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!

Thanks Izzy. Yeah slimming world worked for a couple of months but then I don’t really know what happened but it just became ‘guilt on a monday’ when I got weighed, finally saw the light and stopped paying for the guilt!! Was self sabotaging I think. Anyway, about to tuck into some smoked salmon muffins. One question- are clems ok?
X

Brilliant news Dee Power! A reduction in your meds is such a positive result and 9.5 lbs lost! Wow!
I’m following the 4 week plan in the book, with a few swops here and there. I’ve got the ingredients for the beetroot falafels so I’ll try them tomorrow. The chicken Harissa was good, and the chicken with lentils. And the no carb ploughman’s. Tried the bolognaise with cauli ‘rice’ yesterday, wasn’t convinced I would like it but it was delicious! Nothing like having an appetite to appreciate what food you can have!

Keep on doing what you are doing, it’s working a treat!

Hi Syb
Welcome & well done. This isn’t easy neither is having Type 2, (me too, 3 years). I don’t want Type 2 anymore & this is my chance to reverse it, so I’m taking a chance it will. Understood no guarantee, but better odds than all of us T 2’s have ever had before.
If you want that chance more than you want insulin then do what it takes! I loved simple carbs, BUT THEY DON’T LOVE ME!!! We’ll help. Do this for you
Eureka

I was having a sort out of clothes a couple of weeks ago. One of my favourite dresses has never really fitted, so it went in the bag awaiting the charity shop.
I tried it on this morning, with great trepidation. It’s still snug (!) but at least the zip does up!
Yay!!!!

I have to say that giving up the foods I loved i.e pizza, pasta, potatoes, fast food and all the sweet stuff was not as difficult as I assumed it would be. I’m also happy with the fact that I’m not hungry 🙂 My weigh day is Tuesday 10th May and I’m feeling very excited about that because I feel lighter I feel that I’ve lost more weight and that’s simply amazing, a reason to celebrate. I’m going to try to put away a €2 coin for every pound lost and I might stretch that to a fiver (€5) if I’m flush lol Then when I reach my goal weight or half way there I’ll treat myself to something nice to wear. Really looking forward to that 😉 Trying to follow the 4 week plan as its written at the back of the book, is anyone else doing that ? The Beetroot Falafels were absolutely delish and I think served cold with a salad on a picnic some hot summers day dipped in Greek yoghurt will be so perfect. 2 with chutney between them = sandwich to die for !!! I hope everyone is enjoying the food as much as I and the weight is coming down. At the end of week one my nurse is already talking about reducing my meds YEAH ME !!!!!! <3 Sleeping like a rock and full of energy too by the way, loving all the changes 🙂

Izzy great job on the 2 lbs!!! I now have to google Scotch eggs as I have no idea what they are. That is art of the fun of being in this group with others from around the world!! I had to look up courgettes last week because so many talked about them. Eggplant to us here it seems.
Good luck with the poblano seeds! I love poblanos and someone told me their spice depends how much sun they or while growing but I am br sure that’s accurate.
Have a great day albeit watching carbs. How many carbs a day to you keep to typically? I have been at 50 or less so fat. And no cravings at all ever so that works for me.

Hi Lostgirl
It’s about time they sorted your ? Back!! It’s been too long for that scan if you are in this much pain.
Reach for some nuts instead of sugar. They are more filling – better, even if calorific.
If you are still starving walking the dogs, get a small flask & take some of your soup along. Don’t know how you are walking those dogs with ? Back pain. Pain does disturb your sleep too.
Hope your dog ok.
Good you are prepping food & have a friend BSDing too. You take care of you
Eureka

Hi Syb and well done for your first week. I am one week in and three kgs gone forever. I have found it strange not eating cereal and sandwiches too but am determined to reprogram this. Are you trying some of the carb recipes from the book like Bircher Muesli or almond butter? Keep up the good work Syb 😉

I’ve ordered pablano chilli seeds 🙂 I’ll dig out my windowledge propogator and plant some of those and some jalapeno. I’ve also ordered a big jar and pickling spices because I’ve got it into my head I want to make pickled eggs. Googled it and it looks pretty easy… famous last words lol. I can make lots at once but it takes two weeks to be ready and then keeps for up to 6 months (they will never last that long here they will be munched) Something different to bring to work for lunch.

I’m excited! How sad am I? lol

Oh I am an addict and believe me.. I am trying so so hard not too. I feel guilty.. But on the flip side I have tried staying true to diet. I am run down. I have sores and spots and no energy!

Hopefully in 5 weeks I can get my life back together!!

We are looking after the dog for 2 months as he owners are on holiday.. It’s taught me don’t be so nice!

Well done to both Mrs Gs! I have just finished my first week with just over 3kgs gone forever and I am thrilled. My husband has lost the same amount too. Planning to do another five weeks before our big overseas trip where I’m hoping to do 5:2 to keep the momentum. Well before I do that I need to get through this week but I am feeling positive.