Hi Davena, it sounds like you are off to a great start — don’t worry about the early days and ups and downs — overall in a few weeks it will all come together and you will see results. I know it is frustrating, so maybe weigh less often, use a tape measure instead and just don’t ever give up😄! I have made this recommendation many times, my favorite book on carbs is by Gary Taubes “Why We Get Fat” — it is an excellent primer on the science behind carbs and weight gain and has a very good guide for reducing carb intake to a very low number (20 grams per day). I found it hugely helpful. Best wishes as you move forward

Thanks HappyLife😃

I changed my hotel reservation near Heathrow for Tuesday night from bed and breakfast to room only. Why? Breakfast was from 6am and I’d have had to eat very quickly to get to the airport. And I’ve saved around £25, more than enough to buy breakfast after going through security.

Plans for the journey to the hotel have also changed😳 Instead of going straight from Kings Cross to Heathrow, now I’m going from Kings Cross to Elephant and Castle, then to Heathrow😱 I had thought of buying something for my evening meal at Kings Cross (hotel restaurant obviously expensive and there’s not really anything that I fancy or can eat when I checked out the menu). So I’ve bought some sliced meat, might add a boiled egg and/or salad, to take in a cool bag. I don’t eat much these days, and get a ‘nervous tummy’ when I’m travelling so didn’t see the point in eating at the airport the night before flying😳 But I will get a cooked breakfast after security, then only drinks on the flight.

We all seem to be finding solutions that fit our individual lifestyles😃 We all know that one size never fits all LOL

Forgot to add

Week 5 day 2

Lost 18.1 lbs
Lost 25.25 inches

Hi Switzerland,
Thanks,
It’s sounds as if you really mix it all up. And such a variety.
Others reading may get some good ideas from the list too.

I am getting more energetic but my blubber seems to love me too much to leave me.
I sometimes get disheartened by it with so much effort, but then I say, I hate numbers and scales, do a lot of growling in the bathroom. The scales cower in my presence.
Then I do something weirdly crazy like tap dance.

Somehow it makes me feels a bit better.

Love LuciaXxxx

Week 5 day 2

Well I couldn’t post for a couple days as we had no internet or phone service on the California central coast while traveling there.
Last week (week 4) I only lost .5 lbs but still lost 1.75 inches! I think since I still had major tummy issues my body wouldn’t let me lose weight and was hanging on as I was getting dehydrated as well.
Tummy has been good for 2 days and I dropped a pound today! I have lost 18.1 pounds which is amazing. I weigh less than I have weighed in over 5 years plus. I don’t even remember being this low before for so long.
Yes, I have a LOT to lose and will be doing this for a long while before transferring to 5:2 but I am good with that honestly.
This program is so simple once I learned what to eat. Of course having tummy issues means I am even more restrictive with things but it’s all worked out well.
What I cannot do ever is play the carb game as I call it. It would mess with my head and waste life’s precious moments for me. I just can’t do it. If I was worried about adding back in bread or pasta or anything of my old ways, even in non gluten or carb format, it would make me crazy and I feel it would be one quick step to falling off the cliff and be back to eating whatever I wanted with carbs. It doesn’t help me focus on or achieve my goal. So I don’t do it.
This is so simple. I just have to follow it. And if I can do it for 4 weeks and 2 days and even while traveling and switching hotels in 7 towns I can do it anywhere.
My best tip for travel that’s worked well for us is to carry a small cooler bag and we go to the grocery store and get smoked salmon, berries, and grapes. Each morning we have a little
for breakfast and then it keeps us full till dinner when we eat out and have fish and vegies.
We ask each hotel to put a real fridge in our room for medical needs (my foods) and they do it without issue since the typical fridges don’t get cold enough to keep food safe.
It’s been a really great trip on the program only because we planned and figured out what would work. We only pick restaurants that serve what we now call “clean fish” meaning it’s just grilled or broiled or pan seared without flours.
Shockingly a restaurant last night serving artichoke hearts advised they put flour in the water they boil them in!! I mean who would ever think that? They were so kind to tell me!
Being careful and staying in it isn’t daunting as it only means I now care about myself. I care about winning this battle and not letting carbs rule my world. Every day I am winning the battle. Every day I feel better, am getting smaller, and can do more activities❣

