Hello
I am new too and not diabetic either, but needing a boost to lose my last 8kg.
I am on day 3 and really enjoying cooking at home again after 4 weeks on the move and a bit too much chocolate.
Ieat the 800 calories in a 5 hour eating window, and already burning fat ( my OH can smell the acetone).

Hi Bill1954, I will certainly sign your petition! Thanks!

And gone
thanks JJ you’re really on the ball today 🙂

I’ve been disappointed too. I think I’ve been really good, no potatoes, rice, pasta, bread or alcohol – just bacon, eggs, salads, stir fries, chicken, salmon and hummous. I’ve not lost anything, although it has been the first week only. Could it just be that I need to up the water intake even more and eat more yoghurt and cheese? Apart from this, found the diet easy so far and enjoyed to food.

Welcome Kingdoone
You don’t need to feel like a fraud, there are many non diabetics on the forums.
Use the diet as a preventitive measure, it’s all good.

reported multiple times – bloody annoying

Hi! Please don’t worry, the site hasn’t been hacked. We won’t comment on individual cases for privacy reasons but I will almost always give the same information regarding passwords and keeping them safe, regardless of the root cause of the concern.

So here goes 😊

You should have unique, strong and long passwords for each site you use. These can be difficult to remember, so there are password managers available which remember them for you and plug into your browser to help you fill out login forms. I use 1Password, https://agilebits.com/, and LastPass, https://lastpass.com/, is also popular. The reason for this is if one site you are on gets hacked, then hackers can’t use that information to hack you on another site.

I also recommend looking at Troy Hunt’s site, have i been pwned? https://haveibeenpwned.com/, to see if your email has been involved in any of the big data breaches. Troy Hunt teaches courses on web security and has provided that site as a free service.

We aren’t affiliated with any of those, it’s just that when the topic comes up, it seems responsible to mention it.

Congratulations Garden78! They are amazing results. May I suggest you repost this in ‘Fast 800’ ? I think anyone struggling would appreciate reading this! X

got this back from admin
Thanks for the reports. The site hasn’t been hacked or compromised but I can’t comment more on what happened for privacy reasons.

Now the spammers are hitting another forum, the 5:2
This is getting ridiculous

Hi Everyone,
I feel a bit of a fraud as I am not diabetic yet!!
I am clinically ‘obese’ BMI 34.2 and have over years lost considerable amounts of weight and regained. I even lost 3 stones with ‘Lighterlife’ just protein drinks for 3 months.
I am in my 60’s and realise with my large waist I am heading in the diabetes direction. My saving grace being that I am very active.
I am a qualified diabetes nurse, now retired! So also feel some guilt and shame. After reading the book it echoes what I have thought for many years , that we treat diabetes wrongly.
Anyway , I am fascinated by your emails and your determination to succeed.
I have started !

Hi JillyB!
Fat is the most energy dense of all the nutrients ( protein fats and carbs). The secret to the success of this plan is you use ‘good’ fats- olive oil, coconut oil, avocado, rapeseed oil, and Butter- not margarine or ‘low fat’ spreads. Small amounts of good fats are good for us and keep us feeling full for longer. So even tho the amounts seem small, it should satisfy you for longer than a plate full of starchy carbs does because they just spike your blood sugar then it crashes down much sooner leaving you feeling starving! Bad fats are those onus in low fat spreads, commercially made cakes biscuits and pastries, which are mainly ‘trans fats’ and are very bad for us. Good luck JillyB! X

Hi barby, yes cacao nibs are an acquired taste for some. I love them but I’ve never been a milk chocolate fan. They are quite pricey (I buy raw nibs online) but I find a dessert spoon sprinkled on top of my yogurt is enough so a pack goes a long way. I also use turmeric, cinnamon and root ginger in savoury food and cacao can zip up a chilli! I am interested in the anti inflammatory effect of such foods as well as the delicious taste. if you like coconut there are dairy free coconut yogurts available in the usual supermarkets. Check that they are unsweetened. I’m interested to hear how my fellow vegetarians are doing. 😊

Hi all, I am new here and have loved reading the posts, with special thanks to Squidy for posting that very interesting information on the DP. I too have experienced morning highs. I am going to look at it this way, I did well the day before allowing my liver to release sugar during the dawn phenomenom, now all I have to do is burn it off. My readings for the last 3 days have been 7.1, 6.0 and 5.9. During the day I am averaging 5.5. Just had my diabetic bloods done yesterday so will be interested to see what my average has been over the last few months. I take no meds and never will after having a horrendous hypo when pregnant (on insulin as had gestational diabetes) and after being told by one silly diabetic nurse of the progression my diabetes will take and there was nothing I could do about it!! Thank goodness for low GI and Prof Roy Taylor and Dr Fung and now Dr Mosley. X

Thanks for the ideas Magpie – I’m veggie too. I have a mixture of ground seeds and nuts that I add to my jumbo oats, so could use that.Will get some milled flax anyway, as it’s good for your hair I think.

