Lucia, it seems obvious that eating lots of junk food is a bad idea, but somehow it can be difficult for us to connect what’s on our plates to the way our clothes seem to shrink when they’re in the wardrobe!

Went shopping today. More than 3/4 of what we bought was fresh veg. In front and behind us were very overweight and unhealthy looking people with a trolley full of cakes, biscuits, ready meals, desserts, cereals and fizzy drinks. I feel super smug.

221 signatures. Let’s keep it rolling folks 🙂

Hi captainlynne

Be careful , same to all with bad backs! As you lose a lot of weight your body has to realign internally. Where the fat was, your organs are resettling & now have ‘breathing’ space. Your/ my muscles can be in permanent spasm protecting the damaged area. 32 years later my hips are twisted & one is higher than the other! It is a permanent fatigue.

Think before you move or lift. I Knew how to do both but still circumstances did the damage! Look after this new, improved body, after all we want to spend on it. Summer wardrobes beckon
Eureka

Desperate, I don’t know how or why I keep typing dirt for diet! I’ve usually spotted and corrected the typo – not this time lol 🙂

Food Blackouts are like an out-of-body experience aren’t they? You’re aware of what is happening, but detached.

I do find that since starting the BSD I am more mindful of what I am eating. Not just because I log everything, but because I am paying attention while I am eating it. Mindful eating – it’s a bit of a revelation, lol.

Yesterday was uneventful. Except for the snow, then hail, then rain… People wonder why Canadians are obsessed with weather. Let me tell you the forcast for this week.
Today: Low -2C Hi 6C Mostly Cloudy, Very Windy
Tomorrow: Low -1C Hi 4C Cloudy
Thursday: Low 2C Hi 7C Sunny
Friday: Low 4C Hi 8C Sunny
Saturday: Low 6C Hi 12C Sunny
Sunday: Low 9C Hi 17C Sunny

Seriously – This better be right – I want to go hiking and want the snow to be gone (and the ground to dry a bit).

Fingers Crossed!

Make today a great day!

Cheers,

Deb

PS Eureka – I thought it was funny 🙂

Hi all newbie vets
Well done. Now the fun starts!
Thought I’d blown it after busy week & irregular eating. But, 2 lbs down & 1/2″ off waist. Blimey Riley!
Away Friday for a family hol & lots of big bdays to celebrate. Do my best to stay focused. Intend to start exercising every day now, will swim all week. Swam for my city once-upon-a time! What happened to that? I was too heavy for my knees & back to cope with exercise during the 8-weeks BSD. Did as Prof Taylor said, concentrated on diet. Still a way to go. But the future’s (orange) lot brighter anyway.

Bill great your off meds. If only… !

Me & bread a complete no go there. I think it’s the genetic manipulation & increase in Gliadin in the Gluten. Makes sense to me.
Eureka

Good news on the flatbreads, Lostgirl! If you miss out the stevia and spread them with yoghurt or cream and some sliced strawberries I think you will find them sweet enough:)

I make a triple batch so I have plenty to freeze. I use them as dessert with cream and fruit on top when I have friends for dinner.

Try the chickpea flour flatbreads, they’re delicious with a curry 🙂

Hi john
Thank you 🙂
Christine

Hi newlife
Thank you 🙂
Christine

Hi Barby, Like you, I generally prefer to stay away from these foods, but I have tried two different sausages. I used them in a vegetable stew – so lots of veg and sausages cut up in the stew. It made 4 portions so I must have been 2 sausages per portion.
The ones from Cauldron worked well and added flavour and texture to the stew. I will use them again. The ones from VegiDeli were no so successful – they went into ‘sausages with red cabbage’ and were ok, not memorable. They were much higher calorie as well. Maybe they would have been better just grilled.
I have bought some mushroom & garlic veggi-burgers (Dragonfly) 19 carbs 292 cals per burger. It was a bit of an impulse buy – I wanted some thing to have in the fridge for days I had little in the freezer or came home very hungry and needed to get some food going fast. I may try them at the weekend, I certainly need to plan the whole days food around that one item as it is high for the amount of space it takes up on the plate!
Beware of some of these products – sausages and pates often have potato as the base!
I will be interested in your thoughts about any of the others you try.

Hi bill
Thank you, got some really good sun glasses to stop the glare.
Christine

Hi Janet
Thank you🙂
Christine

Hi Polly!

Welcome to the forums! Whilst I cannot answer your meds question. I can recommend the diet! Congratulations on your weight loss! Since you’re already low-carbing week one should be mostly pain free.

