Hi Chocolate_ee
Welcome. Read & mark the BSD for salient points for you. I kept a daily food diary ( paper). I’m 12 weeks in & Type 2 Diabetic. 1 &1/2 stones lost but more to go.
The book only tells you protein advice, 45g women & 55g men daily. By consensus we have between 50 – 100g carbs daily. T 2 need to keep low to stop sugar spikes, we are trying to reverse diabetes.
Keep your fat intake up if you go that low with carbs. Very important to drink 2 – 3 litres fluid daily. You must do some reading to understand what & how to do on this diet. It’s good but you need to persevere & we will help with info.
Go to : Forum Fast 800, Topic Percentages ( Vicfish 37) page 8 dated17.2.16. Read my & others posts
Also : Fast 800, Topic Answers & info – how & why page 3 dated 11.4.16.
Look on line for low carb recipes & the fast diet recipe book & on here of course. I cook from scratch but did 5:2 so don’t count or weigh as I did all that & know what I’m doing. Maybe you should count calories & weigh until you are happy
Hope this helps you good luck

Hi Eureka

Different Division😱 I’m Northern (shortly to be renamed) Division, in County Durham – between Durham and Bishop Aukland. Lady today was 98!

Thanks Eureka, I was fed up with swimming costume fiasco and needed a drink, I thought I would be alright with that GF brownie since I am eating more calories. Wrong!
But as you say the surf awaits!! 🙂

Hi chocolate -ee, welcome to the forums:)

Some of us weigh every day so you could try that option to solve the ‘what day?’ problem 🙂

I need to bring the dangers of the scales to the attention of all the readers of the bs800 diet.

These look so harmless but they are lethal.

I have had a few run ins with mine, people thought I was just refusing to accept a weight gain.

Sorry, I have to go, got to talk to my cute spleen ( see previous blog for history)

Love Lucia xxx

Hi general lynne
Thought so weeks back. Mum Recruiting Sergeat Somercotes Derbyshire. Gone to Glory 2014 89yrs.
Get some r& r

Just starting this diet and I’ve been on My Fitness Pal and I’ve been looking up foods and their calorie and carb values under their database by brand. Wow – what an eye-opener !

I hadn’t realised how ingrained my food habits had become. For lunch I may have eaten one of those Philadelphia mini pots of extra light cream cheese with a couple of crisp breads but now I see how mad the carb and sugar values are I realise why my weight has ballooned !

Can I ask how many carbs I should be aiming for a day – I’ve heard figures like 50g per day mentioned but maybe I should just aim to keep it low rather than worry about the maths ?! And should I be looking at the Total carb value and not the ‘of which x is sugars” figure ?

I didn’t want to get too obsessed with food recording and calorie counting but now I realise I’m probably going to have to .

I suppose following the recipes in the book will do the calculating for you but some of these I’d like to swap out if I’m not too keen on the ingredients.

Can anyone recommend any other good recipe books which will give the info we need ? I tend to cook most meals from scratch using mostly fresh ingredients so I’m looking forward to being creative with my own dishes – I’m just going to have to be more careful than I thought perhaps. I reckon my portion control needs keeping in check too !

Do you all log your food every day and if so do you find My Fitness Pal a good bet ?

Sorry – so many questions!

Hi keepsmiling
I’ve had Turkish slipper toes for 16 years, but not for the past 12 weeks! And legs are good too. I’m Type 2 Diabetic but had this long before diagnosed. Mum (T 2,) & gma & ggma as well ? Why.
We are much more hydrated now & I think maybe we were losing too many electrolytes before? Who knows? Clearly NOT GPs!! Still enjoy my tonic water daily though. Took it for the quinine content. Helps cramps.
Keep on … Smiling

I love the idea of sensory redirection – and so much better than the horrid smell hotdogs and popcorn – yeuch!

Hi Eureka. As hashimoto points out – you guessed right!

Just back from funeral, nearly time to eat, then (hopefully) a relaxing evening. Will catch up on posts over the weekend.

That’s great Peggy – enjoy the film – you’re doing really well. We’re all here to support you.

We can do this Amy !

