Hi Izzy, you can use the julienne blade with the safety hand grip to make crisps from root veg like beetroot and carrots for a treat for kids/visitors 🙂

thanks I’ve had a look and ordered one.

I had a sudden… wicked idea.

Spiralised courgette, cut into small sections (think…curly fries) seasoned with spices and tossed in a little olive oil.. baked in the oven. Low carb curly fries? omg I actually think I WANT courgette curly fries!

it is frustrating but also remember us women get a raw deal. hormonal fluctuations can make us hold water too but that doesn’t mean that you haven’t lost fat today just not showing on the scales yet. Don’t let a bad day/week stop you think ahead. I don’t want to think how many times I have found myself thinking…. if only I’d stuck to my diet I’d have lost loads by now -when looking back and wishing I had 🙁

Hi christine I’m so pleased your friends could see the changes in you AND commented! It would be really good for them if they decide to follow this diet 🙂 if they were interested in the website there us a good chance they will start!
Judith

Re BS monitors I found they only gave em away if type two so applied for that meter
They seem the same exactly but are they ???
Alan

Thank you for your encouragement! 😀

Help needed ,fast ?😱
This morning fasting 6.7 then porridge

Lunch one hour ago salmon salad now 4.5,do feel bit shaky is this too low
I stopped my meds when I started this two weeks ago lost a stone felt great but this low reading worries me,do I need more food,fat in diet fruit etc

If I was taking full meds wouldn’t they make this even lower 🤔

Thanks Alan 😱

Hi Judith,
Went out for dinner with our two diabetic friends last night, they were impressed with my weight loss and were interested in the website, so I asked them to sign the petition, hopefully they will do, they are off to Stratford today for Shakespeare’s birthday celebrations, however I’m sure they will look into it next week
Christine

Hi john,
We all have times like yours, I’m very frustrated at being on this plateau! I know it will start again, I just need to get back to pre holiday weight then I will feel better about myself, don’t despair though, even if you’re not posting your friends here will silently support you, good luck, and I look forward to seeing a post from you in the near future?
Christine

Hi bill,
I like that idea too, what size t shirt to get though, I need to lose a lot more before I get mine!
Christine

Hi Lucia,
I like the idea of MM. On its side? Have already warned hubby!
My diebetic friends were impressed with my weight lose, it was interesting talking to them about my journey, they are also going to try and sign up on the petition, I couldn’t get on line last night, low battery!
I’m on a plateau at the moment will be happy if I get this week over and get back to pre hols weight!
Just been for a forty minute walk, my favourite walk, round the lake (which is called a pond?) and over twenty little bridges that are for water off the woods to run into the pool, we always get the number of bridges wrong! Then back for cottage cheese, pear and walnuts for brunch.
How are you doing today?

The BSD word is spreading – just found this article on the Guardian…

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/apr/23/diabetes-can-you-really-eat-to-beat-it

Encouraging to hear from someone who is 4 years down the line and still on track thanks to this way of eating 🙂

(I’d recommend not reading the comments if you are easily irritated – the usual rubbish from people who have no evidence to back up what they’re saying!)

Oh that is quite funny, outrunner, I really would have expected the 18 year old to be the invincible one!! Good that they both like to see you shrinking! 🙂

I’m a bit of a zealot about this diet too 🙂

HI Skywalker, trying to reduce medication for type 2 diabetes. Found my weight creeping up after a new lot of meds. So decided to try the low carbs route after reading the book. I’m aware that I need to check it out with the doc, At the moment I’m taking metformin, glycicide and Saxi something, 8tablets a day plus aspirin, ramipril and astovastatin. Suffered a heart attack 2 years ago, at 54. Lost about 3 stone in the last 2 years, felt and feel pretty good now, but fed up with the meds. I’m not necessarily sticking to the 800 cals bit, but have possibly found a more natural way of getting the hsbc thing, (can never remember the right name for the test) under control. Daily blood sugar tests have substantially reduced in the last ten days, so need approval to start reducing meds from the doc and phase them out.

Thanks hashimoto 🙂

I did sign the petition when it was launched and shared it on FB. I feel quite evangelical about the whole thing (I think my kids are getting a bit sick of it but their happy to see me shrinking!)

