I too like to have to think about positives. Especially when you are having a bad day like yesterday – but yesterday is gone and there is always something to be grateful

Hot weather has arrived, not as keen as when I was younger but it does my veg patch the world of good.
Had my first swim of the season yesterday and really enjoyed it – hoping to be back in later today.
Feeling more positive about BG and weight outcome for the future.

Wow Heidi- 5kg since May!! I’ve not lost that since the start of the cruise!! That’s amazing! Well done. What an inspiring weight loss in such a short time- you must be doing something right. I bet your egg and sweetener tasted awful! I want to lose about 5 kg but it’s taking me forever!
I am seriously struggling to lose weight despite giving up breakfast and only having coffee. Despite going low fat to try and improve my cholesterol, despite walking 53,000 steps last week according to my fit bit (that’s a lot for my sore feet by the way). I am going to keep trying and doing what I can. My body is hanging on to every fat single fat molecule. One day soon I hope I’ll see a whooooosh and it will be all gone!
Keep trying everyone- giving in is NOT an option.
My goal for June is to weigh less than I did at the start of June. At this rate I’ll take half a pound! I think my body is messed up with years of dieting!

Hi everyone,
Pleased to say that I have lost 5 kilos since my reboot on 25 May. Since I was bingeing on carbs, and had 20 kilos to lose, i suppose I have been lucky with the fast weight loss. I know that it will slow down so am preparing myself!

I had to laugh this morning. We were at a cafe between appointments and I was feeling a bit wobbly. I decided to dunk a hard-boiled egg in some salt, to see if that would help. Unfortunately I got the wrong sachet. Hard boiled egg with artificial sweetener will not be added to my favourite recipes!

Hope you are all having a good day.

Lovely to hear that there are many of us that enjoy this thread.

We are on page 132!! Probably unheard of for any other thread.

For me I love to come here especially when I’m feeling low because I’m ‘forced ‘ to find something positive in my life which always helps.

No difficulty today ….
🥩🥗🥙 First bbq tonight which was lovely even though the weather could have been better.

📺📺📺 Have watched a few very interesting programmes on ‘catch up ‘ this week. Tonight is the finale of Race Across the World…. which I love.

🌳🌳🌳 Had a delivery of some stones today to fill in some planters with olive trees. Can’t wait to have then put into the planters.

Hope Thursday is full of positives.

Oh dear! Sounds like you’re going back ‘years’ s-g. Hopefully by now you have put the ‘nonsense’ behind you. You know best how to handle your T2. Don’t let a young ‘whippersnapper’ derail you.
Best of luck with your decreasing insulin. You know what works best for you…..keep on keeping on ……

I think your rant is well justified S-G!
How frustrating with the doctor, then to have such an unpleasant phone call!

Hope you get your Dr Gorgeous next time!

Hi s-g, rant away. What a horrid morning. And having an unpleasant idiot on the phone afterwards is the pits. It is very dispiriting to hear that there are younger doctors who still don’t get it. How on earth can he dispute the role of insulin in the body?

Anyway I hope you can shake it all off and have a lovely sunny afternoon in the garden!

Hi all,

Just back from the doctors who was not my doctor. He said the results (7.3) were not good so I had all my explanations ready, just been on a cruise etc and blood tests very soon after before I could get the numbers back down and showed him my latest readings which are now good. We went back and forth on too much insulin, too much food, then showed this morning 56 (3.1) and he said not enough food, should eat before bed. Went through all the rubbish my other doctor used to say before he realised I was getting good results on the BSD. Anyway, as the lad didn’t speak any English he went to get my real doctor who said 7.3 is not bad but it is not ideal. He was understanding and told me to do what I always do and reduce insulin slowly, slowly.

Anyway, back to young doctor. I told him insulin was a fat storer and only moved the sugar into the organs and fat cells, he didn’t agree. We got to a point when he finally suggested semi-glutide on my next visit. Hurry, just what I wanted. Hopefully I will see my real doctor next time or ask for an appt when he is there so I can at least speak some English /Franglaise.

Found it all very stressful and was in for 40 mins try to explain in French. Driving home (hubby driving) I had a phone call which said vous etre Madame I…, D….. I said oui and they called me a c–t and put the phone down. I am very stressed out but sure I dont know anyone French who would say that to me (or English for that matter) so it must have been a prankster. I tried ringing back but it was a blocked number so hubby tried ringing in case it was just me they blocked and he was blocked also. Probably just some idiot having a laugh but I am not doubly stressed out.

