Great results. Well done.

Hi FoFi.

I live alone so it’s not an issue for me normally. But my twin 8-year old granddaughters visit for holidays. Fortunately they don’t eat many sweets anyway, but eat cereal, bread, pizza etc. I did notice the adverse effect a Subway kids meal had on them – they were hyper, nearly running round the walls. They’ll be visiting me soon and I’m hoping they’ll eat more low-carb food while they’re here. At least it’s a start!

Well done.

Love to be a fly on the wall at that appointment stingle 😃

Thanks Patsy really enjoying doing this. Xx

Thanks Bill, I didn’t notice it in the book and I’ve been trolling the website to double check, was just concerned I might not eat enough calories.

Well said aly 🙂

Hi CurlyGirl,

I know what you mean about events and food. However, last week I think I cracked it (for lunch buffets at least). I took a high protein meal replacement bar and as everyone was queuing for the buffet I went and ‘made a phone call’ and ate my bar. I was able to stay reasonably far from the food for most of lunch time. I did ate a small cube of Brie as I was passing the pudding table later on. But I wasn’t hungry and no one noticed.

I am interested in your thoughts on carbs for the rest of the family. I am just concentrating on reducing sugar for now. If I can improve their palate so they need food less sweet that will be a success. I have a thread on this elsewhere on this forum. (Started after Bill’s post above.)

Well done! I am jealous of your 30lb loss! You are so right about preparation – you have the right mindset. Long may it continue.

I had a week of catastrophic eating and put on 4 lbs. I have been back on track three days now and have lost the 4lbs. Put it behind you and move on. It is a big change to eating habits and it can be hard. This is a lifestyle choice so just keep going. Well done for admitting to it and getting back on board.

Wow thast an amazing set of results well done and great inspiration to so many others.

Lucia wow sweet 16 size blouse! How could that naughty easter bunny tempt you now? No no no to going back to size 18 blouse!!!! 🙂

I’ve been a BSDer for several weeks – and every so often I’m still getting a headache/hangover feeling. It’s not always food related, sometimes a stressful day at work triggers things. However, the most recent episode followed what had been my best week on this diet – after achieving my first milestone (of losing a stone) I started to feel lethargic & headachey, felt hungry & thirsty and finally gave in to my vice of choice (a bag of salt & vinegar crisps). Now I’m feeling better and have found new reserves of energy (and my garden & allotment are benefiting as a result). I think it is just my body reacting to the weight loss and it goes into panic mode (I experience a slight rise in my weight and then a plateau) before the weight starts to come off again.
So for those of you still in the early stages of the BSD, don’t despair, it is something we all have to deal with but you do get through it. It’s not all plain sailing but next time you feel grotty you are better able to cope. And you will feel better/more energetic more times than you feel lousy. Keeping well hydrated is so important, as GrumptoGlam has pointed out.
Good luck everyone.
Rose

Hi Sabina
Welcome to the group looking forward to hearing your results at the end of week one.

You are doing a brilliant job Fofi. Its all a learning curve isn’t it? I’m sure you will make many discoveries over the coming weeks that will help you achieve what you want for your family. I think it must be very difficult to try to be healthy when your kids’ friends are maybe getting all sorts of bad stuff. Nor do you want to turn your own kids into ocd health freaks. The very fact that you care is enough. If more parents understood the dangers we’d be doing a lot better against childhood obesity.

Nic2385 – what brilliant results, you must been really excited to have made such huge headway in such a short period. Hope you keep posting to encourage others wanting to make positive change for themselves too.

Welcome to the forum – hope you will enjoy posting and sharing your progress.
I use nutricheck.co.uk and stick with it, unless there is calorie and carb info on the packaging (none of a butcher bought steak of course) but in most cases on nutricheck, it has a general value as well as values for food purchased from a specific store. Think you just need to select the calorie checker that you are comfortable with and use it exclusively for foods that don’t have the nutritional values on the packaging.
Don’t panic too much about being dead on 800 per day. There will be days you are a bit over and others when you are a bit under – over the course of the eight weeks, it will balance itself out.
Good luck and hope to see you posting some positive results soon.

I’m feeling pretty weak too and a tad grumpy. Sometimes go slightly over calories but weighing 240lb and walking dog for hour every day I am still feeling hungry a week in although have lost 11lbs. Thrilled with weight loss of course but am wishing I could get to the not feeling hungry stage.

