Morning all,

I shall be joining you all properly on Sunday as that will be the end of my 8 weeks. I too will be continuing the diet until the plane takes off. Lost 20lb to date. Slightly disappointing, I’d hoped for 2stone. ah well, onwards and upwards – or downwards!

Morning lucia
I don’t think you’ll ever get straight, just deliciously curvy 😀
I can’t remember if you’re diabetic, but if you are, make absolutely sure you take care of that blister.
Have a great day.

Morning Lucia,

Re your cramps, you may need to up your salt intake a bit. If and when you already have cramps or to stave them off, get a bar of soap, any soap will do and put in in your bed, under the sheet so it doesn’t move about so much. Obviously down in the leg area!

I’m envious that you manage to get so many steps in each day, I don’t know how you do it? Even when I do ‘the walk’ by the river, up n down stairs at home and a walk round the shopping Mall, I’ve never really got abovr 7000 steps!

Hi Meredex
although the book doesn’t actually say much about ketosis, the generally accepted opinion is that 50 grams of carbohydrate or less per day will put you into that condition.
You’ll probably find this is easier than you previous diet with less side effects.
Good luck and keep us posted onn your progress.

Hi Hashimoto,
Thanks , glad you like my sense of humour.
Yesterday at lunch went for my long quick walk.
At my furthest distance from work, my heel came off, and as I changed my gait to accommodate the broken heel, I unbeknownst to me, rubbed a blister on the sole of my foot the size of London.
Flat brown shoes today, with brown skirt and cream blouse , limping a bit. But will still go for a walk.
I may get the foot bath sorry, the foot spa out and have a soak tonight.
Will I ever get straight?
Love Lucia
Xxxxx

Penny, the email didnt arrive, try again ?
strange one this morning, I did a pre bedtime blood test last night for no real reason. I was a little upset to see it was 6.6 as yesterday was really an ultra low carb day, but hey ho I’ve been here before.
Woke this morning and did my FBS expecting it to be up in the high 7’s to low 8’s.
6.6, absolutely no movement overnight. I happy danced all the way to the shower, a total distance of about 10 feet but it’s all exercise, right ?
To say I’m over the moon with that is an understatement, no late night fatty snack and just 1 metformin twice a day.
It just keeps getting better. 😀

Friday thank goodness.
Hoping for an early finish around 7pm.
I wanted to go shopping tonight at Iceland but beloved doesn’t and he has the car so I have to spend some of my precious weekend shopping.
Meeting up with a girlfriend on Saturday lunchtime for just a chat and a tea. We usually laugh and cry together, she is great.
Would like a lie in but also get up early and enjoy the early morning light. It’s usually sunny then when I get up it clouds over. Not fair.
Want to get on my pushbike and go around a few blocks, get the blubber going.
Lovevlucia xxx

Hi jpscloud
not quite the unsure person we met a short while ago eh ?
Your results for week 2 are excellent, I think you’re going to do very well on this eating plan and your story adds to all the other inspirational posts on the forums.
Well done and heres to the next 6 weeks.

Hi, day 1 on 800. I don’t have diabetes but want to lose 20kg. Sick of food ruling my life. I’m very motivated but have to say I’m soo hungry. Can’t stop thinking about food even tho I’m at work & busy. Also getting a headache. I know it’ll get easier but gee today is hard.

Hi Natalie,
your body is having to readjust, it’s been burning carbs for so long, it will scream out for them at first when they are restricted.
Good that you identified the feelings as cravings rather than hunger though.
Make sure you get plenty of fat into your daily food and drink lots of water, the cravings soon vanish.

Hi James
with your background you should breeze through this.
As Cherrianne says keep an eye on the fats as well as the carbs. It seems strange to most people but the fats are key to losing weight as you retrain your body to burning them instead of carbs.
Best of luck.

Thanks so much for the support and encouragement everyone, its much appreciated, good to know I can put it down to week 2/3 blues and not something I’m doing wrong. I will certainly get some ketosticks, to be sure though. Sorry to hear you’ve stalled too nikkioaks, hopefully we’ll both be reporting good losses soon. I agree shopping is so much easier -and cheaper – now. And I can hardly close my fridge door as it’s bursting at the seams with veg!

