Sorry,
Thinking about food now,,,,,,,,
I admire everyone who is a vegetarian.
I was brought up on a farm so learnt from a very early age where my food comes from.
I am thinking of reducing my meat amounts.
Maybe because I have been talking to the chicken in the oven.
I have had a go at stir fry tofu and found it okay.

I am hungry, sorry.

Just heard the ping.
Love Lucia xxxx

Hi,
I am sorry, I am not perfect, I have just done something really, really really bad……

I am feeling hungry, I don’t want to snack, must went to the oven and talked to the chicken to hurry up and be done.
I nearly pressed my nose up against the door to see if is golden brown yet.

Yup, talking to chicken pieces, omg they will be bringing a straight jacket for me soon….. Ssshhhhhh, don’t tell anyone.

Love Lucia
Xxx

Petition
NHS to encourage the treatment of type 2 diabetes with a low carbohydrate diet.

Professor Taylor has shown that Type 2 diabetes can be reversed using a low carbohydrate, low calorie diet. The NHS has announced it is rolling out a programme to give pre-diabetics lifestyle help. There is no mention of the blood sugar diet which pre-diabetics and diabetics should be following.

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The programme will cost £7 million pounds to run. The dietary advice will be the same as that currently being followed. We have a diabetes epidemic so the old advice is not working.
Dr Maureen Baker, of the Royal College of GPs, welcomed the scheme but she warned “The long-term behaviour changes we need to see is hard to inspire”. However, there are forums for the Blood Sugar Diet which offer the support and inspiration needed which will also ease the burden on GP surgeries.

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

When you sign you can click on the facebook, email and twitter icons and really start to get the news out there, and help change lives! You can add your own personal stories on your social media accounts and the petition site also gives the name of your local MP so you can contact them as well.

Thanks Judith. When I started this I weighed 16 stone exactly. Not a good look at 5′ 2″ when stretched😳 Today it’ 13 stone 3 pounds. Another 4 pounds and I’ll be in the 12s. 😱

*puts out the ‘Welcome Bill’ banner*. Party time!

Your results are amazing, my friend. An inspiration to those joining us.

Good thought about natural carbs v ‘processed muck’. Looking at ingredients lists can read like a science lesson these days (and I failed science at school😢)

Even a well-known store is adding sugar to its meat and poultry. I’ve taken sneaky photos of some of their labels and will respond to their reply when things settle down after the weekend.

I’ll also be emailing my local MP and anyone else I can think of about the petition.

Oh, btw. This week I’ve lost another 3 pounds. Total lost now 39 pounds. Can’t wait to see ‘that’ nurse’s face when I see her in a month to get results of my next HbA1c 😃. Must ask her to tell me the last few results for my personal records!

Hi cat girl,
You best get saving as soon you will need a blouse or top to go with those jazzy trousers. Ready for the summer.

You will soon be stepping out in them.

It’s started to teem here at 1pm, just been for salad, eggs, mushrooms and chicken for us.
Also loaf , beer and a small bag of chocolate buttons for Him.

Now settling down to have a duvet hour, watching the rain build my puddles big enough for me to attack.

NCIS is on, I love Gibbs, swoon, swoon.

Love Lucia
Xxxx

Lucia, 16,827 steps is amazing. Hard to believe you were a couch potato so recently!! Total respect!!! 🙂

Great idea to email everyone as well!
Every little does help – so many people haven’t heard of this diet yet.

Hi cherri Anne
Thank you so much for the diet whey info.
I read the container but didn’t understand it.
Carbs, no whey, ( joke there).
Still learning.

Ready for another question.
Mehta are the best crackers that I can have please?

Love Lucia
Xxx

Wow, lynne you are a star! Won’t be long before you hit the 3 stone mark!!!! 🙂

Hi Hashimoto,
16,827 steps. Not bad for a coach potato.
Signing the petition and have emailed everyone in my added. Book both home and work. Every little helps.
Love Lucia.xxx

This week I’ve lost another 3 pounds. Total now 39 pounds 😃

Bill, I’m so pleased for you. See you on the other thread.

Bill I asked the team to change the title to Sign the petition. Is it better just to start a whole new thread with all the info?

Well done Pete on recognising the problem and not dropping out of the BSD. Have a great week

Welcome AnnieandAlfie. What a great start. Hope to keep seeing your progress.

