Brilliant Nicolaann
That is certainly enough motivation to keep you going.
Onwards and downwards for you now
Congratulations

Nowhere near you yet Lynne but another pound and a half gone.
Thats a total loss of 33 pounds and 14 stone 4 lb
Getting close to that milestone where my weight will start with number 13 and still on track for my holiday target.
Even better, after the chapati debacle, my FBS today was 6.4 🙂

Decision made.
My May challenge is a Penguin March.
A weather appropriate solitary trudge of 70 miles across the Antarctic… and back.
Donation to BHF.

Hi chinagas I had some very low BPs when doing something physically demanding in the first weeks but haven’t exerted myself unduly in the last few weeks. Prof Taylor says it isn’t necessary to do new exercise regimes on 800 calories a day, in fact he advises leave it til you have finished the fast 800.

Perhaps you should leave the new set of exercises until you come off 800 calories.

What great results you have had with weight loss and better BP. How about your T2? Do you take bs readings?
You must be feeling so much better in yourself having lost weight and reduced your BP 🙂

I am so thrilled. Lost 6lbs in my first week. I’m on cloud 9.

Pleased you managed a good nights sleep Judith, it can be a great healer in itself.
I’m useless with my toes although I can pick things up with them.
I was always proud as a young un that I could switch between Vulcan salute and Robin Williams nanu nanu salute.
My 6 year old granddaughter who has severe autism can use an ipad with each hand and control a third with her foot (they have 4 in the house so there’s always one charged. If not there’s a guaranteed meltdown).

Hi TFB, my scales measure in increments of ounces so I wasn’t surprised by yours!

16 kg in 7 weeks is something to rejoice about! Well done you! 🙂
That’s 2 and a half stones to us old fashioned Brits!

Hey Bill1954,
You are so right about just making the right choices when going out. Last weekend, on day 4 and I had to attend a pre arranged dinner with a large group. Luckily it was at a Lebanese restaurant and the choices fit in with this diet, but how to eat the dips without the Lebanese bread? I used sliced tomatoes instead and it worked a treat!
Well done captainlynne on your large loss. You can be so proud of yourself!

56 years old.5’6” used to weigh in around83 kg’s. Ex smoker of nearly 3 years now, but was never a heavy smoker in the first place. 2 years ago diagnosed with hypertension, put on BP lowering meds and statins.(history of heart disease in family), 18 months ago diagnosed with type2. Didn’t really go to the gym much but not a couch potato. Time for a life style change! Found the 800 calorie sugar / blood diet, found a gym. Been on the diet for 8 weeks and lost10 kgs. Been in the gym since last October but now stepped it up in the last 8 weeks to 5 nights a week. So diet plus exercise =10kgs lost and blood pressure right down to normal. 800 blood sugar and gym best things ever…deffo recommended.

However….. (theres always a however!), went to gym today at 10 am, personal trainer introduced new set of exercises, felt really light headed… dizzy, a little nauseous, had to lie down right as rain after 5 minutes. Got home, checked blood pressure, 90/57 on lowest reading and 91/62 on highest. breakfast was just a bowl of yogurt with 4strawberries around 3 hours before the gym then had a hard boiled egg 30 mins before gym. After BP readings, felt fine and BP returned to normal…106 / 70. Anyone else out there had something similar?

Hi, has anyone had the same problem and can give advice? I recently bought the book after hearing Dr Mosley on the Jeremy Vine radio 2 show, I don’t have any health problems but putting on weight fast as not very active. Been following the menu only have sparkling water, hot water or tap water or tea with skimmed milk about 5 – 8 cups a day…yes I have cut down to what I was having.

Just about to start week 4 and putting on a pound a day…feeling very disheartened, including the weight put on I have now only lost 5 lb in 4 weeks I was expecting a little more.

A few hours late with the post. End of week 7 weigh in today.

100.4kg – loss of 0.8 this week. My ” worst” week yet. Reflecting that I’ve been on it a while, and also that I had my first “bad” day, involving alcohol, mid week.

