Hi Lucia – I will never be a vegan!!! But I do like to mix it up a bit. There are some veggie meals I just can’t do without – just as much as I can’t do without my English Breakfast.
Hawks had some good ideas for veg didn’t he? I like fish sauce ( not the smell of it) but a small amount in some dishes gives a lovely flavour.

Did you see the article about meditating knocking 7 years off your brain age???

xx

Yes, Judith. It is weird😳 It doesn’t really help when they move the goalposts for diagnosis either!!! They changed it here, and diagnosis levels here are different to those in the USA😱

Personally, I used to be really shakey if my readings went under 5. Now I’m almost always between 4 and 4.9 with no problems😃 It used to be really bad when it was ‘time to eat’ and I couldn’t find anything quickly enough. Now I normally just eat morning and evening – no shaking, no panicking 😃

Hi,

Thank you for the conversation or the gentle debate about eating meat.

I think it is interesting. I have had a meat free day today, I am going to see how my body reacts. I would like to do it gently and over time.
Will I ever be totally vegan?
I don’t think so, but you never know and I am not saying never.

Tomorrow I will have eggs, veg salad etc, I will try again, hope you are all looking inwards on how you feel emotionally and physically about this.

Love Lucia
Xxxx

amazing story of BSD and love the funnies as well lol

I guess you’ve answered a question I’ve been pondering that we don’t have to change to the 5:2 after 8 weeks? we can keep going on 800? It was a question I was going to ask further in assuming I can get to week 8!

Hi Bill 1954.
Who to I make a complaint to please?

A month or so ago, I had plenty of sitting down time to blog.
Now, with this diet, I was up early, I had energy to clean the house, do two loads of laundry, to stay out walking in the beautiful sunshine that is still here now.
I want to do much, move, be active, see, feel, smell, enjoy experience everything.

So the problem I have, that I want to complain about is……

How can I blog if I am doing all that?

🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

Thank you are two simple words, this is all I can offer all of you, please take them as my gift to you.

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Hi Hairbear.

Welcome to the BSD family. Can I suggest you read Bill1954’s posts. He’s type 2 and was on medication. Now he’s medication-free.

Lynne, that must have been so awkward for you!!!

Hi john,
I understand what you are going through.
I had to come to this diet gradually. I thought to step straight into it was too great.
So I had a week to get with it. You are only taking a few weeks, so I will be waiting here with the team really to welcome you back into the fold.

I also had a 24 hour blackout from the blog. As I felt it was getting a little to heavy. I came back refreshed, I hope the same thing happens for you.

I will miss you, but please keep cycling and running, keep trying to stay within say 1200 calories, and bring it down a hundred each week, so when you come back you will be at 800.
But let me put your mind at rest, I look forward to your return even if you can’t do the 800, if it has to be 1000 or 1200.
Just keep trying, keep moving, keep motivated, keep happy, keep in touch.

Love Lucia
Xxx

Lynne this blood sugar thing is so weird!! Mine was 3.8 and I feel the best I’ve ever felt – admittedly I’m not diabetic. It sounds so complex I’m really glad it is a problem I do not have!

Forgot to say: I can now eat without running to the toilet shortly afterwards with violent diarrhoea 😱😳😃

Alan, 4.5 is ‘normal’ so try not to worry. I think it could be one of two things (or even both.

Your body has been used to higher blood sugars, so when it drops you feel wobbly because you’re not used to the lower readings. I’ve not taken meds but would think they would drop your results further.

It could also be a reaction to the porridge you ate earlier. I don’t know what time you ate that, but if I eat porridge my blood sugar spikes and then drops much lower (that’s why I avoid carbs, including porridge, now!). Sometimes when we eat the carbs our blood sugars go up, then show a significant drop – making us want more carbs to make us feel better.

As I said 4.5 is perfectly normal (under 4 is getting into hypo territory) but if you think you need something to eat I suggest a small amount of protein.

Hope this helps.

Hi Christine, Michael Mosley is a TOFI ( thin on the outside fat on the inside) so I think it does work for them. I don’t know whether they would do 800 or not. You could always email the team for advice on the matter.

It’s lovely that they are supportive of you when they have problems themselves 🙂

Hi Judith,
No chance of them following the diet, Richard has had great problems trying to put on weight, his diabetics is very erratic, he has to inject before meals, he is very fit, walks a lot, he has walked John o groats to lands end!
His father was diabetic with same erratic problems too!
Judith has lost nearly three stone and is as thin as a rake and is still diabetic! So not sure what our diet would alter for them, they are very supportive of me though.
Christine

How sad is it that I’m getting excited? hahaha

should arrive sometime next week 🙂

You could also make baked apple and cinnamon crisps if you use the ribbon blade 🙂

Alan I wish I could help but don’t really know anything about diabetes problems.
🙁

Hi Izzy, you can use the julienne blade with the safety hand grip to make crisps from root veg like beetroot and carrots for a treat for kids/visitors 🙂

thanks I’ve had a look and ordered one.

I had a sudden… wicked idea.

