Thanks hashimoto, encouragement is very welcome! Better cashews than a mars bar! Back on the wagon tomorrow.

Hi Boggis, I meant to say think about some well chilled sparkling water with a slice of lemon or lime and a variety of herbal teas as well as still water 🙂

Hi leeanne, look on the bright side you won’t be constipated after all those cashews! Please don’t berate yourself you have done SO well not to have fish and chips, cream teas and pasties. 1 pot of healthy nutss won’t derail you when it’s a one off.

I think you’ve done brilliantly. 🙂

Jotsaroop …..part way through week 2 I felt awful. Dizzy, headache, nausea etc. I drank gallons of water and about 36 hours later felt as right as ninepence. Most people go through it. Stick with it as the ongoing weight loss results are amazing x

Boggis….what a fabulous name ! Don’t be worried about starting, the only things that will happen is that you’ll lose weight, need smaller clothes, have more energy (ridiculous amounts sometimes) and if you are on medication, can reduce or stop. I’ve been following the plan for 7 weeks and have lost 21 pounds. I’ve only had two days where I’ve hit 800 calories, the rest of the time calories are between 1100 and 1400 (bosses wedding). I intend to continue with my healthy eating as I’ve managed to re-educate my brain into what is good to eat and what isn’t. There is plenty of help on all sorts of things on here. Stick with us. Once you get the hang of it you’ll love it. Good luck x

Thanks! I will try these tomorrow!

Hi julia, my son has a friend with the surname Boggis, so I wonder if Boggis1 is the genuine surname rather than a Roald Dahl. Fan??? Could be both, of course! Boggis1 enlighten us! 🙂

Julia your chinese meal sounds scrummy! 🙂

Love the name, Boggis . Fantastic Mr Fox a favourite story of mine and my girls too. I would echo the comments above. Drinking enough is easy if you find something you like – my favourite is either chai teabag either with or without a dash of milk and for a cold drink it’s fizzy water with lemon (freeze the slices). I have lost over 2 stone despite being the one who has tried and failed a million times to lose weight. Can’t ever see myself eating carb heavy again. We ate Chinese tonight. But instead of a pile of rice or noodles the whole family had a pile of beansprouts another of mushrooms and another one of green beans to accompany the lemon chicken and chicken with spring onion and banana dishes. I was stuffed afterwards as my plate was full. Lots of friendly folk to help you on your way.

We crazy people will stick together, Lucia. There are plenty of us to keep you company!

Actually I love Bill’s idea of the lose t-shirt too. Think you should put in a bulk order. We’ll all be buying them off you😁

Skywalker, words fail me. I hope, despite appearances they will do some serious thinking

Hi fellow 800’ers
Well we’ve been in Cornwall for a week. I’ve stuck to the plan. Not one chip, pasty or cream tea has passed my lips. I did have a poached cod one night from the chippy though. I’m fuming though – I’ve just let myself down today (week 7, day 5). I picked up a 70g pot of cashew nuts and scoffed them all – all 413 cals of them!! So today these cals are excess ones. Although I’ve walked miles this week, I know this is no excuse. Honestly it’s just not worth being greedy as it’s made my last night in Cornwall thoroughly guilt ridden!!

I got a letter today stating the practice has awarded itself 20 days to respond to my raised issues that they are treating as a complaint. I sent the letter 10 days ago so not sure what they are counting. It started off with “I would like to tell you about two of my experiences at the surgery, in feedback form rather than proceed directly to a formal complaint.” So no marks for comprehension, no acknowledgment or phone call or email and after 10 days a 2 paragraph letter posted second class!. More when they get round to responding properly…

That strange word translates to ‘since’.

It is the language of the crazy people like me.🤓
Love luciaXxxx

Hi gang, all I can say about the exercise is.

🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 to each and every one of you.

