Hi Lynne, I ditched the trousers and am now wearing the ones a size down!!! That’s four times so far!!!!
I can imagine that 7up tasted foul!!!

I’ve sent you the link to the petition – they rejected it on the grounds the title wasn’t specific enough and advised me of an alternative title – so the ball is rolling again already!!!
🙂

hi Malkay

The current thinking is that saturated fat in the diet has very little (if any) effect on blood cholesterol, which is more to do with genetics and high carb intake.

Total Cholesterol is a bit of a misleading figure anyway. You need to know the ratio of LDL/HDL and triglycerides, and even THEN there’s a school of thought that says that there are 2 sorts, one of which is beneficial (the big fluffy particles as opposed to the small sharp ones) and they don’t test for that.

Most people find their levels fall as their weight goes down anyway, so I wouldn’t worry too much 🙂

TP

Hi Aly
It’s because sugar is an addictive substance. We ve all been sold this drug which makes us want more. If we stop it then the addiction isn’t working on us anymore. Luckily it’s quite quick to recover from
Good luck
Penny

Dear Lucia, absolutely delighted for you and congratulations on your success, getting into the next stone bracket is such a psychological milestone you should be so proud of yourself, and getting into smaller blouses – the incredible shrinking woman! 👙Bikini season next!

Thanks lynne I need to follow my own advice and stay strong 🙂

Ah – I did see that but didn’t think of it as muesli as it’s so different to what I’d normally eat.

Have you tried the chilli? I had that last night and there was loads! It’s very filling too. If you had something like that quite late in the evening, would that stop you snacking? (The recipe is for 8 portions. I made half the amount and put half in the fridge and we’ll have it tomorrow.)

You could cut up some carrot and celery to nibble on. If they’re done already so you can just grab them, you might be able to persuade yourself to eat them instead of something else. Also try to avoid buying whatever you’d usually have eaten. If other people in the house want it too, can you persuade them to switch to something you don’t like so much, at least for a few weeks?

Hi Everyone.
Just wondering if anyone had any thoughts on high cholesterol? I have done 7 weeks on the bsd, and had lost about 11lbs (before going away for 4 days, and put 3 back on! Not worried about that though as can probably lose it now I’m back). Just before I went away last week, I went to the docs for my ‘over 50s MOT’). When I got back there was a letter asking me to contact the surgery about my cholesterol, which is 8.6!! Last time I had it done, about 4 years ago it was 5.0. I’m worried that it is to do with the high fat content of the diet, and wondered if anyone had any thoughts? I want to avoid statins.

Well done ali2on 9lbs in 10 days is brilliant!

Beelady, google dailymail 8 week blood sugar diet, michael mosley wrote 5 articles and numbers 2 to 5 each have a weeks menu with recipes, I. Printed them off before my book arrived and stuck them in a book, I still refer to them. Read bills posts,he had 4 retinopathy ops before this diet and now his eyes are fine after being at risk of blindness.
You really can do this, don’t wait just do it! Just shout for help and there are people who willl help and support you 🙂

Sorry Judith. I think I fired off an email to you while I was trying to cut and past the text below. I have taken your original petition statement and moved it around a little bit based in the feedback we were given. What do you think?

Give diabetics and pre-diabetics the correct treatment.

It has been announced that by 2020, 100,000 pre-diabetics will be given ‘lifestyle help’ to
reduce the risk of developing diabetes. But this
‘lifestyle help’ is based on flawed research which
points to a high carbohydrate, low fat diet as being beneficial to pre-diabetics. This approach has been prescribed for years with few positive results for patients. Professor Taylor of Newcastle University has shown that, in fact, a low carbohydrate, high fat diet does have the ability to reverse Type 2 diabetes.
By 2020 the government’s scheme will cost £7 million. We welcome the intervention and the financial contribution to help battle ‘diabesity’. However, we believe that it would be money wasted if the same old methods are prescribed.

