Hello. Just popping in to say sorry I’m not really posting at the moment.

Welcome to all our new members. Best of luck on your journeys. We all take a different path so always lots of helpful tips if you need them.

Margaret hope you get a date soon. Don’t know which part of the country you’re in but in the North, Wrightington in Wigan, or the Orthopedic hospital in Oswestry charge maybe two thirds for private surgery. Still a lot but maybe a thought? But don’t forget you can also opt for any hospital on the NHS so you don’t have to rely on local services.

So far this week I’m repeating my pattern of last week …… up a few ounces, up a few ounces, up a few ounces. Hopefully tomorrow it will be down a few!!!

Last night I steamed cauliflower and celeriac and whizzed the two together and I have to say I ended up with a really silky smooth purée. So tonight a ‘no cook’ meal of cauli/celeriac mash, tuna /salmon fish cakes (home made so know what’s in them) and petite pois. Maybe not the lowest carb meal but still pretty good.

Have a good evening and as good week.

Great news on your numbers SunshineGirl!
Alas I have never experienced a bin meeting… in a language I understand or otherwise!

I’ve had a bit of a bleh day. Dizzy this morning, but improved after lunch. I grabbed an early snack too so my eating window will be more than 8 hours today.
Coincidentally, maybe?, I have dropped 0.4kg since yesterday. Which is great but I don’t like the dizziness. I’ve kept my fluid intake up so I don’t think I’m dehydrated. Anyway, will see what tomorrow brings.

I once read something by Tim Spectre. It kind of left me irritated at the time, with references to allowing his favourite’s – manchego and Rioja -purely it seemed because they were his favourites.
Not having a problem with manchego or Rioja, but struggling to overcome the pull of a packet of hula-hoops winking at me I felt a bit out-classed and decided to be annoyed by him instead! I guess I entirely missed the point he was making but still 🙂

Margaret – I’m shamelessly nicking your scotch egg idea. That’ll make a nice change next week sometime. Thank you!

Hello,

Where has all the time gone?

I hadn’t realised it was so long since I last posted. I have had positives but just not time to write them here. I think I’m just panicking a bit about the forthcoming festivities. Suddenly our entertaining calendar has burgeoned. Starting on the 15th we have lunch for 6, then dinner for 10 on the 22nd, lunch for 5 on the 25th and lunch for 6 on the 26th. Phew I’m exhausted just thinking about it., especially when I have to take into account those that don’t eat this or that!

On the positive side….

🥕🍋🧅 I have three online orders organised. Menus written, all meat ordered and fish in the freezer. Just need to rewrite my menus to make sure I’ve not missed anything from my shopping lists.

🧘🏻🧘🏻🧘🏻 Just organising some relaxation for the new year. I do have regular pedicures but I’m adding massage in the New Year and I have renewed my Headspace subscription. All ready to go ‘healthily’ into 2025.

🛫🛳️🏖️ While talking about 2025 I’ve just about finished organising three trips away. We are getting to the point now when travelling will become too difficult physically so trying to fit in all we can ‘just in case’!

Hope you have some positives. Please help to keep this thread alive if you have.

Thanks for your lovely kind words DCT. You are quite right I started this WOE at 175 lbs back in 2017. Today I am 155 lb. I am proud that I’ve battled to keep my weight down for the last 7 years. When I am feeling better I have no doubt that I will get back to where I want to be in the 140’s. I am slowly recovering from the eye surgery. My eyesight in the left eye will take a bit of time to return but hopefully I will have some improvement in my eyesight. I had a pars plana vitrectomy and epiretinal membrane peel. Not for the squeamish! It was an incredible operation and I saw it all from the inside of my eye. Respect to my surgeon. I am usually a very positive person but just recently I’ve felt quite overwhelmed with what life has thrown at me over the years. A friend said my capacity cup has overflowed and it has. I’ve had had a lot of health issues this year but I have so much to be thankful for and I will dust myself down and face the future with renewed positivity. This forum and the friends I’ve made here are an important part of my life. We have all had a difficult year- it’s life!
Let’s keep on keeping on and doing our best. Tomorrow is another day. Onwards and downwards. Here’s to happier times ahead. Let’s make the best of every single day. Yowser will have some inspiring quotes for us all I am sure. They are always such wise words. I am not giving up. I am taking care of myself and accepting that things don’t always go to plan.
Have a good week everyone.

