I am 44 years old, 5’5″ tall and in February started the BSD approximately 14 weeks ago. I lost 20pounds in total over 10 weeks (stuck at it like glue and yes it was hard at first). My start weight was 11stone 12 pounds, I am currently 10st6. I was not pre diabetic but needed to break the cycle of eating little protein and too many pieces of bread as my go to staple along with induldging in red wine too often. A year ago my weight maintained at 9st6pounds so had let it creep up through back end of 2015 only adding to it big time over Xmas. I am a VERY active person, I run daily on my treadmill, since starting the diet I have consistently averaged 84000 steps a week, I power walk for 45mins a day with the dog and have over the last 4 weeks started to train on a total gym to build some lean muscle adding in lean protein in to my diet also, I have also changed my steady runs for hiit workouts with sprinting for between 20 and 45/minutes. I haven’t significantly been able to up my calorie intake since officially finishing bsd, I gain if I eat more. Now averaging around 800-1000 calories a day. I am intermittent carb cycling so carb up days mixed with carb deplete days. I also exercise in a fasted state every day of the week. I occasionally have had a diet day off having healthy food, still no sugars though, but have had red wine on that day off. My major question here is I want to know if the low calorie diet has slowed my metabolism down as I haven’t had a drop in my weight for some time but know that I am counting and exercising right. I am still clean eating with no sugars and with limited off days. I wonder if my weight training is effecting my weight on the scales? I want to lose approximately another 13 pounds, would be even happy with 10. HELP!! Am I in trouble with my metabolism, has this low calories/carb diet damaged my hormones/thyroid function. I am panicking over this. Have booked in to see my GP tomorrow. Answers…anyone?

And yes I use Myfitnesspal too as I can log the food and check calories and most importantly watch the carbs and keep them no more than 20g

I usually make up my own meals which consist of some protein, fish nor chicken. I’m not a big meat eater but actually eat bacon on this way of eating. Weird. Anyway, lots of veges but the low carb kind. So broccoli, cauliflower, courgettes, lettuce, capsicums. Meals could be just salad and chicken, prawns or salmon. Or stir fry – no rice. If I feel like it I make cauliflower rice. Or spiralise some courgettes and throw them in at the end for noodles. Or a vegetable curry with lots of spices. The weekend is a good time to make some things ready to take to work. Frittatas are good and I have even been known to make scrambled eggs and bacon before work to take for lunch. The key for me is to have a few good meals to rotate. Go to http://www.ditchthecarbs.com if you want to look at some recipe ideas. I have to admit I drink buckets of coffee every day but the caffeine police don’t live on my street so there you go. Hope this helps ☺️

Hello everyone,

I’m new to this online chat, but i’ve been very inspired by what I’m reading. I began the eight week diet three months ago, was totally inspired and absolutely loved the food, but after a few distractions along the way, I slipped up. I’m determined to get back to it as it is the most wonderful diet I have ever found. This is day one for me – a new start. I hope you don’t mind me joining in as I love your postings.

Rosy xxx

Welcome to the veterans club Whalleyrange!
And congratulations on your successes before you know it you will be posting on the 16 weeks line! 🙂

Which reminds me . . . .

Really excited about my weight loss this week which was an astonishing 5lbs which means that in 2 weeks I’ve lost one stone and a half a pound. 1st 1/2lb // 14.5 lbs. Really amazed and ready for week 3. I’m a vegetarian and sticking to most of the week one meals from the plan in the back of the book. Drinking green tea and lemon water, it all helps. 🙂

Brilliant Izzy
You’re negotiating those tricky little hurdles that life throws at us with ease, well done 🙂

Hi everyone, well its the end of week 8 for me and today the weight is 105.2 kg. I started at an insulin resistant 120.2 kg so that’s 15 kg (or 2 stone 5 pounds in old money). That’s 13% reduction in body weight. Even more encouraging is the 5 1/2 inches lost from the belly (started at 50 inches), 2 1/2 from chest and 2 inches from the thighs, so 12 inches of my body has disappeared (hopefully never to return).
I also started to take my BS levels for the past 3 weeks and my fasting levels have never been higher than 6, pre dinner 5.7 and post dinner 6.2. Looking at the guidance that puts me in the normal range for non diabetic.
The weight loss over the last few weeks did slow down but remained steady at about 1 1/2 kg. Went through some issues with constipation and at times very cold fingers and toes but these passed and so left feeling healthier, happier and more confident.
Although the diet is an 8 week program I still need to lose more inches from the belly as my waist to hip ratio is 1 which is still high risk.So I’ll carry on and try to hit the 100 kg mark and get the hip/waist ratio below 1.
Keep inspiring me people.

