My first day was a day we were invited to a ruby wedding lunch at a restaurant in London. But I skipped breakfast, I stuck to fizzy water at the do, chose the fish as my lunch (it came a small amount of saffron risotto, which was naughty) Only had apple and cheese when I got home in the evening. Today I skipped breakfast apart from black coffee, I am not a great brekky fan anyway so no hardship. I had home made split pea soup for lunch, my wife is brilliant at it and it has long been my favourite, supper was veg curry and cauli rice. I drank fizzy water instead of wine. I am not hungry – so everything ok.

Can’t believe that I’m not hungry at all. Can’t wait to share my first weigh in with you all.

Well done to hubby too!
Yes absolutely there are lots of inspirational people on this forum. Wonderful to see. Enjoy the new clothes..
Clare

Hi Clare & The Master
Glad you got the message. Will say hi to my new GP from Michael tomorrow via my husband who sees him then!

Husband supports & doing BSD too. His results great too. Now in 34″ waist trousers. It’s costing a fortune in new clothes. Yippee! 👌
Got Etienne Krug in my sights. Just need a bit more ammo!!
We will all keep on keeping on. Very good people on this forum giving their time, experience & advice re BSD. Up the Revolution.
Eureka

Hi Napangardi
Yes, we all had to wait for that green light in our heads that said GO! Glad you are on the road with us.
Take no alcohol a week at a time. On 800 calories a day you can’t afford empty calories, they need to feed you.
Plenty of time for wine etc when you really know what you are doing with the diet.

Read the book again & mark the salient points for you. Make a list of your favourite foods & find new recipes to try out. Also try new veg. They don’t bite ( you do). Have some fun with this diet. Look on the web for low carb recipes too. Don’t forget all the good food that’s tried & tested on the BSD site.

I drink a Fever Tree tonic with ice every day ( the quinine in it helps my cramps, which are much better now). I pretend it’s Gin & Tonic! I don’t like tea or coffee, so I have fruit teas but mostly duck’s delight – water! It’s important to keep that 2 -3 litres of fluid up each day. It really helps with your metabolism.

You can do this. Save what you would spend on booze each week & treat yourself to new clothes. You will need them.
Eureka

Hi team,
I used the spiraliser on carrots, courgettes, cucumber, onion.
I have used it for spuds but these were not eaten by me.
Mine is a £19.99 from Argos, you push the food onto a pointy bit.
Then bring the slide over to touch it, and turn the handle.
I get a ‘core’ left, the size of a pencil.

It’s like an old fashioned mangle!!!

I steam veggies for one two to three minutes, to keep them a little crisp. I put the fish in my home made steamer first, then later the veg do they finish together.
Love lucia
Xxxx

Hi Eureka
I am so delighted for you that all your hard work has paid off – excellent BP, 5″ of waist , very encouraging fasting blood sugar! Woohoo! And getting close to your target. So glad that you have come across one of the many open minded GPs out there and sounds like he totally gets it! It makes such a difference to have their support. We are seeing some amazing results in our practice amongst patients and staff!
Michael is just standing over my shoulder saying “Great to hear this, well done and say Hi to you GP from him”!
Greatly admire your fighting spirit in spreading the word and in supporting so many others doing the BSD
Let’s hope that tanker is taking a better course
Clare

For bargain hunters, the Dexam seems excellent – bought last week for £15 from Dunelm nearby.
Reasoning was that if I didn’t like it I hadn’t wasted much money.
It’s fab – revolutionary in fact – how I ate all that stodgy pasta for years is baffling.
And easy to use and a simple clean up, once you watch a youtube vid.

Great ideas above – hadn’t got around to using the other two blades yet, or imagining such delights as veg crisps or apple/cinnamon treats.

Becoming an expert in stir frying. Sweet potato added for colour also gives too much sweetness to a dish for my new taste; courgette seems fine alone or with some celeriac, so far.

Hi Clare (Michael’s wife)
Re my post 13.2.16 & your reply 14.2.16

Thought you’d like to know I’ve changed dr’s & saw my new GP this am. What a difference!
He’s doing the 5:2 & a broad grin on seeing the 8-week blood sugar diet book & Dr Michael Mosley’s name emblazoned on it!

He’s very happy I’ve researched enough & know what I’m aiming for. He fully supports me, HbA1c anytime I’m ready for it ( end of May I think ). I’ve taken myself off x 2 500mg Metformin last week, he says see how I go with diet & testing, the repeat prescription is still there if needed.

