Hashminto and Lucia, thank you I am grateful for your advice and yes Lucia I have gone and walked for 40 min, hopefully by the end of eight weeks my dog and I will be the fittest on my block,. I am planning out my weekly menu so there will be no straying of it again. 😀😀😀

Well I am feeling very proud of myself today, I didn’t give in I smelt the chocolate, like i was advised to do, it smelt awful. How did that happen i WAS a chocoholic!!!! No cheesecake or cakes for me either. I can’t believe how quickly my taste buds have changed, this lifestyle change is amazing. I might have a hot cross bun later on. Week 6 todoy 20lb down.

You know I told you all I used to eat Chinese take away until it came out of my ears?

Well, guess what……
In the recipes section, there is a fried rice dish.
Will read it tomorrow and go food shopping. Mmmmmmmmmmm drooling already.

Love Lucia
Xxxxx

Hi reindeen,
Don’t worry, it is only for one hour you went….. Squiffy.
The other 23 hours you were perfect.
Regroup and set your menu for tomorrow.

Come for a walk with us all in Hashimoto’s woods. Smell the wild garlic?
See it’s all behind you.
Post a blog tomorrow to me and tell me you have done well with the day. Maybe do an extra 500 steps.

At least you didn’t have a screaming fit like I did earlier.

Keep going
Love Lucia
Xxx

I’ve signed it and posted the link on my Facebook page via the link on final signing page. I don’t have a Twitter account but I would think social media would be a good start to getting more signatures.

Hi gang,

Right, now where were we?
Ah yes, now about us all being professional regarding our BS800 diet. Let us draw a line under the Easter egg incident.
Now what were we saying, ah yes. Now tomorrow, I need to regroup. Yoghurt and fruit for breakfast.
Tuna salad lunch,
A big dollop of green leaf veg. ( dollop is a technical term) with maybe fish.

There I am back in the pattern,
To all those who ate chocolate, I know, just regroup. I put my head in the dining room cupboards and stayed there until IT had gone. You must go out and buy cupboards to prevent another situation.
To all those who didn’t eat chocolate… Smarty pants!
Love Lucia xxxxx

I use Lactofree semi skimmed milk – 200 mls for 80 calories and 6 gms of carbs. It onlly saves 4 gms of carbs but I am trying to keep to between 20-30 gms of carbs a day and every little helps!

So we’re looking at 5 fluid ounces of yogurt (10 tablespoons)? And measurements for meats (obvious, those) and cheese, fruits, vegetables, etc. will be X ounces weight?

This must sound a bit twitty to some; however, if I use your pre-printed recipe and err in volume vs. weight measurement, it can make a difference, sometimes substantial, in the calorie value of the food. And 800, with a rounding margin of 10, is the daily allowance, no? If it is sufficiently important that a book be written from the research, intended to make this critical tool more widely available, then twitty questions about measurement of ingredients in the recipes included in the books are not only fair, they are essential for compliance.

Thanks.

Well done skywalker that will be useful information for everyone 🙂

Hi reindeen, happy easter to you too.

You WILL get your mojo back. In fact after a heavy meal today you will be glad to get back on the BSD wagon 🙂

Hi jandz, I find fritatta is a good packed lunch choice, you can fry onion,peppers and mushrooms then add the eggs. I sometimes put a little grated cheese on before popping it under the grill. Use 4 eggs. Cut it in two and you have 2 packed lunches. Another good lunch is hummus or peanut butter dip, take crudites of cucumber, pepper, celery and carrot. Plenty of mid week veg!

Forget about yesterday, it’s the past. You can take from the experience that it doesn’t agree with you to eat a carb heavy meal 🙂

Breakfast: Easter Spiced Bun, warmed, creme fraiche on top

Lunch: Platter of hummus, piece of chedder, guacamole, sour cream, pickled jalapenos, olives, gherkins, pickled onions, cherry tomatoes. The plan was to serve this with some toasted slices of a cauliflower loaf I made yesterday. Bleuuugh, I’m afraid – didn’t like it at all, and the OH, who loves all things cauli, didn’t like it either.

Dinner: Roast lamb and gravy, brussels sprouts, carrots, mashed and baked swede, spicy red cabbage with red onion, apple and cranberries. (Not had this yet, but looking forward to it all in a while)

Drinks: Water, one tea with milk, two coffees and cream

No cals or carb counts for today, as I am having a couple of days (yesterday and today) on slghtly more relaxed eating, whilst still sticking to the basis ideas of the plan. I still have a week to go to the end of the 8 weeks, but will be doing another stint after that, so Easter weekend seemed like a good time to relax a little, and see what effect it had. I suppose that makes this week more of a 2:5 week!

