MM-Blood-sugar-diet-Part3

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BSD Part 3

Will add in decent tips section tomorrow - have it all typed out, just need to log in from a proper computer, not phone

A good day here in the beautiful sunshine. MiL had my two boys today so I've had a busy day, I get so much done in those few hours, I'm on 14000 steps already. I'm counting that as my workout today as it's too hot for a run- perhaps if I was fitter but it wouldn't be a pretty sight. For dinner tonight I've had garlic and cheese stuffed mushrooms and a salad. I've come in at 730 cals today, I'm just going to 'bank' them as it's the weekend tomorrow. Hope everyone has had a good day?

Had my frittata (thanks H3). Made with random fridge-dwelling veg and topped with goats cheese. Yum!

That sounds just the ticket not, I hope you have a lovely weekend with your friend. The rain and pmt have put me right off exercising too.....

H3l3na thanks for the coleslaw recipe. I'm afraid when I still had a headache, I opted for a bag of crisps and two painkillers.

I felt much better today but am starting to wane now. I'm finding that the light nights make me want to eat more because it feels much longer between dinner and bed even though I know it isn't

Hi all; been to see an interesting show tonight. Alternative type comedy stuff. One thing he focussed on was addiction, made me think that sugar is a drug. He talked about addiction, cravings.......when we get what we want, we feel sooo good, until the day after when we feel sooo bad & then want the thing that makes us feel better...... Drugs. Sugar. Carbs. Whatever.......So if you eat the crap that turns you on, you will want more of it, day in, day out, & as it's addictive, the next day you will feel rubbish until you get more & more........ Made sense to me....

Sounds more like therapy than comedy h313 - I could do with a bit of that - I'm defo addicted to sugar and until now have never managed to give it up. This is the longest I've ever gone without.
Inadvertently had some b beans and they tasted horrible!! Too sweet!
I've found I'm thinking about food soo differently now - more like seeing all the bad, empty sweet carby stuff like poison than food. I've known for a long time that it does me no good but now it seems to mean something ifykwim??
I have an inflammatory arthritis and sugar definately makes the pain worse and so does wheat so that's an extra incentive.

Anyway, am awake cos the bloody cat woke me - I could throttle him!

I'm up too, sitting on the stairs outside the baby's room and listening to him not falling asleep.
I agree with the 'poison' idea, I have noticed a definite shift in his I think about sweet food now. In the early weeks I was worried I'd miss it so much, and yet now even though I still 'like' it, I don't really miss it. I suppose I am getting my enjoyment from enjoying other food, and not just the blandness of 'sweet'. I've started to notice as well that all sugar tastes the same, but if I eat cherry tomatoes for example, they have a different sweetness to, for example, squash or carrot.
I was at my slimming group on Wednesday and the leader was talking to the group about her breakfast: egg bread, but made with sweetner in the egg, and muller light on top, and chopped up banana ....she said 'ooooh sorry bear, this must be making you drool as you're sugar free!' - but all I could think of was 'how on earth are you going to function with all that poison in your body? You'll be starving hungry in an hour'. Another lady cried because she was so addicted to chocolate and she couldn't stop herself. And I thought, that was me, only a few weeks ago. I wanted to jump up and tell her how she could be 'free' but I didn't for fear of looking barking mad

Yep, I'm enjoying 'tasting' food properly. I've noticed that anything remotely processed tastes vile...really salty, sugary and makes me so thirsty.
It's amazing eh - setting ourselves free?!
Pears are a real sweet treat now, and cherry toms. Lovely.
We must be doing something right!

I know it would be nicer if we were all still sleeping but nice to see other people up for a bit of company. When I hear that SW story, it gets my goat, I hate the way they keep missing the point. Instead of changing the habits or substitute in a good way, they seem to go out of their way to introduce processed muck as an alternative. I know it works for so many & that's great but the message feels wrong. That poor lady who cried, I feel for her, addiction to chocolate etc is soo hard. So I've done my WI and it's 11.4.2 - down from 11.6.4 at the start of the week but up 1.2 from last Friday. Meh it's no surprise, I'll just keep going as best I can. Busy day ahead so head down and leave it behind me. Hoping it's going to be nice here today so the kids can have a play outside & tired themselves out😁

It is a bit deep, yes. But its good isn't it, because for me at least, it's not just about getting a smaller body but it's about making peace with myself and finding a way to live this way for ever. I've been a drug worker and worked in the prison service for a long time and have encountered a lot of addicts. The Overwhelming sense that I get from them is their powerlessness. They simply cannot break free of the most destructive thing in their life, and it rules them , and it overrides their intention to change on a daily basis. Sound familiar? Now, I consider myself very fortunate that I have never been addicted to crack or heroin, but the addiction I have is sugar. I use it for the same reasons, and my body experiences the same chemical experience, particularly the dopamine/sugar response. Which is why, even now after 8 weeks clean, I still fanatasize about throwing myself into a vat of chocolate fudge icing.....

