Going back to your original post, Nic2385, your results are really impressive – well done!

With regards to your “forethought and preparation, as much mental as in planning a new recipe set” – did you follow the diet in the book or did you adapt and use your own food plan?

spooky, what happened there? one second I was responding to your message the next I get email confirming your support!!! 🙂

That was quick signed

It must be slow, I’ve only got a response from janet and lynne so far. It seemed slow last time too. 🙂

Hi Ladies,
The longer you can fast overnight the easier it is for your body to burn fat. If you do need to snack choose a high fat option as it will satisfy your taste buds and body for longer. One of my fave snacks is a piece of cheese, 20g = 86cals 0.1g carbs and 5.4g protein. Doesn’t sound like a lot of cheese but if you cut a thin slice and break it into small pieces as you eat and let it melt on your tongue you can make it last. A handful of hulled sunflower seeds can replace nuts if they are a snack you would normally choose. Especially if you dry fry them in a couple of teaspoons of soy sauce or tamari for gluten intolerant people. Yummy salty snack at 200 cals 9g protein and 1g carb per 1/4 cup prepared this way. You wouldn’t need 1/4 cup of them.
Strawberries are a good snack if you want something sweet, 5 medium are 1.6g carb and only 13 cals. Add a tablespoon full fat Greek yoghurt for an extra 26 cals and 2.7g carb.
I think the problems we’ve had with snacking in recent years is the snacks have almost become a meal in themselves. Snacks have become high sugar, high cal foods and we can easily eat all day without thinking. Those of us doing the BSD are now much more mindful of what we eat, and it’s a shock to think back on our previous eating habits. You quickly become satisfied with less though and the cravings disappear completely for most people.

Hi Judith

Not got the link yet.

Thanks hashimoto!

My feelings exactly Patsy.

I need to get a photo of the label on the chicken in the shop and attach it to the email. If I can remember which cooked meat it was I’ll try for a photo of that label too.

Apparently the guy I emailed started off in the food department and worked his way up. Hopefully he will listen and act.

I caught something on the radio the other day talking about recycling used chewing gum into a plastic substance and using it in some industrial setting for something or other – that made me pretty sure I didn’t want to eat any ever again.

Yes Stringbreaker, that makes perfect sense to me too. I don’t like gum for many reasons including this one.

I stress that I am no expert, but I read something about chewing gum some years ago which has stuck in my memory.

The burden of the article was that chewing gum can be a problem for some people. It said that when you chew, it stimulates the digestive system to produce the acids which will digest the food it is about to recieve. As no food arrives, then the acid is floating about in your digestive system with nothing absorb it. The result is damage or irritation to the digestive tract.

I have no idea if this is true or not, but it made sense to me and I haven’t chewed gum since.

Hi Lucia,
Here in Aus I wake up to these posts! Start my day with a big grin on my face that lasts a long while 🙂
I wouldn’t have thought there would be a paper layer under the foil either. I wondering if it’s to stop you licking the yoghurt off the foil and cutting your tongue on the edge? But none of you would do a silly thing like that would you? No, nor me either.
Great news on your new blouse size. You are getting great success and well deserved. How quickly you’ve turned your life and eating around, no wonder you’re noticing birds, flowers and firemen. Well done.

B – raspberries and Greek yogurt

L – turkey salad

D – harissa chicken (absolutely scrummy with a bit of a kick) served with the salad as in the recipe in the book, defo doing this again, tastes nothing like ‘ diet’ food!

750 calories the lot

I buy it from sainsburys but I dare say other stores sell it. It is a really thick creamy greek yoghurt 🙂

That’s a really impressive weight loss – well done.

Bee Lady, the suggested menu plans are in the kindle version of the book right at the end after the recipes. I haven’t followed them though – I’m just picking out the things I like the look of and which my husband will eat!

Do give the diet a try. It does feel a bit strange not having the carbs if, like me, you’re used to eating them at every meal but I’m finding foods I like and haven’t been horribly hungry and no cravings yet.

