Hello Sarahs999.

Like you, I’ve just started. Well, I started, fell off, restarted, fell off, restarted, fell off. I’m 71 and don’t want this familiar dieting pattern to dog me for the rest of my life. So, no more doing this silently. I’m out of the dieting closet and sharing my food journey.

Today is my DAY 1: This morning 66.9kg ; FBG 6.1. I ‘m not diabetic and determined not to become so. I don’t think I could face my Diabetes Type 1 son if I allowed my self indulgence to develop into Type 2.

B. Apple, cinnamon and FF Greek Yoghurt (Jalna)
L. Left over Baked Beans on Corn Thin, topped by grated cheese, toasted on the sandwich maker. Coffee with skim milk, lactose free
Snack. 1 cheese (Bega Stringers – kept in fridge for grandson)
D. Rice, quinoa, sauce with Thai flavours, Tuna in springwater.

Drinks during the day are green tea or herbal tea, current favourite is Lemon & Ginger, or water.

Heavens, I’ve just seen that it totalled 512 calories! Carbs 53.6. I’m not so hungry that I’ll have to eat before bed and that will make a change to will have to be aware. I will eat more tomorrow, it wouldn’t be a good thing to eat that few calories too often.

Today was also notable for the fact that I sat down at one of my usual coffee shops in the local centre and ordered ONLY GREEN TEA. Usually I have that plus cake, followed by icecream or chocolate in the car on the way home.

Good luck to us all xx

Good to meet you gettingthere. I wonder what I will be like in 2 weeks. I t s the sustainability of it all which is daunting.

Hi Orchid.
Thanks for your comments. In my first five days it was a great success. I could see the weight coming of my stomach and backside. I just felt lighter. The one downside was I struggled very badly with fatigue in the afternoon which i never do. So bad in fact that when i put my son to bed for his nap around midday ish i was dashing to the couch myself for a sleep. The tiredness was overwhelming – I couldn’t stay awake if i had wanted to. This was completely foreign to me as i have never been able to nap during the day. So after my night 5 dinner fiasco I found myself reaching for carbs to stay awake to get some jobs done while my son slept. Quick fix carbs. Have you had any of this sort of fatigue? Books finally arrived late today. Had a good dinner of salmon and salad. Need to peruse the recipe ideas. That is half the battle i think. Knowing what to cook and being prepared. How far into this lifestyle are you?
Caro

Well I found the first 2 weeks hard but I started to see when I ate and that was aching tv, studying, or just for something to do. I then changed my thinking and said every time I wanted to eat something outside the recommended foods – no that will put my sugar up and threaten my health. No the food is not worth the health risk. This made it easier and now I think twice about my choices. I have gone on this diet because I do not want to be diabetic.

Now 10 weeks later it is easy. I refuse to weight anything, I just eat much smaller because I weight and checked in first 2 weeks and not after that. I had to make it real and I don’t weight my food normally, just much smaller.

All the best with bsd, it really does work. Thanks dr Michael, I am so greatful you where in Australia around the time my BGL was 24.4mmol in March this year.

I currently work nights after working day job and find it hard to keep to 3 meals especially when does my day start. I made up curry vege soup for about 3am as well as taking an optifast sachet to work. I found drinking water has helped greatly. Occasionally work will provide a salad consisting of ham, olives, feta, lettuce, spinach and olive oil. I will have breakfast and go to bed – good sleep plays an important part in loosing weight also. I have now lost 17kg in 10 weeks and have 13 to go.

I have found that I don’t get that horrible bloating anymore. I don’t crave food now and I make sure I have a choice because sometimes at 3am I didn’t want my soup I had my optifast chocolate desert.

Oh! I also took leave to get me started this helped me focus on my health.

