Hi everyone, well its the end of week 8 for me and today the weight is 105.2 kg. I started at an insulin resistant 120.2 kg so that’s 15 kg (or 2 stone 5 pounds in old money). That’s 13% reduction in body weight. Even more encouraging is the 5 1/2 inches lost from the belly (started at 50 inches), 2 1/2 from chest and 2 inches from the thighs, so 12 inches of my body has disappeared (hopefully never to return).
I also started to take my BS levels for the past 3 weeks and my fasting levels have never been higher than 6, pre dinner 5.7 and post dinner 6.2. Looking at the guidance that puts me in the normal range for non diabetic.
The weight loss over the last few weeks did slow down but remained steady at about 1 1/2 kg. Went through some issues with constipation and at times very cold fingers and toes but these passed and so left feeling healthier, happier and more confident.
Although the diet is an 8 week program I still need to lose more inches from the belly as my waist to hip ratio is 1 which is still high risk.So I’ll carry on and try to hit the 100 kg mark and get the hip/waist ratio below 1.
Keep inspiring me people.

Hi gang.
Goal.
What is yours?
Mine was to be a size 12 or to be 11 stone.
These are numbers.

I want to redefine my goal.
So let’s look at what I have done to myself on this blog.

I have gone from being permanently on the settee glued to the telly. Now I am able to walk 10 miles, cycle to the shops etc. Run a bit, eg to the bus without having a heart attack.

I have gone from eating two meals of Chinese takeaway with a huge bag of chips plus three family sized bags of chocolate plus bags of crisps.
Now I eat ham or chicken salad. Or veggies with fish. Or bacon egg mushroom toms. Or just veggies.

So I am able to move more, eat less. I guess I have already hit my goal without noticing. This is what I am going to carry on doing, but if along the path, I bump into a size 12, I will be happy. But if I don’t, I have got something much more than that….. My health back.

Sorry to be a bit deep this morning, I think it is because another pound of wobbalocity has dropped off.

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Great idea, 9plus!
Good luck with the diet – it’s wonderful : )

I’ll give it a try. 🙂 He can only say no, can’t he? My husband has almost no sense of smell – can’t smell flowers, etc – but he can smell sulphurous vegetables and protests when I even cook them because of the smell in the house (I almost have to cook my favourite veg – broccoli – in secret). Today I’m doing veggie burgers and celeriac mash – wish me luck!

So day four has dawned and I have already lost five pounds. Last week for some reason my ankles were puffy at the end of the day which is unusual for me. I put it down to my coming out in sympathy with my daughter who is expecting a baby this week but actually it was probably fluid retention. I know that most of the weight loss in the first week is water so an added bonus is that my ankles are now behaving as ankles should.

I have attempted a couple of the recipes which have been very successful. Cauliflower rice was pronounced yummy by my husband and the hummus is great with loads of crudités.

I am not actually hungry but feel a bit peckish from time to time which I am hoping will lessen as my body gets used to low carb eating. I counteract the peckishness with drinking soda and convincing myself that any pangs I feel is the fat melting😉

yay worked out a plan, cut n paste the link and put the recipe name in the subject line, email it to mysellf and then save it in a recipe file. progress!

ahhh thats great information thanks, still lookinga round the website trying to find my feet

Izzy you are a STAR!!!! : )

Hi Christine, I just want you to know you and your family are in my thoughs x

Hi 9plus,
What i do is copy then paste onto a word document and either print the recipe to add to my ‘recipe book’ or put it in my desk top recipe folder.
Hope that helps 🙂

Please sign our petition : )

Hi Tink, i have had my morning coffee from day 1. Just nescafe and a splash of milk (its just what i happen to like) and the diet worked fine for me..
I’m asthmatic and coffee is supposed to be good for that.
🙂

yes Happylife you are right I like feeling tired a lot less that is for sure! I’m tired this morning too but I’ve had two late nights in a row.

Thanks Stacey, If we jump back on the wagon we will still get to our destination. Life goes on around us as we make our life changes and I’d rather step into it than sit on the outside. This doesn’t mean I will always compromise my new habits, but ya know… sometimes is OK.

I was really proud of myself last night. After dinner I zoomed off to pick up my friend for the history tour (got my 10000 steps lol) and due to a miscommunication we were too early, so we went to the pub. I was driving anyway so not tempted by alcohol, in all honesty I don’t much drink anyway so alcohol isn’t really a big deal. My friend bought a packet of crisps, and I didn’t eat any. Just had a diet coke. Now I know that isn’t best but fizzy drinks are a rarity for me too. Later on after the walk on the way back to my car we were both cold and nipped in to Burger King so she could grab a coffee and she also bought a do-nut. Again I didn’t have anything. I actually didn’t even want anything anyways but I still felt a little triumphant. I didn’t fall off the wagon yesterday, I just stepped off for a moment and jumped back on.