Spiralised courgette, cut into small sections (think…curly fries) seasoned with spices and tossed in a little olive oil.. baked in the oven. Low carb curly fries? omg I actually think I WANT courgette curly fries!

it is frustrating but also remember us women get a raw deal. hormonal fluctuations can make us hold water too but that doesn’t mean that you haven’t lost fat today just not showing on the scales yet. Don’t let a bad day/week stop you think ahead. I don’t want to think how many times I have found myself thinking…. if only I’d stuck to my diet I’d have lost loads by now -when looking back and wishing I had 🙁

Hi christine I’m so pleased your friends could see the changes in you AND commented! It would be really good for them if they decide to follow this diet 🙂 if they were interested in the website there us a good chance they will start!
Judith

Re BS monitors I found they only gave em away if type two so applied for that meter
They seem the same exactly but are they ???
Alan

Thank you for your encouragement! 😀

Help needed ,fast ?😱
This morning fasting 6.7 then porridge

Lunch one hour ago salmon salad now 4.5,do feel bit shaky is this too low
I stopped my meds when I started this two weeks ago lost a stone felt great but this low reading worries me,do I need more food,fat in diet fruit etc

If I was taking full meds wouldn’t they make this even lower 🤔

Thanks Alan 😱

Hi Judith,
Went out for dinner with our two diabetic friends last night, they were impressed with my weight loss and were interested in the website, so I asked them to sign the petition, hopefully they will do, they are off to Stratford today for Shakespeare’s birthday celebrations, however I’m sure they will look into it next week
Christine

Hi john,
We all have times like yours, I’m very frustrated at being on this plateau! I know it will start again, I just need to get back to pre holiday weight then I will feel better about myself, don’t despair though, even if you’re not posting your friends here will silently support you, good luck, and I look forward to seeing a post from you in the near future?
Christine

Hi bill,
I like that idea too, what size t shirt to get though, I need to lose a lot more before I get mine!
Christine

Hi Lucia,
I like the idea of MM. On its side? Have already warned hubby!
My diebetic friends were impressed with my weight lose, it was interesting talking to them about my journey, they are also going to try and sign up on the petition, I couldn’t get on line last night, low battery!
I’m on a plateau at the moment will be happy if I get this week over and get back to pre hols weight!
Just been for a forty minute walk, my favourite walk, round the lake (which is called a pond?) and over twenty little bridges that are for water off the woods to run into the pool, we always get the number of bridges wrong! Then back for cottage cheese, pear and walnuts for brunch.
How are you doing today?

The BSD word is spreading – just found this article on the Guardian…

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/apr/23/diabetes-can-you-really-eat-to-beat-it

Encouraging to hear from someone who is 4 years down the line and still on track thanks to this way of eating 🙂

(I’d recommend not reading the comments if you are easily irritated – the usual rubbish from people who have no evidence to back up what they’re saying!)

Oh that is quite funny, outrunner, I really would have expected the 18 year old to be the invincible one!! Good that they both like to see you shrinking! 🙂

I’m a bit of a zealot about this diet too 🙂

HI Skywalker, trying to reduce medication for type 2 diabetes. Found my weight creeping up after a new lot of meds. So decided to try the low carbs route after reading the book. I’m aware that I need to check it out with the doc, At the moment I’m taking metformin, glycicide and Saxi something, 8tablets a day plus aspirin, ramipril and astovastatin. Suffered a heart attack 2 years ago, at 54. Lost about 3 stone in the last 2 years, felt and feel pretty good now, but fed up with the meds. I’m not necessarily sticking to the 800 cals bit, but have possibly found a more natural way of getting the hsbc thing, (can never remember the right name for the test) under control. Daily blood sugar tests have substantially reduced in the last ten days, so need approval to start reducing meds from the doc and phase them out.

Thanks hashimoto 🙂

I did sign the petition when it was launched and shared it on FB. I feel quite evangelical about the whole thing (I think my kids are getting a bit sick of it but their happy to see me shrinking!)

The 18 year old isn’t quite as bad as the 11 year old… now he is completely invincible and knows more than Google! LOL 😀

Hi, Hartley’s jelly in a small tub less than 10 kCal per pot is a nice refreshing treat from the fridge, just finished one. If you have already lost your excess weight what are you doing on BSD?

Hi Wild Saffron, I have just noticed your post so sorry for the lateness of this response.
I have diverticulitis and I have found I am much better on this diet. Someone else has said their IBS is much better too. I haven’t added any starch to my diet as I think that is what caused the problems in the first place 🙁

Oh that’s really funny Cherrianne. Not as bad as the time my dad referred to one of the teachers as ‘Old Frosty’ ( she was) and my brother told her!! Or my friend always referring to the chemistry teacher as Mad Boolu and his dad actually called him ‘Mr Boolu’ at a parent’s evening. He genuinely thought that was the guy’s name.

