Hi Nic,
Soups are a great idea, so filling and nutritious for very few carbs and calories. You can make soup out of just about anything. A stick blender or processor will make it thick and creamy in no time. Add some sour cream or yoghurt to boost the fat/ protein content and the satiety factor.
You can have a really nice soup in less than 30 minutes if you chop the vegetables finely enough. If you want to add dried legumes it takes a bit longer of course, but I keep a few cans of lentils and beans just in case I’m in a hurry. 🙂

Lol, no problem Cherrianne! Wow, you still have Woolies…

Hey Bill, good work spreading the word. You are living proof of the fact this diet works. All your contacts would see you shrinking before their eyes, they would see for themselves your extra energy too.
I always look in other people’s trolleys too. Can’t help myself, it’s way more fun looking and speculating than flicking through the trashy mags on display.
One thing makes me sad though is seeing the number of OAPs with loads of pot noodles instead of real food. That used to be the age group you could guarantee would have fresh fruit and veg and unprocessed meat and fish. The other ones are the obese Mums, with overweight kids who are each tucking into family sized packs of cheesy, salty twirly things before they’ve even gone through the checkout.
Our Woolies over here in Aus has a stand near the entrance with free fruit for kids. It usually has a great selection of three or four kinds of fruit and helps keep them quiet while you shop. Great idea.
Our nearest large shopping centre has a pop up Jamie’s Ministry of Food and it was great to look in there yesterday and see a group of young girls learning to cook omelettes cooked with fresh ingredients! Also great to see in an area that is quite welfare dependent with a growing obesity problem.
Oops, seem to have climbed back up on my soapbox and derailed the thread! Sorry folks, just that having 5 kids and a lifetime of working in health care does make me really conscious that a lot of chronic diseases can be prevented with good nutrition. Ok better quit while I’m ahead 🙂

Well I tried them on early but they went on a lot better than they did before the diet!!!!
Incentive to keep it up 😀 still need more room in them for comfort but can’t believe the zip goes up after this short time. Headaches gone sticking mostly to white meat and fish with salads or stir fry. Berries and plain yoghurt for treat and omelette for breakie. Good luck everyone 😉

Hi susieb

Thank you, so far so good. In answer to your question I have had a bad and limited diet for a long time. I had to eliminate that first and it took time to think about it, what I wanted to achieve and most importantly why. I have followed the principle of the diet while not embracing all the recipes! Too many years of plain eating make some unpalatable. I eradicated bread, rice (almost completely), potatoes and pasta. I retained the good vegetables and salads. I don’t eat any processed meat. I need to limit cholesterol so I have one or two eggs a week only. I eradicated the bad fruit but enjoy healthy doses of strawberries, blueberries and clementines/mandarins – the perfect breakfast for me. And it works for me.

What I need to do is start making my own soups to avoid salt spikes and reduce further processed food intake.

Cheers
Nic

Judith

Me too

Judith
I have reported it.

Good news re the scales Denise! 🙂

Thanks julia, the plateaus then drops seem to be a feature for a lot of us and well done on ignoring the choccy eggs 🙂

Denise i reported his post as soon as it popped up. The more of us that report the better. Sounds like he/she is getting pretty scared about something

Well said Denise47

Denise of course we will. As soon as it goes ‘live’ everyone will be able to sign it. We are just waiting for it to be checked. The site shuts the petition temporarily once there are 5 supporters. Can’t wait, denise!. It sounds like you could be a one woman mission! You are really going to get the ball rolling with your contacts!

I think it will take a lot to change minds , we have all been brainwashed for so many years 🙂

Hashimoto I stood on the scales and have stayed the same…phew. Glad I got on there now.

Back to work tomorrow so back to reality!

PS Happyslappy – please stop posting negative messages on here. Your spelling and grammar alone make me cringe, let alone what you are saying. I am certainly not looking at this as a quick 8 week fix and then go back to my old ways, and I don’t believe anyone else posting here is that naive either. Your opinion is noted now please respect ours and politely do one 👉

Yes Judith, and all others here, let’s continue with our POSITIVE messages and continue to make progress. I was out tonight and resisted the chocolate eggs which passed under my nose several times – and have had a good few days on stricter track so hoping my plateau might become a downward line again.
Thanks for your work on the petition.

We will, and as so many people are saying on the forum, this is a lifestyle change that is sustainable.

Can I come and sign the petition too! You are all so wonderful and supportive! Inspirational! I’ll get friends and family to sign too, and I run a lung cancer charity so will get a couple of the doctors who are trustees to sign it too!

Things have to change and we can help that happen.

My Sister-in-law is a dietician….if she tells me once more to eat low fat yogurt I swear I’ll be serving a 25 year stretch inside!

Leeanne, my OH’s fbs was 26 and they tried to control that with a low fat diet.
She now controls it with metformin, gliclazide, exanatide injections, and insulin.
The tragedy is, she honestly believes she has it under control.

Julia nothing to be sorry about, I was out a lot myself and the rejection was sat in my inbox for a while. We have to have our normal lives lol.

