Michael Mosley - Blood sugar diet Part2

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Bsd part 2

You have all been very busy, laska - I get weird munchies too, some days I am absolutely fine, others I could eat the carpet..... But yes, after 8 weeks, perhaps the low-carb Med diet for a week might get you back on focus, you can still lose weight on it, but it's gentler!

On the wee subject, I have been peeing loads too, has anyone else got what we call in this house "Lion's Pee" 1st thing in the morning...... Really strong dark wee? Sorry about this, it's normal the rest of the day but somewhat strong when I get up.....? Have still got 1.5st to lose so no way is my body eating it's visceral fat yet.

Packing to go to town today, will take advice, play elegant & sophisticated & all glasses of wine to be interspersed with fizzy water, ice & slices. Canapes might still do for me, we'll have to wait & see!

Weight loss slow this week, despite being very much on track after Sunday's aberration, (which went again quickly) Lost 1lb this week so 21 in total... Wish my fatwould shift itself a bit faster tho'!!

Ha ha, you toe rag!!

I think a big thing just happened to me today. But it could just be my scales tricking me.

Bloody scales that Dh bought, have about 100 functions and all I want them to do is give in stones and pounds.
But it had it as lbs and when I converted it, it said I'd gone down to the next stone 9 stone 12. Out of the 10's into the 9's, for the first time. This was my goal.

But..... Was it real? Was it 'true '? Will it say the same in a few days? Can I believe it?

I have eaten a bit of chocolate in the last few days, so I'm finding this hard to believe.
And yes, after chocolate, I felt a bit bad I'd eaten it. But then I thought, no stuff it, I have to have 'some' treats. And when I did eat it, I really really focused on enjoying it. Which I did. Enormously. I suspect this isn't actually good?

And yes re the dark wee. But I've ahead had that. Thought it was just a night thing, or a diabetic thing. Don't think it's that unusual actually.

I looked up what my weight should be, this week. 8 1/2 stone it said. Bollocks, that's crap. I looked ill at 8 3/4 - my mum & all my friends were worried, so I'm gonna ignore their 'recommendations'.

I'll just keep on going. I feel like I could do this forever. It's no hardship.

I'm back! Nice to see lots of new faces here.
After 2 weeks of travelling and not having much control over food options I'm really pleased I haven't gained anything. Didn't even attempt 800 cals but I did my best to avoid bread and other starchy white carbs, seems to have worked! I'm going to ease myself back into it, start again properly on monday.

Sputnik!!
Welcome back.

Fantastic Obs truly brilliant, well done, you have worked so hard to get to your goal and it's a massive motivation to spur us all on : )

Welcome back Sputnik - pleased you managed the break without piling it all back on!

Yum you messer! Welcome back sputnik, very heartening to hear you'd no gain after your break -I've yet to master that.
Wowee Obs! The 9's, the promised land 😁 Well done for persevering

Welcome back sputnik! for maintaining on hol defo big SV

Obs well done!! High Five! fist bumps! pom pom waves (just dont eat it)

Lol at promised land - so true that's my next big milestone, was last there about 6 years ago.. Anything under 9 stone makes me a size 8 yet according to nhs I could go as low as 7 and a half and be healthy easy to see why young girls can take dieting too far.

I think I was the same around age18 Not2b family worried, periods stopped etc because I went too low, but prob still well within the apparently healthy range (I wasn't weighing though and still eating 3 (strictly controlled) meals a day).

Yes, BMI is a dodgy measuring method, now being disputed, makes all the members of our rugby squads clinically obese.... yet again, like corn-sugar this is an American import, saw a programme about weight a while back + the journalist went to some lengths to discredit it.

LoL! Re-read YumYums post, my little phone makes it look like....porn porn waves.....good grief, need bigger screen and new glasses methinks....

I'll eat the Pom- poms instead, thanks!!

H3, it's like that jacques peretti programne all about the evils of sugar and how it's been supported in an underhand way, from the US mainly, and how there is now sugar in nearly all our foods.
I like the jacques peretti programmes.

Yes Obs that's the chap, just looked it up, the programme was called the Men Who Made us Fat. They did a bloody good job on that one........

