We started today…Nat is doing the shopping list and I’m planning our meaks around it..work lunche are going to be made at home the night before as will the kids school lunches to take pressure off morning routine

Started with a poached egg and small portion of cashews and black coffee

We’re going to blog all our food so may help others if they are struggling with family life and being on the diet.

Great to be here and keep you posted 😃

Hi Lucia,

Bill isn’t well – pop over to his forum and have a read – I’m sure when he’s well enough he’ll be researching the minion onesie.

I’ve read that the average resting heart rate per minute is between 60-100. Mine is 58. I don’t think I’m that fit. I have low blood pressure. Does having low blood pressure have anything to do with my resting heart rate?

Thanks to both of you. I’m not giving up, it’s kind of made me more determined! I’m already feeling in control of food. I feeling I have never had.

Does anyone think bill has bought the minion onesie yet?

Love Lucia
Xxx

Switzerland.
Did you ever hung upside down as a kid in the park?
I wonder if I could do it again.
I may try that tomorrow.
Look to the news for a big fruit bat terrorising the uk 😎It’s me hanging upside down.

Wonder if a little extra blood to the grey cells will help my faulty wiring.

Love Lucia
Xxx

Hi Switzerland,
I live that you are on the same wave length as me.

Today I had my usual breakfast
Lunch a little chicken and bacon
Dinner steak, caramelised onions and a little sweet potato.

Then I had an icecream. Rats!!!!!!
But it was so good.

I have tried to argue with myself, trying to justify it with over 10,000 steps.
Who am I kidding.
There is a chink in my armour. A gap. I I don’t act like that little Dutch boy and stick something in the hole, I will ah e a situation.
So, tomorrow I am going to do a home made boot camp. On Wednesday, I am going to do a pure bsd. No deviations.
To night I am slobbing out and watchin a movie. Only in the interests of research (cough cough)
It’s called Thor.
He has dreamy blue eyes. Even his muscles have muscles.

And his brother Lokie is the actor with the nice bum who was in the series called night manager.
Swoon, swoon.

Oh the research was… How many times swoon in an hour. Now I have to look up how many calories are burnt swooning.

Soooooo. There we have it.
Love Lucia
Xxx

Hi Sandie,
The main reason that the chocolates are not ate yet is that I have my ear plugs in.
I can hear chocolate calling from at least 367 miles, give or take.

Your will power is incredible.
Team, the force is great in this one.

Again, I take my hat off to you
Love Lucia
Xxxx

This is so weird. First off, As I grew up on the other side of the pond, bs here is on a different scale that what sounds like is the A1C designation ~ 5.x is really good, 6.x is not so good, 7 is good if you are diabetic, 8 is seriously not so good.

I was diagnosed just about a year ago with fbs at 180-something and A1C at 8.5. Not believing I had a chronic progressive disease I armed myself with MFP and a gym membership and in 3 months for my next a1c I turned that 8.5 into 5.8. I also, since last July, lost over 80lbs or around 40Kg? I did nothing special except keep my daily calories below ~1500. I happened on Dr Fung’s 6 part YouTube series then Dr Mosley’s BSD and Dr Fung’s Obesity Code. I’ve been fasting roughly 21 hrs / day and limit myself to under 800 cals. Up until today I’d have said my tiredness and cold feet had gone. Today my feet are freezing. My morning fbs was 110 (shocking really) as for the last week or so it’s been low 90’s with one day at 101 (prior to today). In 13 days I’ve lost 8 lbs. That doesn’t strike me as especially stellar.

What’s interesting though is the sort of confluence between Dr Taylor’s work in New Castle and Dr Fung’s work in Toronto and Dr Mosley’s work. I was kind of hoping to see the 1-2 lbs / day drop after having hit two plateaus just as Dr Fung suggested. Oh, I must add that my 600-800 cal/day is completely absent sugar or white flour…franly any flour. Occasionally I will indulge in a lunch of 2 deli slices of Danish Ham w/mustard and a deli slice of swiss cheese (about 140 cals) for lunch. Most days I am fine going from about 8pm until about 5pm the following day. I used to have that on whole wheat bread but as I cut out bread I didn’t want the sandwich meats to go bad. I am about 30lbs away from, what I would consider, my target weight.

Has anyone else experienced a slow to no weight loss fasting? I thought the entire point was to re sensitise your body to insulin such that one could start burning fat to make up for the severe calorie deficit, i.e 2000 – 800 = 1200 (from fat) * 7 = 8400 / 3500 = ~2.5 lbs/wk. Hmmm. I gues expecting that per day is a bit of wishful thinking, huh? I believe the cold feel signify my metabolism is being throttled back. That would be sad!. Good wishes to all!

