Breakfast: Home made yogurt and mixed berries with cinnamon

Lunch: Beef salad with pomegranate seeds, lettuce, rocket, toms, basil, pepper, gherkin, olives and horseradish mixed with sour cream

Dinner: Poached smoked haddock with shallots, tomato and spinach, topped with a creme fraiche and cheddar sauce.

Snack: half an apple

Drinks: water, two teas with splash of milk, one coffee with cream, buftermint teas

Thanks Julia, I thought about this early this morning then rejected the idea because I know it’s not likely to get 100000 votes. Then lynne made me think again- so this is as much her as me – and all of you who have offered support for this idea. Let’s hope it goes live! 🙂

Hi all,

I’ve been lurking for sometime and am so happy to find a forum where the focus is on helping and supporting each other – such a lovely ethos for a site to have.

I’ve just finished week 3 and have lost 17lbs and four inches off my (admittedly large) waist, which is fab news and keeping me very motivated and focussed. However, my FBS, which were hovering around 5.2, have gone up to 7.5 – 8.5 for the last four days. I’m being very careful to weigh and log everything and am averaging between 25 – 40 gms of carbs a day, so I can’t understand it. I’m not overdoing the protein and getting approx 50% of my calories from fat. I’m having a small high fat snack (full fat greek yoghurt) before I go to bed. My GP, who’s being very supportive with this diet is now making very serious noises about Metformin, which I would like to avoid, because he feels this will help manage the dawn phenomomen.

So my question is…why are my darn FBS on the rise when I’m not overdoing the carbs and protein?

On a different note – do you Judith, and Bill, Lynne, Janet, Penny et al (sorry I am missing others – memory for all the other names I see increasingly out there!) ever sleep, let alone find time to eat?! How on earth do you manage such impressively prolific posting? I am in awe of that as well as your impressive weight loss (…especially as mine is currently stalled!)

You are all such ambassadors for the BSD and so supportive to so many folk on here.

Sorry to hear that you have had upsetting news. Big well done for sticking with the plan and hope you feel better soon.

Hopefully this will generate some pressure. I told my mum about the erroneous info still on the NHS website. She said she’d spent years telling them my Dad’s BGLs were so good because of the food she gave him, which was not as low carb as MM but still much lower than the advice put out by the NHS. Apparently every time they went for an diabetes check up she was told he should be eating more carbs and every time she responded that eating a greater proportion of carbs spiked his levels. She said it was like talking to a brick wall, even though they had the diary evidence in front of their eyes! So to see this happening, well, I can only wholeheartedly applaud your actions and do my little bit to get the message out there by sharing the petition.

If you want to splash a little more, there as some scales on amazon around the £16 to £18 mark, which give weight, BMI, bone density, fat% and hydration levels. Thinking of buying one myself!

Ive emailed you the link Janet, hope it gets to you ok, my pc is going like a brick tonight

Sounds like you had a really tough day captainlynne, but well done for sticking to the plan. Hope tomorrow is a better day for you.

Thanks folks, things are happening fast!! There will be a gap once the five supporters are signed up as they spend some time checking that the petition meets all the criteria. Then we will really get it out there. Bill is already doing a wonderful job on social media! 🙂

Thanks for sending Judith – all done!
Great idea btw

Have clicked the links and buttons and verified my info on the petition as a supporter, Judith – well done for getting this ball rolling. Let’s hope the petition will generate a wave of interest in the BSD and against the poor information being put out as part of the new government scheme. Guess all we can do now, is wait and see.

😀😁😁

I almost always do that anyway (not that it always makes any difference!). In this instance they don’t have anything online for me to look at but it’ll be the usual bistro type stuff I expect. I’ll see how I feel on the day 😀

Not sure if you still need email addresses ut if you do, you’re welcome to mine;
Janet2dalton@yahoo.co.uk

LOL. That was the problem I had with gnus 😃

juliabsd18@gmail.com

*bourguignon* even. Bloomin’ predictive text wants to change it to ‘hour thigh on’ this time. Yes, of course, I can tink of dozens of sentences in which I would include the phrase ‘ hour thigh on’ !

That’s brilliant Bill. Ive been careful not to sound like i am advertising a book on the government site but when it goes live i will add plenty of info on facebook 🙂

Judith – signed. Many thanks.

Julia, Judith needs an email address to send you the link.

And me as well – sunnybtamam@gmail.com

Hi Raideen

Welcome to the group. Look forward to hearing how your first week goes and good luck.

Hi all

Just logged in after a few days away from the forums and seen this new thread. Have searched for the petition but not found it on there. Is it not live yet? Happy to support if more are needed to get it off the ground. I might not have read thoroughly but cannot see the link to it on this thread, someone will no doubt point out if I am being a numptie!

Brilliant idea, Judith.

Julia

Day 1 over and it was ok, thank you for all your advice. Feeling good and looking forward to day 2 😀😀

Same problem as you Judith – use captainlynne@gmail.com

Hi I think I know why I am slower at losing the weight and my blood sugar is taking longer to sort. I’m not on the standard Metformin, I’m on the modified release Metformin which releases more slowly into the bloodstream.

Metformin works by slowing the release of sugar from the liver and pushing it into the muscles.

