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Black-eyed peas have been a great addition to my diet. I’m into fitness, and after finding out I was in the prediabetes range, I started eating them more often. They keep me feeling full and my energy seems much more stable.

The only problem is I get bored eating the same foods after a couple of days and need some variety. Am I the only one, or does anyone else struggle with that? Have black-eyed peas worked well for anyone else?

awesome thank you

Hi. Well my new programme seems to be good so far. I think you can access this without a referral but I also think they then push ‘medication’. The provider that I chose is Second Sense.

Anyway the program started with 13 documents to read prior to starting the program. I am now day 1 week 1 and there was a new article to read today. The program is basically low carb but no weighing or counting although you do have the choice of logging all you eat and drink. I have to say that so far I’m impressed. Yes I know an awful lot about low carb eating but I do appreciate the ‘daily record’! I’ll post again as time goes on.

Anyway, starting a new plan has given me some impetus. Hope everyone is doing well.

Hi there, bit annoyed with my weigh in this morning. I have lost a total of 0.01kgs. Which means from yesterday an increase of half a kilo. No reason, no carbs, no alcohol – sometimes wonder why I bother. Ok stop crying, it is a loss.

Going out tonight and going to drink vodka a diet coke, normally tonic but they dont do diet in this restaurant so I will switch to coke. The food wont be a problem as they dont do carbs much here and I will just have a starter and main.

The gardener came this morning at 7 am and went home at 10 due to the heat so I managed a 30 min swim. He will do the same tomorrow to finish the job so I might get in the pool again.

New here. Sad to hear about Dr. Mosley. Hoping to learn from everyone here because I’m still finding my feet with diabetes, especially after long days at work. Thanks for having me.

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Hello everyone,
Lovely to read everyone’s updates. I realised this morning that I hadn’t seen any posts for a while (I subscribe to the thread and receive emails) – for some reason I had been unsubscribed so wasn’t receiving any email updates. So it’s been a nice way to start Sunday morning catching up with everyone’s news 🙂
Mixnmatch – well done on all of your achievements and best wishes for your birthday.
ArcticFox- glad things are looking up for you!
Mariet – the cruise sounds wonderful – I so wanted to travel this year but my husband is reluctant, he wants to focus on relocating first. This is proving more difficult than we thought with the state of the housing market here in Sydney at the moment!
Cathy – like DCT I’m so impressed by your progress this year! I just need some of your determination!
I’m going ok-ish, have had a few things going on in my personal and family life that have side-tracked me a bit recently. I haven’t gained weight, but haven’t lost any either, so still at just over 7kg lost so far this year.
I now need to knuckle down and concentrate on the next 7kg. I have a fridge, freezer and cupboards full of healthy foods, time on my hands to be able to exercise, I really have no excuse!
A few weeks ago I had an offer pop up on Facebook for free Fast800 shakes – you just had to pay the postage. So for $12.50 I received 2 packets of strawberry shake powder. I’m thinking of having these for lunch on the days I’m not having soup. I’m still finding that having a more substantial breakfast a bit later in the morning, then a light lunch/snack in the afternoon and an early-ish evening meal seems to work best for me.
I’ve ordered a book from the library called “Filling Meals” – I kept seeing reels on FB by the author (Lindsay something) and so I joined the FB group – a lot of the people in the group are losing weight by using these recipes so I thought it may be worth a go. Originally I had bought the book on Amazon but it got lost in transit so I just cancelled the order and received a refund and thought I’d just borrow it from the library instead – especially considering I already have ALL of the Fast800 and BSD cookbooks!
I have had a very active week, walking up to 20k steps some days, so I need to keep that up. I have been experiencing hip pain and my rheumatologist is referring me to physio for that. If it gets worse I can get cortisone injections – I did this about 10 years ago and they worked well. But I want to try exercise first as I know in the past Pilates has helped.
Hope everyone is enjoying the weekend 🙂

Had a nice wander around the market this morning and bought some bacon and sausages – very expensive at €34.50 for 2 packs of each. Something we would have paid around £10 for in the UK but these are artisan, made on a local farm run by South African couple. We dont go often in summer as it is full of tourists so that is probably our last time for a while.
Stopped off for a coffee in the town square watching the tourists oh and ah over the French produce. Something we loved to do but are a bit jaded after 21 years. This is sounding more like a moan than positives but it is still nice to do.