It isn’t possible to be a parent and not have an embarrassing incident lol

And happy St George’s day to all! 🙂

Hi all, read the book, trying to cut out normal carbs mainly, aiming to reduce or cut out meds completely. Not too bothered about weight loss, done that already, but have lost about 3kg in the the last 10days. Missing me sweeties though in moments of weakness. Interesting going back to cooking from scratch. Picking and choosing recipe ideas and tweaking to my own tastes, so far really pleased with results and getting sugars stabilised, to have a good argument to start reducing meds, visit to the docs next week. Fingers crossed.

Hi folks, if you are new to the forums and a British Citizen would you mind signing our petition please? Thanks 🙂

Well done Lynne, you’re our BSD superstar!!
Happy St George’s Day to everyone. I always tease my Dad on this day because when I was about 10 or 11, I asked him where St George killed the dragon. He told me it was in our village, and so I wrote about it in a story for school. Poor Dad was mortified that he’d answered me so flippantly lol 🙂

Hi folks, there was an article in the papers today that said research indicates that regular meditation can knock 7 years off your BRAIN AGE!!! I’m going to do more of it!!!! 🙂

Hi Paula, it can also be a bit trickier getting fresh fruit and veg on the islands – unless things have changed a lot since my last trip to those parts!! Should be plenty of seafood though!

This diet is amazing in the way you are satisfied on very little in the way of calories and the way it makes the old muffin top disappear quite quickly – first time in over 20 years for me!!!
🙂 🙂

Hi John,
Sad you won’t be around for a while 🙁
Will miss your humour and common sense, but you must do what you feel is right for you. Don’t give yourself too hard a time because of one lapse though.
All the best for the next few weeks, and we’ll catch up with all your news when you return to the fold 🙂

Izzy get the Cuisique from Amazon. It has a variety of blades, is gravity aided because you spiralise vertically not horizontally. It also has an integral jug to catch the spiralised food – rather than it landing on your work top or worse still the kitchen floor!!! 🙂

Yep Hashimoto I live in the Inner Hebrides. Beautiful here and fab for walking unless it’s too windy to stand up in! I have lost weight through the years but I have never, ever lost my middle. But I have have in retrospect had a diet that has consisted of a huge amount of bad carbs and I always feel hungry a couple of hours after meals. Even in the past couple of weeks of being sensible with my carbs I have found my appetite has shrunk. I’m feeling fuller for longer. Thanks for the advice – I’ll certainly hold back till I go I go shopping with my new shape 🙂 🙂 🙂

Hi Georgiarose, that’s a relief about your husband. So glad it was nothing serious. My guess is he’ll be very careful with his coffee intake from now on, bless him! Thanks for letting us know the outcome. 🙂

Hi Smudgymum, please don’t despair!! Lots of people have these strange plateaus, particularly in the second week, then suddenly a few pounds has disappeared!! Remember some of the fat is disappearing from you internal organs so it won’t be visible to you. Did you measure your waist at the start because often the results show faster on the tape measure than they do on the scales.

As you already know, on 800 calories you HAVE to lose weight! It’s a law of physics!

Are you making sure you have enough fat in your diet to keep you feeling full?

Are you drinking 2 to 3 litres of water a day and keeping your carbs below 50g a day?

It’s worth double checking.

Chin up as that weight WILL come off! 🙂

Hi all fellow 8 weekers! I am just coming to the end of week 2 and I am so frustrated and disappointed. I lost 8lbs my first week and I was over the moon, not to mention motivated to keep going. I have followed the diet to the letter and since Monday I have not lost a single ounce! I weighed myself yesterday to see that I was still where I was on Monday and it ruined my day and made me extremely tearful. I am now scared of the scales!
Fortunately I have a very supportive hubby who has suggested that this weekend we will have our main meals at lunchtime so that I have more time to burn off the calories. That’s not so feasible during the week though. I know weight loss slows down further into the diet but no loss after 5 days on 800 calories?! Really? I am so hungry but I wouldn’t mind if I was losing weight. I feel this week has been a waste of time and I may as well not have bothered!
Feeling extremely sorry for myself! 😔

Hi outrunner, great results from you!! Bill1954 has gone the not counting calories, just the carbs route and also been very successful.

I totally agree about frustration over the wrong information being pumped out by the authorities! Have you signed our petition asking the NHS to urge T2s to follow this diet?

It is almost impossible to teach an immortal 18 year old anything new because at that age they know everything and by my age I know nothing!!! 🙁
Hopefully sneaking lower carbs and sugars into their meals will have the health impact you want for them. 🙂

Hi Izzy, up your water and take some paracetamol for the headache.

Could you play a hop, skip and jump game with your 3 year old while walking with him. It might be slow but lots of exercise!

I love my spiraliser! I got the cuisique one from Amazon. Courgetti is lovely and you can do so many things with it!! 🙂

I’ll try Lauren but methinks he’s resigned to the fact of his condition now sadly. He did say recently that they had reduced his statins and he’s lost a little weight so hopefully it will work for him long term.

Thanks again for the info 😀

wow Scater! 6lbs in a week! Phew, you will be sylph like in no time! 🙂

Hi Paula do you live in the Scottish Islands?
Wait 6 or 7 weeks to think about what you will wear because your shape will really change in that time!
In fact you will have ditched a few clothes by then, in all probability! 🙂