I have a question, again :-)…. Continuing to loose weight, but I wonder about what my skin around my tummy, waist etc will look like when I have reached my goal! Will I have ugly flabby skin hanging around to remind me of my old big me? Until now, have never lost anything significantly to speak of, so I have no idea what will happen to my skin. Will it shrink too? I recently turned 57, so my skin is not thaaaat elastic anymore… I imagine my tummy, when shrunk, will be like a deflated balloon? : When new, its nice and taught, when older and deflated will never return to its original new size again…. They are always bigger once you let the air out again ……… Any of you big loosers, sorry no offence intended :-)), have some advice on this? What is your experience?

Great decision Switzerland. Welcome to the BSD way of life. You’ve made a great start by planning well and having some trial runs. You are set for success, so keep posting and let us know your progress. Pretty soon you’ll be inspiring others. 🙂

I have just been to the shops and have bought some plain yoghurt for snacking, as well as some more milk. The protein powder I use is MusclePharm Combat Powder, Cookies and Cream flavour, which has 5g carbs per serving, and 25g protein. Thank you for your post 🙂

Hi James,
There are lots of people succeeding on here where other diets have failed them.
You should have more fat in your diet than you have planned, otherwise you will get hungry and be tempted to stray. Maybe add some plain yoghurt and full fat milk to your shake in the morning. Make sure your protein shake is low carb too, some of the whey based ones are quite high.
All the best, keep reading the posts for inspiration 🙂

my week 2 struggles are continuing into week 3. I’m just coming to the end of week 3 and have only lost 1.5 kg. have lost 5cms at the waist, and am definitely fitter, so that’s ok progress, but going to do a bit of tweaking.
Following the recipe sheets, I’ve been eating about 1000 calories a day, carbs around 20 – 30g. ( except for the days I know weren’t on plan). I’ll drop the calories to the 800, and continue to avoid sugar and simple carbs.
The day after gym days have not been good – so will experiment a bit with what and when I eat on gym days. ( not diabetic, so don’t test for blood sugar)
I’ve started, and I’m going to finish. It will be imperfect along the way, but that’s because it’s real. not quite as positive as many of the other posts, but hoping to encourage others who are not finding it easy. Having said that it is much easier to get through a shop without buying junk, and it definitely gets easier to just not eat the junk.
and thanks to the people who do post, especially the regulars – it is encouraging. for me it would have been very easy to just stop doing it, but reading the forums reminds me there are others out there in this as well.

Hi guys,
My name is James. This thread is going to be where I document what I am eating/how I am feeling for the next 8 weeks. My mum bought me the book and I read it in two sittings. About me – I am no stranger to diet and exercise, having completed multiple gym programs off Bodybuilding.com and yet, I always seem to put the weight back on. For example, 2 years ago I weighed 88.8 kg and did a 12 week gym program, and got back down to 70kg, obviously with eating the right things, and when reading the book I saw a correlation with the diets there, the only thing that was different was that there were more carbs in the gym diet, meaning I would only lose 1kg/week if I was lucky. Problem is, I have put the weight back on and I am now 99.7kg and have a lot of fat around my midsection, which I would like to get rid of. Today is Day 1, and I have had a protein shake for breakfast (with skim milk) which came to around 255 calories, so 545 to go. I’m planning on going to the shops and getting some chicken breast and broccoli for lunch and dinner, which should hopefully take me close to the 800cal limit. I am not very fussy with food, and can usually eat the same foods day in day out. I love how varied the recipes are in the book, but I like to keep it simple so I will probably be sticking to my protein shake for breakfast/oats and then for lunch and dinner have chicken breast/thighs and broccoli/green veggies as my carb (they are fibrous carbs). I should mention that my father had prediabetes (he has since reversed it), so I was at risk of inheriting that, as I am about to turn 30 I feel that there’s no time like the present to not only get this part of my life in check, but to improve my mood.