Just think how fit you have become sibpncesine you started.
My hat is off to you🎩👒
Love luciaXxxx

Hi whoopsiedaisy, I often have non BSD friends round and just don’t have the carbs, sometimes I make a bsd meal and people don’t seem to notice 🙂

Hi Jotsaroop, welcome to the forums and congratulations on your weight loss so far, we’ll look forward to reading your successes on your BSD journey! 🙂

Hi Simon, as Bill said 50g or less of carbs. I have used calorieking to find carbs not on packaging – but you need to deduct the fibre from the carbs for the correct figure in britain 🙂

Hi boggis1 welcome to the forums and the BSD way of life! Once you have done this for a few weeks you will find eating out easier than you might think – you just need to leave the carbs and make sure you don’t have too much alcohol on those special days.
I agree that it is better to start as soon as you can and you’ll be a healthier you for those special days 🙂

Thanks Hashimoto, I will definitely have a look and try them out.

Thank you both… I think I’ll stick to a small amount of whole grain spelt for now.. Thanks for the tips..

Thank you all very much for your support I’m going to start tomorrow and see how I get on. I’m terrible at drinking water so that’s something I will need to change!

Thanks who ever sorted this, it really helps

Same finger literally a couple of mm apart. I have found them both to be different in the past. As long as I stick with the same one I know if it is going in the right direction or not. I have some control solution and have just tried it on them both Accu check is 5.2 and Element is 5.7.

I have learnt my lesson from taking my good meter on holiday with me and it being broken on the journey.

I am normally a size 16 but since I lost 2 1/2 inches from my waist I decided to buy some size 14 jeans – I have them on now ready to go out tonight. They are quite roomy so I looked up the waist measurements for a size 14 jean and it is 31″ but I am 36″ and they are still roomy – must be one of life’s mysteries. Had a problem tonight looking for a top that didn’t look way too big – a nice problem to have. 🙂
I’m not buying anything smaller until I come back from my hols as it is all you can eat breakfast and evening meals. I’m going to take my shakes with me for lunch. I will eat correctly, but the salads are delicious, vast and varied so portion control might be an issue.

Bella the headaches are more likely to be from carb withdrawal
Have your coffee, I do, just count the milk in your daily calories.

Brilliant lynne. 🙂

Denise that’s good news about your ibs.my neice has it and is hoping starting this diet will improve it. I forgot to add that i have not had a flare up of diverticulitis which needed antibiotic treatment since I started this diet.

These improvements are incredible. I love this diet 🙂

Most of us try to keep the carbs down to 50g or less per day.
This is because that figure should put your body into ketosis or fat burning mode
Best of luck on the journey, it may be eventful but we’re all here to offer support.

Hi jotsaroop

Well done sticking through the tough bit and congratulations on the weight loss!
I’m only in my second week and have lost 7lb (gained one of my lost pounds and plateaued for the past few days but not getting hung up about it and putting it down to all things female : ( ). I basically was surviving on carbs before this and I have had ‘carb flu’ symptoms and huge hunger since I started, but I have to say the hunger is definitely subsiding, as are the horrible symptoms. I still had pains across the top of my nose yesterday, along with a stuffy headache, a bit like sinusitis but I’m guessing I’m just taking longer to shake it off as I was so steeped in bad carb habits.
Persevere! We will get there and it will be sooooooo worth it!
Good luck – you’re doing brilliantly!

Already done Judith 😃

Thank you for your replies!
Feeling much better today and yes, I made an extra effort to add some healthy fats, so added a lot more avacado, and olive oil to my meals and feel a lot better for it!

Denise, lynne, Switzerland , marcus, would you mind just putting your health improvements in the ‘list your improvements ‘ list? 🙂

No more acid reflux since being on the BSD
Persistent cough disappeared
Cold-induced cough disappeared
Reduction in joint pain

More energy
Better concentration
Thinking more clearly

Hi sianeyb could you put that about your acid reflux in the ‘list your improvements’ thread? 🙂
Skywalker would you put your improvements in that thread too? 🙂

I thought it might be useful to prof taylor and dr m.

Hi bella I. Have had my 2 mugs of nescafe every morning for the 3 months I have been on this diet. Have reached the weight I want to be at.
I just would not go without my morning coffee!
You might find this much easier with your morning cuppa as long as it’s not with cake lol 🙂

I’d also say start now. I was going to start on 1st January, but changed that – starting on 19th December. I knew that if I waited I might change my mind and keep putting it off. I’m still on 800 calories – tomorrow I’ll have been on the BSD for 18 weeks.

