I’ve been told I’m high risk of becoming type 2. I’d like to avoid/minimise that if possible.

I’m tired of feeling fat and not liking what I see.

I’m sorry for all the times I’ve wasted money and time eating crap for little actual pleasure. I don’t want to be that person. I want to be true to myself and treat my body with the care it deserves.

I want to be able to have fun with my children.

I want to be able to wear my smaller clothes that are all stuck in bags in the loft.

Petition
NHS to encourage the treatment of type 2 diabetes with a low carbohydrate diet.

Professor Taylor has shown that Type 2 diabetes can be reversed using a low carbohydrate, low calorie diet. The NHS has announced it is rolling out a programme to give pre-diabetics lifestyle help. There is no mention of the blood sugar diet which pre-diabetics and diabetics should be following.

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The programme will cost £7 million pounds to run. The dietary advice will be the same as that currently being followed. We have a diabetes epidemic so the old advice is not working.
Dr Maureen Baker, of the Royal College of GPs, welcomed the scheme but she warned “The long-term behaviour changes we need to see is hard to inspire”. However, there are forums for the Blood Sugar Diet which offer the support and inspiration needed which will also ease the burden on GP surgeries.

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Hi Switzerland

You so often speak(or write) exactly my experience I too always thought I was a hopeless case with no will power. STAND UP CARB ADDICTS!!! Wow. No more feeling like I just cannot stop eating. I simply -for the first time I can remember in my life- feel satisfied

Keep it up

Cheers. Fatty few clothes. ( few left that fit!!!)

Hi Janet, no idea as mine has come down and I eat FF yoghurt and far too much cheese every day and I’m rather liberal with the olive oil too.

My thyroid tests showed as border line – low TSH and T4 at 18 but I explained to him that for 10 to 15 years my test had come back like that and my hypothyroidism went untreated until I got a goitre. He said if I feel fine he will leave me on my current dose of 100 and see what Mondays repeat test shows.

I wonder how efficient the test was that you had done? The labs tend to use the cheapest tests and they don’t check everything. Since higher cholesterol readings go hand in hand with hypothyroidism it makes me wonder.

Have you seen your test results? If you haven’t already make an appointment with your GP to discuss it. TBH though a reading of 5.2 isn’t bad for someone with hypothyroidism. Mine was 5.5 and I was happy as I have had readings as high as 8 or 9 before 🙁

Oh if you got a message from a crazy person about a new phone number it was me!!! I forgot to add my name and have had a few messages asking ‘who is it?’ Apart from Lynne who asked ‘is that you, Judith?’

Have a good day, Janet 🙂

Well, that’s me over the 8 week mark and there’s 1st 4lb less of me and 1st 2lb less of him! We’ve not been as good as we could be, nor as good as I wanted us to be but nonetheless very happy with what we’ve achieved and like others will continue on the path until we reach our goals.

This last week I’ve said goodbye to 15st and, in the 8 weeks I’ve seen off 16st well and truly, next short term goal is to see 13st13lb and I can wave goodbye to 14st something too. The remarkable thing is I know I can do it now, this diet makes it all possible.

Thanks again to everyone for the encouragement, inspiration and company, you’re all stars.

That shop sounds great I would have to travel to find that. I haven’t been able to find chickpea flour yet either but I have coconut flour.

I’ve had my official mid-week weigh in and… drum roll please…. I’m down by…. an impressive….0.5 lbs lol. At least it’s moved a little and it’s in the right direction. Half way through week 3 🙂

I had a look at the My Fitness Pal app last week and couldn’t work it out at all but that was before I started monitoring my Fitbit so it may make more sense now . I like the fact that yours reminds you to move ! I’d like mine to remind me to drink water although I feel like I’m constantly drinking as it is but never enough ! Think I’m racking up the steps just going to the loo all the time !

How’s it going Territowlling? I actually lost another lb yesterday so 4 lbs in 4 days is probably the quickest weight loss I’ve ever seen.

morning Lucia, isn’t it lovely to find we can do things we couldn’t do before? x

How are your handcrafted quilts coming along? xxx

Hi keeptrying, when you are feeling like that perhaps you need some specific help in terms of organising things to make life easier.. Do you have access to a printer? Perhaps you could copy and paste the list of packed lunch ideas I have just added to this post. You could stick it to your fridge for ideas the night before work and pick something from it.

