I’ve been doing the blood sugar diet since 7th January and I’m curious to know if the majority of people on here stick to the recipes and meal plans in the book or if you do your own meal plan sticking to 800 calories. I do my own and wonder if this is why my weight loss isn’t as rapid as expected.
A typical day for me is Muller yogurt 99 calories in the morning, home made soup or salad at lunchtime, another Muller yoghurt at afternoon tea break and chicken or turkey with mixed vegetables (cauliflower broccoli and carrots) for dinner. Sometimes 2 small crackers with cheese later in the evening. Last week I was also having an apple or pear at some point during the day but have stopped this. I drink water throughout the day with one cup of tea in the morning. I try not to eat between 9pm and 9am.
Interested to see if others are making their own plan and what they are eating for their 800 calories. Please post an example of a typical day.
Thanks
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Hi Because I am a vegetarian I simply used the fatsecret app to log what I was eating.
While the book doesn’t give any recommendations on the ratio of carbs / protein and fat making up the 800 calories most of us have found it best to start with a daily allowance of 50g of carbs and if we find that our weight loss is too slow we reduce that level down to 20g.
The reason is that carbs cause a rise in insulin levels which in turn encourages our bodies to store water and prevents our body from accessing our fat stores as an alternative fuel source.
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The book is the blood sugar diet, which is the reason that we are all here. – The app is fatsecret.
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Scottishgal have you checked the carbs in a Muller yogurt? This way of eating is very much a carb restricted way of eating. It’s possible to be relatively low calorie but still high carb. I think you will find that your yogurts are eating a big chunk of your carb allowance. Try a full fat Greek yogurt, fewer carbs, and will make you feel fuller for longer because of the fat. There are lots on the market. Low fat/light tends to be higher sugar.
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Hi Scottishgal – think it might just be a case of needing to take a good look at your carb in take – it is surprising where those little devils hideout! On the BSD you learn that not all calories are equal and whilst you might think that as the calories are low the carbs will be too, but unfortunately this is not always the case.
Best to get into the habit of checking the nutritional panels on food, or using an online site to check carb content of the foods you are eating. I have been in maintenance for quite sometime now, but have this week decided to go back to basics, as I want to drop a few more pounds. For the first time, I weighed, measured and records everything I consumer yesterday and to my horror, found that my carb level was around 40g for the day, rather than my preferred 20g for weight loss. The items that tripped me up – prunes, mixed veggies and onions!
I’ve always followed my own menu on the BSD and found that providing I keep the carbs down, weight discard followed. It might take a little trial and error, for you to understand how low you personally need to drop your daily carb intake, to achieve a steady weight loss.
Best wishes to you df71 and hope to see you out and about on other forum threads. Don’t be scared to join any thread you think will suit you, there’ll be a warm welcome for sure.
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Thank you all for your replies. They are all very helpful. I’ve been trying to keep my carb intake at around 50g per day but looks like I’ll need to lower it a bit more or stick with a slower weight loss. At least now I know how to improve things. I’ve been using carb manager app which counts carbs as well as cals and protein and I find it really easy to use. I don’t like the Greek yoghurts so I think I’ll just finish my Muller stock and then do without yoghurts.
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Hi Scottishgal – keep us posted on progress, hopefully by lowering your daily carbs, you will be seeing the results you want more quickly. Will take a look at the carb manager app, as I currently just log long hand into an excel spreadsheet, which had corrupted a couple of times, so I’ve had to build it again. Found myfitnesspal didn’t suit me, so hopefully the carb manager will fit better.
Looking forward to reading about your progress.
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Hi, being lurking for a while but thought I should reply to this as my experience is similar. I started at the beginning of January and just select my own recipes. I’ve kept my carbs to 50g and track on myfitnesspal. After the first week the weight loss was still OK (1.5 – 2lb) so I tried to bring my carbs down to 30g. Fair to say that level is not right for me and I found my mood became very low. I’m going to stick at 50g and accept a slower pace of weight loss. The joy creating your own recipes is that you are setting yourself up for maintenance. For breakfast I have found a smoothie with banana or oats and small amount of greek yoghurt (in the smoothie so you can’t taste it) or some ham and cheese keeps me going for the 5 hours from breakfast to lunch and a high protein lunch keeps me going the next 5 hours till tea. After tea I don’t eat again till breakfast. Each time I eat, I am hungry and if starving, I change that option for the future. Weekends I’m a bit easier on myself and I am having haggis tonight but only with neeps 🙂
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Welcome fififo – Some of us are naturally slow to lose weight – me included. It’s good that you recognise that lower carb levels are a problem for you and your well being. As you say, better to accept a slower rate of discard.
I would be very cautious about getting the extra carbs from things like bananas and oats though, as these are very carb heavy items and certainly in the case of bananas which are sugary, will almost certainly cause blood sugar spiking and so cause hunger. Finding estra carbs in things like veggies is a better option – spinach, kale, broccoli, cauli etc.
Enjoy your haggis and neeps tonight and keep posting your progress.
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Hi Fififo,
I also had haggis and neeps, and loved it. As I always do. Why do we only eat it twice a year?! -
I know. We are the same in our house. Did you remember your poem from school as well. Mine was to a mouse
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I remember learning ‘Fair fa yer honest sonsie face..” all the way through in English classes at school. Had no clue what it was about, we didn’t speak like that in Bearsden!
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The only part of the poem I can remember is “wee sleekit cooring timorous beastie” lol.. Must have been from the poem to a mouse!
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Glad you both enjoyed your haggis and neeps, but think the reason it’s should perhaps remain an occasional meal, is the carb content of the components.
Estimated 16g carbs in 100g of haggis and 9g carb in 100g of neeps. Not sure what portion size you’d have, but a couple of 100g of each would total 50g, which for a lot of folks on the forum, is a whole day’s worth or even two days’ worth of carbs in one meal.
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sunnyb. Thanks for that. It was burns night yesterday and it is traditional that Scots across the world celebrate with a traditional burns supper of haggis neeps and tatties and learn burns poems by heart hence the reference to the wee beastie.
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Completely understood fififo, the comment was not meant as a criticism – as an occasional event there’s no need to change the tradition more than you have, just thought it might be useful note in general, for anyone thinking of including haggis as a regular meal option.