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.

Hi Hashimoto,
A walk in the woods and to enjoy with you the beauty of nature you have seen. The snapping of the twigs under for, the rustle of the leaves, the smell of Spring in the air. Sigh……..
Okay, I shall and you shall share my puddles, that are happily filling up again.
Love Lucia
Xxxx

Hi cherrie Anne,

I wish we are all with you for an hours stroll, along your beach, and to see the beauty to have seen. A family of dolphins , what fun.
Right now the rain is lashing against my lounge Windows, it is so windy too.
Am I allowed a little jealousy? No, I would only be sunning myself on a lounger. This cold weather makes me move more.

I have been out and cleaned the garage out. Found all sorts of things out there. So in the gap in the rain , I have planted bulbs I found.

Just building up to sort out the dining room cupboards.

Bit by bit.
Inch by inch.

Love Lucia
Xxx

Hi my fellow Easter bunnies,

I wa embarrassed to think others felt me to be perfect when I am not.
But
If you will all allow me to, let me take all your compliments , in good grace, let them be my smile just for today.
May I take all your compliments and keep them in my heart, so when not if I stumble on my path, I can use them as encouragement to get up of my fat bum, dust myself off and waddle on.

May I give each and everyone of you the biggest mental hug I can send down these wires through the ether and down your wires and through your computer/phone/tablet/I pad screens to you.

Thank you for walking with me this far.

Shall we all do something a little crazy, shall we walk a bit further?

Let’s,,,,,,,,,,,
Love Lucia
Xxxx

Well it sounds to me like you are on the right track and determined to do it this time. The BSD will definitely help stop the bingeing if you can stay on the low carb track for a while. Those carb cravings will disappear and you will be able to resist the urge to over eat.
When that happens for the first time I expect I’ll be able to hear you cheering all the way over here in Aus 🙂

Hi Monkeyescapade,
Weight aside, it sounds like you are having a wonderful time! I can sympathise with the heat and humidity issues. We were suffering through that here a couple of weeks ago, although tonight we have the wood fire going it’s so cold.
Being in Thailand with all that fruit, could you have been overindulging with that? If you can give the rice and noodles a miss, usually Thai food is pretty low carb but they do use sugar in various forms, in lots of their sauces. Also anything fried in palm oil is not too healthy.
Are you noticing any changes in body measurements or looser clothes that might mean there are changes other than weight loss happening? Stick with it though, lots of people post about their weight plateauing somewhere between weeks 2&4. You will get there too, meanwhile you are in a beautiful place with lovely food. Now I really want a nice hot vegetarian laksa with tofu lol. 🙂

Ah thanks Cherrianne – I do feel some shame about the secret eating/binging, and that has in the past led to a downward spiral – catastrophic eating at its peak.

However after much soul-searching and self-contemplation over the years, and recently the internet and various blogs and forums, the sense of shame is much less. It’s now more of a sense of helplessness when I’m in the grip of something I can’t control. Over the past year I have had some weight loss success but had started gaining some weight back, due to the binging habits getting the better of me again.

Discovering the BSD and finding out that I can do it, albeit with some lapses, has given me new courage. Thanks for your kind support – I have a feeling I’ll be posting a lot on this thread!

Thanks tree-peony. I’m not beating myself up and I’m pleased I’m in that range – when the doctor added the forxiga I’d gone above 9 but my concern is that I still need those two meds to get me down to the range I’m in so perhaps it’s as much or more of a cortisol issue than carbs so is there any point in getting thinner? I’m due my annual blood test early April so I’ll see where that takes me.

HI all – not having eaten bread for a month now I am salivating at thought of Herman Brot and resisting yorkshire pudding deserves a medal or at least another 1lb loss, very well done! My week has not been a good one on the weight loss front – wasnt going to weigh myself again until tomorrow but husband who is also doing the low carb with me was keen to so we did. Alas, his loss was my gain – which whilst only fractional up to 64.5kg from 64.3kg is disheartening as I have been sooo good for weeks, no lapses, keeping within the calorie/carb ranges I’ve set. Would be interesting to know if slight gain is ‘normal’ for any other forum members, at the 3 – 4 week stage…..
I will not be beaten, in fact has spurred me on in a weird way, did a 50 minute treadmill work out on an incline and 20 minute easy swimming,making the most of the facilities we are staying at here in Thailand, was doing the steepest of steepest hill walks just outside our apartment but in 37+ degrees humid heat it really was too much for a fitness beginner such as myself.
Remaining optimistic for weight loss next week.

