In Week 2 I lost a total of 600 grams, a total of 5.7kg so far. Not as great as the first week, but hey I’m still losing weight!

Use Cauliflower instead. Google how to use Cauliflower as rice or couscous. It’s as simple as.

Good morning guys
been a bad bad weekend.
xrays showed she has a shadow on the lung, she has to have an MRI scan this week to confirm but the doctor has told her he thinks it’s lung cancer.
As you can imagine we’re in bits at the moment, just waiting for confirmation but then we are going to have some difficuilt conversations.
Not important ATM but I lost another pound this week.

Woo woo and one more I am over the moon and if I could cartwheel I would. Week one and I have lost 5 kg. Michael you are a legend for bringing this to our attention. Here comes week 2. ..🙃

Thanks gooismeidm
I actually only get wholemeal couscous, but will avoid from now on 🙁 thanks for tip on cauli……….getting books today so hopefully all will become clearer!!

Hello, Just completed 7 days in the BSD.
In the first week I’m down 7 lbs in weight. An inch has gone from my waist. My blood sugars have come down loads, e.g. last Monday my FBS was 11.0 and today it’s 6.7 (lowest one was 6.4). At other times of the day they’ve gone from 8.5 to the lowest reading of 5.2. To say I’m amazed is an under statement! ! This is all with no exercise apart from normal day to day activities. Hoping to start some serious walks today!

Dear Matrika,
There is an easy to use BMI calculator at this site http://www.fitnessmagazine.com/
I get newsletters from this site in my email. I find some quite helpful.
You might enjoy watching this YouTube clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDEw561NFto Insight Episode 4. The picture of his visceral fat is shown at 1.53.
Persist. Most people experience some success. Some people achieve lasting and amazing success – but not all.

My first week I had five good days, I stuck to 800 cal and burnt about 1000 cal and lost 2 kilos.
But last 2 days I have not logged my food, have eaten lots of chocolate and the wrong foods and no exercise.
I don’t understand why I sabatage my progress and now feel like I have to start from the begining again and am not feeling positive that I will stick it out.

Dear pmshrink,
I have a phone ap that tracks my carbs while also tracking the calories. I have not found anything in the Mosely book that sets guidelines for the carbs, as some are low GI and some are high GI. I am doing my best to use low GI foods as is set out in the weekly menus. The units used in the book are the same as on this webpage http://www.glycemicindex.com/foodSearch.php, but not the same as on my ap. I expected the carrots would have been an excellent choice as a filler. Low GI. Low calorie. High fibre.
To actually gain weight when so many others are shedding fat is most puzzling.
Please do not assume someone lives in the Emerald City with an eccentric magician. I do not appreciate being labelled according to your schema. The countries where I live or work and which country has issued my latest passport are definitely not the business of anyone using these forums about the diet.

Thank you everyone for your help and I apologise for the delay in my response. I think adding steamed veggies will definitely help me stay on track . Even though I have been following the 800 really closely I am not getting the weight loss results that many /most people have been reporting and it is discouraging. I am hoping that once I ramp up my exercise, the weight will start shifting. The weather here has been very hot over the past few weeks and not very conducive to a lot of exercise.
Thanks again.

Hi I am new here and am wondering how I am missing things on the site. I am reading the “8 week blood sugar diet” for the second time and there are mentions of things here I cannot find…BMI calculator and also an MRI of Michael when he was a TOFI…not sure where they are?

Today
B – 2 egg omelette
L – Chicken salad
D – Chicken salad and avocado
Water – 2lt

Exercise – 40 mins rowing + 8000 steps

I did have few glasses of wine in Perth and a celebratory glass of champagne yesterday at a friend’s 40th birthday but generally I have been a good boy – didn’t even drink whilst watching the rugby on Saturday. Big effort this week and then I have a few days vacation planned and another conference which will take me to the 1/2 way stage. I’m ahead of schedule as I had planned to do this during April and May. I have a goal of 15kg…sounds a lot but then I did start at 145kg and was 115kg 3 years ago. Ultimate goal? Under 100kg. Wont get there on this 8 week stint but will continue with the low-carb, healthy lifestyle after this.

Hi Hashimoto, not sure what is happening, but I cant see you guys anymore nor can I see my new posts in this threat! Or has everyone stopped posting things to this thread?

