Michael Mosley - Blood sugar diet Part2

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Bsd part 2

Ha! ladies that lush

making dinner now so I can have some pre pickup then save some for dp pos dc. Making a storecupboard concoction -cannellini bean pancetta tomato sauce thing to have on courgetti, was supposed to be H&H celeriac carbonara but the celeriac had gone off :(

Sounds lovely elvish - enjoy

Newaverage well done on shred!!

Oh dear. I had some fudge and now I'm on 628 calories and 61g carbs. Fail! Today might have to be a TDEE day. I think I might try to aim for mostly good but with the odd fuck it day from here on in.

Without wanting to be negative and in the spirit of full disclosure the I
if you think you wanted to cry doing the shred, wait til tomorrow...you could be pretty sore, if you can find the time to have a bath do. It can take a few days to get used to it. I remember having to ring in sick once after overdoing exercise DVD, I did a full Davina one, over 2 hours. I kid you not, I couldn't walk down the stairs, never made that mistake again! I'm achey today after the shred with weights.
Oh I love fudge but can't be trusted around it or chocolate or crisps of anything calorific

Weighed in this morning and 2.2 pounds down making a total of ten pounds for the two weeks so far, I'm slightly disappointed as I've stayed roughly the same for the last 3 days or so but I did have the big wine disaster Friday night so it could be down to that.

Feeling a bit chicken and salad-ed out, I got a 5:2 recipe book out of the library so will have a look through there and see if there's any nice low carb options.

I need to shred too, it's just fitting it into the day. My only choices are getting up before 6.30 and doing it before the children get up or doing it while the children are at playgroup and school, but that means going out with manky hair and no make up first!

Thanks for the tip not2be , it is literally years since I have done any formal exercise bar swimming, so I am gonna be sore tomorrow! What's the protocol regarding working out when you're already aching, ie. Tomorrow? I'm assuming the idea with shred is that I do it every day for 30 days? (Can you tell how new to this I am?!)

Love the recipe ideas newaverage will be giving some of them a go over the next week or so.

I swap a lot of ingredients, so if it says salmon, I will try mackerel, if it's chicken I swap with prawns, I also use Thai, Vietnamese and other assorted spice mixes and pastes to keep the boredom at bay.

Vietnamese salads are yummy, with coriander, peanuts & a squeeze of lime juice, I am also experimenting with celeriac & squash 'spaghetti' instead of oriental noodles.

If spice isn't nice for you, many, many Italian dishes can easily be adapted to fit BSD, ditto Spanish. I have also been using many of the Hairy Dieters recipes with slight modifications, their Thai chicken & coconut curry is very tasty ditto their chicken Jalfrezi. DH likes the lamb tagine which I slightly modify - it's either the chickpeas or the sweet potato & I use (less) prunes instead of the apricots because they are a bit more diet friendly.

I'll be doing their Cheat's Cassoulet for supper on Friday, before we go to the concert with our friends, we can all eat it & no-one will know it's diet type food!

I'm another one who is a pound up today. I can't even blame the weekend because I was really good. I've averaged 680 calories per day over the week with 51g of carbs so I have no idea what happened. Hopefully it will sort out by tomorrow. I'm really hoping it's not like the 5:2 where I did it religiously but my weight loss stalled at half a stone and never re-started

I'm trying konjac noodles with a herbed goats cheese sauce tonight. I have been craving macaroni cheese so I'm hoping this will sate that need

Well done with all the exercising. I have been a total couch potato.

See how you feel tomorrow the - If you can manage it great but giving a day off between each session until you're more used to it will still be a vast improvement on doing nothing. You can build it up over time. Better to start realistically than turn yourself off it. I'm aiming for 3 kettlebell sessions a week, I had been doing 2 for a while & then did no sessions for 3 weeks as I had a cold (just couldn't get back into it)
I'm due a session in the morning, bleurgh😉

I am a couch potato too, but managed a walk in between the torrential downpours today!! Aqua aerobics starts next month. Gulp........

h3l3na I can highly recommend the chicken skewers and satay sauce from the 30 minute meals book, although I suspect it will be online if you don't have the book. I used only half the quantity of peanut butter and it was ample to cover 4 skewers, and I omitted some honey from the recipe as well. I also made a 'lasagne' using slices of aubergine and courgette instead of pasta and lentils replacing half the mince, portioned into foil containers at 400 cals each. I'm a definite planner when it comes to meals, I like to know what I've got coming my way!

