Thanks Penny, I shall just keep on trying as trying seems to help, good to know it isn’t possible to succeed 🙂

Thanks Penny I’ll keep using CK 🙂

Fantastic newlife! Your desire to be healthy overcame your embarrassment of ‘making a fuss’ in a restaurant! You know you have really cracked the dining out on BSD now! 🙂

Janet it would be lovely to meet. Pick a time between the 18th -21st and we can sort something. I live in the middlesbrough area so it is absolutely doable 🙂

Thanks Christ1948 – I’m an introvert and online support has been a lifesaver for me over the years as I find it much easier to ‘talk’ this way than IRL.

Penny – IKR?

I did well at my pub lunch yesterday – I asked for burger, no bun, salad instead of chips. It came with chips!! It would have been so easy just to eat them (I hate making a fuss in restaurants) but I sent it back and got the salad instead. 🙂

Hi Suzie – absolutely!

I’ve cut out all bread, potatoes, rice and pasta. So instead of sandwiches I have salad. Instead of the other starches I have more green veg or salad.

I’ve cut out all junk food and desserts. Eating full-fat dairy keeps me feeling full, a knob of butter on veg is yummy, nuts and seeds are great for snacks.

It’s very do-able.

Thanks so much for that tip on yoghurt ,I’ve had this huge pot of Tesco yoghurt which I’ve been having odd spoonful as snack and small bowl with blueberries after lunch
Day one was way too easy,had to force my evening meal of scrambled eggs down me after my chicken salatd lunch
What’s the catch ?
Be interesting to see if my 19 st 8 lb has dropped end of week.
Thank you Alan

Penny
Any shade of pink is good, listening to what others are getting, it sounds quite a personal thing depending on how many carbs you have, I know you go quite low, and also exercise seems to affect colour too. I find its quite easy to get no colour with just the introduction of something carby and then it takes several hours to go pink again.

Monkey-mind! So simple yet so explanatory! I have that all the time. Its a great piece of wisdom, thank you Penny. Its now 2.15am, I’d really like my monkey-mind to bog off now!

So true, that’s how I ended up with two stone to lose!

Wow catgirl, you’ve just written my next application form! Are you sure you weren’t also a dog groomer, you describe it so well! Thank you for taking the time to write all that, its so very eloquent. I will make good use of your advice.

Christine, safe journey and have a great holiday.

Judith, it would be great to meet up, I often wish we could see the real people behind the messages. Looks like I might be in saltburn tomorrow as there is a problem with the boiler. But seriously, I’m up again from the 18th – 21st. Do you think we could?

I too am interested in this question. Haven’t received my copy of the book yet (waiting impatiently by the letter box!) but I’ve read in various threads about the importance of trying to stay under 50carbs per day for maximum weight loss. I haven’t really managed to do this yet, or come close to it even though I am finding it really easy to cut back to 800 calories without feeling hungry.

Has anyone who has completed the 8 week 800 calorie version of the diet found that counting carbs isn’t necessary?

Hi
I’m day 4 of week 2 on BSD. First week I lost 3kgs (this was in the 1st 4days), but have not budged since then and infact despite being under 800 cals for the past 3 days, I have gained 900grams.

I am strictly tracking everything, drinking lots of water and I even went for a 6km walk yesterday.

Any ideas as to what I can do to get the weight loss moving again?

Hi Suzie64, I am doing that as I haven’t received the book yet and was impatient to start. I have changed my diet gradually over the past 3 decades gradually cutting out grains, starting with bread what seems now like a very long time ago. We were almost grain free when we started the diet (my husband is doing it with me) a couple of weeks ago. So far I’ve lost about 6 kilograms and he’s lost a couple. All we’ve done is cut out snack and junk foods as well as dessert which we usually had every day.

We eat a lot of vegetables, which I’m noticing can quickly add up the carbs. I finished the potatoes we had in the cupboard – won’t be buying them again for a while! We’re probably eating more veggies than we were before we started the diet. I think we’ll settle into a pattern of eating two main meals a day instead of the traditional breakfast, lunch and dinner. At the moment we’re having a whey powder fortified smoothie as one meal but I’m thinking of incorporating the yoghurt into one of the main meals.

I’ve noticed that by measuring the cheese we’ve cut back considerably on our use of it – we were huge cheese eaters. Now instead of snacking on cheese it adds flavour to the meals. We are basically eating what we ate before with a few minor adjustments. I don’t think we could have done this if we hadn’t made those earlier changes to our diet: we were brought up on traditional English diets of meat with 3 veg (one of them potato!) and dessert for reward for eating dinner every day. With sandwiches for lunch, followed by cake. I think it would be more challenging to follow the blood sugar diet if were starting from there.

I am keeping a food diary http://bsdfast800.blogspot.com.au/ as I find it helps me stay on track. I have a shocking memory and I know that without writing down everything I’m eating and keeping myself accountable that way I’d soon become despondent. Plus, it helps me track what is and what isn’t working.

