Mine’s the Flex . I’m loving it but haven’t yet worked out how to input everything … Now if it could calories and carbs , i would be impressed ! How easy would that be ! Just imagine , you could programme it to beep when you’d reached your daily limit.

Your story sounds similar to mine . I lost 7 stone on Lighter Life 5 years ago and put every pound back on after being diagnosed with Osteoarthritis . Had both my knees replaced so exercise isn’t as easy as it used to be.

Thought that might be the case. Shame as I quite like them – as long as they have enough cheese piled on top!

He meant well, and I expect they’re better than white bread.

Hi Alan,
Those before and after lunch readings are still ok. Ideal readings before meals are between 4&6 but anything up to 7.8 after meals is in the non diabetic range.
Your liver is still getting rid of stored sugar into your blood at this stage. Metformin will slow this process down. You can expect your morning readings to be higher and a bit erratic for a couple more weeks before they come down and stay down.
You are on track though and the weight loss is great, well done. 🙂

Thank you! Your note has really made a difference. I will hop back on the bus and keep at it! Watch this space!

Well I went out tonight to vote in our election, and walked the long way home as I’m low on steps. I still am a bit under my target but I’m feeling pretty tired tonight and suddenly, inexplicably a bit low. Hubby keeps asking if I’m ok bless him. I think I’m just tired. Interestingly tonight is the first time I’ve really wanted chocolate, and I may also be pre-menstrual. Those pesky hormones.

I’ve been good and didn’t nip in to the shop for chocolate whilst I was out, which previously I absolutely would have done and then eaten it before I got home too. Small triumph but I’m still pleased that I am proving to myself every day that I can do this.

For now I’m going to have an early night and hope that tomorrow I am back to my usual self.

That’s good that you guys understand each other I can imagine that is helpful.

Don’t pop the blisters!!!

That’s great jabby. I have stuck to it too – so far lost a lb and gained a lb which is annoying! No idea why. Any diet I do I don’t seem to lose weight for a bit longer maybe 2 weeks at least … I need to remember this and not get disheartened! 7lbs amazing though! Must be so motivating too!

That’s great jabby. I have stuck to it too – so far lost a lb and gained a lb which is annoying! No idea why. Any diet I do I don’t seem to lose weight for a bit longer maybe 2 weeks at least … I need to remember this and not get disheartened! 7lbs amazing though! Must be so motivating too!

wow losing a bit of weight sounds like it is going to transform your life 🙂

Good luck for tomorrow!

Hi JSR! I’m new too so we can support each other.

Thanks Roxy. I have so far stuck to the diet but I really do get starving mid-morning and mid-afternoon/early evening. It is difficult to get my meal before 8 because of putting kids to bed (too small to eat as a family yet) so I really am starving by the time I eat, but I can’t figure out a better way because of having to finish work, pick up kids etc. Maybe I just need to eat both breakfast and lunch a couple of hours later and shift my day up a bit. Today I walked 27415 steps so far. I am exhausted! My normal ‘commute’ involves around 9 miles of either walk or bus getting to and from stations at either end (1.5 miles – 3 miles – 3 miles – 1.5 miles) but I normally get the bus at least for the last 1.5 miles but today I did it all. Sore feet!

So Day 3 is over. I am nervous about the weekend … but have planned meals for the next three weeks and intend to stick to it. Weekend breakfasts involve avocado and egg, which is my fave weekend breakfast anyway, just it used to be on toast.

Nervous about weighing next Monday. I know from previous diets that I don’t usually lose much weight (1lb or maybe 2 at most, if any) in the first week and it comes off the second week but I need to remember that on Monday and not get discouraged!

And boiling today, did much more walking than i usually do which was nice. Nowhere near as much as I used to but I wear really flat trainers and I’ve managed to get blisters on both heels I think. They’ll be fine, just have to resist the temptation to pop them.

Getting away to the other half really helps too, even though he also is a depressive, it means he understands what I mean when I’m not having a good day and vice versa :D.

Polly x

Hi everyone I started on Monday and have managed to keep on track so far. Which is a real achievment for me 😊 today felt a bit anxious and wanted to snack throughout the day. I drank water and succumbed to a small apple between meals. Have kept to 800-850 calories a day and am surprised that I haven’t felt really hungry (as I have on other diets) The scales say I have lost 7lbs so I must keep going. The forum has really helped me. I dont feel like I am doing this on my own and the advice has been invaluable. So a big thank you to everyone sharing thoughts, recipes, life stories and advice on here 😊

Thank you for he replies. I’m excited to hear this is working for you guys! I’m waiting for my book to arrive, any day now, and will start after my vacay. Bongo, how are you doing? Are you on Day 3 or 4?