Just quickly, the new Tim Spectre book The Food For Life Cookbook was discussed on Jeremy Whine (joke) this morning and I looked it up on Amazon and it has been reduced from £28 to 14.

Good morning S-G & I also noticed the gaming ap message that looked weird & out of place on here. Congratulations you are doing brilliantly with your weight loss 👏👏
I fasted on Tuesday which I haven’t done for awhile & it was fine. We were out to our first Christmas social meal & I ate prawn cocktail then a salty fish pie which had too many potatoes bulking it up & a salad followed by a very small portion of Christmas Pudding with some very thin custard. However I also had a large mulled wine. Not ideal but not too appalling for me plus a vodka & orange.
I’ve just seen my GP with some minor progress in that he is writing a letter to MSK attaching my surgeons letter asking them to expedite my own self referral🤔. It is now only possible to get referrals to orthopaedic surgery through MSK services. I am therefore still in limbo since we can’t really afford to pay £18000 for private surgery.
Lunch is going to be scotch egg & lots of salad & supper a beef stew with lots of vegetables.
Keep on going everyone the BSD is the most healthy way to eat! 🍀🍀
Margaret xx

Hi all, was going to report the person who has put a gaming app on our thread but it doesn’t seem to be here now. Maybe admin got to it first.

Well, my good news continues and I am back down to just under 71kgs JUST 70.9. So the diet continues for as long as I have and not going to eat at a restaurant on Monday after my brain MRI. Will have time to go home, have lunch then go straight back into Bergerac for my other medical appt. Tuesday I have the doctor and he will be pleased with all my blood results so I hope my weight will also be well down. Think I was 72.4kgs at my last visit.

Our local supermarket have a Christmas special on. Saturday if you spend €80 you get four vouchers to spend in store for€20 each. So you spend 80 and get 80 as a gift. They have to then be spent over the following 4 weeks or you lose them. We are away for one of the weeks but will gain €60s worth of vouchers. Will just have to get up early as it will be packed.

CATHY good to hear from you but so sorry you are going through so much at the moment. What a shock about your unexpected op! But I guess at least it’s done now and you are already starting to progress through the recovery period – even though as you say it has scuppered various plans. I really hope that your Christie’s appointment results in a positive way forward to treat these tumours, and also that the toe operations can dovetail in with everything else that is going on and get things sorted whilst causing the minimum disruption.

You have every right to feel sorry for yourself but – as we all know on here – you are an incredibly positive and resilient person and always make the best of every situation. Even though you’ve had so many tough situations to deal with. I’m sure I speak for everyone on here in admiring your determination and staying power, and also the way that you are so encouraging towards others in the midst of your own issues.

I for one am really glad you’re here and enjoy our interactions on these threads. And just want to remind you how far you have come. If I remember rightly, even though you are currently heavier than you want to be, you are still around 20lb lighter than when you started this WoE which is a real achievement. And you are now aware of the best things to eat and what works for you. So I know that you will lose more weight again when your body is ready to do so.

But perhaps now is a more reflective time to be gentle on yourself, and be content with baby steps rather than dramatic leaps. You referred to self-acceptance and I think that’s really important, not in a frustrated sense that your weight loss is slower than desired, but in all these other positive ways that I’ve just mentioned. You are who you are and that deserves not just acceptance but also celebration, even though times are tough.

Sorry I’m beginning to ramble! But just to reinforce what I said in a previous post that I think we all need to give ourselves a big cheer for still caring enough about our health and weight to do our best to stick with this WoE through thick and thin (literally!). Well done everyone, and, as someone once said on here, Keep On Keeping On!

Hi everyone, hung on to make a comment as I had bloods taken this morning and I was waiting for the results. Then we had to go out so I have only just seen them. Yeah!!!! HbA1c 6.0 down from 6.3. Total cholesterol 2.1 and triglycerides down to 0.90. So I guess not drinking for a month does do some good even if my weight didn’t benefit – or maybe it did with that drop a few days ago.

