Hi Michelle
Once you’re through the first few days it is easy! Maybe you ve reached that now.
Best of luck
Penny

Hi LMS
You can turn that off on MFP so it doesn’t give you extra calories for excercise
Penny

Hi everyone. I am just about to start on this diet and need some advice. I don’t have diabetes or prediabeties but my body shape (abdominal fat) suggests I need to fix things so I don’t go down that route. In the book it states to try and get your steps up to 10,000 over the 8 weeks. I already do a minimum of 20,000 every day, sometimes in excess of 30,000 (busy life so I never sit down!) Will the 800 calories be enough? I don’t want to get all wobbly :-/ Any advice appreciated! 🙂

Hi Judith. Not that I’d be swimming 😱 but it would be nice to dress more appropriately after years of hiding in cardigans and trousers. The sun loungers by the pool might just see me LOL. This is the first time in years I’ve booked a winter sunshine holiday😱 so I want to get the most out of it. Or I might walk around in shorts😱 😃

I’ll need a trip to London soon – running out of smaller uniforms😳 Don’t want to go too soon though!

12/14 is just a guesstimate. Might be nice to be a 10/12😃 Wait and see when I get there😃 Just nice to be able to shop in ‘normal’ shops 😃

Even thinking of starting to make some clothes myself again. Not done that in years. At the moment I think I might have shrunk out of it before I finish it😳 Might wait a while until weight stabilises, or make a few simple things that can be taken in.

Oooohhhh. All these changes!

Hi happylife, a fellow poblano lover!!! I’m in bed now but will post the recipe tomorrow!!! 🙂

There is no way to say bubbles in an angry way.

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Hi Kitty Maine

Finished 20 weeks today. Total weight loss to date 52 pounds. I’ve still about 39 pounds to lose. I was diagnosed type 2 diabetic in 2009 and was being threatened with Metformin when I found the BSD. Started it on 19th December. My fasting blood levels are now in the normal range and my HbA1c done in April was also in the normal range.

Bill, people are going to start thinking your wife has a new partner lol. Especially if you go back to the same holiday spot!!! : )

Oh Hashimoto can you please provide your recipe! I love poblano a and that sounds delicious!!
😀

Thanks Captain Lynne! I admit I was worried but figured it out somehow!!

Happy day to you!!

Hi Lynne, I. Thought I would never brave a swimsuit again. I didn’t think my weight made me self conscious but it clearly did as I have not considered swimming for ten years because of embarrassment at my tubby torso with skinny arms and legs !

This diet IS very different. I can’t believe how much I can eat now without piling on weight. I will never eat starchy carbs again,though. I don’t need them. Don’t desire them. This diet seems to reset your body and stop the cravings.

You will get to your target lynne. It’s totally attainable – you have already proved it’s attainable because of how much you have already lost. 52lbs in 18 weeks! In just 18 weeks!!!! 18 weeks!!!!! On other diets anyone would be thrilled with 52lbs in 52 weeks. 🙂

A 12/14 at our age is a good place to be. I’m so very pleased for you Lynne : )

👍 thank you.

Thanks captainlynne , where are you in your journey?

Poblano rellenos de quesa. You have got to grow some poblano Izzy so you can make the south american cheese stuffed poblano peppers. I make loads and freeze the extras. It fits in with BSD diet too!
A good game of chilli roulette can be played with them!
AND they are even better than cheesy chilli on toast 🙂

MrsG27715, I think this has to be the friendliest, most supportive group of people I’ve met on forums😃

Any questions, just ask – there’s usually someone around to help.

….I’ve heard a lot of excuses for not cleaning the car in my time……but your husband ‘destroying’ the sink cupboard and then repairing it? Has he gone too far?!….it could only happen to you Lucia.

Great result. Soon hit that 14 pounds 😃

Welcome to all the new veterans 😃 Great to see this group growing 😃

Lucia, you’ll fit in fine on here (and meet lots of old friends) – and thanks for the homely touches to the club room.

*Hands Lucia a spare set of keys*. Have these so you can get in to keep the place tidy😃 Will you please make sure we have enough coffee and sparkling water?

Purplepenguin I can relate exactly to your fear of slipping back into old habits. Finished my 8 weeks 4 weeks ago and had planned on a bit of slippage as my wife and I were having a mini break which had been planned pre any knowledge of BSD. My loss was 30 lbs and though no absolute target felt another stone off would be good to take me down to 12ish stone which for a 5 foot 10 guy would be about right, however despite good intentions have stuck at post 8 weeks principally as have given myself small rewards of a few pringles or couple of squares of dark chocolate. No bread or biscuits so I know daily intake will not be massively over 800 but when not losing as before can lose heart just a bit. Really keen to know latest bloods but not due for another couple of months so just a bit in limbo of late, anyway I know the cure just now seems harder to apply, but have no intentions of regaining these lost pounds have given away all my XL clothes and will not be going back to that.

