Hi JSR, my advice is not to think about a ‘cheat day’ or cheat meal. As long as you give yourself carbs you are going to keep craving them and that means you will struggle with the diet.

The cravings will go if you give it long enough. Some one on here described carbs as the ‘crack cocaine’ of eating. It’s true!! Go carb ‘cold turkey’ your body will thank you for it and you will start feeling much better in yourself – even if you didn’t realise you were feeling off par before!
Good luck! : )

Hi Christine, I finally got my insurance sorted!!! My shoulder is better than it was as I have had some treatment for it.
I’m sorry you are having it so hard at the moment, it is difficult to deal with grief especially for the unexpected loss of a young person.
Judith x

Great job on losing this week Izzy and for getting through with your son!
💜

Today starts week 3 so here’s my week 1 and week 2 stats so far.
Overall is 12 lbs and 9.5 inches lost 😄

🌷Weekly weigh ins🌷
Week 1 – 9 lb lost
4.5 inches
Week 2 – 3 lb lost
5 inches lost

Week 2 Weigh In
Yippee!!
😍 3 lbs lost this week (it went up and down through the week so I am happy with this!)
😍 12 lbs total lost
😍 5 Total inches lost this week

Wow, thanks everyone for the great feedback and encouragement, its really helping! Congrats to all of you on your weight loss, its really inspiring! All of you should be extremely proud of yourselves for all that hard work, I know the struggle.

I weighed in this morning and I’m down 2.2 lbs from Monday. I was very happy that the scale started moving again! I have been hungry lately and been having many cravings. Here in New Jersey we have the best bagels, and I am craving one so bad. For those of you who are not familiar with bagels, they are round shaped pieces of baked bread with a hole in the center, and seasoned with a variety of spices. I was considering having one over the weekend, but I’m nervous I’m going to spiral out of control. I have to teach myself to have control if I am in a situation where I indulge. And I’m afraid if I do allow myself a cheat meal, I’m going to gain back the 2 lbs. I lost.

Have any of you allowed yourself cheat days or cheat meals? If so, how often? Did it effect your weight?
Any advice would be helpful. Thanks!

Hi Leeanne

My experience so far mirrors Bill’s. I cut my metformin daily dose by half 2 weeks ago and there’s been no difference in FBG levels. In fact, if anything they are lower at (typically) 5.1 before breakfast and 5.3 or so two hours later. I plan to drop metformin altogether from Monday when I start Week 7 and see what happens.

As Bill says, if it all goes pear-shaped I can start tsking it again. Nothing to lose and everything to gain? I think so.

It is fair to say it varies from person to person. In my case, I felt hungry and craved carbs for a couple of days and then it passed. I read elsewhere on here that once the body starts drawing calories from elsewhere ie your unwanted fat, the hungry feelings pass. That seemed true for me. Sometimes now – I’m in Week 6 – I find myself struggling to finish BSD meals. At other times I can feel very hungry but find that a few berries, nuts or a glass of water works to fend them off.

The craving for carbs passes. Mind you, having said that, I do still miss my toast and marmite! I now have the marmite but on celery. How times do change!!!

Stick with it – it WILL get easier.

If you’re trying to Fast 800 and logging via MFP are you allowed your exercise adjustment or is the idea to limit your calorie intake to only 800 regardless of exercise done?

Hi Chongololo,
You should be able to get the chickpea flour at Drake’s, it’s called besan flour there.
The Drakes Greek yoghurt, Mythos brand, is much better than Aldi’s and is nearly half the carbs!
Well done on your weight loss so far 🙂

Hi Judith,
Just a quick note for you, thank you for all your support over the length of my diet, I hope your shoulder is better, that you got your holiday insurance sorted, and that you have a great time, when do you Go? I am still ‘dealing’ with the overwhelming emotions I am feeling. I don’t know when or how long you will be away, however I hope to be back on the forum properly by the time you get back, plus well done on your achievements, all the best to you for now.
Christine

well done you guys both have made a great start!