Casey, you will be as excited as I am that tonight we went to the local Mayors to listen to a talk about what to do with our new bins. I think even the French left scratching their heads. Didn’t help improve my French as we couldn’t hear half of what was said. Oh well, at least we know the first date so everything will follow from there.

Have a good evening.

Hello everyone

We have had a really difficult few months on this thread. I am sorry to read everyone’s sad news lately and I hope that 2025 is going to be kinder to us all. When we set off on the 100 day challenge we were all so positive and optimistic but life seems to have thrown us off. Like DCT said, we are all still here and doing our best. Mariet- I hope you’ll enjoy your retirement. Mine coincided with lockdown in March 2020 and then I got a little job at the vaccination centre which I loved. I loved what Yowser said about retirement and I echo how lovely it is to be free to please myself. I’ve not made any weight loss progress as I have been struggling with medical news. I have been feeling very sorry for myself. My MRI scans have shown progression of the tumour sizes and also the report says they are more prominent. Got an appt at Christie to discuss the report in January. I am getting more symptoms so I knew there would be a change. What I thought was an out patient appointment on Monday at the Eye Clinic turned out to be a theatre slot for my vitrectomy and epiretinal membrane peel operation! Can you imagine our shock! Anyway, after a consultation with the specialist I had it done. I now have an air bubble in my left eye so can’t see out of it at present. This should dissipate as the eye heals. Went back for a pressure check yesterday and am back for review on Monday. All my plans pre Christmas have had to be cancelled. Can’t drive for at least a fortnight and so my hair appointment has been cancelled as have various lunch dates with friends. It is the perfect plot twist! I weighed myself this morning and I weighed 156 lb. I am exactly the same as I have been since September after my holiday. I have been feeling quite down this last week. Things seem to be two steps forward and three back. I hoped I would be near to achieving my goal and could stop battling for weight loss and enjoy maintaining. Maybe I need to have a think about things whilst I am out of action and learn to accept that this is me. I’ve got an appt with orthopaedics in two weeks to plan for my big toe fusion operations. I am going to be out of action quite a lot in 2025. I think each toe takes about four months recovery time!
I will continue to try my best but it’s looks like I will be battling along with you all for the foreseeable future.

Thank you for the welcome. Yes I’m eating over an 8hr window and likewise find it hard to get to 800. I need to stock up on the chocolate pennies yum

Russian doll wheelie bins Sunshine-girl! I could get excited over that!

Have faced the scales – Down 1kg in just over 2 weeks. Will not be disheartened… I repeat…

Jeans are baggier so will hang on to that!

Ooooh big excitement. Just looked out of the window and someone has left a big bin with a yellow lid at the gate. We are getting a new black bin as well. As new system and no-one is happy about it – but thats another story.

Just gone to drag it into the garden and a smaller black bin is inside it. The things that give us joy in the countryside 🙂

Hi everyone, I would like to welcome Sleeky, LC75, and Casey who I have seen on another thread. Everyone can join us here we are a good mix of oldies and newbies and some returners so don’t worry, you will get all the help you need here. Let us know if you have any special requirements, medical conditions, and hi to the perimenopausal.

My weight has dropped back down – carb fluid retention – but not quite back down to the 70.8, hopefully I will be back there in a couple of days. I will definitely be fasting (TRE) tonight as nurse is coming first thing in the morning to do my 3 month bloods.

Got the chiropodist this afternoon and it is an appointment I hate – she is lovely but we have 25 to 30 mins of silence as she speaks no English. I do try to have a conversation with her but after about 8 years I have run out of things to talk about. She asks about my blood results, my holidays, my family etc but it is the same thing every month. So, looking forward to an awkward silence, I will let her take the lead.

Hopefully, I will be back tomorrow with some great results.

Hello,

I do mostly 2 meals and stick to an 8 hour eating window each day starting just before midday. The only exception to the two meals is to have an occasional snack, but still within the 8 hours. I’m sometimes struggling to get up to the 800 cals, so if I’m a way off after dinner I sometimes weigh a slice of cheese to nibble on. Keeps me within my cals without pushing up my carbs, and stops me from thinking about toast and crisps!