It is difficult when you can only eat little amounts so I am just eating little and often but low or no suger. Good luck

I started on Monday, after stumbling upon the BSD book almost by accident. It seems too good to be true. I am so seriously overweight and at risk of major adverse health diagnoses that I have to do this. Day 3 and other than thinking about food every single waking moment it hasn’t been too bad. I suspect I am probably more 1000 than 800 at the moment, but who cares? This is a huge improvement for me! I am allowing myself this week to do the best that I can, to gradually start moving and then I will build in serious exercise next week. Who would have thought that I could sustain something like this for 3 days? Only 53 more to go – and then we will re-calibrate. Can’t wait to meet the new me.

You’re welcome 🙂 I’ve not tried that yet, it sounds good though. I’m a big eater in the evenings though, so that’s what’s putting me off at the moment, I try and save as many calories as I can for a decent tea, as evenings were my danger time. I love courgetti but hubby isn’t too convinced. Well, that sounds like a result anyway, beans v avocado? No brainer 🙂 I’m having BLAT salad (Bacon lettuce avocado and tomato) for lunch tomorrow, with some full fat mayo, looking forward to it too. Morrisons had massive bags of avocadoes for under £2, I nearly cried when I saw them. I only usually have that kind of reaction to shortcrust pastry and Reeses Peanut butter cups. Things are changing around here 😉

Hi Lab,

A lot of BSDers seem to use MyFitnessPal.

I tried but it was not well suited to my kindle so now I use FatSecret uk. Basic, easy to use (which works well for me). It allows you to record your daily foods, gives totals for carbs, proteins, fats etc. You can also track your exercise activities and weight.There is an online community supporting lots of different groups if that is of interest. I just use the site to keep tabs on my carbs/cals.

Good luck🌻
.

Oh thank you! Still finding my way around the recipes. I’ve had the bircher for 2 mornings in a row, which I like, and made the prawn courgetti thing too. Which was delicious although i forgot to put the beans in. But then that evens out as I was eating a whole avocado with my egg instead of half!

Hi all,
Just completed my first month on Sunday, my starting weight was 14 stone 11, as of this morning my weight is 13 stone 7 pounds! My target weight is 12 stone 7 pounds, so I’m halfway there.
My BS is now in the range of 5.5 – 6.8 day and night, my blood pressure has gone down from mid 170’s to 120s, so I’ve stopped all the BP meds.
I’ve cut down the insulin by 2 thirds, my specialist said that I might not be able to completely cut it out as I’ve had T2 for too long, and my pancreas might have stopped working, but I feel that it must be working now, otherwise I would not have been able to cut down on the insulin by so much
The only other meds I was told to continue regardless are metformin and sitagliptin.
My only problem is exercise, apart from not having any energy, is that I’m unable to use the cross trainer I bought several months ago for very long as I have a problem with the pain from lactic acid in my thighs, any ideas how to overcome this would be welcome.

Re. Peeing, the first two nights I was honestly getting up to go to the logo once every 90minutes. It was pretty tiresome. I’m still weeing more often now (day five) than before starting bsd but it seems to have calmed down at bit – at least I only had to go once during the night last night!

Hello all,

Just wanted to say hi. I always find forums like this very supportive and a good way to stop myself falling off the wagon! I’m 45, work from home around childcare (writing and baking) and have put on an insane amount of weight in the past three years (about 6 stone). Impressive, huh?! It’s all emotional baggage tied in with things I’ve been dealing with, and deeply infuriating as I thought I’d got it all under control (got to goal weight on Alevere plan about six years ago and kept it off for three years). I even kept slim during my pregnancy! Coming out the other side of bereavements, house move, renovation and parental illness now, and feeling like I can do this. Husband is doing it with me; my biggest challenges are my work (baking cakes and not licking my fingers), trying to cook for a growing family without sneaking carbs, and my neighbour, who is wonderful but loves to pop round with a bottle of prosecco!

I should be writing so I’ll go now. Looking forward to meeting you all.

