Well done Pete on recognising the problem and not dropping out of the BSD. Have a great week

Welcome AnnieandAlfie. What a great start. Hope to keep seeing your progress.

Hi Janet, I’m notorious at putting my foot in my mouth, sadly age doesn’t seem to have taught me how to redress this problem 🙁

Hi Catgirl I bet you will get into those lovely sounding trousers in the summer.

I was reading this morning that ducks lOVE kale!! I wonder if swans are the same? Who came up with the idea of trying to feed ducks healthy kale? I take my hat off to them!

Enjoy your walk!!

Hi Janet. Like Judith I took your first post as great advice.

I’m a fellow suffers of ‘foot in mouth disease’😱

Hi Mojos. Lots of us used to feel like you, eating the ‘old’ way, but cutting out carbs has meant we no longer go dizzy etc. When I ate caFBS I was always thinking of the next meal. I’d get really wobbly and panicky if food wasn’t readily available, feeling faint. Now I eat a low-carb breakfast and nothing then until my evening meal. I don’t feel hungry or faint in between. Congratulations on the great weight loss!

Hi JillyB. Welcome to the family. Lots of advice on here. Shout if you need help.

6.6 this morning leeanne
If it stays this way for a week, I,m stopping them altogether.

I was just thinking the same re Lachlan when I woke up this morning. Give us a shout Lachlan!! 🙂

Hi gypsybasker
You’ve made a tremendous start and I don’t think your little bit of chocolate should make you feel guilty at all. If it helps you get through, just a little bit is fine. You may even find as you go on that you don’t need it so much. Full fat yoghurt ad berries makes a great replacement, is more filling and contains stuff our body needs. But its only an idea. Well done you!

Hi Lucia, I too have a pair of trousers hanging up that I have never worn, bought them in the sale a few years ago 2 sizes too small! Still look longingly at them as they are a summer item, black background covered in multicoloured flowers, no shrinking violet for me! For once I have hope that this summer is the one, will keep you posted but still a long way off.

Out to do small amount of food shopping them off for a walk to feed the swans at a local lake, they are so tame we hand feed them although have had the odd peck from the more pushy males, lol.

Wow what a good idea !
Come on BSDer’s let’s inundate out MP’s and get them earning their salaries.

Thanks Judith, I’m adept at getting my foot into my mouth, its a skill I’ve been practising for many years! ‘Nuff said 😉

I USED to love crème eggs too, but then I found them too sweet and sickly – even before BSD. But caramel eggs, or mini eggs – that’s a different matter!

But I’ve not eaten chocolate in any form for ages

I’ve been given a tin of Heroes (for me and the twins, and the donor knows I’m diabetic!). Today, in a shop I was given a big block of chocolate! I’ll find good homes for said confectionery 😳

Hey Judith
Emailed you regarding having this thread made a sticky

Hi

Welcome to the BSD family.

If you read Bill1945’s post you’ll see the great results he’s achieved, including reducing his medication – hoping to be medication free in the near future.

Are you checking your blood sugars? That’s a big help and a guide as to when meds can be reduced.

We haven’t heard from Lachlan on here for a while. If you are reading this Lachlan, let us know how you are doing, I’m wondering if you’ve overcome those high fasting sugar levels yet. 🙂

Great news Hippo

Looking forward to seeing you on over the 8-week line and after’ thread on the Fast 800 forum.

Hi Jpscloud, reach out on the forums, there’s always someone who’ll keep you ‘virtual company’, even if no one is close physically.
People post on the what did you eat today thread and you could use that for ideas or as a blog to keep you accountable. Use a food diary tracker and make yourself a promise to be honest.
We are all here because we need and want to make changes. If you acknowledge your binges on here you won’t get judged, you’ll get help 🙂
If you don’t keep it a secret it won’t be so shameful, and the beauty is we have no idea who you are so no need to cover it up! Bet you anything it’s the ‘secret’ bit about it that’s controlling you. Now you’ve revealed it, you’ve stripped it of power.
Have success this week, all the best…

Bill, I strongly believe you reap what you sow! You sow support, love and care for others, glad you’re enjoying the harvest x

jpscloud, that is so tough on you. Is there anyone you know who would be prepared to join you for a day eating what you eat? If you could find a few people who would do that you could have a few days of the holiday like that. Things done companionably are so much easier.
Wishing you luck 🙂

Well said, cherrianne 🙂

Fantastic, stringbreaker! 🙂

As well as signing the petition I also emailed my MP to let him know I’d done so.
Just had an automated reply saying he will respond.
I’ll let you know.