Sorry for the rant but quite a day really.

How wonderful to see so much activity on this thread, full of positives reminding us all to recognise, acknowledge and be grateful for the good things that come our way.

Mine for today are ….
🌸🌸 spent time with a friend and neighbour this morning … coffee and chat
🌸🌸 a visit to a new DIY store, just nice to wander around and check out what they offer
🌸🌸 all prep completed for our eldest DD and partner visiting in two days time. Looking forward to spending time with them. They’re here for 10 days, so probably won’t be posting again for awhile, but hope everyone else will keep the positives coming.

Hi Heidi, I also love this thread! Great to hear peoples positives which often remind me to be grateful for my own positives.
So for today;
1. The stray/wild cat I have been feeding appeared this morning with 4 kittens. Fabulous to watch their antics. Think they must be about 8-10 weeks old. Just uplifting to watch them play from my kitchen window.
2. We had visitors last night, and I cooked a meal that was ‘low carb’ for me with added bits for them and husband. It all worked well and I wasn’t tempted at the time. (The left over tiramisu currently in my fridge is testing my resolve this morning…but I am resisting!)
3. I have dried a load of washing on the line this morning, as the sun is back… now ironing beckons!

Like you, I put weight on when I am stressed! When I got married the dress had to be let out before the day…I had put weight on because I was comfort eating…lots of sweet things! Now on top of that impulse (most of the time). Today I have 1/2 a tiramisu left in the fridge from visitors who can for supper last night. I am having to be SOOOO strong, just hope husband will eat it quickly!
xxx

Hi sixturkeys. That was a very loving and courageous decision to bring your mother home. Having the support of a carer is a godsend. My parents are still living independently, with one hour’s care a day. They are both in their mid 90s, and it is a very fragile arrangement.

I love this thread and am very grateful to the stalwarts who keep it going. So here are some more positives, though it is early in the day.
1) The sun is back today, so had a lovely dog walk in the woods. Wild garlic scent everywhere.
2) I have a small garden, so a little effort makes a big difference. Now enjoying the results of yesterday’s pruning.
3) Now on day 18 of my healthy eating streak. It feels so good to be in control. Long may it continue!

Hi Heidi In light of your change of user name I do not know when our virtual paths might have crossed on this site. I am so sorry to read about your husband. Your love for him shines through. I do hope that you are also taking care of yourself, selflessly. Which I know seems so trite. In all that, you asked me about how things were going. It is so different from your situation but in brief since 2022 I have been caring for my now 94yr old mother. So physically diminished and sadly cognitively declining. She was in a nursing home for a while but that did my head in so she is back with me; we are fortunate to be able to employ a carer/companion for most of the day so I can get on with work, which I am lucky to be able to do part time and from home. I do not think this forum is “elitist”. My response to that particular contributor was down to how oftentimes she seems to press the point. Pootle, I am all with you on the “small things”. And with flat surfaces being a magnet for “stuff”. I will duck back behind the parapet now. I do think there is a rather unhealthy “ownership” of particular threads by a triumvirate simply by virtue of time here, which brooks no argument!

Oh Pootle, that’s so awful and hard for you.
Must have been so difficult.
You’ve done so well to sort all that and take stick of your health etc with such amazing results.
It’s so odd….so many people say oh I’ve lost weight, I’m stressed, having a difficult time etc….I’m the opposite, I eat more when I’m stressed. I’ve had some tough times in my life and this has been gruelling but nothing has ever put me off eating!! It’s actually comedic value in our family. Apparently, no joke….when my mum had me they used to give the mum a break and feed the babies back then….I had a note on my cot to always be fed first or I would cry hysterically! That’s the truth!
X

Hi everyone,
I have been catching up on posts today, there are so many inspiring ones. DCT I still haven’t weighed myself yet, it’s taking me a while to get back on plan after the holiday in Scotland! Doing a menu plan today which I haven’t done for a while so that should help me🤞Will report back in a week. Dawn XX