I’ve been thinking about your snacking habit, Judycakes. Are you always doing the same thing when tempted to snack? If so, would doing something slightly different in the evening help? Eg if you usually watch TV then read or do puzzles instead. Changing your routine might make it easier to break the habit.

I was wondering they, Patsy?

Judith, what stores sell it?

If it’s not actually marinated in the stuff and it’s just put on the outside for the colour, then how does it help the taste? The problem is probably that they use factory farmed ‘forced’ chicken which get no exercise and fatten quickly, which results in profitable but tasteless meat. Good meat is tasty enough without additives.

Hi Judycakes,
I would suggest something with fewer carbs. Fats fill you up better than carbs, and a bit of protein too helps. Grapes are not too good on either of these!
I did a few sums and assume 5 grapes are 24.5g; that is 0.18g protein; 0.04g fat; 4.43 carbs; 16.91g cals.
Some warm milk – full cream or Greek yoghurt would be better. The same amount of milk (24.5g) is 0.81g protein; 0.98g fat and 1.1g carbs – 16.41 cals or Greek yoghurt with 1.1g protein; 2.3 fat; 1.57 carbs and 31.61 cals. Greek yogurt (full fat) is most likely to leave you feeling full longest.
Why not try leaving 50 cals and 3g carbs for the end of the day? You can have 35g Greek Yoghurt and 5 blueberries in it – 49 cals and 3g carb?
Alternatively, I have a hot drink before bed – cocoa – and yes plain cocoa NOT hot chocolate. I started it a year ago when there was some publicity about elements in cocoa that were reversing memory loss in dementia patients. There is dementia in the family so I decided it could do no harm to try it. I have 5 grams cocoa powder mixed with a little cold water to a paste, then fill up with hot water. It took a few days to get used to as it had no milk or sugar in it, but it has become a nightly ritual to have it about 9-9.30, PC and phone off and relax before getting ready for bed.
The cocoa fits in with med diet as small quantities of chocolate (dark) are recommended in it so I have continued. Five grams cocoa powder (I use G&B, other brands are available) is 17 cals; 1.13g protein; 1.13g fats and 0.63g carbs. Hot water is nothing! Note I don’t take milk in tea or coffee so this is my only milk and I am vegetarian.
Having been on low fat since it was introduced in the 80’s, having greek yoghurt not fat free yoghurt and semi-skimmed or full fat milk were an anathema to me and it took 3-4 week into the diet before I tried greek yoghurt – full fat. It works. It fills you up and the calorie difference is much smaller than I had thought it would be. I use 60ml greek yoghurt for breakfast where I used to take 100 ml skimmed yoghurt and feel just as full. Higher protein as well, calories about the same.
In the last 2 weeks, if I have enough calories left at day end, I have the cocoa with 100ml semi skimmed milk (not quite got myself onto full fat milk yet) and top the cup up with hot water. It is a real treat and great way to wind down – reminiscent of childhood drinks! If I don’t have enough cals spare for the for the milk – or don’t want to up the carbs then I stick to the hot water on it’s own.
If you took 5g cocoa plus 75 ml semi-skimmed milk topped up with water to top of mug, the total is 3.68g protein, 2.40g fat, 4.16g carb and 51.75 cals.
Play around with some foods you like, concentrate on the protein and fat content higher than carbs to give you a longer lasting ‘full’ feeling for that evening snack.
Good luck.

I think it’s changing us in more ways than one Judith.

As well as losing our various addictions to sugar and carbs, we’re regaining control over our health and our lives.

We’re also uniting against the massed forces of professionals who led us into the state of dependency on sugar, carbs and medication.

BSDers of the world unite!!!!!! 😃

I’ve never heard of fage yoghurt. Is that just a brand name, or is it a different type? If I do try it, I’ll remember the paper layer.

