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  • posted by  Natasha_ENFP on 'Weigh in' thread
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    Wow Hashimoto that’s great news!

    I had a brainwave yesterday – lol it’s actually not that brainwavey but it occured to me after a lot of stressing about falling back into old patterns when I’ve completed the 8 weeks.

    At the end of the 8 weeks I was thinking of continuing on 800 calories for a few weeks and then progressing onto the 5:2. At least then I will have some direction and it will be a good way to ensure I acheive either more weight-loss or steady weight and blood sugar maintenance.

    I also think following a plan for at least 6 months to a year will ensure this new lifestyle will be a permanent fixture in my life.

    Be good to know what others think about this and what has worked well for others.

    By the way, does anyone know what the recommended daily calorie intake should be at the end of the 8WeekBSD (for weight maintenance)?

  • posted by  mrscrimbo on 'Weigh in' thread
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    The not being hungry is pretty weird isn’t it? How can I be eating about 35-40% (probably) of what I was eating before and not feel anywhere near as hungry as I did before? I sleep better I ache less and I can move much more freely too. It is a wonderful thing. I hope you continue to do well.

  • posted by  ay caramba on Weightloss has stalled
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    Baggy knickers!
    Yesterday, while I was out walking, I noticed flappy fabric around my upper thighs and wondered what was going on.
    Loose knicker elastic perhaps? Today’s underwear also felt rather roomy.
    So consolation that into Week 6 and it seems to be harder to lose the pounds quickly.
    Weightloss has stalled but I must be shrinking.:-)

  • posted by  mrscrimbo on 'Weigh in' thread
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    Happy to hear the news it is ok to continue with BSD longer as I don’t think oh and I can shift what we have to lose in 8 weeks! We are into week 4 and oh has lost 19lbs and myself 17lbs . Still a long way to go to our completely outrageous targets and the loss has slowed but like so many people on here the other welcome side effect of not feeling like death warmed up most of the time, plus enjoying our food immensely helps. This community of fellow dieters is very motivating especially all the honesty, kindness and great recipes!

  • posted by  Janet1973 on Moody and grumpy anyone?
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    I’m sure its all those nasty sugars getting flushed through your system. Sadly, our partners don’t always like the sound of change but I’m sure yours will get more positive as the results come. Maybe if you make some flatbreads you could throw them at each other with less risk and fewer carbs?

  • posted by  Boog23 on White Flour
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    Judith:
    So great to hear! Thank you! Yup, commitment is key and the support of others so important to keeping it! I hope in a few weeks to be as helpful to new folks as you all have been. Jeff πŸ™‚

  • posted by  Janet1973 on ketostix
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    Yep, I quite agree. I like the way he summed up what to eat and what not to eat. I’ll be keeping an eye on him (he’s quite easy on the eye, I don’t suppose you noticed)

  • posted by  loulibelle on Moody and grumpy anyone?
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    Is anyone finding that the BSD is dramatically affecting their mood?
    I’m finding it all ok – but my husband is like a walking snickers ad. Sadly I cannot throw a snickers at his head and wait for him to cheer up (this was actually the solution to at least 50% of our arguments in the past!)
    We are on week three…
    Tips? sympathy?

  • posted by  hashimoto on White Flour
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    Hi Jeff, thankyou so much, we intend sticking around!! Over the 8 week line is a whole new ball game and we still need to support each other. I think I speak for all of us when I say we feel a commitment to this – we have been helped along the way and want to continue to support others on this journey! πŸ™‚ Judith

  • posted by  Bill1954 on ketostix
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    Hey Janet
    the more health professionals that get on board the better and ASAP too please.
    We need to get the message out and those are the best people to do it.