Hi folk, I thought it might be easier to post the petition as a separate thread to reach as many of us as possible.

Just click on the link below, you will need to give your email address and post code then you will receive an email to click on to confirm your signature. Your email address and post code do not get published.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/125704

Thanks so much my friends
You know what Cherrianne ? Something struck a loud chord in me when I first read the book. It just made sense, but not just that, it was telling me to do just about the opposite of everything I knew about diabetes. The knowledge that I had based my life on, given to me by professionals and which wasn’t working and I was getting worse. My train of thought was that if I did the opposite of everything that was giving me bad results, then just maybe I could get opposite results.
Didn’t that work well ?
Two months ago I was confident that I could achieve something good.
The reality has been beyond my wildest dreams.
I also have the added bonus of meeting some of the nicest, friendliest people I have ever known on these forums.
Long may it continue.

Brilliant stats Bill and good to have you over the line! 🙂

When we were nippers,as daft as this sounds, bread was different – it was made from older varieties of wheat. We won’t get that back. I often wonder if it has also contributed to the increase in gluten intolerance.

Hi Bill
Id consider your 8 weeks as a total success. Your achievements in that time are pretty awesome. Totally agree with Judith! Read back on some of your posts and you’ll see what huge changes you’ve made in your health and well being in such a short time.
Would you ever have dreamed two months ago that you could achieve all you have already? For once I have to disagree with you, you are remarkable and should be proud of yourself !!
Consider yourself ‘told’ man 🙂

Bill I am delighted for you – what an inspiration you are to the rest of us. It’s so much harder to lose weight when you are older, but you have shown it can be done. Be very proud of your achievements.
Janice

Hi jillyB
Follow the advice on the forums and shout if you need help.
This way of eating will make you lose weight and it will be easier than you could ever imagine.

Best of luck on your journey, let us all know how you progress.

Hi all, I’ve just signed the petition and sad to say I was number 49, for the number of people posting on the forums this is really bad, we need so many more to sign up pleeeeze! I,ve posted it on my Facebook page to try and drum up support so come on folks, this is so easy. Instead of spending millions on dietitians, free gym passes etc lets get the word out there, it’s all about changing your shopping trolley and mindset.

Preaching over, everyone have a great Easter weekend and keep up the good work.

Still on half dose metformin and todays FBS was 6.6
If this stays the same for the next week I’ll stop them altogether

Bill your results have been amazing – thats nearly 2 stones! The lightest you have been for 25 years is a real achievement. Then there is your lower blood sugars, improvements in your eyes . . . And I could go on.
You truly are inspirational. 🙂

I just signed – yaaay, number 50! I’ll share on Facebook.

Denise, I’m another Welshie who can’t sing. In fact, I’m positively banned from singing in my household! Lol!

Finally I get to join the veterans 🙂
Briefly I started my 8 weeks at 16 stone 9 pounds. I’ve seen an overall loss of 25.5 pounds for todays weight of 14 stone 11 and a half pounds.

My FSB on day 1 was 9.8, it’s now under 7 with other readngs taken over the day within normal limits.
I have been able to stop my Exanatide injections and cut my Metformin dose in half with a view to being med free within a month.
My first weight target is 13.5 stones by June and I’m confident of reaching that.
I’ll be staying on the BSD until I hit that weight and then have another think about it
I know I haven’t had the incredible results that others have but, this was the last chance saloon for me and I couldn’t be happier at the way things have gone.
May I just throw this out there.
Rice, pasta, bread and potatoes have been the worldwide staple diet for tens of thousands of years, some races survived on little else, but the diabetes epidemic is comparatively recent.
Do we need research into whether these natural carbs are really as dangerous as the processed muck they have been adding to our food over the last fifty years ?

FANTASTIC Bill you are such an inspiration – big hugs and well done!

I’m the opposite to you Hb – I am in control when I’m with people (so weekdays/term time at work are fine) but I live alone these days and have always been a secret eater – now a secret binger. I find it very hard to maintain control in the holidays and at weekends.