Hi Lucy,

It is not surprising that you have periods of good days… then the wheels come off. Dealing with grief and still having to cope with day to day life, on top of paperwork etc is incredibly stressful! I think you should congratulate yourself on the 2 1/2 stone you have lost, and on being able to have some ‘tidy diet days’!!
I lost both my parents less than a year apart, followed quickly by my only brother. Neither of us have children so I am the only one left. I am lucky that I have an understanding husband, who was helpful when it came to dealing with all the bureaucratic stuff. BUT to this day, it still affects me. The loneliness can, at times, be overwhelming. In the past, the temptation to comfort eat has taken over. I now have various strategies to avoid this, but I think you should give yourself time to grieve and keep as sane as possible. The diet is there when you can cope with it. Be kind to yourself.
xxx

Dreamscometrue…..that is so sweet. Thank you so much. It’s a really hard job being rhe only one, hard even if you have help but doing this alone is hard especially with a very insular mum who has never paid a bill, turned on a computer or sent a message it’s really tough.
Been doing admin all day and went ro registrar with mum to register his death. Wrote a little speech for the funeral….doubt I will even be able to say it. Everytime I start I end up in tears.
My diet veers between good period of days….then the wheels come off for a day or 2.
So tired all the time and gutted we were supposed to be getting on a plane tomorrow morning!
Sorry for going on.
Again thanks for your kind words. And sorry about your parents too. X

The anniversary of Michael’s death seems like a significant time for so many of us. Some lovely words of remembrance on here, and it’s also so good that many are being inspired to strengthen our resolve and look after ourselves better.

ARCTICFOX you sound stronger in every post. I suspect that this time last year you would not have been able to face filling in those forms and, painful though it has been, it is another milestone on you moving forward. And the strategy of working through why you are doing something before you decide to do it sounds really helpful. Keep on going, and keep on posting. It is a joy to be allowed to share your progress.

HEIDI lovely to hear from you and you are so right in that we can control what we do. A bit similar to what Arcticfox was saying in a way : if we take responsibility for our actions and make rational decisions before taking those actions, we can do this! I’m so sorry to hear of your family problems, but so pleased you are looking after yourself. It’s a bit like the airplane oxygen mask analogy : if you are not making sure you are strong and fit, you will be less able to help those around you. Well done!

POOTLE your weight loss is amazing!! 5.5 stone down and reversing diabetes is an incredible achievement, particularly in the time frame of a year. What a fabulous tribute to Michael and an inspiration to us all. I’m so pleased for you!

Hi to everyone else on here too. Must dash as I’m heading out now but will check in again later in the week X

Hi Lucy I’m not normally on this thread but noticed your post in the Latest Posts section and just wanted to send my sympathies to you at this very difficult time. I’m an only child too and have now lost both my parents and I know how hard it is. Just be kind to yourself : you will have a lot to do and also there is a lot going on emotionally, some of which you won’t even be aware of. So look after yourself and once things start to settle I’m sure you’ll feel able to address the weight loss again. Sending you love and hugs X

Hi Pootle, thanks for the message.
Very up and down, can’t believe he’s gone. Have had to wait all this time for death certificate. So going to register death and collect that this morning. Was due to go on holiday tonortow to Spain but have had to cancel . My mum has little other support and I couldn’t have gone away and had ro come back to funeral.
Diet wise I’m fine for a few days and then I go off the rails, I can’t seem to sustain it. But my weight is holding around rhe same so that’s something.
Hopefully when things settle down I can get my head in gear , I don’t know why I can’t at the moment. It upsets me but I’m still 2 and half stone lighter. …so that’s what I keep in my head x

Hi Lucy, just touching base so you know we haven’t forgotten about you.

You have been in my thoughts and prayers. Look after yourself and look forward to the new grandchild!