Today, I’ve had yoghurt and a satsuma, felt like a change! lunch is cheese and cucumber, and dinner is going to be chicken and cashews.

Tonight I am going to make pickled eggs 🙂 but it’s two weeks until you can eat them.

Well I guess I better go start my day, but at least it’s the end of my working week. I only work 4 days.

Have a nice day!!

http://www.vox.com/2016/5/10/11649210/biggest-loser-weight-loss

I found this website in my news ticker yesterday – Reading it was very helpful to me as I was concerned with the news of the last weeks regarding regaining weight. The Doc, I think, presents a very balanced view of weight loss. A healthy approach, at least from my perspective.

Hope others find it useful… might be useful in other forums too… will leave it to those more experienced and involved in the forum support network to make that decision. Please feel very free to share if you think it would help others too.

BTW… bought some scales – loss since March 12 is 13kg… very happy with that considering I had several weekends off!! and played around with carbs a bit. Total loss since beginning my wight loss journey toward better health began is now 32kg (70 pounds)… 27% of starting body weight… feeling fairly overwhelmed with that number…. 10 more kg to go…. wonder if I will make it…. life gets in the way sometimes huh???..

Good luck to everyone… Love reading posts and getting further inspiration….

Cheers
Not quite so fatty – but still a bit!!!

I also don’t know, but if you know one of the ingredients and enter it in the search box at the top of the page it will give you a list of all recipes with that ingredient. Hope this helps a wee bit.

Sorry I have no idea! Just responding so you don’t think we’re ignoring you.

I have also heard of a strict ketogenic diet being used to avoid epileptic seizures.

Christine, Love and support to you and to your loved ones suffering right now… good luck with all that must be overcome. I hope your hard work and success in improving your health will help.

Good morning lovely weigh-in thread people 🙂

5 weeks done and 22 lbs gone from a starting weight of 222 lbs.

I really should have bought a tape measure before I started this. The lard is coming off more slowly now (I’ve even seen my weight go back up a couple of times) but I could swear my body is changing shape quite dramatically… and for the better.

Happy days 🙂

I’ve just scheduled my annual glucose tolerance test – the one where you drink nasty glucose liquid then they see if you go into a diabetic coma (or at least if your blood sugar spikes). The results of my last one were very close to a diagnosis of diabetes so I’m hoping my efforts this year have improved my glucose tolerance.

I was used to eating lots of carbs for three days before the test, but at the last one they told me they don’t get people to do that any more (yay!). But since then I have moved into a different state (NSW Australia) and I’ve been told I need to carb-load again! I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with carbs!

Do other people still have to carb load where they live?

Thanks guys ☺👍

I measure out 100mls of full fat milk every morning which equals 65 cals. I record this in my food diary and then use it for tea and coffee throughout the day, approx 4 cups. Full fat is better for you according to this diet and I find it makes me use it in moderation.

My tea and coffee are ‘snacks’ between meals and help with any hunger pangs. I really miss my cappuccinos though, instant coffee just isn’t the same but it does the job 🙂

Don’t worry Izzy, I went out for dinner with friends expecting to eat a salad, it was all planned as I had checked the menu before hand. I got there and the menu had changed and my meal option gone. It was pizza special night and I caved! I ate a whole pizza to myself and had the free wine that came with it :/

It took 5 days to start losing again but I still lost overall. its nice to feel in control and know that one blow out doesn’t end your diet.

Hi Kilwinny
I lost 1.5kg at the end of week 3, I’ll take that! So 7kg down in 3 weeks.
I’m too afraid to eat something as yummy as that for fear of undoing all my good work, but if you got away with it, then good luck to you!
Good luck at your next weigh in.😀
Linda

Hiya, I’ve had the same issue, only 1-2 pounds in the first week! Hoping this second week will see a bit more weight off, like you I struggle to get anything off, takes forever!!!! Have about 20 pounds to shift. It’s great to read the posts here for encouragement! Here’s to more successful weeks to come 🙂

Hi Linda,
Well the static phase has shifted at last.
I’m now 11lbs down in 3 weeks. I decided to relax a little and actually ate out with a friend yesterday. I ate a gorgeous burger in a brioche bun and sweet potato chips. I savoured every mouthful! I didn’t need to eat for the rest of the day, so that’ll be why I didn’t put on any weight! 😉
I hope your efforts have been rewarded by a loss on the scales.