Hi gang.
Goal.
What is yours?
Mine was to be a size 12 or to be 11 stone.
These are numbers.

I want to redefine my goal.
So let’s look at what I have done to myself on this blog.

I have gone from being permanently on the settee glued to the telly. Now I am able to walk 10 miles, cycle to the shops etc. Run a bit, eg to the bus without having a heart attack.

I have gone from eating two meals of Chinese takeaway with a huge bag of chips plus three family sized bags of chocolate plus bags of crisps.
Now I eat ham or chicken salad. Or veggies with fish. Or bacon egg mushroom toms. Or just veggies.

So I am able to move more, eat less. I guess I have already hit my goal without noticing. This is what I am going to carry on doing, but if along the path, I bump into a size 12, I will be happy. But if I don’t, I have got something much more than that….. My health back.

Sorry to be a bit deep this morning, I think it is because another pound of wobbalocity has dropped off.

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Great idea, 9plus!
Good luck with the diet – it’s wonderful : )

I’ll give it a try. 🙂 He can only say no, can’t he? My husband has almost no sense of smell – can’t smell flowers, etc – but he can smell sulphurous vegetables and protests when I even cook them because of the smell in the house (I almost have to cook my favourite veg – broccoli – in secret). Today I’m doing veggie burgers and celeriac mash – wish me luck!

So day four has dawned and I have already lost five pounds. Last week for some reason my ankles were puffy at the end of the day which is unusual for me. I put it down to my coming out in sympathy with my daughter who is expecting a baby this week but actually it was probably fluid retention. I know that most of the weight loss in the first week is water so an added bonus is that my ankles are now behaving as ankles should.

I have attempted a couple of the recipes which have been very successful. Cauliflower rice was pronounced yummy by my husband and the hummus is great with loads of crudités.

I am not actually hungry but feel a bit peckish from time to time which I am hoping will lessen as my body gets used to low carb eating. I counteract the peckishness with drinking soda and convincing myself that any pangs I feel is the fat melting😉

yay worked out a plan, cut n paste the link and put the recipe name in the subject line, email it to mysellf and then save it in a recipe file. progress!

ahhh thats great information thanks, still lookinga round the website trying to find my feet

Izzy you are a STAR!!!! : )

Hi Christine, I just want you to know you and your family are in my thoughs x

Hi 9plus,
What i do is copy then paste onto a word document and either print the recipe to add to my ‘recipe book’ or put it in my desk top recipe folder.
Hope that helps 🙂

Please sign our petition : )

Hi Tink, i have had my morning coffee from day 1. Just nescafe and a splash of milk (its just what i happen to like) and the diet worked fine for me..
I’m asthmatic and coffee is supposed to be good for that.
🙂

yes Happylife you are right I like feeling tired a lot less that is for sure! I’m tired this morning too but I’ve had two late nights in a row.

Thanks Stacey, If we jump back on the wagon we will still get to our destination. Life goes on around us as we make our life changes and I’d rather step into it than sit on the outside. This doesn’t mean I will always compromise my new habits, but ya know… sometimes is OK.

I was really proud of myself last night. After dinner I zoomed off to pick up my friend for the history tour (got my 10000 steps lol) and due to a miscommunication we were too early, so we went to the pub. I was driving anyway so not tempted by alcohol, in all honesty I don’t much drink anyway so alcohol isn’t really a big deal. My friend bought a packet of crisps, and I didn’t eat any. Just had a diet coke. Now I know that isn’t best but fizzy drinks are a rarity for me too. Later on after the walk on the way back to my car we were both cold and nipped in to Burger King so she could grab a coffee and she also bought a do-nut. Again I didn’t have anything. I actually didn’t even want anything anyways but I still felt a little triumphant. I didn’t fall off the wagon yesterday, I just stepped off for a moment and jumped back on.

Today, I’ve had yoghurt and a satsuma, felt like a change! lunch is cheese and cucumber, and dinner is going to be chicken and cashews.

Tonight I am going to make pickled eggs 🙂 but it’s two weeks until you can eat them.

Well I guess I better go start my day, but at least it’s the end of my working week. I only work 4 days.

Have a nice day!!

http://www.vox.com/2016/5/10/11649210/biggest-loser-weight-loss

I found this website in my news ticker yesterday – Reading it was very helpful to me as I was concerned with the news of the last weeks regarding regaining weight. The Doc, I think, presents a very balanced view of weight loss. A healthy approach, at least from my perspective.