Something as simple as that can make all the difference to how you feel at the moment.

1. Frittata – it can be made the evening before and kept in the fridge. There is a recipe in the book but you can ring your own changes, add bacon instead of chickpeas or some cheese sprinkled on top before placing the pan under the grill.
2. Dips and crudite – there are five dip recipes in the book and make a lovely packed lunch. Or ring the changes and add some chopped spring onion and a teaspoon of curry powder to a mix of cream cheese and yoghurt.
3. Salad – a few leaves and salad veg of your choice with any of the following: tinned tuna or salmon, smoked salmon or other smoked fish, chicken, egg, ham, bean, cheese or any combination!
4. Homemade coleslaw – prepare your carrot, onion and cabbage. Keep it in a sealed bag or container then each day mix some plain full fat yoghurt ( I add mustard too) into the amount of slaw you are having for lunch, then mix in the ingredients of your choice – walnuts, cheese, apple, celery, chicken etc.
5. Soups – make up home made soups during your weekend and heat and place in flask to take to work – or in a container if you have access to a microwave.
6. No carb ploughmans the recipe is in the book.
7. Full fat yoghurt with a twist of seeds and berries to add at work.
8. Half an avocado and a boiled egg just sprinkle some lemon juice or vinegar on the avocado to prevent it turning brown.
9. Medi platter – the recipe is in the book
10. Lettuce cups – there are three recipes in the book, they can easily be put into a container for work.
11. Cottage cheese – add your own favourites from the typical BSD foods – a bit of diced smoked salmon and cucumber is tasty. There are more ideas in the book.
12. Ham rolls – not that kind of roll! Spread some cream cheese on some ham and roll it up in a large lettuce leaf!
13. Nuts and apple – if you are in a hurry grab a handful of nuts ( watch the calories) and an apple. Or a small piece of cheese and an apple.
14. Courgette bhaji – just as nice cold. The recipe is on the website.
15. Chickpea flour flat breads – the recipe is on the website, eat with your choice of food – treat it as a wrap.
16. Red pepper rolls – Posted by Alibaba – (1 red pepper halved and filled with hummus, fresh coriander, cucumber, feta, a sprinkle of mixed seeds, black pepper & a squeeze of lemon juice)
17. Coconut flatbreads – nice with some yoghurt and berries ( see website for recipe)

You could make a list of your favourite meals for your evening meal and do a similar thing. I make large batches of the chickpea flour flatbreads and freeze them. When you are feeling more up to it perhaps you could do the same?

Whatever you do please keep posting because we are all here for you whether you want to rant, weep, wail or celebrate your victories.

Hope you have a better day today 🙂

thank you so very much for ALL your kind replies
and to dumptynomore – a special thank you for such heartfelt and honest words, I am GLAD you decided to post last night
I actually read it just before I went to bed and cried,

I think another factor that is blocking me – that didn’t before – was that my time on fd worked really well, I enjoyed the food way more, gave up most sweet things/carbs and gave up chocolate and didn’t miss it
but contrary to apparently most of the world (apart from a couple of people I found on here), I GAINED considerable throat reflux issues and they just got worse
and guess what
yesterday and the day before, when I ate some low carb meals (before the binges) – those same darn issues began to get worse again, straight away, and that just does my head in even more

so I just am all over the place

I was never fat as a child – we ate the normal meat and veg and had some pies/cakes and sweets on a sunday and NO fizzy drinks ever except Christmas
in fact I was pretty skinny and nobbly kneed right up until of course my teens when those vile hormones decided to make me change shape
but even then it was all ‘in control’ because I was at home and others were controlling it and telling me when I was/wasn’t hungry really and when I didn’t need things

first 3 weeks at uni I gained half a stone – which of course was then ‘my fault’ because clearly it hadn’t happened at home
its all my fault, everything
I am currently reading the Gary Taubes book about why we get fat – you should read it – it is fascinating and really hammers in again and again the MYTH that is we are fat because we are lazy and eat to much

however I AM, I do both and I know it
I understand that other foods help/make me lose weight – I saw that years ago on the scarsdale diet
eating less carbs, I was less hungry, and lost lots of weight

I guess there is a lot of good reason why they have mh illness as part of the disclaimer for NOT signing up
because my head scatters to the four winds and more – I am spinning round – and today I need to pack a lunch for myself and I cant even do that because it is all such a raucous mess inside me

I will do it, I need to do it, and lots of ‘me’ wants to, but I just don’t know if today or tomorrow or when

thank you for reading, if you got through all that xx

Hi Christine isn’t it so frustrating when you can see someone eating themselves to death and you know how to save them but they don’t want to listen?