Glad you’ve enjoyed the blog Polly 🙂 I’ve a bit of catching up to do as I haven’t put anything on the new one for a while but I have done some visits.

Dinner was hunters chicken, and courgetti And I had spare calories so I’ve had a hot choc which was amazing.

I used two tablespoons of double cream, 1 tsp cocoa, 3 teaspoons of caramel syrup. It is for coffee normally but I don’t like coffee. Had to add in calories and carbs for it but it wasn’t much.

I’ve just discovered I have a day off tomorrow I’d forgotten about, so I’m hoping the weather stays good and I can do something nice, child free for once, and I only have to work for 3 days then as my husband is off on Friday I have ANOTHER child free day. This is rare sometimes I go weeks or months without any alone time, so now I’m super excited haha. What to do?

I’ve planned my food for the next 8 days so shouldn’t have any problems this week.

Night everyone 🙂

Hi Lynne,

Congratulations. You know all of us from the other club houses will pop in, take a look around, get some friendly advice and support and from time to time crash the club house, re-decorate and party with you to celebrate your achievements.
Best wishes.

Thanks, Igorasusual. I shall bear that in mind if my weight loss slows too much. For the moment the fruit and veg do keep me going.

That’s fantastic – sounds really lovely.

More news on diabetes.co.uk a lot of people seem happy to sign the petition but if it just said about low carbing rather than the low calorie part. I can see why they are resistant as they don’t know how easy this way of eating is 🙂

Some of them had problems with the wording as well.

I also use myfitnesspal and there is also a helpful site called eatthismuch.com on which you can tell it how many grams of fat/carb/protein you want to eat and it comes up with recipes based around your needs. You can also tell it what foods to exclude – I have played about with it more than using it but some of the recipe ideas may help – Polly

Loving your photos, Izzy. Scotland is so beautiful although I’ve only been to Edinburgh so far (I worked in the festival in 05 I think it was). Have so much more exploring and travelling to do.

Your friend is doing great if he managed to start cutting down on things and probably for most people that’s good enough. It really is like quitting anything bad for you – your head does have to be in the right place.

I had 2 onion bahjis for breakfast with yogurt and sunflower seeds and this evening had a lamb chop sliced up and stir fried with lots of veg and spiralised carrot and courgette. The carrot kind of relaxes when it’s cooked and becomes noodley – sort of.

hi Skywalker, Yes.. Thats what I am thinking . My EBV should get better and I am back on medication for my fatty liver and spleen . Lets see.

Best Regards
Balaji

I feel your pain. I keep telling myself I am eating to fuel my body not for pleasure and slowly my mind set is changing, although I had some frozen yoghurt this afternoon I am not having dinner as a result. Keep going it will click!

indeed, igorasusual – you are probably right – well I hope so
although I know my mh affects all this too

but yes – I have a very angry CARB BRAIN screaming to be filled

I have yet to find anything equally fulfilling – but then perhaps that is a good thing – so food can become less addictive and even perhaps a pleasurable experience at some point in the future

Hi Lynne,
The dress wasn’t see through, I just felt a bit ‘out there’ in a dress, I normally wear trousers and long tops that cover my belly!
See you in the 16weeks club house on Monday! Will ‘wave’ at you so you can let me in
Christine

MyFitnessPal is on that I like to use.

This is your carb addiction speaking to you. Keep strong – it DOES fade. You’ve been controlled by its hormonal effect for years – boot it out and TAKE BACK YOUR BODY.

You can do it!!!!!

yes you are right

it seems to have imploded inside my stupid head

I feel so angry today
I walked through town earlier and was angry because I wanted a greggs sausage roll
because I wanted ham and pizza and crisps dah dah dah dah

I am having stuffed pepper and salad but I don’t want it
I am making more coconut flatbreads but I don’t want them either
I want to stuff my face with junk food

I should be happy to eat like this, it is meant to be making me feel great but it isn’t
and yet it is no ones choice but mine, I realise that

aaaarrrrgggghhhh the conflict

I plan to start tomorrow so am getting all my ducks I a row. Is there an app or website I can use to track weight, measurements – hoping they’ll all go down and perhaps calories/carbs?

Also, is coffee ok? I’ve low carded before and drank coffee with cream rather than milk, which is best?