Folks the petition is currently been checked again. Hopefully it will pass this time and we can get down to business. 🙂

Surprisingly enough they are, and that gives yours truly the opening to preach the BSD bible.
Lots of folk showing interest too.
I also have plumbers at work asking about it and 2 of the sales girls at a supplier and one of their mums are actually doing it

Isn’t it lovely to be able to go out and stay with the principles of the diet? The more we all post events like that the more reassurance it gives to others. Hope you all had a lovely evening 🙂

Sorry have been out all day just got in and signed now!

Signed Judith
Been out with the family for dinner and I was very good 🙂

Breakfast: Greek and home made yogurt with mixed berries

Lunch: Ham and blue cheese salad, with the usual lunch time salad bits and bobs

Dinner: Mackerel fillet cooked with a rub of coriander seeds, black pepper and orange rind, served with rocket, shallot, chilli, cherry toms, , cooked yellow pepper and sesame seeds, orange juice, sesame oil and grain mustard dressing, coriander leaf

Half an apple

Water and black coffee

I got the link as soon as I pressed post. Spooky. 🙂

Going back to your original post, Nic2385, your results are really impressive – well done!

With regards to your “forethought and preparation, as much mental as in planning a new recipe set” – did you follow the diet in the book or did you adapt and use your own food plan?

spooky, what happened there? one second I was responding to your message the next I get email confirming your support!!! 🙂

That was quick signed

It must be slow, I’ve only got a response from janet and lynne so far. It seemed slow last time too. 🙂

Hi Ladies,
The longer you can fast overnight the easier it is for your body to burn fat. If you do need to snack choose a high fat option as it will satisfy your taste buds and body for longer. One of my fave snacks is a piece of cheese, 20g = 86cals 0.1g carbs and 5.4g protein. Doesn’t sound like a lot of cheese but if you cut a thin slice and break it into small pieces as you eat and let it melt on your tongue you can make it last. A handful of hulled sunflower seeds can replace nuts if they are a snack you would normally choose. Especially if you dry fry them in a couple of teaspoons of soy sauce or tamari for gluten intolerant people. Yummy salty snack at 200 cals 9g protein and 1g carb per 1/4 cup prepared this way. You wouldn’t need 1/4 cup of them.
Strawberries are a good snack if you want something sweet, 5 medium are 1.6g carb and only 13 cals. Add a tablespoon full fat Greek yoghurt for an extra 26 cals and 2.7g carb.
I think the problems we’ve had with snacking in recent years is the snacks have almost become a meal in themselves. Snacks have become high sugar, high cal foods and we can easily eat all day without thinking. Those of us doing the BSD are now much more mindful of what we eat, and it’s a shock to think back on our previous eating habits. You quickly become satisfied with less though and the cravings disappear completely for most people.

Hi Judith

Not got the link yet.

Thanks hashimoto!

My feelings exactly Patsy.

I need to get a photo of the label on the chicken in the shop and attach it to the email. If I can remember which cooked meat it was I’ll try for a photo of that label too.

Apparently the guy I emailed started off in the food department and worked his way up. Hopefully he will listen and act.

I caught something on the radio the other day talking about recycling used chewing gum into a plastic substance and using it in some industrial setting for something or other – that made me pretty sure I didn’t want to eat any ever again.

Yes Stringbreaker, that makes perfect sense to me too. I don’t like gum for many reasons including this one.

I stress that I am no expert, but I read something about chewing gum some years ago which has stuck in my memory.

The burden of the article was that chewing gum can be a problem for some people. It said that when you chew, it stimulates the digestive system to produce the acids which will digest the food it is about to recieve. As no food arrives, then the acid is floating about in your digestive system with nothing absorb it. The result is damage or irritation to the digestive tract.

I have no idea if this is true or not, but it made sense to me and I haven’t chewed gum since.

Hi Lucia,
Here in Aus I wake up to these posts! Start my day with a big grin on my face that lasts a long while 🙂
I wouldn’t have thought there would be a paper layer under the foil either. I wondering if it’s to stop you licking the yoghurt off the foil and cutting your tongue on the edge? But none of you would do a silly thing like that would you? No, nor me either.
Great news on your new blouse size. You are getting great success and well deserved. How quickly you’ve turned your life and eating around, no wonder you’re noticing birds, flowers and firemen. Well done.

B – raspberries and Greek yogurt

L – turkey salad

D – harissa chicken (absolutely scrummy with a bit of a kick) served with the salad as in the recipe in the book, defo doing this again, tastes nothing like ‘ diet’ food!

750 calories the lot

I buy it from sainsburys but I dare say other stores sell it. It is a really thick creamy greek yoghurt 🙂

That’s a really impressive weight loss – well done.

Bee Lady, the suggested menu plans are in the kindle version of the book right at the end after the recipes. I haven’t followed them though – I’m just picking out the things I like the look of and which my husband will eat!

