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! 🙂

Morning BSD’ers
Week 8 weigh day and another two and a half pounds gone.
That gives me an 8 week total of 25 and a half pound weight loss and a 4 inch waist reduction. Under 15 stones for the first time in 25 yeas. People who know me say my face is thinner too. (I never knew I had a fat face 😉 )
Not as remarkable a loss as some but given I’m older than some and long term T2B I’m delighted.
I’m going to stay on the plan until I hit my first target weight of 13.5 stone and re evaluate then.
Best of luck to you all for this weeks results and, as always.
Onwards and upwards.

That’s hilarious cherrieanne, poor lad. In my ditzy defence there was only a narrow lane cut through the hill side and it happened on a sharp blind bend. It just never occurred to me someone might be there, it hadn’t happened before.

I’m still laughing at the image you have planted in my head! X

Hi, the petition is now up to 47 and the distribution across the UK pretty uniform – fun to look at the map.
Suggestion. A few people have mentioned that their GP or nurses are supportive and or buying the book. If you remember, and feel happy doing it – take the petition number into the surgery or clinic next time you go and tell them about it. If they believe this works they may be happy to add their name to the petition, after all they will have all the work to role out the ‘new initiative’ so would probably prefer to be rolling out something they agree with and or at least have the choice in what they prescribe!

I, too, am an Australian. I have been an insulin dependant diabetic for 15 years and overweight all my life, so am not sure how this diet will work for me. I have done a stint of 5-2 diet, lost some weight and then it all went back again. I am about to start BSD next week, so keep your fingers crossed for me.
jilly B

Hi Judith,
At least his face is only imprinted on your memory and not the front forks of your bicycle lol.
I used to cycle home with two friends, one of whom was well known for being ditzy. She would be so busy looking across and chatting, she’d never watch where she was going. One day she ran into a teenage boy from behind. I can still hear the ‘oof’ noise he made as her front wheel went between his legs and lifted him back up over her handlebars.
Still laughing as I type this after all these years. Luckily didn’t do him any permanent harm.

Yayyy Bob Fox – up the revolution!!! 🙂

Pete, the most encouraging thing is that you recognise ‘the science’ of why you gained 2kg and know you can reverse it. Here’s to a positive week.

Hi Leeanne,
I think your results are showing that you’re on the right track. Yay 🙂
The long fast overnight, and diet during the day is encouraging your liver to get rid of stored sugar. So you can expect your morning levels to be higher for a while. I used to worry about this, I was so conditioned to treating the symptoms of diabetes instead of the cause, but now I’m in the non diabetic range consistently.
Your post meal result is great, shows that you aren’t eating more carbs than your body can cope with. Exciting times ahead, keep posting your results!

Thankyou Cherrianne, a wonderful message that we all need reminding of. Happy Easter to you and all our fellow BSDers 🙂

Just signed and shared on Facebook. Up the revolution!!!!!

Janet, that’s great advice for Sue 🙂 Janet I didn’t read your first post in any other way that it was great advice, and to be honest, a lot of people just can’t eat much at funerals, they’re pretty emotional occasions. You often think you will be able to eat until you are there -and you can’t. I would think there will be a few people who find their appetite is dulled.

Sue, I hope it goes as well as these things can. Like Janet says we all know you are a caring person 🙂

Hi Pete, well done for changing your state of mind. I think part of the reason why you don’t feel the need to abandon everything is that its actually quite easy to repair the damage. On other diets, we never had that. It was a slog to lose the weight in the first place and then a slog to do it all over again. Because, once you’ve accepted the principles of this program, it is incredibly easy, the idea of having to do that bit again isn’t nearly so daunting. That’s how I think of it anyway. All the best.

Hi stringbreaker, it’s fabulous to get a year older but be able to do more!! It’s almost against the laws of nature! Thanks for putting somerset on the map! 🙂

Jpscloud – the half pounds of butter is an even better way of visualising fat loss. I’ll follow your lead 🙂

Thanks so much Cherianne. Woke up this morning in a slightly more positive frame of mind. Love the idea of setting myself an Easter treat limit this weekend and thinking of it as a 5:2 week. I am really enjoying the food on Bsd and feeling better for it but I think I need to be more realistic about how my brain and life works. I think it will take me longer than 8 weeks to get there because I am doing it mixed in with the odd social event at work/ weekend or travelling at weekends to see my boyfriend who is not doing bsd and loves foodie treats. This lifestyle means I tend to stick more to the plan during the week. Frustrating but the reality. When I only have me to think about I can maintain control. When I am with others I am easily influenced. Slowly slowly I will get there I guess. I want to improve my health and body image and get my confidence back and this is definitely the way forward but perhaps just not as quickly as others. Right, pulling myself together now and heading out for a walk. Today is a brand new day. Loving the forum for support and reading about others’ experiences. Keep going everybody!

