Hm I will try this. I do drink quite a bit but will up it today – it is true that my last whoosh was after a LOT of water.
Update tomorrow:[)

Lucyjane, I’m beginning to think the secret to this weight loss is drinking more water… lots of water. I don’t lose anything the days I’m not drinking 2 litres or more.

And yes she was pushing low fat high carb as the gold standard, but it is so pervasive and what Moseley and Taylor are doing is cutting edge though, like most cutting edge stuff, makes more sense and fits the evidence better. She’ll come around given time – eventually this way of eating will become mainstream (again) just like the low fat high carb way of eating did. I am naturally interested in any potential side effect – there’s no way I want or need other health issues and if there is something I can do to prevent them I’ll consider it. Thanks for your input and experience – it’s very reassuring. I keep working on drinking more water every day. 🙂

She was talking about the 5:2 diet but mentioned about gallstones in relation to losing weight rapidly. I think she said the information came from a study done in Melbourne, Australia. I’ll see if I can find out more.

Hi Lucyjane, You could have been writing about me. I’ve just finished Week 3 and have lost 3.5kgs (all of which was lost in Weeks 1 & 2). Having read the threads, this has happened to others. I’m enjoying not feeling hungry between meals and on the odd occasion that I do, a small portion of seeds/nuts or a piece of fruit does the trick. I enjoy the feeling of wellbeing the BSD brings to me. I am also sticking with it. Trust the process – I do.

Hi guys, just popping in for my now irregular visit. Everyone seems to be continuing on the right path. I thought I’d share a little graph I whipped up which is keeping my motivation high. So on the Jan 9 2016 at the start, I weighed 108.9 kg. So after 14.5 weeks, as at April 20 2016, I weigh 93.7 kg, 15.2 kg or 33.5 lb’s in old speak. I’ve been tracking my weight in the Apple Health app and exported it to produce this graph. The weight keeps dropping off albeit more slowly than the first weeks whooshka.

We are continuing to eat in the same manner but having a piece of fruit through the day and or slice of homemade wholegrain/seed toast, and not exercising any kind of portion control. I’m now making 3 kg’s of probiotic yoghurt a week just to keep up with demand in the family! Eggs and smoked salmon or yoghurt, berries and seeds for breakfast. Protein (tinned tuna or tinned salmon or chicken) and last nights left over salad with some yoghurt for lunch. BBQ Protein (Prawns/Salmon/Tuna/Chicken/Steak) plus Steamed Veg or Salad plus some sort of dairy ( Cheddar / Feta / Yoghurt / Haloumi ) for dinner. We mix up the salad ingredients every time with maybe 50% leaf + legumes + 5 or six other veg (fresh and or roasted) + homemade balsamic dressing. And a glass of white wine with dinner.

Still look forward to meal times and really not missing pasta / rice / potatoes / biscuits / cake etc and gave up sweetened drinks years ago. Not feeling the need to snack between meals, and if I do, it will be a handful of seeds / nuts / or a piece of fruit.

Exercise is now the occasional HIT on a bike but a very regular 45 minute walk every second day.

I’ve added some lines to the plot for my BMI ( based on my height of 1.78m – yours will be different lol )

https://www.dropbox.com/s/81nqmbxwral75zc/Weight.png?dl=0

Off for a walk with a neighbour today which will be nice, but when asked how long a walk she said 2-3 hours! 😯 We’ll see if I can keep up as I usually don’t do more than an hour…Let’s hope the hills she walks are less steep than mine.

It is very encouraging to read about the overnight losses as my weight has not budged in a week ..I am near the end of week 3, being doing 7 km jogs every day, no more than 850 cals…the only slip up being a small slice of bread (I peeled a boiled egg which i thought was hard and it was runny so had to eat with toast too messy otherwise) and my weight has not budged and I have a 32 bmi so not like I don’t have a lot to lose! In three weeks I have only lost 3.5 kilos so do feel a bit disheartened 🙁 Still will keep going.

Hi Lucia,
I’m already a slightly crazy English person! Lived here for many years but born in England.
I do have a fry up breakfast, eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes or baked beans and halloumi cheese. Yummy 🙂
I don’t think my chickens would enjoy being roasted and we are vegetarian so not gonna accept that challenge.
I’ll see if I can do an Eliza Dolittle accent today. I’ll copy my husband’s Nan’s accent. She was from Walthamstow so should be fairly authentic.
“Oos for pie, mash n liquor then?”, “wot a loada bleeding old tat!”
Will that do? x

Hi all
I too suffered with awful acid reflux and indigestion and took omeprazole and drunk Gaviscon like milk at bedtime. I’m now in my 7th week of BSD and have not had any of these symptoms for the past 6.5 weeks!! I am amazed as I’d even had a magic eye to see if there was anything sinister going on.

