress has featured in my wardrobe for nearly 20 years) and not only does it fit AND look good, the reaction by my other half was ‘enthusiastic’ to say the least! Let’s just say I’ll need to be careful bending down to load the washing machine next time 😳
Ah yes, the 85% chocolate IS the heroin one I told you about Lucky. Cals are low because it is literally chocolate and just about no sugar. Also so rich that I’m impressed you managed to eat 3 pcs JCH!!
So Waitrose welcomed me yesterday as I searched for yet more ‘legal’ ingredients for the brownies recipe. I think I’ve spent nearly £20 so far so they had better be fantastic! Will try and make them today and report back….
Enjoy your weekend ladies!

Well our few days away to the seaside was really nice, good weather and lots of extra walking about exploring things. We negotiated meals well -no extra “treats” or items not in the BSD . I didn’t expect to lose any weight but knew I wouldn’t add it on….very happy to say I did lose some….so over the week a few more pounds gone. The bags of candy floss, toffee apples, donuts etc really didn’t appeal to me at all. In my pre BSD days I would have scoffed at least three or four donuts.
Also gone are the size 18 jeans…way too baggy even for use at the allotment.
Had a good wardrobe sort and lots of things jettisoned to either charity shop, recycling bag or a friend (bigger than me now….tables turned!)
Have ordered some new trainers and excited they will be here any time soon. Its a long time since I possessed any. I have walking boots but they are too heavy for the daily walk in terrain that doesn’t warrant them. They are pink…very unusual for me- but they feel cheerful lol!
How’s it going JaneyCD? I know what you mean about fitting exercise in when you have so many other demands on your time. Its lovely now to be early retired and pretty much design your own day. I look at the years gone by and wonder now how on earth I fitted everything in.
Have you tried the family on cauli rice? I think that is more easily disguisable with something like a Korma style curry sauce?