  • posted by  hashimoto on 'Weigh in' thread
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    Hi Natasha, captainlynne contacted the team who told her it is ok to continue the 800 for a while if you are well. A few of us are planning on that. I crossed the 8 week line yesterday and am going to stick reasonably closely to the 800 calories as I still want to lose more weight πŸ™‚

  • posted by  Boog23 on White Flour
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    to Cherrianne, hashimoto, Bill1954, Judith et al:

    I just started reading through this particular thread and I want to say: Please, please, please stick around! Newbies like me need you-I have really gotten a leg up on the BSB from your posts. I realize I’m maybe being a bit selfish, but I appreciate you all!
    Jeff

  • posted by  Natasha_ENFP on 'Weigh in' thread
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    Brilliant Fatcat!
    Before the BSD I was eating over 3000 calories a day and was obese and in the danger zone, and I thought there was no way I could survive on 800 calories a day. However, I’ve been doing the BSD for 4 weeks now and 800 calories is actually more than enough – I’m never hungry or have cravings. I have lost 18lbs in total. Micheal Mosley says you can do the BSD for up to 8 weeks but I’m now tempted to stick to 800 calories a day!

  • posted by  Bill1954 on Starting Week 3 after a tough Week 2 ….
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    Hi Marinecole
    why would we object to you posting those fantastic results, your input is more than welcome.
    It all goes to encourage and motivate all the newbies. You may only write a post once but God only knows how many times it gets read and by how many people.
    Your post may be the final thing that pushes another sufferer into a life saving way of eating.
    Congtatulations BTW, Look forward to seeing how you do on The med diet, don’t be a stranger.

  • posted by  hashimoto on Starting Week 3 after a tough Week 2 ….
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    Hi Bruno, I find making a frittata on an evening is a big help. You could make it with four eggs and veg of your choice, cut it in two and hey presto 2 days lunches which are easy to handle and eat in the car if you have to. Same is true of the courgette bhajis I posted on this site.
    Fantastic results by the way!!!

  • posted by  hashimoto on Starting Week 3 after a tough Week 2 ….
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    Hi marinecole, welcome, have you been following the 800 calories diet for long? My diet post 8 week 800 calories will be to continue with the diet until a bit more weight drops off and then follow it but on a higher calorie rate. I don’t intend to go back to starchy foods. The recipes are delicious as they are!! A totally doable eating plan!!

  • posted by  hashimoto on Starting the journey 21/02/2016
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    Hi Sue1234 the weight tends to come off in fits and starts, sometimes the weight is the same but the tape measure shows you have trimmed the waist! Keep at it and like you say you can see the overall trend is down! πŸ™‚

  • posted by  FatCat on 'Weigh in' thread
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    Just completed 4 weeks. Very happy with a 12lb loss, as I’ve been nearer 1000 cals most days than 800. And the stone before took a whole year to lose! A year ago my BMI was just short of 30 (obese), and I’ve just crept down to the top end of normal. Magic!

  • posted by  hashimoto on Over the 8-week line and after
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    Hi captainlynne, today I join you over the 8 week line!!!
    Like you I will continue on the 800 calories for a while as I wish to lose another 9lbs – though more would be very welcome! I may stray towards 900 on some days and once a week perhaps a bit more to get me through a strenuous hill walk.

    So far 2 stones lost
    2 sizes down in my jeans
    clothes are getting really baggy – I will buy new ones when I am about to set off to Oz

    The 8 weeks have passed so quickly!!!

    SOOOO happy πŸ™‚

  • Totally agree Sarah111 – as soon as a few of us have been on this longer term it will be so much easier to prove the point that it wasn’t an 8 week crash diet with temporary results. Scientists deal with facts and longer term studies so we will be banging the drum rather loudly given a bit of time and in the present spread the word and talk to our medical staff as much as possible!!
    Good luck, there is lots of support on here, it’s full of positive people on the same journey πŸ™‚