Keep on being a secret caped crusader like Bill it will save someone sometime.

Perhaps it’s because it is an all girl family that Dana wants a boy doll. And with a dummy! Children are so interested in the world around them. Hope you found one for her : )

Hi chongolo, glad to hear it is still going well for you. MM refers to having an occasional small square of dark chocolate. I guess at 70% there can’t be too much sugar in there! Aldi do a range of single origin bars from 65 to 85 %, though I don’t know if Aldi have opened in perth yet.

I am in the mood for spring cleaning, started this morning and nearly missed my bus. I had to run up the road.
Do you see that magic word…. Run….. I can do that now and catch the bus.

Will do more when I get home tonight, may tackle the Windows too.

Love Lucia xxxx

Strangely I needed this,one pound ON this week.
After losing one and a half stone in three weeks,Yes a lot I know,I became complacent and last weekend had a Donna kebab ,one bar chocolate and two glasses white wine
During week a further three glasses of wine,naughty boy
Needed a kick up the proverbial !
Back on track now folks
Alan ……watch this space 😋

Hi NewLife, what wonderful results! And you will soon be joining us on 8 weeks and after thread! Congratulations 🙂

Strangely I needed this,one pound ON this week.
After losing one and a half stone in three weeks,Yes a lot I know,I became complacent and last weekend had a Donna kebab ,one bar chocolate and two glasses white wine
During week a further three glasses of wine,naughty boy
Needed a kick up the proverbial !
Back on track now folks
Alan ……watch this space 😋

Seeing tomorrow. 🙂

Oh by the way – will have lost 3 stone on Monday (just one more 1lb to go) in 14 weeks – yaay!!

Don’t forget that there are three different types of diets being used with people on this forum. I sometimes get puzzled at people’s comments because I’m doing the blood sugar diet ie 800 cals a day and I don’t do any fast days – others are doing the 5:2 so do have fast days – hence the sometimes differing suggestions and concerns. Once I’ve lost all my excess weight (keep positive!!) I will revert to the 5:2 now knowing the fasting days will be easy for me as I’m used to a low calorie intake.

What a good idea for a thread 🙂

What motivates me:

1. Stopping the binge-eating-feeling-crap-about-myself-more-binge-eating cycle. I don’t think about food 24/7 anymore and that’s a revelation to me.
2. Vanity and clothes shopping. I feel so much better about myself when I’m slimmer and clothes shopping becomes a joy rather than a just-get-whatever-fits expedition. I was size 20 nudging 22 and now I’m 14 🙂
3. Avoiding Diabetes. I have a strong family history and although my blood sugars were still normal it was only a matter of time.

Hi everyone 🙂

I haven’t been around much for the last couple of weeks, life has been challenging and I’ve had no spare time or energy, but settling down a bit now thankfully.

I’ve been plodding on, now 7.5 weeks in and 21.5 lbs down. Very very pleased 🙂

Hi everyone, I started this about 2 months ago and did 3 days… then, bad day, and then my emotional eating took over and I broke … then felt terrible and haven’t been able to get going again.. I want to do this so badly – what have others done to tackle the emotional eating aspect? Would love some tips and tricks. I have 50kg to lose…

Morning,

still going well, albeit having a square of 70% dark lindt each night the last few days. It doesn’t seem to have triggered in general carb cravings etc though. i guess it really isn’t very sweet, but such a fabulous flavour.

I bought pile of ready made fresh soups from woolies, and have been swapping them in instead of a shake – yesterday i had no shakes, but had one today for breakfast as i don’t want to wear out the joy of yoghurt/berries/nibs for brekky! I have been lurking at IGA to nab some of that herman Brot bread – unsuccessfully so far – but I HAVE got their pasta.