Hi Sarah 🙂
The wraps were here on page 16 of the recipes https://thebloodsugardiet.com/recipes/chickpea-flour-pancakes/
They are a fab alternative, we had them with our tea last night, and we’re having them with Chicken Shawarma tonight, and to dip in a curry on Friday. Don’t put anything too sloppy in them though (or wear a bib) (or a tea towel, like I have to do most meals). If I lost 6 stone, I’d be the weight I was when I met hubby in 1999. Still overweight according to the NHS and BMI and all that, but I’d kill to be back there. The confidence I had. I’m going to do it this time. Good luck to you, let me know if you like the wraps. My local Morrisons had a massive bag of Besan on offer for £1.49 in the ethnic aisle yesterday.

In other news, my tongue has swollen to twice its normal size and I can’t feel my lips because I didn’t deseed the chillies I picked from the garden to sizzle my prawns in. They were only tiny! Deceptive little swines. Grrrr.

Hope the medics were able to help with the dizziness problem. Poor you its horrid! A while back I had a virus that attacked my middle ear, left me so dizzy and severely compromised my ability to stand up straight…for months I was listing to the right…people accused me of secret drinking as I kept toppling over 😂 funny looking back but not good! So you have my sympathy. Sure that your positive mindset will see you through.

Take care🌻

Hello Lucky,
I’m just joining today and your post struck a chord – I’m a similar height to you and want to lose 6 stone ideally. But one step at a time! Only on day 3 but finding it ok. Can you point me to the recipe for chickpea wraps? Sounds like I need them in my life!

Yay indeed! 🙋 Thanks Izzy,

Happy to keep you and Cali-girl company and party, though am a little waterlogged on all that fizzy water…😇

You could try MyFitnessPal, which lets you log in all your meals and gives you calories, carbs, fat and protein (as well as sugar).

It keeps a handy note of what you’ve been doing (exercise) and food.

Hope that helps!

Morning Janey, lovely to meet you! Aren’t they just? Hubby makes me laugh because he’s from Lancashire and when he says they’re the future, he reminds me of Peter Kay and the garlic bread. Fajitas! I love fajitas, I forgot about those, I think I’m going to stick those on the list for next week. Up to 8 am this morning, I’ve meal planned about three months ahead, just to be on the safe side. Curry is my favourite too, I’m the curry queen amongst my friends, I’ve been working for years to perfect Indian restaurant/takeaway style curries, without the copious amounts of oil though. Now at the next one I can have chickpea wraps instead of naan. Maybe everyone will have chickpea wraps because I can make about 5000 out of a £1.49 bag of flour – always thinking…

Well done on reaching week six and your journey downwards in belt notches and dress sizes 🙂 I’m a bit obsessive about my scales, so when I read on the last two plans I’ve followed now that daily weighing was encouraged, the skies parted, sun rays beamed down on me and a choir of heavenly angels sang ‘Hallelujah’. As if I needed any more encouragement.

In other news, I have just come back from a long walk. 2.4 miles if my fit app thing is to be believed. 8659 steps, so it looks like I’ll get my 10,000 steps today for the first time since April #shameface. We had a lovely walk around all the local beauty spots and woods, pier, promenade and churchyard, took some photos then ambled through the woods until we reached Waitrose where I picked up another tub of Fage (this stuff is going to become my crystal meth, mark my words) and some Heck 97% sausages which I’ve heard people mention. On offer for £2. Bargain. My knee is hurting, my hip is hurting, my back is hurting, darn you sciatica, but the exercise and the weightloss will all help that part in the end. Off to sizzle my prawns. Not a euphemism. Onwards! 🙂

I have Hashimotos thyroiditis too. I have noticed a definite increase in energy levels, half way through week 2. I am happy with weight loss, especially a couple of cm off my waist. I have definitely been feeling the cold a lot more since starting BSD. Not particularly hungry, no cravings either, which is great. All the best with the weight loss muriel66, it can be tough going with hypothyroidism. My weight loss goal was 10-12 kg, and i have lost 4 kg already, so I think that is going to be a realistic goal!

