Judith and Janet, would love to meet you both but don’t want to gatecrash.

How about another time? I live near Durham but depend on public transport.

Hi janet. I’ll email you 🙂

Hi meredex if those drinks were alcoholic they won’t help you because of te sugars/ empty calories. I would advise staying of them for a while 🙂

Hi jacqjax, it sometimes happens and then suddenly drops off.

Check list:
1. Areyou eating 50g of carbs or less?
2. Are you drinking 2-3 litres of water a day.?
3 Are you eating enough fat?
4 get some ketostix to check you are fat burning
5 measure youself – are your clothes getting looser?

Hope that helps!

If you are a British Citizen please could you sign our petition? 🙂

Hi lucyjane, well the scales didn’t move for 8 days!! Nothing, not even 1/2 pound! I stuck to it and I’m 1lb down today so I’m hoping the plateau has passed. But I did go out last night and had a few drinks so it could be that I’m dehydrated! I’ll know more tomorrow when I weigh. It’s really frustrating when you stick to the plan and it doesn’t seen to be working. Keep with it and I’ll let you know tomorrow, don’t be beaten xx

Hi Alan

Glad day 1 went well 😃 There’s no catch, eating more fat helps us feel full longer. 😃

Keep up the good work and keep us informed how you are doing.

Judith, how about the Monday evening? I’ll have my little dog with me and I’m staying in my flat in saltburn. I can either come to you or you can come to me. I think you have my email address already?

Lol janet, your last post made me chuckle – but it is so true for all of us:)

Izmol1 you don’t have to stick to the recipes in the book if you don’t want to as long as you stick to the principles. Of 800 calories, 50g of carbs or less, 2-3 litres of water a day and full fat. A lot of us like fage greek yoghurt with berries or seeds for breakfast 🙂

Hi Janet and Cherrianne

I am on FB but have changed how I use it over the years. Now it’s mainly family, real-life friends and colleagues. It’s a way for me to keep in touch with folk in different parts of the country and world. I have removed lots of groups and individuals for a variety of reasons. I now spend more time on here than on FB 😃

I have been on a couple of other forums too – WW and DiabetesUK. Used to get too many trolls on WW, spoiling it for everyone. Not been on the Diabetes forum after my first few weeks on the BSD when I posted there about this.

This is the most supportive and friendliest group of people and it is a pleasure to ‘know’ you all.

These are incredible improvements you must be so proud of yourself 🙂 and such great inspiration for all the diabetic newbies just starting out!

Lily, I’m impressed with your calculations and the way you reached them.
Thank you !

Stingle, I’m so pleased for you! What brilliant results! 🙂

Fantastic results stingle. Looking forward to seeing you in the ‘over the 8-week line and beyond’ thread.

What a brilliant post. Thank you 😃

Thanks nigel 🙂

Hi suzie, you don’t need to stick to the recipes in the book BUT you do need to stick to the PRINCIPLES of the diet so:
1. Count the calories
2. Keep carbs to under 50g a day
3. Drink 2-3 litres of water a day
4. Eat FAT – it’s important and helps keep you full
5. There is a photo in the book showing typical foods for the diet, that should help you
6. Look at the thread What have you eaten today, it is full of ideas for meals
7. There is a recipe tab on the tool bar, you may find something you like on there 🙂

Finally – welcome to the forums and the BSD way of life.shout if you need help, there are always people to help.
If you are a British Citizen please can you sign our petition 🙂

Thank you so much for the encouragement. I will take a look at the other threads.
I am a British citizen but have been out of the country for 7 years. Not sure if that means I can sign, let’s see

Just signed, Cheers.

Orchid on ‘trust me I’m a doctor’ mm carried out an experiment on eating before exercise or not. In the 5:2 book it states it is more effective to exercise before eating. However the experiment through up an unexpected result:

MEN exercise is more effective BEFORE eating

WOMEN exercise is more effective AFTER eating

I can’t remember all the reasons but that was the finding. 🙂

Hello and welcome Grandenmark,

I too am mother of the bride. I started the journey 9 weeks ago today also needing to lost the same amount as you. My daughter’s wedding is now in 3 1/2 weeks time!

Yes is the answer, it is perfectly doable in your timescale – or sooner. She will however be proud of you regardless.

to date I have lost 22lb. I bought my dress after week 1, but in the size below the one I was at the time – motivation or what!

So if I can do it, anyone can.

Keep posting to let us know how you are getting on.

Gardenmark, stick to the diet and 2 stones long before september is utterly doable. Look at weigh in thread and Captainlynne’s two threads, over the 8 week line and 16 weeks and over.

Welcome to the forums 🙂

If you are a. British Citizen please could you sign our petition, you will find it on the please sign our petition thread 🙂

Hi please sign our petition, we have been stuck on 207 since friday. If you are a British Citizen you can sign 🙂

Ok, not the bride but mother of the bride. Tried on the dress I wore 4 years ag to my other daughters wedding and couldn’t zip it up!
Now my youngest daughter is marrying in September and I NEED to lose 2 stones. I want her to be proud of me and I want to make her proud.
Anyone out there think it is a possible target or not realistic.
Here goes. DAY 1

Hi lucia so lovely to hear of someone in a loving relationship xxx

Lucia if you suggest hoola hoop I would definitely put my back out! How about skips? Oh no, I can’t do that either! We could ‘watch with mother’ – that’s no good we’d be sitting still. Errrrrrr
Can you play What time is it mr wolf on your own?

Did you watch tbst program about staying younger? I used to do that sitting from standing position with legs crossed with my class sometimes after wet playtimes just to use energy and refocus. HELPPpppppp I can’t do it anymore without putting a hand down. I can’t get back up without using two hands. I never knew I was helping children to stay young!!!!!!

Xxx

Hi cherrieanne, after a wet start the rain came out so Bill will have been painting and then blowing bubbles in his jacuzzi! I think he is keeping his w/ends for family so we may not hear from him until Monday . 🙂

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 😉