I think he's very good too, measured, thorough, informative without being extreme. Have learnt a lot from those 3 programmes.

pom poms deeeelicious

lol at porn porn

Just checked MFP, weight loss a little bit less than usual for me too this week 1.7lbs over last 7 days. Under 800 today so will be interesting to see what happens tomorrow.

I have been soooo good..... Couldn't get near the kitchen for catering staff, but restricted myself to wine in my small champagne flute.... As 200 people were jammed in a room for much less, any idea of stuffing my face went out of the window...the delightfully elegant food was delish, I was very well behaved; only eating the meaty bits on top of the weeny bowls of noodles & rice, honest! Had 3 prawns on skewers, a couple of marinated chicken bits and some radishes, the fact that I can even type is testimony to my restraint. The only naughty bits I ate were 2 postage stamp pieces of choccy brownie, they were that small because zillions more people turned up than were expected, so big bits were sliced up into ditsy pieces. Diet result!!!

Damn, I had planned to get one on tonight!!!

And in direct comparison to H3l....I am a disgrace! Oh dear god, my head is banging. Food, yep did ok, yes had a couple of baby potatoes but no bread, fish dishes for starter & mains. But the drinks, oh crap.
It's official, I'm dying. My only saving grace is I haven't woken with the fear. I didn't insult anyone (I don't ever plan to, but in younger years alcohol made me like to "share" my thoughts...oh the f'ing shame) I wasn't sloppy, I was a fine drunk! Was still applying lippy even after I got home, classy me. Say a prayer my 600mg ibuprofen kicks in soon, can't find the solpadeine...sob

Well done Helena!!! And not2be it sounds like you didn't do THAT badly!! What alcohol did you drink??

Well me being the newbie, I'm learning a lot.
Good and bad.

After 2 days I had lost 4lb.
After 3 days I had lost 4.5lb.
Was very pleased with myself, although suspect of course water weight.

Day 4: carb binge. Well 'binge' is an exaggeration... I have binged much worse in the past... but a half a cheese sandwich for lunch and then bread and rice later.
I knew I shouldn't but I was out with friends and kidded myself it was okay! Only saving grace is avoided alcohol.

Immediately - massive bloating! Indigestion! Headache! And this morning... 3 pounds back on!!

All I can say is wow... That's what carbs must do for my body, how did I never see this before!!

So I've learned...
But now I'm on my way to Dublin for an overnight trip (birthday party). I will do my best but I was already expecting today to damage it - just not yesterday too!!

Anyway I'm excited to be learning how to help myself when it comes to eating. I just might have to start week 1 again on Monday!!

Oh... and on one of the 'good days' I knocked 3 minutes off my normal 5k running time. That says it all!

Ahh Dublin - that was the scene of the crime for me last night😁
What did I drink? Hmm, you want the truth, you can't handle the truth lol! Wine (lots), vodka(3), cocktail (1-such restraint eh?)
Don't worry you didn't gain 3lb, that'll be gone in 2-3 days and you could still have that 4.5lb as your week1 loss. Every day we can get better at doing this, just a case of learning from glitches & moving on.
Rough as a badgers a*se I feel...stupid drugs aren't working

Good morning! Well to be honest Not2B I have a small hangover, nothing terminal, like yours but feel alcohol weary. I couldn't get a glass of water to save my life at the do but took on water like a camel when we got back.

Agteacht - well done with the run, suspect you now realise just how bad carbs are on the scales, but don't give up! Bung lots of protein into your mouth tonight, nothing like it to keep hunger pangs at bay, hopefully that will stop you reaching for the bread. But not reaching for the vino is to be congratulated.

Crikey Not2B that was a one hell of a mixture, you DID tie one on, your mouth must feel like a gorilla's jock-strap......

for Not2!!

I know, a cocktail of alcohol really. This is why I shouldn't be let out! I have my dad over for dinner tonight & I want to cry, I probably will in a while - get it out of my system! Ah feck it, I had a great night. I'm going to "try" to go for a walk in a bit, it won't cure me but it might help shed some of the yucky feeling. Bacon & egg time soon 😁

Not2b when you called me a messer I wondered if you were Irish! Not waking up with the fear is really all that matters after a night like that (or worse that happened to me once, when it was so bad you skip the fear bit and literally can't remember anything )

Well done H3 - sounds lovely if squashy