Hi Judith, no you’re definitely not a freak. Apparently women have a keener sense of smell than men, so I often detect things my husband can’t. Like Inka I can smell a bushfire from miles away, and even detect ash on the wind if it’s been extinguished. Your sense of smell isn’t supposed to function while you’re asleep but I’ve woken to the smell of smoke and got up to check the CFS website to see if we are in danger.
I make the liquorice tea in a pot so it’s not too strong and drink it hot or cold. Some brands are very sweet. Twinings do a mint and liquorice which is nice but there’s a brand here called Madame Flavour that’s very sweet.

I did the BSD in a half-assed way earlier in the year and I can say that the weight I lost then DIDN’T just find me again straight away! I did slowly regain some while eating really badly for weeks, but it generally felt like that weight was properly gone and my set-point reset. Of course if you stop BSD and then eat unhealthily it will come back eventually, just as you would keep gaining weight if you never went on the BSD in the first place.

Yesterday was my day three as well and seemed much harder than the first two. I was hungrier and more tired. Unfortunately I gave in in the evening and had some leftover Easter chocolate, which means I have to go through all the cravings again in a few days.

BSD 800 log: Day 1. I’ve been exploring this new way of life for several weeks now. Read Dr Mosley’s book several times (so that the concepts sink in) and have even done a ‘preliminary run’ of BSD 800 for 2 days to prove to myself that I can do it (and I did). Having sailed through ‘choc fest’ last week-end with minimal damage, (remember Dr Mosley says in the book to have at least 6 weeks clear to undertake this) today is my day to commence the BSD 800 and indeed the BSD way of life.

Thank you to all forum members – your contributions to this space are valuable. I’ve been reading the forums for 2 weeks and all of the topics are helpful and motivating.

Congrats on the great news jpscloud, that’s really fabulous and I can only imagine how great you must feel after seeing those results. Really hoping this diet works for me and gets my results down too. I see it working for so many on here. Definite motivation there….again WELL DONE!

That’s great news too Cherrianne, I bet your mum was so pleased to see how well she’s done…….goes to prove no matter what age…this diet can work for everyone.

Congratulations on becoming a veteran cherrieanne – though it has felt as if you already had passed that line weeks ago 🙂

Lucia I’m in bed thinking I’ll just check my mail box before switching the light off but now I’m rolling around laughing out loud at that description. It’s exactly what would happen to me – I’m thinking of my younger days when a rather serious kind of guy was displaying his punting skills on the river in oxford trying to impress me and fell in, came back up with something in his hair still trying to look cool. I tried not to laugh, lucia, honestly i did. But the more I tried the more I laughed
Sleep tight and sweet dreams x

Well done on those great results and your big walk.
My mum had her results yesterday, taken a couple of weeks ago when she was about 5 weeks into the BSD. Her A1c was 5.9, so in the pre diabetic range and LDL cholesterol was down to 3.7. She doesn’t need statins any more. Blood pressure was great. Weight down 8 kg. She wears a fitness tracker and aims for 12,000 steps per day and usually exceeds it. Her GP and DN were really impressed with her results and the BSD. I’m so proud of her 🙂 She’s 75 and reversing type 2 diabetes!

Oh, and I found a pod cast with free casts for the 5:2 diet by a lady who has written several books.
Listening to that on the bus each day.
Also in my spare time, researching edward vi. Or Henry the eighths little boy, who became King and died at 15.
Love Lucia
Xxxx

Hi cat girl , are you sure you would turn jack away if he turned up for a cup of……. Strawberries?

Did you see the pride and prejudice with Keira knightly in, I liked her mr d’arcy.
Yup, I swooned several times especially at the end as he walked across the fields at dawn to propose to her.