Hi hashimoto
Hallelujah!

It’s been inspirational reading all your posts. Thank you for sharing. I’m wondering whether to make Monday or Friday my weigh in day. I haven’t officially started yet – just read the book, cleared out my cupboards and have started com[piling shopping lists. I’m going away this Bank holiday weekend so thought I’d start in earnest on Tuesday after the holiday . Maybe I should make that my weigh in day !

Hi hashimoto
Hope you’re feeling better now. Trouble is old habits die hard & we’ve been on food autopilot for so long we just don’t think. It’s a lot to change in a short time & the new lessons are sometimes hard & hurt.
Nil desperandum! The surf awaits you. 🏄🏻

Beverley, that’s great news! That’s a good amount of weight you’ve lost. Is your husband doing well too? I just finished my 3rd week and have lost 10lbs (about 4.5kgs). What has helped you stay motivated?

Has anyone else noticed that leg cramps have ceased since starting the BSD? I used to get quite frequent leg and foot cramps at night, but have just realised that I haven’t had them since I went low carb a month ago. Coincidence? Or is there some causation factor? I’d love to know. Whatever, I’m a happy and better rested bunny!

Hi keepsmiling! I’m glad cherrieanne and I are not alone!

It took me 2 years to mention it to my GP because I thought I would get the perplexed look as it sounds so odd.
My dr just smiled when I described my toes as doing a Vulcan salute but explained when certain muscles in the inside of the foot cramp it feeds up to the toes. He also said a Vulcan salute is a very good way of describing it.

I’m glad the diet is working for you 🙂

Eureka, ‘ eureka! ‘. I can confirm you are correct! 🙂

Janet when I finally found out that gluten was causing me problems I researched the link with hypothyroidism and it is quite common to develop ceoliac or intolerance. I only wish I had known that a decade ago!

The nausea will be your reaction to the gluten. I’m the same at the moment. In fact I’m wondering just how GF that brownie was. Sorry to tell you this but I have found the symptoms can rumble on for 2 or 3 weeks – fortunately getting less bad as time goes by.

It won’t stop me going to Oz because if it stays like this over the weekend I will go to drs and be put on antibiotics but it has laid me up today. I’m still in pjs:(

Hi Hashimoto and Cherrianne

I thought I was the only one with the ‘rising toe’ issue – any time I’ve mentioned it to a medic, they just look perplexed! Usually it’s my big toe which does the ‘salute’, then my foot twists inwards, then I get pains over the top of my foot. Nice! And a tricky one to straighten out – whether to go for the upwards toe or the inwards foot first? It’s stopped since I’ve started this diet, though – in fact, so have my leg cramps. Don’t know why that should be, but a great side benefit.

Hi Switzerland
Well done. The original you has come out to play again. Lots of new toys & stuff to do out here. Keep on doing it

Wow Crazyme that’s an excellent result for just 12 days.
Take care of that knee, walking will help a lot but jogging could cause an impact injury if you’re not used to it.

wanttolose it does work.
Take a look at the over the 8 week line and beyond thread for some really inspirational stories.
Best of luck on the journey and don’t forget to let us know how you are doing and don’t be afraid to ask questions 😉

Hi wanttolose, welcome to the forums and the BSD way of life 🙂

If you find the first few days difficult don’t give up as it becomes easy very quickly 🙂

This has to work for me too. I wish you the best of luck I’m sure you’ll do great. I just started today and I’m excited but nervous that I’m going to let myself down n not stick with it. Today I’m very motivated I just hope I stay that way. Good luck to everyone!!!

Apart from not wanting these horrible symptoms on a more long term basis, I don’t want to put the weight back on that I have lost. Even if they can confirm intolerance or ceoliacs, the advice will be to follow a gf diet so I think I might as well just carry on with that now I have been eating that way for nearly three months. The nurse is testing again for vitamin b12 deficiency and my thyroid seems to be under control, both of those can increase your chances of being ceoliac too apparently. So I think I should just be as gf as possible and should hopefully feek better for that. This week I have felt nauseous every afternoon for no apparent reason. I hope your symptoms don’t get in the way of your planning for Australia.