Thank you 🙂

Hi everyone,

I started this diet on Friday of last week and am using the recipes, but I want to do different food, can anyone tell me of a good side which will give me a breakdown of calories and sugar content?

Keep going and thank you for the questions you have put on the forums they are helping!

Lab

Yeo natural yoghurt, handful of blueberries and seeds, is really good and quick – I have this before going to work at 6.30 so it definitely is quick and easy!

Hope it goes well, I am on my fourth day so best of luck!

Lesley

Re: the peeing, it’s my understanding that it is both factors. If you are drinking 2 or 3 litres of water, most of it has to come out at some point! But also carbohydrates make you retain water. I can count on losing a kg overnight any time I go from eating carbs to not. So at the start of the diet, at least, you’ll pee extra as you get rid of that retained water.

Hey,

I started on Monday as well, like you, I have a long gap between getting to work and lunch time, so i have had to force myself out of bed 15 mins earlier to sort breakfast.
If you follow the recipes form the book, you will find that a lot of it can be done the night before, so i just finish it off, eat it and im ready to go.

I have also dived in head first as i think thats the only way i am going to do it.

good luck

Hi all

I am a newcomer this diet, which I have decided to undertake to lead a healthier lifestyle, and to help my husband who is boarderline diabetic.

Can you all give me some ideas what we can have for a quick breakfast, as my staples used to be toast or cereal …

Thanks 🙂

So,
I’m onto day 3, not feeling too bad, have had the feeling that a headache is coming, but it hasn’t yet really hit. i feel a bit stiff and achey though.
Been enjoying the food so far, and haven’t felt enormously hungry as yet, still fancy some crisps and a beer, but i’m managing to resist so far.

I’m not measuring myself until Sunday, and i’m hoping i will have lost a bit.

Out of interest, when people say they pee all the time. how much/often?
I am going, but is that down to drinking 3 litres of water, or the diet itself?

thanks

JK

Thanks guys! Much appreciated

Hi Gilliancrantock
Many ,many congratulations on your weight loss and blood glucose levels.
Fantastic results all round for you.
Hope you can drop the Metformin too but the feeling better and being much healthier is the main goal isn’t it???
It is for me anyway.
I’m having a blood test on Friday so my results will hopefully be as positive as yours.
I have lost 40 lbs or 18 kilos since the start of February and have much more energy and zip!!
Only 6 more lbs and I will just be a healthy weight.

Wehay! This works.

Having managed to put on about 2 stone these last couple of years I’ve been terrified at age 50 with a diabetic dad and older brother that I’m next.

Big bruv has reversed his diabetes with diet and exercise. I am prediabetic and been feeling more n more lethargic these last few months.

So I started. Last week. And went down 8lb in a week. Hungry less than I thought. Meals are scaling well so I can cook once for the family of teen kids and myself and just have a small portion.

8 lb! An old mate who is similar is doing it too at a distance.

On we go eh?

Hi SKINNY

Well done. Isn’t it great to feel this good?
I walk like I’m a thin person already even with 5kg to go. I’m 11kg down now and a world of difference.
Here’s to a great next week for you. 😄
N

Thanks Rozy and Bubbles, I do think I’m improving overall Rozy as far as getting back to it goes. In times past my denial periods would last years rather than months. and I don’t mind a slower weight loss provided I am doing well health wise. I’m also getting a fitbit and will do some moderate exercise to get me started back to a better level of fitness. If I manage to keep myself on track until the school holidays I stand a good chance of feeling well over the summer, and hopefully will be able to sustain the new lifestyle.

I think the fast 800 was a bit too severe for me too Bubbles, I would love to be able to do it but I found I couldn’t really manage even one day in week 3.

