Starting the Newcastle Diet...

[MrsWooster]

Started yesterday after breakfast at 105.2kg. I've got a hba1c test today to track it.
So far so Good! Im using exante products as meal replacement and the almond vanilla shake was ok- quite marzipan y. The veg stir fry mixed with the laksa soup mix would have been OK if I'd added a LOT more garlic, chili and ginger. This morning's cherry berry shake was properly nasty- like thick old skool cough mixture. Live and learn.
Any hot tips, companions, advice are welcome.
Wish me luck.

The doctor made me go to the dietician and explain it to her, then she advised the Gp to prescribe it.thay gave it to me for a month, and I think the dietician was sceptical but when I got results she ate her words and recommend they could prescribe it for 6 months. It is so convenient for me to do. You mix it with water, so it is perfect for me to take to work. I was 21 stone when I started, now 18 8. Can't wait to get into the 17's. Have had a few weeks where all I lost was half a pound or stayed static. What always gets the weight moving is to drink huge amounts of water. I now drink 3+ litres a day. I fill up a 2l bottle every morning at work and make sure I have drunk it by the time I leave. In addition I have black tea, and water at home. Good luck with your efforts today!

95.99kg
Boo. Shakey breakfast and lunch, with excellent self control in the face of a department bring and share picnic. However, preparing ds birthday cake was a bit too much for me, as were chocolate brownie buns in the shape of cups for the party tomorrow.... broken cake, marzipan and chocolate icing: I haven't checked the fine detail of the diet but I'm pretty sure this is a bad idea. Will have a stir fry tonight and plenty of water to try and wash it out- a little water clears us of this deed!!

95.7kg
I don't really think that anything under 200g is really anything more than wee and a trump.
Shakey breakfast but it's definitely birthday party and I'm already on the wrong side of a warm cinnamon roll so better start moving around and drinking lots of water...

Apologies Mrs W - work has distracted us both! And maybe a few drinking nights out for me! I also ate some cake in work - but lets not tell the master of complete restraint that is MrE! Not heard of inulin - but would say we were taking lots of supplements 6 months ago - but Mr eve doesn't take anything now - he just continues to eat massive amounts of vegetables - at least his 10 a day - and it does seem to be a game changer for him. I have to say he looks really healthy these days and his skin colour is rosy (no longer grey!). His GP had only vaguely heard of the Newcastle diet and the 3 month diet change trial after his T2 diabetes was diagnosed was down to him insisting. When the first results came back the reaction was 'you were lucky' - she was not impressed it worked or wanted to know more - though she did say MrE was the second patient to try the diet (with the same positive result!). I think they see things as 'luck'. Drugs have side effects - and it is the luck of the draw if you suffer from them or not - same for taking positive steps through following scientifically proven lifestyle /diet change! Now the second 3 month results confirm wasn't a fluke they seemed almost annoyed and told him not to come back again! I also need to make sure a good intake of water today (which has nothing to do with a feeling of slight hangover!). Oh and note kilos falling off - well done! I am also going to make more chilli sauce (has to seep for a week) - is delicious mixed into cottage cheese (recipe is from the James Wong book - honestly am not on commission! - should be as have bought 3 more copies for friends!). Enjoy the party - stick to (mainly!) carrots and peppers!

Carrots and peppers, you say... I may have become confused and eaten many, many items of party food and chocolate brownie... I think it is best to draw a quiet line under today and start again. I shall think about it tomorrow!

Have you found your meter yet?

98.8kg
Looks like the party food is still in there... that'll teach me. Straight edge all the way today.

Still haven't found the meter, Buxton I may have to get another but things are a bit tight temporarily. I have hundreds of test strips for the lost one too - it isn't/ wasn't very old. I'll have another look round as I think it would really keep my focus if I can see the immediate effect of the sugars and carb hits.

Dead battery in the scales. Perhaps as well after Saturday's debacle. Lots of stir fry veg yesterday and today has been shakey breakfast, shakey lunch and McDonald's chicken salad for tea - busy day so I have slipped back into idle fast food ways.

It is astonishing how food and emotions are entwined. Before this I pretty much ate all the time so connections between mood and food weren't so explicit but now, when I feel low: sweet / carby food. Tired: carbs. Bored:food, any food. The future needs whole different focuses, not just more veg.

Hey I'm sure you are allowed a party now and again! I am not good at restraint if there is a brownie or two staring right at me - but generally am getting better and it's been interesting observing the changes to MrEve over the past 6 months (who can starve for a day rather than eat anything that might contain sugar or bad carbs!). He also cooks/prepares a lot - and he is always offering to feed the kids (they are both over 18 now!). I told him to stop cooking for them - we want them to leave! - but he says he enjoys it and he wants to make sure they stay healthy! He is getting quite inventive with salads (of which he usually has 2 a day). Oddly he still isn't keen on carrots! He has also gone from being a huge meat eater to mostly vegetarian - except for some oily fish! I'm glad you and @Buxton are having good results with shake replacement meals - but MrE didn't fancy them and wanted to do a complete turnaround with his diet and with lifestyle change he could maintain forever! I think (or maybe hoping) there is a big change with more food places offering really quite healthy alternatives - e.g. Pret / Crussh / Leon etc - so hopefully the tide is turning! Even Tesco's etc have some really quite good healthy things (well they do the best cottage cheese, haloumi and feta I've tasted - not all in one go though!). I'll keep the observations of MrE going and keep you posted on this human study!