Hi
I am also on day 3 and have lost 3lb so far. I had a day off work today and found it a bit more of a struggle but didn’t stray! Well done on your weight loss.

Well tomorrow’s weigh in will be my weigh in after week one as today is my 7th day. So exciting though. Thanks for all your sharing and support!!!

Wow wow wow!
I just walked 700 steps BY MYSELF without holding onto my husband’s shoulder. This is huge for me!
Due to mechanical knee issues I have only walked a tiny bit with him for over a year.
I felt light just from losing 9 lbs so far.
Also, my clothes are looser by a lot! I will fully measure tomorrow to see how many inches I have lost overall.
Yeah! I will try and do it again later today!
So exciting, and it’s nice not to be alone in here! 💜

Hi Christine

I did something similar at weekend. Fried garlic, onion, chilli and ginger then added the whole (90g) pot of cream cheese with artichoke. Found the cheese in M&S – they do plain and two different flavours. Yummy😃

I’ll be staying in Ludlow, approx 10 minutes walk from the town. Fantastic reviews on Tripadvisor. It will be a treat to myself – more expensive than I’d normally pay. I normally stay with friends when I go to USA and Italy, not really had a hotel/b&b holiday (apart from the Prague fiasco) for a long time (residential conferences don’t count!) so I thought I’d go for it. 😃

Now I just need to decide where I want to go early next year. Somewhere sunny. See what (if anything) the travel agent comes up with! Always that bit harder because I travel alone!

Oh – and I’ll be taking a pencil sharpener type Spiraliser to Italy with me😃

Hi Lynne,
Ohh where abouts in Shropshire are you going?
I’m not diebetic so have no experience of what you go through when you go to the docs, however I feel I have got to know you a bit on this forum and I’m sure you are not too downhearted at the attitude of the nurse, now you have had time to digest her conversation with you. She is not important to you and the way you are doing this to better your health, it’s a shame, and I keep saying this, but, you can take a horse to water blah blah blah!
Onwards and downwards!
Christine, oh and 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 to you !

Hi, I have been following 800 calories and using the book for guidance for 3 weeks now (12 lb lighter….yipeee), however, I have also been reading posts on a bsd support face book page, and they are all saying that recipies in book are way off with the calorie count and that some recipes add up to 2 or 300 calories more than stated. Can anyone confirm or deny this as im getting bit worried that im eating more than i should be?

Hi rachel62,
Good to hear you are carrying on, keep up the good work, and don’t forget there is always support on this forum, so keep posting your successes and even failures!
Christine

sorry that all sounds abrupt and maybe rude I don’t know
why am I here at all
it must be because I KNOW things need to change
I hate being fat
I hate food
I hate my diabolical and chaotic relationship with all things ‘eaten’

Hi jackiemac,
That web sight is really good, I have put it on my favourites.
Christine

woohoo week one done and dusted! well done Happy 🙂

Hi Lynne,
Mmmm that sound yummy, except for the chilli, which I’m allergic to that would be a lovely meal, we are having salmon tomorrow might pinch that for us lot!
Christine

Too high in carbs for this programme and taste like cardboard. Bin them and scold your husband! (joking about that last bit!)

Judith, in case you’re wondering 😊 I fried garlic, ginger and chilli, added courgetti. Then added some lovely cream cheese (with artichoke) from M & S – 1/3 carton. Then added the flaked salmon. Truly scrumptious 😃

Hi Florasalopia.

Long time since I’ve been there, but my father had family there, in Ludlow. Used to visit every year. That’s why I’ve wanted to go back for a while. Booked 4 nights in October.

Thanks for the welcome guys 😀

Best of luck Chocolate_ee. I can’t wait for my Fitbit to arrive, and if it works like yours, with luck I might not have to do any steps during the day 😁. Think I heard the words dream on lol……….
Which model do you have?

