Hi Malkay! I’m glad the recipe worked and you liked it. To be honest I haven’t counted the calories, I will try next time I make this utterly delicious bread. I assume it will be high in calories but it is very nutrient dense. It is very filling and a couple of slices go a long way. It completely changes the way I look at bread – you simply enjoy every crunchy mouthful and you know you are not feeding your body rubbish. To answer your question – yes, the coconut oil needs to be melted but olive oil works just as well 🙂

End of week 1 and I have lost 6.75lbs. Well done Kitty and Anticarb, hopefully we will all continue to do well. I need to loose about 10st – sadly won’t lose that in 8 weeks 🙂 , but early days. I do 3-4 hours a week Aqua aerobic classes a week – great fun and keeps my knees in good working order after my knee replacements.

Morning Snackerlady welcome

I’m t 2 just finished wk1 & 8lb lighter! All stats going right direction.
My mum & dad were type 2 , so maybe I’m in the ‘ could b genetic’ group. BUT, I’m in this new way of eating & exercise for the rest of my life! Got to give me the best chance of healthy living I can. That way I can be there for my family longer
Do show your family what you are doing & lets hope they get on board too.
Best of luck. Plenty of advice & encouragement here
Eureka

Hi, I am a male age 66. Have been concerned about weight, increasing blood pressure and blood glucose readings – not yet diagnosed as pre-diabetic. Now been on the BSD for 4 weeks and delighted with results so far – lost 18 lbs, BMI down from 33.1 to 30.5, lost 2.5″ from waist, fasting blood glucose down from 6.3 to 5.6 and blood pressure reduced from something like 130 over 88 to 115 over 74. Wife doing this with me and is similarly delighted with her results. Also pleased with the way things are going with the Headspace meditation mentioned in the book. Thank you so much to Dr Michael and Dr Clare.

Hello Bruce *waves*
I have just started this today and so far, 1/2 hour in, it’s been easy peasy haha! 😉 😀 Seriously though, it’s good to read how everyone is finding it and what to expect in the coming days/weeks.

I had a giant crumpet last night as a final farewell (and because it needed using up!) so your crumpet comment made me smile 🙂

All the best for a great week to everyone!

Morning! Today is day 1 of my 8week BSD. I have the kindle edition of the book and got my shopping yesterday in ready to start this!
I am so determined to get on top of my health. My mum, dad and a sibling are diabetics T2 and I am now prediabetic.

A little bit about me:

I am 44, wife and mother to 2 and now a grandmother to 2 babies (who are utterly divine)
I’m at least 3 stone overweight- probably could lose 4 stone easily.
I’m pre diabetic, so this is THE chance for me to claw back my health and have a different future than the one we’ve been told we are destined to have with diabetes.

I’m raring to go! 😀

I’ll update often with my experiences and my stats, I intend to weigh every morning. I’m keeping track of it all in myfitnesspal.

Looking forward to my first week (i think, lol!!)

Hi Penny. I’m 4lbs down after week one. Hoping I can maintain this going forwards. Motivated for week 2!

Hi Bruce. One week in and 4lbs down! And that was with having some cheeky wine at the weekend as I was away visiting family. I’m hoping I can maintain 3lbs a week minimum loss, preferably 4lbs but don’t want to be over ambitious. How are you getting on?

Relieved to see other slow losers on this forum… I’m a little worried that my body has gone into a panic/starvation mode of some sort. I lost 6lb in the first week, I’m end of week 3 and not a single ounce more has come off. I am so surprised as at 5ft 10 with 3 stone to loose I was really hoping for a stone off in 4 -5 weeks which doesn’t look do able now. I haven’t touched carbs and I’m varying my meal choices day to day. Fingers crossed I get a sudden drop over the next few weeks once my body knows IM THE ONE in charge and gives in! Lol. On the plus side, I do look thinner in the face, I feel a hell of a lot Brighter and my husband says I look younger. So if nothing else, this alone is fab! Good luck to you all, please do update us if you have some success soon! I’m sure it will happen soon xx

If you’re in Australia, this is a good dark bread to try- I love it and you can get it from most IGA/Foodlands and comes in at about 2.5 grams of carbs and low GI

http://www.hermanbrot.com.au/

That’s very good news about your blood levels – and this way you will prevent ever being pre-diabetic! Glad you’ve had a good three days. I’m enjoying feeling more positive about myself just by being on the diet and have weighed myself now – lost 6lbs and 1″ off waist. I need to be more active though. I know I walk a lot with my dogs but need some bursts of something more strenuous.

