Just back form a weekend away . I have to laugh I now realise that because it summed up my ‘ seige mentality’ to food. ie. I always think that If I can’t eat I may die !

So I set off very early on Saturday with a berry and almond milk shake and a coffee to keep me company on the 2 hour journey. But then as soon as I arrived in Cambridge I had an hour to kill so ended up wolfing down a cooked breakfast – managed to steer clear of toast etc but still managed to put away 2 slices of bacon , tomato, mushroom and a poached egg … and it was only 9am !

Anyway , won’t bore you with the detail but let’s just say I manage to clock up around 1300 cals during the day ( both Saturday and today ) but managed to keep carbs below 50gs o not all bad. Also had the smallest glass of red wine in the evening ( staying with some very boozy friends ! ) which I managed to sip slowly throughout the entire evening.

I also bought a very lovely top from a favourite shop which I haven’t been able to buy from for years as they don’t go up to a size 20 in a size 16 as incentive.

I daren’t weigh myself tonight but I am very philosophical about it , not going to beat myself up about it , tomorrow is another day etc etc ! My first week will be up on Tuesday morning so I’m going to wait to weigh myself then.

Hope you’re all enjoying the sunshine – those in the UK and those who aren’t probably have sunshine anyway ! It’s a rare treat for us !

Hi RozyDozy
Well done on that 1.5 stone weight loss. Instead of going AWOL, we’ll grant a leave of absence if needed. Welcome back

Thanks Rozy,

Well done on your weight loss that’s super cool!!!

I love the action plan idea I’ll do one right now!! 🙂

Hi Eureka,

Thanks those ideas are helpful, I’ve not tried eggs yet on the BSD. I bought some yoghurt and almond flakes, will get a small tub of berries tomorrow and 6 eggs…hello wagon I’m climbing back on 🙂

Captainlynne …you say you keep your carbs really low. Are you able to give me a rough idea of how low please? Just started week 2, and I’m planning all my own meals. The first week I stuck to a max of 50g carbs/day, but I don’t know if this is low enough.
Thank you.

Lucia – You have a white Ababa catsuit?? So envious! 🙋

Hi healthyanna & bumblebee,
I know where you are coming from – my emotional eater fouls things up from time to time. Last time was actually last weekend, and I’ve been BSD-ing since mid-January. But I confessed my “sin” on this forum and read people’s advice and got my head together and planned what I was going to have & stuck to it. The warmer weather made it a bit easier to drink more so that helped. I even had a continuation of the catastrophes that had precipitated my last pigout but this time I didn’t turn to food to make myself feel better.

And you know what, today I weighed myself and I have not only lost the extra weight I’d put back but I’ve dipped below 11stone for the first time in a long time AND I have lost a grand total of 1.5stone since I started this diet.

There’s a lot of good advice in the posts above so I can’t really add anything to them. Just give yourselves a chance – draw up your plan of action, and draw up a plan for what to do if you do go AWOL from the diet. Remember, you are in control – not the food.

Good luck!

Thanks Lucia,

and thanks to all the gang. You are all amazing.
You guys got me through those first weeks…though I am not brilliant at keeping posted…being able to read about all your unique journeys, hearing about the good days (and the less so), knowing you are all travelling has kept me on the path! Will soon catch up!

Imogen🌻

Hi Everyone (again!)

I am trying this again… I have terrible willpower problems. My husband and daughter are supporting me this time so fingers crossed!

I have some questions…

I am managing to keep carbs around 40 – 50 but find I can’t increase protein and fat without going over the 800 calories.

I went to 1000 calories today but again carbs ok but under on the rest.. Please help so I can carry on.

On the good side – I have cycled with my daughter for 6 miles and walked for an hour! Phew!

Thanks

Lucy

Thanks for that info Izzy! I am going to read the book on a plane next week. Have it next to me and keep thinking I have time but then I don’t do it as something else takes over that time slot!

Hi bumblebee
My breakfast can be; full fat Fage yoghurt with a portion of mixed soft fruit eg strawberries , cherries , blueberries & raspberries. I top with 2 walnuts & a spoonful of sliced almonds & goji berries & a spoon of Waitrose mixed seeds , pumpkin, linseed, sunflower & sesame to help with constipation.
I like poached egg & salmon. Hard boiled egg & prosciutto or Serrano ham. Scrambled eggs & fresh tomatoes. Bacon & egg & mushrooms. Smoked haddock & scrambled eggs (brunch). Cooked ham & small piece of cheese. Spanish omelette ( cook onions, tomatoes, bell pepper & eggs). Eggs are filling & long lasting food wise.
Hope this is helpful.
Don’t beat yourself up. We’re all working through issues & doing a lot of self analysis it seems on this diet/way of life. Our minds & bodies are going to be a lot healthier. Keep on keeping on. The wagon awaits.
Eureka

Day 9
Morning weigh in down another 8 ounces
Really surprised as I seem to be retaining water after last nights tummy issues
Giving up the fruit today as it seems those are causing the issues. Maybe fruit malabsorption for the time being.
Everything else I eat doesn’t bother me.