It’s weird and wonderful isn’t it janet, lynne and aly. A friends partner offered me some chocolate yesterday, I felt like he was offering me poison – which I suppose he was – embarrassingly I think it showed on my face. What? Me? The one time choccy lover? I’m still giggling (and commiserating) with bill having to wash his mouth out after a smidgen of low fat yoghurt last night.
This diet is certainly changing us 🙂

At the moment – now finishing week 10 – I have no inclination to eat any high carbohydrate food. I’m rarely hungry and completely satisfied with the food I’m eating – still finding that hard to believe. Having regained weight so many times I’m worried about what will happen if / when I do eat outside the plan. I thought Bill was brave to eat his Yorkie. I don’t trust myself to do that yet. Professor Taylor’s results show that the participants could eat some high carb food once they’d finished the study. I’m hoping that the support here will help me through. Knowing the effect it’s had on my health I can’t go back to the old ways.

Lol lucia that had me in a fit of giggles. Mea culpa. It was I. I did the same myself the first time!

Glad you find it scrummy after the paper came off. I think I have changed my addiction for chocolate to fage yoghurt. I love the stufff 🙂

This is a record for me, 6 full weeks with no chocolate and only one moment of craving in all that time.

Oh, to the person that recommended Fage yoghurt.

You trying to kill me?

I found the first spoonful difficult to swallow…..

NOBODY told me that you take the clear top off, the sealed foil off, then there is a PAPER layer, which is the same colour as the yogurt, sitting on the surface of the yoghurt.

Maybe tomorrow, I won’t find it as chewy 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

Yes, I am so stupid I can’t even eat a yoghurt under supervision.

The second spoonful was really great, I am putting it on my regular grocery list.

Have a great evening.

Love Lucia
Xxxxx

Lol! Don’t worry Judith. It didn’t take long at all. I’m just glad we are going again.

Lynne, it would not have been a good look for a teacher, even a retired one! 🙂

Janet a brilliant description. You are very restricted as to how many words you can use. It is divided into 3 boxes so it is hard to make it as coherent as one would like.

I don’t have a smart phone so when I got in I checked my emails and the rejected petition leapt out at me. I was disappointed for you all as I know so many on the forums are waiting to sign. I hadn’t realized you had all had the email and I wanted to get it moving as fast as possible. I feel awful about you spending time on a rewrite that I didn’t notice until I had resent. Sorry 🙁

Glad you ditched the trousers, Judith. Didn’t want to be reading about you in the newspaper 😳

Thanks for the link – signed.

*sits and waits*

Give me a shout if I can do anything. 😃

Signed Judith.

Great news Sharon.

Wow Sharon that is wonderful news!!! 🙂

It’s weird, but isn’t it great not to be wanting the sweet stuff?

Hi all
I have just been talking a friend, he was advised by his diabetic nurse to try the BSD. So the word is getting out there.

It turns out that trans fats are the culprit not saturated fats as we were told for years.

Hi folks, I spotted that as soon as I got in and rewrote it. I have sent you links to the ‘new’ petition, hopefully they should be in your email box shortly 🙂

Hi Lynne, I ditched the trousers and am now wearing the ones a size down!!! That’s four times so far!!!!
I can imagine that 7up tasted foul!!!

I’ve sent you the link to the petition – they rejected it on the grounds the title wasn’t specific enough and advised me of an alternative title – so the ball is rolling again already!!!
🙂

hi Malkay

The current thinking is that saturated fat in the diet has very little (if any) effect on blood cholesterol, which is more to do with genetics and high carb intake.

Total Cholesterol is a bit of a misleading figure anyway. You need to know the ratio of LDL/HDL and triglycerides, and even THEN there’s a school of thought that says that there are 2 sorts, one of which is beneficial (the big fluffy particles as opposed to the small sharp ones) and they don’t test for that.

Most people find their levels fall as their weight goes down anyway, so I wouldn’t worry too much 🙂

TP

Hi Aly
It’s because sugar is an addictive substance. We ve all been sold this drug which makes us want more. If we stop it then the addiction isn’t working on us anymore. Luckily it’s quite quick to recover from
Good luck
Penny

Dear Lucia, absolutely delighted for you and congratulations on your success, getting into the next stone bracket is such a psychological milestone you should be so proud of yourself, and getting into smaller blouses – the incredible shrinking woman! 👙Bikini season next!

Thanks lynne I need to follow my own advice and stay strong 🙂

Ah – I did see that but didn’t think of it as muesli as it’s so different to what I’d normally eat.