  • posted by  hashimoto on 'Weigh in' thread
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    Hi Damson, this will work for you, I found it easier than the 5:2. When I have eaten out it has tended to be lunch time so I have opted for, wait for it…..a ham sandwich without the bread (caused bewilderment) or omelette or ploughman’s and asked them not to put bread or crackers on my plate – only slight bewilderment at that one. I’m sure you could manage most evening meals out by not having any of the carbs, curry with no rice but plenty of green veg, steak and veg etc. That 4 stones should come of in no time – I lost 2 stones in just over 7 weeks! The boosted energy levels are the most amazing thing!! πŸ™‚

  • hello hashimoto

    Delighted to read in your post that your asthma has improved. I’m asthmatic and have seen a gradual decline in my fitness over the last few years, (I refuse to except it is because I’m getting older!!). I’ll cross my fingers this diet helps mine too….. it is only day one so I need to be patient!
    I also agree with your last comment, ‘The more of us who do this the faster the change will come.’ You will get more change, and quicker by the public making the noise than expecting it to happen the other way round. I often think scientist who work in research have to bang their heads off the wall to be heard!

    Best of luck.

  • Hi Inka, you are thinking like the rest of us! Doctor’s are afraid to move without the say-so of consultants so they are the ones who need to change first. Sadly things move slowly in the medical world so we must all protect ourselves and others we know as best as we can following this diet. GPs and diabetic nurses will mark the changes first – even my asthma nurse has seen a change in me and is taking this on board! The more of us who do this the faster the change will come.
    Good luck on your journey πŸ˜‰

  • Thanks kph. I must admit that I have a pretty horrible headache today despite having had two litres of sparking water and I’m now on the peppermint tea. The hunger pangs are manageable though. Sounds like you’ve had incredible results! I would love to loose two stone! I’m in awe!

  • Well done for taking the time to get yourself organized, I have been doing the diet for 4 weeks now and with amazing results. My doctor is fully supportive and am having extra bloods done and so far so good. Have lost just over 2 stone sleep undisturbed very night now and limitless amounts of energy. Days 2-5 suffered from withdrawals as I was a sugar and carb addict but all worth it now. Good luck on your journey.

  • posted by  Bill1954 on meal plan shopping list
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    kiwileigh75 my comment wasn’t aimed at you, it was for the troll who posted just above my comment
    Sorry for the misunderstanding, I’m usually the first one to help folk but that was the second troll post in a short time and I was sort of bubbling at the time.

  • Hi Inka,

    You are absolutely right, as someone previously T2 but who has had the diagnosis removed I have still encountered issues with different Dr’s ….

    Had pleurisy and saw a new GP, he said ‘oh and as you are diabetic we will need to be very careful with your medication’ . Me…..”um, that will be tough as I am not on any’. Dr ‘ well what about your Metformin and Amlodipine?’ Me ‘ hopefully if you check and see I haven’t had prescriptions for these for 7 years!’
    Dr ‘ well I need to take your BP right away and send you for a GTT asap !’

    Results….BP normal and all blood tests, he decided to run EVERYTHING to prove he was right…..cholesterol, sugars etc all ok. Funny he didn’t mention it next time I saw him??!!!

    Anyway, I guess we all just keep eating this way and it will chip away at the resistance as the results here are proving it works. I’m back here because I got too slack and started eating badly, putting weight back and I want to get back to where I was, loving the food and feel this is food forever, not a diet.

    Good to be here and get so much info and good news…….thanks to Bill for keeping an eye out on the ‘troll’ factor too !

  • posted by  Col on week 1 smashed it :-)
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    Hi Loukc,

    Great result! I am nearly at the end of week one and am happy to be down 5lbs right now, so many people here have stuck at it and proved the weight does just as Bill said above. Stick with it, enjoy the fab food and ideas and it will go! πŸ˜ƒ

  • posted by  RozyDozy on Starting the journey 21/02/2016
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    Hi Sue1234, like you I’m weighing myself every day and recording it. Sometimes, my reading has gone up a bit or stayed the same – but on those days I just turn back in my diary to a week earlier and pretty much every time my current weight is less than it was 7 days earlier. Weight & inches don’t come off at a uniform rate – sometimes it’s weight and then there is a period of acclimatisation when the waistline (or hips, etc) decide to catch up! If the overall trend is downward, that’s what you want! Don’t get negative about it.
    Take care,
    Rose

  • posted by  Col on % carbs
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    I am aiming for around or under 40g of carbs and between 60-70g protein, the rest of the calls I try and use as fat….isn’t is great to eat a full fat Greek yoghurt and be able to enjoy every mouthful without thinking you are breaking the low fat mantra!!!!