Hope others find it useful… might be useful in other forums too… will leave it to those more experienced and involved in the forum support network to make that decision. Please feel very free to share if you think it would help others too.

BTW… bought some scales – loss since March 12 is 13kg… very happy with that considering I had several weekends off!! and played around with carbs a bit. Total loss since beginning my wight loss journey toward better health began is now 32kg (70 pounds)… 27% of starting body weight… feeling fairly overwhelmed with that number…. 10 more kg to go…. wonder if I will make it…. life gets in the way sometimes huh???..

Good luck to everyone… Love reading posts and getting further inspiration….

Cheers
Not quite so fatty – but still a bit!!!

I also don’t know, but if you know one of the ingredients and enter it in the search box at the top of the page it will give you a list of all recipes with that ingredient. Hope this helps a wee bit.

Sorry I have no idea! Just responding so you don’t think we’re ignoring you.

I have also heard of a strict ketogenic diet being used to avoid epileptic seizures.

Christine, Love and support to you and to your loved ones suffering right now… good luck with all that must be overcome. I hope your hard work and success in improving your health will help.

Good morning lovely weigh-in thread people 🙂

5 weeks done and 22 lbs gone from a starting weight of 222 lbs.

I really should have bought a tape measure before I started this. The lard is coming off more slowly now (I’ve even seen my weight go back up a couple of times) but I could swear my body is changing shape quite dramatically… and for the better.

Happy days 🙂

I’ve just scheduled my annual glucose tolerance test – the one where you drink nasty glucose liquid then they see if you go into a diabetic coma (or at least if your blood sugar spikes). The results of my last one were very close to a diagnosis of diabetes so I’m hoping my efforts this year have improved my glucose tolerance.

I was used to eating lots of carbs for three days before the test, but at the last one they told me they don’t get people to do that any more (yay!). But since then I have moved into a different state (NSW Australia) and I’ve been told I need to carb-load again! I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with carbs!

Do other people still have to carb load where they live?

Thanks guys ☺👍

I measure out 100mls of full fat milk every morning which equals 65 cals. I record this in my food diary and then use it for tea and coffee throughout the day, approx 4 cups. Full fat is better for you according to this diet and I find it makes me use it in moderation.

My tea and coffee are ‘snacks’ between meals and help with any hunger pangs. I really miss my cappuccinos though, instant coffee just isn’t the same but it does the job 🙂

Don’t worry Izzy, I went out for dinner with friends expecting to eat a salad, it was all planned as I had checked the menu before hand. I got there and the menu had changed and my meal option gone. It was pizza special night and I caved! I ate a whole pizza to myself and had the free wine that came with it :/

It took 5 days to start losing again but I still lost overall. its nice to feel in control and know that one blow out doesn’t end your diet.

Hi Kilwinny
I lost 1.5kg at the end of week 3, I’ll take that! So 7kg down in 3 weeks.
I’m too afraid to eat something as yummy as that for fear of undoing all my good work, but if you got away with it, then good luck to you!
Good luck at your next weigh in.😀
Linda

Hiya, I’ve had the same issue, only 1-2 pounds in the first week! Hoping this second week will see a bit more weight off, like you I struggle to get anything off, takes forever!!!! Have about 20 pounds to shift. It’s great to read the posts here for encouragement! Here’s to more successful weeks to come 🙂

Hi Linda,
Well the static phase has shifted at last.
I’m now 11lbs down in 3 weeks. I decided to relax a little and actually ate out with a friend yesterday. I ate a gorgeous burger in a brioche bun and sweet potato chips. I savoured every mouthful! I didn’t need to eat for the rest of the day, so that’ll be why I didn’t put on any weight! 😉
I hope your efforts have been rewarded by a loss on the scales.

I have been doing the BSD now for just over 10 days and have shed a few pounds and am quite enjoying it. However, as when I did the paleo diet (similar low carb principles) in the past, I have really struggled with bloating and discomfort and wondered if anyone else has had the same trouble and knows of any possible reasons or cures. Thank you.

