Hi Izzy,
I read the BSD book and took some inspiration from your recipes and diary and decided that the BSD was for me and convinced my fiancée that the BSD was the way forward for both of us.
I had put on about 6kg (a stone in old money) since quitting one job and hunting for a new one and the other half had never managed to shed the weight after she had our daughter in September 2014. Neither of us is diabetic, but we both knew we had to lose some weight and now was the time to be doing it. This was just over 4 weeks ago……
In that time I’ve managed to drop from 109.6kg to 98.9kg this morning and my fiancée has dropped 5.5kg in the same time. This is while wrangling the wean (toddler) to and from crèche, starting a new job and buying a house. Neither of us has felt hungry, tired or lethargic whilst on the BSD; although we have both had days when we went OTT and had a snack we shouldn’t have. The only downside has been getting rid of baggy clothes that don’t really fit any more, but the upside is the wardrobe of too-small clothes now fits 🙂
So we have the second half of the reduction phase to come and we both have a bit more weight to lose (me; 6kg and the other half wants another 3kg to disappear). I’ll post again so anyone that wants to hear the end of the story can (maybe my post should have started with “Once upon a time….”.
Thanks for the inspiring recipes and for sharing your experience which helped give me the push.