    πŸ˜€

  • posted by  Susansilver on meal plan shopping list
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    It took me a couple of hours to compile a shopping list as I wanted to follow the 4 week plan . The biggest help was going thru and noting the page number of the recipes . Doing it seemed to help get it into my head that I was really going to do this and that it would be different from any other diet I had tried . Having my blood sugars start to normalise has made it all very worthwhile .

  • posted by  Col on What have you eaten today?
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    Great idea for a thread, already got some new ideas.

    B – Coffee with cream
    L – Hummus, celery and cucumber. 100g full fat Greek yoghurt
    D – Chicken breast with pancetta, leeks and cheese, sprouts, courgetti (with my fab new Spiralizer! )

    All in that is still under 800 so maybe a single piece of 80% chocolate as my evening treat…..really loving this way of eating and seem to be sleeping better the last couple of nights, think someone else mentioned this bonus πŸ˜€πŸ˜€

  • posted by  Celsa on Thermomix recipies
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    We also have the Indian cookbook, and make a couple of the curries out of that. There is a great recipe for homemade baked beans on the Quirky Cooking website, but it does have a lot of sugar in it, so I’m not sure how that would fit into the diet. Next time I make it I might just half the amounts of brown sugar and dark treacle that goes in it.
    Oh and I make a batch of harissa paste with it every now and then (and freeze it in individual packets) and use that as a marinade whenever we have chicken.

  • posted by  RozyDozy on on fast 800 but not diabetic
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    Hello Anita,
    I’ve just made it to the 8 week stage – there have been times when the weight loss was slow but weeks 7/8 things seemed to pick up a bit. But currently I’m on a bit of a plateau – I’m hoping it’s just my body saying “give me time to readjust” and then I’ll see another drop. I’ve lost 11lbs so far – so you have done better than me already! I didn’t do 800 cals a day for the whole 8 weeks, rather I took a more relaxed approach to ease myself in so I could acclimatise gradually and accepted that my weight loss would be a bit slower. I will try and continue with the weight loss programme as I have more weight to lose to get into the “Healthy” part of the Body Mass Index scale.
    You seem to be doing things right (your time fasting is similar to mine) so don’t worry, just persevere. I exercise when I can but I need to do more and maybe speed up my walking pace. Who knows, I may get the swimming cozzy out (when it’s warmer) and visit the swimming pool. The inspirational examples in the book are all well and good but not everyone is going to follow the same pattern. Spectacular losses get the headlines but I think some of us won’t necessarily achieve the same level. The important thing is that you are seeing some benefit. As for the fruits you are missing, well, I don’t think the odd one will hurt every now and then.
    Good luck,
    Rose

  • posted by  Celsa on Thermomix recipies
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    We’ve had a TM for a couple of years, and it gets loads of use! Some of our regular recipes that I think would fit in with the Med style diet are red lentil dhal, red pepper soup (I don’t know if they still do it, but it’s the one the demonstrator showed us when she did the demonstration), and we make pasta sauce with it a lot, which we use to make bolognese, or shakshuka on the hob.

  • posted by  Bill1954 on week 1 smashed it :-)
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    Hi Loukc
    nice start and don’t worry about next week, just take it as it comes.
    Lots of folk have thought the same as you and then, one day, they jump on the scales and hey presto. weight has vaiiiinished.
    Stick with the plan and you will get there.