I came across this recipe earlier that my be ok to try, more calories but less carbs.

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/17221/low-carb-hot-chocolate.aspx?o_is=LV

I did a diary partly for the same reason as you, I felt if I was writing everything down I would be more honest with myself and accountable.

I’ve not suffered from full blown eating disorders, but I have binged, and I have eaten in secret, disposing of the evidence. I too have felt shame. However I’m a work in progress but I’m coming to a place of empowerment and acceptance – I hope you are on your way here!

You have no need to feel guilt or shame for your past eating, nor for any slip ups you might have in the coming months.

For a start, suffering from a real eating disorder is a REAL THING. It isn’t something you chose. It isn’t something anyone can control easily. Suffering from carb addiction is also a REAL THING. It also isn’t something you chose, and controlling that is also difficult. I’m starting to realise that this is not something I should feel ashamed of. Knowing that is empowering and is helping me to be motivated to change my life, after many failed attempts at various regimes in the past. I’m on week 4 and I’m convinced now that I can do this, and so can you!

I’d love if you could feel the freedom of letting the guilt and shame go. You don’t deserve them. Best of luck to you!

So my day 5 has just included my first ‘test’ – a visit to Costa Coffee. Ordinarily I’d be climbing over the counter to get to the muffins but I am proud to say I resisted and am sitting here with my small, skinny cappuccino with NO CHOCOLATE on top!

Wow in 3 days you are able to change your insulin that is pretty incredible! Well done for fighting temptation too.

As for what you miss, you can still have tea just with sweetner rather than sugar and count in your milk.

As for the friend thing, you could ask to meet them somewhere different where cake is not available. I often meet a friend for a walk. Alternatively have them over to your place for a catch up and look up recipes that are lower carb, I’ve been making coconut flour pancakes and having it with pureed fruit, and there are recipes for chickpea flour crackers that you could serve with cheese, you could make lots of lower carb nibbles.

I have been ashamed of my eating habits and weight for almost as long as I can remember, including over 20 years of eating disorders, although am not technically suffering from one at the moment. The one thing that’s helped in the past is having someone read a food diary – so I am starting one online in the hope that fear of judgement and disdain will keep me on track.

So…day 1. Not the best of starts but it’s far fewer cals than I would normally eat so it’s an achievement in some sense of the word.

B: Greek yoghurt w/ mixed red fruit (raspberries, blackberries, cranberries, blueberries) (200)
Chocolate Options drink (50) – NEED TO STOP THIS! Will go out in the garden after breakfast tomorrow ’til the craving stops.

Mid morning snack (MMS): Quorn picnic egg (50)

L: 1-egg omelette with spinach (100)
1/2 pot cottage cheese (100)
Broccoli (10)
Apple (100) – didn’t want it after the first bite but felt bad about wasting it. Stupid really.
1/2 piece 85% chocolate. (30)

Sue those blood sugars are getting closer to where you want them to be! That’s fantastic after everything that’s happened in your life recently.
Your weight loss is encouraging too, keep it up, you’re gonna get there 🙂

Hi Judith,
well done – you have been an inspiration to us all! – and a great source of recipes 🙂 !
I hope you eventually got your insurance sorted and are now ready for your holiday. Have a great time!
Ruth

Hi Judith,
Belated congratulations on your 16 weeks of success! You’ve made a world of difference to your own health and provided plenty of inspiration and encouragement to others.
Well done 🙂
Now hurry up and get on that plane lol!!!

https://thebloodsugardiet.com/forums/topic/variations-in-fast-800/

Hi Trae, welcome on board. There is a good trail where both Eureka and Neohdiver have given info that should help you with this(see link above). If that is not enough info – put ‘Proportions fat’ or ‘Proportions carb’ into the search engine and read the links it gives you – there are a few :-).
Most people are going for 50g carbs and below, it may be better to start at 50g carbs and come down as you feel it is needed – upping your fats will keep you feeling fuller so you may not need such a low carb count.
Good luck.