XXX

Hi everyone,
Thank you for the kind words. These are challenging times for me and your support means a lot.
My therapist was very pleased with the boundary I set and the fact that I reached out to my godmother for support. We spent most of our session though filling out the forms to try and get my appointments funded. Unfortunately, this meant disclosing a lot of information in detail that we had only just barely touched on in our previous sessions, which has left me feeling quite vulnerable over the weekend. She did warn me that this would happen and gave me some strategies for coping. Our next session is on Thursday because she didn’t want me going too long without being able to talk about what might come up. I had a really severe flashback yesterday, a nightmare last night and a good cry today, but I am managing with the coping strategies so far and not spiralling out of control, so that is a positive. One thing that I had to disclose on the forms that we hadn’t spoken about yet was how what happened to me has led to negative body image and struggling with food and exercise since I was very young. That was really tough as I hadn’t revealed any of that to anyone in person before. In fact, all of you probably know more than anyone else! I am seeing the connection now to how it is strongly related to me not wanting to attract negative attention.
In spite of all of this, I am still trying to eat healthily. I watched a video that talked about strategies that we use to numb our emotions, including comfort eating. The video suggested a strategy is to tell yourself that you are allowed to comfort eat, or whatever numbing strategy you want to use (mine also involves watching too many videos, ironically!), but you have to sort through the feelings that are driving you to engage in that behaviour before you can let yourself do it. It has been really working for me. I am working through my feelings by journalling and even though I would be allowed to comfort eat after that, I usually don’t want to anymore. So that has been really helpful, especially now when I have so many big feelings and painful memories coming up all at once.
Keep on keeping on everyone! One day I’ll catch up on everyone’s updates.

Hi Annie, thanks for the info it’s very much appreciated.
I’ve really only taken up running over the past 18months owing to an op that didn’t go according to plan but I love it and the community that comes with it. As a cyclist in a previous life I always carb loaded and drank high sugar drinks whilst out on a cycle but keeping the weight off wasn’t an issue… until I came to running…. I was very surprised to hear runners have a propensity to putting on weight probably because of carb loading.
I’ve always feared fasted rides now fasted runs as they’ve never been pleasant when you bonk but possibly down to incorrect fuelling to begin with. I’m definitely not running to place and most definitely running against myself and my pb’s although they’re not that important to me. I have a race in 2 weeks time but my time isn’t important on this one so I’ll maybe try and start the BSD this week and see how I get on with energy levels go. I had a race on Friday passed and had an unintentional fast which didn’t go well but made me more aware of what I should be fuelling with leading up to the event. I’ll take a look at Prof. Noakes as he sounds interesting.
Thanks for the info really appreciate it.

Hi Stevie, I was a runner until 2018 when a serious injury and unrelated surgery a couple of years later put paid to that, so quite a while since I have run but I do walk a lot now. I follow(ed) the 5:2 and later the BSD whilst running. I often ran a weekend training half marathon distance before breakfast, so fasted. My weekday shorter training runs were also pretty much fasted i.e. pre evening meal. I stopped carb loading when I went low carb/higher good fat (there are no essential carbs, there are essential fats and proteins). I will say that I wasn’t the fastest runner, I did it because I loved it, but I wasn’t the slowest either. Racing for me was against myself more than anything. So I would say that unless you are running to place, just go ahead with your races for enjoyment; take the first one as an experiment to see how you go; or choose one where you want to go hard and take the others easier. If you take to this (diet) way of eating well and become fat adapted quite soon you won’t need to carb load. Professor Tim Noakes was an athlete who promoted a high carb diet and carb loading for years but he saw the error of his ways 😀 and, after research, changed his mind to running fat adapted. If you use You Tube there are many videos of interviews with him. I will say that he did become diabetic which he ascribed to family history and his years of eating high carb. “Getting through a day eating no fat was a good day” paraphrasing him. Obviously he overcame this.

Yes me too!!
As soon as the bill comes I’ll send the remuneration in the post!!!
Thank you once again!

Thanks for the advice. Think it’ll be very much trial and error for the first while. I have done the 5:2 before and had great success but carb loading and a higher sugar intake is taking its toll on my belly 😂 Running a bit slower won’t hurt.

Verano, I will send you my bill later 🙂 You have to pay for going private. I wish someone like Ben Bikman or Jason Fung were my doctor.

Heidi you truly do have a ‘positive’. Hope you have many more ‘extra’ days with your husband.

👍👍🎉🪅🎊🎉Sunshine-girl … thank you, thank you, thank you.
It never actually occurred to me that I am having a ‘normal’ reaction to bread!
After 8 years of normal HbA1c results it’s only this year that I’ve finally been registered as in ‘remission’. So, I still think of myself as still beingT2.
Maybe I actually no longer have T2. Who knows but I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. In saying that I will always remain low carb. Apart from anything else my taste buds have changed and I really can’t eat sweet food.
S-g I wish you were my doctor!