4.8 to 5.2 is normal!! So please don’t beat yourself up about it not being good enough 🙂
Maybe you should see your doctor about reducing your meds now?

well done!

Welcome to all the new Aussies on here. We are going to be catching up in numbers to those in the UK soon. The book was released in the USA last week so we can expect to be a truly global BSD community soon.
The more the merrier. Let’s spread the word that here is a way of life that overcomes type two diabetes and that we are no longer sentenced to an uncertain future health wise. 🙂

This is my first post having joined today.
I bought the BSD book 4 weeks ago (it’s brilliant). 800 calories a day is too hard for me but I fast at least 12 hours overnight and again about 4 hours after breakfast. I am trying very low carbs – porridge for breakfast, a thin slice of home made rye & wholemeal bread with soup or cream cheese & smoked salmon for lunch but often no carbs at all mostly just fish based food.
I have lost ½ a stone in the 4 weeks so now only weigh 10st 6lb and have dropped 1 medication (linaglyptin) so it looks good although people are now telling me I look too thin.
Despite the above and regular exercise, bike rides, walks, badminton, I seem to have plateaued and my blood sugars are around 4.8 – 5.2 (I read twice weekly, Tuesday & Friday mornings). I’ve lost an inch from my chest but none from my waist.
Given I still take metformin & forxiga I was hoping for more success. So – is the real problem for me cortisol? I am prone to anxiety. Does anyone else have this problem – If so is there anything else I can do (I am going to try “Mindfulness”).

Also, – milk is not mentioned in the book – is it to be avoided?

Hi sianeyb,
Welcome to the forums and the BSD. You will certainly get lots of help and encouragement every step of the way from the lovely people on here.
You’ve made the big decision to start the BSD, so what you’ll find is that the first few days might be tough going ( not everyone does) but after that the button will most definitely switch to ‘on’.
You put the effort in for those early days, keep to 800 cals and low carbs without cheating, and your body will do the rest.
It sounds too easy but it’s true. Read some of the posts for inspiration and you’ll see lots of us posting the same things. Being able to refuse offers of cakes, ice cream, chocolate, pizza. It’s all there.
The secret is to keep your fluid intake up to 2-3l of non sugary drinks. Eat full fat products and include oils/ butter/ cheese to stop you getting hungry and to provide fuel for your body. Lots and lots of leafy salads and non starchy veg
will help to fill you up.
Good luck with it and stay in touch 🙂

Hi Sianeyb
Welcome to the bsd! Your story will be so very familiar to many of us already here, it certainly is to me. What I see running through what you have written is actually a truth which we are only just becoming aware of. I suspect the reason why you have found it so hard to keep weight off in the past is because of the presence of carbs in your diet. They are massively addictive, massively damaging to our bodies, especially if you are T2. Simply by cutting the carbs, you will find that your diet, your weight, your life will turn around. The on/off setting you talk about? Its actually the carbs that are in charge of that switch right now, not you. So it is not about you being weak-willed or any of that bad mindset stuff we berate ourselves with. The minute you decide to eat carb-free you take back control of that switch.

So don’t feel daunted; allow yourself to be excited at the thought of the new you. If you have had chance to read around the threads here you will know that it is working for us and it will for you to. Some simple rules to follow are 1) ditch the pasta, bread, rice, potatoes and keep carbs in other things as low as you can 2) increase your fat – butter, oils, fat in meats, cheese, yoghurt, milk (you will probably find that weird but you’ll soon get used to it 3) drink plenty of water, 2-3 litres.

Next time you feel like eating in secret (if there is a next time) come to the forums, read, write, tell us what’s on your mind, there is always someone here in real time who will be happy to listen. Even in the middle of the night.

Looking forward to reading about your progress over the coming weeks. I wish you every success!

Hi Auntylil
Happy Easter! I hope you are in good spirits and able to enjoy the weekend with your family. I think you might have had some treatment since we last spoke. I hope it went well and wasn’t too uncomfortable for you.