Aw Bill what a bummer. Hope your eye recovers quickly. You’ll just need to take it easy, that’s what holidays are for. I hope you get the chance to please other holidaymakers with your mankini 😲 have a great holiday you really deserve to. X

This is my first post here, but I have been lurking for a couple of months now. It’s lovely to see what a supportive and knowledgeable community this is. My husband and I have done really well following the BSD, and as the OH finally got his meter to produce a graph showing his progress, I thought I’d post to show how obvious it was when we started the diet, compared with previously. 🙂

The following is my latest weekly Facebook update, and I shared a link to the page to the BSD FB page. If you look there, you can see the graph and the details of the running averages from his meter. https://www.facebook.com/thebloodsugardiet/posts/796153957187803

End of week seven on The Blood Sugar Diet.

Week 1 – Saturday April 9th
Week 2 – Saturday April 16th
Week 3 – Saturday April 23rd
Week 4 – Saturday April 30th
Week 5 – Sunday May 8th
Week 6 – Saturday May 14th
Week 7 – Saturday May 21st
Week 8 – Saturday May 28th

Me: Weight 138.4 lbs – Body Fat 30% – Visceral Fat 12% – BMI 26.2 Waist 36”/31” – Thigh 23” – BP 117/76 – FBG 5.7

Me: Weight 133.4 lbs – Body Fat 28.7% – Visceral Fat 12% – BMI 25.2 Waist 36”/29” – Thigh 22” – BP 113/80

Me: Weight 131.8 lbs – Body Fat 28% – Visceral Fat 11% – BMI 24.9 Waist 35”/29” – Thigh 22” – BP 101/76 – FBG 4.2

Me: Weight 132 lbs – Body Fat 28.1% – Visceral Fat 11% – BMI 25 Waist 34.5”/29” – Thigh 21” – BP 98/75

Me: Weight 129.6 lbs – Body Fat 27.1% – Visceral Fat 11% – BMI 24.5 Waist 34”/28.5” – Thigh 21” – BP 104/74

Me: Weight 128 lbs – Body Fat 26.3% – Visceral Fat 10% – BMI 24.2 Waist 34”/28.5” – Thigh 21” – BP 112/80

Me: Weight 126 lbs – Body Fat 25.6% – Visceral Fat 10% – BMI 23.8 Waist 33.5”/28.5” – Thigh 20.5” – BP 103/75

Me: Weight 123.8 lbs – Body Fat 24.5% – Visceral Fat 9% – BMI 23.4 Waist 33”/28” – Thigh 20” – BP 104/71

14.6 lbs down from the start. So that is the 1 stone out of the way. Just another 10 lbs to go. 3″ loss seems to be the order of the day for gut, waist, thigh and hip measurements since April 9th. The Visceral Fat % is now in the OK zone (1-9), and by the time I’m done it should hopefully be in the ideal zone (1-5).

Just one big drawback. At this rate, I’m going to have to buy some new clothes. I hate clothes shopping, and would rather spend what little money I have on other things. But there you go, the price you pay. 😉 I’ll have a trawl through the wardrobe. it needs a good sorting so perhaps I’ll find some stuff that will now fit again.

OH: Weight 169.2 lbs – Body Fat 30.2% – Visceral Fat 8% – BMI 25.7 Waist 37” – Neck 17” – BP 142/89 – FBG 10

OH: Weight 162.2 lbs – Body Fat 30.5% – Visceral Fat 7% – BMI 24.7 – Waist 36.5” – Neck 16” – BP 145/88 – FBG 5.9

OH: Weight 159.4 lbs – Body Fat 29.5% – Visceral Fat 7% – BMI 24.2 – Waist 36” – Neck 16” – BP 137/86 – FBG 6.2

OH: Weight 156.6 lbs – Body Fat 25.1% – Visceral Fat 6% – BMI 23.8 – Waist 35.5” – Neck 15.5” – BP 160/93 – FBG 5.7

OH: Weight 152 lbs – Body Fat 29% – Visceral Fat 6% – BMI 23.1 – Waist 35” – Neck 15.5” – BP 139/88 – FBG 5.3

OH: Weight 151 lbs – Body Fat 27.5% – Visceral Fat 6% – BMI 23.0 – Waist 35” – Neck 15.5” – BP 139/80 – FBG 4.7

OH: Weight 149.6 lbs – Body Fat 26% – Visceral Fat 6% – BMI 22.8 – Waist 34.5” – Neck 15” – BP 142/85 – FBG 5.6

OH: Weight 146.4 lbs – Body Fat 25.8% – Visceral Fat 6% – BMI 22.3 – Waist 33.5” – Neck 15.5” – BP 113/73 – FBG 4.8

OH is now down a total of 22.8 lbs, and is a real happy bunny. He needs a belt on all his trousers now (probably others in the wardrobe which will now fit) and is happy with his blood pressure reading as he has taken no BP medication this week at all. “It’s closer to your BP”, he told me, with a big grin. 🙂 He’s dropped another inch off his waist – he has always been a 34″ trouser, but it looks like that might be changing. 😉

His BGs are still looking good. He was able to get his details from his BG meter in graph format, and it’s obvious when we started this WOE. He’s also been keeping a note of his 90, 60, 28, 21, 12 and 7 day averages, downloaded from his meter.

