well done Cat! I find slimming world doesnt work for me either. too much freedom with carbs for us I think. You can plan yourself in a fry up!

In the BSD book, Chapter 6, in the box entitled “The M Plan: What to Eat to Control Your Weight and Your Blood Sugar,” Dr. Mosley states, “Brown rice …. quinoa, bulgar (cracked wheat), whole rye, whole barley, wild rice, and buckwheat” are good alternatives to “the starchy white stuff” which should be avoided. This is on page 70 of the electronic version from my library — don’t know what that would be in the hard copy version.

BTW, I’ve loved reading all the posts on the forums (I’ve been lurking). Started BSD on April 7 thinking I would last a few days and am now in my 5th week. I’ve lost 13.2 lbs!!

Hi keeptrying, it sounds luscious. I’ve only had them with yoghurt or cream and berries. I have a couple of bramleys so I’ll give it a go!

I’d love to see what happens if you can have a week without binges : )

Please sign our petition asking for the NHS to encourage diabetics to follow this diet. Thanks : )

All British Citizens can sign wherever you are!

Wow. Just weighed myself. 4 pounds gone! In two days! I’ve been trying to get rid of those four pounds since November when slimming world just stopped working for me (I lost motivation!)
This IS going to work. I WILL do it (even with the smell of hubby’s fry-up in the air!) X

Hi lostgirl, it’s lovely to hear from you but sorry to hear about your problems with dogs : (

It’s good news that you have a diet buddy, that should make things easier for you.

I hate to say this but as long as you reach for sugary foods on bad days the longer you will have sugar cravings. I remember your first post and you really need to do this for you and your future health. I know I am just repeating what you will be saying to yourself constantly but I really want this diet to work for you.

I hope the MRI scan brings good news for you and that life gets easier for you

Best wishes, Judith

Hope you find it useful Happylife. It’s good to find some inspiration went you tire of the usual meals which are easy to prepare but become a bit ho hum. I am inclined to stick to the same meals but am finding now I’m keen to do a bit of exploring, particularly as this will be the basis of eating for …. Well, for ever!

no, hashimoto, no added sugar, just 2 bramley apples and some mixed frozen berries and a drop of water (and that all makes about 4 portions for me

I just weighed myself and I was down by 3/4 of a pound, and although I have had some good eating this week I have also had lots of binges

if I can have a week without bingeing, then I can maybe see what low carb can do

Hello- thought posting on here would keep me accountable and Izzy’s diary has inspired me!
So I’m on day three today.
Day one:
B: Yogurt and oats
L: tuna, tomato, cucumber, butter bean salad
D: fajita chicken(with peppers and onion) and tomato, cheese – it was delicious!
The day was OK, but felt very irritable and very tired in the evening. Went to bed at 9 and it was Friday night! Still felt tired and irritable in the morning.
Day two:
No breakfast, it was Saturday and I got up later
L: smoked salmon muffins from the recipes on here, tomato
D: cauliflower pizza, tomato
S: FF natural yoghurt with strawberries and poppy seeds
Then had enough allowance left for some pistachios! Yum!
So far I have to say I’ve been impressed by how much real, natural food I’ve eaten. I’ve been on all the diets before – calorie counting, slimming world etc and end up eating processed crap or lots of sweetners. This is great for making you eat more real food.
I have to say though, so far I am constantly thinking about how I’m on this low cal diet! Can’t not think about it.
Anyway, start of day three..
So far – one small clem and some water. I must drink more water! Especially as it’s lovely and sunny 🙂
Happy sunday folks, happy eating xx

Hiya.. Sorry not posted. Life been so busy and mental. Well I’m having good days and bad. We have a dog with us doe 2
Months and she hasn’t settled in as hoped. So I’m on constant guard watch for the cats.. One of our dogs got attacked and I’m in agony ! Mri scan next week.

Hubby working away all the time.. I have prepared meals and portioned them up but due to lack of sleep I’m reaching for sugar!! But I’m trying to limit it to 1 or 2 days!!

5 more weeks and the dog goes back to owners and I can crack on… I have lost little more but then I re gain it… But I have not added any more!!! So I’m happy!

Got a friend to join me so we are spurring each other on.. She has a hard job and it’s difficult but she managed 3pounds in the first week.. So it’s kicked my behind to try and get through this

Thank you for asking

Thanks Californiagirl and jimbob like the sticky notes idea just have to get into that zone again it is the total lack of energy that is annoying and frustrating I think things are slipping but not signifantly but still no carbs bloods in a couple of weeks so maybe something will show up then wondering if my levythyroxine needs upping. Thanks for you support greatly appreciated. 🙂

Fantastic results for your first 8 weeks!

Best of luck for the next 8 🙂

Sounds good to me keeptrying! As long as you didn’t sweeten the apple! 🙂

I like your sticky notes idea 🙂

Hi happylife,congratulations on so much melting 🙂

Hi TFB welcome to the veterans club 🙂

Thanks

There is going to retest lipase 20 May but hoped to find if others had similar experience as not a fan of worrying about pancreatic cancer.