Hi DarwinBabe
Do I gather yr in Oz? If so there are some oz dwellers on the forums who should be able to advise.
Meanwhile- are you tracking your carbs? If your carbs are too high that could account for your problem even though you ve stuck to the cals. After initial problems I now stay under 50 g of carbs a day, often a lot less. Seems to work.
Penny

Slow weight loss! I have followed the diet for more than one week now. I have actually gained one kilo!!! I need to lose 10 kilos and am prepared for it to take quite a while. Still, results should be better than this.
Some of the vegetables in the recipes are unavailable here. I have to substitute for celeriac, spinach, fennel, etc. Luckily I can get cabbage. Most of the others are available. I can get frozen cauliflower, frozen green beans, and tinned beans. The foods are very expensive compared with what I have eaten in the past – $6 each for aubergines at my local supermarket and I needed to buy two for just one meal. (There are two people at each meal.)
What can I substitute for the veggies in the low calorie recipes?
Can I substitute a tin of lentils for the cauliflower rice? I have tried making coconut bread to go with the curries and stirfries. Almost OK.
Is it OK to eat raw carrots when I am hungry? Raw celery? Olives?

Just to give a little hope to fellow hypo dieters..I am on 150 levothyroxin and starting week 5 tomorrow and so far have lost 21 pounds. small fanfare as I blow my own trumpet !! Seriously though..it is working and I have never lost weight this quickly since my diagnosis. Prior to that i could lose weight at a reasoable pace with diet and exercise but after hypo diagnosis it has been sooooo hard to lose and taken soooo long. Frankly I could kiss Dr M I am o grateful ! Good luck all !

Thanks so much JoJo99-I’ll be really interested to know how you go and what recipes you find useful.
Good luck with your journey too!!

Hi Mandy
Sorry to hear you’re ill.
Get well soon. Looks like you’ve got the hang of the fats!
Penny

Hi Sunny b and sue
Michael suggested increasing walking by 500 steps a day til you reach 10,000 steps. To my corner shop and back its 1300- so 500 isn’t much! Worth a try.

Penny

Hi Silver
It does seem that normally weight loss slows in week 2 compared to week 1.
Best of luck
Penny

B Yogurt with blueberries
L Half an avo mashed with 1tbs Philadelphia cheese in lettuce cups
D roast chicken, cauliflower, broccoli
Snacks a little bit of white Stilton cheese, a handful of nuts and a glass of wine.
Checked on Easy Diet Diary, just over at 890. Will ease up in the week, no wine no nuts.

Hi flump
What a wonderful ambition!
Good luck with the diet
Penny

Hi Lilly, I’m starting today too. Also in Australia and saw the SBS programme two weeks ago. Ordered the book online straight after the programme, and have finished reading this morning. Tried two recipes over the weekend, they were fantastic, and already started feeling “cleaner” and my ankles are reappearing. Good luck with your journey.

Hi Carommartin
Take heart from Hashimoto, who is hypo and has lost 2 stone.
We ve all struggled with letting ourselves eat fat even tho we can all see where low fat has got us!
If you cut down on carbs, there is only protein and fat you can increase. increasing protein has various problems associated with it, including bad breath! And the fact you can store it as fat. But once you’re in fat burning mode ( ketosis) the fat you eat will stop you being hungry, and on 800 cals you ll be burning fat, rather than burning the carbs you eat which is what we normally do.
Eventually we seem to be able to accept that fat is good, not evil as we ve been told. And it’s sugar spikes caused by carbs that has made us all overweight.
Good luck
Penny

Hi Janet
As I have dairy intolerance, my partner also uses soya milk. It doesn’t seem to have made any difference. Still takes the same amount if thyroxin.
I think the juries out.
Penny

When my head gets a bit foggy and I find it hard to concentrate, I know it means I haven’t had enough carbs (the brain needs sugars to function and focus), so I have something slow release like an apple, or dried apricots and I find I feel better. It happened more to me in the first couple of weeks, but seems to have dissipated now.

Today:
Breakfast- 100 g Provamel almond yogurt, 20 g strawberries, 40 g raspberries, 10 g flax seed, 30 ml Almond milk
Lunch- home made veg soup with one teaspoon peanut butter added – 10 g
Boiled egg,salad leaves, 4 cherry tomatoes, 1/2 tsp French dressing
Home made yogurt 80 g with 20 g strawberries and 5 g hazelnuts
Dinner- slow cooker Mediterranean veg with 60 g chicken thigh.
100 g Provamel almond yogurt with 45 g Sharon fruit and 5 g almonds.
Snack. 1 tsp peanut butter.
Only 3,700 steps but 4 hours digging the allotment !
Well under my max target of 50 g carbs, only 30 g. 729 cals.