Hi all, good to hear the results for both of you. Newbie, you are doing great and I hope you have got over your wobble. Lowest adult weight is something to be proud of.

Margaret, it is good to have something to look forward to even if it is next year. That is why we have booked Vienna. It is a bit of a mad trip, driving for 2 days for a concert but hubby was disappointed to miss Andre Reiu both in Amsterdam and then in Birmingham. So thought a special concert would be nice. Obviously we will be doing some sightseeing as well, the Belvedere is my go to with the Klimt collection. Think the Schoenburg Palace is a bit out of the way and a full day which we will only have on the day of the concert and it will depend on whether we have to rush back. The one full day is going to be spent going down the Danube to Bratislava or maybe not, we have yet to decide. Sounds nice though.

Weight is down again and I am trying really hard not to treat myself to a cold glass of white wine so I am with you Margaret – it is my only treat as food doesn’t really tempt me. For tonight I have made a pastry-less quiche and will have with a green salad.

Stay as cool as you can.

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Welcome back Newbie & wow completing a triathlon that is amazing very well done ⭐️👏👏
S-G I’m so pleased you are able to still get to Vienna to go to your concert & your weight loss.
I have just weighed & since Monday I have lost 2.8lbs which I know is mostly carb fluid retention but still pleasing. I’m finding it difficult not to have a glass of wine with my dinner & still feel in a treat myself cruise mode 😂 but we have played short mat bowls & went out to visit Standen a National Trust property near us which was lovely. We have decided to go on more days out on a weekday taking advantage of avoiding the more crowded weekends. Nymans near us will be holding music evening events so we will also try one of those 😀
I am trying to get back on track because I can feel that my arthritis has spread to my toes & any extra weight is not helpful! We have booked another Viking cruise next year to Portugal on the Douro with a couple of days in Lisbon which I have never visited & I have signed on to learn Portuguese with DuoLingo just to keep my little grey cells ticking along.
Keep on going everyone & take care in the sunshine & another heatwave is coming to my locality in Sussex 🌝
Margaret xx

Good morning all.
So I stepped on the scales yesterday as I have been throughout, and I’m the lightest I’ve been as an adult. I’m still doing my best diet wise, drinking plenty and trying to avoid or minimise the naughties. My fasting reading has also come down and am now in single figures so that it good. Feeling a bit more positive and just hope I can keep it up.
I also have chia seeds everyday, mostly in my overnight granola and that helps a lot.
SG – glad you have rebooked your trip and your Gardener is rescheduled, we are due another heatwave but hopefully not to your temperatures.
Verano – how is the nhs plan going?
Have a lovely weekend xx

Weight down again – I think my chai pudding hack might be working as I dont feel hungry or need a late night snack. Just makes me poop a bit 🙂

Concert in Vienna is re-booked and now booked a hotel. We are also doing a day trip by boat on the Danube to Bratislava. The route and hotels can be all worked out another day, as long as we have the important things booked.

Gardener is still ill but will be here at 7am Monday – this is because it is going to be 39 degrees and he wants to get a good start (which is why he was coming this week, much cooler).

How are you doing Newbie – still on track I am sure. Have a good weekend everyone.

Re-booked concert for the week after when there are no conferences in Vienna.
Booked hotel – very expensive but it is only once in a lifetime. Also we will save on a cruise as we have a day trip down the Danube to Bratislava – so an inbuilt mini-cruise 🙂
Weather nice and cool (around 28 degrees) so can breath.
Trip to local market tomorrow to buy some English style bacon and sausages.

Hi Arctic, like your news about meeting someone. I met my husband on a blind date – introduced by friends. He live around 300 miles away in Edinburgh Scotland and I was in Leeds England. Went back and forth for about 8 months before I moved to be with him. Hope it goes as you would wish.