One town we were in, Morro Bay, is so cute and we are planning to stay a week and go kayaking maybe next year. I am already planning fun things to do when I feel I will be able to better move
my thinner body! I also plan to go to Disneyland! We love Disneyland and haven’t been for years since I was worried about fitting on the rides. By next year or maybe later this year I will be able to go.
I am able to walk 5000 steps without issue which is HUGE for me as I have a funky knee. My Fitbit helps be keep it real and I love knowing I went more than I thought I could. It’s fun.

Well off for another adventure today!

Wishing you all the best, thanks for reading and I hope my personal notes somehow give you inspiration and strength that you can keep going and do it as well.

💜💖🌷

Yes, I know – it should be 24 weeks, but I’ll be away on holiday next weekend. I’m not sure about Internet connection where I’ll be, so am opening this clubhouse a week early. Hope nobody minds the early opening!

Today I’ve lost another 2 pounds, making a total of 60 pounds. My fasting blood this morning was 4.2 (I no longer test every day as it seems to have stabilised in normal levels).

For the record, and for those interested in such things, my measurements when I started on 19th December were (in inches) 50:49:54.5😱 Today they are 42:36:43. My dress size has dropped from approx 24. Now I’m in size 16 tops and 18 bottoms, though will very soon be needing size 14 tops and 16 bottoms.

The medics have always said I should be around the 9 stone 7 pound mark, so that means I still have 32 pounds to go.

The prospect of losing 6.5 stone (91 pounds) was always daunting. During years of painfully slow weight loss at various slimming clubs the goal was never really in sight because of time it was taking.

But on the BSD I really can now see the finishing line drawing closer. 😃 It’s still a long haul. A marathon. But I committed to this for however long it takes.

So, this new clubhouse is officially open and I look forward to meeting you here ☕️😃🌻👋

Ah thanks Sandie, that’s sweet of you to say!! Stay on it – it’s amazing how it works isn’t it?
Hugs!
🌷

Wow I am so happy for you and feel proud to know you honestly. Thank you for continuing to share your inspiring path – I can’t tell you how reading your posts inspired me each morning!

Not only are you doing it, you have done it! 60 lbs! Go girl!! Yeah I am over 60 but we are all still girls at heart! 💜

Week 4 weigh in
17.5 lbs lost
25.25 inches lost

Doing super well and seem to finally have tummy issues under control.

Traveling for 2.5 weeks as carrying a small cooler with smoked salmon, berries, and grapes with us and asking all hotels for a legitimate small fridge for medicine. (We consider my food needed medicine as it’s keeping my health better). It’s a simple accommodation hotels offer if you ask since there in room fridges are for keeping drinks cool and not cold enough or food.

We’ve been eating breakfast of about 2oz smoked salmon and 20 berries or grapes and then eating dinners out at a restaurant sticking to fish and vegies.

The first week I only lost .5 lb traveling but now that my tummy stopped going nuts I lost another pound since yesterday. I think my soybeans so stressed it wouldn’t let me drop weight.

Doing good, feel excited, and the plan is super easy to follow now.

One thing I don’t even try to do at all is play with typical carbs (bread, crackers, pasta). If we are offered any we politely decline. For me, if I tried to play with the carbs it would be like another carb addiction and I would waste life’s precious time playing mind games with myself instead of just admitting I can’t have them and don’t need them. For me that’s easier and the best route.

Wishing you all the best! 💜

I cannot change the emphasis on myfitnesspal to carbs and so I think I will buy a book to help me. Can anyone recommend a simple and easy to follow book which allows me to count carbs and calories, please?