Never tried the cacao nuts, but will now, as thy are apparently a superfood, but rather bitter! Somewhere I read you can add a little cinammon, turmuric or shredded coconut also. Prefer the fruit idea to be honest..

Hi. You can look it up on line or on the back of your food products. Make a list before you start of all the things you like to eat and the amount of carbs in each. It will make it easier to keep track. Good luck!

Hi all, loving the ideas! I find that really need strong flavours and crunch to satisfy me at breakfast time. I use frozen mixed red berries which include blackcurrants and raspberries or, to ring the changes, grated lemon zest and a sprinkle of stevia or orange zest, stevia and a sprinkle of cacao nibs which add a nice crunch too. Then the seeds, milled flax, nuts etc. I’m a vegetarian, almost vegan, so I use diary free yogurt which is also low carb and filling.

Well done gooismeid 🙂

I’m with you on the wine, I also allow myself the odd G+T.

You have to be happy with those results gooismeid.
Nice to see you are joining the group of us who are continuing on the fast 800.
Your tale will help instill confidence into new starters
Congratulations to both of you. 🙂

Thanks Lucy – maybe my tastes will change too then. I have tried to like it just plain.Maybe I could make a sauce from frozen strawberries etc.

Barby I do that with berries, strawberries I use fresh and I have used pear as well
To vary things I add a tsp of milled linseed to help keep the plumbing regular

Emailed you Judith 😉
yeah it said to leave contact details if you are willing to be interviewed

Hi Barby,

Until I started this way of eating, I HATED plain yoghurt! However, as I have cut out refined carbs and sugar, it tastes better everyday! I have been eating it with a few blueberries and strawberries and a sprinkle of mixed seed i.e. flax seed, sunflower etc – Delicious! Never thought I would ever post that. I have been eating Yeo full fat natural yoghurt

Lucy

The 8 week result.
Dropped: 12 pounds, from a borderline size 16 to a 12/14, the late night chocolate cravings, from borderline obese to mid-range overweight.
Gained: extra energy, a yogurt maker, a taste for running, and a slimline husband who fits into trousers 2 sizes smaller than before the diet. Not bad, considering we also had a sort-of week off over Easter which resulted in no weight loss. In fact, we’re so pleased about this new way of eating we’re continuing with the Fast 800 for another few weeks until we’re both out of the overweight BMI range. When we went out last night to celebrate our niece’s birthday, we both had a lovely steak salad, sparkling water, and the tiniest sliver of chocolate cake, and felt totally stuffed. I can’t imagine ever sitting down to a 3 course meal plus breadbasket again, and to be honest I don’t think I’ll miss it. I am, however, glad that the BSD Med-style diet does advocate the odd glass of red wine!

Yeh, Bill, I will keep reporting anything I see. Done it quite a few times already. I have noticed other people, like me, you, Lynne etc are not drawing attention to the spammers without reporting first. I think we learnt that lesson via happyslapper.

I’ve got to say hacking passwords must feel very personal to the victims.

Janet 1973 I always think up a phrase which is meaningful to me but nothing to anyone else and add numbers and symbols, capital and lower case etc. The spammers will hit on those with softer passwords first.

I have a question please about yogurts please, as I was going to try one for breakfast. I understand the Greek type full fat are best, but I really don’t like them plain, and I guess the fruit flavoured ones have fructose or other bad things.

Don’t like honey much, what else could I add to add some fruity flavour? I have some frozen blackberries, I could microwave for a few seconds and add them.Just wondered what you all do? Would love it if there were a low carb fruit one anywhere. Thanks.

Is it easy to measure carbs .?
It seems a little baffling to me as I aim to begin this plan this weekend and various food group measurements seem difficult unless in a recipe.
How do I measure carbs in individual foods or fats etc
Cheers again folks,I want to get my head straight before I begin at weekend
Alanhypno

Thanks for the articles Bill, I’ve printed them off to share with friends:)

Good job we have you, Bill 🙂

Hi Eureka
The spammers aren’t stupid. If they see stuff on the media which is attracting a lot of attention, they will go looking for forums related to the subject to drop their links as they know there will be a temparay increase in traffic to those forums. We aren’t personally being targeted, most of the spammers are Russia or middle East based and to them it’s just a way of earning a living. They have no interest in the forums they spam or the products in that spam.