The 18 year old isn’t quite as bad as the 11 year old… now he is completely invincible and knows more than Google! LOL 😀

Hi, Hartley’s jelly in a small tub less than 10 kCal per pot is a nice refreshing treat from the fridge, just finished one. If you have already lost your excess weight what are you doing on BSD?

Hi Wild Saffron, I have just noticed your post so sorry for the lateness of this response.
I have diverticulitis and I have found I am much better on this diet. Someone else has said their IBS is much better too. I haven’t added any starch to my diet as I think that is what caused the problems in the first place 🙁

Oh that’s really funny Cherrianne. Not as bad as the time my dad referred to one of the teachers as ‘Old Frosty’ ( she was) and my brother told her!! Or my friend always referring to the chemistry teacher as Mad Boolu and his dad actually called him ‘Mr Boolu’ at a parent’s evening. He genuinely thought that was the guy’s name.

It isn’t possible to be a parent and not have an embarrassing incident lol

And happy St George’s day to all! 🙂

Hi all, read the book, trying to cut out normal carbs mainly, aiming to reduce or cut out meds completely. Not too bothered about weight loss, done that already, but have lost about 3kg in the the last 10days. Missing me sweeties though in moments of weakness. Interesting going back to cooking from scratch. Picking and choosing recipe ideas and tweaking to my own tastes, so far really pleased with results and getting sugars stabilised, to have a good argument to start reducing meds, visit to the docs next week. Fingers crossed.

Hi folks, if you are new to the forums and a British Citizen would you mind signing our petition please? Thanks 🙂

Well done Lynne, you’re our BSD superstar!!
Happy St George’s Day to everyone. I always tease my Dad on this day because when I was about 10 or 11, I asked him where St George killed the dragon. He told me it was in our village, and so I wrote about it in a story for school. Poor Dad was mortified that he’d answered me so flippantly lol 🙂

Hi folks, there was an article in the papers today that said research indicates that regular meditation can knock 7 years off your BRAIN AGE!!! I’m going to do more of it!!!! 🙂

Hi Paula, it can also be a bit trickier getting fresh fruit and veg on the islands – unless things have changed a lot since my last trip to those parts!! Should be plenty of seafood though!

This diet is amazing in the way you are satisfied on very little in the way of calories and the way it makes the old muffin top disappear quite quickly – first time in over 20 years for me!!!
🙂 🙂

Hi John,
Sad you won’t be around for a while 🙁
Will miss your humour and common sense, but you must do what you feel is right for you. Don’t give yourself too hard a time because of one lapse though.
All the best for the next few weeks, and we’ll catch up with all your news when you return to the fold 🙂

Izzy get the Cuisique from Amazon. It has a variety of blades, is gravity aided because you spiralise vertically not horizontally. It also has an integral jug to catch the spiralised food – rather than it landing on your work top or worse still the kitchen floor!!! 🙂

Yep Hashimoto I live in the Inner Hebrides. Beautiful here and fab for walking unless it’s too windy to stand up in! I have lost weight through the years but I have never, ever lost my middle. But I have have in retrospect had a diet that has consisted of a huge amount of bad carbs and I always feel hungry a couple of hours after meals. Even in the past couple of weeks of being sensible with my carbs I have found my appetite has shrunk. I’m feeling fuller for longer. Thanks for the advice – I’ll certainly hold back till I go I go shopping with my new shape 🙂 🙂 🙂

Hi Georgiarose, that’s a relief about your husband. So glad it was nothing serious. My guess is he’ll be very careful with his coffee intake from now on, bless him! Thanks for letting us know the outcome. 🙂

Hi Smudgymum, please don’t despair!! Lots of people have these strange plateaus, particularly in the second week, then suddenly a few pounds has disappeared!! Remember some of the fat is disappearing from you internal organs so it won’t be visible to you. Did you measure your waist at the start because often the results show faster on the tape measure than they do on the scales.

As you already know, on 800 calories you HAVE to lose weight! It’s a law of physics!

Are you making sure you have enough fat in your diet to keep you feeling full?

Are you drinking 2 to 3 litres of water a day and keeping your carbs below 50g a day?

It’s worth double checking.