Hi Moyjos
Welcome to the forums, you will find loads of support here and good advice when you need it. I’m always interested when people say they have been watching their weight for years. It probably means you’ve been following the advice they gave us about low fat, high carb, exercise, etc, etc. And yet our weight has still crept up. Their answer to this – you didn’t try hard enough, you didn’t have enough will power, bla bla. Our answer to this – it was the wrong advice! You are spread finding out how wonderful this program is, long may it continue for you!

I know Cherrianne, the picture of the bishops face is firmly imprinted on my memory! I don’t think the principal was too pleased either – lucky for me that he was a fellow Yorkshire person ! 🙂 It certainly wiped the grin from my face as I was hurtling down the mountain lol 🙂

Annaandalfie, welcome to the forums and thankyou for posting your wonderful success – 2kg in 5 days! Wow! A lot of people are allowing themselves a little easter treat this weekend – it’s much easier for those of us who have been on the diet for some time. It’s amazing how you lose the urge to eat any carbs after several weeks.

You used a very useful tactic by eating slowly and savouring your food and you have learned you can control what you eat! Fantastic.

A group of us have started a petition ‘NHS to encourage diabetics to follow a low carb diet..’
The link is below if any of you who have already done so would like to sign

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

Hi Mairead,
This post also popped up on another thread, over the 8 week line, and I’ve answered it there

Hi Mummytummy,
I wondered how you were going. We haven’t heard from you since your trip to London I think.
The book does just stick to the term low carb, I think to keep things simple. The general consensus here seems to be that people are trying to keep to 50g carb per day. Works out at 15g per meal with 5g to spare. Some people are going lower, but you will lose weight and get good blood sugar control on around 50g.
Hope you are getting success on the BSD, keep posting. Everyone’s experience might help someone else who might be reading but hasn’t had the courage to post yet.

Hi PeteintheBayou,

Firstly, well done on getting back into the diet straight away. I did the exact same thing- had great weight loss week 1, then went on a weekend reunion with old friends. Like you, I ate healthily but the booze put 3lbs back on. I too have had a ‘mental shift’ with regards to this diet in that like you, I refocused straightaway. Ordinarily, this probably wouldn’t hAve happened if you didn’t have those 2 occasions to go to. For me, this was a one off occasion- of course I was going to celebrate. The main thing is, you are back on it and you’ve gained new knowledge about yourself. I’m sure more people have done this too and as MM says on the book, it’s ‘best not to drink’ during the 8 weeks. Further down the line when you have completed the 8 weeks, and achieved your goals a glass of red now and then is allowed on the med style diet. Good luck!

Totally agree Cherrianne, how often do we tell each other that its not so bad but we berate ourselves for not being perfect.

Hi All,
As much as we need encouragement and support from others, we need to encourage ourselves. The forums are great, so much care and concern on here. We need to show ourselves the same care and concern.
We are constantly bombarded with subliminal messages about food. Aromas deliberately piped into supermarkets to make us buy more. TV ads ( count them, and be shocked at the frequency in popular shows), billboards, magazines, big signs advertising ‘specials’. We don’t consciously note them but our brain gets the message. Is it any wonder that we are tempted?

Again, we have subliminal messages about how we should look and what the ideal body should be. How many of us can measure up to an airbrushed ideal?

So the negative self talk begins, we are tougher on ourselves than anyone else would ever be! Yet our body is an amazing creation. It serves us so well and is worth love and nurture, no matter what shape or size we come in. So let’s feed it the fuel it deserves, accept our frailties when we lapse, and show ourselves the same care we give others.
Happy Easter everyone

Food tastes GREAT now!

Great victories everyone 🙂

My favourite way of visualising weight loss is packs of butter – one pack is half a pound! When I feel disappointed with only a pound loss, I think of the two packs of butter it represents and suddenly it seems a pretty big achievement.

Hi Mairead,
12 is a bit high for a fasting reading. I can understand you stopping the gliclazide but do you think you stopped the metformin a bit soon? Were your levels lower before you stopped it or have they always been high?
Maybe you should wait until the blood sugars come down a bit before reducing it.
There’s another thread called ‘rising fasting blood sugars’ with more info.