Have you tried the chilli? I had that last night and there was loads! It’s very filling too. If you had something like that quite late in the evening, would that stop you snacking? (The recipe is for 8 portions. I made half the amount and put half in the fridge and we’ll have it tomorrow.)

You could cut up some carrot and celery to nibble on. If they’re done already so you can just grab them, you might be able to persuade yourself to eat them instead of something else. Also try to avoid buying whatever you’d usually have eaten. If other people in the house want it too, can you persuade them to switch to something you don’t like so much, at least for a few weeks?

Hi Everyone.
Just wondering if anyone had any thoughts on high cholesterol? I have done 7 weeks on the bsd, and had lost about 11lbs (before going away for 4 days, and put 3 back on! Not worried about that though as can probably lose it now I’m back). Just before I went away last week, I went to the docs for my ‘over 50s MOT’). When I got back there was a letter asking me to contact the surgery about my cholesterol, which is 8.6!! Last time I had it done, about 4 years ago it was 5.0. I’m worried that it is to do with the high fat content of the diet, and wondered if anyone had any thoughts? I want to avoid statins.

Well done ali2on 9lbs in 10 days is brilliant!

Beelady, google dailymail 8 week blood sugar diet, michael mosley wrote 5 articles and numbers 2 to 5 each have a weeks menu with recipes, I. Printed them off before my book arrived and stuck them in a book, I still refer to them. Read bills posts,he had 4 retinopathy ops before this diet and now his eyes are fine after being at risk of blindness.
You really can do this, don’t wait just do it! Just shout for help and there are people who willl help and support you 🙂

Sorry Judith. I think I fired off an email to you while I was trying to cut and past the text below. I have taken your original petition statement and moved it around a little bit based in the feedback we were given. What do you think?

Give diabetics and pre-diabetics the correct treatment.

It has been announced that by 2020, 100,000 pre-diabetics will be given ‘lifestyle help’ to
reduce the risk of developing diabetes. But this
‘lifestyle help’ is based on flawed research which
points to a high carbohydrate, low fat diet as being beneficial to pre-diabetics. This approach has been prescribed for years with few positive results for patients. Professor Taylor of Newcastle University has shown that, in fact, a low carbohydrate, high fat diet does have the ability to reverse Type 2 diabetes.
By 2020 the government’s scheme will cost £7 million. We welcome the intervention and the financial contribution to help battle ‘diabesity’. However, we believe that it would be money wasted if the same old methods are prescribed.

We request the government to consider Professor Taylor”s evidence and consider making it the foundation of the advice given to people with type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes

Hi Patsy, it is the one in the book. Raisins, apples juice, greek yogurt, walnuts and flax seeds. I liked it…but then I am hungry so everything tastes great!..lol.. I am doing ok during the day,…but have trouble at night. That is when I did most of my snacking and bad habits are hard to break. Can anyone make any suggestions to get me through. I had grapes last night…which I thought would be better than what I would normally snack on. …..thanks for any ideas!
Jude

Hi lostgirl, your ‘handle’ made me feel sad. I’m so sorry you are lonely and struggling with these problems on your own. But that is the past and now you have a big BSD family who are here to support you.

You have already made all the big steps
*you have decidedto turn your life around
* you have begun this diet on your own
* you have faced the fact that you have a carb and sugar addiction
* you have lost an amazing 13 lbs in a week!!!!!!!!!
*you have been totally honest about your problems
*you have taken the huge step of posting on this forum

I have total respect for you, those are all really big and courageous steps.

I am so glad you have decided to join this BSD family, we will all be rooting for you and whenever you feel in need of a little encouragement or advice just shout you will usually get a rapid response.

As for drinks….janet1973 gave us a nice tip for carbonated water – a dash of lime juice and a sprig of mint. It looks and tastes refreshing. I like herbal teas – you can have them hot or chilled.

And last but not least if you stick with this you will quickly find you feel better than you have in years x

I always had a very sweet tooth which is why this is strange for me. Am still taking this one day at a time as I do not know how long it will last.