I do feel I’ve turned a corner with embracing the blood sugar diet and feel like I am making progress towards health.

Happy Easter everyone, and thanks for the lovely support on these forums!

Since you posted its 49 orchid.
Good idea, was planning to give it to my asthma nurse next week.
Perhaps others will take up your suggestion, the more proactive we are the better!

Up the revolution! 🙂

Morning BSD’ers
Week 8 weigh day and another two and a half pounds gone.
That gives me an 8 week total of 25 and a half pound weight loss and a 4 inch waist reduction. Under 15 stones for the first time in 25 yeas. People who know me say my face is thinner too. (I never knew I had a fat face 😉 )
Not as remarkable a loss as some but given I’m older than some and long term T2B I’m delighted.
I’m going to stay on the plan until I hit my first target weight of 13.5 stone and re evaluate then.
Best of luck to you all for this weeks results and, as always.
Onwards and upwards.

That’s hilarious cherrieanne, poor lad. In my ditzy defence there was only a narrow lane cut through the hill side and it happened on a sharp blind bend. It just never occurred to me someone might be there, it hadn’t happened before.

I’m still laughing at the image you have planted in my head! X

Hi, the petition is now up to 47 and the distribution across the UK pretty uniform – fun to look at the map.
Suggestion. A few people have mentioned that their GP or nurses are supportive and or buying the book. If you remember, and feel happy doing it – take the petition number into the surgery or clinic next time you go and tell them about it. If they believe this works they may be happy to add their name to the petition, after all they will have all the work to role out the ‘new initiative’ so would probably prefer to be rolling out something they agree with and or at least have the choice in what they prescribe!

I, too, am an Australian. I have been an insulin dependant diabetic for 15 years and overweight all my life, so am not sure how this diet will work for me. I have done a stint of 5-2 diet, lost some weight and then it all went back again. I am about to start BSD next week, so keep your fingers crossed for me.
jilly B

Hi Judith,
At least his face is only imprinted on your memory and not the front forks of your bicycle lol.
I used to cycle home with two friends, one of whom was well known for being ditzy. She would be so busy looking across and chatting, she’d never watch where she was going. One day she ran into a teenage boy from behind. I can still hear the ‘oof’ noise he made as her front wheel went between his legs and lifted him back up over her handlebars.
Still laughing as I type this after all these years. Luckily didn’t do him any permanent harm.

Yayyy Bob Fox – up the revolution!!! 🙂

Pete, the most encouraging thing is that you recognise ‘the science’ of why you gained 2kg and know you can reverse it. Here’s to a positive week.

Hi Leeanne,
I think your results are showing that you’re on the right track. Yay 🙂
The long fast overnight, and diet during the day is encouraging your liver to get rid of stored sugar. So you can expect your morning levels to be higher for a while. I used to worry about this, I was so conditioned to treating the symptoms of diabetes instead of the cause, but now I’m in the non diabetic range consistently.
Your post meal result is great, shows that you aren’t eating more carbs than your body can cope with. Exciting times ahead, keep posting your results!

Thankyou Cherrianne, a wonderful message that we all need reminding of. Happy Easter to you and all our fellow BSDers 🙂

Just signed and shared on Facebook. Up the revolution!!!!!

Janet, that’s great advice for Sue 🙂 Janet I didn’t read your first post in any other way that it was great advice, and to be honest, a lot of people just can’t eat much at funerals, they’re pretty emotional occasions. You often think you will be able to eat until you are there -and you can’t. I would think there will be a few people who find their appetite is dulled.

Sue, I hope it goes as well as these things can. Like Janet says we all know you are a caring person 🙂

Hi Pete, well done for changing your state of mind. I think part of the reason why you don’t feel the need to abandon everything is that its actually quite easy to repair the damage. On other diets, we never had that. It was a slog to lose the weight in the first place and then a slog to do it all over again. Because, once you’ve accepted the principles of this program, it is incredibly easy, the idea of having to do that bit again isn’t nearly so daunting. That’s how I think of it anyway. All the best.

Hi stringbreaker, it’s fabulous to get a year older but be able to do more!! It’s almost against the laws of nature! Thanks for putting somerset on the map! 🙂

Jpscloud – the half pounds of butter is an even better way of visualising fat loss. I’ll follow your lead 🙂