I also used to have IBS type symptoms in work as I do 12 hour shifts spent largely sat on my behind, these too have miraculously stopped over the past 7 weeks!

Life is good!

Thanks Patsy!
x

In 2013 I lost about 12kg on a low fat 1200 calorie/diet. I felt great ………I then had my first severe gallstone symptoms & needed my gallbladder removed. I feel there was a definite connection between the two in my situation. I did a lot of Internet searching for info about it at that time.
I think the BSD is different – not low fat & low calorie like my 2013 diet was.
However I’ll be interested to follow this thread.

Good night
Lov lucia
Xxxx

Here is the missing e.

Hi Christie 1948,
No you can’t have a bracelet, it will fall off your ear,
And having only one your head will be lob sided.
Best if you wear it on your wrist.🙂

Hope you save and get a special one, maybe get it engraved with a magic number 800 or an empowering word like
Dis com boob er rated. Had to break it up, my predictive text went ape.
Or chicken-lips.
Just for the silliness of it and to make you smile.

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Hi cherrie Ann are you in the mood for a challenge?

How about, you have to have a totally English day.

Us poms have cooked breakfast, so you have to.
You have to have English afternoon tea,
Can you do roast chicken and broccoli?

We promanade, so you have to stroll, taking in the cold English springtime.
And, here is the big one, you have got to talk like either Mary poppins or Eliza Doolittle from my fair lady movies, for the whole day.

You up for it?

Go on, be a crazy English person for a day……..
Love Lucia
Xxxxx

Julia to go.
If you want a Lucia style challenge, …….
You want to join a Pilates class and want to lose 18 pounds, (from your profile)
Go onto you tube and find an introduction to Pilates and build your self up to 18 minutes worth.
So when you go to the paid for classes you know the moves and more importantly so does your body.

Do magic number to aim for is 18 and go through the Pilates window.
Yes a touch of Sesame Street etc,

You going to give it a try?

I dare you!!

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Hello there! I would say that everyone is going to be different in the way their BP responds so it’s hard to offer any sound advice other than if you feel a change whilst still taking meds see the doctor but don’t stop taking them. You know your body best and you should be guided by that. I am on 2 drugs daily and have been since my late twenties ( I am 43 now) but have not really noticed any physiological change that I could say is BP related despite losing 16 lbs… But then I don’t monitor my BP regularly except when I visit the nurse!

Izzy, you are off to a great start 🙂 looking forward to reading your diary thread and following your progress 🙂
Fiftyfifty, some people need to start the BSD slowly. There are quite a few who have a practice week or two to ease into it. You might be ready to do the fast800 now and get the full benefits. I’m impressed by you getting off your train early and walking the rest 🙂

Interesting thread!

I’ve been on a cocktail of anti-hypertension meds for over 2 decades, and now my blood sugar is creeping into the red zone. Moving home and changing doctor has brought things into focus, so time to do something.

I had been monitoring my BP for the last week or so, at my GP’s request, as I seem to get “white coat syndrome”. We’ve had an Omron blood pressure gauge for years – get one, they cost so little!

The first day, I took my blood pressure first thing in the morning (before I had taken my meds) and got a reading of around 167/103. Since then, I’ve taken a reading mid-afternoon after taking meds first thing. Readings last week were 145/96 149/93 134/89 126/89 139/91 133/89 137/86

Then I started the 800-cal diet. The following day my BP was 120/84. Today it was 113/79. “Can’t be true”. Checked again later – 107/72. Changed the batteries in the BP gauge – 113/76! Have only lost a couple of pounds at most, so that’s not the reason – it must just be the low-carb diet I guess.

Tomorrow I am going to have to miss out my meds or my BP will plummet – after 2 days! Today I did a “pre-medication” BP check as well, reading was 134/85 which is in the acceptable range anyway.

I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone, but I’ve forgotten my meds a few times and not had a problem with missing a day. The key seems to be that you need to keep a daily eye on your blood pressure when you do the 800-cal “full on”. I will be doing that a few times a day for the next few days so that I can come back on the meds as required.

Just the thread I’ve been looking for 🙂 I love getting meal ideas.