I have been doing the BSD now for just over 10 days and have shed a few pounds and am quite enjoying it. However, as when I did the paleo diet (similar low carb principles) in the past, I have really struggled with bloating and discomfort and wondered if anyone else has had the same trouble and knows of any possible reasons or cures. Thank you.

Hi Clairebear, welcome back and well done for having another go and not giving up completely.
I’m on week 5, a stone down and a lot of it’s pretty much now a lifestyle change. I’ve fallen off the waggon a couple of times but have got back on the next day. I’m trying a max of 1000 calories rather than 800 ( which usually means aiming for 800 but truthfully realising it’s more like 1000). I count calories on ‘my fitness pal’.
I was a real bread Monster so have cut it out completely; pasta is replaced by courgetti and rice by cauliflower ‘rice’ both need seasoning but quick to prepare. It’s also having something to grab if the munchies hit that helps so I don’t raid the biscuits! We have packs of sliced cheese and crab sticks in the fridge and usually one eaten slowly is enough for the munchies to pass. Another help for me is to drink a glass of fizzy water if I’m hungry as often I’m more likely dehydrated.
I did a lot of lurking around the forums before I took the plunge and there is always someone around whatever the time of day or night!
Good luck😀

Well done Eureka! Never miss an opportunity😃

Hi Christine

Congratulations on reaching your target. Hope you post again soon (((hugs)))

Hi MooLoc
Don’t be discouraged, I lost 4.6kg in my first week then only 0.9kg in my 2nd week then 1.5kg in my 3rd and I’m following the plan to the letter. I’ve just decided that this plan is now forever and so long as I’m on the downward slope, I’m ok.
Just keep up the fats and the water.
Linda

My first 2 months I had no alcohol (wasted calories) and I cut out rice and went for the cauliflower rice and added cumin seeds for flavour / No pasta – replaced with veg / only sweet potatoes and ditched the bread (only have sourdough or soda now).

It is amazing how many calories are in things especially oil 1tbsp, any type 120calories, so watch the little things as they all add up.

I’ve never been happy with my weight all my life and this has really worked for me – Now Size 10 (never before)

Stick with it and just keep adapting

I stuck to the recipes in the book to start with and really have never got caught up in the ratio thing, counting calories & weighing things was a big enough deal for me.

When I started I counted the coffee calories, then I stopped, as I started my morning with a coffee and full fat milk (if you have semi you only put more in and it appears full fat milk/yoghurt & butter are better for you). This also keeps me going to 10am before I need Breakfast and then don’t need lunch to later so no snacking. Its all swings and roundabouts – but just work out what works for you. 3 months on it still works for me

Thank you so much, that’s very helpful!

Im very new here so fumbling arund trying to figure out how to use it. can you tell me if there is a way to “save” favourite recipes here in my profile so I don’t have to keep going ver the 100+ pages of recipes?

I’m in a similar position. I’m somewhere between 10st 7 lb and 11st (too terrified to check TBH) and want to get to 9st 7 lb. I lost my “baby weight” of half a stone in 4 weeks at 1200 cals so am hoping 8 weeks will bring me closer to a stone lighter. Good luck – let me know how you get in if you want some support 🙂

@ Ay Carumba – do you have a “standing desk” or do you perch somehow? I’d love to stand to work but don’t know how logistically to do it in an office where we all have normal desks.

Hi 9plus,
In the BSD800 forum there’s a ‘Weigh in thread’ that many BSDers use. Other than that most BSDers seem to keep their own records – electronic or hard copy.

Hi Clairebear,

Welcome back to the BSD. There is an enormous amount of support available simply by being part of these forums. There’s usually someone reading the forums who will help out.
Today is Week 6 Day 6 for me and the BSD is becoming a way of life for me. There have been days that have been really difficult for me with cravings but pushing through the cravings becomes easier the longer I continue on the BSD. It’s great not to be driven by constant hunger.
As you can’t physically remove the ‘danger foods’ from your home, you may need to remove them from your immediate sight. (Can they be put in containers at the back of cupboards/fridge so they are less visible to you?)
You’ll find that the symptoms of carb addiction lessen and eventually disappear – that in itself is really empowering.
Best wishes for your BSD journey.

Just tried feta cheese stuffed into chicken breast wrapped in thin ham lovely oh salad too
Alan,as near to a recipe as I go !