Niblet, I can imagine how frustrating that could be. I’ve found my body tends to lag a bit – it’s only after a few weeks of eating less that I actually lose weight. Go figure. I hope next week is more successful for you.

Thanks for the replies. I always feel like I’m the only one out there who has these binges and it’s so shameful to admit them to anyone. Hearing that one can turn things around gives me a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel.

I mostly manage lol. He is happy now wandering around with a square lampshade around his middle ‘being a robot’

Hi Barby, haven’t spoken to you for a while – how are you getting on?!
Can you tell me what the recipe name is that you are looking at please as I have been through the Recipe section twice and cannot find it anything with the ingredients you have above! If I can see how it is made, I may be able to help.
I must admit I do rarely eat the burger or sausage style veggie foods and only use the sausages now and again in a vegetable stew.
In terms of making veggie burgers – like you – they end up a mess. It does not help when people give recipes that say 1 courgette, as opposed to 10oz courgette. A courgette can range in size and is a very wet vegetable – so a large courgette used in a recipe when a small one was required can be twice as much courgette as you need!
If you like the flavours above, why not make it up and fill a red pepper with the mixture, or split red pepper in two and fill both parts? Another option is to put on top of a large grilled Portobello mushroom. If you want to add some protein, a couple of slices halloumi cheese on top of the mushrooms or peppers an grilled just before serving works well. The mix can be frozen as is, or frozen in the peppers and the cheese added once defrosted and reheated.
Whilst looking through the recipes, I saw one I will try from Hashimoto – courgette bhajis. She gives the exact amounts in her recipe so it is more likely to work. Would that work for you as a burger style food?
Anyhow – let me know the recipes name and I will look at it as well as having a look through my recipe books this afternoon for some ideas for you.

Well done Izzy for not taking the easy option and caving in. : )

Hi all,
I am 3 days in and starting to feel amazing. i have been able to stop taking immediate insulin. I will be reducing my overnight insulin soon as well 🙂
i am not missing the food so much as i’m missing the lifestyle like a cup of tea at the end of the night with milk and 4 sugars or the cake when i catch up with friends.
I have fought a lot of temptation today and so am feeling stronger 🙂

added to the list of my husband wanting scotch eggs and my daughter wanting chickpeas, I now have my son having a massive tantrum, because clearly I am a terrible Mummy. All because I won’t make him eggs for lunch. He had eggs for breakfast! He is sat at the other side of the room glowering at me and crying, whilst his soup gets cold. Oh well!

I’ve been surfing the net looking for more foodie idea including the recipe threads on here and have saved many. Sending hubby a shopping list later, and I’ve ordered some gram flour and coconut oil which features in many recipes but I haven’t seen either locally.

For lunch I had the soup as planned but also a new experiment. I can’t remember if I saw it on our recipes or elsewhere but courgette pizza! The recipe calls for BBQ but I did mine in the oven. Slice a courgette into 3 long slices and spray with oil, bake a little on one side, turn over, add a little crushed garlic and bake a bit longer, then spread on tomato puree and top with cheese and bake a bit more. It was yummy! You have to eat with a knife and fork because it goes floppy but the taste is good!

In other most excellent news, Having now been refused eggs and an apple several times (he’s already had two apples) my son has admitted defeat and sat down with his soup 🙂

lol! Natalie we order hundreds at a time, they come in a hessian bag within a cardboard box. My husband separates them out into big tubs that we keep them in. He dropped a whole tub in the hall once and we were running around scooping them up. Kept finding random fugitives for days afterwards.

A friend of mine ordered live crickets for a new lizard pet, cardboard box arrived and she assumed that the crickets would be in another container inside that. Nope, just loose in the cardboard box! Crickets everywhere.