Day 31 weight 10st 6lbs. Blood sugar 10.5

I’ve ordered some ketostix to see if that shows what is going on.
I tried my porridge with cinnamon today, but didn’t like it.
Had a weird Blood sugar reading mid morning of 18.9?!

I had a crazy idea of stopping my Metformin this morning, but I chickened out and kept taking it. 😈😇

I’ll be your supporter. Give me a few minutes to create a new email address.

Unbelievable stringbreaker – I’m glad I have started this petition.

Jeans feel looser. Legs and feet feel thinner.Boots feel looser around calves. Winter coat is very big on me now. I just feel lighter. My stomach feels flatter – prob due to very low carbs for over 2 weeks.
P.S. I’m with Bill ‘re. the Metformin!!

Hi Hargis
Not sure I’m going to be any help here, but I wanted to welcome you to the BSD clan. Can’t say I’m very savvy about the shakes, but could you perhaps eat a breakfast and evening meal and just use a shake for lunch? I’m asking as I suspect that it is the carb content of the shakes that may be the problem and by just using them for lunch, you’d have a better shot at controlling your carb intake. The other thing to consider, is if you are consuming enough fat, as this is important on the BSD. It really does seem that not all calories are equal, so the source of the calorie matters.
Good luck and hope you see some positive progress soon.

Wonderful news Bill 🙂

Thanks for the rapid response and your support Sharon, much appreciated! 🙂

Hi Judith

Have singed up as a supporter. Getting the BSD out to there to as many people as we can is going to make a difference. Big Well done to you.x

Thanks Cherrieanne, I’ve gone and started it now. 🙂

Very true sunnyb. Let’s shout it loud and clear!!

Hi, my scales are Salter mechanical ones as I prefer them to digital. £6 Tesco – for sale in other shops at £20!!

Lynne we are already activists – you me and Bill certainly know how to make ourselves heard!!! And thanks for your idea and support! 🙂

You didn’t know it but today has been a bad day and talking to you on here has helped me through it and to get my head straight.

I’ve been ok with the food. In fact I had to talk myself into eating tonight. When I’m really upset I’ve always gone one of two ways, eating everything or nothing. But today I’ve kept on plan.

Just to reassure you, it’s not family. But I got news this morning that really upset me.

So thanks again everyone.

Bill – power to the blood sugar dieters!!!!

Right folks I’ve gone and done it, I’ve sent emails with a link to Bill and Sharon. I need 5 supporters for this to go live. I only have the one email address would any of you mind posting one of your spare email ads so I can send you the link as a supporter? Thanks ( it will be much faster than me trying to figure out how to make a new one).
Thanks, and Bill you’re a star
🙂

LOL misssay. I remember it well 😃

How can it be that the day Dr Taylor publishes groundbreaking evidence for the reversal of diabetes, our numskull government heads in the opposite direction?!

Thanks Rose, will have a read of that…

Thank you for encouragement- I hadn’t told my husband that I had lost weight. I thought I would wait until he noticed. I didn’t have to wait for long. 2nd day of 2nd week and the comment tonight was you’ve lost weight, (even though I don’t feel like it) but I will take every compliment I can get. I’m one for usually in the chocolate cupboard but at the moment don’t really want it, and that’s a first for me. Keep up the good work everyone.

What a very satisfying noise – butter bubbling away in a frying pan. Haven’t heard that in years!

Looking forward to you joining us on Monday stringbreaker – have a good weekend.

I dont want to breach any rules here by naming brand names if that’s not allowed. Its just I have been sticking rigidly to the diet by using diet replacement shakes rather than real food. I have been carefully weighing out carrots and hummous to top out my remaining 200 calories, but in 5 days I have lost absolutely nothing off my waist. Because I am out travelling such a lot for my job, being able to take shakes with me is much more convenient than cooking my own food but I was wondering if it’s possible that the shakes I am using have too many carbohydrates in. Are some brands better than others, or are all the meal replacement shakes with around 200 calories in acceptable?
I don’t want to give up because I’ve been finding this relatively easy and I really need to lose my abdominal fat and come out of pre-diabetic status but I’m not sure if this is working for me.
Any advice gratefully received.
Thanks

Hi jpscloud Those of us who’ve jumped in the the 800 calories soon find how easy it is and realise how well we can eat on so few calories when we cut out the carbs.

Hi chezza1961, I also have a problem with measurements in “cups” – I once took things literally and made a cake with a mugful of flour, sugar, etc! Surprisingly it turned out quite well!

I found somewhere (don’t ask me where, it was a long, long time ago) the following information:
1 cup = 16 tablespoons
1/2 cup = 8 tbsp
1/4 cup = 4 tbsp

2 cups = 1 pint, 4 cups = 1 quart
1/4 cup = 60ml; 1/2 cup = 125ml; 3/4 cup = 180ml; 1 cup = 250ml

Hope that helps!
Rose

I found kangaroo similar to a very lean beef, perhaps slightly ‘liver’ tasting. I have had kangaroo burgers (wouldn’t choose them instead of beef) and kangaroo bourgninon, which was very good.

What’s that Skippy? Someone’s fallen down the well, and Misssay says you’d be good in a bourginon? (This will only make sense to those over a certain age)!