Well, we’ve been very busy here – I say we, I mean Judith, aka hashimoto, she has managed to get a petition started to lobby the government about this crackpot idea it has got to ‘help’ people with diabetes and pre-diabetes by giving them lifestyle advice still based on the high carb, low fat mumbo jumbo. We are asking them to look at this diet and the results we are all getting as a much better plan of action and a much better use of their money.

I know you are involved with a few other forums and groups. I was wondering if you could sign the petition and circulate the link?

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

The weather here in South Yorkshire is sunny but cool and windy. I lost my seedling lettuces yesterday because my mini greenhouse blew over. Gutted. Hopefully you are getting out with your lovely dogs for some gentle but chilly walks.

Take care and let us know how things are when you are ready.

Having spent most of my adult life on diets I was diagnosed with Type 2 almost 2 years ago. I am an intelligent, hard working mother of 2 grown up sons who thankfully are tall and slim like their father. All my life I have been battling my weight and my eating (the bad stuff is done away from everyone else) is out of control and something I know I shouldn’t be doing yet I cannot seem to control.
I have a few medical issues appearing and lack of sleep due to pains in my lower legs and feet is causing huge issues as I have to sleep on my own . I now need to take control. I can lose weight, I have done many of them but pile it all back on. I feel there is a switch in my brain that needs to be switched to “on” for me to be successful at any diet unfortunately, it is at the “off ” setting currently.
I have bought the book, read the theory and now going to put it into practice. I hope to be able to rely on you all for support and I am happy to help and share where possible should I be able to get myself in gear !
Good luck everyone and its now or never for me :-/

Hey Lachlan, thanks for answering. I was hoping all was well with you. I didn’t think I was ever going to get through that stage of high levels. So glad it passed. It will happen for you too.
I really think you are right about the carb levels. I have dropped a few kilos trying to get my blood sugars down, and I was light to start off with. My personal fat threshold must be fairly low I think. If I keep to 50g carb or less per day, whatever my calorie intake might be, I can keep my blood sugars in the non diabetic range. If it is the reverse, and I eat more than 50g carbs but my cals stay around 800 or less, then my blood sugars go up.
I’m assuming I’ve drained the excess sugar from my liver now, because I don’t have any surprise high readings.
Keep posting and let us know your progress. Hopefully it will be good news soon.

Hi Jpscloud,
I don’t think you came across as being lonely. I didn’t read it that way. What concerned me was the sense of shame about the secret eating. No one should feel like that about themselves. I really hope that the guilt has shrivelled up and died now you’ve brought it out into the open.
You are obviously a resourceful and loving carer to your elderly parents, and you also work and are mostly succeeding with a low cal/ low carb diet. All credit to you for managing all that. Can’t wait to see the new you emerge once you realise that what you are achieving is actually pretty amazing and you are going to beat the secret eating. 🙂

Hi
I am an Australian as well. I am on week 3 and have lost 3kg this week was tough with
Easter but I stuck to it
Look forward to reading your results

Thank you RozyDozy! My relationship with food is not rational, so I know I have to factor in lapses. My favourite saying at the moment is that a lapse does not have to become a relapse – I can’t remember who should get the credit for that but I suspect I read it in the Fast 800 book or on here.

Thanks Hashimoto… life is very busy just now but I am lucky as my parents are my great friends and although dad is now severely disabled and bed/wheelchair bound, mum is incredibly active for an eighty-odd year old, and values her independence so she manages most daily things well. I just look after some of the heavier work for them and help with gardening and so on.

Thanks to you too Fatty – hope you are doing well.

I’m feeling very strong just now, I think I have lost around 5lbs since starting the diet just over a week ago, but will weigh in at slimming world tomorrow, provided they are doing the group on bank holiday… they usually do. I want to keep going there as I like the support from the group and the BSD is similar to slimming world’s SP plan without the calorie counting. It’s also a good independent weigh in so I can’t delude myself with my own scales!

Hi Judith and Lucia, how I’d love to come for a spring walk in the woods with you. I haven’t seen wild violets or wood anemones, cuckoo pint or lady smock for years. I even get nostalgic watching TV shows where they drive along a country road lined with cow parsley or rosebay willow herb.
Today I took my children and dog to the beach to run off some of their chocolate induced hyperactivity. We stayed on to watch the sunset and saw the Mother and baby dolphin that my Mum and brother were swimming with last week. It was magical, watching the sun set and the dolphins play. We live in a world full of glorious things that we only see when we take the time to go out and find them. So glad you’re finding them Lucia, and thanks to both of you for sharing the joy around.