Eating out for moms day but will just have asparagus and tofu if we get in the restaurant or will get something at the deli with the kids. Low key day today for sure.

💜

Way to go! The carbs have been the worst for me to ditch, but I know it’s made a huge difference. I’m in Week 3 and I lost 20 pounds in the first two weeks. I have generally been having a few eggs for breakfast. And I’ve found that keeping some chilled boiled eggs in the fridge at the ready can be a big help. And see if you can find shirataki noodles. Super filling, versatile, low carb and low cal. They help me to feel full and that is a feeling I need on occasion if I’m not to feel deprived. Keep it up!

Right gang, captain Lynn has given me the keys to the club house,
Hashimoto, can you bring food,
Bill 1954 can you sort some music
Natalie can you sort out some fairy lights
Switzerland can you sort out some Glo stixs
Imogen can you keep an eye out for captain Lynn.

Okay we will all sneak into the club house and have a early party. Before you lot officially get to eight weeks. DONT tell anyone. It’s all hush hush……

Oh, Christie 1948, can you make sure no one goes giddy with the food?

Right, now where is my white abba catsuit?……..

Love Lucia
Xxx

Hi captain Lynn, thanks for the spare keys, I will keep the place tidy.
😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇love Lucia
Xxxx

Who has left muddy footprints on my clean floor?
👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣👣

Now come on! Keep this place tidy, I have a gang coming over soon from the first eight weeks group.
They will need to sit down and get settled in.

Now who has hidden my yellow duster?

Love Lucia
Xxx

Hi Alanhypno
No telling off’s here. You’re just human & trying to re-educate your eating habits. The cooked breakfast ok ( leave the sausage alone for a bit). Wine , can you afford the calories right now? Nibble on calorie counted nuts. Wagons Ho!

you’re welcome, it isn’t Mothers Day here in the UK though we had ours earlier in the year 🙂 Happy Mothers day to those whose day it is though!

Hi All,
I know this doesn’t sound good but I’m happy to find a thread for second attempts. I’m going start my second attempt tomorrow.

I messed up today after a week of being so good on my 800 calorie BSD.

I know why I messed up, I didn’t get enough sleep last night, just three hours. Woke up annoyed and cranky and tired. Couldn’t go back to sleep it was so warm. Then made a bad breakfast choice, had smoked mackerel and coffee because anything more would have gone past 200 calories. I was hungry an hour later and just kept pushing it away…I was ok for a while then my groceries got delivered and I started cooking for the week so I have healthy food to eat. They stuck a complimentary packet of some promotional crisps in my shopping I ended up eating it 🙁

Was so upset think I messed up counting the calories on my portions too now I don’t know if I guess or throw it all away.

The cherry on the cake, I was so sure since I’ve messed I’ll just eat as much salmon and veg as I want then my housemate brought back chocolates from Belgium n ate two truffles.

Locked myself in my room now with a cup of tea…

California girl your post motivated me to just suck it up, accept its been a bad day and commit to starting over.

If I have pastrami and coffee for breakfast I’m ok, anything else I feel I might murder someone after an hour I’m so hungry. What do you guys do for breakfast?

Thanks so much for the info Izzy! Happy Mother’s Day to you!!

You go girl! Half way there😄

Hi Healthyana — with all the free time I have these days since I am not so busy eating (😜) I have found myself pondering how this all got to the point where i didn’t have any control and I was eating too much and the wrong stuff every single day…. And I have decided that it is a two part problem, both physical and mental — first, i (and probably you) have an overly active insulin system and I have had it since childhood. My memories are filled with sugar moments and trying to get sugar and walking all the way to town to get sugar and even eating frozen concentrated orange juice because that was the only sugar available in our house (LOL!!!) (my mom was a early adopter of healthy eating!). I am a horse owner and in the horse world we call them “cresty ponies” — these are the horses/ponies with big, thick necks (insulin indicators I have heard) and they can survive and stay fat on half a flake of hay per day. So, I figure I am a cresty pony always looking for more hay (sugar). That’s the physical side. Then the second half of this one/two knock out punch is the psychological side — my family was chaotic , competitive and stressful growing up and I used food to calm myself. I just took those two unhealthy states into adulthood and have struggled ever since. The only thing that “saved” me from super obesity was I had some of that competitiveness in sports. But I was still fat. Just fit and fat. More fat than fit! And getting worse as I turned sixty, went through menopause and had a few injuries. The BSD diet has been a perfect answer for me and just might be for you. Don’t give up. Dedicate just 8 weeks to following it (it won’t be without slip up, just start again) and THEN evaluate. Suspend your critical thinking for just 8 weeks.