Great advice!! Thanks so much

Oh yeah, portion sizes are important. Mine were already reasonable, so my weight loss is genuinely down to the low carbs. One tip – use psychology to your advantage. Using smaller plates and bowls makes you think you’ve eaten more, because it makes your food look bigger. I have a dinner plate from the 70s that I love because it’s a size midway between a side plate and a modern dinner plate (dinner plates are soooooo much bigger than they used to be!). I use that silly plate all the time. I generally put my morning omelette and accompaniments on a side plate, and if I have yoghurt and blueberries in the morning I use one of my toddler son’s plastic bowls!

Hi Mateika- welcome!
You ll find so much from reading these forums.
A good place to look up calories is Calorieking.com.
A lot of us track them on MyFitnessPal app. Re the sausages. You really need to know how much carbs are in them. Maybe your butcher could tell you what’s in them?
A lot of us try to keep under 50 grams of carbs a day, some even less.
Good luck with the diet!
Penny

Thanks so much Celsa. Good to hear!
I think part of my problem has been portion sizes rather than a sweet tooth. I don’t buy sweet fizzy drinks or biscuits and we don’t eat takeaway or junk food, in fact our diet is relatively healthy. I do think it’s the “bad” carbs like bread and potatoes and portion sizes that have been my downfall.
Here’s hoping there’ll be a new, healthier me by the end of May

You’ll do great! Really, this way of eating keeps you feeling full, so you don’t feel like heading back to the fridge/cupboard all the time. And once you lose your sweet tooth after a week or two it gets even easier to avoid the old “treats”.
I am a few cms taller than you, and back in October last year I was 76kgs. By the time I started the diet at the end of January I was 71.5. So, I didn’t even do the 800 cal version, I just started eating a low carb med-style diet, and in six weeks I’m down to 65kgs! So even the slow way is faster than any way I’ve ever lost weight before. And I never feel deprived or hungry. Good luck!

I’m a newbie here and am starting the BSD 8×800 today. I watched Michael Mosley on TV (in Australia) a couple of weeks ago and ordered the books the following day. I read the Blood Sugar Diet yesterday and decided that today was as good a day as any to begin this journey to better health.
I don’t have type 2 diabetes but at 155cm tall and over 80kgs I think I can safely say I am overweight and am in need of a better way of eating. I exercise, for fitness not for weight loss, but still don’t feel quite right so today’s the day!

So, I would appreciate any help/advice/tips to help me stick to this and return to the “old me”

Congrats Denise, great results, especially with shifts involved….week 2, watch out! 😀😀

Hi Cherrianne,

Thanks so much for this, some great ideas, will marinate overnight as you suggest…also your mushroom tofu pie sounds really interesting, look forward to the recipe…..by the way, cooking for 7 must be a challenge every day?!

Thanks again, much appreciated 😀😀👍

ive been on this program for 7 weeks now and have experienced rapid weight loss lightheadedness weakness secret carb desires but above everything a desire to keep going and get back to the person i used to be.
i do a 30 min cycle hiit first thing and a weight training session in the early evening
at first i couldnt do anything much but by week 3 i became used to the new life
2stone and 4lb lighter sleep better feel better
i have now taken to walking up and down thw stairs 30 times hopefully getting up to 100 times in preparation for the fell walking in the Lakes.
can anyone advise me if my plan is a good one
8 weeks 800cals 2 weeks off and repeated another 3 times in order to get to 14 stone from 21 st by christmas or are there health issues

Hi Winstin

I just saw your post and thought you might be interested in a post I have just shared in the thread ‘Rising blood sugar levels.’

Sounds like you are in exactly the same boat as us.

Hi all.

I decided to read that article that Squidgy posted again and been having a think. Funny how you understand things so much more after a second reading. I think we all might be interpreting this blood sugar spike completely wrong I.e. It might be something we should be celebrating rather than getting us down. I’ll explain.