Which leads me to a dilemma, they are low carb etc but they do have wheat in them – and my goodness if most of my random aches and pains have dried up in the last week… which is often attributed to cutting out carbs and wheat proteins – so I’m unsure if I even want to open that ‘box’ as yet? At this stage I think i will wait until I’m near the end of the 8 weeks before I add in ‘carbs’ like these. then i will see if I get a reaction? (I am also afraid of the toast slippery slope. I love toast.)

had four Ikea meatballs cooked in a onion/tomato/peas/corn/carrot/garlic/chilli ‘bolognese’ sauce for tea, with cheese on top. It was delicious! and too much, I have to watch my portion sizes – ok for cals, but if I can’t finish the serves its a bit counter productive – in this case I would have been better to add an extra meatball and decrease a bit of the veg volume.

scales have slowed down massively as expected, but so far it looks like I shall squeak in over a kg loss for week two, so that’s nice :). Still looking for the perfect apple – I have selected another ‘victim’ so we shall see if its worth the calories tonight after dinner! otherwise I’ll have more lindt instead.

still easy, not hungry, not too hard, head would still inhale a chocolate croissant if it knew it could get away with it though ^_^. (It couldn’t. and then body would feel awful and get mad at head. and then head would decide to go on an overthinking marathon and wheedle body into more croissants.. so keeping the head firmly in check at this stage!)

Diabetes reversal. I agree with neohdiver, I don’t think low calorie diets are the way to go for long term weight loss but IF I can reverse my diabetes in eight weeks I HAVE TO TRY! I owe it to myself, my husband, and others who love me to try and extend my life.

I know I have to watch my carbs forever. I know I’m going to fight this forever but if I can get diabetes into remission and stop the damage its doing to my body, I can fight a better fight.

seeing my morning blood sugar is my biggest non-scale victory, I need this, my scale hasn’t moved in four days.

Thanks for your reply. I appreciate the feedback. 14 – 16 hour fasting does work.

Hi Tallyhoo
According to MM losing quickly is not a problem at all.
Penny

day 4 – 74.7kgs
Total loss 3kgs /6.6lbs in 4 days 🙂

I’m ready for the slow down to hit!

Hi Barby
If it’s any help- MM says exercise isn’t very important for losing weight- in fact some one on the forums was immobilised with a bad knee and still lost- but it is important for keeping weight off once you’re at your target weight.
Good luck
Penny

Thanks Izzy, I tell my husband about you and how inspirational you are for me!
Today I did so many things I haven’t been able to do forever! Walked 1700 steps already (should make 2k). Worked in our kitchen for 30 min. And I am going to do our exercise bike for 10 min and arm weights (10lbs) or pulleys.
The funny thing is this morning so had to put my top on the tightest loop and it’s always been on the largest!! And today my bracelet and two rings are almost falling off!!
It’s crazy. I am melting… In a good way!

Hi Stacey
I weigh daily too. MM says people have better results if they do- anyway, why wait!!
Penny

Hi Brazilnut
The first 3 days are hard. Then it’s easy. It’s because you have been burning carbs up to now. Now you’re switching to fat burning which takes a few days for your body to achieve. You have to make different enzymes for the fat burning.
I agree with Bill more fat in your diet would be good.
Best of luck
Penny

Meant to say – make upbeat music of our own – getting healthy

Hi Tibetan
It’s nerve wracking til you do it. Then it’s easier than you thought.
I agree with judith, start now and on holiday just avoid the obvious carbs.
Good luck
Penny

Hi keeptrying – all I did was reach out to you and look at all the support I got back – you are definitely in the right place here. Eureka – I hear you, sista, about the porridge! And what lovely flowers! Hashimoto – thanks for that lovely welcome. Thepolly – that ‘wisdom’ took 57 years to accumulate – at least I know what doesn’t work – lol.

Keeptrying – you said – ‘I hate food, I hate being fat’ – words I used many many times and still ended in Greggs buying 6 – yes 6 French Fancies, eating the lot, then hating myself. Just for the record, I know I haven’t cracked it yet – but each day is a new day -the potential for me to backtrack is always there. But I can only do what I can do and climb back on the wagon and not beat myself up about it.

Please be kind to yourself and give yourself some space. Bereavement is a one of life’s most stressful things. The strange thing about feeding your body healthy food is that you can cope so much better with ‘life.’ A very lovely and wonderous side effect. Eating healthy food also gives a ‘joie de vire’ which I don’t get when I am comatose with sugar.

I hope you find some comfort and encouragement in what I am saying. I know so well you think you can’t do it. Been there, done that, still doing it! But you can – you really can! Come on – join the party! Get that bunting up and let’s jig to some upbeat music (and make upbeat music of our own!)