As you can see from comments above many people do manage to continue to exercise while on the 800 calories. As you are not diabetic when it is dangerous to have a very low blood glucose reading, your body will soon learn to run on its fat stores. Dr Bikman, who advocates long fasts, says you have around 20,000 calories stored in fat so why not use that. Obviously that is an exaggerated example but you could do 3500 calories of exercise and still only use 1lb of fat. Maybe work up to racing level at a slower pace just to let you body get used to it. If you think you will not be able to manage, make sure you eat just before a race but don’t carb load – load with protein and some lower GI carbs. Try also to have a snack with you on the race.

As I am not an athelete that is the best I can do for you.

Just want to say I will be going back to ‘square one’ on Monday, using the original BSD book and the recipes and meal plans. Hopefully, I will see an improvement all round.

Right now I have a lot of stress with house going up for sale, although in France it can take up to 2 years so I have to learn to sit back and relax instead of jumping up and cleaning every little spill or out of order items. Relax………

Heidi, I am so sorry for what you are going through and hope you get all the support you need, both from this site and the real world. I really don’t know how you cope and we are all sending you lots of love.

Hi all,

Sixturkeys this site is not about villas and cruises. Just happens you have popped back at the time of year when some of us have just had a holiday. Mainly we are moaning about how hard it is to get our heads back around dieting and lose the holiday weight.

My positives are:
Going to get to 35 degrees by Tuesday so I hope to be in my pool in a day or two (sorry sixturkeys but I have always had a pool but only mention as it is my main exercise).
All vegetables planted out and, due to quite a bit of rain, they are coming up lovely.
Sad that family don’t want to visit as a holiday destination, they have been here so many times but it is our home and they should just want to visit us. Anyway, positive is, daughter was booking for 2nd week in July when 17 yr old grandson said ‘but I want to come with you, book it for the week after when school ends’. Bless him, he is lovely, so I will be seeing both of them in a few weeks.

Hi all

Verano, I don’t know where the 14.6 came from, it was probably from the night I had a slice of hubbys birthday cake and a couple of cocktails. To demonstrate how HbA1c works I was giving averages before (low reading) and immediately after (high reading) food. If you measure 6.5 in the morning you cannot count that as what your HbA1c would be as you will have higher readings during the day after food. 3 months is the amount of time it takes for your blood to replace itself, therefore giving a new set of figures.

I like that your BG was 5.2 a few hours after a bagel – I think that shows you are no longer diabetic and your body is regulating the normal way. Mine would be around 10 immediately after and still around 8.9 four hours later and probably 6.8 to 7.0 the next day with it taking a couple of days of higher insulin to get it down. Shows I am still diabetic as my body cannot regulate itself.

This morning weight is still the same so I am still just one kilo down. BG was 5.2 but I am on 24 units of insulin (12 units pre-cruise). I will get it back down but it takes a couple of months. For some reason taking longer as I have found it difficult to get back on track although I am getting there. Still hoping to be under 73 kgs by Wednesday.

Hey sixturkeys. It’s nice to see your name again. I”ve been a member here since 2017 I think. Believe me the site is still as welcoming and supportive as ever – which I can know since I have been posting under a new name for the last few months. How is life with you?

And i love this thread, so maybe time to chip in:
1) I have another day with my husband, who was forecast to die before March this year. Every day is a blessing.
2) I am on day 14 of eating more healthily, and feel so much better already.
3) We had loads of rain overnight and the garden is celebrating.

Have a good day everyone!

S-g that’s really interesting but I have to admit I find it very difficult to understand how an HbA1c can measure ‘daily average’ blood sugar as well. I don’t think we should get too hung up on ‘ numbers’. Obviously your 14.6 was a bit concerning but that was a ‘blip’ rather an upward trend.

Pootle I think we have all been on a ‘learning curve’ with this way of eating. I think we just have to accept that we are individuals and some foods raise some peoples BS but not others. I think we each have to work out what works for our individual body. I had a bagel this morning, a rare treat, and a few hours later my BS was 5.2! Sometimes there’s no rhyme or reason to how we react.

Anyway, I have given myself ‘a good talking too’ and have decided as long as my BS remains stable then all is fine. Weight is something else and as long as it doesn’t increase then it will be what it will be. I need to relax and not waste energy fretting over it. So let’s see how long this lasts ……..