I’m looking forward to receiving my copy of the book because I think I need some discipline around food preparation and making it a priority in my life (rather than something I ‘have’ to do at the last minute) and I have a sneaking feeling that exploring different recipes will really help me stay on track with a Mediterranean style diet long term. I’m convinced it will build the health me and my husband need.

Good luck – definitely work out your own menu plans – do whatever works for you. 🙂

Hi Christi1948,
Thank you for your kind comments. These forums are such a great, supportive place and that goes a long way to helping people succeed.
Hope you have a fantastic time away and come back refreshed and raring to go 🙂

😀

QuiOui
I forgot to say- fantastic weight loss!
Penny

Hi QuiOui
Thanks for the info.
Did the fasting lead to a month of excess??!!
It’s quite complicated- is there a book?
Penny

Hi Judith
I haven’t found a uk site I like so I use CK and deduct the fibre.
Penny

Hi Natalie and Judith
It’s normal to not be able to do it. The Buddhists call it monkey- mind. It’s trying to do it that helps, it’s not really possible to ‘succeed’. I learnt this on a silent (!) meditation week about 30 years ago. The success is the trying.
I just keep forgetting to try!
Today though I did some. An app called Payse, which is quite fun and no annoying voices. I did it in the car ( not my turn to drive!!) today. It’s about 10 minutes. You put your finger on a blob and follow it slowly around. Then it follows you. Has to be slow. That’s it. But for some reason that is calming!
The Calm app is more calming but more effort.
I’m going to try to remember.
Penny

Hi Lynne and Judith, I was probably asleep when you both posted. I did ask Bill in my email to forward on to you both. He’s probably too busy painting his fence or blowing bubbles in his jacuzzi 🙂

Hi Justme
Welcome to the forums. Looks like you ve made a good start. Do shout for help if you need any. We really all here to help.
Penny

Hi Beverly
Great start! Look forward to reading your progress.
Penny

Hi christine
I’ve only just git Ketostix. Is there an ideal colour we should be getting ?
Thanks
Penny

Hi Janet1973,
Those are the reasons I don’t like FB. You can’t control what other people choose to post so you are confronted with the profane and pornographic or racist and violent.
I believe in the GIGO principle lol; if you put garbage in you get garbage out 😉

Hi Meredex, how are you going now? Have you had weight loss? Also feeling frustrated as I have had the same experience this week. I have def. been under 800 and did 15,000 steps yesterday and nothing! Really need this to work.
Lucyjane

Amazing dream new life!
Penny

Hi izmoll1,
I would definitely be consulting your health professional about dropping your victoza and gliclazide before you start because you don’t want to risk hypoglycaemia. You may have to print off the information for health professionals from the link in the book. Try and see the diabetes nurse and see if they will monitor you a bit more frequently at first. Maybe your GP responded like that because of lack of knowledge about the BSD.
You will certainly make a dent in that 5 stone you need to lose, over the next eight weeks and after. There are quite a few continuing with the fast800 beyond the first eight weeks to achieve their goals.
Keep posting, you’ll get loads of advice and encouragement. 🙂

Hi Christi 1948,
I am coming into the website because the football is on
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Love Lucia
Xxxx

Hi Hashimoto.
I can only find one tennis ball, otherwise I would have had a go at twossies.

I am suggesting things from my childhood for a couple of reasons
A. To feel young again
B. Going outside the normal routine
C. Using different muscles.
D. Finding the energy and will power to actually do something not easily done

I would suggest a hoopla hoop but scared I may put my back out.🤕🤕🤕🤕🤕🤕
Love Lucia
Xxxx

Night all, I’m off to bed, the football is on!!!!!!
Christine

Hi Lucia,
Ah that’s lovely nice to hear about someone who is happy with their man cheers
Christine

Do you think bill is still out painting the fence, hope he has a torch.
🖌🖌🖌🖌🖌🖌🖌🖌🖌🖌🖌🖌🖌🖌
Love Lucia
Xxxx

Stingle what a positive post. So many of us are reaching the 8 week line having achieved life changing results. Getting off the insulin is such an achievement. You must be so proud of yourself. 🙂
The BSD is quite easy after the first few weeks and none of us want to go back to our old way of eating.
Your results will inspire anyone struggling through the first few days of the BSD.

Hi alanhypno
You were asking about Greek yogurt, I don’t know if anyone has answered your question, but here goes, I asked the very same question, look for TOTAL FARGE Greek yogurt, full fat it’s apparently the best as it hasn’t got many carbs in it. So next time you are at the supermarket look for that, then you can add blueberries, strawberries, pear and walnuts, although pear is very high in carbs! So only have that as a treat. Hope this helps
Christine

Hi, I think I am ready to share a little more.

I am happily married to a crazy guy that loves me, warts and all. We have been together since the early nineties. He hasn’t realised he is married to one crazy big bird.

I am altering his diet too, but he hasn’t noticed yet, he’s been on it a month too.

I have been buying low glutton bread from water fields, it doesn’t upset the budget and he hasn’t passed comment or complained.

I love swooning over movie stars or to stars, but the nicest part of the day is cuddling up to my hubby at bedtime. He is my teddy bear. I am blessed and appreciate how delicate relationships can be.