Hi folks, there were 63 signatures for the petition last time I checked. Are there any uk residents who haven’t signed? We would love it if you joined us! 🙂

Good news is week 3 ended yesterday and another 2lb has gone…10lb in total 👍

Bad news is I’m not holding out much hope of a loss next weigh in as yesterday and today have been very very carb heavy.

Yesterday was a meal out and lots of alcohol and today was Easter lunch including pudding….and I’m suffering for it! Stomach is uncomfortable, feeling lethargic and a mild headache is lurking in the background. Also, thinking back now, I didn’t enjoy much of the food or drink so maybe this plan is realigning my taste buds aswell?

However, I’m not beating myself up for my actions, I’m learning from them, I’m actually looking forward to being back on plan tomorrow and at least now I know it’s the carbs that have made me feel blarghh for several years now !

Happy Easter to all, hope you had a lovely day. I must confess I fell of the wagon today and had a big dinner and lots of chocolate 😒😒😒but starting back now again and have started to read all the very inspirational reads again on this forum, hopefully I can get my motivation back and stay on the bed. thank you for all your support.

Sorry to take so long to get back, in Dunelm for £2.99 there are 5 cups, yolk separator and scraper printed with their sizes:

Fluids: Dry Volune:
1 Fl oz =2 tbsp =30 ml 1/2 tsp = 2.5 ml
4 Fl oz =1/2 cup =120 ml 1 tsp = 5 ml
8 Fl oz =1 cup =240 ml 1 tbsp = 15 ml
12 Fl oz =1 1/2 cup =360 ml 1 cup = 240 ml
16 Fl oz =2 cups = 480 ml 4 cup = 1 qt = 946 ml

Starting my week 8 tomorrow, don’t beat yourself up, it’s not a race and reduced input = reduced fat stores (usually).

Good luck everyone, I am beginning to loosen up on food items but still keeping sugar down to 30 mg or so each day.

I am the female

If you look at the recommended daily allowances for people, they only change between men and women, children and adults. Which one are you? The 4’11 female or the 6’5 male?

Yes even your small bowl could be getting you 20g of carbs. I find the eggs more filling, especially if I have three! (Still no carbs!) and I usually have a little bit of cheese and I cook it in butter. I don’t count calories but I do observe 16/8 every day. Soya milk is definitely an acquired taste but there are others you could try to. Don’t be tempted to go for skimmed milk though as bizarrely it has more carbs than full fat!

Reason I ask why 800? for say a 4’11 female vs a 6’5 male 800 is very different depending on which you are.

Lynne, I am having to ditch my favourite jumper too, no matter how many times I have washed it you can still see the shape of my old stomach. It looks bizarre!!

Christi, don’t we deserve a treat for all the hard work we have put in? OMG my lawn has just turned white with hailstones – perhaps Lucia was not joking about that snowball fight she should have with Bill!!!

Back to what I was saying – I intend buying myself some new clothes to celebrate once I am happy with my fat loss. I kept a £20 M and S voucher a friend gave me at Xmas. I was going to use it towards the cost of some new trousers – so glad I didn’t get round to it as I would now be giving them away!! 🙂

You did it Lucia, hurray!!!! 🙂 x

Lynne, I can’t wait for that one!!! 🙂

Newlife, so glad you were able to enjoy your Easter dinner! It’s still good without the carbs, isn’t it?? 🙂

Hi monkeyescapade, as well as those hidden sugars and palm oil could you just be storing excess water at the moment as well? A few people have experienced some weight increase which rapidly disappeared a few days later – and more weight besides with it.

I wish we had some warmth here too, strong winds and lashing rain at the moment! 🙂

Welcome to the forums Gabby, and all other Aussies!! Same goes for our American pals 🙂

Hi Lachlan, glad you are still with us. Bill and Cherrianne are our resident experts on blood sugars.

Keep posting we like to hear from you!! 🙂

Hi jpscloud, I second everything cherrianne said. I didn’t think you came across as lonely either 🙂

Hi everyone, I’ve been doing the diet for two days now and it seems to be working. I’m a bit confused, the diet seems to be encouraging you to eat nuts, seeds, fish, olive oil, chicken, plenty of veg, etc., but I’m finding it hard to fit all this into 800 calories a day. I have done it but feel very tired, I think I need more oil and protein but as I say I can’t fit it in. I am counting everything I eat and haven’t yet gone over the 800. Any ideas?

thank you so much Janet for the encouragement. 3 more weeks then on to the 5:2 or maybe 4:3 if I can manage it (still have another 60lb to lose , but trying not to think of that, just every 1lb!)
Interview, or rather company sounds dreadful – they might as well state than only those who are desperate or with no integrity need apply! Remember you are worth more and better!
hope you are having a good day off.