Amazing progress LC! And Sleekly I’m sure you’ll soon be where you want to be 🙂

Hi everyone

SUE I’m so glad your MiL’s funeral went as well as it could, and DAWN I hope it was the same for your FiL too. MIXNMATCH I’m sorry to hear about your Mum and hope that she can soon get the treatment she needs.

It really seems as if this year has been a tough one for all of us on this thread. We’ve had health issues, lost family members, pets, had other family stresses including home moves/changes, and also work pressures. And of course we lost our dear Michael too.

So I say a big WELL DONE to each and every one of us for sticking with it and doing our best – amongst everything else – to make the effort to look after our health, weight and fitness. Even if you (like me) have not achieved quite all you’d hoped, the fact you’re reading this shows that you’re still in the zone and will be able to move forward as circumstances allow.

MARIET, it’s so exciting about your retirement! I can understand your reservations and concerns but hope you will take heart from YOWZER’s inspiring words. Thanks YOWZER for sharing how you have found yours : you sound settled and happy in this phase of your life. I’ve been in a kind of phased retirement for the last 5 years, though have actually ended up working far more than intended since originally taking early retirement from a full time teaching job in 2019. All a very long story but basically I have the opportunity to retire fully next April as I will (finally!) get my state pension then. I may still do a bit of freelance work as a top up, but I will be mainly “done” from that point. The only thing is that I need to give formal notice in the next 10 days to be able to go in April and, me being me, I’m all of a dither. In my heart I want to go and YOWZER you painted a picture very much of the way I want my life to be. It’s just I’ve always been very driven by work – financial security, career success, identity etc etc – and part of me wants to cling onto that by my fingernails until I really can’t. Watch this space!!

Hope you all have a good week in amongst life’s twists and turns, and that each one of us experiences some positive and happy moments X

Hi Everyone
New to this forum but looking to join people who believe that this works. I’ve just weighed in and I have lost 14.8lbs in 4 weeks and feeling great and still motivated. Energy levels have increased and after first week no headaches. I am hoping to do it for the full 12 weeks as I’ve put on a bit of weight during perimenopause. Does everyone just have 2 meals in 800 cals?

MIXMATCH I’m so impressed by you managing long fasts! Well done.
Life sure gets in the way though sometimes doesnt it. Its frustrating that youre back to pre-long fast weight,but at least your mum is now sorted. Do you know when she’ll go in for her op?
Was so sorry to hear about your Mum,that must have been such a shock for you and your sister
Must have been comforting for her though,to arrive at the hospital and find you both there waiting for her.
I’m not surprised with all that was going on and being in hospital environment as well there werent many lowcarb choices.
Look after yourself,its a busy and stressful time for you at the moment,so be sure to take care of yourself and get some rest whenever you can. I hope you found a GP for Mum XX

Hi everyone! I was here a few years ago and had great luck but over the pandemic my routine slowly fell apart—I’m sure a not unfamiliar story to many of us! I also started getting perimenopause symptoms in the last year that have thrown me for a loop and truly messed up my body’s metabolism in a new and awful way. So I’m back and excited to make progress again with this lovely group of people.

Margaret sorry to hear about your friend. Yes it’s so important to be mindful as we age. I’m sure that lots of the problems happen because we aren’t concentrating on doing one thing at a time. We are all guilty.

Thanks for setting this thread up s-g and hello everyone. My week has been topsy turvy. After putting on weight every day this week this morning I dropped it all apart from 0.4lb! I have no idea what’s going on but have to look on the bright side. Although I didn’t meet my goal of 1lb a week for November I did lose 2lbs! Not much but better than a gain. Note to self: must do better this month!

Just had an appointment with my dermatology consultant. I have a rare auto immune disease and he said I shouldn’t eat foods with sulphites, red wine for example! Or foods that ‘open up my blood vessels’ so I shouldn’t have cheese, chocolate, spicy food or alcohol, amongst other things! I will listen to him BUT can’t imagine life without spice, dark chocolate and wine! Think I may just have to take a little more care with my diet but at my age life’s pleasures are few enough! Anyway, apart from that I’m ’under control’.