Hello everyone
Nice to read the latest posts. ArcticFox – lovely news that you’ve met someone nice and it’s going well. Glad things are going well with your new counsellor too.
Mariet- enjoy your cruise. It sounds really lovely. You can get back to basics when you get back home.
DCT – nice to read that you’re feeling good mentally and physically from doing your exercise. I have no doubt that your scales will move in the right direction and I can tell how motivated and positive you are. Over the next few months you will be heading towards your goal. I am intending to try and do more exercise over the summer months. I’m enjoying my walking pad and I’ve got some hand weights so I just need to get on with it. In answer to your question about why things worked out for me this time round I honestly think it was the consistently low calories (800) and keto, I found eating to the online meal plan rigidly, only two meals a day, keto 800 was the perfect formula for me. I was super strict every day for the full 12 weeks. There were no days when I went off plan. I had to give myself 12 whole weeks of dedication and I know that reading the book about preventing diabetes by Professor Taylor gave me the motivation to stick to it. I know that maintenance will be challenging and I can already feel that things are slipping in my regime so I have to get on and give myself a talking to. I was delighted to get my HbA1c back to 35 and I need to keep focused on the non scale victories more than the numbers in the scales. Sometimes the time is just right. I’ve had a lot of ups and a lot of downs over the last few years and this year has felt like the right time for me. I have to admit to feeling weary with the whole dieting process many times but I am fortunate to have a very strong will and it has paid off this year. I am so grateful to my friends on the forum who have supported me over the years when things haven’t been good and I want to be here for everyone to help you on your journey over the next few months. I want this year to be the year when we all achieve our goal. We have six more months to achieve. I know we can do it. Wouldn’t it be fantastic to end the year knowing we did it!

Not too positive but here goes –

cancelled concert but no refund, they will switch to another date which is okay – just waiting for them to come back with a link to do the change.
found a cattery so dont have to bother with a housesitter. Waiting for a call back.
Now to find a hotel in Vienna itself – then we need 2 stops on trip out and 2 more coming back. Will let google sort out the travel stops.

Weight is back down to 74.8 so still that 2kg loss. Would really like more before Monday as we have our Quiz night and dinner.

Still waiting for gardener but at least he did let me know his is ill.

It is still quite warm here at 28/29 but that feels cool for us after being in the low 40’s. Must not speak too soon as it is coming back again next week – 40 degrees.

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Hi everyone, good to hear from many of you recently. I have nothing much to report, still maintaining and so far so good. I am up in Broome in Western Australia having a lovely few days, with a lot more alcohol than usual. I am boarding a small cruise ship on Saturday for an expedition cruise from Broome to Darwin for 10 days. Lots of hiking and trips on the zodiac as well as luxurious food and drink, just crossing my fingers that I am able to keep myself within holiday limits.
It’s wonderful to be delightfully warm in Broome after cold winter in Sydney.
Hope everyone contributes well and report back a well or so after I get home with the good- or bad- news.

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Hi everyone, just catching up up on posts.

ARCTICFOX that’s lovely news about you meeting someone and I hope things continue to go well. Likewise with your counselling. I’m so pleased that things are going well for you, and hope that you get your boring assignment done too! You sound very busy and motivated which is great to hear. I also think your tray bakes are a great idea for nutritious meals, even when the weather is hot, as I agree salads can sometimes not quite hit the spot.

MIXnMATCH well done on your fundraisers, and for your ongoing weight loss. I’m not sure when your birthday is but hope that you had/have a good day. I know it will be a poignant one this time, and am sending you every good wish for a happier year ahead x

VERANO sorry to hear that your HbA1c was higher than you would want, and hope that you are able to bring it back out of the pre diabetic range. Good luck – and let us know how we can support you in doing that?