Hi general lynne
Glad your back. Well done resisting temptation. The devil’s in the puds!
Blood & Fire wouldn’t mean anything to you by chance? It did to my mum

My GP wanted to do a ceoliac test and asked me to eat plenty of gluten rich food for 2 weeks before the test. I managed 2 slices of bread in 2 weeks because I couldn’t cope with the gut problems. So test came back as gluten intolerant. I do think I am probably ceoliac. It is easier to go gluten free, Janet, than put yourself through 6 weeks of eating gluten daily. I’m sure my diverticulitis was caused by eating gluten for years without realising what was causing me all the gut problems. Interestingly the gut problems weren’t as severe when I was on oral steroids for asthma – as the steroids reduce inflammation I guess they were reducing intestinal inflammation caused by gluten.

I would say if you are not ceoliac you are definitely gluten intolerant. The former the more likely.

I was just saying to my friend yesterday it makes you wonder how many people are going through life with carb problems because we are so used to the discomfort it becomes ‘normal’.

Thank goodness we found this diet!

Many thanks for the replies, that’s a great help, thank you

12 days in and I have now lost 9.4 pounds. Not bad at all. Next week I want to step up my exercise, first going to try walking more and even the odd 1 minute jog. I am still very overweight and have a bad knee so I need to be careful.

Hi Peggy
Very well done. As well as healthy nibbles, shake some nice perfume on a hanky & sniff that. Your mind will move from your mouth to your nose. Sensory redirection. Try it. Enjoy the film

Ay, caramba!
What’s this we? I bow to Eddie & his nails (fab). We’re not waddling anymore It’s for the birds! 🐧
Ok you twisted my arm. I’ll do the marathon in May – it will take 31 days I think! Then I’ll donate to BHF. You’ll have to take my word as I don’t Twitter or face book. You’re ON 💅🏻👟
Eureka

Hi Tofa,
I log everything I eat, so I include the carbs in my milk, yoghurt, fruit, nuts, veg, pulses etc. I count everything lol. I was so determined to conquer the diabetes.
I try to plan my day’s meals in the morning so I can even out the carbs through the day and make sure I get enough protein and fat.
There is a thread called rising fasting blood sugars where a few of us brainstormed the erratic blood sugar issue. If it happens to you, then it’s worth a read as some good info on there.
I’m not really sure about apps in the UK but I’ve seen people on here mention myfitnesspal, which seems popular, and calorieking.
Maybe someone else will jump in with a suggestion for you. 🙂

JackieMac, I buy loads of things from amazon mainly for the convenience of how fast they deliver to my door.

ours turned out really nicely 🙂 I’ve posted the recipe.

This new approach to food has really got me interested in cooking again and using my imagination to try new things out. It’s great and I’m totally not hungry and don’t feel deprived at all.

The Blood Sugar Diet does not focus on quantity of carbs. It focuses on quality – nonstarchy, complex, legumes, and making them a taste – not the whole meal.

Any advice about specific quantities you receive (and you likely will) comes from people experimenting to find out what works for them. So it is a personal limit, not part of the diet.

My own personal limit, until I started this diet, was 20 carbs in a 3 hour period. I still generally stick to that, since I know it is safe in connection with my blood glucose. I have tried to stick to the spirit of the diet, which does include more carbs than I can usually tolerate – and just last night had a 30 carb meal (primarily from chick peas and non-starchy vegetables). My BG peaked at 5.39. 🙂

My advice is to follow the recipes, and perhaps the menus, and not fixate on quantities of carbs you are eating – unless you are having a blood glucose response that troubles you.

Hi Saelaine,
There are quite a few BSDers in NSW, some in Vic and a couple of us in SA and only one, I think, in Tassie.
You can find suppliers of the bread on their website. Not sure where you’d get the spud lite from in NSW, you might have to google that one.

Hi Lucia,
As I was reading that about the scales I was thinking about the weeping angels episode too. Then I got to your last line lol. Scariest one ever!! Don’t blink, whatever you do don’t blink….

Hi Christie,, or should I call you skinny!