Good morning
I am trying to be a creative cook to my likky😅. Try this my delicious recipie
Ingredient
800gm veal shoulde from sainsbury store(test the difference )
1tin of chic peas
1 tin chopped tomato
2 tbs of dried red lentil
1 medium size onion (optional)
2garlic gloves
1/2 tbs Garam masala
Salt & pepper, Chilli flakes, mild curry, citric acid as you like

Chopp the meat in big chunks ,sear it in 1 tbs veg oil add onion and soften it then add chopped tomato + 1liter of boiled water + lentil and chic peas. Bring it to boil for 10 minute then reduce heat for another one hour to simmer. Add flavouring and stir it and leave to simmer for another 10 minutes.
I usually divide it in 4-5 portions and eat it with lettuce leaves insteade of bread or rice.
Hope you will enjoy it

Day 1:
I saw the BSD on the Dr. Oz show last week. I have been struggling with a 500 calorie diet as well as a 1200 calorie diet since January…500 has been too hard to maintain and 1200 seems like too much. I love the concept of 800, almost perfectly between the 2. Sugary sweets as well as bread are my downfalls and I know I have to cut them completely out of my diet. There is no wiggle room or occasional treats, because that sets me off in a total binge fest. I have the exercise part down as I am upwards of 20K steps a day…I just cant seem to get a handle on the eating.

Book has been read…but I can’t find the answer to what my macros should look like. I know for my that I am highly carb sensitive and therefore I really need to be under 20 carbs a day. But as for my fat and protein I can’t figure out what my percentages should be. I know Med diet is higher in fat but I dont think it is to the levels of Keto in terms of fat. Any suggestions….

Day 1 went pretty well…that is until we attended one of my son’s spring band concerts and my eating was thrown off. Instead of making wise choices. I allowed myself a few oranges on my salad which pushed my carb count way too high for the day. GRRR…but today is a new day.

hee hee I only ordered the gram flour… I’m just not brave enough for insects!

Hi Izzy
haha, how disparate are we to loss weight 😩😩

Hi LD,
Welcome on board. I started using Shakes and wondered why I was not losing the inches from my waist ( I was losing weight but not from the waistline). I asked the forum and was advised to check by carb intake and guess what – the carbs in the Shakes were too high!
The biggest change you will make is moving away from carb loaded foods to full fat foods. So, no more low fat milk or yoghurt, but full fat – much more filling and you eat less of it as a result.
Checkout have you eaten today forum for ideas and also tips on how to get the most from this lifestyle.
Good luck!

OK thanks Izzy! I am going to pop out to the shop and get those pickles, and looking forward to a zing of a no-carb, no-sugar snack today!

Super thanks for the reply! Glad to know BSD will help lose weight and the exercise won’t be as difficult.

As far as I know they are ok, so long as not added sugar.

I’ve just pickled 12 eggs, so I really hope it *is* ok as they are sat in my fridge pickling away lol

Hi LD,
if you can walk up 9 flights of stairs even once a day – you are doing well!
Yes the exercise gets easier – especially the stretching ones – I do pilates once a week and it is only since I lost 15kg that I can do some of the exercises as I now do not have my fat stomach getting in the way! Likewise with yoga, I got through a full session a couple of weeks ago getting into most positions – I had not been to the yoga class for a couple of months and I never managed to get into half the positions, let alone go through the whole class before.
Walking up hills is now possible – given you are doing stairs, I suspect you are already ok at that – also your knees suddenly respond to being asked to crouch down, my back is so grateful for that 🙂 !

Does anyone know if pickles are OK with BSD? Is the sodium more than should be allowed on BSD? It seems like they are a tasty, no fat, no carb, no sugar option. At least the non-sweet kind. There is a shop nearby my flat that sells amazing pickles that are half-sour and I want to buy a whole bunch of them today. Much appreciated for any feedback on pickles!

you also get these.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bush-Grub-Cricket-Deli-Pot/dp/B00M832VKE/ref=pd_sim_325_5?ie=UTF8&dpID=41hK-rTEgIL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=JR925FCR253NPESRNSNH

taste like peanuts it says!!

and forgot to add link to original post..