CATHY I’m glad you had a lovely weekend and that you are maintaining your fantastic weight loss. Well done! I’ve been meaning to ask you if you have any insight as to why it has worked so well for you this time round? We’ve been friends for years on here, and I have always been full of admiration for how determined you’ve been, and how many different ways you’ve applied the WoE to get your weight down, and yet at various times it didn’t seem to be working. But this time round you’ve had such impressive weight loss and so far are maintaining really well. So any snippets of advice or insight would be very welcome 😊 And I hope you get your leg sorted soon too x

I seem a bit stuck at around 150/151lb at the moment but that’s fine for now. I’m doing a lot of exercise and beginning to feel much better both physically and mentally than I realise I have for a long while. So I’ll keep going at my own pace and hope to see more gradual loss over the next few weeks and months 🤞

Hello to everyone else reading this too. I hope all is well, and hope to hear from you soon X

Hello everyone,
I know it has been a while since I posted. Busy season here on the farm and there is a lot of other stuff going on this year as well. I have been doing weekly counselling at the moment as my funding source came through. Really enjoying working with my new counsellor and feel like I’m making a lot of progress. I fell into some bad habits with a spell of hot weather mid-June that made it hard to cook. I’m finding that as long as I can turn on the oven and have a tray bake cooking while I’m doing the evening chores I can stay on track, but struggling with no cook meals as I’m just not feeling like salads for some reason. It always seems to be harder for me to lose weight in the summer.
But in other news, I met someone and although early days, things are going well. We live 6 hours apart so it is a bit difficult to meet in person regularly, especially during farming season, but we talk on the phone and text regularly. He eats pretty healthily, basically a moderate carb Mediterranean diet with lots of fish, so we share meals back and forth a bit as well and that holds me more accountable. He was also checking in during the hot spell to make sure I was staying hydrated! So that has been really nice.
Anyway, I am currently procrastinating on getting my final assignment done for the nutrition course. It is a long and boring one where we have to take photos of food labels and the nutrition facts tables and answer questions about whether they are high fat/low fat, what the health benefits are, etc. I am not enjoying it at all, but need to get it done before Friday, so I’d better go!
Hope everyone is doing well. I haven’t had time to read all the posts!

Well done Simon!

S-g as you say there’s always another day….. and another gardener!
We are expecting a new one next Wednesday so my fingers will be crossed until then!

Newbie glad to see you have ‘plan’. As s-g says we just have to keep on keeping on………..

Hi all, no still havent received my refund. They say just send an email so I am waiting.

You know Newbie it would be so easy to be annoyed with you. You have lost a lot of weight, you have just done a triathalon and you worked hard to get your HbA1c down. Yet you are criticising yourself for a few extra pounds and one unknown HbA1c. You are a powerhouse compared to me. I am always up and down both with weight and BG. I dont think I can teach you anything. You are amazing. Self criticism and blame are not allowed on this site. Seems like you are back on track so you do have the willpower and motivation to get back into it. You have not lost your way and you dont need nutritionists to tell you what you already know.

I would stick with the December HbA1c, give yourself time to be fully in the game. Unlike me who had to have a test just 3 weeks after a 3 week holiday when I know my weight was up and that my HbA1c would be high. I had to put up with it on my record as being out of control, listen to a lecture from the doctor (although the young lady I saw was understanding) when I know what I did wrong and I know how to fix it. However, for me the motivating factor is always my health. On a cruise everything is laced with salt and sugar so it is impossible to avoid (will ask for diabetic and salt free food next time). Back home I was 77.7kgs with an HbA1c of 7.5 (on my particular scale). Within one week of ‘normal’ eating I was down to 76.8kgs and that was the start of my diet for real. I dread to think what my HbA1c would have been without 3 weeks to improve but I really needed longer. Now with 3 months before my next test I am determined to be down to around 6.5 or less. The thing I am doing different is realising that it doesnt have to be all or nothing. If I look at some food and know it is going to be bad for me (hubbys weekly cake) I just dont have it. I am in a restaurant once a month and there is bread on the table I have just one piece. That is why I am aiming for 1kg a month. Compromise or you will be miserable. But remember, diabetes is for life, and as Verano points out, without this diet we would all be suffering terrible things like gangrene of the toes, neuropathic eye disease, lack of kidney function, liver disease, heart disease, skin ulcers and on and on and on. Just because you cant see diabetes doesnt mean it isnt real. Sorry to be so blunt but the reality is there. We can give up and stuff our faces and die early of a long list of illnesses or we can be sensible and take control of what we put in our mouths.