Hi Sue
I’ve just re-read my post and I made a terrible gaff. I should have said that its not about having to explain about you being on a diet. I’m sorry, what I wrote sounds a bit callous, we already know that you have so many people in your life to look after so you are not a me me me person at all. My point was really just that I think you will be hoping to attract as little attention as possible while staying on track as much as possible and I think you can do both.

Sorry about your sad news, Sue. If I were in your position, I’d have just a couple of mouthfuls of each course. That way, if anyone says why aren’t you eating you can say well funnily enough you don’t really have an appetite. Its about grief then and not about you isn’t it. There arent many times I would make an exception but funerals and high tension situations would be the times for me.

Hashimoto,

You bet – I cycled up a hill yesterday that I haven’t climbed since last year, and really appreciated the sack of potatoes I wasn’t hauling up!

I’ve just signed the petition (42 signed up now) and have put Somerset on the map (you can see the geographical spread of people signing)

Lol Judith, I can just picture that 🙂

Newbie here too, done a lot of lurking too! Nearly at end of week 1 and a sneaky weigh after 5 days was 2kg – yayyy. My downfall is bread so have cut it out until yesterday when I had a hot cross bun. Only 1 instead of 2 and eaten deliberately slowly with a knob of butter. It was fabulous and afterwards realised that I really only did want just 1. Major step forward!
Thanks for all the comments that get posted they really are helpful and encouraging, looking forward to getting more involved😀

Hi Lucia,
Diet whey is a protein supplement, usually used by body builders and people who use the gym a lot to build muscle. Whey is quite high in carbs because it is milk based, the diet one is lower but still has a fair few. It is usually a powder added to smoothies.
If you wanted a protein supplement to add to smoothies, a legume based one will be lower carb. I am vegetarian, but definitely no gym bunny lol, so I add the legume type one to my morning smoothie.
Hope this has helped. Happy Easter

Funkydoofamily, that’s a very good result, especially if you have been eating off piste, so to speak! 🙂

Just to keep it in view for those who don’t yet know about our petition re asking for the NHS to encourage diabetics to follow the low carb diet . The link is below 🙂

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

Hi stringbreaker, congratulations, I’m celebrating with you, I too was a pound down this morning. Pick up a pound bag of sugar – that’s how much more fat has disappeared from our bodies! 🙂

Hi folks, I know a number of you have already signed our petition – but I just want to keep it in view for those who don’t know about it yet 🙂

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

Shadow 2, fantastic results there – lowest weight for 40 years – WOW- go girl go!!! I know I will never go back to the old way of eating. More than one person has told me I am fitter and healthier than they have seen me in years, why would I want to wreck that?

Like you I weigh my self every day so if I don’t like what the scales are telling me I will be stricter on myself. If I do like what the scales tell me I don’t want to wreck my good progress. Horses for courses though – I know not everyone feels the same about daily weigh-ins.

Talking about weigh ins – I just hit 2stone 7lbs loss !!! Yipeee!!! For over a week, since soon after completing 8 weeks I increased my calories while sticking to the principles of the diet, the keto sticks showed I was still fat burning and yes, I lost a pound in just over a week while eating the number of calories I used to eat!
I’m jumping up and down with delight – and not quite so much fat to wobble!
It is amazing to have a normal BMI.

Shadow2 please keep posting – the post 8 weeks is important for those of us at that stage and reassuring for those who are still on that journey. The post 8 weekers are the a new kind of pioneer on this diet!

Inka, thanks for your post about M M on Australian radio.

🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

After a pretty tricky week – some unplannable work lunches and hot cross buns! – I’ve lost another 1.5lb this week but also an inch on my waist. Able to fast longer between eve and breakfast too which is good and feel much less tired. I’m pleased with progress so far. Roll on week 3!

Fofi,

Thanks for keeping me on the straight and narrow. I didn’t have the beer last night and my reward was another pound down this morning. I know the odd pound or two isn’t too important, but it’s the end of my 8 weeks on Monday, so they’re all precious at the moment.

Hi Lucia, a group of us started this petition. It is for the ‘NHS to encourage diabetics to follow a low carbohydrate diet’
If we get 10000 signatures the government has to respond.
If we gat 100000 signatures it has to be heard in the House.