Knowing my look he would stand in a cow pat and twist his leg down a rabbit hole. Get mud splashed all over his white shirt, then catch a cold with his shirt so open.
Oh well, now you see why I day dream.
Love Lucia
Xxx

Missay I will have to politely decline your generous offer lol. Well we wasted money but learned something! I. Even took a six pack into school each monday. All that rubbish every week, can hardly believe I did it now

Hi justdoit,
You’ve hit what I call the week 2 blues! Nearly everyone finds their weight loss stalls around week 2/3 and I’m wondering if this might be when our bodies make the transition from carb burning to fat burning. Lots of adjustment for our bodies after the first week on the diet.
It would be interesting if someone ready to start the BSD would use ketostix from day one and let us know exactly when ketosis kicks in. I think it would be around that troublesome second week.
I have a bit of an enquiring mind, I like to know why lol, but it’s too late for me as I cross the eight week line today. Yay 🙂

Hi captain Lynn
As I go down in sizes I am getting trousers from Bon marche. Not the nylon-y feeling ones, but they do a nice cotton one which are great for work, quick to wash and dry.
They have some trousers a little bit Ali baba style in a dark material but with patterns on, they can be dressed up with blouse and jewellery or dressed down with pumps, boots and a pully.
I am looking forward to getting markies clothes to keep when I am an American size eight.
😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘
Love Lucia
Xxxx

Hi,
Got in late from work, sitting on the settee wrapped in a blanket, feeling tired and zapped of energy. Had a few bad nights especially Tuesday night. I had bad cramps in my feet. The cramp was trying to bend my toes under . It wasn’t nice. I tried to stretch it out and walk it off, ended up at 1:30 am wrapping my leg in a house coat.
Looking forward to the weekend.
Still walking 10,000 per day minimum. Weekends I try and double that up.
Diet going okay but now I am getting bored, so I am going to try the recipes to jazz it up.
I may pretend to start it all over again.
Unsure how long I have been on it, it feels like months.

In an OK frame of mind, as I no longer crave the carbs. Today had usual breakfast and just an apple for lunch. Bacon and egg for tea.
I need to overdose on veg tomorrow, I feel I haven’t had enough veggies these last couple of days.
The freezer is nearly empty so I am going to top up with the good stuff. Any suggestions? I will probably go to Iceland.

I am getting there.

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Well done Karra, that was very brave but I bet you feel so much better, mentally, for achieving it all by yourself. Every time you do it your legs will get stronger and soon it will be much easier. Especially as even that amount of exercise will help the weight loss too.
Wonder if you’ll be jumping in puddles like Lucia by next autumn 🙂

Hi Cherianne
Thanks for info. I think it’s ok if it’s not low cal , because the oil will stop you being hungry. The diet doc website says its dense bread so you ll only need one slice.
I m going to have a go at it.
Penny

The service was really good as well.

Day 40 weight 10st 5lbs
Blood sugar 10.2

Very busy today, made veg curry with Bulger wheat (instead of rice) – one portion of curry went to a neighbour and two in the freezer. Also made carrot & butternut squash soup ready for tomorrow’s lunch and 5 portions frozen. Drank more fluid today again, I’m having ratatouille and salami for tea tomorrow. I’ve got a few built up in the freezer.😊

Maybe it’s better I’m losing the weight slowly, at least it is coming down and might be more likely to stay down as I continue this way of eating. 5 bags of sugar is a sizeable chunk to lose.

Hello captainlynne, I recently bought an ‘extra tasty’ rotisserie chicken from Tesco’s deli section. I asked the lady serving me what the ‘extra tasty’ was, expecting her to say garlic or black pepper. But to my horror, she told me that the chicken was coated in sugar!! I was absolutely horrified. I mean, why would you? What chance do we have when you have to be careful buying something as simple as a rotisserie chicken?

Molly

No point me posting you the 5 remaining cans of the multipack then, Hashimoto!

I’ll try not to Penny!

Food for yesterday:
Breakfast: 2 egg and sour cream microwaved custard with cinnamon, nutmeg, 10 raisins and 3 tspns cream

Lunch: a slice of ham, creme fraiche, pickled onions, gherkins, cherry toms, 4 almonds

Dinner: home made lamb and green lentil.soup, with onion, carrot, rosemary, mint and wild garlic

Drinks: water, still and sparkling, buttermint teas, one coffee – half and half milk and water

Snack: half an apple

Cals: 760, Carbs: 51g

Food for today:
Breakfast: Greek yogurt with half a small pear, cinnamon and 2 teaspoons cream

Lunch: a slice of ham, an ounce of cheddar, tablespoon of cream cheese, tablespoon of guacamole, gherkin, pickled onions, cherry toms with basil, pickled jalapenos

Dinner: 3 egg omelette/frittata with onion, red pepper, garlic, gammon, basil, cheddar cheese

Snack: half an apple

Drinks: sparkling water, buttermint teas, coffee with milk

I didn’t plan today’s food in advance and winged it a bit, but making sure I kept the carbs down. Calorie count was higher at 1004, but carbs were 41, so we’ll see what the scales say tomorrow.