Still. That’s 0.2kg shy of 16kg lost in 7 weeks. Chuffed!

(In case anyone wonders why all my weights are in 200g increments – my scales record to the nearest 0.2 only (digital scales)

Thanks Bill, jackiemac , lynne, christine and eureka, I took two paracetamol at bedtime and slept well.
My body is so chemical sensitive the paracetamol work like a sleeping tablet. I’ve only ever met one other person they do that too.
Anyone on these forums get the same result?

I’m still amazed that 4 of us have toes which do a Vulcan salute, after years of thinking I was alone,so who knows? 🙂

Hi californiagirl lots of us, including myself, are 60 and over!!

Hello, I’m from Sydney and I was up at at 5am to head to the produce markets to stock up in all my fruit and veges for the next fortnight – so much fresher and cheaper than the shops and they have a huge selection of seafood, poultry and red meat for sale as well.
Anyway, by the time I got back at 9.30, unpacked and spent some home visiting my elderly parents, the last thing I felt like at 3.45pm was going for a walk, so TrishaDawn, I know how you feel when you talk about having to make exercise your nbr 1 priority. I looked at the dogs, they looked at me, I thought of what good it’d do me, grabbed the dog leads and just did it! Now that I’m on the other side of a 70 min walk, I’m glad I went, but I’ve learned not to think, just do, every day!
It’s been a lovely sunny 24deg day here, with only a sprinkling of rain this morning, but winter is coming and I’m not looking forward to it, although I guess us Aussies can’t complain after hearing about the weather in the UK, sometimes I hear your summer days are as warm as our winter ones!

Wow! Lynne that’s bang on 3 and a half stones! Fabulous!
Happy bunny and bouncing Tigger! 🙂 🙂 🙂

Definitely more a bouncing tigger Lynne.
Thats a top result given the circumstances and proves again that we don’t have to be diet hermits.
We can eat out as long as we make the right choices.
My weigh day today when the chemist opens, I hope I can keep up the steady weight loss that you can.

Back to official weighing day and another pound gone. Total of 49 pounds in 19 weeks. The pound had disappeared before I went away so I’m happy not to see it reappear after a 3-night stay in a hotel. Fasting bloods in normal range. BMI dropping steadily. Feeling great. All in all a happy bunny😃 Or a bouncing Tigger😃

Just finished week 19 and another pound gone from last proper weighing day (Saturday). It was gone on Monday before I went away, so was happy it didn’t reappear (with some of its friends) while I was away. Total of 49 pounds gone😃
Fasting bloods within normal range😃 Getting result of latest HbA1c on Thursday – should be interesting! Must ask her last few results, not got a record of them.

Week 19 finished and another pound down – and I’ve been in a hotel most of this week😃 Total loss now 49 pounds!

Hi Lucia, I’m up for a snowball fight. Where I live (670 metres) it snows about once every 10 years but never stays on the ground. Sooo,
I raised my children with us all having pretend snowball fights…..hilarious! So, yes, a cyber snowball fight across the hemispheres is in order! Just think of the calories we’ll burn.

BAM…..incoming snowball.

Hi, well , we have had snow, so I have had hit lemon etc to control my cold,
Now who’s up for a snowball fight?
Will have fun cycling in it.

Hope you all stay dry and warm and active.
Love Lucia
Xxx

Thank you so much Eureka , Janet and Patsy . You’ve all been so helpful , I really appreciate your advice . Off to do some more reading . I do like the science behind all of this , it’s what drew me to it in the first place – the fact that it had been properly medically researched .

Hawke I hope your work goes well.

TrishaDawn your travels sound great. Hope you get to Scotland too – it’s so beautiful. I live in Edinburgh and although it is a city it has so many hills it can feel like you are in the country. I have Highland cattle and horses just a 15 minute jog away from home before I am even out of the city. If there’s better weather today I plan to help my mum with some planting and fix my house (loathe housework!) in between cajoling my older daughter into studying folr her exams. The recent snow hasn’t helped me to make further progress with my own garden.