Gibbs, legolas, etc do not come a close second to him.

Diet?
I am going through an egg faze, am enjoying various ways to cook them.

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Great stuff, Iwannagetfit!! 🙂
Well done, you can make that victory dance a victory lap now you have all that extra energy lol.
Now you know why the rest of us are such fans of the BSD. Carbs rob you of energy and following the BSD gives it back to you.
Like Red Devil I’m looking forward to your next update.

Hi Judith,
Wow I’m hoping to see 12 stone something in the morning, never mind 11 lb, I am being realistic too, and doing it in stages, after tomorrow I expect t I will put a few pounds on over the week I’m away, however when I get back I will set another target.
We love to got for walks when it’s a lovely day, cold or otherwise,
It’s good to meet up with relatives ones in a while, we have a niece who’s husband has got a job in Florida of all places, they have had a stint in New Zealand and are in Chepstow at the moment, we are hoping to catch up with them befor they move out there, the husband is there already and they spend every holiday out there until the end of term in July then they will be off, niece is a teachers asistant, her daughter is finishing her a levels then she can go to university in the USA.
I’m going to have to get a calendar to work out which week I’m on it can only be nine or ten weeks, you get lost in the days sometimes.
Good luck with your 5lbs you want to lose.
Christine

Here are a few excerpts from a website on Ketosis.

Problems associated with extreme levels of ketosis are more likely to develop in patients with type 1 diabetes compared with type 2 diabetes patients.

If there is not enough glucose available to meet energy demands, the body will adopt an alternative strategy in order to meet those demands. Specifically, the body begins to break down fat stores to provide glucose from triglycerides. Ketones are a by-product of this process.

Ketones are acids that build up in the blood and are eliminated in urine. In small amounts, they serve to indicate that the body is breaking down fat, but high levels of ketones can poison the body, leading to a process called ketoacidosis.

Ketosis describes the metabolic state whereby the body converts fat stores into energy, releasing ketones in the process.

Patients with diabetes who follow a ketogenic diet need to carefully monitor their ketone levels. A serious condition called ketoacidosis can occur if these levels get too high, and although it is most prevalent in individuals with type 1 diabetes, people with type 2 diabetes can still develop ketoacidosis.

Here is the link to the website
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/180858.php

Hope this helps to explain it a bit better.

hugs
Karra

Wow!
That is amazing!
Well done Iwannagetfit.
Bet that makes all the hard work feel well worth it.
😆 I too am surprised at how much extra energy I seem to have.
Looking forward to hearing your next update.

Christine I am wishing you a peaceful and relaxing holiday.
It’s very painful to watch helplessly while our children suffer. Hopefully the girls will have a fun time together and Angela will return home fully refreshed and ready for battle 🙂
Judith

Lynne you will have fun buying new clothes now you are leaving blacks and navys behind! 🙂

Hi Christine, I like the sound of your walks, muddy or not!
Well I started out at just over 11stones 9 and a half pounds, I am now 8stones 13lbs. I hope to lose another 5 lbs but I am now losing ounces at a time because I have increased my calories. I’m quite happy for it to take a few months to lose that other 5lbs so I can get some wear out of the clothes which now fit me 🙂

That was a long fast period Christine. I am only getting pale pink on my ketostix now. I loved the few dark purple ones I got.

I’ve lost count of how many weeks I have done, I’m going to have to count it up on the calendar, I know I was a bit behind Lynne.

Today I met up with a cousin who I hadn’t seen for YEARS along with her family, so a very pleasant afternoon with lots to catch up on!! 🙂

Hi Judith
She is desperately in need of a full time job so that she can move on with her life, I feel a lot of her problems stems from being alone for so long and having a flat she couldn’t get rid of until she got her lease extended, which Sheffield council made extremely difficult stuffing up on more than one occasion! What made it worse she wouldn’t let us help her, it took her ten years to sort it, that’s why she is with us for the moment!
She has gone back with Melanie to Bristol for a couple of days, so hopefully she will be better motivated when she returns.
Thanks for your concern, it really helps me, as I am finding it difficult at times! Looking forward to my hols, we set off in the morning.
Christine

Brunch – Frozen Barries, Full Fat Yogurt, Nuts and oats smoothie
Dinner – Brown Rice with Black Eyed beans curry

7th Day Update… This morning I weighed init is 97.5 KG and I started with 103 KG on 4-4-2016. I feel amazing. In last couple of days i have been feeling that i have lot of energy i started doing some day to day house chores and walking a lot which i hated before. I feel amazing.

Hi Lucia,
I made the mushroom bacon and egg thingies and they are ready for my journey in the morning thanks a lot for the idea cheers
Christine

Hi Trees, what your homeopathic doctor said re diet is really interesting, thanks for sharing 🙂
Congratulations on your fabulous weight loss!! 🙂

Hi Christine I really feel for your poor daughter, it’s so hard when you are conscientious and caring and the job takes it out of you in every possible way. I hope something good turns up for her soon 🙂

Wow neohdiver, it took some guts to try that experiment of yours but it has paid off!! This diet never ceases to amaze me!! 🙂