Hi Janet, I’m notorious at putting my foot in my mouth, sadly age doesn’t seem to have taught me how to redress this problem 🙁

Hi Catgirl I bet you will get into those lovely sounding trousers in the summer.

I was reading this morning that ducks lOVE kale!! I wonder if swans are the same? Who came up with the idea of trying to feed ducks healthy kale? I take my hat off to them!

Enjoy your walk!!

Hi Janet. Like Judith I took your first post as great advice.

I’m a fellow suffers of ‘foot in mouth disease’😱

Hi Mojos. Lots of us used to feel like you, eating the ‘old’ way, but cutting out carbs has meant we no longer go dizzy etc. When I ate caFBS I was always thinking of the next meal. I’d get really wobbly and panicky if food wasn’t readily available, feeling faint. Now I eat a low-carb breakfast and nothing then until my evening meal. I don’t feel hungry or faint in between. Congratulations on the great weight loss!

Hi JillyB. Welcome to the family. Lots of advice on here. Shout if you need help.

6.6 this morning leeanne
If it stays this way for a week, I,m stopping them altogether.

I was just thinking the same re Lachlan when I woke up this morning. Give us a shout Lachlan!! 🙂

Hi gypsybasker
You’ve made a tremendous start and I don’t think your little bit of chocolate should make you feel guilty at all. If it helps you get through, just a little bit is fine. You may even find as you go on that you don’t need it so much. Full fat yoghurt ad berries makes a great replacement, is more filling and contains stuff our body needs. But its only an idea. Well done you!

Hi Lucia, I too have a pair of trousers hanging up that I have never worn, bought them in the sale a few years ago 2 sizes too small! Still look longingly at them as they are a summer item, black background covered in multicoloured flowers, no shrinking violet for me! For once I have hope that this summer is the one, will keep you posted but still a long way off.

Out to do small amount of food shopping them off for a walk to feed the swans at a local lake, they are so tame we hand feed them although have had the odd peck from the more pushy males, lol.

Wow what a good idea !
Come on BSDer’s let’s inundate out MP’s and get them earning their salaries.

Thanks Judith, I’m adept at getting my foot into my mouth, its a skill I’ve been practising for many years! ‘Nuff said 😉

I USED to love crème eggs too, but then I found them too sweet and sickly – even before BSD. But caramel eggs, or mini eggs – that’s a different matter!

But I’ve not eaten chocolate in any form for ages

I’ve been given a tin of Heroes (for me and the twins, and the donor knows I’m diabetic!). Today, in a shop I was given a big block of chocolate! I’ll find good homes for said confectionery 😳

Hey Judith
Emailed you regarding having this thread made a sticky

Hi

Welcome to the BSD family.

If you read Bill1945’s post you’ll see the great results he’s achieved, including reducing his medication – hoping to be medication free in the near future.

Are you checking your blood sugars? That’s a big help and a guide as to when meds can be reduced.

We haven’t heard from Lachlan on here for a while. If you are reading this Lachlan, let us know how you are doing, I’m wondering if you’ve overcome those high fasting sugar levels yet. 🙂

Great news Hippo

Looking forward to seeing you on over the 8-week line and after’ thread on the Fast 800 forum.

Hi Jpscloud, reach out on the forums, there’s always someone who’ll keep you ‘virtual company’, even if no one is close physically.
People post on the what did you eat today thread and you could use that for ideas or as a blog to keep you accountable. Use a food diary tracker and make yourself a promise to be honest.
We are all here because we need and want to make changes. If you acknowledge your binges on here you won’t get judged, you’ll get help 🙂
If you don’t keep it a secret it won’t be so shameful, and the beauty is we have no idea who you are so no need to cover it up! Bet you anything it’s the ‘secret’ bit about it that’s controlling you. Now you’ve revealed it, you’ve stripped it of power.
Have success this week, all the best…

Bill, I strongly believe you reap what you sow! You sow support, love and care for others, glad you’re enjoying the harvest x

jpscloud, that is so tough on you. Is there anyone you know who would be prepared to join you for a day eating what you eat? If you could find a few people who would do that you could have a few days of the holiday like that. Things done companionably are so much easier.
Wishing you luck 🙂

Well said, cherrianne 🙂

Fantastic, stringbreaker! 🙂

As well as signing the petition I also emailed my MP to let him know I’d done so.
Just had an automated reply saying he will respond.
I’ll let you know.

