This has made me laugh so much, my fridge looks like an explosion at the Greengrocers too, have resorted to stuffing the harder veggies into bags and hanging them up from a tree in the garden…….

It is a good thing to have a problem with though, better this than cupboards full of processed foods.

I invested in a wheely-trolly….. Couldn’t carry all the food in my hands, it’s a fetching shade of purple……with flowers….

ROTFL!!!

Leeanne, it’s strange but marvelous. I hope it continues that way for you and bill 🙂

Fantastic week chardy, well done you! 12lbs is absolutely amazing. You must feel terrific!

Chardy, wow, wonderful first week loss! 🙂

I’ve always thought our fridge was bigger than we needed – but I’ve changed my mind now!

Tandoori chicken isn’t usually very spicy – and there’s no carbs. If you had that with salad and missed out the bread and rice you’d be fine.

I think if you know you’re going to break the diet for a special occasion then it might be a good idea to give yourself permission to do that, rather than feeling guilty. It’s my birthday soon and I’m going to do that. I know that if I try not to have a glass of wine or eat anything extra I’ll feel like I’m depriving myself and am more likely to give up.

Thanks FoFi

I’ll have a nice glass of water instead. 🙂

Good luck with it, MerryMary.

Excellent start!

Thanks everyone, I only took one tablet this morning and my bloods came up as 5.7 about 3hrs after lunch, pre-teatime. Like Bill said, I’m also beginning to wonder about the drugs as this was one of my lowest readings to date on one tablet less!!! My fbs when I got up was 7.2. It’s all very strange!
(P.S. Bill, your poor wife is on a right concoction there! Hope she’s doing ok)

Wow, chardy, 12lb in a week! That must be up there with the best week 1s logged so far! And you’ve already got your head around your strategy. Good job!

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Hi fi, just google petition nhs to encourage…. And you should get it 🙂

Read the Blood Sugar Diet book in one day, it made so much sense I couldn’t put it down. Reading the ‘symptoms’ I recognised myself and the real life examples really drove the message home.

I’ve stuck to the diet 100% in terms of food types and gone to 1000 calories a couple of times. I don’t tolerate dairy well so I have Alpro Natural Yoghurt and Feta cheese which is stronger and tasty.

I work away a lot so finding good quality food is hard, but Pizza Express and Nandos both do superfoods salads which are delicious. Outside that its a trip to Sainsburys for a salad with some prawns. Scrambled or fried eggs are a good breakfast choice.

First weigh in was a 5lb loss after three days – and a lot of peeing. Total loss after one week is 12lb.

I’m feeling great, if I get hungry I have some water and a couple of walnuts which are tasty and filling. I’ve had a few headaches, but a glass of water clears that up quickly.

I was never a carby person, but if it was covered in chocolate it had my name on it. So far this week I’ve had three squares of dark chocolate as part of my meals.

No more snacking, no more grazing on crap. I’ll stick to the 800 for the eight weeks and then move to the 5:2 plan whilst appreciating the knowledge I have about what food to eat from now.

I’m looking forward to looking less haggard and maybe picking up a compliment or two on a trimmer physique 🙂

That sounds wonderful, MerryMary. Definitely have to buy a cauliflower now!

Hi MerryMary. Welcome to the BSD family.

It really is surprisingly easy, and gives great results. Just forget about WW, other slimming clubs and low-fat diets. Enjoy eating full-fat foods again 😃

Jump in on 1st April, but keep us posted on your progress. Looking forward to reading your brilliant results.

Yes, fingers crossed for you Malkay, I’m a bit nervous of some of these tests doctors do, I don’t always believe they know what they are on about…don’t know why…?

😃

Merrymary, you are very welcome here! You clearly have some real challenges to deal with but also you have a great attitude which will give you great strength for your weight loss journey. This is no fad diet, its not magic and its not based on any one product that is supposed to work wonders (and never does!). You will read many comments here about how surprisingly easy it is. And it really is! The hardest part seems to be getting your head around the whole concept and then getting organised. We often boil it down to some simple rules; cut the carbs to 20-50grams per day, stick to around 800 cals (but a few more won’t derail you), get more fat than you are probably used to – butter, olive oil, skin on your chicken etc (yes, really!), drink around 2-3 litres a day of water.

If you can do these things – and we are the proof that you can – you will do very well on this program and you will see results very quickly indeed. We have a good contingent of australians and english people using the site so whether you are on nights or days there will always be someone to speak to in real time. And then we have loads of other people living all around the world which just blows my mind. Whatever you need to know or whatever you need help with, someone here will be able to help. So I wish you a brilliant first week from April Fool’s Day onwards and make sure you let us know all about your progress.