Hope December is a decisive month for all of us. I just want to end the year at a lower weight than I started and so far I’m on track.

Sorry to hear your news Margaret. Sounds like you have a difficult week coming up with the funeral.

How fantastic to be so near your target Pootle. Congratulations! Such an achievement.

I’m starting my third week now. Bit of a blip at the weekend – out shopping with my daughter on Saturday and I tore straight through my 50g carbs in one meal. Overall calories for the day came in at 1100, which I wasn’t so worried about as I’m actually finding it difficult to keep the calories up to 800 most days. Never mind, I’m not going to stress about it, days like that are important to me and don’t happen all that often, so I’m going to have to work round them.

Back on it since. Just had a nice tuna and cucumber salad for lunch, and chuffed with myself to have had a real mix of leaves to pad it out – lambs lettuce, red chard, pea shoots and spinach – rather than reaching for the toast as I would normally have done. I’ve always had a restricted diet which has been part of my problem with food (I’m a bit of a child when it comes to most stuff) and white carbs have always been the easy option for me. Trying to gently widen what I can eat is part of my hope for making this change too. Still hoping the scales get the message too though!

Well my weight is up by another half a kilo, so one in total. Hoping it is just a carb reaction and it will just drop off.

Pootle, I went for a field of vision test this morning and when she handed me my results the first think that caught my eye at the top of the page was AGE 71. Never, when did that happen.

Looks like I still have glaucoma i.e. it wasn’t a mistake. Next Monday I am having a brain MRI to make sure it isn’t a brain problem, especially after my surgery 2 years ago which affected blood flow to the brain. Then in the afternoon I am having a consultation with my lung doctor. Then the next day I am at the opthamologists for her to look at all my results and give a real diagnosis. There is a gap of about 2 hours between tests so we will be having lunch in Bergerac town centre. So I am still sticking to the diet and doing the best I can.

Have a good week.

Two steps forward, one step back for me I’m afraid. Just as my last long fast finished I got word that mum had been hospitalised. Turned out to be a heart attack / ongoing valve problem and she will need an operation. The complication was she was in a motel about 4 hours away when taken ill and taken to a local hospital. My sister and I drove up, booked into the same motel and were actually waiting for her in the cardiology ward when she got there. My sister then drove mums car the rest of the way down. I stayed until mum was ready for discharge and drove her home. The problem was my second planned fast of the week didn’t happen and, although I stayed pretty focussed, ‘normal’ take away food isn’t terribly low carb. The end result is I am back up to where I was pre-long fast. This week I will get back on track! At least mum now knows the problem and what can be done about it. Todays job is signing her up with a GP around here as she has recently moved.

So sorry to hear about your friend, Margaret.
It really brings home how careful we all need to be. I have been trying to persuade a friend who lives alone to have one of the carried alarms that can be pressed in an emergency. However, like us all, there is a reluctance to admit that age is taking its toll! 🥴

I am determined to have a decisive December! Losing the last 2 pounds to get to my target 10.5 stones. I still feel it is unreal that I have lost so much in 6 months! (If you see me post a celebratory 🍾🎉🥳 don’t let it go to my head!!!)Then keeping my weight there without relapsing into the diabetic range!

I have never seen an episode of Strictly! 🤔🫣
Here’s to December!!

Hello Margaret, sorry to hear about your friend, we should indeed take care of ourselves.

My sil is Danish so we know all about Hygge – except how to say it 🙂

Serves me right but I gained half a kilo after having 3 drinks last night. Cant say I enjoyed them and I feel pretty rough this morning. I never ever suffered from hangovers and would be dancing around the house while everyone else was holding their poor heads. Age has caught up with me, or maybe I have just got out of the habit and rarely drink now. I never understood how someone could have just one glass of wine (my husband does), I would always want another. Now I think one drink is enough just to be sociable. I also said not drinking for a month didn’t help with weight loss. Well maybe not, but drinking certainly adds the weight on.