Good luck and keep us posted. If you have a question, just ask – the wonderful people on this site are amazing helpers.

Cheers,

Deb

Lucia, isn’t it wonderful to be in the b group? 🙂

I’ve said before that the first two weeks I didn’t get the idea of full fat. It was several weeks before I started to understand carbs . I’ve only just got my head round the techno stuff – but not all of it. I’ve got to say if all the techie stuff had been on the forums when I started it may well have discouraged me. I basically followed the idea of the recipes and I have got to say the weight just dropped off without me understanding a lot of stuff.

Whatever you are doing it’s working, Lucia, so as someone else said – just keep on keeping on!:)

I’ll kick a ball with you tonight 🙂 xxxxx

Catgirl, purple!! Brilliant! Xxx

Hi Judith
Thank you 🙂
Christiine

Hi eureka
We are back and sat by the pool, we got the 10 am bus, had a three quarter walk, got some good sunglasses, had a coffee and strawberries and cream, then walked to McDonald’s! ( an hours walk) I had tuna salad, then another’s hours walk back to apartment, just had a swim, now for a rest!
Will look for a pedometer when I get home, thank you for the good wishes
Christine

Lucia you are an inspiration. Perfectly Imperfectly Human.

You let us all into your world and fill it with bubbles and puddles.

Thank you for my daily smile.

Deb

Same happened to me Stingle, it’s such a wonderful moment ::

Thankyou FiFiP – really good to hear you’re feeling full now. I look forward to leaving the years of sugary treats behind me and finding other ways to ‘reward’ myself.

Thankyou for your support : )

Veggie Burgers/ Sausages. Has anyone tried a ready made supermarket burger or sausage they can recommend please? Or possibly other ready meals?

The Linda Mc Cartney Rosemary & Red Onion sausages are 132 cals for 2 and 6.3 carbs. I would love to have a fry up, with eggs and sausage and tomatoe. I could also chop the them up and have in a stir fry.

I know it is best to cook everything from scratch, but If I am to stick with this regime, I know that in truth I will not last doing this long term. I need to find some ready made things I can grab and cook sometimes, not just omlettes all the time.

I am trawling the supermarkets to look at their own too. I am not mad on the quorn ones, I prefer something that doesn’t try and taste like meat, but more veg and pulses.

I have also found the Cauldron falafels which are 134 cals for 2 and 12.5 carb for 2. These would be lovely cold with a salad.

There must be a huge market for healthy veggie food that is low carb and low salt, in the UK.

Finally, hello Pinklady 🙂 nice to have another veggie aboard, good luck, and hope you have some great losses.

stingle – you are my hero! Well Done!

Juliet, your motivation for change is spot on! The cravings will alter and you will get to the stage when you wonder why you ate the wrong things – husband and I cannot believe how quickly we feel full these day and the thought of ‘sweet-treats’ is a non-starter.

Good luck!

Hi Everybody

My second day in and I’m feeling resolved and focussed. (Both new feelings for me!) Having stepped on the scales this morning to find I am 3 lbs lighter than yesterday morning I am delighted : ) Struggling a bit with hunger at the moment so filling up on water. Have just scoffed ( I know I should have eaten them slowly) 25g cashews so have only enough calories left for an omelette tonight. This could be a mistake…

The successes in Michael’s book, along with the clear explanations for a non-scientific brain like mine, have motivated me to change my awful eating habits. I want to be here for my three children and husband for as long as I can and to be fit and active enough to join in the kids games instead of sitting like a lump taking photos of them instead.

The forum is inspirational and I look forward to getting to know those of you who are so far down the line already and blazing the trail for people like me who are just trying to get through a whole hour without thinking about chocolate… xx

Day four lunch salad bit of chicken olive oil
BUT have to cut those nuts out and find in between snack alternative as think I’ve overdone em !
But not hungry which makes me think I’m fat as ever !
Drinking stacks of water n green tea and yes have included small bowl of oats in morning
We’ll see Friday night 🎭

Yes it was an amazing moment and she even wrote the book down to get a copy LOL Im one happy bunny

I have just posted about porridge on another one of the forums, we are not diagnosed diabetics, so hubby & I don’t have blood-sugar spikes to worry about, we treat ourselves to a bowl once a week, proper rolled oats, we make it with Almond milk, add some berries and ‘seed-dust’ – very filling and we look forward to this weekly treat a lot!

Oats (proper ones) are in the book as a long-term M Diet safe-food.