Lynne – they’re eating some good stuff! Result!!! I recognise my childhood self in C!!! Lets hope they stay slim as they move towards better food! 🙂

Welcome to the forums, barby. You can see from the posts on these forums that this diet really does work!
If you need any advice just shout there will be someone awake and ready to answer somewhere in the world!! 🙂

Lynne, our doctors surgery has a blood pressure monitor in the waiting area for anyone to use, does yours have the same? You could check it regularly before the ‘white coat syndrome’ of having it done by the doctor. I bought my mother, after a heart attack, a blood pressure monitor to use at home. They are reasonably priced these days.
If you still have some of that amazon voucher left you could treat yourself!
Statins made my mother so ill!! Same for a lot of other people I know.
🙂

A little trick I discovered if you want to use random letters and numbers but need a,way to remember them yourself – take the initials of all the people in your family from your grandparents down to children, list them in order of age and add a number and a symbol. Hopefully its memorable enough for you but completely random to password-cracking software.

Hi Meredex, I am eating between 28-35g of Carbs per day. 18 grams are my 3 prunes every morning so if I eliminated those I would be spinning out during exercise which does happen when I get up already. Everything that I have learnt has been to fuel the body when exercising otherwise it puts you into starvation mode. I think this it a bit like that. I have amazing willpower and determination so will continue until the 8 weeks are finished and then reassess the situation. My problem isn’t the foods I eat, I just like bigger portions then 100 gram size proteins. Vegie soups have been good with a bit of protein added. Let’s hope we all have great results for the month of April!!

All the spammy ones have gone now so I haven’t seen them. The techy team are working really quickly, big thank you to them.

With regard to the ones where they are using our logins, perhaps its time we all chose new passwords. I’d say the hackers have been trying to crack our current passwords for a while and have now deciphered some so it would be worth setting up new ones. I’ve just changed mine.

I did try statins a few years ago but realised very quickly they didn’t suit me. So I now refuse to take them.

Every time I move and have a new GP they raise the topic, but I still refuse. They like this 3-pronged approach of Metformin, statins and blood pressure meds.

Of the three, the only one I would be prepared to take is for blood pressure. At the moment I’m off those too, waiting to see what happens at next appointment.

Hello everyone, just starting here, but wanted to say well done on your fantastic results, truly quite inspirational for me.Great to hear all your stories, and am hoping I’ll be logging some losses in 8 weeks.

Judith, glad it’s not just me with Silent Witness!

The girls are eating some good stuff, some bad stuff. Working on getting the balance more to the good side😃. Realised that C was not eating much main course so she had room for dessert! She now knows better LOL. They’re both very slim and burn lots of energy. At the moment! 😃

I remember David mccallum, I was about five or six. I remember him in sapphire and steel with Joanna Lumley. I was in love with dm and wanted to be jl but the show itself gave me nightmares!

Oh yes
they need to start banning by IP and put a doc in place on the site that will make any links no follow. That will make it a waste of time posting them.

Hi lynne, great minds, I. Reported them too 🙂

Hi Bill

Managed to email the thecis too. Are we being targeted as we become more active? This is taking my time away from my BBC email. Talk later
Eureka

Kags and Magpiemag have drawn my attention to the fact that all British Citizens can sign the petition.

Many apologies for saying only UK residents can sign.

Hopefully, as kags and magpie have said, this should get.more signatures for the petition 🙂

Thanks magpiemag both for signing and the nod to the fact all british citizens can sign 🙂

Lynne I. Used to love silent witness but it is just too scary for me now, hiding behind a cushion and turning the volume off when it looks like something bad will happen stopped working for me.

I will try Ncis soon! I. Do remember david mccallum!

Hows it going with the girls? 🙂

Hi Bill and Cherrianne

I reported all those weird posts at weekend – the ones with lists of phone numbers.

The team emailed back thanking me for reporting them and saying they had tightened up the spam filters. Not seen today’s spam, but it sounds like they’ve found a way round the filters 😳

*Off to put reporting finger in action!*

Wow Lesley, that is amazing. You must be so proud of yourself and definitely shows what can be done with the right information and motivation.
I’ve also been wary of statins hashimoto and was reluctant to take them but you know how hard it is to disagree with your GP. But a few months off them is worth trying.

Hello everyone, hope I’m new and also a vegetarian – you don’t mind me joining in. I have a lot to lose and hope this forum will help me stay motivated.

I find it hard to low carb as a veggie (no fish) so am hoping to get some tips. I have tried high protein shakes for one meal a day, but want to find some easy ideas using lentils and pulses.(am no great cook).

I am only on day 4, would love to lose an average of 2 pounds per week, but I haven’t actually weighed yet, can’t face it.

Keep going Meredex, like you I lost 4lbs in first week, put on and lost 2lbs over next 9 days then finally lost 3lbs over 3 days so it will happen. I thought I was going to be the exception to the rule too as I was following it to the letter. It was probably going to happen anyway but I added in some of the book recipes plus a few prunes and voilà!

Very clever, fellas. My daughter would say those were ‘Dad jokes’ 🙂