I’m in a community choir and it’s our annual dinner tonight and the set menu wasn’t fast 800 friendly, but I’ve opted for melon and berries to start followed by veg curry without rice and poppadoms and no dessert, all that for £15 – I shall feel robbed! But also a bit smug when everyone else is stuffing themselves. It was a bit tricky choosing off the set menu because of being veggie and lactose intolerant. One of the other choristers has asked for an omelette but I’m feeling a little egg bound.

May you have a very good week with encouraging weight loss and an ever shrinking waist 🙂

Hi Penny

I know! It is so frustrating as all those calories I haven’t eaten have to be doing something – by my calculation I should have been losing 3 pounds a week! (approx 1400 calorie deficit everyday!) especially given I’m sticking to low carbs and walking about 8-9000 steps. I’ll see it out to the end of the 8 weeks and then think about doing a ketogenic diet on higher calories or 5:2 because one way or another this fat has got to go!

Good luck and hope you’re feeling other benefits

Cazzie

Hi Cazzoeary
That must be frustrating!
I’ve just been rereading the book. On the 4 week review michael says’ you will have lost a lot of weight’ He never mentions slow losers as far as I can see. I don’t understand it at all when you think of all the calories we haven’t eaten! And I’m doing 1000s of steps.
I hope you’re feeling other benefits
All we can do is keep on keeping on!
Penny

Hi Bill,
That’s great results for you, clothes don’t lie do they so a looser belt is good news for your waistline.
I like the forum too, I think it’s because we are all learning together. I like the description of us being pioneers.
Can’t wait to hear more about your progress as we go. I don’t have any weight to lose but my blood sugars have been way too high on what the health professionals thought was a healthy diet. Now I’m watching the carbs and following the diet they are almost always in the non diabetic range. Except when, like you, I had a pancake. Mine was very small, with blackberries and some honey yoghurt and two hours later my blood sugar was 12.2. Won’t be repeating that mistake!

Hi everyone

I’m also in the slow weight loss club- I started 6 weeks ago today and so far have lost only 7 kilos so it will be a miracle if I lose 10 kilos by the end of the eighth week (in the past two weeks I’ve lost 0.1 kilos *sad face*). I also have over 50 kilos (110 pounds) to lose (I’m 5’10”) so according to some I should have lost far more but it just ain’t moving! Can’t make any suggestions to get us in the ‘fast’ fast club but just wanted to let you know it can happen to anyone as everyone’s body reacts differently to dieting! Mine just doesn’t like it.

Thanks people. I agree any loss of weight can only help. Don’t expect to be able to ever come off meds for thyroid issues but would just be nice to be able to lose some weight as pretty much everything I have tried has had limited success and been slow progress. I shop tomorrow and start the diet on Tuesday !!!

Well done anti carb , I’m 6 days in and have lost 7 lbs! I’m pre diabetic and need to loose 3 stone in all. Good luck for next week👍

Hi carb craver
It’s difficult for us slow losers with all the fast losers around. I try to think of when I went to weight watchers, a diet I found difficult and lost less on! It’s a more helpful comparison for me.
Have you tried measuring your waist? Mine has gone down 2.5″ and my sisters went down 3″ and she hadn’t lost any weight at all. It’s worth a try.
I think if we keep on in the end we have to lose on these calories.
I’m feeling a lot perkier and sleeping better. Those two things alone make it worthwhile.
I don’t understand why you’re having sugar craving- that’s a sign of a BG spike having happened. I’m not having any carbs at all except what’s in beans and veg and the occasional bit of non tropical fruit. Are you having some carbs? I know some people are. If so it might be worth cutting them out entirely for a while.
Good luck
Penny

Thanks Janet, I guess it what gives us the motivation to continue is the results!!

Hi Janet
That’s true!
Penny

No, not really. Sweet potatoes should be kept on the ‘eat occasionally’ list as they are still quite high in carbs. Courgette and carrots cut into strips or spiralised are a passable alternative to pasta and there is a good thread on here called rye bread where people have been swapping bread recipes. All the best to you.

That’s an amazing start Anticarb! Really well done! No wonder you are chuffed! Wishing you even more success as you come up to your second week.

I doubt that too Penny! But any increase in muscle will actually do our weight loss good as it is muscle that speeds up our metabolism.

