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)!

Great news Bill

Group hug for Bill.

stringbreaker -scroll to the bottom of this page and you’ll find ‘contact us’. They emailed a response quickly.

I’m in the UK misssay.

Bill, catfish is ok. Lots of it in Deep South of USA.

Misssay, never eaten kangaroo. Ostrich is ok (when you get past thinking Big Bird), a bit like chicken.

JPSCLOUD thank you muchly Ive just ordered a set.

This is my second day. I’ve been hungry by the time I’ve made each meal – but not horribly so and really we should be hungry before we eat, shouldn’t we?

Hi Chezza I bought some nesting measures in a pound store – cup, half cup, quarter cup, etc. I find them invaluable now because so many recipes are posted from around the world.

Something like this…

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ten-Piece-Measuring-Cup-Spoon/dp/B017RMOXYM/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1458674427&sr=8-11&keywords=measuring+cups

I had yoghurt with a chopped pear and coconut shreds for brekkie. Lunch was home made tomato soup and dinner was harrissa chicken (but I missed out the pine nuts and raisins and had the chicken hot with the salad). My husband had chips with his (he’s not doing the diet). I wasn’t tempted to nick one. Well, not very tempted. I resisted anyway.

Ooohhh Two more newbies😃

Welcome to the club. It really is amazing how effective the BSD is.

Keep us posted on your progress.

Hi Bill you have been through more emotional trauma over the last week, you will still be emotionally tired – hence the school boy errors. If possible you could do with a couple of days off. Be kind to yourself 🙂

And imagine if the Americans pick up on this!

A cup is a measure of volume (like a pint or litre) so the weight will vary depending on what you’re measuring.

Hi Skywalker thank you for the info. Any idea how much a cup of blackberries or plums are?

Hi Judycakes thanks for that. Im looking for weight preferably given that I want to measure out fruit and the like. Ive searched the net without any luck. The US sites only give “cup” measurements and despite 2 hours inline in the UK I cant find weight size. Am I missing something somewhere.

Thanks, captainlynne – BTW, how did you manage to contact the team?

Looking forward to joining the “Vets” on Monday.
It’s going to be tough pushing for that last pound or two with the Easter weekend and my wife’s Birthday.
Still, what the heck if I do slip up for a few days – this is going to be a way of life.

Thanks Bill, you beat me to it.

See you over on the other thread stringbreaker. Welcome to the over-8 club.

Hi missay, the melon, blueberry and spinach shake for breakfast looked like swamp water or the green algae on top of our old pond, it didn’t taste too bad but as I used my food processor to blend it all the texture was just like swamp water, I really need to invest in a nutrition bullet as it was hard to drink and used a spoon for a lot of it! Didn’t quite trigger the gag reflex but not far off!

Doing a variation of the pepper and olive chicken for tea, putting a Mediterranean twist on it by adding a tin of chopped tomatoes, chopped onion, garlic clove and dried oregano, shoved it in a casserole dish and into the oven, calorie count with courgetti and green beans is around 260 which isn’t too bad. The carbs for the whole dish are around 14 which I know is a bit high for some people but we are not sticking religiously to 20 a day and things seem to be going well so far. Smells from the oven are lovely.🍽

Just heard about a new paper published by Prof Taylor – it shows that even people who have been diabetic for 10yrs can reverse their diabetes on the 800 calorie/day diet. This is the link to the press release: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/news/2016/03/profroytaylordiabetesresearch/
Just more proof that cutting out the sugar is the way to go…

Thanks Bill yes, I always thought it would “hurt” to cut calories down this much but far from it, I feel really good at the moment. We break up on Thursday and I’d normally celebrate with a major binge. It will be hard not to go over calories on that day but I might allow myself a few extra and not worry about it too much, as I’ll be getting active over the holidays.

This thread has become The Gnu News! At least drawing on them is calorie free. I confess Lynne, that I couldn’t remember if you were in the UK or Australia, so I did wonder if it was an Australian phrase!

I have eaten alligator and kangaroo; ostrich is on my list to try.

B 2tbs each flaxseeds yogurt walnut pieces
L salad with a slice of avocado
D “risotto” made with cauli rice button mushrooms peas and home cooked ham.
Snacks: handful of blueberries (my breakfast ones, had to go shopping!) small pack (20g) cheddar cheese
Drank 1 black coffee, 2 black tea, 2 green tea and lots of water today.
Feel full but easy diet app tells me I’ve only had 684 calls and 14 carbs. Did a lot of walking today, just doing the school run with the grandsons, four times, twice there and back, so when entered as 20 mins “dog walking” that brought the calls down. Not sure I fully trust the app but weight shifting again and general shape changing.

Great to hear jpscloud
I think some folk look at the diet and the 800 calories screams out at them and frightens them off.
It’s hard to explain how you can not only survive on 800 calories but not feel hungry.
You probably felt the same, I know I did and I still can’t believe how easy it is
First week results soon 🙂

Bill,

Thanks – see you there

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