Thanks hashimoto; Sadly I think I HAVE to exercise this time. 3 years ago I lost 40 kilos (not sure how many st/lbs – think I’ve been here too long lol) doing a high protein low carb diet, and NO exercise. Got down to size 12 jeans, was chuffed to bits and quite proud 😊 when I looked in the mirror (specially for my age). After losing my job and through crappy eating I put back on 25 of the 40 – my mum always said “if a jobs worth doing, it’s worth doing well” and I sure made good job of this one lmao 😂.
So, I’m finding it harder to lose this time, and suspect even with masses of exercise I’m going to have dreaded s—y bits (🤐 can’t even manage the word but it’s got 2 x g in the middle) cos all my elastic’s gone 😱😳
I’ve asked myself whatever possessed me to get to this point again, but I’m still waiting for the answer lol.

Suffice to say I’m on the ball now – and I’m gonna build those steps a step at a time!

Thanks Bill, for the kind words. We were born the same year – hey hey!! 💜

Hi HappyLife, thanks for you nice comments 🙂 and sorry for coming across so negatively! It was a really interesting article and just got me thinking – when I first read the article it just made me realise what a huge struggle it is for so many people to maintain a weight that they are happy and healthy at. The contestants on the BL start off at a point of desperation, and work so hard over so many months to get to a point where they have completely changed their lives with the amount of weight they’ve lost. It made me really sad to think that nearly all of them had regained a huge proportion of that weight over 6 years, and that the glimpse of the new life they had wasn’t enough incentive to keep going (I don’t mean that to sound like I’m blaming them for this relapse, I think this article for me really highlights how complex our relationships with food and our bodies are). It also felt unfair that after battling so hard they were stuck in a place where they needed hundreds fewer calories than someone of the same size to maintain the weight!

But I know that we’re all different, and that life isn’t fair, and I would happily eat 500 calories less per day for the rest of my life to maintain a healthy weight (optimistically hoping I can stick with this plan until I get to that point!!). As for the science behind it all, there is so much conflicting evidence from different studies and a whole range of things that still aren’t properly understood. I definitely don’t have the time to read it all and make a rational judgement of all of the evidence, so I will just continue as I am doing as this is working for me at the moment – which is all any of us can really ask for. As we are undertaking this plan in a slower way, and we are in control of retraining out brains rather than being told what to eat / exercise, hopefully it will be easier to transition from the weight loss phase to the ‘rest of your life’ increased calorie maintenance phase than it was for those on the more extreme BL diet.

I think I was also just a bit grumpy when I read it as I injured my knee few weeks ago trampolining and had to spend a week with it elevated for most of the time, and then another week hobbling about! Got the ok from the physio to go for my first swim today though so being back exercising has definitely put me in a better mood 🙂 and actually although my weight loss slowed down without exercise (and limited movement of any sort!) it did show me that the plan still works, and that despite having a lot more time on my hands I was completely in control of my eating and not feeling sorry for myself bingeing on rubbish while watching daytime TV… pretty sure that’s what old me would have been doing!!

Thank you as always for the wonderful positivity everyone 🙂 we will get through this together, and hopefully in 6 years time the follow up studies will show that the BSD dieters are all still maintaining their goal weights… at which point Dr Moseley will be up for a knighthood!

I know how much sugar is in my cereal – which is very little
I also know it is high carb as are all cereals by their very nature
I know what it is

I tried yesterday I have tried again today (not quite the disaster of yesterday but not ‘bsd’

i just don’t feel strong enough

Day 7
9 lbs down bs 92
Today is my last day of my first week and it’s going great. My tummy is finally calmed down, I was able to add more variety of foods without incident, no joint pains, lots of energy, and pounds lost.
Motivated to keep going for sure!
Food today 889 cal 32 carb
B – Bircher
L – Cobb salad no bacon (salad with 1 oz blue cheese, 1/4 avocado, 1/2 egg, and dressing)
D – 2 egg salad with green olives and mayo
☀️🌻🍓

Do you mean the salt and vinegar chickpeas? Previously when I’ve posted links they seem to blank out but I will try it!

http://www.elephantjournal.com/2015/03/crunchy-salt-vinegar-chickpeas-recipe/

I really enjoyed them 🙂

I’ve changed my evening menu from salad to oven baked courgette, pepper, tomato and onion, drizzled with olive oil, and sprinkled with crushed garlic and chilli salt alongside my chicken. I’m really looking forward to eating it in about 5 mins!

Hang in there Izzy! I probably have a LOT more to lose than you do!!

Thank you Lauren, its great that there’s so much support on here, how have things been going for you?