Looks to me like you have got it. Keep going, you are great.

Jusst for the record my weight shot back up to 75.1kgs this morning. No reason – 30 mins swim, 750 cals and 29g carbs. Thats life. And Verano, my gardener didnt show this morning, says he has food poisoning. Hey ho, there is always tomorrow.

Thank you for your kind words Verano, Today is a new day and I’m back tracking my food on my fitness pal, and I’m being accountable for all I eat and drink. I have done what you suggested and have brought two 800ml bottles of water with me to work to consume them by home time then another one when I get home during the evening with a cup of tea before bed. I have had Greek yoghurt, homemade granola with berries for breakfast and a chicken salad (no dressing) for lunch, with raspberries and strawberries for extra fiber. I have also switched to slow release metformin in the hope that helps with the high morning readings – we shall see. I’m in the UK and my GP/DN does not want to see me until my annual review in December, I guess I could ask to have a repeat HBA1C blood test done, or I could pay to have it done by Boots at home, like you say just to see if things are as bad as I think they could be. I have increased my carb limited as you suggest but as a total upper limit not to be reached or exceeded more as a buffer, and I will do my best, I faired much better with the strict 800 diet but that was not enough calories to keep me going with the exercise that I do, so I think logging it is definitely the way forward.
SG – I’m sorry to hear about Vienna, I’m pleased you have managed to get a refund on the concert, it will all click in to place when you and your daughter book it up again, and you never know more things may be available for you to do along your adventure. Hope the gardener has done a good job in the heat today. I don’t like how phones now listen in to every day conversations and start showing you ads for what you have been discussing, it’s all a bit too much like big brother for me. Any house news?
All advice greatly appreciated, thank you all, now back to work I go, enjoy your afternoons xx

Well done MixnMatch on your 60 mile challenge. You must feel so proud and it’s been so hot here too. Well done also for your continued weight loss- 2lb in a week is fab. Hopefully the daily walking will continue to help you feel fitter. I have been enjoying my walking pad but had to see a physio last week as I have been having pain in my good leg and she thinks I’ve got a partial tear of my medial meniscus so i am doing exercises. She said it’s ok to keep walking. She will arrange an MRI if the exercises don’t help after six weeks. We have had a lovely family weekend away and today when i weighed I was 140lb so i am pleased ive not put too much on. I did eat all the naughty things i like but I am back to basics now. We did a lot of walking and so I think that helped! I have my cruise to look forward to in October and my plan is to keep my weight down and I am aiming for around 138 lb. I am still subscribing to the online programme and hope to use the exercise programmes more over the summer. I have a tendency to be lazy so that is something I want to address.
Looking forward to catching up on the thread and looking forward to reading about your progress.

Hi Verano and Newbie. Newbie glad you have come back. I am a bit tired right now and only just seen your post – I have been busy. But I will come back on tomorrow to have a chat with you and see if I can be of any help.

Had a bit of a day of it. Booked concert, arranged housesitter then today tried to book 3 nights in Vienna – nothing, ziltch. I wrote to one hotel to ask about prices and availablity and they said they were not taking bookings for that week as it is the week of Congress and every hotel in Vienna is chocker. Just my luck. Tore my hair out for a while then realised the concert is refundable and the housesitter was only booked yesterday so probably wont have made any drastic arrangements (they were driving here from Germany). So I just cancelled everything. I intent to rebook for the week after when my cancellation has gone through and daughter will help with hotel as she was in Vienna for a few days last month and said some that I was looking at were 30 to 40 mins walk from centre and I need something closer. She talks to Google and they do everything – it even remembered when she asked about an exercise programme for me to loosen fascia and this time it said it remembered my age and suggested being close to the main attractions. I find it a bit spooky. However, we have left it for now.

We have the gardener here tomorrow so I will just be sat around (dont like to swim when we have company) so I will get back to Newbie and see what we can sort out.
Night night.

If you are using the BSD then it depends on what you are making. If it says serves 2 and 270 calories the recipe is enough for 2 people getting 270 cals each so you have to divide it in half either before you make it or after. Put a portion in the fridge for another meal later. If it doesnt mention serving more than one then it is just for one.