We were going to go to the village Christmas fete this afternoon but the local hunt have partially blocked the lane while they flush out the wild boar and then they shoot them – or should I say cull them. They are a big nuisance around here and besides ruining the corps they can take lumps out of vehicles if they feel threatened. Hopefully we will get a big bag of meat in a couple of days. Anyway, we have been told to stay in.

Country life.

Hello everyone & hopefully for me a more decisive December! Thank you S-G & I also watched Strictly last night & the standard seems so high & enjoyable to watch. I forgot to post that I weighed yesterday & lost 0.25lbs very little but at least I didn’t gain weight last week. I must admit losing any weight in December with all the eating out occasions we have lined up is going to be very challenging which is starting today with visiting our youngest son in his new flat & going out to lunch in a local Italian restaurant. I will try to stick to salad, protein & vegetables but will have some wine. Walking will be involved because we will catch a bus to the restaurant & weirdly I have been managing 5000 steps each day or rather limping 😂
However we must all keep taking care of our own well being as much as possible & enjoying social times with friends & family. Unfortunately for my husband & I this will include attending the funeral of a friend we were on holiday with on our Seine cruise earlier this year who shockingly was found dead at the bottom of her stairs. She had balance problems & must have fallen down her stairs & lived alone being found by her son when she hadn’t answered her phone. Very sad & unbelievable really that she is no longer with us but a lesson that as we age we must take care🤔🙁.
On a lighter note I am really looking forward to today & will be taking a book for my son called How to Hygge Your Home which is the Scandinavian word for creating & enjoying a well being feeling around us👍
I hope that everyone will have a safe & well being feeling December 🤞🤞🍀🍀
Margaret xx

Hiya 54 and Linda,
Yeah the ankle is a pain. Thank you.
Sounds like great logic and sensible..
Totally agree on the don’t eat the wrong stuff.
Sadly I feel I eat ‘too much, still’, so have been cutting back. Now plan to lose a stone over the next 8wks before my Op. Should help !! 🙂

Hi to you all. Come and join us on this final month of 2024. We are friendly but forthright, caring but cajoling, but always here for you. Lets have a final run up to the days before Christmas and do as much as we can to start the joyous season with a head start on our weight loss.

Everyone is welcome, oldies and newbies so jump into the conversation.

Don’t forget, we all care for each other.

Sunshine-girl, Wendleg and Sunny B.

Bonsoir a tous, sorry for my tardiness at setting up the December thread. Thank you for your suggestions and I will be calling it Decisive December

See you all tomorrow.

BTW, I was busy watching Strictly..

Thank you so much everybody for your very kind words x it’s truly appreciated.

Dawn and Yowzer, sorry to hear of the losses of your father in law and sister x we had my MIL’s funeral on Wednesday, it was a lovely, intimate service. Hope your Father in laws went well Dawn x

Mariet – all the best on your retirement! How exciting 🙂 I’m currently transitioning to retirement, I work 2 days a week and will hopefully be able to retire next year.

Well it’s the 1st December and I realised I still have at least 4 weeks to try and make some sort of difference to my health and wellbeing this year. My goal is to lose 2kg by NYE. It’s achievable I think. I mainly just want to get back into healthy habits, like eating properly and walking regularly, both of which went out the window recently.

So here’s to a successful December for us al 🙂

Linda Brilliant I so agree with you . Well done you

I still do 800, I do the 8pp recipes from all the books and online (and the alternatives by other authors) and just mix and match the ones I like !!

Sound lie you have this under control Linda. Well done

Gosh Aurra, that ankle must be a real pain, sorry to hear its still an issue

The healthy food approach is well worth it. A mix of strict calorie control, healthy food intake and exercise !!
My aunt always used to say that its only me ho puts food in my mouth so where is the issue with cutting down !! I used to quite cynical but apart from the psychology stuff etc, I do believe she was quite right

its only me that puts food in my mouth so I try to ensure its non white and full of fibre and goodness !!