My BP 137/75 p 56! Unheard of for me 😀 BMI 27.5 (3.3) down. 5″ off waist (size 14). 2lb off initial goal weight of 1stone 7lb lost & 12% down on start weight. Fasting blood sugar 6.6 (good considering no meds for a week & dawn phenomenon still with me). It’s taken me 11 weeks & was on big family hol last week too ( cooking for 14 ). Will continue in batches of 1/2 stone to try & get to 9 stone something & hoped for T2 reversal!

No longer a beached Whale, breaching & spouting 🐳 ( hang-loose). BSD No Ka Oi (Hawaiian for is the best)

Hope you get this message. Could be the rudder is changing course on that NHS tanker?
Keep on keeping on
Eureka

Ah , thanks to Barby then.
JaneyCD ….commiserations on the homework battles. It’s a long time since I had those -my son is 6 ft 4″ now! But well done on the shrinking belt though. I have dropped a pound this week….I suspect because its because I haven’t had my usual chocolate/sweeties/cake etc and have stuck to my 3 meals a day rather than snacking.

Hi Bill,

Yep, they are Orthodox church over here and their Easter follows a different calendar to ours. Good for me though as I get two Easter holidays 😉

Hi. I have a spiraliser but I am very lazy and hardly use it now you can get the spiral veg in the supermarket. Ditto for cauliflower rice. My kitchen would end up covered in the stuff when I made it in the processor.

Bella Italia do spiral veg versions of some of their pastas and they are very nice.

Thank you patsy. I am on day one and have a lot of re-educating to do. My head is still in slimming world so I have to forget that eating regime and read some more about the BS way of eating. This forum is very encouraging and informative,I’m sure I will learn a lot from it.

Alan these days if someone asks without showing a real interest I just say “If it’s white, don’t eat it” or words to that effect 😉

I bet that made you feel good Judith.
It’s nice when others notice the results of all your efforts.
You’re going to look like Ronnie Corbett in that plane seat 😀

Good for you Juliet
you have those cravings under control, if you didn’t the bag would be empty.
You never know, there could be a whoosh just around the corner, lots of folk have one after a plateau.

Cheers Bill. Just eaten 2 mini LIndt eggs as feeling so disappointed with having no loss. First sugar in 2 weeks and I probably would have carried on eating the rest of the bag (would have taken mere minutes) had you not replied! Thanks for the encouragement. Really appreciate you taking the time. Eggs now in cupboard and I’m going to have another glass os water. Watch this space ; )

Yes, we can have salad and yes the calories of this and anything else we eat should be counted in the 800.

Just signed petition.

Crazeyme, I use whichever yoghurt I happen to have. Before starting the BSD it was always fat free, now it’s full fat or law fat, depending on which I could get. Can’t say I notice any difference in taste once it’s all mixed into a salad.

Oh Bill this will make you chuckle, Alison said it was a bit weird only massaging half the person she used to lol 🙂

Well this morning seeing Alison for treatment – my sacroilliac joint causes problems by rotating out of position a bit.

Vegetables. – you won’t believe how many i have just chopped for crudite – let alone for the soup and the salmon parcels. Now to strawberries……
🙂

Lots of people have Juliet especially weeks 2 to 3, it’s just a plateau as your body adjusts to burning fat instead of carbs.
Keep doing what you are doing and the weight loss will begin again. In fact, a lot of people experience a whoosh after a plateau and weight just vanishes overnight.

Thanks, I am going to try this tomorrow

Hi

I’m just starting week 3. Lost 8lb week 1 and delighted, but nothing this week at all : ( Drinking loads, counting cals and being totally ‘on programme’ but NOTHING… Any tips please? Anyone else experienced this?

Lemon juice, olive oil, whole grain mustard and black pepper x

Well done Bob fox

Quite a few of us agree with you Bob, no going back for me either 🙂

17 days in stone off
Wish I had a fiver for every comment of where’s your belly gone and how you do it

Buy the book etc
Alan not a diet guru 😅

Hi Kags
do they have Easter at different times where you are?
We had it earlier this month.

No probs Judith, I thought you may have been digging trenches again or something equally as interesting 🙂

So, today I become a veteran! End of my 8 weeks, down 9.2kg (just over 20 lbs) and FBS mainly in the 5s. I will keep going, with a day or so break for Easter, as I still have some way to go.

Thanks! No more excuses – I am ready for this!

That is incredible! What an rough run you have had. I hope this is the turning point for you. Well done 🙂

Sugar free chewing gum always helps me when i am craving a sweet thing!