Rachel

Sorry you’re finding this difficult at the moment, I hope some of the tips here make things a bit easier in the next few days. I agree with Bill that increasing fat really does make you feel fuller and more satisfied, which will make this eating plan much easier to stick to.

I really wouldn’t be disheartened about a 9lb loss in just over 2 weeks though, that’s a great start. Some of the people who you think are losing larger amounts may weigh more than you to begin with, so they have a bigger calorie deficit when they reduce intake to 800 calories and would be expected to lose faster.

Stick with it, I’m sure you’ll soon find a way to make this work for you 🙂

oops, maybe my search wasn’t specific enough. Thanks Bill

Izzy hang in there! Your body is probably adjusting to losing a lot of water initially! Good job throwing out the potatoes💖
Yes you can eat too few calories which is why he says to eat 800 to ensure you get enough nutrition.
Stick with it! You are an inspiration to many…
🌷

Oh and at lunchtime a colleague showed me a mobile phone with an app my fitnesspal, that is free and adds up your calories, carbs and stuff.

Genius

Love Lucia
Xxxx

And don’t think I hadn’t noticed that the first people to welcome me and gently help me are the ones giving me a pat on the back.

🏆🏆🏆🏆🍾🍾🍾🍾🏈🍸🍸🍸🍸🏆🏆🏆🏆🎖🎖🎖🎖🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Love Lucia
Xxxx

My goodness I go red with embarrassment just thinking how hard I tried to weigh a dollop of yoghurt instead having a whole small tub.

Hey, I told you I was wired different than most.
Love luciaXxx

Lurkers always welcome!😜

Hi collie,
Your first week, wow, you have done the hardest thing… The first step. It takes a HUGE load of will power to take it, now it is easy, so easy.
You have a big family around you to walk with you on your journey.

I love the ideal you are a serial stalker. Don’t tell the others otherwise they will advise cereal isn’t do good for you, too many carbs have full fat Greek yoghurt and berries instead.

You must tell me what you have eaten in your first week.
I like eggs bacon mushrooms and tomatoes. This can be a main meal.
The another meal can be salad and chicken or a bit of cooked meat, or feta. Or if you prefer warm, veggies and a chop or something.
It doesn’t have to be hard.
I made it hard for myself, being too strict, got my knickers in a right twist. I had a time out for 24 hours were I measured just by eye.

I hope you will be around when I can zip up a size 12. I am saving to give a diabetic charity a gift.

The most important piece of advice I can give is to enjoy your life.
I actually went out and smelt the flowers.

I am here if you want anything.

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Shropshire is the most under- rated county in the country. Plenty of great walking so getting in your steps will be no problem. How disappointing to read about your medical appointment but your friends on here will help you rise above it.

Hey! I had porridge with banana for breakfast, rise with broccoli for lunch and I am trying to think what to have for dinner. My favorite is potato salad: 2 boiled potatoes, 1 egg mixed and half of onion mixed with a spoon of mayo.

Hi Izzy,
Can you tell me where to find the salt and crispy garbanzo bean recipe you have made?
Thanks so much! On last day of my first week and reading all your posts has really helped me! 💜

Hi Eureka and Bill

Eureka – thanks for the flowers😃 I’m used to being off script in more than this😃

Bill – I was curious what the result would be, and delighted with it. Very happy to be under 6!

When all the blood results come back (always assuming they send for me when they’ve said) that’s exactly what I was intending to do. Like many folk on here, know me better than a lot of people I know in ‘real life’ 😳 Trust me – I can more than stand up for myself 😃

Oh Jackie thank you! I will follow your advice and hopefully start to feel better soon. Please let me know how youre doing too?

X

I think most of the menus are around 800 but not exactly so 100 here or there should be ok. First thing you need is to feel better, then reduce calories again I would say. Please remember this is my opinion, I’m not an expert by any means. Some of the others will be better advisors as they have blood sugar issues so have a better understanding of it all. I know one lady is also a medical person of some sort and often gives great help.

Do what you feel is right. I think the most important thing is to keep at it. If you feel crap you are more likely to give up!

X

Hi Lynne despite the useless doctor that is a great result on the sugar front.
Get your holiday booked then you can go relax for a while, you deserve it.
when you get back you’ll be close to July nd when those test results come back, demand a revised diagnosis, I don’t know you that well but I’m sure you’ll stand up for yourself 🙂