Hi captainlynne
Wow that really is fantastic 👍I’m pre diabetic with a strong family history of diabetes. I’m 50 and needed to shift 36 lbs. originally started this fab diet and lost a stone then had 2 holidays and completely lost the plot!
Do you have favourite meals? Are you super strict with yourself?
Kitty 😊

Hi Polly

Like you I’m finding most days I’m fine with 2 meals a day (no breakfast). I’m starting to wonder if the constipation is now affecting my appetite. Few days ago I went 24 hours without eating – just because I didnt feel hungry. And then I only ate because I felt I had to get something inside me (from earlier comments in this thread).
Maybe time for a docs appointment

For the record, my 8 weeks went thus:

Week 1: 6kg (a lot of water of course)
Week 2: 2kg
Week 3: 2.2kg
Week 4: 1.4kg
Week 5: 1.8kg
Week 6: 1.4kg
Week 7: 0.8kg
Week 8: 1.6kg

That should add to 17.4kg but it doesn’t. So I’ve got a week wrong somewhere. Lol.

So yesterday marked the end of my 8 weeks. “End weight” 98.8kg. That’s 1.4 for the week and 17.4kg for this phase. That means I lost 15% of my starting body weight – which was 116.2kg. My bmi started at 37.9 and is now 32.3. My body fat percentage (as unreliabily measured by my tanita scales) started in the high 30s and is currently 29.5%.

Really pleased with that in absolute terms. But if I ignore that, and look at it as it stands – I could do with losing some weight! So I’m starting another 8 weeks again, starting yesterday.

I’ll start a new thread, to keep things separate.

Thanks to everyone that encouraged and supported along the way. Good luck to you all.

See you in my new thread.

Brilliant, well done! I’ve just lost 7lbs in my first week and my name is Mrs G too! 😀 So glad it’s working for us both. I keep thinking I will give up soon, because that’s what I usually do, but now I am beginning to see that I might actually succeed. I had three meals I enjoyed yesterday and kept thinking ‘this can’t work, I must have eaten too much” but have lost another lb today. It’s great eating proper food, isn’t it?

How fantastic! What a thrill! Well done you! 😀👍

Oh Bless. all the husbands at least mean well 🙂 Bin if you can’t resist, otherwise back of the cupboard for post diet slight carb increase eating? they ARE indeed tasty cardboard, so keep well unopened 😛

Hi,

so your lipase was 10 times higher than normal? O.O. Gosh. Now, lipase is an enzyme secreted to help you metabolise fat – Bile from your liver helps to emulsify it (make it into small droplets, so more surface area) and I believe lipase helps to shear it all up into smaller chemical components. (those fatty acids!).

I have never heard of this, and really wish your docs had speculated for you – but its great that the CT scan showed a healthy organ. Have you been eating a lot of fat? so maybe your body is in the habit of expecting a lot of good fats to digest?

maybe when we lose so much stored fat quickly our lipase goes up? BUT you would think it had already been cut up into the little bits before being added to a fat storage cell?

Sorry all I have done is speculate at you, but this is very interesting!

In shock here. Day 9 morning weigh on and I have lost 12 lbs and 2 shirt sizes and many inches.
I call this melting and love it so far…

Jussi55 thanks so much for the ditch the carbs site! I am totally new to this and their recipes look great!
🌷

Thank you. Yes I know about the creaking Hashi, it’s horrendous! Thank you Izzy.

I had a weird one today and really paying for it, so any advice would be most appreciated.

Breakfast: Greek Yogurt, 5 strawberries
Lunch/Dinner: 1 Heck Sausage, 1 Homemade beef burger (small), 1 Portobello garlic mushroom done on the BBQ.
with Rocket salad, 1 tbsp. of mayo. 5 celery sticks in small tub of hummous, tbsp. salsa. My meal was delicious and huge.
I thought as my meal was so big, I would not need dinner. SO I then logged and measured, label reading etc and my calories for the day was 615 cals. I found this out after midnight.
A short time ago I started feeling really weird, so my other half told me to try and get some food with calories in me. SO I’ve had 2 babybel, an apple and an orange. Feel slightly better.

Lesson for day 6 is, just because I’m having a big meal doesn’t mean I’m getting enough cals, especially when dinner is el fresco. I need to be more mindful as starvation mode will not help me on my mission. 800 cals or bust. LOL!

At the end of the diet and after the loss of the 10kgs in weight, I undertook blood tests on pancreas and the lipase reading was 840 and top of range is 80. Had a CT scan done of pancreas and it was declared – looking healthy.

Any similar stories and is there a medical explanation?

Thanks

Okay this is nuts!! After 8 days and losing 12 lbs and 4.5+ inches I went to buy a couple shirts for a trip. This was already planned. I ran in and got tree I liked without thinking. We came home. I tried them on. We took all three back because I had to buy 2 sizes smaller shirts. 2 sizes. And I wear x’s not like regular numbers. 2 sizes. We were in shock and so was the store manager who knows us.
Hallelujah I really am melting!!
It’s amazing and awesome so far!