Think the early hours are a good time for all this stuff.
Bear I was a drugs worker too before having my DS - I miss the work sometimes I found it really fascinating and such a priviledge too. And yes the parallels are spot on. If sugar was illegal my life would be very different!

Well done on being sugar fee the new bear and everyone else who is. I have been meaning to do a 'whole 30' BSD phase for a week but not managed to gather myself to do it after more than 3 months of this! I ate an entire galaxy bar yest, was under 1200 cals for the day but still up to 1433.5 lbs from my lowest weight so far of 142.9 yest so defo not worth it! Really keen to get 139lbs asap that was my overall goal.

It is very moving to read all your threads which have come in overnight, lovely ladies, I think knowing we have issues & facing up to them is half the battle, well, if not half, at least goes some way to trying to solve them.

I understand that some people have more 'addictive personalities' (??) than others, but it's becoming screamingly obvious to me, that the sugar which has been put in our food for so many years is, actually, a toxin and has a dire effect on the population, it's not just about weight, it's screwing with our heads.

I was brought up to see sweets & cake as a treat, (weekends only) and used those behaviour patterns with my step-children & grandchildren, I still never buy children eg God-children sweets, or fizzy drinks, ever. But I am now realising that the blasted stuff is everywhere, in chilled cooked meats, in prawns (thank you M&S) in sauces, in really basic food-stuffs, it is sort of a Brave New World of food control, if you see what I mean & it's killing us.......

Morning all. Bit grumpy this morning as I seem to have stalled a bit this week so far, despite being good since Monday. But on the positive side, my NSV is that I'm noticing that all my clothes fit much better. I wouldn't say that I've gone down a size, but I feel much better about the clothes that I already have. Probably because I am more comfortable in them as much as anything else.
Picked up my new activity tracker/gps watch from the PO this morning. Sitting here impatiently whilst it charges up...

I think I may be lucky in that the things that I have been "addicted" to (in the loosest possible sense) have been more from habit than anything else. Not that it's easy to break those habits, especially when the peer pressure/environment is not conducive to change. I've had to try REALLY HARD this week because there's been a huge pile of biscuits and chocolate next to the coffee machine at work, and usually I'd be the first to dig in!

The removal of sugar is the one part of this diet that I haven't followed tbh. We don't eat much processed food in our house and I don't use sugar often in cooking so I know when we do eat sugar iyswim but I can't say I notice any impact on our moods or health whether we are eating sugar or not.

I realise this may sound like blasphemy on a BSD thread

If you're not eating processed food or use sugar aplace then it's probably not that big an issue for you. For me it was/is the "goodies" or truth be told baddies aka choc/crisps that took its toll on my body. The less I have of them and the more I have of protein/decent fats the less I want them.
Right - I have 3 weeks to night away and I want to see 10 something on the scales, I'll take 10.13.9 😁 And here we are again at the gates of doom aka Weekend! Flippity flip flip flip

Not2be why dont you take a break from weekends this weekend deletes post about eating a galaxy (literally ;) on a thursday)

Eh not sure what taking a break from weekends means unless...gulp...you mean treat it like 3 normal days??? Steady on, I'll have to resort to the vapours 😉

lol yup thats what I mean! what are vapours?

Ahh the vapours, something the Victorian ladies would use when they'de go faint, I'll resort to clutching my pearls😁

Not2b yy sweets; cakes and crisps are the biggest source of sugar in our diet but I guess I view that as knowing they are also full of processed rubbish so I shouldn't be eating them on that basis iyswim? I'm realising that's the story I tell myself anyway

I've just moved to a new office and it's adding 3000 steps to my daily routine so I'm very happy about that. I need to do an online shop. I find I'm much more disciplined online than in person except when it comes to MN or Amazon

I thought that was what you meant...then wondered if it was some cool new thing I didn't understand!

Crikey 3000 extra steps! That will defo be good for the pedometer!

Just back from pub......... DH decided he wanted to take the 'new' car for a spin, as I haven't (terror) yet....... So we just had to go to the pub...... Aaaarrgghhhh...... Have decided I can stick to BSD if on my own, it's him indoors who does for me.... Pedometer. Yes. Have one of them, why haven't I thought of that! Great, well happy at that idea. Suspect today's walk will end up as a zizzzz............. Sod it.

However have now just instructed that after grilled plaice & chips (me) & steak & kidney pudding WITH chips (him) that tonight is soup...................should be gruel.....

Tomorrow is now set to be a trash day too as it's Eurovision & we have been invited to drinkies & a curry to view the catastrophe that is competitive singing.. Double sod it as I had intended a totally dry weekend. Bigger, bum & damn.

Bigger, not bigger...... Rotfl....hic....