I do weigh and add up calories, but have chucked the list away, but today I had:

B- smoothie of coconut water, raw beet & kale, milled flaxseed & cinnamon.
L- apple, celery, red leicester & walnuts. (small but surprisingly filling).
small cappucino
D- courgette ‘lasagne’ with cottage cheese and grated romano instead of bechamel.
Treat- a few ripe strawberries with black pepper and cream. Delicious.

She is a lovely neighbour and I blame the packaging, because it looked like a healthy option.

Day 61 weight 10st 4lbs
Blood sugar 9.8

Really tired again today, have spent a few days at Mum’s washing, drying and looking after her. Took my shakes with me. Hoping this will help with my weight / blood sugar levels tomorrow.

Going out tomorrow night, so going to be really good during the day and going to order my meal carefully – I’m thinking steak and salad would be a safe option.

Fantastic very grateful for this list I shall copy and paste this into my collection
Alan

Well Lucia, you are certainly back to your normal self after scaring us all the other week 🙂 love it, love your posts. Just what I needed this morning. Woke up too early on a cold dark Aussie Autumn day. Started to read the posts on here and got a good dose of Lucia sunshine and silliness to brighten my day!
Now I’m off to try and reason with my 9 year old boy who is having a wonderful time in his room making very loud car crash noises and talking to himself. He’s having fun but the other kids aren’t going to be impressed if he wakes them up too.

80.0 kg
That’s three down from Monday, and what is more, a move off a looong plateau.
Woo hooo. Don’t quite believe it.
5 more kilos to go and I will be in the weight range that the riding schools allow on their horses, which will be fantastic. Then I’ll I just need to earn some money to pay for lessons ha ha.

Hi Fluffly Slippers,
well done on your weight lose so far,
I find the alcohol thing hard as well, I am still having a few drinks but have switched from wine to scotch & diet ginger ale,
I was surprised at how quickly I lost my hunger, my weight is fluctuating but it is heading in the right direction.
We have a 9 days holiday on the Sunshine Coast in August so the goal is to lose 10 kg and if I have to do the 800 till then so be it 🙂
Have a lovely long weekend, I have a couple of long walks and gym sessions planned

My goodness you are putting me to shame with all these exercise challenges since I have well and truly fallen off the exercise wagon these last 2 weeks. So planning on a 5k run tomorrow – the last few days I haven’t had the excuse of the appalling recent weather as it was lovely yesterday and today. Tomorrow no office (thankfully) so I will delay working in the garden until I have DONE THAT RUN. My fitness pal friends will see when I have really done it as it posts automatically there because I have the Runkeeper app synced to MFP.
Lucia – not sure how to make this into a ‘Lucia-style challenge’?! A bit scared you will want me talking to the trees or running sideways or something!

Hi Lucia
Can I please have lovely sparkly bracelet instead? Pretty please!!!!!?
Christine

Hi everyone, I can also report that I’ve had no acid reflux since commencing BSD. It’s interesting because I had previously thought that eating fat was the trigger for the reflux. I’m now thinking it could have been the starchy carbs that I was eating with the fat. Since starting the BSD I’ve eaten very little bread, but found a local (12 kms away) bakery that makes rye and sunflower seed bread. I’ve only had 1 slice with soup and no reflux.(Food for thought!)

Lucia,
Yes ma’am

Come on polly,
We need facts, we need data, data data.
You can do it, just have fun with it.

Your meal sound yummy..

I am doing something strange with eggs on Saturday , haven’t created it yet.

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Christie 1948,

What are you going for, studs or a nice drop earring. Drops are supposed to make faces thinner. And compliment the jaw line.

I can see you now, looking smart and sophisticated in them.

Go girl, go!!!!

love lucia
Xxxxx

Eeek at 266.66666 – I’m not sure how many calories I’m eating – I don’t think myfitnesspal is wired the same as the recipes cos they say one number and myfitnesspal says another number. It’s still a bit confusing.

I had a 2 egg omelette with pork loin, cheese and a little spring onion and then a stir fry rice dish with my new discovery of bare naked rice.

Lots of veg and an egg chucked in for good measure 😀

Yum!!!

x

Hi string breaker.

Okay, do I have to use a lamp and soft cushions on you?
We have ways of making you diet!

Look, you know you ate the wrong things, that you have gone daft. Now put yourself in a brown paper bag and give yourself a good shake.
Scarlet, tomorrow is another day.

Regroup, focus, visualise yourself in the Lycra. Because if you eat daft things again this week, you will be made to wear the outfit.

Now, egg and bacon, mushrooms and tomatoes for breakfast.

Fish or chicken and a large dollop of veg for tea.