This will be the second time I’ve started the BSD – I caved and had a massive week-long cereal/bread/sugar binge 2 days after starting last time. I’m too scared to weigh myself. I also have a skinny, sporty husband and a toddler so my house is full of the foods they eat. Getting rid of my “danger foods” simply isn’t an option (what toddler goes without raisins, oatcakes and Weetabix?). I desperately want to stick at it but have no offline support as no-one realises the extent of my carbohydrate addiction and how unhealthy it’s making me. I’m hoping to log in regularly and get “chat” with like-minded folk who aren’t going to tell me not to do some stupid faddy diet (as has been said to me already). Thanks for reading. Tomorrow is Day 1 of getting healthy.

Hi Rozy,

I didn’t know that about Ruby Wax’s background. Thanks for the recommendation- the book sounds interesting and I will have a read.

Toying with the idea of upping calories while still keeping carbs to 40-50g/day and see what that does. I got ‘The Obesity Code’ and it’s very interesting, especially as it says that decreasing calories in usually has a corresponding calories out whether or not you increase your exercise levels. Am enjoying it a lot

Hi bumblebee
That’s a really good idea to look at your blocks of butter – really brings it home what we’ve been carrying around unnecessarily.

Exercises in the book??? Eeek – I don’t remember those!! Mind you, I lent my copy to my sister and I’ve not got it back yet! Big sister is certainly not overweight but she’s worried about being a TOFI. It always makes me smile where I first saw the book – in a supermarket right by their fancy bakery section – I haven’t been in that bakery section since mid-January so something’s working! 🙂

I struggle with drinking enough – I know that by the time I’m feeling thirsty it’s too late & I’m dehydrated. It’s easier at home but at work it can be difficult. I know drinking makes a real difference – last week I started one day feeling really brain-fogged which wasn’t good because I was in a 1st Aid training session in an overly warm room. But I did think to grab a mug of water which I sipped regularly & kept refilling – by the end of the day the fog & headache had lifted. It was noticeable that I was able to concentrate much better in the afternoon than in the morning. Managed to bluff my way through to get a pass – let’s hope I never have to put the 1st Aid into practice.

The car is behaving itself so far – fingers & toes crossed it works for longer than the 50 miles it managed last week! It’s been a good little workhorse, I shouldn’t complain.

I’ve had a good day – nothing bad happened. Today I had a bowel scope screening (you get the invite from the NHS when you hit 55yrs) which was a novel experience – apparently everything appeared normal for which I am grateful.

You keep on keeping on, stay focussed, and think of how good you are going to feel as the weight drops off. I’d better sign off now (using a laptop too late in the evening doesn’t help me sleep well) – feel like a drink, too, where’s the kettle?
Take care,
Rose

I’ve not paid as much attention to mindfulness as I might have done considering I do get rather stressed at times. I have looked online, including the Palouse free course suggested by JackieWilsonSaid but I didn’t have the patience to get past the initial videos, I’m afraid.

However, I have just come across a couple of publications which interested me:

1) “The Little Book of Mindfulness: 10 Minutes a Day to Less Stress, More Peace” by Dr Patrizia Collard. Seems to be in nice bite size chunks that I can handle, and does include sections on eating. I purchased the Kindle edition.

2) “A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled” by Ruby Wax (yes, that Ruby Wax). This seems to have been well received, being humorous as well as informative. Ruby Wax has a Masters degree in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy so she should know what she’s talking about. I’m looking forward to reading it.

Hi Eureka

Thanks for the advice. It would appear that my pituitary gland was unharmed in the operation and my medic is only monitoring it and I am not on any medication. He is concerned by my blood sugar level though and my weight. I am determined that this will work but I will be sensible about any changes in my health.

Just to say, re breakfast, I also had a conversation about eggs being nothing without bread/toast.

However, this morning I had fresh spinach (little heap of it, well seasoned), with a slice of smoked salmon on top of it, and two eggs on top of that……divine, it was. 270 calories.

Another good one to replace the bread is a well cooked portobello mushroom (or two!), with some cherry tomatoes cooked alongside. Add the eggs on top. Yummy

I’m sure I’ve seen on other posts that it’s 20% carbs 30% protein and 50% fat. I could be wrong but that’s what I set MFP at when I read it. X

Hi Alan, a good standby for lunch are cherry tomatoes, cucumber, spring onion, feta cheese and a couple of olives plus a drizzle of olive oil and or balsamic vinegar. That plus a bowl of soup and I am fine till the evening.