We are all on 800 cals and around 50g carbs and can manage that whether we are male, female, sporty or not. Just advice at the start is to not worry too much about exercise for the first couple of weeks as you will feel knackered. Once your body gets used to firing on fat burning you will be able to manage exercise. Unless you are T2 then you will have to be more careful about getting enough to eat in which case you can add a little more – but you dont say you are.

If you are eating enough protein you wont need shakes. We eat plenty of meat, chicken, fish, cheese etc.

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Spike you can just click’ on your original post to carry on your conversation. You don’t have to start a new link each time! Sorry I can’t help you with your query but best of luck with this way of eating.

NB normally the recipes specify the number of portions!

Thanks for the reply sunshine-girl
bit unsure how it works at the moment
I am eating about 700 to 750 calories carbs anywhere between 20 to 40 its quite difficult to make it work on 2 meals a day, also the meals for 2 people are the calories for the meal divided by 2 or is it for each person ?
Many thanks

Hi Newbie. We have all been there, done that and eventually found our way back on track. It happens and the last thing you need to do is beat yourself up and definitely don’t feel either ashamed or disappointed with yourself. We are all human.

None of us are perfect and there is no need to look for perfection. Just doing the best you can when you can is enough. I honestly don’t know of a formula to get back on track it just clicks when it clicks. Maybe try taking baby steps again. Possibly start with water and just concentrate on drinking 6 glasses a day then 8. Then move on to another step, maybe saying ‘no’ to crisps. You will find a sense of achievement when you reach small goals and hopefully that will soon give you the impetus to get back on track.

Unfortunately, this way of eating is just that when you have T2 and not a ‘diet’ to stop and start. We all have periods when our blood sugar rises and the only thing I can say is look at the alternatives to healthy eating. I first started eating this way 10 years ago. A friend of mine with uncontrolled diabetes had just had a toe removed. I was on the highest dose of metformin and was being threatened with even more drugs. Then I found Michael Moseley and his Blood Sugar Diet. He saved me. No I’m no angel and yes I do have periods when I go off piste but the thought of drugs, and more drugs, and maybe losing toes is enough to keep me from throwing in the towel completely and eating just anything. Maybe you could be a little kind to yourself and set a higher limit for your carbs. How about 125g a day which is still much lower than the average person has in a day?

Hopefully others will add their coping strategies and you will soon be back on track. BTW when is your next HbA1c due? If it’s a long way off you could ask for an earlier one. Things might not be as gloomy as you think!

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Good evening all, I have just read all of your messages, SG I’m sorry to hear about the house and hope a new buyer will show themselves very soon, your trip to Vienna sounds like a real adventure and lots of fun. Well done on your 1kg per month loss and getting under 75kg thats great work.
Margaret your cruise sounds lovely and I’m sure you will lose the holiday weight in no time, holiday washing is always such a drag.
Verano the nhs program sounds great and it’s good that you know some of the advice already. I hope your cataract op goes well.
Sorry I’ve been absent, my triathlon went really well, shaved 33mins off of last year’s time so I’m extremely happy with that. But I hate to say it I’ve fallen off the wagon and finding it extremely hard to get back on it and feel ashamed and disappointed in myself for allowing it to happen and I guess I didnt want to admit it, not to you guys, but then I remembered that you are all here with a listening ear and lots of wise words and advice. I don’t know where to go with it, I’ve put so much pressure on myself, and my family strongly feel I can reverse my diagnosis but as you all know it’s just so hard, I got on a slippery slope and just kept sliding 🥲, I’ve eaten crisps, dairy milk, cereal, bread, potatoes, crackers, alcohol free beer, not all in one day but I need to snap out of it, and I guess go back to basics, my working day is normally ok, I take my breakfast, lunch and berries for a snack, if my colleagues don’t tempt me i’m really good, the other half has slipped and is now buying crisps and chocolate so he’s had a severe telling off. Please tell me how do I get back on track?? I’ve lost my way. I’ve contacted nutritionists for advice but they dont reply or I need a gp referral. Can I ask, I’m on metformin 3 tablets a day but my fasting readings in the morning are quite high, what can I try? I try to stop eating by 7pm but worry that as I don’t eat breakfast until 10am my overnight fast is causing problems, anyone else experienced this?
Anyway thats enough of me whittling on, wishing you all the best, and I do appreciate the thread but also understand where you are all coming from, i hope you all sleep well now it’s cooled a little x