96.0kg. Still waiting for the inulin to get Things Moving...

95.9kg
But..DS celebrated his birthday party night on Saturday with a sick bug from school which has now hit DD and me! Hurrah for the galloping trots and vomming for a quick weight loss.

Up 3 lbs for me today; I know exactly where from. I ate a huge amount of vegetables so carrying that all (and associated water) around with me. But nothing with high carbs or sugar, so my blood sugars stayed really low. HBA1c test on Monday. Hopefully it will be really good results!

Hope you are OK - and keeping the fluids up (and out)

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94.0kg
At last, the miracle diet. If you don't have dc of your own, simply pop to the nearest primary school and steal a lollipop form a peaky looking kid. A mere 36 hours of bloody awful mild wretchedness and voila!
Wednesday was unpleasant, to say the least, but it passed and I did keep my liquids up Eve - sometimes full sugar lemonade is the most blissful concoction on gods' green earth. Apparently I was run over by a steamroller at some point on Wednesday as well so yesterday passed more or less unnoticed and today I am much better, though keeping close to home. It's a training day at work so I thought I would go in but it turns out that a 3 hour safeguarding session in the school hall would be a Very Bad Idea for all concerned. Back to normal food - ie normal for me, so shakey breakfast and veg soup for lunch later. Honestly, it's enough to give a person the shits...

Back down to 18: 8 Think I have another plateau, but not losing the faith! Hope everybody is doing ok. Remember to drink loads of water still, even though it is cooler.

94.7kg
That's probably more rational. Last night we decided to reschedule ds' family birthday tea, postponed from Wednesday by the great pestilence. Great fun had by all and a leggera pizza had by me, to a total of 600 calls. A chunk of grub, but with a skipped lunch and a shakey breakfast it came in under 800 for the day so could be worse.

94.6kg
Plateauville. I am not toeing the line - spoilt by the germ warfare diet. Yesterday had shakey breakfast then made the schoolgirl error of taking dc to kids and calculating that one piece of chicken would be about 250 cals so it would be ok... There is no such thing as one piece of kids, especially when kids pick and nibble at their portions. By the end of the meal it looked like an archeological dig, with an array of impeccably clean bones and me with a greasy, glazed air of guilt. Probably amounted to 750 cals of no fibre - at least it was mostly protein, i suppose. Even veg soup for tea hasnt redeemed the issue. Every day is a new start so shakey breakfast today. All I have to do is withstand the temptations of the school summer fete worse then death and keep on keeping on.

Hey glad you are feeling better! Toe the line and escape plateauville - still trending in the right direction though. Made my 'special' bread today for DH today - he went to the 'exercise park' up the road - so a little treat for him!

Could've been worse: shakey lunch then accidentally fell, mouth first, onto the dc's left over cheese crackers... stir fry veg for tea so may have kept it under 800. Tomorrow, perhaps, I will stop being a scavenger.

I must try that one, sorry DH there's no XXXX left as I accidentally fell on it .....

95.0kg
Narky. How can I not be lower when I ate that much AND had a poo?? Not fair.
Not exactly straight and narrow today... shakey breakfast, no lunch due to emergency (very small) piece of banana loaf when a friend needed tea and sympathy. It would be WRONG to let someone in crisis eat cake alone. Fish and chip tea for kids so I had a small fish with light batter. The shop claims that a 'mini meal' is the fish, small chips and mushy peas and is 400 cals. Assuming a bit of understatement on their part, the fish and half a peas MUST be only 300..? Shake, cake, fish... 800?? Dieticians everywhere are sitting up like meerkats, sensing someone talking bollocks. I will almost certainly develop scurvy soon and terminal constipation if I keep cocking about like this, although the inulin arrived this morning so my beleaguered colon should have some support.

94.3kg
Mwahahahahah. Laughing in the face of all decent dietary advice, as I type with my wizened, weakened, scurvy ridden fingers...

Another today, another chance for sensible choices. Good dessertspoon of insulin in the shakey breakfast, so confidently expect to jet along cheerfully on the schoolrun. I have revised my target to 85kg so being this side of 10kg to go feels good. It is also a week to go until the end of the first 8 weeks. Clearly, Im not going to get to the target weight in a week and also need to wait until later in the month for the next hba1c so the plan is to carry on for a bit.

Inulin, not insulin. I'm not completely insane yet

95.0kg
Fml.

97.0kg yesterday
94.3kg today.
Am trying to toughen up on the regime but it would be a hell of a lot easier with a more tangible result...