Hi everyone,
It’s the end of Week 5 on my BSD journey. 400 gm down from last week (total 6 kg) and 1 cm off my waist ( total 7 cm).I’m feeling more confident with eating low carb mediterranean. Some days the 800 calories become a bit more, but I’m happy with my progress.This is the first diet that I have EVER lost this much in 5 weeks and it’s comforting and empowering not to feel hungry all of the time (I soooo thought I had no willpower, never realising I have a carb addiction!)
It’s also reassuring to have the wonderful online global BSD community – everyone is so supportive. Oh, not to forget MM and his game changing book. Thanks everyone.

Hi thepolly
Fasting is part of Dr Michael Mosley’s BSD way of life. See page153 in the book. He also wrote the Fast diet, explaining there about the benefits of fasting. He says “There are health benefits from short periods of fasting. Fasting also reminds me that I can control hunger & that it doesn’t control me”.

I have a daily fasting time of 14 – 16 hours. I eat 2 meals a day within an 8 hour period if I can to maximise the benefit of this diet. I’m not usually hungry inbetween meals.

Totally agree Lynne!

Well done Dee,
Those are some pretty exciting results 🙂
What a great start to your BSD journey

Hi Christine

It was in answer to your post asking for suggestions yesterday on Lucia’s thread ‘my 8 weeks’. Answer timed just after 5pm on 4th May.

Judith – I need to get more information and consider my approach carefully. Learned not to be in a hurry over things like this. A dignified silence is best – until I know how to proceed!

Lisas nanny, you sound so motivated! Building daily steps is the way to go – it’s surprising how much fitter it can make you feel 🙂

Hi Cdngirl,
Missed your post earlier, welcome from another newbie, and well done on your great weight loss!

Love the hip bones comment, same here, and I’d like to add my collar bones too lol.

Night night

Lynne after your appointment discretion was definitely the better part of valour! When you suddenly have something unexpected to deal with it is SO easy to react in a way that is not as carefully considered as normal as your whole mind is not as engaged as one would like.

I’m glad she disapproved about eating lots of carbs! That was very kind to give her a copy of the book 🙂

Glad it’s useful Christine!

Hi Lynne,,
I haven’t seen a post from you with sewing ideas, what thread was it on can you remember?
Will have a look for it.
Christine

I’m not sure why you are fasting though? I tend to eat between 11 and 8 but fasting isn’t a requirement of this diet. Could you link the recipe for the crackers please 😀

I found that as well Nicpink so I put everything in in grams. Not sure why the calories are different but have been going by the app ones rather than the book.

Hi Bongo, I get irritated with it when other users have put amounts in in different measurements, there should be a way of amending the amount or weight you want to use…

Hi Judith.

She disapproved of the advice that man was given. A friend of hers has done well on 5:2 and I gave her a copy of the BSD book. So she does know. Those now infamous words – horse, water, drink!

Not tried the cranberry and blood orange tea yet – let you know how I like it.

The salmon I bought in Asda was ready cooked (with lemon flavouring) and it suggested on the packing to stir it into spaghetti. So I did – sort of😃

It was definitely best to miss the coffee morning. I need to decide how to deal with a few situations involving someone who was there and the way I was feeling after the appointment I knew it would be easy to say the wrong thing. Discretion definitely the best course of action. Oh dear😱 I must be getting sensible in my old age LOL

Evening Chocolat_ee

That’s one awful lot of weight to lose, 7 stone yikes! Wish I could say my gain was due to something other than stupidity lol.

I’ve just ordered the alta, only because that one is supposed to give you reminders to get off your butt and move every hour, so we’ll see how it goes. It’s not that I hate exercise or walking etc, i do think it’s more fun with someone else; but the real problem is if the temp goes over 18 degrees I sweat terribly, runs down my face, my hair is soaking wet, face like a beetroot etc, which makes me feel absolutely exhausted. Of course it was put down to weight first but it didn’t change when I lost it; then the menopause but now I’m over that and still have the same problem, now 7 years and counting.
Everyone looks forward to summer but I absolutely dread it – happy days eh lol.

Just a thought, re the calories issue, have you tried syncing your flex to the My Fitness Pal app? I’ve been reading that the Fitbits work along with it.

Anyway off to bed cos I’m a little hungry. I do hope exercise becomes a little easier for you soon.