Chin up as that weight WILL come off! 🙂

Hi all fellow 8 weekers! I am just coming to the end of week 2 and I am so frustrated and disappointed. I lost 8lbs my first week and I was over the moon, not to mention motivated to keep going. I have followed the diet to the letter and since Monday I have not lost a single ounce! I weighed myself yesterday to see that I was still where I was on Monday and it ruined my day and made me extremely tearful. I am now scared of the scales!
Fortunately I have a very supportive hubby who has suggested that this weekend we will have our main meals at lunchtime so that I have more time to burn off the calories. That’s not so feasible during the week though. I know weight loss slows down further into the diet but no loss after 5 days on 800 calories?! Really? I am so hungry but I wouldn’t mind if I was losing weight. I feel this week has been a waste of time and I may as well not have bothered!
Feeling extremely sorry for myself! 😔

Hi outrunner, great results from you!! Bill1954 has gone the not counting calories, just the carbs route and also been very successful.

I totally agree about frustration over the wrong information being pumped out by the authorities! Have you signed our petition asking the NHS to urge T2s to follow this diet?

It is almost impossible to teach an immortal 18 year old anything new because at that age they know everything and by my age I know nothing!!! 🙁
Hopefully sneaking lower carbs and sugars into their meals will have the health impact you want for them. 🙂

Hi Izzy, up your water and take some paracetamol for the headache.

Could you play a hop, skip and jump game with your 3 year old while walking with him. It might be slow but lots of exercise!

I love my spiraliser! I got the cuisique one from Amazon. Courgetti is lovely and you can do so many things with it!! 🙂

I’ll try Lauren but methinks he’s resigned to the fact of his condition now sadly. He did say recently that they had reduced his statins and he’s lost a little weight so hopefully it will work for him long term.

Thanks again for the info 😀

wow Scater! 6lbs in a week! Phew, you will be sylph like in no time! 🙂

Hi Paula do you live in the Scottish Islands?
Wait 6 or 7 weeks to think about what you will wear because your shape will really change in that time!
In fact you will have ditched a few clothes by then, in all probability! 🙂

Hi Tofa,
If you need to get blood sugar, pressure and cholesterol under control you need to go low carb but not count calories. It will solve all three problems!
I kept my carbs to 50g per day, ate full fat dairy, oils etc. and managed to maintain my weight whilst my BP and blood sugars went down to normal range. Have yet to get my cholesterol tested since finishing the BSD but I know others on here have lowered their cholesterol by going low carb and still eating full fat.
Bill1954’s advice is to check which test strips are cheapest and buy that monitor.
Do blood test first thing each morning before eating/ drinking, called the fasting blood sugar level. Then do some random tests through the week, just before a meal or two hours after, and bedtime ( not all on the same day).
If you are going to eat something you’re unsure about, test before the meal and then two hours later. The effect on your sugar levels will give you an idea about whether the food is suitable or not.
Keep posting, and one of us will help you through working it out. 🙂

Thanks Izzy, that’s definitely something I’ll be looking at :). Very good luck to my fellow newbie! I hope your first week is going well 🙂

Milled flax has worked well. Thank you Hashimoto. Have lost 6lbs in a week and I’ve loved it!

Maybe you could encourage him to get a referral from his GP to an NHS nutritionist/dietician? I’m sure there must be ways that he could modify his eating that would aid with th diabetes/weight loss and still comply with the specific condition he has – essentially a highly personalised version of the BSD!

Hi Lauren

Thanks for the congrats and the useful info, very interesting. I’ll stop working on him to try this then 🙁

Thanks again 🙂

Firstly congratulations on your 2 stone loss that’s a great achievement 😃

Yes there is such a thing as a fatty-acid metabolism disorder, I think usually because these patients lack one of the enzymes needs to break down fats – so fats can’t be used as fuel by these people and instead they have to rely solely on glucose. So sadly this may not be good for your friend.

Hi John,

sometimes it is better to take time out and re-evaluate. You will be ok.

Thanks for that list, Hashi, I am eating all those things already but still having problems with the app as that is my main goto and lazy way for counting the calories/carbs.

It’s very sunny here today. Lovely for folks who are getting in all their walking!