Izzy – your cooking experiments are sounding great and I am planning similar dishes for the weekend inspired by your successes. My spiralizer should arrive today!
Julia

G’day Hawks,

I can’t give you a definitive answer. To my knowledge feijoas are ?semi-tropical. The nutrition info I looked up is similar to yours:-

carbs 8/100g
40 calories/100g

When I compared it to 100g apple carbs 11/100g 50 calories/100g.

The effects of cortisol on blood sugar readings. This is where mindfulness meditation techniques are helpful. I am a novice and can only assume that with practice we can use the techniques during stressful situations. Just a thought. I’m pleased your cat is safely back home with her sister.

It’s great the leg/foot cramps have gone. From personal experience I don’t get cramps when I am well hydrated.

Thanks Eureka and Hasimoto! I will go look at the info suggested. I appreciate it! By the way, my username misrepresents the fact that I am not exactly a “girl”, being age 60 (good heavens) but I DO live in California (San Francisco Bay Area) and I am an old (literally/figuratively) fan of the Beach Boys 😄

What an inspiration you are, Frank! I’ve just finished my 3rd week and have to say that your story and ones like this that I’ve read on these forums are what keeps me motivated. Well done, sir.

Thanks Bill.
7 weeks under the belt ( a lot shorter belt) now and getting to the end of the journey without the signs of remission I had hoped for.
Blood is still all over. (Or so it seems).
Today it was 7.1 first thing, then breakfast and walk ( 5 km) it was 4.5 at 10.30…… , and the a protein shake for lunch midday and at 1pm a reading of 10, but dropped to 7.7 by 1.45….. Hanging out to see if it goes back to 5 ish as the day goes on ………
It is a roller coaster for sure.
Thanks for the support. I live alone. I told my Dr and finally said “I would like a check up” when nothing else was forthcoming..
So rather reluctantly I got a hands on assessment…..I can feel the organs and they are OK…..but whats this diet you are on ?
“I would like a long term blood sugar test please and an everything else test also if possible” Ok here is a prescription for a blood test.
“What about a liver fat scan”……reply….”why”….”it feels OK to me” !
So thankyou
May we all be D2 free !

Thank you for the support.
I have never understood the testing time theory despite being D2 for 8 years and on the 800 for 50 days (7weeks) and getting desperate because I wanted a conclusion !

Readings at 1 hr, 2 hrs and (if hour 2 is higher than hour 1) at 3 hours is a good schedule to give you an idea of whether your carb tolerance is normal or not. 1/2 hour is generally to soon to hit the peak of the spike, and 2 hours misses it (by design). Because people with diabetes spike higher than people without, if your goal is to go into remission it is important to confirm that you are having normal spikes, not diabetic spikes.

Ouch, get well soon x

Hi Chocolate_ee
Welcome to the forum. I admit to weighing myself most days but I picked a Wednesday as my official start date, so use my weigh in on that day as the one I record to show how I’m tracking. It really doesn’t matter what day and you’ll work out for yourself if weighing in every day or just once a week suits you best.
Just think, if you start before the bank holiday, your starting weight will be lower and you’ll have less to lose!
Good luck and keep posting your losses.

melbourne and morning here 🙂 about to do my resistance exercises then meditate and head off for a jog. brunch after I come back and then off to work (sigh) from 3 pm – midnight!

Hi all
Day 6 of BSD. Dropped a pound a day for first 4 days. Been making sure to track food with Easy Diet Diary and am averageing about 850 cals per day. I have a stressful job and prefer not to cut back further if my body is super hungry. I have been making sure to keep fats and proteins up and drinking approx 2.5 litres of water a day. Definitely been constipated (about 5 days now) so started taking metamucil yesterday. Havent been eating enough fibre I know!