We request the government to consider Professor Taylor”s evidence and consider making it the foundation of the advice given to people with type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes

Hi Patsy, it is the one in the book. Raisins, apples juice, greek yogurt, walnuts and flax seeds. I liked it…but then I am hungry so everything tastes great!..lol.. I am doing ok during the day,…but have trouble at night. That is when I did most of my snacking and bad habits are hard to break. Can anyone make any suggestions to get me through. I had grapes last night…which I thought would be better than what I would normally snack on. …..thanks for any ideas!
Jude

Hi lostgirl, your ‘handle’ made me feel sad. I’m so sorry you are lonely and struggling with these problems on your own. But that is the past and now you have a big BSD family who are here to support you.

You have already made all the big steps
*you have decidedto turn your life around
* you have begun this diet on your own
* you have faced the fact that you have a carb and sugar addiction
* you have lost an amazing 13 lbs in a week!!!!!!!!!
*you have been totally honest about your problems
*you have taken the huge step of posting on this forum

I have total respect for you, those are all really big and courageous steps.

I am so glad you have decided to join this BSD family, we will all be rooting for you and whenever you feel in need of a little encouragement or advice just shout you will usually get a rapid response.

As for drinks….janet1973 gave us a nice tip for carbonated water – a dash of lime juice and a sprig of mint. It looks and tastes refreshing. I like herbal teas – you can have them hot or chilled.

And last but not least if you stick with this you will quickly find you feel better than you have in years x

I always had a very sweet tooth which is why this is strange for me. Am still taking this one day at a time as I do not know how long it will last.

He he – I like the image of people showing off their fridge full of veggies. I hope they’re suitably impressed?

Weeta, you are the poster girl for BSD!!

Your few words say it all.

Powerful inspiration.

Thanks Bill, I’m going to halve the dose for a trial starting tomorrow. Can’t do any harm seeing as most people with T2 don’t even know they’ve got it and take no meds! Yes, it would be fab to be tablet free – I was never given a chance to try diet control 5 years ago – just put on meds, mind you my FBS was 15 then!!

For headaches, I found that i needed more water.

On a rare occasion I needed more complex carbs, like legumes. I would also add a mandarin orange or kiwi to the end of the luncheon meal – so the blood sugars were set by the protein and fat and didn’t rise as much when the fruit was added. Extra greens helped too. Complex carbs at the end of the day seemed to interfere less with the fat burning. I kept my carbs to about 50 grams a day except when my body seemed to require them, lol. My motto was body first, diet second. Keeping myself healthy throughout the 8 weeks. (I have now finished the 8 weeks and am on 5/2)

I had a huge problem with faintish stuff. Very low blood pressure. Ultimately, we had to increase the amount of salt I was eating. Then as a trick, I now always get up slowly, pulling the abdomen in. That pushes the blood up!

That rings a bell Patsy
My OH keeps opening the fridge in front of visitors to show them all our healthy food.
It does look good with all the bright colours and things but we do get the odd strange look at the checkout as we start piling all the veg on there.
Same smug feeling as well, it’s like being a kid with a secret.

Thanks!

Went shopping today and, apart from wine which was on offer and I won’t drink until after the 8 weeks, we only bought ‘allowed’ food. All the brightly coloured veg, herbs and some fruit on the checkout looked good and I felt a bit smug as I looked at the junk everyone else was buying. I thought it would be a lot more expensive, but it wasn’t. We were spending more on ‘bad’ food than I realised.

Leeanne I think I would try cutting the dose in half now and monitor your readings over the next few days.
I did it the other day and really I haven’t seen any change since then.
Give it a go, wouldn’t it be fantastic to be med free ?

Hi Bill, my readings have been really good. Fasting down to the 5s, however got a 7 today due to cough sweets for a bad chesty cough. At other times theyve been in the range 5 to 7s, but im still on 4 metformin a day, 2000mg. Haven’t dropped any yet.