Thank you captainlynne. It’s really nice to see so many encouraging people on here 😊

Hi Purplepenguin, yes, I know what you are talking about — I am on week 10 and I am tempted to cheat. The diet has been very successful for me and I really would like to lose a bit more, so I decided to continue for “a few weeks”. Well, I think now that my casual thinking of a “few more weeks” has made me less serious and that is affecting my motivation. It also reminds me that although I have done well, I don’t have this thing beat yet. So, to get my head back in the game, I am planning on eight weeks more. My personal trick is to take 4 by 6 sticky notes and number them 1-56. Every morning I pull one off and start my food diary — the sticky notes are easy to take with me, I can even put them on my i-phone screen! At the end of the day I record it in my calendar. Watching the sticky notes pile getting smaller and smaller is motivating and every day I get a “fresh start” with a clean, new sticky note!

Great Bill. Was going to say I hope you’re going somewhere nice, but realised it must be otherwise you’d not be going 😳 Just think how much better you’re going to feel 😃 Well done on setting yourself these goals along the way. Soon be another one ticked off😃

HappyLife. Great result. Just goes to show eating out needn’t be the problem we think it is on BSD

Hi MrsG27715

Welcome to the BSD family. Really glad you found this diet. Great loss in your first week. Looking forward to seeing your progress 😃

Welcome to the family Kitty Malne. Looking forward to reading your diary and seeing your progress.

Hi Actionmum

Welcome to the family 😃 You’ll get lots of support on here, now we’re worldwide there’s usually someone around day or night. Look forward to hearing more of your progress.

Great result 😃

ahhh we absolutely speak the same language! I often refer to our dinners as chilli roulette because you can never tell haha. Put in two one day and it’s too spicy, next day different two and it’s fine lol

I haven’t tried poblano chilli’s though. The pepperonici ones are milder and just a hint of spice. used to like that with cheese on toast (sighs wistfully) I still add them to lots that I cook with. Only have apaches at the moment as I’ve harvested and eaten all the others but I know more will grow soon 🙂

We love our chilli’s and when I grow them from seed I get so excited as they grow hahaha

Thanks everyone😃

Switzerland, what’s the time difference between us?

Judith, I think I’m starting to realise that I will get to my target (whatever that will finally be). It always took so long at various slimming clubs I just couldn’t picture the end being in sight. The only time I reached my goal (and went lower – 8st 7lb) I was ill and couldn’t eat (stress). As soon as the stress stopped the weight came back. But this tine it’s different 😃 I’m not I’ll, I’m eating healthily, not drinking diet drinks but lots of water – and I’m still losing weight😃 Worked out today that at my usual rate of 1 stone equals a dress size, I’ll be about a 12/14 (not been that for more years than I care to think😳) – and I’m even thinking of a swimsuit and/or shorts for my holiday in January😱

Grazie Eureka 😃🇮🇹

yes 14 is a stone 🙂 just around the corner for you!

Well done😃

Hi Bill. You’ll hit that target 😃 You are doing really well – keep thinking of that holiday. You deserve it!

Oh and when your husband says….can you help me Hoover the car…
And you dust, Hoover and wash the car, then go look for him, you find him under the sink…

He accidentally pulled the kitchen sink cupboard off the hinge and he had to find a screw and put it back on.

I was wearing my navy blue dress with the White lace on. I ended up washing the car wearing it. It was the one I recently could fit into.

Love Lucia
Xxx

Hi,
Been over to the … After eight weeks. Blog.
Moved all their furniture around and decorated.
Well, all of us are moving over there soon, aren’t we?

Can you lot hurry up so we can all go together?

Love Lucia
Xxx

Hi,
Does anyone mind if I move those chairs over to the right, and the sofa nearer the window?
I have brought the scatter cushions.
Now what colour shall we do the walls, make sure the colours aren’t edible. None of that apple white, cherry red, Avecado green, lemon yellow, caramel brown, chocolate, strawberry pink. Etc
We need … I know, … How about magnolia?
Everyone does magnolia.
Now a few scented candles here and here.

Now, does this suit everyone?

Nice

Love Lucia
Xxxx

A stone is 14 lbs 🙂 really nearly there!

Thanks Izzy! Is a stone 15 lbs??
💜

Thanks BSD. I too try and delay my meals as I get a bit despondant once the eating for the day is over! So I plan what I’m eating tomorrow. I’ve never really eaten badly, just far too much. This diet works well for me because I can still plan my cooking, which I enjoy. I just like thinking about food!

Catonamission – it’s amazing how a bit of chilli can perk things up isn’t it? I also think when I’m hungry I’m pathetically grateful for any food! Everything tastes amazing! I’m trying to learn to slow down when I eat and make it last longer.

Ooh, talking my language!!!chillies, food of the gods!

Have you grown poblano chillies? I. Grow them rather than sweet peppers. Same size with just a hint of spice EXCEPT sometimes unexpectedly and inexplicably you get a hot one. Or part of one is hot.