Captain Lynne,
Are you trying to kill me?
I was happy to be able to touch my toes, but between you and cat girl, well really 😅
Having a bit of time off, found the energy to sort the bedroom.
Clean out the spare bedroom wardrobe.
Bleach the kitchen, sort cupboards , etc
Move the furniture around in the lounge
Tomorrow I hope to do the dining room.
Then I went for a walk, did shopping and then guess what?
I got three blouses from Bon marche in size 16. Sweet sixteen . Not 20 , not 18. Yipppeeeeee

Hope you are all doing well.
Love Lucia
Xxxx

Thank you for the information on Xylitol, I am nervous about feeding them strange sweeteners. My normal policy is (for them not myself sadly) smaller or less frequent portions rather than artificial sweeteners (or low fat). (My definition of artificial sweetener is not necessarily consistent with anything else.)

I agree that ‘treats’ are out of control, one difficulty is that when everyone else is getting so many how do I make sure that I don’t seem to be so much a tyrant that they then go off the rails. (I don’t mind being a tyrant if it works out well.) I do know a couple of people who took the low sugar thing too far (too far = further than me) and it didn’t end well. The children have such easy access to sweet shops, vending machines and friends with similar access if they feel deprived they can overreact at a later date.

I think that teeth are okay at the moment as treats tend to be consumed with meals as are any sweetened drinks.

We just made ‘Strawberry yoghurt’ this evening, but it was more of a drink. 100g Greek yoghurt, 100g strawberries blended hard and I would happily drink that again. In fact I will once I am at an intermittent fasting stage. The kids weren’t impressed so I added 5g sugar. Next time I will add 4g and see how low I can go. I am in no rush to get this right I have several years of errors to correct.

I need to revisit the bread aisle. I haven’t eaten any for over 7 weeks, but once I return to eating it now and again I will need to make sure our bread is okay. The reason I asked about low sugar bread is that in the book Michael states that some brown breads have extra sugar to make the taste more palatable.

And then as we switch away from honey or jam on toast to Marmite we hit the too much salt problem which is probably a problem for a different website!

Cat girl,
I dare not put a lap dancing pole in the house, it may be too much for oh.
Firemen, in uniform. Mmmmmmmmm,m
Sorry went off on a tangent………
Love Lucia
Xxxx

Hi spirit,
Just keep to the eating programme the two weeks will soon fly by.
I am hoping that the Easter bunny hops past my door this year.
I don’t need the temptation. I am doing small tests that I can control, but a stack of Easter eggs may be too great

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Today I reached 5 weeks on the diet. I have kept to 800 calories everyday bar three when I popped over by no more than 300 calories (each alocohol related). I am now 30lbs lighter anbd have lost 4 inches off my waist. Three days ago my BMI dropped off the obese scale. I am now jogging again, have good energy levels and feel terrific.

My determination and confidence to continue has been fed by the fast results and not rushing into the diet. This lifestyle change really needs forethought and preparation, as much mental as in planning a new recipe set.

To any new or potential dieters the message is this, if I can do it anyone can. Good luck.

Nic

Wow stingle, that will be an interesting consultation 🙂

Hi whalleyrange, I would say try not to worry. A number of people have queried calorie count of recipes in the book I’ve followed the book and have lost 2 stones 6lbs so far and now have a bmi of 22.1 so if you stick to the principles of the diet it does work.
Bill has lost a lot of weight following the principles of low carb, full fat and plenty of water and his stats are amazing! 🙂

Hi Sabina. Welcome to the family. Nothing to add to what the others have said, except clear the carbs out of your home, record everything you eat, and keep to the 800 calories while low-carbing. Jump in and join us – it really does work.

Thanks for your posts guys. I had a bad time in week 2 but you all said stick at it and I darn well have. A few weeks to go then I intend to hit the diabetic clinic and my doctors with gusto and politely inform them that this plan could save the nhs millions and hand them a copy of Dr M’s Blood sugar diet book then jump on the scales with gay abandon ! Can’t wait ……

Thanks Judith. I remember once, many years ago, eating a pack of Mars bars washed down with Diet Coke while waiting for my mother’s test results. It did me no good, and didn’t affect her results. Lesson learned. Kind of. Now, on the BSD I’ve lost the taste for the comfort foods I used to turn to. As you so rightly say, I need to keep strong and to do that I need to keep healthy. Thanks for the hugs 😃

Hi sabina have you got the book or just the posts on here? If you don’t have the book yet google daily mail 8 week blood sugar diet. There are 5 articles by M.M and 2 to 5 have a weeks menu.