Do give the diet a try. It does feel a bit strange not having the carbs if, like me, you’re used to eating them at every meal but I’m finding foods I like and haven’t been horribly hungry and no cravings yet.

I’ve been thinking about your snacking habit, Judycakes. Are you always doing the same thing when tempted to snack? If so, would doing something slightly different in the evening help? Eg if you usually watch TV then read or do puzzles instead. Changing your routine might make it easier to break the habit.

I was wondering they, Patsy?

Judith, what stores sell it?

If it’s not actually marinated in the stuff and it’s just put on the outside for the colour, then how does it help the taste? The problem is probably that they use factory farmed ‘forced’ chicken which get no exercise and fatten quickly, which results in profitable but tasteless meat. Good meat is tasty enough without additives.

Hi Judycakes,
I would suggest something with fewer carbs. Fats fill you up better than carbs, and a bit of protein too helps. Grapes are not too good on either of these!
I did a few sums and assume 5 grapes are 24.5g; that is 0.18g protein; 0.04g fat; 4.43 carbs; 16.91g cals.
Some warm milk – full cream or Greek yoghurt would be better. The same amount of milk (24.5g) is 0.81g protein; 0.98g fat and 1.1g carbs – 16.41 cals or Greek yoghurt with 1.1g protein; 2.3 fat; 1.57 carbs and 31.61 cals. Greek yogurt (full fat) is most likely to leave you feeling full longest.
Why not try leaving 50 cals and 3g carbs for the end of the day? You can have 35g Greek Yoghurt and 5 blueberries in it – 49 cals and 3g carb?
Alternatively, I have a hot drink before bed – cocoa – and yes plain cocoa NOT hot chocolate. I started it a year ago when there was some publicity about elements in cocoa that were reversing memory loss in dementia patients. There is dementia in the family so I decided it could do no harm to try it. I have 5 grams cocoa powder mixed with a little cold water to a paste, then fill up with hot water. It took a few days to get used to as it had no milk or sugar in it, but it has become a nightly ritual to have it about 9-9.30, PC and phone off and relax before getting ready for bed.
The cocoa fits in with med diet as small quantities of chocolate (dark) are recommended in it so I have continued. Five grams cocoa powder (I use G&B, other brands are available) is 17 cals; 1.13g protein; 1.13g fats and 0.63g carbs. Hot water is nothing! Note I don’t take milk in tea or coffee so this is my only milk and I am vegetarian.
Having been on low fat since it was introduced in the 80’s, having greek yoghurt not fat free yoghurt and semi-skimmed or full fat milk were an anathema to me and it took 3-4 week into the diet before I tried greek yoghurt – full fat. It works. It fills you up and the calorie difference is much smaller than I had thought it would be. I use 60ml greek yoghurt for breakfast where I used to take 100 ml skimmed yoghurt and feel just as full. Higher protein as well, calories about the same.
In the last 2 weeks, if I have enough calories left at day end, I have the cocoa with 100ml semi skimmed milk (not quite got myself onto full fat milk yet) and top the cup up with hot water. It is a real treat and great way to wind down – reminiscent of childhood drinks! If I don’t have enough cals spare for the for the milk – or don’t want to up the carbs then I stick to the hot water on it’s own.
If you took 5g cocoa plus 75 ml semi-skimmed milk topped up with water to top of mug, the total is 3.68g protein, 2.40g fat, 4.16g carb and 51.75 cals.
Play around with some foods you like, concentrate on the protein and fat content higher than carbs to give you a longer lasting ‘full’ feeling for that evening snack.
Good luck.

I think it’s changing us in more ways than one Judith.

As well as losing our various addictions to sugar and carbs, we’re regaining control over our health and our lives.

We’re also uniting against the massed forces of professionals who led us into the state of dependency on sugar, carbs and medication.

BSDers of the world unite!!!!!! 😃

I’ve never heard of fage yoghurt. Is that just a brand name, or is it a different type? If I do try it, I’ll remember the paper layer.

It’s weird and wonderful isn’t it janet, lynne and aly. A friends partner offered me some chocolate yesterday, I felt like he was offering me poison – which I suppose he was – embarrassingly I think it showed on my face. What? Me? The one time choccy lover? I’m still giggling (and commiserating) with bill having to wash his mouth out after a smidgen of low fat yoghurt last night.
This diet is certainly changing us 🙂

At the moment – now finishing week 10 – I have no inclination to eat any high carbohydrate food. I’m rarely hungry and completely satisfied with the food I’m eating – still finding that hard to believe. Having regained weight so many times I’m worried about what will happen if / when I do eat outside the plan. I thought Bill was brave to eat his Yorkie. I don’t trust myself to do that yet. Professor Taylor’s results show that the participants could eat some high carb food once they’d finished the study. I’m hoping that the support here will help me through. Knowing the effect it’s had on my health I can’t go back to the old ways.

Lol lucia that had me in a fit of giggles. Mea culpa. It was I. I did the same myself the first time!

Glad you find it scrummy after the paper came off. I think I have changed my addiction for chocolate to fage yoghurt. I love the stufff 🙂