Thank you new/bear I do have that book, I love satay & will certainly follow your advice!

Yes I make "lasagna" & moussaka like that too, using aubergine &/or courgette strips, hardly notice the difference & to be honest we will continue without pasta for good now, was just a treat before but can see we have no need for it. Am slowly working out how to find a solution to my previous twice a week standby fast supper, gnocchi.....might well have to be celeriac spaghetti unless one of us can work out a Heston gnocchi with gram flour!

Thank you new/bear I do have that book, I love satay & will certainly follow your advice!

Yes I make "lasagna" & moussaka like that too, using aubergine &/or courgette strips, hardly notice the difference & to be honest we will continue without pasta for good now, was just a treat before but can see we have no need for it. Am slowly working out how to find a solution to my previous twice a week standby fast supper, gnocchi.....might well have to be celeriac spaghetti unless one of us can work out a Heston gnocchi with gram flour!

I fell exactly the same bear - get bored and can't help adapting things but at the same time can't be arsed with the calorie calculations.
H313 it was two different bras on consecutive days - the underwire was the problem I think - digging in to the sides. I am a bit sensitive physically though generally.

Would anyone mind giving me there opinions on my menu today.

I adapted the no carb bircher recipe this morn - ended up just as yogurt and ground flax from lidl that has seeds and goji berries in - 4 dessert spoons of yog plus cinnamon.

For lunch a bowl of homemade lentil and vegetable soup.

Tea: made Hemsley's dahl - had a couple of serving spoons plus the same again of tofu, chard and tomato curry type thing. Plus a small salad of toms, cues, peppers, onions and mint with lemon juice.

Does that sound ok do you think?

Apologies for posting twice folks, wretched app tells me that my post fails...

Poor you oola DH is sensitive like that, not that he wears a bra, but he has a dickens of a job with the elastic in his pants enough she cries!

Your meals today look good to me, I can't do lentils twice a day, would need to swing the changes, but you tick all sorts of positive vitamin & nutrition boxes!

Your day sounds good oola, very on track. I've slipped a bit, under 1200 though. Why are evenings so difficult? And it's not even properly evening, I'm going to have to banish myself to bed

Ha ha ha, that did make me laugh h313 just imagining your DH getting his elastic in a twist!

Evenings are monumentally difficult aren't they Not?
Planning Game of Thrones and bed here.

Pulses twice in one day could provide some effects later - am hoping cos the dhal was mung beans I may get away with it!

I'm ok in the evenings once I get past drink o'clock; always liked to have chef's tipples when cooking; has taken close to 4 months to get over that hurdle, helped by eating early every evening when I cook eg 6.30 (DH now taken to calling it tea instead of dinner).

Once the detritus is cleared away I no longer want anything to do with the kitchen, as long as there's a recording to watch, often a food programme strangely enough, but they don't make me hungry, weird!!

Am going to bed earlier and sleeping much better since being on this regime, a marked difference.

Just had vegetable stir fry topped with some goats cheese and some chopped pistachios (both left over from Sat dinner) finished with 1 square of 85% dark chocolate & 1 prune.....

Hi there.
I'm almost too ashamed at another Monday full of excuses for my weekend failures!
I was properly ill thurs/ fri/ sat and I did what needed to be done to survive.
Back on it again today and so far only had fluids. Just about to go and have ham and beans (from the fast cookbook). And a big glass of water...
One day I'll manage a full decent week!

H3 I wish I could do that in the evenings. By the time the kids are all in bed we don't eat until about 8.30 and then I'm ravenous and hardly able to control what I eat!

H3 I wish I could do that in the evenings. By the time the kids are all in bed we don't eat until about 8.30 and then I'm ravenous and hardly able to control what I eat!

I sympathise moo it is tough when they are tiny, are you able to have something like a mug of soup with them at tea-time to help you with your hunger pangs, even half a kallo stock cube helps a bit, a few carrot sticks & a little hummus might work too?

I'm the same Moo, I work until 6, get home about 7 and then get the kids to bed and start cooking.

I used to have lunch at 12 and a snack before I left work, which helped pile on the lbs. Now I'm trying to eat lunch later, like at 2, to shorten the gap between meals.

I'm also thinking about not having breakfast so I have some cals to play with later in the day.

I try not to eat breakfast or lunch and sometimes that helps, other times it doesn't.
This week I've gained 2lbs... Back in the 12 stone something so I'm gutted...
I guess I need to keep on keeping on...