I hadn’t thought about making a coating as I’ve enjoyed them as they are but it might be worth having a look. I’ve got enough little projects for now tho lol

Back on track NOT
Not due for weigh in till Friday five days away but just sneaked on scales FOUR pounds up on last week
Over confident cos I dropped that one and half stone,thought the odd nibble and couple glasses wine were ok but all added up.
If I drop half a stone in five days I’ll be happy,and lucky !

Problem was couple too many breakfast egg bacon even sausages
Need a telling off please
Alan back on it 😱

Hi lostgirl I wasn’t too sure what had happened when you said the dog was attacked. I’m sorry about your hip x

Hi mygunya welcome to the forums 🙂

Wishing you all the best 🙂

You could maybe make a crumb from the scotch eggs with blitzed nuts or flax seeds? I think I need to investigate bran as it is indigestible so wouldn’t add to carbs or anything else but would help with general movement elsewhere. Also thinking that maybe a cheesecake would be possible with bran as a base – all theoretical at the moment as I’ve never used bran.

Enjoy the rest of the day

So I thought I should start my own thread as I’m now a month in – 28 days yesterday (sounds like a sequel)

Had a munchy day yesterday and ate way too many delicious salt n’ vinegar chickpeas. Today I woke up 2 hours after I’d gone to bed for a wee 🙁 something that had stopped in recent weeks and was really dehydrated. Also had coffee yesterday and probably drank less water because of it. Feeling a bit better now – that’ll teach me to not pick at things that although healthy mount up in the carbs.

Overall I’ve lost an inch each on waist/hips and a stone in lard 😀

First diabetic clinic tomorrow so will see what they say, about the diet etc.

I think the advice in the book is aimed at people that are more sedentary in order to get them to increase their amount of exercise in small stages. I’d probably try the diet and see how I feel with it, as you are already very active you wouldn’t be adding any more than you are already doing. Hope that helps 🙂

I don’t see anything in Ryvita that is inconsistent with the BSD, as long as you have the calories to spend on them, so let your husband out of the doghouse and enjoy your Ryvita (in quantities that it fit within the calorie cap).

It has 3 ingredients, all of which are expressly listed as acceptable. The diet itself doesn’t have a carb limit, so imposing a carb limit is a personal preference. Even so, 2 slices have a total of 9 carbs – well within the limit most folks here have added to the calorie limit of the diet.

turns out my carbs for today won’t be too bad. I’ve had some chickpeas as well 🙂 I’ll be 53.5g carbs later after my chicken curry dinner. onions are quite high carb but I love onions 🙁 put them in so many things.

Lunch though… I had 3 boiled eggs mashed up in a cup with salt and pepper. I had forgotten how much I like that it was really nice!

yay for two sizes smaller that’s brilliant!

In the book it does suggest that some may suffer sleep issues, having read elsewhere it seems that carbs help with the sleepy hormones and clearly we are having a lot less of those. It suggests in the book if you are struggling with sleep that eating your last meal of the day a bit later helps some.

Hi Kitty

You should soon lose that 36lbs. 😃

I rarely follow the recipes or meal plans in the book, just making it up as I go along – sticking to 800 calories and cutting carbs.

I find I do need to be strict with myself (that’s just me!). I keep my carbs really low (can’t give exact figures). When starting the BSD I was eating three meals daily (rather than eating all day!). But now find I eat breakfast around 8am then nothing until about 5.30pm – I’m just not hungry between.

Remember I started this before Christmas, and managed to stick to the BSD through both Christmas and New Year. I knew I needed to do it that way, because I’ve I left it to 1st January I might keep finding excuses.

For breakfast I might have bacon, egg and black pudding (if I’m out it might be a 4-item breakfast – 2 bacon, black pudding and either egg or baked beans). Otherwise it might be cooked meat, cheese – whatever is in the fridge! That keeps me going all day.

At night, it might be fish or meat with veggies. Might spice it up. Again, depends on what I fancy (and if I’m going out to a meeting). No desserts.

Managed to more or less stick with the 2 meals/no desserts when I was at a residential conference recently. Breakfast I had what I normally eat. Two nights dinner was much later so forced a slice of meat and a tiny bit of salad down at lunchtime. But then I couldn’t eat the meal that night. Went through the menu we were given to choose from, crossing out the sauces, crumb coating etc. Crossed out the desserts. Because I wasn’t hungry I found I was eating about half the meal – portions were huge (or so it seems now).

Sunday is a bit different because of work. I have breakfast, a meal early afternoon, then a tiny bit of meat about 8pm.

So I guess you could say ‘m super strict with myself. But it’s what works got me. Everyone is different.