I used to play chilli russian roulette with slices to dip in my hummus at school lunch times. 🙂 oh and each plant grows more fruits than sweet peppers :).

LMAO Judith we’re like 2 peas in a wrinkled old pod 😀

Hello, newbie here, just registered.

I’m 3 weeks into BSD 800.

My motivation is health. I’m not pre diabetic (though I don’t know how), but am 4 stone over weight. One of my kids worries a lot about parental loss and I need to know that I am doing all I can to be as healthy as I can be.

These forums are v inspiring!

I added jalapeños to my cauliflower ‘pizza’ today, which really made it delicious!!

I struggled in the afternoon. So I had a coffee/with milk in the morning and water, 10am have breakfast, lunch 1.30-2.00 and evening meal about 6pm. This stopped me snacking at 10/11 and in the afternoon. It’s about trying things that work for you. If you can do some exercise in the morning (long walk) I find that helps as well.

Second week is hard, just stick with it and it gets easier ( I did it for 3mths – 800 – but some off days, so wasn’t a saint)

lol I had just replied to you on the other thread where you mentioned the chickpeas. I use a 400g can, and make 3 portions so I can control the munchies. Each portion is around 100 calories and 12.8g carbs. I haven’t posted the recipe because it mentions to take care with copyright and only post your own recipes, that’s why I posted the link rather than just the recipe on this thread too. I doubt it would be a problem but I overthink these things lol.

I’ve never tried dandelion leaves, do they taste nice? love the idea of jalapeno coleslaw too, we grow our own chillis, which reminds me… I have some jalapeno seeds and should plant one! Currently have pepperonici, apache and hungarian hot wax growing on my windowsill. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been able to effectively grow and keep alive after buying a kit a few years ago lol. I’ve even killed off cacti.

I’ve never tried sprouting my own sprouts either… I feel a new project coming on!

Stick with it, some weeks are just like that.

eek Polly! I divide them up into portions and put them in the fridge! I use a 400g can and split it into 3 portions. Each portion approx 100 calories and 12.8g carbs. I’ll be making more later I love them too but they are easy to eat you are right about that.

I’m lucky my family have actually liked some of the new things I have come up with, I’m grateful to my husband for his support, but unfortunately he is one of these athletic lean body types and he genuinely needs a lot of calories including (good) carbs. So generally I will still make extra for him so we can both be healthy.

Has anyone not loss any weight?
Onto week 4 and have stayed thd same.
Week one lost 9lb
Week two lost 4 lb
Week 3 lost 2 lb
Week 4 lost nil

Have not cheated not due to hormones have drank a bit more but nil else any ideas?

Argggghhh, to the joyfulness that is salt n vinegar chickpeas, they are just too, too nice.

Have been having a bit of a munchy day today. At least they are better than some other things I could munch on. Might post the recipe on here and put we both recommend them. Maybe the vinegar makes them digest slightly differently though that may just be wishful thinking hah.

The peppers you made sound lovely. My other food today was BLT with the B and T in the L and then wilted dandelion leaves from the garden, chicken wings (not great from iceland) and jalapeno coleslaw. It doesn’t really sound a lot but there were lots of calories (specially with the chickpeas)

Am finding stir-fries are lovely and nutritious and have been sprouting my own beansprouts. Really easy and takes about a week

Polly x

Hope you get to go soon, it’s horrible. I mostly cut coffee out and had a cup yesterday which really helped to get things moving – which was nice!

Good luck

In relation to calories I’m finding that some days contain 3 meals but I’m mostly splitting them into lunch and dinner.

Hope that helps, Polly x

I’m not sure, Eureka as I’ve only just come across him and I have hours of his stuff to watch yet 🙂 He seems to be good at explaining the science stuff simply. I need to read more on dietdoctor.com as well.

Today I am having a munchy day which is typical as I have drs or nurse on Monday afternoon. Made these chickpea salt and vinegar things that Izzy mentioned on her post… stupidly made them and they are much much too nice….

Suppose it’s better than eating really bad things

keeptrying, have you come across barenaked foods? They do rice and pasta-alikes. Not the cheapest but are made of konjac (type of asian yam) flour. I have got some of the rice (it’s more like a pasta but in tiny grains) they are 20 cals per 250 g and not much else. Not the cheapest of things but holland and barrett are doing the penny sale thing on them at the moment – the pasta variety so they are 2 for £3.

Polly x

I’ve just started my second week and I’m aware that progress will slow down. I won’t be able to resist weighing everyday, so I’ve changed my scales to kilogrammes as they show every 0.1kg lost, which is a lot less than 1lb. That should keep me encouraged. I also added a teaspoon of hot lime pickle to my no carb ploughman’s lunch. Phew! A little goes a long way and it certainly spiced it up. Both things helped me get through the day.
So, any good practical tips to share?