Welcome Auntiekag.
Don’t worry too much about sticking to the recipes religiously. As Pootle says substitute the squash with something like cauliflower or you could add green beans or broccoli. I think the secret is not to substitute with ‘carby’ vegetables like potatoes! Actually, squash has around 12g of carbs per 100g so you would be safe using swede, celeriac, caulifower or any green vegetables.

Hello. Thought I would pop in with a few positives as I’ve not posted for a while.

😀😀😀 Had the result of my CT scan and all is stable so having another in 9 months but won’t worry about that!

📖📖📖 Bought some books for holiday reading. Had to get some recommendations from my daughter! Got 30% discount by buying three books so a definite positive.

🌶️🧄🥦 Making green chicken curry today, which I haven’t made for ages, so really looking forward to that. I use green vegetables as a base rather than rice and it works really well.

Hope everyone is having a good weekend.

Six turkeys. I am so sorry you feel like this. My ethos is live and let live!
I last had a holiday away from home in 2016. That was a long weekend at a b&b in the Lake District. But I don’t begrudge those who can afford to get away, getting away.
I thought we are all on this site because either we need to lose a lot of weight or tackle diabetes and appreciate the support of others in that aim. At least that was what I assumed and if the positives in someone’s life help give an uplift in spirit, surely that is to the good.
As I said, I am sorry you feel that this thread is elitist,
I am not privileged and I had been posting here for some time.

I have not been on for a while. But really. Having a Mediterranean villa to which to escape for several months is “simple stuff”. Check your privilege. I thought this might still be an encouraging and inclusive site for those who it is primarily aimed at. Just seems to be about cruises. And villas.

Sorry for resurrecting an older post but I’m looking for a bit more detail in the reply.
I’ve read the BSD book now I want to put it into action but I currently have a number of races coming up and all 3 weeks apart unfortunately and they are all 10k. Is there any possibility of maintaining training and starting the 8 week plan or should I take a race out of my calendar? TIA!

Hi Auntiekag,
I am not a curry buff (actually can’t stand spicy food!)
But I have omitted an ingredient or substituted celeriac, cauliflower or courgette in other recipes.
I am sure there will be some cooks on here who will be able to advise! 👩‍🍳🧑‍🍳
I started following the BSD 12 months ago. With great success.
Good luck and welcome to the BSD. I hope it works as well for you as it has for me. 😄

Help please! We have just started BSD and the week1 veg curry recipe says to use butternut squash. I really don’t like it. Any suggestions as to what I could use instead please?
TIA

SG, V and Pootle, thank you for keeping things going on the positive thread … ashamed not to have been contributing more often. It’s not been for oacknof positives, just an avoidance of tech.

Anyway, here are a few from me ….
🌸🌸 weather is fabulous 👌
🌸🌸 mum is still doing well
🌸🌸 bought a gorgeous dining table for the villa
🌸🌸 eldest DD and partner arrive in a week to spend some time with us
🌸🌸 enjoying spending time with our Turkiye based friends

All simple stuff, but enough to make life easier and pleasant.

I haven’t posted for a while, but have been lurking!

So a couple of positives for today:
1. Husband has cleared the kitchen work surface that has been covered with leads, chargers, letters, bearings, a cv joint etc etc for over 2 years! I can actually see the surface and have been able to wipe it down!!! 🤔🫣
2. My BS readings have been steady and I have got through the ‘carb hunger’ stage again! 😁
3. I have another new hat! 👒🎩 😁😂

Hope you all have some positivity in your lives.

Thanks S-G.

For 6 months I thought eating a 25g portion of porridge for breakfast was doing no harm. The ‘reader’ that I had bought off the internet was misleading me! I think it was faulty as well as the instructions stating that 6 was a normal reading for a healthy person!
I had a chat with a friend who is type 1, (incidentally she had always been told that vegetables are ‘free’ from carbs! So learning that I am relying on veg for all the carbs I am eating was a shock for her. She looked them up in her book and said she now understands why she sometimes has an unexpected high reading.) She passed on to me a tester that has been superseded. I ordered the strips from Amazon and have been having steady readings. I did one last night which was still 5.3 mmol/L. This morning (fasting) was 4.3, so I am hoping that, if I continue as I am, my next HbA1c will be non diabetic!

Sorry to hear of your struggles, wishing you all the best for the move.