I noticed yesterday that I seemed to have gained some weight over the day. Some of it (600 gms) has melted off again today. I did change scales yesterday so am not overly concerned and the new ones are better calibrated. I am definitely losing bloating in my tummy. I dont have any blood sugar issues (but my dad has type 2 and I def gain abdominal fat) so I am not tracking this as a measure.
I dont have a lot of weight to lose, about 8 kilos would be ideal so not too stressed, just tracking what is happening in my body with interest.

I havent been as active as I would like (PhD student – chained to desk) but plan to remedy that over the weekend. I dont want to bite off more than I can chew and force myself to do too much and then get tired out.

Just checking in to seek some feedback and to remain accountable.
Thanks 🙂
L

I’m from Perth, Western Australia. We’re just coming in to winter here, after a long dry summer. So the rain is very welcome. I’ve only seen snow once in my life, and that was on the east coast at the tail end of the snow season, so it was starting to melt. We still had fun though, building a snowman and having a snowball fight.

Today I’m possibly having a couple of family members come for dinner, but I’m waiting for them to let me know. I have plenty of chicken and vegetables, but no potatoes. I have a packet of frozen oven chips though from before I started this diet, so they will do if they do decide to come. No dessert, but I have a packet of chocolate chip biscuits I can offer. I bought them for unexpected guests because they are the least likely kind that would tempt me to eat.

I have a few internet friends from around the globe because my late husband was very ill for quite a few years, so other than visiting family we didn’t get out much. I chat with two of them every day, and have been very grateful for their support, even though they’re thousands of miles away. In a couple of months I’m going travelling and will be meeting one of them and staying with her for a couple of days. She’s English but lives in France. I’m beyond excited.

I’m making a real effort to bring more exercise into my day. I need to get it into my head that I have to make it my number 1 priority instead of thinking I’ll get around to it when everything else is done.

Lovely to chat with you all, Dawn

I’ve had a look at the inspiralize website lots of great ideas there.

Not had time to try the courgette curly fries yet but maybe this weekend I will 🙂

Hi Happylife, good luck with your start! I struggle to get full fat yoghurt at a nearby store so I use a small pot of Yeo valley natural yoghurt it’s 175 grams. I don’t know if it is full fat but it’s the only one in the local shop that doesn’t say ‘low fat’ The fruit is up to you provided you are keeping your carbs low enough and the calories. I’ve had a satsuma one day and an apple another but had to make sure my other meals were lower carbs to compensate. I’m not weighing but it’s a small amount of berries I put in, 2 or 3 strawberries, 5 or 6 raspberries sort of thing. I use my fitbit to log all my food and it keeps me right 🙂

Well today I’ve got my ECG and smear test (yuck) at the doc out of the way, and we’ve been busy gutting out the house. I have scrubbed the bathroom as well as having the bath panel off to fix a leak that’s been … ignored for too long. Glad I finally got around to it because we couldn’t have a deep bath (it was the overflow that was leaking) We decided to chill tonight and play rockband on the xbox, and have a take away.

So for take away I knew I am breaking the diet slightly, but if I’m going to be staying on it for the foreseeable future then it needs to be manageable. We were having Indian food, so I chose a chicken based meal and didn’t have rice or naan etc. It was a chilli/sweet and sour sauce and had carrots and onions, but as my calories were only up to 350 before that and 16g of carbs, I’m feeling quite secure I won’t have gone over the top too much. take aways are only once in a while here so I know 95% of the time I can cook my own and keep on top.

I’ve also filled a jar with a ‘lucky dip’ of my favourite varieties of herbal tea. I was spending too much time deciding which one to have haha, so I’ve got them all jumbled up and get a surprise with every cup. Simple things amuse me as you can probably tell.