Great job Alan! Switzerland! and CaptainLynne 60 lbs!!!
Just imagine lifting that up and carrying it around!

You all deserve a huge round of applause so take your bows!!

Thank you for posting and all your inspiration!!
💜💖💙

Hi captainlynne!
Thank you!! VERY useful advice. I will act accordingly! 😉

Hi everyone. Two pounds gone this week, making a total to date of 60 pounds.

I’m going on holiday on Tuesday so will be away next weekend, when I’ll have completed week 24 so I’m opening the new clubhouse at week 23. Hope nobody minds the early opening😃 See you over there 😃

Hi Izzy!
I had no internet or phone on the central California coast so couldn’t get online. I see you are playing the “I want carbs and am gonna have them somehow” game still which I just can’t do. Good for you if it all works out and you can still reach your goal for your weight and BS. For me I know if I go over at all the cravings will kick back in and I want to reach my goals as quickly as possible for my health. 😍😍
I am super careful and still keeping carbs around 30 every day. Down 18 lbs now in 4 wks and 1 day as dropped another one today. Although you congratulated me for 22 lbs that was someone else who has lost that in 7 weeks I believe.
We did add 1/2-1 cup of boiled potatoes the last two days as our carbs were two low just having fish and vegies and we felt it.
Still on the trip another full week and we are now carrying a cooler with smoked salmon, berries, and grapes for our breakfasts and then eat dinner out each day.
Today we are meeting up with my cousins in Ojai who are down from Florida. Never been there but my cousin picked a restaurant with food I can eat.
For our 18th anniversary we splurged and got an ocean view room with a super nice pool at a hotel and swam for 2 hours yesterday. I am always the biggest person at the pool but we don’t care. We just get in and have fun and everyone else can worry about how they look. Ha
Oh, what’s your travel blog??? I am excited to see it and have a couple hours in the morning each day as I get up about two hours earlier than my husband.
Hugs to you and once I am down to normal weight I will have you help me as to how to make crackers and such.
Wishing you the best always!!
💜

Two pounds gone this week. Total now 60 pounds.

Hi Gabby. Well done. I’ve just finished 23 weeks on the 800 calories and still have weight to lose so will be continuing on this for a while yet.

Hi Davena. Many of us have reduced our carbs to around 30g per day. You may wish to try reducing your carbs and see what happens. Remember, low carb, lots of water, and full fat products.

Some folk on here have had great success by only watching carbs and not counting calories.

Oh sorry. The ‘table’has shifted and become all jumbled up!!

I have been keeping a tally of my calories on ‘myfitnesspal’ but I see that my carb intake is still quite high. Yesterday my calorie intake was 882…..

Totals 882 91 55 19 796 58
Your Daily Goal 800 110 27 30 2,500 27
Remaining -82 19 -28 10 1,703 -30
Calories Carbs Fat Protein Sodium Sugar

and yet my carb total was 91.
What should my carb total be? And should I watch my carbs more than my calories? I didn’t think so, but what should the highest amount of carbs per day be?
I’m asking because according to my scales I have put ON half a pound in three days. 🙁

(Admittedly, I do no exercise due to being told to keep off my feet as I have a suspected fracture in one foot. X-ray on Monday! But even so, I had thought that sticking to 800 calories i would lose. Yesterday was a slight blip but I didn’t go TOO far over the 800.)

Hi Happy Life. I have been reading your journal
and you impress me. Keep at it lovely lady.

Good afternoon webbj54, one step at a time. Before you know it you will be “running” with this programme.

Hi Gina,
How am I doing now you ask?
I am still as crazy as ever. Maybe more.
Today I have been pretending to do tap dancing before my taster class.
As you know I am still a big bird, so I think I look hilarious.
I can laugh at myself as I get my exercises. It’s a lot better than just watching the telly and not moving.I am seeing a lot more places, doing a lot more things. Basically I am living instead of existing.
My mental attitude has changed a lot , I am not miserable, I am happy.
My fitness has gone from a minus number to getting healthier all the time.
Regarding body size , I am just crawling along.
Love
Lucia
Xxx

Kathy54,
This is also new to me and I see I have posted my reply to you in ‘Frog’s’ post!! SORRY!