If you do have the book

Drink 2 to 3 litres of water a day

Include FAT in your food

Keep to low carbs

🙂

Hi Sabrina
Welcome to the BSD clan. The forum is full of advise and support, so make the most of the various threads and shout out if you need to, as someone will respond.
My advise is keep the book close at hand, count the calories in everything you consume and keep a watchful eye on carbs as well as calories. That isn’t mentioned in the book, but it does help to keep carbs down to around 50g a day. It’s important to eat fat as this helps to keep you feeling full and also encourages fat burning. And last but not least, be sure to drink plenty – minimum of 2L a day.
Other than that, just jump in and see what you can achieve.
Good luck and remember to keep us posted on your progress.

Hi lizzy you can also take any of the dips with crudites 🙂

Great results stingle. Isn’t it great to find something that works so we can take control of our lives 😃

Hi Stingle – brilliant results! Hope now you have found the forum, you’ll be posting your results more frequently. It’s good news like yours that bolsters those who are flagging a little. Keep up the good work.

Stingle wow, wow, wow. Absolutely amazing! It really does work, doesn’t it? 🙂

Starting in today. Reading content and getting used to this concept. Would love your inspiration and advice for success. Still not sure how to work this way of eating.

Hi Chezza,
What Ryvita can you get that’s only .5g carb per serve? Is there a special low carb one?
I used to love them but the only ones I can find have over 6g carb per slice ( I’m in Aus so may not be available here).
Three of those would put me at over 20g.

I have now been on the BSD for 4 1/2 weeks with the followingresults
Morning Blood sugar (fasting) from 24 to 9.9 (been as low as 5.9 after exercise)
Waist minus 4 inches
Weight minus 13 lbs
Blood pressure 115/72
Excercise 4 Times per week . .. boundless energy for the first time in years
Insulin injections NONE FOR 4 WEEKS
Still on 2000 mg metformin but who cares !!!!!

THIS ACTUALLY BLOODY WORKS IT REALLY DOES. IVE BEEN DIABETIC FOR 15 YEARS AND 5 YEARS ON INSULIN – I HAVE TAKEN MY OWN LIFE IN MY OWN HANDS FINALLY. 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

Rubbu- omg! That poor flower! 🙁

Hi Jpscloud,
It is just a blip, mine was a small chocolate egg (that I had brought for the grandchildrens Easter egg hunt) like Judith said tomorrow is another day.

Have to agree with you Patsy. I find some days I have to remind myself to eat as I rarely Hungry on this diet, sorry lifestyle! I do plan meal’s ahead each day, but some days I don’t have the inclination to eat.
But I do. I believe it’s very important not to skip meals. And I always enjoy what I make myself.

Lynne, I’m sorry to hear about your bad news re your friends mother. I’m still trying to catch up with posts after two days on the allotment and today a mega cook.
You are right about keeping things under control and it will help your friend if you stay strong for her. What a wonderful attitude you have, Lynne big hugs (( )) 🙂

Curlygirl – how fantastic – not just your amazing weight loss but the change you are finding in your tastes and attitude. 1 square of dark chocolate and you felt sick!!! Wonderful – not feeling sick, of course, just the fact that you now have the confidence that you don’t need or want that stuff!!!!
Really looking forward to hearing about your progress! 🙂

Hi Orchid
I think it would depend what your recipe is the one I use is http://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/vegetable-stock it has the calories etc
Enjoy

You don’t need to worry about saturated fat in any food. Firstly, Coconut products suffered very badly during the ‘fat is bad for you’ campaign but is actually one of the most beneficial fats you can use. Secondly, saturated fat does not cause cholesterol, trans fats do. Again, this was a piece of misinformation from the bad old days.

Hi jay thankyou for your kind words to forum posters. We would love to hear how you are doing so keep on posting 🙂

Jpscloud – tomorrow is another day as they say. You just had a little blip but it is in the past. Sounds like you have it sorted 🙂

Good choice. There’s absolutely nothing of any value to our bodies in Coke, and most other fizzy drinks, except for the water.

I suppose it depends on how lean the meat is, but that does seem a wide variation.

Excellent weight loss btw – should have said well done for that first.

Adding enough that the average is 800 a day sounds like a good idea. I don’t think it matters too much if some days are a little up and some down as long as over all we keep to around 800.