Hi Forkers
I think raw is fine, just count the cals. Have you ever seen a fat rabbit?
Do not panic on this plan, room for trial and error, being too strict on yourself sets you up to fail. Mindfulness, as recommended by MM, assists in de-stressing and removing the panic response. Munch away.
N

Hi Forkers, yes they are fine, they are the only root veg allowed. Do weight them as they are at the higher end of the veg scale for carbs!

Woo hoo I can’t believe it – neither can my diabetic nurse – I’ve lost 10 kilos in 6 months (20lbs) the last stone in the past 8 weeks thanks to this diet! My blood glucose levels are down from 10.8 to 6.4 and I feel skinny!
I’ve had so much support from these forums, particularly on week 5 when I just felt HUNGRY – I’m in a great routine of eating, meal planning and socialising and feel confident I can continue and eventually drop my Metformin

Only 3 more lbs to go until I’m 9st something (hopefully next week!) and already I’m a healthy weight!!!
Thank you Mike Mosley and all the people who respond on these forums! It’s been a great journey!!

Just did a Pilates Class and will be at Body Pump this evening as my art class isn’t on. Now going for a dog walk. I am enjoying having the energy.

Hi Switzerland,
My granddaughters are 5, 8, and 10, they are usually very good at trying new foods, they love chicken goujons, so I was surprised they didn’t want them, also they are usually famished after their swimming lessons and eat everything that is put in front of them, I did wonder if it was the colour, walnuts and Brazil’s and almonds, the mix was very dark.
Hi Lucia,
I couldn’t do 68 seconds excercise at the moment never mind minutes, My knees are feeling better, however I am still aching all over and feel drained of energy, I am trying to do all the right things to get rid of this ‘virus’ not sure what to do to get well again, it’s a real downer not feeling great,
I agree with all your points when you get to your goal of world domination!
Christine

Hi all! Sorry if Iv missed s previous post but ARE RAW CARROTS OK? Iv just had 2 medium ones with the hummus recipes and am now panicking.
Thanks in advance!

Hi Caro,
Welcome! Yes, using the forum helps. You can ask questions if things are stalling and get lots of ideas to try and support. Others may be going through similar situations and if you share again – you will get support. I would not have kept going without this. Like you, I comfort eat and after a very stressful year where I was eating irregularly and badly and I needed to sort it out.
The main thing is to remember you are retraining your body and taste-buds to prefer new non-carb foods. It is not just an 8 week time period – it is for life. So, if you have a dinner party – just restart on the Monday and don’t beat yourself up over what happened at the weekend. Most of us have periods that are hard to control, just forget it and get going again – lots of us have done that :-).
I found that Mindfullness helped me dealing with stress – there is a forum on the subject with advise on apps to support you through it. It gives you time to yourself – even if it is only 10 mins a day and if you are getting stressed, ‘tools’ to help you deal with it that can pull you back from the food.
On the subject of scales – no you don’t need them, but you do need a starting weight and I would suggest a weekly weight check. It is very motivating to see the losses and also, if you have a bad weekend, you see it has not had quite as bad an effect as your imagination has predicted! You can weight in at a local store, in the UK most Boots the Chemist have good scales – try to weight at the same time of day with the same clothes! What is important is a tape-measure. Take all your measurements at the beginning, so you can see the changes.
Good luck with the restart and I hope we see lots more posts with your progress.

Morning Lucky, was browsing the latest posts and came upon your hilarious thread! Chickpea wraps are the business! I was also a major bread eater (naans, wraps, just plain bread!) so these are a life saver. I cook a batch so when the family is tucking into fajitas I can still join in. And of course with curry, which is my fave..
It’s so nice to eat lots of dairy without guilt too.. Greek yoghurt has gone from being a breakfast ordeal to something I genuinely look forward to in the morning! Although I do look at the toaster wistfully at times…
I’m in week 6 now and think this is a longterm way of life for me. I don’t weigh myself but I have gone down one trouser size and several belt notches since I started in May, and feel much better physically. So onwards.. and downwards!
Oh and MixnMatch… well done on the dress that’s been waiting for you since January.. I’m sure you will look and feel fantastic in it!