Has anyone else tried freekeh? Lower in calories than brown rice and more fibre than quinoa. Good in lots of low GI recipes. And selling in our local Cole’s supermarket here south of Sydney.

Missay diet ginger beer was my tipple of choice too. Note the was. I noticed a chemical aftertaste as well 🙁

Lynne – it’s a strange feeling when it happens, isn’t it? I was a bit put out because I was looking forward to it, but at the same time pleased, because it was another success for this way of eating!

Christi – I tried Truvia when it first came out, but really didn’t like it. To me, it tested of liquorice. I like liquorice (that may be ‘liked’ in the past tense now, of course) but not in my coffee! I find xylitol doesn’t have any aftertaste for me, and it is granular, which I also like for the crunch. I haven’t used much on this diet though. I’ve noticed on discussions on other forums in the past, that there seems to be very individual responses to the flavour of sweeteners. I have friends who use Truvia, and don’t taste the liquorice taste at all, but it was very strong to me. I find xylitol the best I’ve tried, but I know some people get an aftertaste with it.

Hi captainlynne
I don’t bake for our church cake stall, however when they have one we have a standing order for coffee and walnut cake that one of the dad’s make, I could make it too we just have it to give funds to the church. I don’t know what we will do in future, just keep getting it and I will leave the room while it’s being eaten! Can you just see that happening!
Good job I not into fizzy drinks, except the occasional Bacardi and Coke, and I mean occasional, my last one was at Christmas!

Hi Penny,
If your soy yoghurt has live bacteria in it should be a good substitute. I’ve used natural yoghurt as a starter for making bread when I accidentally killed my sourdough starter. Yoghurt makes a good raising agent in bread.
I’ve been experimenting with lupin flour lately trying to make a decent dough for pizza bases and focaccia. Had some spectacularly awful failures up to now. They look impressive but are very dry. Think I’ll need to up the oil, so they won’t be low cal unfortunately.

Hi missay
Have you tried Truvia, it’s stevia only truvia’s a brand name, only it isn’t a chemical like the little pill ones. Cheers christine

Good sleuthing maryr, I’m still reeling with shock at the amount of sugar added to meat 🙁

Hi fch53
Ok thanks, cheers christine

Hi pmshrink
Yes thanks I am getting there, cheers christine

Hi hashimoto
Yes the doctor was quite helpful giving me some good advice on moving forward, (not in the excercise way though! Thankfully) I hate doing it. Just have to do the best I can when I feel like it, we are going swimming in the morning with the three granddaughters, whether I get any excercise is debatable though! Cheers christine

Hi Christi. I sometimes have to bake for church – my specialities are/were Mars Bar Cake and banana bread! The thought of it is making me feel ill now😱

Like many on here I never thought I’d lose my sweet tooth, but it has happened.

Misssay- that happened to me the other day. I used to love diet lemon and lime drinks but had been drinking lots of sparkling water instead. I was shopping and needed a drink, so bought the diet lemon and lime. Two mouthfuls was more than enough & I had to pour it away when I got home bit was far too sweet😳

Hi janet1973
Very reassuring about you having an after eight, a couple of weeks ago my granddaughter, Dana had a packet of maltesers, she gave me one, (she is so generous and lovely and only five) then because I hesitated, hoping she would go off and play, then I could give it to someone else, she just stood there and said go on eat it, go on, go on, so I had to eat it in front of her, it was so sweet, I thought I had cracked it, but I am craving sugar really badly at the moment, and I don’t know why.
As to the fage yogurt I will have to have a look for it, I’ve never heard or seen it and I have been having yogurt for years, I haven’t has half fat or 0% yogurt in years, thankfully!
Thanks for the help. Cheers christine