I have now completed 6 days on the diet, to be honest I have not been hungry at all. I am type 2 and was diagnosed 6 years ago and try to control with medication. Anyway my first day my BS 11.4 fasting, Blood pressure 147/90 and weight 101.4 kgs. I was very apprehensive before the start thinking 800 cals a day I would be starving, I needn’t of worried.
My readings this morning was BS 7.2 fasting, blood pressure 122/82 and a whole 7 pounds lost!!! I am over joyed with the results. I have ensured that I have completed a minimum of 10,000 steps per day some days reaching 16,000. Thank you Dr Michael Mosley your book has given me the inspiration to do this, your recipes are amazing.

Hi Janet
Hmm but it is true for volume. Though I don’t think many of us are now so bulging with muscle that we won’t lose weight!
Penny

Hi Sparkle
I agree with you. Those carbs spike blood sugar and lead to fat. I’m not eating any of them in the 8 weeks. Only carbs is in veg, beans, a bit of non tropical fruit.
Never the less I have only lost 5 lb in 14 days. My sister, who has a lot more to lose, hadn’t lost anything at all. We ve both reduced our waists though by a few inches.
I’m happy to be feeling better and sleeping better and it’s easy.
Penny

Hi Kitty
Well that’s a lot of potent stuff you’ve given up. I suppose you’re reacting to loss of those –
Penny

Sorry Sandy- keep hitting the D!!

Hi Dandy
Yes maybe it was the chicken. At least now you’re recovering.
Penny

Hi I have an under active thyroid been on 150 of thyroxine for 32 years . Been on this diet for 9 days and lost 9lb .I’m sure as my weight goes down I will have to reduce my dose .

Thanks Shrinky… Watching it now 🙂

Hi you are doing so well . I’m 9 days today and 9lb down . I go to weight Warchers on Monday eve got so fed up losing just 1/2 lb per week . I’m so happy I have found this way to lose weight . Not sure how I’m going to explain this weeks weight loss.
I’m also very happy to be your diet buddy .im 63 been dieting for ever had diabeties for 30 years . 10 years ago I was 19 st today I’m 13.7 hoping to get to 11

I have a bag of un waxed lemons, I’ll give that a try, thank you Hashimoto. I normally freeze wedges of lemon so slices shouldn’t be too difficult 🙂

I’ve sliced one and put it into a jug of water in the fridge and sliced another and put on a plate in freezer which I’ll then transfer to a bag so they do t freeze stuck together.

I bought a weekly meal planner and it’s really helped to plan, then buy the bits I need and not have to dither over what to eat each meal.

Really feeling positive going into my second week.

HI, I’m type 2 diabetic, two and half weeks into it, I had already started to cut sugar from my diet just before christmas, so have not experienced to many sugar withdrawal systoms. I have lost about 8lbs and my bloods have been a lot lower, also my hba1c. This is the best diet I have tried (and there have been many). I would like to thank everyone who have posted their thoughts, advice, receipes etc, I now spend a lot of the day reading them all, (still beats stuffing my face!!!!!!!!). Keep up the good work and together we will make a difference

I found I had lost just over 10lb in 6 days! I feel fantastic and really motivated to continue.
I am becoming a bit of a bore to people talking about it. Wife not interested even though she would have more to benefit than me.
But bumped into a friend yesterday that I hadn’t seen for ages and he was doing the diet too. So now I have my “diet buddy” happy happy happy.

Hi, I’m day 6 and have had exact same problems fr past 3 days. Don’t want to give up as I can feel I’m loosing weight already. Pretty sure I don’t have a tummy bug but I do have urgent, lose bowel action… I feel tired and headachy but I have also given up caffeine…I’m hoping these annoying side affect are withdrawal of carbs,sugar,caffeine & alcohol !, any thoughts?

i was 133 kg at the start of diet (feb 1) to date ive lost 9 kg and really happy the way the diet is going was drinking too much water wich slowed my weight loss down but adjusted that and it worked

Well, end of week 2 for me and another 4lbs loss which = 12lbs loss in 2 weeks. So pleased with this, have stuck to the recipes in the book religiously. Another week for me and then on holiday for 5 days of no calorie counting but going to choose low carb and sugar meals where I can. Back on it on the 28th Feb.

How do these compare to potatoes? Are they good as an alternative?
I have always used a jazzed up cabbage soup diet in the past with good results as far as weight loss goes but I am concerned about diabetes as my score on the questionare in the book is poor. I hope to use the 5:2 and blood sugar diet together starting with cabbage soup twice a day on fast days until I can find recipes I like in the blood sugar book at 800 Cals. My wife is the cook and she does not need to loose weight and needs convincing.
I am 71 5ft 6 inches 38 waist retired so it’s not looking good at nearly 13 stone and a liking for real ale. Sweets and fizzy drinks are just distant memories, bread no problem but pasta, pizzas and potatoes will be a problem. What about home made bread any ideas on that?