***You can see how well they are going. Look at the difference in insulin requirements over each week!!! He still needs some when he gets the occasional higher BG readings. But originally 460 units long-acting, and 210 units fast-acting weekly down to 140 and 20 – yo!***

His HbA1c (gives an idea of the average blood sugars over the last 2-3 months) taken just as we started was 7.6 %. Definitely diabetic. Get that below 6% and it would be classed as non-diabetic. We look forward to seeing his next set of blood test results.

Hi Christine and smith *waves*

Christine, I hope the skirt wasn’t see through😱 It’s my skirt I have to worry about, it’s lined so no need for a slip!

Thanks smith. How are you getting on?

Hi a Frog and JCH187. *waves*

Thanks both of you.

How are you getting on JCH187?

Sorry to hear that Bill. Hope you still enjoy your holiday.

*group hug for Bill* 🌻

Hi keep trying,

Keeping it simple works for me!

Helps to not get too bogged down in the detail…eating meat/fish with a variety of ‘above ground’ vegetables makes meal planning easier!

Keep going…you are getting there 😊

Imogen,x

Hi Butterlover, That is interesting. I am Australian and diabetic (type 2) and have never had a BGL meter paid for by the government. I do get subsidised testing strips but that is all. How did your hubby manage a meter? 🙂 I may be eligable and my chemist didn’t now about it.

I usually just substitute some granulated sweetner.

Feeling virtuous. I have an unopened box of chocolates in the kitchen. This was given to me on the 21st May. I do not need to eat then but have left them out as a reminder to be strong willed

Hi Jakkianne – sadly the grapefruit and apple do have a lot of carbs. If you want to speed up your weight loss, you could consider having less of these, at least for the period of the BSD.

It’s a question of choices – I find that I have small quantities of vegetables in things like delicious stir-frys with a chilli pepper, and that this suits me very well.

Hi Bill,

Nasty virus!

Sorry to hear that you have a recurrence of the retinal bleed…still I am sure that won’t stop you from having a wonderful, relaxing time on your holiday. Some time away will give you chance to recover. We’ll miss you!

Have fun,

Imogen🌻

Yippee – I just finished week 4 and have lost a whopping 22 lbs hurrah😀😀

What would you do about the honey? Just miss it out or replace it with something?

I quite like these…

http://www.nourishingdays.com/2010/07/fluffy-coconut-flour-pancakes/

and if you have almond flour these are great…

https://elanaspantry.com/silver-dollar-pancakes/

don’t give up just keep trying new things 🙂

Hi Bill, so sorry about your eye problems. That’s just not fair. 😥 I really hope you have a quick recovery. Sending you lots of love and hugs. xxx

I agree. The only carbs I am having are from vegetables, a grapefruit and small apple, all of which fill me up and keep up my energy levels. Yet MyFitnessPal reports carb intake of 70g to 100g. Anyway, I am doing it for weight loss, not blood sugar, and am still losing, albeit slower now on my third and fourth weeks. It does seem to stick, and stick, and even go up, then down it goes again.

Hello JCH187

You might like to try Malkay’s Pancake, posted in March. It isn’t in the recipe section, but I found the original post in the “What have you eaten today” thread.

It makes quite a thick pancake, but you could probably add a little milk if you want it runnier. Malkay says ‘flaxseed’ but I use milled flaxseed – available from Tesco & Sainsbury’s now, not just in health food shops. You can try other fruits – Hashimoto had hers with strawberries, I have tried Kiwi fruit and I am going for Raspberries next time.

Malkay wrote:
“There is a bit of a knack to making the pancake – perfected after lots of trial and error! It works best in a non-stick pan lightly greased. Whisk two eggs with a dessertspoon of yogurt and about the same of flaxseed. Put into a hot pan, swirl it round, and when it starts to rise a bit (a couple of minutes), slide it out onto a plate, then flip it over back into the pan for a few seconds. Then spread with whatever topping you fancy – yogurt and blueberries is great. Delicious, and very satisfying.”