I’ve lost over 3 stone (more still to lose) and my blood sugars are now usually in the normal range.

It’s surprising how much food you can eat for 800 calories once you stop eating the carbs. I can’t imagine going back to eat the quantities I did before, or the carbs, because I feel so much better now.

Hi polly, lidl and aldi are wonderful shops 🙂

Hi plumptious the gram (chickpea/besan) flour flatbread recipe is on this site – look for the recipes tab on the tool bar. They are really tasty and lovely with a curry. They freeze well too 🙂

Wow julia! You have had a strenuous day! I’ve been digging my veggie patches and coming in for rests on the forums to save my back! 🙂

Thanks all
Yes my acid reflux has also gone , I have put all the Rennies spread around the house into the medicine cupboard!
Still not sleeping great but at least I can walk!
Keep up the great work guys
Sian x

Thanks for the advice and the breakfast ideas! I reversed my quantities this morning and had a whole 170g pot of yoghurt and just a few stewed blueberries and the carbs came right down to 9 whereas the calories are about the same! Brilliant! Will get some strawberries for a change too – good idea! XXX Fluff XXX

Lucía – have done my 5.01 km run AND a Pilates class AND an hour or so of hard graft in my garden. Very pleased with myself 😊
Hope everyone is having a good day !

Hi JaneyCD,
Not heard of those. Are they pre-bought ones or have you been making them yourself?
Good news about the loosening trousers!

I’m going to try the aubergine bake either tonight or on the weekend, looks very yummy. I lived with a vegetarian for 15 years and as I did the cooking when we were together I became mostly vegetarian by default… Now we aren’t together any more I’ve sort of lapsed into meat eater style thinking and am finding it hard to think in a more veggie fashion but it’ll come back.

I was looking at the dairy not helping insulin resistance link that someone posted a bit higher up and now I’m not sure about whether all cheese is equal in the spike respect.

Breakfast was a lidl greekish yogurt with a sprinkle of ground linseed and a granny smith’s.

Lunch was a tin of mackeral on a bed of mixed lettuce, also all from lidl. I like lidl

Polly
xxx

Day 2 struggle. Yoghurt & walnuts. Chicken, avocado. Headaches due to caffeine withdrawal so had an instant coffee tiny bit of milk. This is the hardest part as I adore my morning flat white but I know it bloats me, and dries me out.

Had two more cubes of skinless chicken, three cherry tomatoes & avocado. Finished off with 1 glass of Pinot noir (it is Friday night after all).

Now tomorrow the exercise starts.

Thanks, BSD but tougher than thought. Went grainy wheat toast knowingly so not a good start though had a better day today. Getting used to reduction but it takes willpower. p.s. our office has morning tea on Fridays-requested my name removed from the roster today; feeling a bit antisocial but better to not attend until I’m “ready”.

I’m finding myfitnesspal doesn’t seem to count the calories the same as in recipes from the book. Not sure which one is right but if I’m going by the app/site they tend to say that there are more calories than quoted. Also don’t know why, if you do exercise, they up the total allowable calories. I’ve been sticking to the 800 and not their total. Is this the right way to do it?

thanks Polly

Hi there, any idea just how many grams of carbs I should be eating a day ?

Is there a rule, I’m 18 stone so have a lot to lose !

I’m non compliant as I don’t ever want to start taking tablets if i don’t have to… really your GP should be pleased as it means the cost of meds are not then paid for by the practise? I’m in Wales so prescriptions are free but I don’t know how it works elsewhere.

I mostly started the fast version as I have had recent high blood pressure readings over the last 4 months or so. I should invest in a monitor really.

Yesterday I was told I’m probably type 2 diabetic so I definitely want to nip it in the bud before it blooms and I get other problems. Good luck with coming off or reducing meds 😀

Hi justabloke I have noticed that the weight loss doesn’t slow down – for me it has only steadied once I increased my calories – but no starchy carbs. 🙂

Hi lucia your relative seems very extreme, in 63 years I’ve never seen anyone behave like that about their views on food. No wonder you feel a bit scarred about vegetarianism. 🙁

Sure are. What’s really interesting to me is that the weight loss has followed a pretty steady slope since the initial rush. I was expecting it to slow up a bit, but it just keeps on going.