Hi Jilly, not sure if you meant my post but I didn’t count the calories for my brunch precisely – I reckoned about 400 calories, erring on the side of caution so it was perhaps slightly less.

I’m curious now! Let’s see… my brunch contained:

Gram flour is 356 calories per 100g so 25g would be about 90 calories.
The eggs I buy are all sizes so I usually count 80 calories per egg for an average.
Linda McCartney sausages are 127 calories for two.
Tomatoes are around 22 calories each and I had two = 44 calories.
A teaspoon of butter is about 5g, 36 calories

That makes 377 so I wasn’t far off guesstimating 400 calories.

I can’t be precise about my home made rye bread – I count 150 calories per (thin) slice as it is really dense. It doesn’t make my blood sugar spike, so I am very lucky with that.

So today’s food:

B 100g Greek yoghurt with 150g raspberries – about 170 calories

L (planned): 1/3 pot hummus with celery and carrot sticks – about 200 calories

D (planned): 2 chicken chargrills (using up freezer stocks) with green salad – 310 calories

Snacks (planned) – 300g strawberries – 100 calories, 4 squares of chocologic dark – 58 calories

Total 838 calories planned. I may also try some spicy gram flour coated prawns (thanks for the recipe Bill!), for a further 200 calories, as a treat for Easter Sunday!

Hi Sue,
I too get the occasional bout of constipation which can lead to a bad head. Like you, I prefer to avoid laxatives. For me, I think it may be eating a bit too much protein and not enough veggies. Upping my intake of fluids (a peppermint tea, perhaps) & fruit/veg certainly seems to help. I would also suggest upping your activity levels if possible – that seems to help for me. Maybe it’s keeping your body temperature up (so muscles are relaxed?) or just being vertical (gravity will eventually take over?)… But the “download” will eventually happen. I find while I have a headache I might be prone to pigging out on something so it’s a blessed relief when I return to normality.
Anyway, good luck! Take care,
Rose

You’ve really got your teeth into this one Lynne.
Go make him as uncomfortable as you can, more supermarket officials should be getting this treatment, after all, if this way of eating ever becomes mainstream, it will be them who have to adapt to survive.

Hi aquatex, welcome to the forums. When you have come to terms with all these measures can we hope to see some of your recipes posted to the website? 🙂

Great campaign Lynne! Go girl, go 🙂

Hi dearbecks, welcome to the forums. Great advice there from lynne and bill. I’m going to look forward to your future posts about your improving health! 🙂

I took the sneaky photos yesterday, ready to email in response.

Three poultry products, and this is what the labels say:

Sliced roast chicken
British chicken roasted in a sugar marinade

Whole roast chicken
Roasted in a sugar marinade

Roast sliced chicken breast
Succulent skinless chicken breast gently cooked with brown sugar and carefully sliced for the finest flavour and texture.

But their response stated ‘not marinated in sugar’!😳

How many people would just see chicken, think it’s healthy and buy it without checking? I know I used to.

I’ll email back tomorrow.

Not perfect Lucia, nobody is, but you have become a shining light on the forums because of your attitude, perseverance, and brilliant sense of humour. I always look forward to your posts.
Above all else, given how nervous you were at first you are having great success and there will be loads of people following your journey so your experiences, good and bad, are all going to help others.
Long may it continue.

Hi Tallyho, you have joined captainlynne and myself with the ditching of ‘fat’clothes 🙂

toofastblack, Bill is right, visualise all those blocks of lard. Even better on your next trip to the supermarket put 8kg of lard in your trolley, that’s 17.6 lbs. That would make 35 half pound blocks of lard!!! If you see it for real you will be stunned at how much fat you have lost. Perhaps we should all do that!! 🙂

Hi Dearbecks and welcome to your new life.
Great advice from Lynne, I would add check out the recipe section for meal ideas, there ard some great ideas in there, a lot of them now from forum posters.
Don’t be afraid to use herbs and spices to liven things up, and above all, enjoy the next 8 weeks, it’s going to be amazing.