My husband makes a mean truffle oil cauliflower mash which goes really well with a lean eye fillet. He uses a stick blender to mash the cooked cauliflower and adds a little cream, butter and truffle infused olive oil, and some black pepper. It is so much tastier than potato too and low in carbs. We haven’t had this for a while but you are all inspiring me to get back in the kitchen again and get motivated!

Posted link on Twitter as well.

stringbreaker, the general advice in the book is not to add extra calories to replace those used in exercise. In general if your not trying to lose weight weight I think that if you burn more you should be able to eat more and maintain equilibrium.

You do need to be careful about about the calorie information you see. An active male might burn 100kcal every waking hour, some machines add this info into to the numbers displayed.

Obviously for many (including me) having that first drink makes saying no to the second that much harder, and the bag of salted peanuts…

You are all so inspiring. Thanks for the soup tips. I am going to get my slow cooker out of the back of the cupboard on my days off and make some soup! 🙂

Thanks Judith, signed xx

Buss here are interesting, Judith. Apart from that one, the other service runs between Durham & Bishop Aukland, every half hour Monday to Saturday. Alternate ones continue to Asda & the hospital in Bishop. But the last bus from Durham is about 8pm. No service to speak of on Sundays or Bank Holidays. 😳

I’ve never driven, so I’m used to it, just means I carry lots of bus times and routes in my head😱 And shop frequently so its not too heavy. Oh – and sometimes do online food shops 😊

Hi! Petition is great, am trying my hardest to sign it, but it keeps telling me that I haven’t clicked the link, when I have…..

Will try to find another way to get this signed as we need everyone possible on board!!

Hi misssay, I also understand your frustration at the gain after just a little stray from the plan. I know exactly the same would happen to me. Thinking long term, I have a few strategies up my sleeve. Firstly, as you say, I do not intend to ever go back to eating the way I did before so my diet with remain much lower in carbs from now on. Secondly, once I get to my target weight, that will give me a few pounds ‘to play with’. This will be important as I don’t intend to weigh myself every day the way I do now. I think by then it will be better to be more relaxed and accepting of the fact that sometimes I will gain, but other times I will also lose. I’m also thinking I will build in a little ‘boot camp’ or ‘de-tox’ if you like, of a serious week of 800s every six or eight weeks so any weight that does start to creep back will be lost again with minimal fuss. Maybe similar strategies might work for you and put your mind at rest that you can make these changes for life. Wishing you all the best and fingers crossed for getting into that lower stone!

Hi Adlr27.

As Janet says, there are many on here who aren’t diabetic or pre-diabetic.

There seems to be agreement that following this low-carb way of eating is beneficial to everyone. As well as lower blood sugar readings and lower blood pressure, there is weight loss, and a general feeling of improved health including more energy, clearer thinking and a loss of the desire for the carbohydrate foods that gave been making us feel ill, although we hadn’t realised it.

Hope you decide to give it a try, and let us know how you get on.

Lynne that’s not an excuse! It’s a logistical nightmare. My aldi is a ten minute drive away so easy peasy for me

Hi

I’m almost at the end of 14 weeks on the BSD. I was on holiday (5days) abroad a few weeks ago, and stuck to low-carb foods. When I arrived home I’d gained 2 pounds, which I lost in 3 days back on the BSD.

What did I do differently while away?

I ate a low-carb breakfast, like at home. But I ate a meal at lunchtime, while at home I eat breakfast then my evening meal (I’m just not hungry at lunchtime) And I wasn’t careful with portion control. (Apart from a steak – I ate half & took the other half back to the hotel for later). And I also ate again in the evening.

So, what did I learn? Probably the important lesson for me was portion control. Staying low-carb wasn’t the issue – it was how much of it I ate.

And I don’t think I drank enough, especially water.

Hi all, I have been reading posts on the forum and am so inspired by all of you. Thankyou so much for the laughs and for helping me find the courage to commence the BSD. Most of all thankyou to Dr Michael Mosley who I was lucky enough to meet recently when he visited our city on his book promotional tour. As a registered nurse and midwife, I just hope and pray that your work is truly taken notice of in the medical world so that we can turn this sugar addictive pandemic around across the globe.