Just think for each pound in weight lost, it is an inch of links in your bracelet. Isn’t that wonderful.

Keep going. Keep losing , keep happy.
Love Lucia
Xxx

and so we continue. Deliberately didn’t start this on Friday so as to make Monday my weigh in day to try to limit weekend over-indulgences.

fairly easy day, again felt a little bit spaced out and useless early-mid afternoon. I have an avo ripening up to attempt the avo baked egg recipe from the book on the weekend.

I was just out looking for new boots (found some!) and it was frankly a little odd to not buy something tasty for tea/to munch tonight. I’m not really too hungry but I do miss flavours. Also, there was exactly NO food options at the outlet mall I was at. Not one option, unless I just got a coffee Or went for a full on sit down meal and threw away the bread etc. Quite annoying!

food today: three shakes and I just whipped up some steamed cauli, mashed up with butter and marscapone with shredded ham, salt and pepper. Tasty, easy ‘can’t be bothered’ meal. It would have been nice with a poached egg on top actually. Quite filling. boring, though. Lots of water and peppermint tea.

Out at a hip hop concert tomorrow night, so bit worried about the eating out part – my friend will poo-poo the diet as ‘extreme and starvation’ I suspect. Wait and see.

so far so good. might check the scales in the morning. goodnight.

Thanks so much for the reply Bill. Glad to know I’m on the right track, don’t want to undo the good progress to date. Have been lurking on the forums since I started on the plan so knew I’d get some good advice on here if I asked a question…

In the daily mail, a woman weighs eight stones and the scales says she is fat.
She has washboard abs.

I told you and you didn’t believe me.

The world will be taken over by scales……. they are quiet….. Slowly…. Getting to us. One day they will take over , they will change the scales reading, we will all be in shock then BAM! They have taken over.
They are like the stone angels in Doctor who……….

Love Lucia

Xxxx

Your breakfast and lunch sound delicious Izzy. Congrats on your weight loss.
I’ve been using silicon cupcake moulds for’crustless quiche thingies’ for around a year now – they work beautifully. I find them handy for
portion control.

Great advice n info thank you for that
I’ve been measuring carbs etc with myfitnesspal and am not too far off targets
Alan

Thanks Bill.

Hi! My name is Amy. I live in Virginia in the US. I am starting today as well! I am very excited.

I was diagnosed one year ago with Type 2 diabetes. I immediately started metformin and started the Whole30 diet. In 5 months I lost about 50 pounds. Then I lost interest in the diet and started cheating here and there, and I gained back most of the weight.

I saw this book on the Dr. Oz show 2 days ago and bought the book. After reading it, I decided to go for it.

I’d love to keep in touch and help support each other.

You can email me at amyscoutmom@gmail.com.

Have a great day!

Hello Fellow BS Diet followers.

I’m 57 , living in the UK and have just read the book, ordered the blood sugar monitor , cleared my cupboards, bought a Fit bit ( and am now addicted to monitoring my sleep patterns ! ) and booked my blood tests.
I need to do this – aside from the obvious health benefits, I can’t spend another summer in shapeless stretchy ‘fat’ clothes – shallow I know .

A brief history – skinny child and teenager, put on weight after 2 kids ( size 16 which crept up to 18) , got lazy but then lost 7 stone on Lighter Life in 20129 size 10 hurrah ) . Put it all back on again and some after battling with osteo arthritis and giving up on exercise. Had both knees replaced so now ready to go again. I’m fired up and ready for the challenge.

Can anyone recommend good carb and calorie trackers ? Planning on starting a blog to get everything down on screen. Found some US and Australian ones but didn’t recognise the brands they used.

I LOVE my food but I actually like cooking good food with fresh ingredients from scratch. I’ve found that over the years I can’t abide any shop bought ready meals which I think is a good thing. I just need to cut down on my portion sizes, carbs ( which I adore ) and that evening glass of wine.

So you go away to a hotel for a week and don’t put an ounce on?
You really are the BSD poster girl Lynne 🙂
Long may it continue.

Hi Donno
sounds like you had a major flush out of stored glucose which is of course what we are aiming for.
Well done on the good readings 🙂