Hi again, I have made it thru the first day. I would not have achieved that had it not been for the help of this site and the people who post. Thank you all for your help. Dianne

GO PLUMPTIOUS!! 2 stone is amazing; you must feel so chuffed! Good idea on the charity shop sweep. I’ve been known to do that myself in the past as there are some good quality ones near to work.. so could be time to pop in again and look for trousers. Like you, I generally feel much better physically and mentally more alert.. although I did ‘tweet’ the BSD in a ‘desperate’ state last evening as I was trying to resist PMT induced chocolate cravings!!! A few cubes of cheese took the edge off thankfully 🙂
We went for a post dinner stroll last night while the kids rode their bikes. It’s gentle, but still counts as exercise so I will try and do this more often. Walking up to town in my lunch hour is also a more regular occurrence (although we got rained on and had to call our colleague for a lift back one day last week when the heavens opened, mid walk!)
Away breaks are a little challenging, as I found out recently, but if necessary settle for damage limitation rather than stressing. 2 or 3 days of compromise won’t undo all your effort so enjoy your time!

I have Fitbit friends.
I don’t want friends.
I became friends with three people last week……obviously I knew them before that!
How do you politely refuse a Fitbit friend request?
The worse thing I have discovered over the last couple of days is that I am top of the step count. How does that work???

Even more worrying is the fact that two of them are 21 (with occasional tennis and hockey-playing tendencies), whilst the other
one does a running Bootcamp.
These are not the sort of fitness buddies an overweight 63 year old with high blood pressure needs!
Ho hum…..life!!!!

Hi Baristagils,
Hmmm. There is a book by Jenny Ruhl called ‘Low Carb Problems Solved’ which you can get via Kindle (£3.06) – which goes through the things that can cause Low Carb diets to stall, it may be worth have a read at that to see if there s anything else that might be stalling you – however you are losing weight so the diet is working, but you may not be burning fat which normally shows in a reduction on the waistline. You can check his using Ketostix – put ‘Ketostix’ into the search engine for the forum for where to get them etc.
Hope that helps.

54…or 55…or thereabouts for me. (I once deducted year or two and then believed it true) 😱😕😁😂 better get going then!

Think I would like it in Lucialand.

Imogen.x

Hi Switzerland/ Frog/mantishugo/Sandie/Doddie/Tracy2267/Orchid…… and everyone else moving more!!!
Eureka are you still away?

Glad everyone seems to be moving and shaking 😉

Back after a couple of weeks away and off to Body Pump class soon.
Have so much more energy these days and I almost find myself skipping up stairs.
(Haven’t tried the hopscotch yet Lucia……but there is still time!!!!!)

Hi Switzerland and Izzy and y’all,

Switzerland, that sounds pretty much identical to my plan once I’m off the 8 week intro phase. It’s also nice to hear from someone else doing intermittent fasting and finding it work for them too. Thanks for the feedback and for giving me an idea that I’m on the right track 🙂

Izzy, although I might not hit the 16kg target I was aiming for, I’m already 12.4kg down and I still have another 2 weeks (and 1 day to go). So don’t cry too hard for me 😉 Mind you, the next couple of days will be a challenge as I need to travel for work, so my choices might be somewhat limited in a hotel etc.

Anyways, I hope y’all have a great day.

Sciencemonkey (ook ook)

(Pour the lime juice through a tea-strainer or little bits of lime will stick like glue to the glass!)

Alternative drink;
Lime soda :
soda water (I have about 3/4 pint)
juice of one (+?) freshly squeezed lime,
1 shake of Angostura Bitters,
optional pinch of salt,
Ice as required ditto slice of cucumber.
Very refreshing.
Could make similar with tonic.

Lucia, you’re an inspiration keep it up! To those who feel they can’t jump straight in yet still be a wonderful success.