Beginning third week after a one stone loss,this mornings BS fasting was 6.7 don’t know if good bad or ugly I stopped my meds two weeks ago when I began this.
Strangely not had those head aches or been actually hungry yet.
Did get nibbles last night and ate too many nuts which were massive in calories 😱
Alan onward and downward ! 😎

Does anyone have one? any recommendations on which one to buy?

Thanks in advance 🙂

Hi Natalie,
The fish sauce is a fermented sauce, so the fish flavour isn’t strong enough to come through as fishy without you using more than you need for a flavour boost. Vegemite etc can be added to sauces or stirfries just as say, a thick soy sauce would. Add a little water to get the paste to spread.

If you still feel uncomfortable about your legs and arms, wear a long dress and a shrug. I have the opposite trouble… even when I lose weight I have chunky arms and tree trunk legs haha. But long dresses and shrugs work for both 🙂

Good Luck with the diet I’m a week one newbie too.

Hi All

I’m hoping someone here will be able to help with this curious question…

I’ve been doing really well on this (just hit the 2 stone mark) and I have a friend who is Type 2 and on statins but has been told that he is genetically unable to burn fat. Is that an actual thing or does he not have a well informed or open minded GP?

Any help would be hugely appreciated.

Many thanks

thank you for the replies 🙂 yes the cholesterol thing with the eggs has been debunked. As has much of the previously thought info on cholesterol and why some people are high and others are not. It isn’t that I thought the eggs were bad just that in some ways having too many means I’m not getting the variety of other things. Today though… I’m thinking of buying a spiraliser for veg? pretend pasta lol I might try cauliflower rice later 🙂

I have a headache but I’m not stopping now! Steps will be harder today as my husband is on a late shift and I have my 3 year old who will walk well but so slowly lol. we will go out though and later I’ll make my steps up on our treadmill that hasn’t been used in months. I prefer to go out rather than use it but needs must. I’ll watch a movie or something whilst I walk.

I’m missing a baked potato 🙁

Also I’m only 5ft tall so I need to lose loads but my first target for now is 11 st (70kg) 26lbs from my starting weight.

Thanks so much Hashimoto 🙂 Wow, that is amazing and so encouraging! I hope I get to the day when I can feel good in a dress. I’ve even started looking at mother of the brides dresses online…fed up of looking for trouser suits with a jacket to hide my middle! I too have ridiculously skinny legs and arms which makes me look such a weird shape and very hard to get to clothes to fit. I’m hoping by the end of summer I can plan a shopping trip to the mainland (I live three hours by boat to the nearest small town) to buy that the dress that has eluded me for so many years 🙂 Thanks for your encouragement I really, really appreciate it!

Hi Everyone

Thought I’d just chip in to say I just hit the 2 stone loss mark and I’m at the end of week 6! I still have another 3 stone to go but feel it’s not only achievable but maintainable. I’m so pleased I finally found a diet which works. I have gone a little “off plan”, so to speak, and have adopted a more LCHF way of eating. i.e. not counting the calories but ensuring my carb level is below the 20g mark with plenty of healthy fats and proteins.

I have to say that since starting this transformative journey I have been doing lots of research and getting increasingly frustrated with the disinformation coming from UK Government (all governments?) regarding a so called “healthy diet”. All my life I’ve taught myself and, more recently, my children completely the wrong information when it comes to nutrition. That makes me angry because trying to re-educate an 18 year old and an 11 year old who are addicted to carbs and sugar is nigh on impossible (neither are overweight but we can’t see what’s going on inside!)

We are, during family meals, reducing their carbs slightly and to a greater extent sugars. Hopefully we’ll get there in the end so they can educate their children with an actual healthy diet from the outset.

Sorry about the rant.

Hawks all those additions sound great. Except the fish. Not really a fan. I suppose a little bit of fish sauce could add flavour without fishiness. Not sure how to eat Vegemite without toast! I have a vague memory I used to spread it on celery sticks?

I read something about factory manufactured meat recently. Using a discarded calf embryo as a starter (so still came from an animal!) they successfully produced pure muscle. It was white and flavourless. Now they are trying to manufacture the fat and blood needed to make it palatable. Of course the process costs a lot more (in money and to the environment) to manufacture pretend meat than to raise and slaughter a cow, but maybe in the future it won’t.