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crunchy-Critters-Cricket-Flour-grams/dp/B01BNRSXS4/ref=sr_1_18?ie=UTF8&qid=1463128308&sr=8-18&keywords=gram+flour

I’m impressed with how much exercise is happening for everyone. I hope to increase and improve on this front. In my younger years I did all kinds of activity, even skateboarding. But the weight and some other issues defeated my energy. I’m just new to BSD and kicked off by walking up 9 flights of stairs in my building at least once a day. Today I aim to do it three times. I also walk everywhere. I’m going to try and do situps/crunches and maybe add in weights.

Is it easier to do the exercise once you take off some weight? I think that will provide me with a bit more encouragement. Right now, it is very hard to get moving more.

so when browsing ‘gram flour’ on Amazon, I came across this. I didn’t even know such a thing existed. Could you eat this? I don’t think I could lol.

We feed live crickets to our bearded dragon so I’m not squeamish about having live ones in the house, just not sure I could eat it …

Thanks captainlynne

Today day 83 weight 9st 12lbs
Blood sugar …… 7.5

Definitely taking blood monitor on holiday with me. If I can’t do an up date before I come back, I’ll definitely start posting again on 25th May. Hopefully I won’t have undone much of the progress I have made so far.

Keep going everyone, I’m still in shock over fitting into size 12 jeans! 😀

Many thanks Bill1954. Good tip about the diet shakes. Sneaky that is! Carbs & sugar in diet shakes? Who knew?

Hi Janeycoughdrop
Think of all the calories you will burn wrestling with the cat! I’m still trying to get my head around eating full fat yogurt and haven’t progressed to Greek yogurt yet. Will give it a try next time I need to replenish stocks. Luckily I don’t have a cat to fight over my yogurt🙂

Hi Natalie,

Thanks for your response – I think I am similar to yourself with the blood results, and I feel better hearing that the GTT results and the Fasting results can be so different. I am continually amazed by the nonsense “professionals” are still telling people – and more than a little annoyed about the bad information and advice.

I now have even lower carbs and higher fats in my diet, and feel a whole lot better for it! I also include intermittent fasting (23 hours fast and 1 meal a day, 5 days a week). My bloods continue to come down, and the weight continues to come off.

I hope that the medical world will catch up with the science, and that more people can follow Dr Moseley’s (amongst others!) advice and get back to good health.

Well done Babs! I don’t weigh myself but after 4 days my jeans are definitely feeling looser! I’m even beginning to like Greek yoghurt and fruit for brekkie ( altho the cat keeps fighting me for it!). Onward and upward to the weekend..

well I’m happy they let me back in 🙂 and I understand that it is better for us all to attempt to keep real spammers out.

I had my mid-week weigh in and I’ve lost…. 0.2 lb’s lol. Still got half the week to lose more/not lose more. I’ll take it as it comes.

Pondering my day as the weather looks like rain, but me and the little one might go out anyway. We could have a walk in the woods and splash in the puddles and mud if it does. Park if it doesn’t.

Food, I’m about to get busy and make eggs for breakfast, just as soon as I decide if I want boiled ones, or an omelette… decisions decisions! lunch is going to be cauli and canellini bean soup, which I will have a batch of cooking soon. Dinner, not sure yet.

My husband is complaining that I haven’t made more scotch eggs yet.

My daughter is complaining that I haven’t made more salt and vinegar chick peas yet.

This plan definitely has side effects hahaha.

Fantastic results Babs!! imagine what you will look like by week 8 if you have achieved so much by day 4!!! 🙂

Hi Bill, I suspect you’re right. One night I was wide awake at dawn so I opened up the BSD forums only to find one of the forums was spammed out by that Indian guy. The tech team emailed me to say ‘they just don’t give up do they? But since we tightened the spam filters we have stopped several hundred getting through.’

I guess they are still experimenting with tightening them. God knows how many they have stopped by now

🙂