Cherrianne I can feel the hot sun on my back and the cooling sea round my ankles when I read your post. Oh, how I would love to see that dolphin mother and child!!! and swim in the sea. Last time I actually swam in the sea was in the cold North Atlantic on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula (highlands of Scotland) with my friend. It was sort of warmish on the beach but the water!!! OMG I can’t describe how cold it was. We both came out absolutely lobster red! I swear it was 10 times colder than the plunge pools at saunas.
I’m planning on some new cosies so I can swim in Perth.
The cuckoo pint started emerging a couple of weeks ago, along with the garlic. I picked a bunch of wild garlic leaves, as I always do at this time of year…….they are glorious added to a risotto at the end of cooking. What? Risotto? I can’t eat that anymore. It’s amazing how we still have to remind ourselves when old habits spring to mind. I made some garlic butter instead and froze portions to remind me of my spring ramblings. Lovely on veg!!!

Lucia, parts of the woods have larch growing and the smell of the needles as you tread on them is divine. Like the air is scented with pine.

🙂 🙂 🙂

Lucia…well done! I succumbed to 2 of those mini mini eggs (the size of your little finger nail) which are to decorate the cake my 13 year old has just made. Thought about having more and picked up my phone and have just read your posts. If you can do it, I can do this too and I have moved away from the smells of the stuff which will not help me to fit those smaller trousers. We are off to my mum’s house for a meal at 5-ish to accommodate men folk’s shifts. And I am taking a low carb egg and poached leek salad with caper vinaigrette while they all eat roast lamb and potatoes etc. It helps that my husband and friend are also doing this now. So I will have company… and the salad (pilfered the idea from the Sainsburys mag this month😊) does look very good…

Thanks for giving me strength and encouragement to avoid the chocolate. (As well as a belly laugh or 10. Just love your posts😂)

Hi all, captainlynne, hashimoto,
I made my meatballs, everyone else ( hubby, two daughter and three grandchildren) had the lamb, in the end the plums are being eaten raw, they are so sweet and juicy, had shop bought apple crumble, and lemon tart, would never have done that when I was not on the diet. So I got off lightly there! I enjoyed the meatballs too.
As to the clothes I am trying on now I have just got my dresses to go then I can get my holiday clothes out, ( have got two lots of family visiting over next 10 days, ( one set of six, another set of 3 + dog) just one day before we go away!) I now have no more room in my wardrobe I have so many clothes that now fit, or nearly, (they were all in vacuum bags under my bed!)
Although I don’t need any clothes for the foreseable future it would be lovely to treat myself and get something really special. Is that being really naughty of me? I don’t care though, I have had to buy stuff that fits because of being so overweight, not necessarily because I liked the stuff.
Rant over! here to losing more weight, week eight starts in the morning!

Ah thanx Cherianne, appreciate the words of comfort and wisdom. I hadn’t thought about the sugar in the stir fry sauces, good to be mindful of that and of course as you say palm oil. Have been sticking to apples only for fruit, refusing to look at mango and sticky rice, how tough is that. Oooh, laksa, delish, and healthy. All those things aside feeling very lucky to be here, it is such a wonderful country and on the diet front, doing what we can to be healthy, there are plenty of low carb choices. Body measurements also went into plateau, on the waist front, but I will be measuring again in few weeks time, dont want to do too soon in case no change.
As I’ve been travelling for a while I’ve only got my comfy clothes with me but when I get home to the UK I am looking forward to trying on those clothes that I bought a year or so ago in the hope that they now fit me comfortably rather than overstretched and confined to the back of the wardrobe. I will keep you all posted on that.

Hi sue and rose, I find a tspn of milled flax on my morning yoghurt works wonders! 🙂 It’s £1.99 from Aldi 🙂

Someone’s nearly ate it all. Glad it wasn’t me.
I think I handled that quite well, maturely, quiet, responsible, calm. I don’t think any of you noticed.

And I didn’t panic.

Phew.

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Thanks Janet,
I realise about the carbs in porridge so I only have a small bowl (30g oats) and I make it with only a small amount of milk – or sometimes none at all. I also have milk in tea. I once tried soay milk but didn’t like it at all. I now wonder if I am exceeding 50g of carbs a day and this is preventing me progressing further. I sometimes have a 2 egg omelette for breakfast so I’ll probably try an egg/porridge/egg rotation to see if that helps.
Thanks again for your advice.

In “………out……… In…….. Out……
La. La. La. La. La.

I can’t hear you”……..

Love Lucia
Xxxxx

Hi Judith

One item going to a new home was a sweater that had stood by me through thick and thin! I’d had it about 8 years and was really tired of it 😟! But my favourite sweater is going to have to go😱 I’ve tried it over a teeshirt, but it’s far too baggy (and almost indecent) to be seen in public 😳

Can’t wean myself off dark skirts and trousers, but I am trying 😃

Welcome to all the new Aussies and the new Americans.