Hi Clairebear, welcome back and well done for having another go and not giving up completely.
I’m on week 5, a stone down and a lot of it’s pretty much now a lifestyle change. I’ve fallen off the waggon a couple of times but have got back on the next day. I’m trying a max of 1000 calories rather than 800 ( which usually means aiming for 800 but truthfully realising it’s more like 1000). I count calories on ‘my fitness pal’.
I was a real bread Monster so have cut it out completely; pasta is replaced by courgetti and rice by cauliflower ‘rice’ both need seasoning but quick to prepare. It’s also having something to grab if the munchies hit that helps so I don’t raid the biscuits! We have packs of sliced cheese and crab sticks in the fridge and usually one eaten slowly is enough for the munchies to pass. Another help for me is to drink a glass of fizzy water if I’m hungry as often I’m more likely dehydrated.
I did a lot of lurking around the forums before I took the plunge and there is always someone around whatever the time of day or night!
Good luck😀

Well done Eureka! Never miss an opportunity😃

Hi Christine

Congratulations on reaching your target. Hope you post again soon (((hugs)))

Hi MooLoc
Don’t be discouraged, I lost 4.6kg in my first week then only 0.9kg in my 2nd week then 1.5kg in my 3rd and I’m following the plan to the letter. I’ve just decided that this plan is now forever and so long as I’m on the downward slope, I’m ok.
Just keep up the fats and the water.
Linda

My first 2 months I had no alcohol (wasted calories) and I cut out rice and went for the cauliflower rice and added cumin seeds for flavour / No pasta – replaced with veg / only sweet potatoes and ditched the bread (only have sourdough or soda now).

It is amazing how many calories are in things especially oil 1tbsp, any type 120calories, so watch the little things as they all add up.

I’ve never been happy with my weight all my life and this has really worked for me – Now Size 10 (never before)

Stick with it and just keep adapting

I stuck to the recipes in the book to start with and really have never got caught up in the ratio thing, counting calories & weighing things was a big enough deal for me.

When I started I counted the coffee calories, then I stopped, as I started my morning with a coffee and full fat milk (if you have semi you only put more in and it appears full fat milk/yoghurt & butter are better for you). This also keeps me going to 10am before I need Breakfast and then don’t need lunch to later so no snacking. Its all swings and roundabouts – but just work out what works for you. 3 months on it still works for me

Thank you so much, that’s very helpful!

Im very new here so fumbling arund trying to figure out how to use it. can you tell me if there is a way to “save” favourite recipes here in my profile so I don’t have to keep going ver the 100+ pages of recipes?

I’m in a similar position. I’m somewhere between 10st 7 lb and 11st (too terrified to check TBH) and want to get to 9st 7 lb. I lost my “baby weight” of half a stone in 4 weeks at 1200 cals so am hoping 8 weeks will bring me closer to a stone lighter. Good luck – let me know how you get in if you want some support 🙂

@ Ay Carumba – do you have a “standing desk” or do you perch somehow? I’d love to stand to work but don’t know how logistically to do it in an office where we all have normal desks.

Hi 9plus,
In the BSD800 forum there’s a ‘Weigh in thread’ that many BSDers use. Other than that most BSDers seem to keep their own records – electronic or hard copy.

Hi Clairebear,

Welcome back to the BSD. There is an enormous amount of support available simply by being part of these forums. There’s usually someone reading the forums who will help out.
Today is Week 6 Day 6 for me and the BSD is becoming a way of life for me. There have been days that have been really difficult for me with cravings but pushing through the cravings becomes easier the longer I continue on the BSD. It’s great not to be driven by constant hunger.
As you can’t physically remove the ‘danger foods’ from your home, you may need to remove them from your immediate sight. (Can they be put in containers at the back of cupboards/fridge so they are less visible to you?)
You’ll find that the symptoms of carb addiction lessen and eventually disappear – that in itself is really empowering.
Best wishes for your BSD journey.

Just tried feta cheese stuffed into chicken breast wrapped in thin ham lovely oh salad too
Alan,as near to a recipe as I go !

This will be the second time I’ve started the BSD – I caved and had a massive week-long cereal/bread/sugar binge 2 days after starting last time. I’m too scared to weigh myself. I also have a skinny, sporty husband and a toddler so my house is full of the foods they eat. Getting rid of my “danger foods” simply isn’t an option (what toddler goes without raisins, oatcakes and Weetabix?). I desperately want to stick at it but have no offline support as no-one realises the extent of my carbohydrate addiction and how unhealthy it’s making me. I’m hoping to log in regularly and get “chat” with like-minded folk who aren’t going to tell me not to do some stupid faddy diet (as has been said to me already). Thanks for reading. Tomorrow is Day 1 of getting healthy.

Hi Rozy,

I didn’t know that about Ruby Wax’s background. Thanks for the recommendation- the book sounds interesting and I will have a read.