Sounds like you’re well around that corner Aly
one long finishing straight now 🙂
Isn’t it strange how you just don’t want the sweet stuff any more

Good question
the fact is that it won’t be a true picture but it will show the improvements in your sugar levels.
Are you testing daily, how are your results ?
I managed to drop a med after 4 weeks based on my lowered levels and I’ve just this week cut my metformin dose in half.
Just take it in stages, if you have good readings for a few days try reducing the meds, if it creeps up go back on them and try again later.

that sound fine to me and clarifies one of the big differences in the approach – positive that they are helping!

Today I have been offered my once favourite jammy biscuits and a piece of home made cake, said no to both as I honestly did not want it. The thought of my former binge habit puts me off! I am not hungry either. Have I turned the corner at last? I am no longer looking for the next thing to eat and am happy to wait for a meal time. Strange stuff!

Way to go Lucia
That’s just it though, you don’t have to try hard, in fact half of the time you don’t even think about it.
Chocolate schmocolate
We don’t need that stuff any more do we ?

Just checked, I have the email too
Low calorie diet ??
They need a good talking to

Hi
I just had one to, but like Janet said all is not lost, I think go for it and try again.

Hi Judith,
I have received the email saying the petition has been rejected. All is not lost. They have suggested a petition that they would accept which I think just needs a few extra words adding such as ‘a low calorie diet based on a low carbohydrate approach rather than the current high carbohydrate approach’. I think thats all it needs. What do you all think?

All I can say is 13 st 11 lb
I am delighted.
Ate well,I am suprised that I am losing weight.
I am not even trying hard.
😏😏😏.
How are you all doing.?
And we are going into chocolate egg season…..

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Hello Bill, thank you for your input, have just emailed NZ with details of some easy recipes to follow, fish is so good there he should have a head start!

Petition, what have I missed…. Sorry, is there something I should be signing?

Thank you Patsy! We are having the pork, apple & mushroom dish from the recipes listed on this site tonight, looks very tasty. My green-grocer must think I have a family of about 20 to feed, the amount of vegetables we are eating, we have always liked our greens, but with the absence of carbs, kale, cauli, asparagus, peppers and mushies are getting more than a look-in. We were keeping the excess veggies in the garden on a table whilst it was cold, but now it’s getting nicer my fridge is set to explode!

We are not big confectionery eaters so Easter is not an issue for us, but my fingers are crossed for everyone out there who is struggling with choccy-egg temptation. Good luck!

Hello fellow 800’s!
I am a bit confused regarding my hopes to either reduce or stop my diabetic medication eventually. My next review is due in June, however until then my medication remains. My query is if my hba1c is normal at this time, how can this be a true picture if I’m still on medication?

I wrote the original message hoping to inspire new diet plotters but have to say I’m taking away so much more inspiration to keep going from everybody else’s contributions. I am only half way there I want to lose another 21 lbs and then keep them off. I’m going to do some serious thinking about the end game strategy.

I love wine, but realising that it doesn’t love me back is the key I think. Whoever said nothing tastes as good as thin has my undying thanks, it’s a philosophy for later life. Keep it up everybody and thanks for your thoughts 🙂

Nic

Fantastic result!

Well done Patsy!

Well it’s something they don’t tell you when you are diagnosed and I only got on to the modified release version because I did some research, there will be people out there suffering because they don’t know any different. Normal dose Metformin costs £30 and modified cost £120 a year so it mounts up if you don’t tell anyone there is an alternative.

Day 33 weight 10st 6lbs – the pound has come back off
Blood sugar 10.9

Have got the fitness dvd’s out from the back of the drawer – have been watching them while waiting for the man to repair my oven. I want to check that I will be able to do the warm ups before I actually start doing any exercises. Now he has fixed the oven I have to clean the house for my visitors coming for lunch on Sunday – just having a coffee before I start. I’m not a fan of cleaning.

Hope everyone is resisting temptation, I’ve been bought two big reduced sugar eggs by people who know I’m on this diet! They actually have more sugar per 100g than my husband’s dark chocolate “normal” ones.

Fantastic weeta

You coming over to the ‘over the 8-week line and after’ thread?