Thank you Verano & the Douro river cruise is next year because we can’t afford another one this year 😂 I may also have to have my other knee operated on following a review this September 🙁
All the holiday washing has been done now thank goodness & back to the routine of preparing supper!
I hope your NHS slimming club works well I am now on WhatsApp with a crowd of oldies from The Rosemary Conley online slimming club that closed down & am currently recording my calories etc with Nutracheck which is quite easy to use listings lots of brands & quantities of food easily saved to a daily diary.
Oh well onwards we go 👍
Margaret xx

Well three days since I posted and thought I should post again….

So happy to have cool/normal English summer weather back! Never thought I would say this but it’s quite nice to see some grey sky!

Hoping to get my new planters ‘planted up’ tomorrow. We had a wall painted and the existing planters had to be moved. One collapsed! Two have been badly misshapen for the last 5 years from when we had roof work, so great excuse to replace them all.

Waiting to hear from a new gardener, fingers crossed he will ring tomorrow…. we are desperate!!!

Hope you have some positives too.

Margret so pleased you had such a wonderful time and you have something to look forward to for September. I would particularly love to do a Douro river cruise but river cruises just won’t work for me with my level of mobility. So, I’ll just have to continue to ‘put up’ with the amazing service, food etc etc on an ocean cruise!! In fact we have one booked in the Med for November. I doubt the weather will be great but the rest should be marvellous so we’ll just take our Rummikub with us, just in case!

S-g that sounds absolutely wonderful. Like Margaret I always watch the New Year’s Day concert. It’s a wonderful way to start the new year and I’m sure you’ll be blown away by your experience.

Quite happy to keep posting here. It would be sad to just ‘disappear’ into the ‘ether’.

So, I have joined an NHS online weight management program. I thought ‘being accountable’ might just help me. As it so happens it’s based very much on lower carb and reducing ultra processed foods. So I’m already 90% of the way there but nonetheless I’m going to go with the flow and give it my best shot. It’s a 12 week program and as I have nothing planned, apart from my second cataract operation, I thought this would be a good time. It reminds me a little of the slimming clubs of yesteryear but we will see!

Much cooler here now and so feeling more ‘normal’. Hope the heatwave has disappeared for you too.

Sounds wonderful seeing the Vienna Philharmonic S-G we always watch the New Years Day concert on tv & used to have a season of the Royal Philharmonic in a nearby theatre that has been cancelled since covid with only one yearly concert now & a few quartets. We have booked another Viking Douro cruise next September for ten days with two spent in Lisbon & had some discounts booking whilst onboard which we can now look forward to. However I have now got to get back to losing lots of weight in the next few weeks 🤞🤞
I am continuing to wade through our pile of holiday washing & am already missing the view of the river from the ship & the attentive service from the staff. It’s so easy to get used to being spoilt 😂
Margaret xx

Hi Spike64 are you saying you dont get up to 800 and 50g or are you saying you cant keep to that level as it is too low. As for protien powder I use Purition but it is a meal replacement rather than a protein booster. You do know that going keto on this diet you can get as much protein as you need and it keeps your carbs down.

Hi Margaret, glad you enjoyed France yes it has been hot but cooled down to 28 today. It was me who said I didnt want to keep going with the monthly thread. Verano, thinks we should just let this one keep running as it doesnt imply any start or end date. I agree with her and hope more people dip in.

Verano, lets keep this one going and see how it goes.

I had a mad idea yesterday and being impatient put it into action. We are going to drive to Vienna to see a concert by the Vienna Philamonic. 2 overnights to get there, 2 full days there and 2 overnights home. Booked. We have found a housesitter so now just have to look at some hotels en route in France and Germany and a base in Vienna. It will give me something to do and look forward to in the coming months.