Devena what sort of things are you looking up as I have been using it for years. You can also add your own using the information from the packaging. If you are seeing things in cups they sound like they have been added by other people.

AND I have put ON half a pound in two days. I’m seriosuly concerned. 🙁

Thanks so much, Kathy54,
That’s the one I’ve been using but don’t trust the measurements because they use ounces and cups which I’m not really used to and half the time I’m guessing!

Devena welcome to the BSD a lot of people use an app called MyFitnesspal which is good.

Hello Kathy54
Thanks so very much for your words of encouragement. Your past eating habits sound just like mine!

What methoid do you use to keep tabs on what you’ve eaten?
Do you know of an online diary where I can keep a note of EVERYTHING I eat during the day and will tot up the carbs and calories for me? I’ve found one but it’s American and I’m not used to the measurements they use.

hey there Happy! Hope you are still doing well and having an awesome time 🙂

Gabby well done on your weight lose, there are people who have been on the BSD for 16 weeks plus so you should be fine.

I’ve enjoyed the coconut flour and almond recipes more than the gram ones 🙂

The ginger biscuits are ok, but daughter doesn’t like them so as I’m left with them we probably won’t make them again! I don’t think my husband will eat them either lol. Ah well. Only 55 cals and 5.6g carbs so not a big sacrifice to have one now and then!

Hi I have been on the 800 calories now for 10 weeks is it ok to keep going ??
I add a few nuts to my calorie count each day
I lost 7.5 kg in 9 weeks but my weight loss now as slowed down
I am worried if I go to the 5 .2 I will go back to my old ways
Any suggestions ??
I wish to loose another 3kg

very interested to know how those recipes turn out for you
I am starting to use coconut and gram flour for the first time

I made a gram flour flatbread yesterday which is quite nice except there is an awful lot of it just for me

Morning my lovelies 🙂

Had one of the breakfast bars made with almond flour for breakie and it was nice but a bit too crumbly and a bit small for the calories so I’ll probably leave that one in reserve for down the line when I’m having more calories.

My daughter has the baking bug, so I’ve suggested she make something from Elana’s pantry website and she wants to make ginger cookies. These are made with almond flour and they have honey in them and yacon. I haven’t got yacon so I’ll add an extra spoon of sweetner I think. 1/2 cup of honey per batch so I’m hoping when I work it out once I see how many it makes that it will be ok for me to have one.

I’m also going to make crackers because I didn’t do it yesterday, and I wanted to do the carrot muffins that fifty suggested yesterday but actually with the other stuff we’ve made they wouldn’t be eaten fast enough and I’d hate to waste such yummy things!

for lunch I’m having soup and maybe a coconut flat bread

and for dinner…. well I have an experiment planned. I will report back later!

Nannoo, You do not need to be insulted by nor responsible for your doctor’s ignorance, you do really deserve a doctor who is better informed and more helpful when you are really trying to get healthy.

As someone else said, change doctors. I hope that is possible for you

I bought myself a spiralizer today…I’m preparing myself for more preparation techniques.

Good to hear webbj54 – perseverance pays off. It will be interesting to see how you go in the following week. It’s weird but you can do the same things and some weeks are better than others on the scales. Hope you have a better day.

So sorry about all my typos.
The soups I’m eating are really tasty…way better than I expected. They have the skim milk built in but they contain Maltodextrin and glucose syrup solids, and sucrose too (presumably for flavour), which I find bizarre and a bit alarming.

Anyways I am following the Newcastle diet as researched by Prof Taylor. Will try for a week and see how I go.