This is turning into a global phenomenon 😃

Hi sianeb. Welcome to the family.

Great advice from Janet and Cherrianne.

Keep reading the posts on here, and add yours letting us know your progress.

Danger alert, danger alert ( yes I know I sound like Robbie the robot from the 1960’s)

Chocolate in the house’,!!!!!!!!!!!!

Panic, panic,
Breathe……in….. Out …. In….. Out.
I can do this…….
Hi, my name is Lucia and I am a chocolate addict.

I will stay out of the kitchen……
Right, pull yourself together girl! Get a grip…..

In….. Out….. In….out……

Right, keep busy, where are those cupboards I need to clean out….

In….. Out…… In… Out………
La la la la……. I can’t hear it call my name. La la….la…la…..

Love Lucia
Xxxxx

Thanks Judith and Bill

I’ve just emailed the three photos and await their response. Should be interesting to see how they explain it this time 😳

Hashimoto, it feels sooo good!
Full roast lunch today and I was able to skip the potatoes and yorkshires without too much trouble 😀

Hi Strebordave

You mention about wanting to keep things very low carb. Porridge contains quite a lot of carbs, not sure about your rye bread, and milk is about 5g per 100ml, so again quite high. I try to stick to 50g a day so I can have either porridge or a latte but not both. I concentrate on eating things without carbs – eggs, fish, meat, butter, oils. And I am currently trying out almond milk as a substitute for cow’s milk but coconut milk and soya milk are also good. Anything up to 50g is good for fat burning.

Oh
And if you find my missing hour, please send it back to me , I miss it already.
Xxx
Love lucia

Oh and.
I tried my jeans on again this morning in case it was a fluke that i could get into them yesterday.
Yup, they still go on and fastened up. Phew. ( if they hadn’t I would have told you it might be wind ☺️☺️☺️☺️)

Now I am aiming for the next size trousers down.
I fancy those trousers that fly at half mast… Pedal pushers or Capri pants. I may go from my usual black/dark burgundy to something crazy like…… Navy… No, no, wait…. How about khaki. Sorry but that is as loud as I can go at this stage.
Size 12 could be, no, I dare not say it out loud….. Okay, I will whisper only to you, sssshhhhhhh. Stone… Have I gone too far? Yup, I have gone giddy.

Food.
Didn’t want breakfast, I had at lunchtime, three ton of mushrooms with a knob of butter, dry fried egg, grilled bacon.

Evening meal, I am thinking cauliflower cheese, ….. Yes, I know I need to watch my calories…. Don’t fuss, I have my scales in the kitchen, using them all the time.

Funny you should ask about the bathroom scales, they are sulking upstairs. They know they did me a great wrong, frightening me, the way they did. I growl at them each time I go past them.
I am only pleasant to them when I weigh myself, see, I am a fine weather friend.
After admitting that, I bet they get their own back, I will have put on six or seven stones. You watch, they are slow but sure on cold revenge.

Just realised, I am taking about an appliance as if it were alive.
Move along, nothing to see here, the crazy woman is going out puddle bashing now.
Xxxxx
Love Lucia

Hi M
Well done, that’s an amazing weight loss. I bet you’re chuffed to bits with that!

Yes, I did get the job but I don’t think I want it. We have seriously got our priorities wrong in this country. The pay is poor, I have to do a five day induction course without pay, there is no mileage or travel time paid between clients but they say its ok because they expect me to steal back time by doing shorter visits to make up for the mileage they aren’t paying me. I think not!

One of the interview questions was when was the last time I spoke out about something that was wrong. The irony was just too much.

Anyway, onwards and upwards M. I am having a day off the plan today but I’ll be back in the game tomorrow. Keep up the good work, there’ll be no stopping you now!

Bill 1954.

Thank you for your honesty.

If the weather stays like this, want a snowball fight later?

Now on to more important business,

Ryvita. Unsure of the carbs in them, I feel they should be okay to eat with a bit of salt and tuna on top. I fancy something with a bit of crunch. (I have run out of celery)
Can anyone help me please (again , I know I ask so much of you all)

I wonder if there is an emoji for eater chicks, hang on, I will take a look
🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣🐤🐤
Yup, I found some.

Keep going, keep losing, keep moving one step at a time. Wait for me though, I am only a little bit behind you.

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Hi Just thought I would check in and also give an update. Hope everyone still doing ok.
Janet – did you get the job? Bill – hoped you had a good birthday Sharon – hope you and OH are still both losing.

Having got thoroughly stalled for two weeks, I have reduced carbs (keeping them around 40g a day) and in the last 8 days have lost 7lb!! (have now lost 16lb in last 5 weeks and a total of 31lb since January 1st ) to everyone who hits the plateau know it does happen, just stick with it – good luck all.