That brings me to me! I have read the 5:2 fast diet book and am half way through the Blood Sugar Diet book….I am a shift working health professional who has struggled to maintain my weight my whole life. I am not morbidly obese, but I am not blessed with great height either and therefore am basically short and dumpy 🙂 I could run a weight loss clinic, I know so much about GI and various weight control programs such as WW etc. but I have never been able to consistently maintain a slim weight, and have slipped back into easy carbs eating all too often. I am now staring down the barrel at 60 in the next few years, and arthritis, oesphogeal reflux and chronic tiredness are creeping in. My BSL is in normal range although I have not done a GTT and I do have signs and symptoms of Syndrome X or metabolic syndrome. I am post menopausal and have an apple shaped body and am carrying too much weight around my middle. My parents died in their 50’s of heart disease, one brother has had a quadruple heart bypass at age 63, one sister a triple heart bypass in her 50’s, and is now a Type 2 diabetic. My cholesterol, tryglicerides, and liver enzymes are climbing and yet still I have not found a way to get myself in gear to permanently get my body under control…. Until now. I really believe that Michael Mosley has found the answer for me. I just have to implement the strategies, and hope the motivation flows from there. And that is where all of you come in. Cause even though I am a reasonably intelligent person, when it comes to emotional eating; tired crazy shift work schedules, and mental strength, I fall over time and time again.

My plan is to build up to starting the BSD for the 8 weeks 800 calories per day program commencing 1st April (April Fools Day!! :-)) I have followed the 5:2 plan for a couple of months about 12 months ago and lost 4 kgs on it until slackness crept in. I am so tired all the time when I am not working, and I so hope that my energy levels increase so that the motivation flows from there. I am on night shifts (which don’t help) over Easter and then am on days off until beginning April. I want to stock up with the right ingredients and pre prepare some meals so that I am ready to go. So if anyone can offer me any suggestions with recipes or just some tips on how to get through the first few days/weeks I would much appreciate it?? My 35th wedding anniversary is 30th May and I am so hoping that I am feeling like a whole new person physically and mentally by then. I look forward to sharing with you all from here in Brisbane, Australia.

Good to have a choice lynne x

Great weight loss CH! 🙂

Thanks Judith. I really need to shop in Aldi more. Just easier to shop in Durham (no Aldi). Almost a military operation to go to Asda & Aldi (Spennymoor). Bus only Monday to Friday. First bus there 9.30, last bus back 14.10. Fitting that in with work & other stuff can be interesting. Note to self: stop making excuses. 😳

Hi Adlr27, there are lots of us doing the bsd who aren’t pre-diabetic or diabetic but we just want to lose some weight or generally improve our health. I’d say there is no problem in anyone taking up this lifestyle (and Dr Mosley says it too) as it will be beneficial to everyone to eat less simple carbohydrates, sugars and trans fats. The bmi measurement isn’t particularly useful to someone like yourself as you have a lot of muscle which is not taken account of, therefore, losing weight might not be your priority. However, by reducing your pasta, potatoes, rice, bread, cakes and biscuits, you may find other benefits such as better sleep, better skin, better immune system, more energy, less appetite. These are all the results of restricting carbs and eliminating trans fats. Also, if you are carrying any visceral fat, you are going to find that this dissipates.

I wish you every success if you decide to give it a go, it really isn’t a diet but a way of life which will stand you in good stead as you get older.

Great news Judith.

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Great result CH. congratulations.

Well done Lucia.

I need to get more walking done (preferably without carrying heavy shopping bags😳). But I like to walk for a reason, not just to walk. Have bought local map and need to sort out some walks.

After the taste test, the Asda Extra Special gluten free sausages would be OK if I can’t get the Debbie & Andrew sausages. 😊

Thanks CH, great news on your weight loss too!

Thank You Janet, I have signed and hope it works? I have been spreading the word and my friends can see the difference it has made to me, 1lb off losing a stone in 5 weeks – it’s great.

Regards
CH

Thanks for that janet!!!

Wow lucia, respect! You are making massive changes x

Hi Hashimoto,
Nope, I was a couch potato.
Now I am a plodder.
I know around here, there are seats in the bus shelters, park benches, park walls etc to sit on.
So I waddled out, got out of breath, sat down, caught my breath, waddled on etc.
Went further each day, in a loop. Then a bigger loop.
Now able to do 6000 in the one go.
So including a sit down in the coffee shop 11,000 in the one go, with one sit down.

So if I can do it any one can.
Love Lucia
Xxx

Except for all those people on your lawn queueing up for your home made ice cream.

Live Lucia
Xxx

Ok, so this is the correct link
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/125704

Hi janet just realised you don’t need to click the map button to get the facebook icon 🙂

Hi janet google the petition as nhs to encourage….
Presss map button then facebook icon. 🙂

I had the same issue. If you search gov and petition is takes you to the correct website. I then searched on carbohydrates and it found 2 petitions, one was the correct one.

Mm, I’m doing something wrong, I copied and pasted judith’s statement but when I googled it it took me to the petition that was rejected. Can anyone give me the correct link please? I’ll get it on my facebook page then.