My first week in and I commenced th is program/ lifestyle with determination and commitment. The first two days were tough but weighed daily and there was a downward shift. I busily worked out what weight I would be and thus smart targets were set. Joined some discussion threads , went to the gym, cooked great meals and then day four came … By this stage I was 2.3 kilos down …. I was so hungry that day, well maybe not hungry just craving whatever… I ate two squares of 70% chocolate, looked at the jar of vita weets, thought about a glass of wine but that was that…oh probably did eat more cashews and haloumi cheese than I should and this morning I was up 1.2 kilos… Devastated is not the word…. Thank goodness there is not anything really to eat that would make me momentarily satisfied. I am worried That I will give up but as I have had a couple of higher blood sugar levels in the past two years I know that I have to change my lifestyle habits… Will go to the gym as planned this morning… The only thing I can think of is that as I have been on SO many different eating plans I was not fussed about counting calories. I thought I knew what was what but today the new plan is to actually write down the calories . Today is a new day…

Sorry to hear you’re unwell Judith.
I’ve been up to my eyes in paperwork so just in and out of here quickly.
This is a hard learning curve finding which foods we can eat without horrible side effects like that.
Hope you’re feeling better tomorrow. 🙂

The most important part seems to be to cut out refined cards – sugar, white flour (and everything made with it eg pasta, bread, cakes, biscuits) and white rice.

That’s great, Frank!

Like you say, it’s good news whatever the reason.

If you’re drinking more water that might be helping?

That’s a yummy idea Eureka!
I’ve also spiralised beetroot to make borsht – it really cuts down on the cooking time!

Hi Eureka, I hugged the hot water bottle to my stomach all night last night.

It’s definitely diverticulitis rather than a bug. Its throbbing in the same part of my bowel as always happens when I get it.
Last time I had a costa brownie was a few years ago and then they were in manufacturers cello wrap. Now they are just unwrapped squares on a plate so I think cross contamination with gluten foods is a possibility. It did have the unmistakable texture of GF flour but that doesn’t mean it was ‘pure’.

It’s a good idea to contact costa as they ought to go back to the wrapped versions that have been kept well away from gluten products. Also it has just occurred to me that they use the same tongs for the gluten and non gluten products. That could be enough to cause problems for some people.

Thanks for your input, it’s appreciated 🙂

Hi hashimoto
Think I’d ring Costa & ask if others had a problem & was it indeed Gluten Free ? I’d also be thinking maybe cleanliness was suspect with such a bad reaction as you are having? Hope you get some sleep. Does a hot water bottle help?

Hi Christine, no problem, there are lots of us ‘talking’ to each other so a very easy mistake 🙂

Hi hashimoto et al
Spiralize carrots & beetroot & then pulse them in a food mixer. It makes rice. Then stir fry, steam, microwave or eat raw. Great veggies

Julia you will love it!

Lynne and Julia there is a Cuisique youtube demonstration video which is worth watching 🙂

Hi Kris
Not sure how many weeks you’ve been on the diet and whether you’re changing medication doses…
Personally, diagnosed D2 a few years ago, I do just one reading a day, on rising, before breakfast – not even a tea or coffee (just as my doctor insists for the annual blood test, nothing consumed in the previous 8hrs and as DrMM suggests in page 121 of his 8wk BSD book). I’m looking for consistent long-term trends here, rather than readings during the day and after meals when I know they’ll be up and down.
If I was on insulin and needing to monitor sugar spikes more carefully, I believe I’d have to upgrade to readings more often but never less than 2hrs after a meal (it’s all about glucose tolerance – see DrMM on pages 253-254).
After 8wks and nearly 20lbs/10kg lighter, my daily diary shows mine have dropped from around 6-6.3 to the lower range of 4.7-5.4.
I’ve definitely noted a rise in morning readings if I eat anything the day before that’s been contaminated with sugar or anything remotely linked to carbs like bread/flour/potatoes/rice/pasta.
That’s enough evidence for me about how my system is coping in the blood sugar department. If my readings were jumping wildly from one morning to another, I’d have to ask my GP for a referral to a Diabetes Educator at my local Diabetes Centre who’d organise more detailed tests and focussed advice.
Best wishes!