Lynne😃

Scotch eggs are a boiled egg, usually wrapped in pork sausagemeat, then coated in breadcrumbs so not too healthy. My version uses pork loin blitzed in the blender with herbs and spices so not full of crap, and no breadcrumbs. I posted the recipe in the recipe section. They are quite filling and one with a little salad is nice for lunch at work for me.

I have run out of steam today! need to take my son out for a walk or something but I’m feeling like just staying at home.

I try to keep carbs to around 50g as well, but I’m not overly worried if I sometimes go a little over.

Thanks Hashimoto! All the advice and support you and others gives is amazing and well appreciated!
Have a happy day!!

Hi BSD members, I have just registered to begin the BSD journey toward a healthier me. As most people on their individual journey, I too liked to play hard, so I don’t enter this 8 week program as a quick-fix, but more to help inform better lifestyle choices and, learn from the support of members shared stories.

I am not an avid user of social media or routinely participate in online forums. I will check in from time to time over the next 8 weeks to share learnings.

Hi Switzerland

We like to confuse people😳 At the moment on BST (British Summer Time) – this year from 27th March to 30th October. Clocks go forward an hour in Spring, then back an hour in Autumn. – the rest of the year we’re on GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). Just checked, and at the moment you are 9 Hours ahead of us.

Enjoy Mothers’ Day. Ours was 6th March.

We’re all learning a lot, and making new friends along the way.

Speak soon.

Ugh. Wide awake at 3am. 2nd time this week. My body needs a lot less sleep when I am losing my weight. Gonna need a nap later probably…..
Tummy issues again yesterday evening. – gonna cut out the fruits in hope that helps.
Weigh in comes later this morning.
Gonna be a long day but I am still happy and sticking with it. It’s working.

Thanks ladies!! I woke up at 3am so my brains not awake enough yet to remember which is which – always learning something new! Yeah!

Hi Lostgirl, I have just registered with the BSD and, no doubt will experience highs and lows. Well done for sticking to your journey!

Hi

You don’t say if you’re diabetic. Some diabetics can eat oatmeal, others find if spikes their blood sugar. You could have eggs, bacon, tomatoes and mushrooms for breakfast. Sounds like you’re on the right track 😃 Let us know your progress. Any more questions, just ask.

Hi Lostgirl
Ouch! Ouch! Nasty! Do take care. The sooner that scan the better. Don’t let the dogs pull you! 🐩 💐

Hi HappyLife
Courgettes are green marrows & Zucchini is its other name.
I’ve just spiralized & then riced mine by pulsing it in my food processor. I’ve also done that to carrots & beetroot. I’ll mix them all together raw & put a dressing of olive oil, lemon juice salt & black pepper on them. You can also add tomatoes & tinned sweet corn ( or bbq the sweet corn first & then add).
And you could mash an avocado & add two dessert spoons of sour cream, ground salt & black pepper & serve that as a side dish or dip.
Eggplant is also called Aubergine, it’s the deep purple one you know. I’m just about to cut that into long slices, oil it & slap it on the bbq. Yum yum I’m off for dinner bbq style. Enjoy

Thanks Trisha
Yes, I too, have been adapting some of the recipes and making up some of my own as I go along so long as they are low carb and practically sugar free. The facebook support group page has been a big help as it get lots of shared meal ideas. Since checking my own calorie counts I was shocked that I was eating quite a few more than i thought, but obviously a lot less than before reading this book, hence the weight loss. Still craving biscuits though!

That reminds me of my doughnut story (before the BSD obviously).
Me: four doughnuts please.
Teenage server: sorry we don’t sell them in fours. Only one, or three, or six, or a dozen.
Me: Ooookaaaay, I’ll have one…. And three.
Apparently she was able to process that request just fine.

I had dislocated my hip… Really painful!!!

They think damage has been done.. I walk dogs bad I have to but on some painkilling patches. When it’s really bad they don’t touch the pain.. But we have a 2 acre paddock dogs can roam in..

But knowing they need walks Spurs you on

Happylife, courgette is zucchini! Aubergine is eggplant.

Ok they are going to follow some people on each diet for a few weeks and see how they go. They call the BSD the most “physically demanding”, I don’t know if they were referring to exercise or the food.

Hi Rubyswallow
That’s much appreciated, thanks. It’s too much of a coincidence that so many of us have suffered from this condition & when we eliminate the simple carbs it improves or disappears completely.

The show has just started, they have three experts: Pete Evans who is an Australian celebrity chef who promotes the Paleo diet, a dietitian who follows the government guidelines (quarter of the plate low GI whole grains, quarter low fat protein, half veges), and Michael Mosley’s Blood Sugar Diet. I’ll let you know what they decide at the end. I did think it was quite funny when Michael said 800 calories is “the low end of normal but not super low”. I think a lot of people who haven’t tried it would disagree!