Keep on going and watch out for CHRISTMAS!! (there Ive said it)

54

Hi Pootle hi everyone.
I was once again member of the 1lb club. It’s slow going but I’m happy.
I really wouldn’t worry about xmas Pootle . I went on holiday and apart from that stubborn 1lb it came off soon enough.
I fully intend to enjoy the Xmas week. It’s my husband bd on 22nd too so I will be having a good time. Enjoy the week. Don’t go over the top but enjoy some nice food. We diet or cha nge our eating ways all the time. We have to. A week won’t hurt you. Imagine you used to be like that all the time. Now uts just one week. Enjoy, have fun. Then back to it. Don’t stress. Imagine how much further forward we are from a year ago xx

YOU WILL!

I think that I am most worried about the “s*d it, I have eaten that, so I might as well eat this” attitude. I have done that before… in 2020… and it eventually lead to 5 stone increase in weight and diabetes!!
But that time I wasn’t using the BSD didn’t have the support of these forums! So I think I will get through!
I have to get through!
Thanks

WOW! Two weeks isn’t just ‘one meal’!

Good luck!

I think you might need it!

Don’t worry about ‘hunger’, eat as well as you can but don’t fret because you cant be ‘perfect’ with your BSD diet. Just don’t go over the top. Ok one or two ‘violations’ aren’t the end of the world. It’s only when you say “s.d” it I’ve given in to one thing so I might as well crash the car and go the whole way’!

You will be fine just don’t stress about the odd ‘digression’ just don’t go into full overdrive!

Pootle …. yes I know December starts tomorrow but didn’t even occur to me that we need an end of year thread!

Decisive is great. We definitely don’t want ‘destructive’!!! Can’t think of a better title than yours!

Gosh…the end of another month!!!
What will December’s thread be called? A suggestion….

“Decisive December; one week at a time” ?

Unfortunately Verano, I have to be there for 2 weeks!
And yes, I love sprouts and nearly all vegetables. I just know that I will feel hungry without extras and 🤞 after all I have achieved since June.
Going to take lots of large bottles of sparkling water with me.

S-g well done! Pleased to hear both your insulin and weight are going down. Hope you love the dress when it arrives.

Julia hope you had a good Thanksgiving.

Welcome Casey you’ve found a good place!

Margaret you are keeping on the straight and narrow and ‘living’ at the same time. All sounds good to me!

So to me …. not my finest hour. Have no idea why. Just seem to be creeping up by a few ounces each day. So far this week I’m up a pound!

At least I’m finally getting to understand how s-g gets to 30 a week in a few days. Tonight I have a tray bake in the oven with tomatoes, onions, red pepper, green pepper, garlic, courgette, cauliflower, garlic, oregano, rosemary and thyme! I count that as 9! I’ve been counting my 30+ for 4 weeks now and I’m just about making the 30. I feel that my diet is varied enough so I’m stopping counting now. Think it’s time to concentrate on other things.

I think this week I need to pay more attention to portion size. Probably time to go back to weighting rather than guesstimating and logging then I won’t get a nasty surprise at the end of the week.

Have a good weekend.

Pootle … it’s one day! Just eat what you’re happy with! How about some green vegetables … dare I say sprouts!

Hi Lucy,

How are things? I know the run up to Christmas can be particularly difficult! I finally dropped off my plateau….with a 1lb loss. 😀My Christmas just became more difficult…in that I am not going to be in control of the food/cooking/kitchen. Long story, but I now have to go to my S-I-L who is on her own…the first Christmas I have not been at home and in charge of cooking for over 25 years!!! It would be this year, when I was planning a ‘different’, low carb celebration! BUT onwards and upwards…She has asked what I eat…when I said butternut squash instead of potato, swede instead of parsnip etc, she said she didn’t think she would be able to get those!!! So I am taking with me….just hope she lets me into the kitchen to cook them!

Keeping on!

Hi all, I have lost more weight. Wondering if it is partly due to reducing insulin as I have not been doing much exercise.

I said I would go alcohol free for November but as tomorrow is 1st thought I might have a vod and tonic tonight. Then I decided not to and hubby was annoyed because he wanted to open a bottle of red wine. I can’t win, either I drink and he rolls his eyes or I don’t and he says that deprives him. Anyway, I might just have one but not on the 1st as I have an early medical appointment on Monday. 9.30 at an opthamologist who specialises in test the others don’t do – so I am having my global field of vision tested.