I want to share my little story that can help someone. I stopped taking bus to and from work. I wake up an hour later now and work to my office. And I eat what I want. I have already lost 7 pounds in a week!

Hey Healthyanna,

Me and you both girl!! Cake and chocolate with happiness, a full 2 litre tub of ice cream for sadness. Crisps & biscuits for frustration & stress. I mean its a menu for every emotion and its been like that all my life. Being diagnosed with type 2 was like a big smack in the face with a garden spade. I have a horrible histories of type 2 in my family, I know what can happen to me, If I choose a biscuit instead of an apple, I’ve seen it first hand and it is like running through hell with gasoline pants on.
I have been on my knees, grieving for my food (but really my emotional attachment to it) and am now at a point where, I have to take every hour as it comes. I have my breakfast at 11am. My lunch at 4pm and my dinner at 9pm. I have found this has combatted my worry of going hungry. My fella has bought me chocolate and I’ve told him to stop sabotaging me. He said it has fruit and nut in it! REALLY! I gave the chocolate to my son and got an apple. I told my fella, if you want to buy me something nice, buy me some fresh strawberries or blueberries, which he did the next day.
I am less emotional now, since my diagnosis at the end of feb, I’ve lost a stone in weight. It has egged me on to do the bsd. I am going to try and be good, but I do finally have it in my head that the biscuit isn’t worth it. Stick at it, your downfall is temporary, get back to it immediately, and you will have more control over your emotional state. Don’t let your moment of madness, spiral you down out of control, beating yourself up, putting yourself down, which will then make you say ‘ well, I’ve blown it, I may as well continue to blow it’ cos blowing it then becomes your excuse to not take control. The best thing to say is. ‘I’ve blown it, crap, ok well I’m not going to blow it again’. My sister used to say ‘I start my diet on a Monday and if I blow it by Wednesday, I have to wait till Monday to restart’ ERM! no you don’t, you restart immediately. She’s 2 stone heavier than me and prediabetic, until she gets it, she will remain in a bad cycle. You can get control, If I can, anyone can, trust me on that. X

Hi captainlynne,
I believe I’m 9 hours ahead of you time wise – AEST (that’s where I got confused – thought you were 8 hours behind, like CEST). Shall remember that you and your cohorts must be GMT/UTC…..I promise that’s the most acronyms I’ll use today. Let me know if I’ve got the time thing wrong.
It’s Mothers Day here so I’m being duly waited on……not with excess food….sticking to BSD (whoops there’s another pesky acronym) the difference being my delightful family are preparing and serving all meals today.
Isn’t it funny, 5 weeks ago if anyone had said ‘You’ll be eating low carb mediterranean meals and celebrating” I would never have believed them. Now ‘spoiling myself’ means eating healthy food, all of the time.
I just love the learning curve this lifestyle has given all of us.
Best wishes.

Patsy, forgive your fella for he knows not what he does. Not only is ryvita like hardened concrete but unfortunately, as much as I like them especially the Mediterranean ones with cream cheese, blacks pepper & tomato. I had to bin mine. Oh and just for the laugh, my well intentioned guy bought me a fruit and nut bar (the chocolate Cadbury variety) thinking that I could have it cos it had fruit and nuts in it. Bless him but you know, stupid is as stupid does. LOL! kidding!!!!!!!

Wow! So great to read about your results, that is very encouraging.
Polly If I could go without pork sausages & chicken, I would be a Pescatarian. I love fish so much I could eat it at every meal. I have, salmon, basa, prawns, tuna steaks and tuna in cans in my freezer and cupboards and bore the socks of my fella who likes steak and such. I vary the vegetables and sauces to keep it interesting. I also recommend the Code Free monitor, it seems the cheapest monitor to use as the lancets & Strips are reasonably priced, I got mine on Ebay.

Hi Izzy
You may be interested in this recipe for crackers. I haven’t tried them yet, nor used the basic recipe for the pizza base – but will! The website is http://www.ditchthecarbs.com. I tried the cauliflower pizza base last night – good except after baking it for a bit I grilled the top, flipped it and grilled the bottom to make it more crispy. Delicious.
Jussi

MMMM to all the chilli stuff, try to eat that and garlic as much as I can. I did make the mistake a while back though, of cooking with pickled chillis. Nearly took my head off. Once burnt, twice shy.

I’ve grown very small sweet peppers before but not tried growing chilli.

All I do for sprouting mung beans is soak them overnight, then next day put them in a clean glass jar with a cover – I use a lid from a larger jar that just sits on top. Put them in a dark place and rinse them twice a day. Worked better for me that way than growing them in the light. Anyway I should sleep.

Posting other people’s recipes is ok I think as long as you give the source site? I’d have thought that would benefit wherever the recipe was from and get new people to go look at it too

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?