Had 30 mins in the pool this morning.

Nearly at the end of June, and I have completed the two 60 miles in June challenges I set for myself, so feeling quite proud. Dementia UK has just been completed yesterday, the donations for that one are understandably a bit lower as many are donating to the other one as a tribute to Ed, and the Pancreatic Cancer challenge donation total is nearly at my target of £220 to get a medal too, although the Facebook fundraiser went faulty a couple of days ago so I now have a JustGiving page in the team page as well 🚶‍♀️🚶I believe the collection window doesn’t close until the end of July now so plenty of time to get the last £4 in! Weight wise I had a ‘pre-birthday’ party yesterday so had a slight rise, but am about another 2 pounds down for the week. I will be trying to keep it up for most of the rest of the year, but will have some intermittent fasting weeks and maybe some ‘eat what you like’ weekends to try to keep my body guessing. Feeling a lot fitter after all that daily walking so will try to keep that habit going forwards.

Hello & we returned after our cruise yesterday & I have just weighed & gained 4.75 lbs. It is much cooler here & now we have to get back to more restrained eating 😀. I ate breakfast each day with fruit, an omelette & on the last two days French toast with berries which was delicious & then of course lunch & dinner each day with wine & most days also wine tastings. All this of course meant many more carbs than usual but my husband only gained two pounds!. We walked as much as the weather permitted & one day I walked 10000 steps a record day for me. Our cabin was at the far end of a corridor so lots of steps going to the restaurant but I did use the lift not the stairs to the lounge except a couple of times climbing outside stairs to the open top deck but nearly every day it was too hot up there even in the evening. The most memorable days for me were a wine tasting at a family estate & chateau with the owner who then sat at our table for the included lunch à la famille for lunch. He had told us all about the family history during Bonaparte & then both world wars with the estate confiscations & recovery etc. After we left we were told he is a Baron & he was an amazing sprightly 88 years old with excellent English & very welcoming. The other day was when all the guests were taken to another chateau where we were treated to a four course dinner with accompanying wines for each course.
Thank you S-G for your recommendations in Bordeaux & unfortunately when we returned there last Friday the trams & buses were cancelled because of the heat & it was too far to walk but we did go to a smaller wine museum based in a former wine traders home & cellars that was very interesting & included another wine tasting 😂. We also visited three Bastide towns on the river but I did opt out partly through one & returned to the ship because of the steep climb needed to get up into the town bastions. Overall it was a lovely trip & throughout we had dinner with two other English couples we had met who also flew from Gatwick but the majority nationalities on board were American with English the overall language spoken by staff.
Regarding the continuation of this thread I understand the hesitation in continuing with so few of us but I still enjoy posting but will understand if you don’t want to continue Verano🤔
I hope you are all keeping well despite the recent heat wave 🤞
Margaret xx

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There are cupcake recipes in the Sweet Treats Book and some cake recipes in the backs of the other books, i.e. Fast 800 Easy and Fast 800 red top but that’s not the reason for the BSD book – that’s to get your blood sugars down.

It worked for me but now I do try some of the cakes and have made the blueberry and ginger muffins that are in the Sweet Treats book. However, the cake recipes that I have tried take far, far longer to cook that the recipes say, i.e. the orange almond cake and the spiced apple teacake so take some of the timings with a pinch of salt if you try them.

Hello
Starting the 8 week tomorrow. looking at the recipes in the book and struggling to get to the 800cals and 50g carbs because I only eat twice a day also I will be going to the gym so protein is also looking very low can anybody recommend a protein powder good enough to use to boost to recommended level
Many thanks

Hi s-g I think I missed a post where you mention ‘threads’. I agree that a thread running for just 4 people is maybe not be worth it which is why I set up this thread rather than another monthly thread as I thought it would just ‘run’ and die a natural death as and when???

I guess now is the time for people to speak up. There are really only three or four ‘active’ threads on this site now and I think it’s amazing that the website has stayed open given the new website with the paid for facilities. I for one am thankful that this site remains ‘live’ but for how long?