Hope this works for you!

oh well done captain lynne that is incredible very inspiring for those of us that have just started!!

perhaps the problem is I don’t eat enough veg

plates full of salad just do nothing for me except make me gag

I think it has all become too complicated in my head

I need to just have fish and veg or meat and veg maybe

It can be helpful to have a look at an app which shows the nutritional breakdown of the food we’re eating. I use MyFitnessPal, and was surprised to see the (good) carbohydrate values of many of the vegetables. I have relatively little weight to lose, and in order to increase the effect of the BSD, made the decision to restrict the carbs – many people here do this, giving themselves a target of 50g per day.

If you do this, and make sure you have balancing fat and protein, you may see a further weight loss effect. However, as many people have said, don’t get too focused on the weight. Either measure yourself, or use a piece of clothing which shows where you are losing weight (trousers? jeans?) and notice how much reduction you have around the waist, thighs etc.

I also test if I am burning fat by using Ketostix (which have a tiny tab you hold in your urine flow, and change colour after 15 seconds if you are burning fat). I wasn’t losing much weight, but could see I was burning fat, so that must mean that some of the internal fat round my liver and pancreas was going. The subcutaneous fat – the bit you can see – is the last fat to go, and the bit under the navel is the VERY LAST (sadly, I’m still working on my ‘belly wodge’).

But I know it’s working, although the fat seems to cling on with its fingernails.

IT WILL WORK. And the change of diet to really good food helps change your taste buds forever, and I’m finding it all absolutely delicious!

Good luck!

Thank you, it helps to know that I am not alone.

As well as doing my 10k steps a day I have today purchased a skipping rope and hula hoop. My daughter was with me and was rolling her eyes in the shop letting everyone know that I am 62 years young – definitely no longer feel that age after 9 weeks on BSD.

Crying with laughter in the garden using them does bring back memories.

I don’t know if it is normal but it is quite common and there are many reasons for it. Low sugar in the blood can do this, dehydration or real hunger etc – so it is about balancing; food/carb intake (30gm/day) with , protein healthy fats and a fair amount of fluids. If one of you is definitely pre-diabetic are you suffering more? as you might be more sensitive. If you use the search box for “dizzy” or “light headed” you will see that it is a regular question. Other members will no doubt share their experiences with you but it was not something I experienced myself. Good luck, happy eating, hope it works for you, it did for us here.

hi everyone,
my husband and I have both started the 800 and are on day 4.
I am pre diabetic – my husband is fine just a little over weight.
Weight loss has been very encouraging for both of us hunger pangs are fine – however we are both quite lightheaded pretty much all the time which is becoming a little unpleasant – is this normal?any one got any useful tips!
Thanks in advance Sal

So I had half of one of the breakfast bars I made for breakfast. largely because me and the kids were chilling out upstairs in my bed watching despicable me and I’d come down to make a cup of tea. I was hungry and just wanted something fast.

For lunch I had almond flour pancakes, and dinner will be something chickenny.

Just been chatting about BSD with my neighbour. She is struggling with her weight as well and had noticed I’ve lost some (woohoo people can seeeeee)

She admitted that last time she managed to get down to a healthy weight she was living on a slice of toast for breakfast, a slice of toast for lunch and a weightwatchers ready meal at night. That has to be less than 800 calories. I’ve done worse in all honesty. Just not eating at all for a couple of days to lose some. Not that it ever really worked everything was temporary. Anyways it’s all behind me now I believe I am a low carb convert. I’ll send my neighbour some helpful links later and then it is up to her if she wants to give it a try.

My friend who started this week has said he’s had a few slips and is still eating a lot more carbs than most of us here, however he is having significantly less calories AND carbs than he usually would and has lost some weight (he didn’t say how much and I don’t push for info) So I think that is great step forwards for him.

Well I suppose I best go do some housewifey stuff. I cleaned out the fridge yesterday and somehow there is what looks like squashed tomato on the floor grrr. I think it may have been stuck to the drawer when I took it out to clean it.

The weather here is great again today (too hot for us native Scots) so no doubt it will be off to the park again later as well.

Have a great day everyone 🙂

Hi Lynne,
Just got back from church, had a difficult job getting out! So many people wanted to talk to me about my weight loss, one lady who is remission from cancer said I looked stunning, very nice of her, however I wouldn’t have said stunning, anyway, got a few really nice complements. Well before church, as it is a lovely sunny day I decided to wear one of my ‘new’ dresses, so, I needed a waist slip, put it on, went to go downstairs and the slip started to fall down! So I had to take it off and go without, it felt good in a daft way!
I am still losing even if it’s ounces I’m happy,
Again I will say thank you for your inspiration and do have a great holiday.
Christine

That’s amazing well done, when I first looked at this website to see if it was something I could do it was people like you that made me believe I could x