Other days we have youghurt & berries with a few seeds chucked in for texture (have issues with a big need for texture-rich foods eg ones that crunch!), weekends is eggs, grilled bacon & mushrooms, need to keep swinging the changes so we don’t get bored.

Have to say the massive egg, bacon, mushroom & tomato mixture I cooked for my hubby on Saturday kept him going all day, dinner was on-diet too & we did it all for 800 calories !

: )

Afternoon folks!

From my reading of the book, porridge i.e. jumbo proper oats is something to include in the long-term M Plan as opposed to be included in the 800 calories a day 8 week BSD.

that said, husband & self do treat ourselves to one SMALL bowl once a week, made with almond milk & topped with a small number of berries & a sprinkle of what we call ‘seed-dust’ – it is helpful along with psyllium husk for ‘getting things going’ …….. We then cut back on carbs for the rest of that day, it is about finding out what works best for each person, we are all individuals!

9. how easy it is to make your own F**e yoghurt and so much cheaper. How delicious it is on blueberries.

10. You don’t have to feel hungry or that you are missing out on foods.

11. You can retrain your tastebuds to really taste food again.

12. Even your slippers get to big and slip off.

13. How helpful and supportive people are on this forum.

Welcome back Lucia!

I think there is something seriously wrong with me, today it is pouring with rain but at 11am I put my walking boots in the car (they are so clean and have only been used twice in 7 years), I donned my woolie hat and jacket and walked 1.6 miles round our local lake all by myself, I had Squeeze blasting on my iPod, yes I know a bit retro but they are my fav! For every puddle that I jumped in I said to myself, that’s one for you Lucia! It made me feel so good and smug with myself but I wouldn’t have done that a few weeks ago and it is only with your encouragement to us all that I thought sod it! I am doing this for me as every time I suggest a walk to hubby there is always an excuse.

I now have a celeriac and fennel soup in the slow cooker and tuna steaks out for tea.

Think I must be running a fever as this is not me!

2 hours after my walk I did a ketostick and got to 2 pluses, purple is now my fav colour!

I’m turning 40 tomorrow. Just read the book and I’m so inspired to start even though I have lost over two stone in the last 3 months. I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in January 2016. At the same time I was having investigations for nodules in my lungs which thankfully turned out to be sarcoidosis and not pulmonary lymphoma. I have been following low carb, high protein diet. I would love to know if its OK for me to do the 8 week diet while I’m on steroids for the sarcoidosis. I know the steroids are raising my BS and I’m now down to one metformin/day from two as the steroid dose reduces. My plan is to come off the metformin once I finish the steroids or if my BS levels stabilise if I am able to partake in the 8 week diet.

Can anyone advise me? I am going to say it to my consultant next week when I meet him.

Hi Karra
I m so pleased for you.
Re upping fat -I ve been scouring my brain over this!- butter and olive oil on veg, peanut butter and tahini ( I put them in my bowl of home made soup) , avocado, bacon ( today I had salad with chopped up bacon and avocado in it) nuts and seeds, olive oil in salad dressing, because I use soya yogurt ( no fat!!) I add a teaspoonful of organic sunflower oil to my yogurt- it doesn’t have a taste. You could do that even with FF yogurt . Curry- if you follow a recipe they always have loads of oil in them.
Hope this helps.
Penny

Hi Karra
I’m so pleased that it’s working for you at last. It will encourage the other!
Best of luck with continuing weight loss
-3 lbs in 3 days!!
Penny

I think it happens to many of us that when you are putting in such a lot of effort, you do start to feel the strain, a bit fatigued, a bit tired and then the low mood can sneak in. Sometimes you have to take a rest for a short while and get your breath back. Then you can get back on your feet and start again with renewed energy. This is certainly the place I have been in this last week. I was tired of the effort and starting to lose focus. But, like Lucia, I had a short rest and now I’m back on top of things again. These are the ebbs and flows of life and I’m glad you (Lucia) are sharing yours and we can all share in this environment. Power to the people.

I love pecans, thanks cherrianne.

Thanks Bill, this was very helpful.

Hi, what did you make porridge with? I didnt see it in any of the books weekly plans or recipes so didnt know we could have it?

Hi, I’m on day 3 and so far so good. Ive mixed up a few recipes to make breakfast into something I actually like….and I have discovered I hate bluberries, so this mornni had plain yoghurt with some diced gala melon and have had handful pumpkin seeds mid morning. Lunch was 2 large lettuce leaves with a steamed portabello mushroom topped with grated beetroot, mixed seeds and feta cheese. So far I am not hungry inbetween meals so heres hoping that continues.