Hi folk, I thought it might be easier to post the petition as a separate thread to reach as many of us as possible.

Just click on the link below, you will need to give your email address and post code then you will receive an email to click on to confirm your signature. Your email address and post code do not get published.

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

Thanks so much my friends
You know what Cherrianne ? Something struck a loud chord in me when I first read the book. It just made sense, but not just that, it was telling me to do just about the opposite of everything I knew about diabetes. The knowledge that I had based my life on, given to me by professionals and which wasn’t working and I was getting worse. My train of thought was that if I did the opposite of everything that was giving me bad results, then just maybe I could get opposite results.
Didn’t that work well ?
Two months ago I was confident that I could achieve something good.
The reality has been beyond my wildest dreams.
I also have the added bonus of meeting some of the nicest, friendliest people I have ever known on these forums.
Long may it continue.

Brilliant stats Bill and good to have you over the line! 🙂

When we were nippers,as daft as this sounds, bread was different – it was made from older varieties of wheat. We won’t get that back. I often wonder if it has also contributed to the increase in gluten intolerance.

Hi Bill
Id consider your 8 weeks as a total success. Your achievements in that time are pretty awesome. Totally agree with Judith! Read back on some of your posts and you’ll see what huge changes you’ve made in your health and well being in such a short time.
Would you ever have dreamed two months ago that you could achieve all you have already? For once I have to disagree with you, you are remarkable and should be proud of yourself !!
Consider yourself ‘told’ man 🙂

Bill I am delighted for you – what an inspiration you are to the rest of us. It’s so much harder to lose weight when you are older, but you have shown it can be done. Be very proud of your achievements.
Janice

Hi jillyB
Follow the advice on the forums and shout if you need help.
This way of eating will make you lose weight and it will be easier than you could ever imagine.

Best of luck on your journey, let us all know how you progress.

Hi all, I’ve just signed the petition and sad to say I was number 49, for the number of people posting on the forums this is really bad, we need so many more to sign up pleeeeze! I,ve posted it on my Facebook page to try and drum up support so come on folks, this is so easy. Instead of spending millions on dietitians, free gym passes etc lets get the word out there, it’s all about changing your shopping trolley and mindset.

Preaching over, everyone have a great Easter weekend and keep up the good work.

Still on half dose metformin and todays FBS was 6.6
If this stays the same for the next week I’ll stop them altogether

Bill your results have been amazing – thats nearly 2 stones! The lightest you have been for 25 years is a real achievement. Then there is your lower blood sugars, improvements in your eyes . . . And I could go on.
You truly are inspirational. 🙂

I just signed – yaaay, number 50! I’ll share on Facebook.

Denise, I’m another Welshie who can’t sing. In fact, I’m positively banned from singing in my household! Lol!

Finally I get to join the veterans 🙂
Briefly I started my 8 weeks at 16 stone 9 pounds. I’ve seen an overall loss of 25.5 pounds for todays weight of 14 stone 11 and a half pounds.

My FSB on day 1 was 9.8, it’s now under 7 with other readngs taken over the day within normal limits.
I have been able to stop my Exanatide injections and cut my Metformin dose in half with a view to being med free within a month.
My first weight target is 13.5 stones by June and I’m confident of reaching that.
I’ll be staying on the BSD until I hit that weight and then have another think about it
I know I haven’t had the incredible results that others have but, this was the last chance saloon for me and I couldn’t be happier at the way things have gone.
May I just throw this out there.
Rice, pasta, bread and potatoes have been the worldwide staple diet for tens of thousands of years, some races survived on little else, but the diabetes epidemic is comparatively recent.
Do we need research into whether these natural carbs are really as dangerous as the processed muck they have been adding to our food over the last fifty years ?

FANTASTIC Bill you are such an inspiration – big hugs and well done!

I’m the opposite to you Hb – I am in control when I’m with people (so weekdays/term time at work are fine) but I live alone these days and have always been a secret eater – now a secret binger. I find it very hard to maintain control in the holidays and at weekends.

I do feel I’ve turned a corner with embracing the blood sugar diet and feel like I am making progress towards health.

Happy Easter everyone, and thanks for the lovely support on these forums!

Since you posted its 49 orchid.
Good idea, was planning to give it to my asthma nurse next week.
Perhaps others will take up your suggestion, the more proactive we are the better!

Up the revolution! 🙂