I have ordered my dress due to the Black Friday price reduction. I have ordered 2 – a size 16 and a size 18. I shouldn’t worry about label sizing, as long as it fits well. I also might not like it when I see it on so will try both and then decide. Just means a lot of money has come out of my credit card – hey ho – its Christmas.

We are out tomorrow at the local village fete – still trying to keep up a reasonable social life. Have a good weekend.

Oh yes I did know about kefir but it had fallen off my radar! Will go and get some later. Thank you for that and the other info.

Brilliant to hear your good news Sunshine-girl!

Good news again, dress has been reduced from £75 to £60 – also a jacket from £45 to £41.

Hi everyone, good news today – my weight has dropped under 71kg to 70.85kgs. I am now exactly 2 stone lighter than when I first started 8 years ago (yes a long time but being on insulin makes it harder). Also, as I had gained weight over the past 8 years I keep having to set new goals. I have lost 4.5kgs since January 1st. On my 6 month challenge I have now lost (revert to pounds) 9lbs which is pretty much on target. And I am joining Verano on 1lb a week to Christmas and at the end of week 3 I have lost 3.5lbs. So yeah – all is going to plan. Now just need to get into that size 16 dress. Talking of which, going to look on the site I have saved it on to see if there is a discount for Black Friday.

Casey, just because something has carbs doesn’t mean it is bad for you. Apples are a good source of fible as are the sweet potatoes Verano talks about. Just to be aware and maybe only have now and then.

Going to check the Debs site.

Welcome CaseyJ12. It sounds as though you are doing all the right things. Do you know about Kefir which keeps your gut bacteria happy? Eating some pulses although they obviously include carbs can help a more fibrous diet plus kale & lots of other veg but avoiding potatoes but I do occasionally eat sweet potatoes which make a good substitute & wholewheat cous cous. However I am not diabetic just arthritic 🙂
Good luck for next week 🍀🍀
Margaret

Thanks Sunshine-girl.

I’m using the FatSecret app to log things, and yes I had an apple last week and was shocked! Today a portion of my carbs has been from a small slice of toast – one of those small white loaves that is 10.8 carbs for a slice. I appreciate as carbs go it’s not a good one.

Congratulations on your fabulous progress. So encouraging to hear! I will carry on!

Hi all, happy Thanksgiving to our American friends and family.

Welcome to CaseyJ12, You are not trying to lose much weight and are not seriously overweight so your losses will be lower and slower. I was just about 13kgs overweight and lost only 1lb in week one and 2lbs in the second by the end of my 8 week BSD I had lost a total of 13lbs. You say it is more about getting away from a carb heavy diet rather than the number so keep doing what have been. Where are you getting your carb measurements from and what type of carbs are you eating. There can be some surprises like apples coming in at 28g of carbs without realising. If there are adjustment to make you will work it out along the way. Keep asking questions if you have any worries.

Going to watch the final of Bake Off before someone on TV spoils it for me.

Hello, just found this forum and jumping in to say Hi!
This is my second week of fast 800. Calories are averaging 750, protein around 58g, and carbs around 48g. I’m right at the top of the healthy weight range for my height and hoping to lose around 9kg to bring it nearer ideal. This isn’t just about the numbers for me – I had a really carb heavy diet and working at home I don’t do much active stuff at all. Honestly my body has just turned to blubber really and whilst I thankfully don’t have health issues right now I know I need to get on top of things.
I have lost less than 1kg so far but I’m trying not to panic about that and just keep going.
I was struggling a bit with constipation but I’ve upped my water intake and it’s not so bad.
I’ve started doing a brisk half hour walk at lunchtime. Not sure what else I should do or whether just keeping going is the best.
Nice to see the forum so active and knowledgeable. If anyone has any tips or advice that would be great!

Have a wonderful time with your family Californiagirl 🥂🍷🍰🌮🍹👍Happy Thanksgiving Day
Margaret xx