Focus. 😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Cheers guys :)… you’re so right about the weight going overnight Bill, it seems like some sort of conjuring trick!

Hi Lucia
Sounds interesting? Give me some time to think about the challenge!!!! Time has elapsed! Mmmmm, what to do?
Ok will do🙂👍
Christine

Lucia,
Wouldn’t swap my “Brompton” for anything but am jealous of your bell.
John

Thanks Cherrianne – that’s good to know. I love pecans!

hi rachel62
🙂👍
Christine

Lucia,

I have to confess I’ve TOTALLY fallen off the wagon tonight.

Stuck in a hotel.

3 pints of “Doom Bar” (but in perfect condition)

Packet of dry roast nuts

Minestrone soup (WITH ROLAND BUTTER!) 🙄

Seafood Lasagne with spuds (odd pairing)

Bit over the 800

Back on the treadmill tomorrow. Promise.

John

I know we are on low carbs, but perhaps the person on the radio was talking about a different VLCD?

Hi string breaker, in your honour, I will get my bike out again this weekend,
You will be jealous, it has a basket.
And I ring my bell with attitude!!!!!!!
I usually use it to get to the shops quicker.
Oh and something else for you to be jealous about. I have Velcro bike clips, in fluorecent green. Yummy.
And a helmet in black and grey, but as it upsets my long loose hair, I put a scarf on first before my helmet.

Yep, I am a sight for sore eyes, or should I say eye sore……

Love luciaXxxx

Hi stringbreaker
Thanks John, cheers
Christine

An inexpensive treadmill is safer c£139.99 on auction sites – mine is brilliant, also exercise bikes under £100

Food Component DV
Total Fat 65 grams (g)
Saturated Fat 20 g
Cholesterol 300 milligrams (mg)
Sodium 2,400 mg
Potassium 3,500 mg
Total Carbohydrate 300 g
Dietary Fiber 25 g
Protein 50 g
Vitamin A 5,000 International Units (IU)
Vitamin C 60 mg
Calcium 1,000 mg
Iron 18 mg
Vitamin D 400 IU
Vitamin E 30 IU
Vitamin K 80 micrograms µg
Thiamin 1.5 mg
Riboflavin 1.7 mg
Niacin 20 mg
Vitamin B6 2 mg
Folate 400 µg
Vitamin B12 6 µg
Biotin 300 µg
Pantothenic acid 10 mg
Phosphorus 1,000 mg
Iodine 150 µg
Magnesium 400 mg
Zinc 15 mg
Selenium 70 µg
Copper 2 mg
Manganese 2 mg
Chromium 120 µg
Molybdenum 75 µg
Chloride 3,400 mg

Lucia,
I’ll report my walks each morning.
John

We are not on low fat diets, just low carbs…

Me noisy, I think you have the wrong person,
I am so shy and retiring. So demure, so full of it.

Ha.

Keep in touch, I love attracting crazy people to blog here……..😁😠😞😘😄😫🙃😠🙃🤗😗🙁😗😫🙃😣
Love Lucia
Xxxxx

Hi string breaker.

Yes I will gladly accept your offer of fast walking, please do it with a smile on your face. Now if you say that is more effort Lucia. I will reply it takes less muscles to smile that’s to frown, so it is no effort.

Don’t rush to Ivor cutlers tune, it is without umph.

My hubby was in the church choir, then in male voice choirs travelling around.

Then he married me, I am tone deaf, can’t remember the tune, don’t know the words, or I forget what tune I am singing and then blend in another one all together,…….but when we are in the car together , I put the wireless on and sing at the top of my voice….. Just for him, boy do I spoil him…….
He appreciates getting to our destination, he seems to fall out of the car quickly and rushes to get to the door. I wonder why.

Hope to hear from you of how you have got on with your task I, now that you have accepted it.

Da did da la, da did da la,… 🎶🎶🎶🎶da da 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶 sorry, I’m off to sing the mission impossible tune……🚴🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🚴🚴🚴🎶🎶🎶🎶🚴🚴🎶🎶🚴

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Hi Rachel, I started by following some of the recipes in the book during the first week just to get a feel for the diet. There is nothing magical about the recipes – you just need to keep your calories at 800 and your carbs at 50g or below. So you can have curry – without the rice etc

I live on my own so I have to be a bit canny so as not to waste food. I grill all 6 slices of bacon in a packet then I will have 2 with tomatoes for breakfast, the next day I might have lettuce cups with bacon and avocado and the day after bacon crumbled over courgetti or salad

Hope that helps 🙂

Whatever you do, don’t be quiet.