I couldn’t do it without you lot. So far so good today- am fasting as lon as I can, then back to it.😇😇😇😇

i only lost 3 and half pound in first week and only 1 and half in second
doesn’t look like its going to much this week either
but a loss is a loss, and we have to try to hang on to that in our heads

if we had been told you will be lucky to lose a pound a week – which is what most diets say – then we would be feeling happier I think!!

I plan to stick to less carbs once I’m done. I think I might always need to moderate them if I want to stay healthy.

I think for some it is reversible, but I don’t think there is enough research evidence yet to assume anything.

3lbs off is still 3lbs off, be proud 😊

So weigh day today, 7lbs lost and 4 inches off my waist – I’m more stunned by my waist to be honest!! Tried the smoked salmon breakfast muffins yesterday which were lovely and I’m generally getting better trying some of the recipes. I think tonight I’m going to make a tuna stuffed pepper concoction.

I feel much better today, no headaches, no hunger, no cravings now which is a relief after feeling a bit rubbish earlier in the week. My legs still ache (not sure why?) and I’m not sleeping very well (again not sure why.?!!). But very pleased with how it’s going.

Hi TanyaThornton1 Well, In short you need to reduce the intake of carbs to 30mg/day i.e. mainly the white foods in particular sugar and flour. Use full fat dairy products and olive oil. Drink minimum of 2 litres of fluid without alcohol per day. You need to walk a lot if you can up to 10,000 steps per day and most important SMILE while you shrink as a result. If you are diabetic all of the above but take your vital statistics at the start, plot them, keep a food diary and get regular Blood sugar and BP tests as they will almost certainly drop. That is what I have learned in the last nearly 16 weeks. Hoping it helps…?

Thank you – I think “pacing up and down, moaning and groaning” sounds like just the sport for me!⛷🏂🚴🏄🏊⛹💪💪😂😂😂👍

webbj54, I am willing to bet that if you read more forum posts and use the Search Box at the top that you will find that you are not alone and that maybe evn that not all of the key elements are as fully understood as you thought they were. We all had miserable days and some even weeks. Your body will store fat as a first option if you have a tendency to be overweight. Reducing sugar intake is vital, drinking plenty is too and once sugars and carbs are reduced to 30 mg/day you will be almost certain to shrink quickly unless you have a particular genetic make-up that seems very rare so far on here. We are all supportive here and while we are not personal trainers we are buddies to consult, share and moan to but we have to reduce food intake while we learn how best to incorporate Dr Mosley’s advice into our daily routine. Hope you have a better week remember even pacing up and down moaning uses calories, fortunately for me and many others…

Hi PBB
I use Easy DietDiary, I’m in Australia, not sure if you can get it elsewhere.
Linda

Yes – I wondered too – don’t really get it but that’s what he said – I guess the next readings in 4 months time will be really telling – also another reason to be really strict with myself as I want to prove to him it’s possible to stay where I am without the meds

Thank you all-Janet.x.

It rook me 10 weeks to be able to accurately prepare all of my meals without the use of a scale or cup etc but I was near enough to succeed after about 4 weeks but I got very and probably too intense about weighing and measuring for a while once I had started to lose significantly without getting the hunger pangs. It could be that my food diary allowed me to become a bit too critical as it was based in a spreadsheet entered manually form labels, scales and Googling nutritional data for the missing bits. If I had to do it again i would try to be more relaxed about it all because if I reduce sugars in particular and replace them with proteins and good fat/oils I will lose weight if I keep the total calorie count down then so long as I drink plenty and fast for 14 hours or more the health benefits of repair mode kick in and I improve in all sorts of ways. Not everyone is s o fortunate to have a body that responds so easily to this regime but most of us do quite well. So do a bit of reading and weighing for yourself until you recognise what a healthy amount of your regular foods look ike and you will have cracked it once and for all. Good eating…

May seem silly question tally but I though the doc may have said well they are good reading BUT your on medication and that’s what we expect ????
Alanhypno ,great post by way