Thanks, I hope I feel better each week!

Thanks! That does sound nice. Which yogurt are you using? Low fat or full fat?

Admittedly I found the first 2 days a struggle, what with me being greedy!! After that, with determination, it got better and once you start getting good results either weight wise or blood sugar wise it just makes you want to keep on keeping on!! Good luck.

For apple, walnut and celery salad, I mix half a teaspoon of salad cream (low cal because I already had that) a dessertspoon of natural yoghurt and half a teaspoon of whole grain mustard. That’s enough for 1 apple and 2-3 sticks of celery.

For coleslaw, I mix mayonnaise and yoghurt.

Stirring the dressing into a salad, rather than pouring it over the top or spooning it on the side means you don’t need so much.

Lovely, thanks for your help, will have a look, don’t feel as daunted now lol!

Well done, Bob.

Hi again, I think there’s a thread called “what I’ve eaten today” which gives some ideas but my menu for today as an example is:
B – Fage Greek yog 200g, 3 tbsp strawberries
L: small tin baked beans 150g and a poached egg
D: lettuce/5 sl cucumber/one tomato, 6oz fillet steak

Snack: Apple
Teas to drink at 7 cals each due to milk.

Great to hear it’s working and you’re feeling so positive.

Finished my first week. I think I got this! Totally makes sense to me. I have lost 8 pounds in my first week, more than I ever lost in one week EVER. Only 67.5 more to go! I spent two months in the hospital just over 2 years ago. I went in with gall stones…. ended up in Intensive Care for two months. I had pancreatitis, which then digested my spleen, spleen removed, cardiac arrest, lung problems (ARDS), drains everywhere, totally incubated, then eventually a trachiotomy and life started to get better. 2 months and I was left unable to walk, brush my hair (which by the way fell out after 2 months at home). So things were tough. I did not eat anything for at least 10 weeks and due to drip feed ended up 2 stone heavier! Constant weight gain ever since, bloated and sore stomach and unreliable body functions. So I was at the point of trying anything and found this diet through a friend. One week in and already I feel like a new person, so much better. Of course the first few days I was hungry, but I just tried to keep busy – it worked. I am rather lazy with food though as I tend to eat the same thing every day, so really trying to be more adventurous and keep searching for recipes, loving the fact that I can eat avocado (small portion tho) and nuts. I have just joined this site and forum so looking forward to hearing your stories and success. Oh and by the way my hair is back to its former glory!

Hi Sim, it’ll be great for us new folk to keep in touch – hopefully with a lot of successes. The advice and support has been fantastic. Some really encouraging replies from Hashimoto and Janet, it seems this way of eating really does help many conditions. I hope it has the same effect for you 🙂 I’ll look forward to hearing how you get on.

Hashimoto – yay I have lemons! Sliced and frozen 🙂 No limes but hopefully on Wednesday…. 🙂

Cherrieanne, Isn’t it incredible eh? The world is certainly getting smaller! Could well have met Hawks on one of my walks!

Well I’m up to nearly 7000 steps so far today but the day is fairly young…. I have my evening walk to come. Very blustery and cold though so will have to wrap up well. Hope everyone is having a good Monday 🙂

I carried on after the 8 weeks and have just finished week 13. I occasionally upped my cals to about 1000 over the last 5 weeks but generally kept to the 800cals. Once you get in the low carb hi fat groove it’s seems like second nature, as if we should have been doing this all the time. My bloods are constantly in the 4-5 range but my weight has just dropped off. My starting weight was 269lbs and now it is 215lbs. A weight loss of 54lbs.(Nearly 4 stone=24.5kg) Still a lot to lose, so won’t be stopping anytime soon. I don’t think I could go back to the old way of eating to be honest. Good luck to everyone else and congrats on your results. Onward and Downwards.

Can I add any salad to meals? I presumably have to count the calories and stay within 800 cals a day? If I snacks on seeds I also presume these have to be counted in my 800 calories. Can’t eat many then as they are quite high.

thanks so much for replying, do you have a couple of days example menus you wouldnt mind posting? to give me a rough idea of what people are eating, so are like, meat, fish, eggs, veg, pulses, beans, salads all ok? and what about dressings and stuff?

i’ve been doing slimming world forever so it will take some getting used to,

wow!!!! what an amazing result!!! well done chick!!! fantastic!

Katieb – amazing 🙂

Please help me a tasty salad dressing. I love salad and will eat one a day, but finding a low calorie nice dressing has proved to be harder than I thought. Any ideas please.