The article describes our liver as being like a balloon which gets filled up with stored sugar from the food we eat which the liver then releases at a time of fast right? In non diabetics this doesn’t cause a problem as the insulin produced can balance the levels out but with diabetics this means our levels go way high. BUT I reckon this could be happening for one of two reasons – or both.

Firstly, we’re not consuming sugars etc so the rise can only be coming out of our liver. Being as we are diabetic possibly for a very long time there must be a hell of a lot of sugar built up in there and there is only one place it can deposit it now it’s decided it’s happy to get rid of it – into our blood. And our blood is the only place we can measure any blood sugar levels in our body. Is possible that after five or so weeks (that seems to be the common pattern with us all) our livers have actually started working properly again because it’s lots all that fat which was inhibiting it before and it’s doing what it’s supposed to do but perhaps somewhat over enthusiastically because there is just so much sugar in there that has built up over time. If you’ve been diabetic for a number of years just imagine how much sugar has been pushed into that liver in that time.

Secondly, maybe it’s doing what it’s supposed to but the reason the blood sugar levels are so high is because we’re still waiting for the pancreas to do a bit of catching up or possibly it is working okay but a bit temporarily overwhelmed by the amount of sugar being pushed out because the liver has now decided to dump all this excess sugar into our blood to get rid of it.

These are just my thoughts and I’d love to hear what you all think. I’d really love to hear from someone that has had this spike and come out the other side. If there us anyone at that stage please come and say hello!

Hi Woofmum. I have just completed the first week and have lost 5lbs. I have read the book from cover to cover twice and am no following the weekly plans in the book. I’m lucky, no headaches, no cravings, and I haven’t been hungry either.
Hope your books arrive early tomorrow, then you can get reading! Good luck 👍😀

5lbs lost in my first week! Thrilled to bits with that. Week one is done and dusted so week 2, I’m coming for ya!

Hi another week on and I did lose about 5.5 lbs this week (scales not very accurate and my eyes sight struggles to see to my feet) and lost an inch off the waist so must be doing something right. Went down with a stinking cold and chest infection which I now think was the reason I was so tired. I always fry some of the vegetables in oil and I’ve been drizzling oil onto salad so fingers crossed I now have the hang of it

Hi Woofmum,
I’ve just finished my first 24 hours on the BSD…and I survived 🙂 Blood sugar dropped from 7 to 5.9 which is very motivating. I spent a few days planning before starting and made yesterday a day where I didn’t have to do anything too strenuous as I wasn’t sure how my body would react to the reduced calories. I’m very excited to see what the rest of the week has in store for me & look forward to hearing how you go – we can do this!!

Many thanks everyone. Yes its about motivation but I am feeling good and so that will carry me though 🙂 I hope!

Hi everyone, been offline for a while as had an op and been feeling rough! But now feeling much better and ready to go again. I haven’t been on the diet for a week but also haven’t been reaching for the biscuits or choc like I once would have! Am pleased my weight has stayed the same so from today am back on the plan. I did try to post at the end but it wouldn’t let me for some reason. Everyone sounds like they are doing brill and Bill you really are an inspiration and you haven’t given up despite the high readings which is brilliant 🤓. I would love to be able to know how long it takes to get all the stores out of my liver and pancreas and I guess the 8 weeks is a guide for all of us to strive for.
I love anchovies and have found one recipe in the book with them has anyone got any other good ideas I could try?

Hoping this posts ok 👍

Hi Purple – glad to help. Hope you get it sorted.

Hi captainlynne
Yes I am, will discuss with my doctor. Thanks for that

Hi Purple

Are you taking blood pressure medication? Mine needed reducing as my BP dropped as I started to lose weight and it made me feel lightheaded until dose was reduced. Just a thought.

Hi Silver, me too, first week I lost 7lbs, this week not lost anything ☹️
However my morning blood sugars have been between 4 – 5 mmol… So that & the fact I feel so well is keeping me going. Hopefully it will start moving again soon!

Good Luck !!!

Hi Silver

This would appear to be a common event in week 2 / 3 and is something I have had to contend with too! From reading other posts on these forums and indeed posted about being frustrated by the lack of progress and received responses, the general consensus seems to be plateaus have to be expected from time to time and as long as you stay focus and continue to stick with the diet the weight will eventually start to drop again – see the thread on Starting Week 3 After a Tough Week 2.

It will come right, just stay positive and focused – good luck.