Thanks for the shout out. I am also still lurking!! 🫣
Dr Mosely’s death marks the start of my journey.
This time last year I had just been diagnosed as type 2 diabetic. I had been to see a consultant for the problem with my breathing that had become totally incapacitating with the treatment the GP had insisted was correct. Specialist diagnosed asthma not COPD as the GP had kept saying!
So correct inhaler for asthma started to change my life but the diabetic diagnosis then knocked me sideways. Reading about the Michael Mosely BSD made me determined to try it!
12 months on, with plenty of support from these forums, I am in remission for diabetes and 5.5 stone lighter! And continuing to live the BSD way of life.
I know I cannot thank him personally, but I hope he knows how much he changed my life.
My sincere sympathy to his family and huge sadness that he is no longer here!

Good luck to all on the ship for this voyage… it is possible to change your life!

Thanks for the shout out, DCT. I am still lurking! Like others, I have been thinking of Michael Mosely and his family today particularly. I have been following his eating advice (more off than on) for about 7 years. I owe him a lot. Even when I am off the wagon, I know the right approach to get back on.

Arctic Fox, your post was so moving to read. I wish you lots of strength as you move forward with the therapist. . It is good to hear that your renewed contact with your godmother is proving such a support. Our emotional links to food can be so strong and it must feel good to be eating more healthily and taking better care of yourself.

I have been battling comfort/stress eating for a while now. Without going into gruesome detail, two very close family members have incurable cancer and another has worsening dementia. For the last two years, life has been full of hospital appointments and difficult decisions. I have ended up bingeing on all the wrong things late at night. As if that will change anything!

Anyway, I had a lightbulb moment two weeks ago, when I breached another kilo going the wrong way; * I can’t change all that is happening around me, but I can control what I put in my mouth.* If I can eat in a way which cuts out cravings, it should help me to resist the comfort/stress bouts.

So I am on Day 13 of eating healthily, drinking more water and getting to bed early. I am not counting calories or carbs, but just avoiding all processed carbs, sugar, rice etc, trying to eat things in a better order, and take a walk after each meal. I could call it the non-Magnum diet (!), but it’s really a combination of Michael Mosely and the Glucose Goddess. It’s early days yet, but I feel a lot more in control, and already healthier than I did.

Wishing everybody here every success in moving towards their goals. x

Hi all, Simon dont worry, Verano was referring to me on the BG subject.

What normally happens is I have tests mid December, then my next lot at mid March so I have managed to get over Christmas and get both my weight and number down. This time we are only 3 weeks back and I still have a lot of work to do.

On that subject I wanted to have a word with Pootle about her confusion as to why her monitor was showing a lot lower than her HbA1c. It is not something I thought about and was reading something the other day that I should be aware of. Your HbA1c is the average of your BG over 3 months, but it is also the average over every day. If you measure before breakfast and you are on 6.5 you then think your HbA1c would reflect that – but no – now eat a lunch of reasonably good food but measure immediately and your reading is say 9.7. It will go down again as the day goes on but after a larger dinner your next reading is 11.9. Now lets tot them up and you will find a reading averaging 9.3 – that is what your HbA1c would have calculated – all the ups and downs of the day. Annoying isn’t it – and I am not going to test before and after every meal – once a day is good enough for me.

In my case I am testing at around 5.2 but a fortnight ago it was 6.8 and actually on the cruise I had one morning at 14.6. Hence, my HbA1c is averaging way higher than the 5.2 of this morning and is completely out of whack. I will explain to my docor that I am just back from a cruise and she will factor that into how many tut tuts I get 🙂

Hopefully, I can get my weight down a bit between now and Wednesday – I was 71kgs on my last visit and today I am 73.5kgs. Not quite lost the holiday weight but going in the right direction and should be under 73 by next week.

Enjoy your weekend everyone.

Thank you Verano for the welcome back – although the post about blood sugars etc wasn’t me, it was Sunshine Girl.
I did four days of fasting with 18:6 but slipped last night after a long day when I couldnt get home in time to eat within my window and ended up taking a night off. What a fail after less than a week. I will continue though because having tried just fasting in the week before I’ve found it’s fine once the weight has come off but too slow and indisciplined when you need that kickstart.

Anyone else had successful experience of doing 2:5 etc?