Well done Graeme, that’s brilliant. I’m so eager to continue losing that I decided not to go for the St Valentine’s meal – don’t want to risk putting a couple of pounds back on for the sake of one meal!

Hiya

I started with an overactive thyroid 25 years ago after my last pregnancy and after 2 lots of radio active iodine it’s been underactive and I’ve been on Levo for several years now. Been on the 800 diet since last Monday and until I read your post I hadn’t given this aspect of it a thought. All I can say is that the thyroid is a strange beast, and my gp didn’t say anything about it when she had a little go at suggesting I lose weight. I’m thinking that everything will be better for losing weight, reducing cholesterol, reversing diabetes and all the other benefits of eating this way. I’m less achy, tired, bloated, puffy, miserable etc already. Doubt people like us could come off Levo though – don’t think I could because most of my thyroid was annihilated! I shall watch this space with interest, so thank you for raising it.

Hello again Joycey

‘Course I don’t mind x 2 🙂 Just popped in again before I go for my lunch – decided not to do two meals only at the weekend, prefer to stick with what’s worked for me all week. Nice to be sharing our start date. Going to look into krill oil, thank you. I talked to my med centre nurse about cholesterol on Friday as I was worried about starting to use olive oil again and she reassured me that it was fine.

Your results are impressive. It feels a little suspect to feel excited about a diet doesn’t it – but like you already I’m getting a buzz out of having control. Watched a programme from last year on bbc iplayer by Fiona Phillips on sugar earlier today, yet another endorsement of this kind of eating plan. I don’t think there is any doubt that cutting out sugars/carbs is a healthy option, so it’s not just a diet but a lifestyle.

btw, you don’t sound tough – you sound STRONG!

Brilliant Graeme , well done! Amazing if it’s made such drastic changes already. I’m weighing tmrw as well, I feel as if I’ve lost weight already after a week, seem to be ‘pooing’ a lot though? Maybe all the veg and beans?

Official weigh day tomorrow – week 1 review

Lost 10lbs as of this morning
No insulin since I started the diet
Loving new foods
Feel healthier
Blood sugars at normal levels for a week now

Negative points – I only started last week …wish I had done ages ago .. Lol.

Just been told I am pre-diabetic. I also have hypothyroidism (an under active thyroid). Wondered if anyone with underactive thyroid and taking levothryoxin has tried this diet? Interested to hear how it is going/went? many thanks

Hope you don’t mind auntylil but just read your profile and am similar age. Re cholesterol I take super strength krill oil 1,200mg from healthspan and my cholesterol levels dropped from 6 to around 3.9 (can’t quite remember the figure). I saw an article so started on the Krill. Have a look see, it may help. All the best.

Is there no way to edit posts?????!

I have always found exercise difficult, I like to walk (have two dogs) will swim on holiday.
But one thing I have always love to do is dance. When I say dance I really mean throwing myself around the floor at live music events.
So I thought why don’t I do that at home? But not with a pint of beer in my hand!
Soxi started slipping CDs into the hi fi until I found some music “that moved me”
There is one track that is guaranteed to get me running on the spot and doing star jumps like demented loon! ☺
“Life During Wartime” by Talking Heads, preference being the live version from “Stop Making Sense”
What music gets you guys up and moving?💿🎧🎵🎶🎼🎸🎹🎷🎺🎤

Thank you for your reply. We both started Monday very best of luck for your journey too.

Every now and again I get excited at the thought of being meds free and perhaps good diabetic levels but I can’t quite believe it will happen. I have a very lot of weight to lose as in 2000/2001 lost 8 stone but sadly put all plus some back on. The science behind losing this method of weight sounds fascinating and I certainly want to be one of the people to confirm its truth and help others win over this disease. I DO NOT WANT DIABETES TO RULE ME I WANT TO RULE IT. Gosh don’t I sound tough.

Love your ideas of treats. Shall borrow that idea if you don’t mind.

Let’s keep up the good work for the week ahead. The menu looks exciting.

I am another disappointed( so far) dieter. I have several stone to lose but have still lost a kilo in my first week. I am finding the going tough at the moment and was hoping to experience the motivational effect of a really significant weight loss, even it was mainly water. I have kept to the diet, with the exception of 1 boiled sweet when a sugar craving became just too much for me !!

I have been reading this site for support and encouragement so thank you to all of you who post