Keep letting us know your progress.

Some of us diabetics can’t cope with porridge – it spikes our blood sugars. Others are ok with it.

I normally have bacon and egg, or cooked meat. It keeps me going until my evening meal.

Looks like we need a bigger venue for the ‘over the 8 week line’ party 😃

That’s so encouraging. All these people finishing the 8 weeks, with great results, and sharing their successes on here. 😃

Well done to those approaching that 8-week line. See you on the other side!

Hi bill1954,
I was getting a bit worried as I was doing all the right things, then wham it just started to fall off again, thanks for the support, I know I am a wimp, I have done every diet going and after always put more weight back on so this has to work for me too, you wouldn’t believe that I got married in a size 8 and with every child put a stone and never lost it (I have five children) so at size 20 and pre diebetic something had to give, can’t wait to see the kids, they live all over the place, to see their reaction. Anyway ramble over and thanks again!

LOL Judith. If I’d have been there I’d have given you a hand. Are you buying a belt?

Hi everyone. Just catching up on the threads today.

No diet I have ever been on in the last 50 years has ever been so successful, or produced such quick results. The others (and I’ve tried just about every slimming club and diet book you can think of) have never retrained my tastebuds like the BSD has.

I’ve not touched bread, pasta, pizza, or chocolate since I started this in December. The smell in the bakery section of supermarkets is no longer enticing. I am even losithe raste for diet fizzy soft drinks! Today I was out shopping and wanted a drink, so looked in the chiller cabinet in the last shop I was visiting – the only sugar free drinks were 7up free or still water. I prefer fizzy drinks so bought the 7up free. Two mouthfuls were enough to convince me I’d made mistake. It was far too sweet.

I have been thinking long-term and know that I have to keep low-carb for the rest of my life. The moment I let my guard down and allowed those nasty carbs back in would be the start of a very slippery slope.

Judith – did you buy a belt for your jeans?

Wow !!
Well done! 🙂

Hope you’re ok Judith.

Answer received:

“Thanks for emailing Steve Rowe about our meat and poultry products. As a member of Steve’s personal team, I’m replying on his behalf.

I’m sorry you’re disappointed that some of our meat and poultry products currently contain sugar.

Our cooked chicken and some of our meat products contain a very small amount of sugar. This is added for two reasons – to improve the flavour of the meat, and to enhance browning during the cooking process. It is used in very low levels and the products aren’t marinated in sugar.

I’d like to assure you that sugar reduction is very much on the agenda and we’re currently investigating alternative ingredients which deliver the same succulence, flavour & colour.

On behalf of Steve, many thanks for getting in touch.”

Two interesting points: sugar added to improve the flavour of the meat (!) and ‘products aren’t marinated in sugar’. I’ve never added sugar to meat, surely it has enough flavour of its own. And the label on the roasted chicken products clearly states ‘roasted in a sugar marinade’.

Methinks a response is necessary, but will have to wait until Saturday when I can hopefully get a photo of the label.

But at least they replied. And quickly.

I’ve been eating the multigrain porridge from M&S, it is very low carb, and even includes flaxseed to help with constipation 😉

Hi Scotgran. Nothing wrong with interesting food combinations – that’s the story of my life LOL.

Bee Lady, you can do it! The recipes are in the book – there are links in various sections of the kindle book to take you through to the recipe section, or go to the contents page and get there that way.

There are some recipes on the website, too – take a look under the “recipes” menu at the top of the page.

I am hopefully starting this today. I cannot find menu plans on this site. Are they in the book? (I have Kindle version)
My HbAc1 was 64 last week. Today I weigh 79.1kg and goal weight is 65kg. My last Retinopathy showed ‘slight bleed’ in 1 eye. That scares me and I know I MUST do something positive. Trouble is though that worrying also raises BS. I’m feeleing very anxious

First way in. Day 4 and I’ve lost 3lbs. Quite pleased with that. My weight varies quite a bit from day to day anyway so I’m not sure it means much but it’s encouraging.