Wow!!!!! The. Flatbreads are amazing..: I halved the mixture and out stevia in , mixed then normal put on on grease proof paper.. Put a few sprinkles of coconut to let me know which are sweet

Heaven!! Think found my new snack… That’s what I needed an early morning quick snack

Wow, your amazing weight loss continues 🙂 your journey is definitely inspirational.
Your wife must be as excited about the BSD as you are, with getting extra help around the house lol.
Seriously, you are doing a great job, and your success is obviously well deserved.

Alanhypno,
To reinforce some of the above [from a day 9 expert!]
If you are anything like me [started at 18st 6lbs] much of BSD is an education in matters you’ve ignored like calories, carb substitution, achieving some sort of balance in your eating. For that reason I found after a couple of days that referring the suggested menus was easier. They also help change your outlook and taste – encouraging experimentation beyond your normal food.
You’ll have a doubt or two but persist, and for me by Day 8 I was feeling energised and fully enjoying proper exercise as well.
From the documentary two things keep repeating in my head:
‘Quorn is your friend’ – low cal and filling burgers in lettuce for example.
80% of weight loss is diet & 20% exercise, so keep moving too.
And 100% mindfulness [the latter was me, but pleased that Dr M. includes it] .

Good luck with the plan.

Thanks… My doctor of nearly 20 years moved away but he is not too far away.. I will make an appointment to see him.. When he moved that is when the trouble started and unfortunately the system means we need them… For referrals, scripts etc. if that fails I will give what you say a go… I might do that anyway..

https://thefastdiet.co.uk/
Google is your friend 🙂

Fine, and where is this website? Do you have an URL?

One of the things I struggle with is hunger. The dogs wake me 5 am ish and normally 6-7 walks . I come back or go on walk starved

Recently been having a scrambled egg and a tin of low salt and sugar baked beans but come 10-11 I am hank marvin ( starvin)

I then do one of my local cal soups if I can but looking at 150k Ish

Then dinner time soup…

Just made the coconut flour baps… Not bad!! Although tastes bit eggy.. Was wondering if I put some stevia would the taste any good!??

Kia ora from Auckland. It will be great to have some seasonal alternatives to the menus (can’t find pomegranates for love nor money at the moment). I think this diet is amazing, spreading the word madly!

Hi Desperate,
Great to hear you are doing so well, losing weight and happy with the food choices.
The gram flour recipe is on this website, along with a coconut flour one that Bill uses as a dessert. He spreads it with cream cheese and tops with strawberries. Gram flour can be found in Australia as Besan or chick pea flour, if you have an IGA nearby they usually stock it. Coles have coconut flour in the gluten free section, haven’t noticed if they have besan.
I’ve just discovered that Pecans are really low carb, 1.5g carb per 30g. I buy the pecan pieces from the supermarket baking aisle, the smaller pieces feel like you are eating more and they are cheaper.
Check out the over the 8 week line thread and you’ll see that we all agree that this is the way we will eat for the rest of our lives. It’s no hardship and feeling so well is just fantastic 🙂

As I have been here a while, my boss is replacing my shackles.

I am down a size,
Smaller ankles.

But the metal ball is a bit of a drag (joke)

Love Lucia
Xxx

Just people watching in the canteen.
It seats about 80 at a time.

The ones should I say larger than life have litre bottles of pop, chippy dinners, pizza, sandwiches.

The less than average ones have brought in their own salads or eating up veggie leftovers from the previous night.

I was in box a
I am now in box b

I know this is a generalisation and each to their own path.

But I haven’t noticed what foods were with each shape.

Was I blind? Why did I do this to me?
Thank goodness I found Michaels book.

Love Lucia
Xxx

orchid – pleased to hear that Mindfulness is making a difference; my daughter is having a go after years of my dropping hints, but it’s not until you try meditation and engage that you realise the potential.

Patsy – agree – habits and some almost a belief system!

Switzerland – interesting to hear your learning. I *knew* about full fat dairy but not to the extent of substituting carbs. I haven’t been able to grasp the walking thing yet, partly as we live on a hill [my excuse] but adjacent to lovely countryside and not far from a pleasant canal. I’m wondering if cycling might get me out more frequently once the weather breaks. Again my excuse is that I prefer cycling at the coast – very regularly visit my elderly mother. I even like to walk there – perhaps, mrs jws, it’d be better to just move..!

Down down, deeper and down 😀