I don’t think we will get 100000 BUT we can all post the petition to our facebook and twitter accounts! We can really get the word out there.
I also know that MPs do tend to look at the government petition site and sometimes take up the baton so worth doing on all these counts.
With the publicity about sugar going on at the moment and the NHS rolling out a programme to ‘help’ 100000 pre-diabetics the timing of our petition is good.

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

Lucia what was your final step count yesterday? xxx

Good advice there from cherrianne for those who are struggling over this festive season, 5:2 then back to normal. Brilliant, Cherrianne 🙂

Merrymary – have you read Bill’s post about his recent visit to the eye hospital. I won’t spoil the fun but it was very good news.
This sugar problem…….I couldn’t believe it when another BSDer discovered that curry sauces (eating out) all have sugar added to them. Whaaat??? 🙁
All you UK residents, who haven’t already, may like to sign the petition a group of us started ( see link below) asking for the NHS to encourage diabetics to eat this low carb diet. 🙂
You can click on an icon on the website to post to your facebook or twitter accounts

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

Inka… try not to get disheartened you can do it and you will feel much better.. I know the advice is to weigh yourself every week but I jump on the scales every morning and that keeps me motivated much better as if I need to be a bit stricter I can be. If I wait for a week I convince myself that I wont have lost weight and don’t like waiting to find out.
I definitely had a Good Friday this year, I weigh 9st 7 3/4lbs, my lowest weight for 40 years. That means I have lost 8lb in 6 weeks on BSD although 31lbs in total over the last 2 years using different methods including 5.2 diet. This has been the best diet I have ever been on and I have no problem keeping my carbs low and am no longer addicted to sugar. My blood sugar levels are always in the normal range so I am absolutely delighted but must make sure I never go back to my old habits because there may come a time when I cant reverse it. My BMI is 24.7 (no clothes) and I have never in my life had a normal BMI so there is hope for everyone. I love reading the encouraging posts and will still keep in touch with the forums even though I will go to maintenance plan soon.

Oh, and….
I still don’t understand diet whey……
Love Lucia xxxx

Hi cat girl,
I just tried the jeans to see if I could pull them up a little further, but it was better than that , I fastened them and sat in them.
Before I banished them to the back of the wardrobe, I could only stand upon them and not breathe, then I couldn’t get the past my thighs.
I must be losing inches and not pounds.

What you doing today? If it rains I am going puddle splashing, you got any wellies? You coming out to play?

I am feeling not only healthier, lighter but younger too.

Great isn’t it.

Had pizza last night without the pizza. I know you all know what I mean.
Want to go crazy on the veg today. Salad is all hone, and maybe I will have some chicken.

Love Lucia xxxx

Thank you so much Cherrianne for your suggestion of the 5:2 diet just for this week. I’ve been demoralized by being invited to friends’ homes for meals three times this Easter, and as a consequence of my crazy thinking, have kind of lost the plot since Thursday. Not too badly, but I’m an all or nothing person when it comes to dieting. I’ve done the 5:2 diet before, so thinking about my week’s eating this way has helped me feel that I haven’t lost total control. I can fit my two fasting days around the meals out and can still feel I’ve stuck to my diet. Then begin afresh after Tuesday. Brilliant idea and one I can use the next time I have to eat a meal that someone else has prepared for me.

Bill yours was the first post I read here in the forums. I had tears reading about your poor eyes. Having said that I love your sense of humour and I am really enjoying your posts along with everyone else’s. I do believe that Dr Mosley in targeting the need for a person with diabetes to recognise and address the real problem of sugar and its effect on the body, is also highlighting the terrible global pandemic of sugar addiction and how if we can’t change what we are putting in our mouths, the results will be so much more widespread of symptoms such as what you have suffered in retinopathy etc. Sugar addiction is so wicked. I also gave up smoking 18 years ago as others have mentioned here in the forums and it was the hardest thing I have ever done. Giving up sugar is going to be way harder even than that for me. I am not a binge eater but a chronic inconsistent addict. Just as lethal in the long run though. And I have had many minor catastrophic events over the years that usually result from emotional stresses. I am also one of those who is upbeat but can be suffering a darkness on the inside. We humans are so complex!! I’ve slept the afternoon away post night shift so I’m off to walk the dog and think of something healthy to cook for dinner! Thanks everyone. 4 days countdown till d day for me … That’s BSD day :-))

Hi Hashimoto,
What petition?
Please can you give me more details?
Love Lucia xxx