Blood sugar diet thread 6

[thenewaveragebear1983]

Continuing thread for the blood sugar dieters......

Thanks for writing about your goals.

Just volunteered to do a long drive sometime in next few days to take an elderly relative to a nursing home. Then I remembered about the diet. Hmmm. This will be my first test of being on the diet with no easy access to my kitchen. We'll see how I manage. Hopefully I can eat before and after.

I finished the day at under 800 calories and then an hour ago stuffed 5 biscuits. Arghh what is wrong with me! I've spent a bloody fortune on food I would never normally buy, spend the whole day being good and then sabotage myself!

My goal now is to maintain.
I started BSD last Apr at over 13 stone, size 16. BMI: obese.
I'm currently fluctuating between 10s6lbs and 10s9lbs, size 10/12. BMI: healthy.

keep I have breaks for holidays and parties. I never cut out sugar (because I knew I couldn't stick to a WOE that was sugar-free) and after the first 8 weeks I reintroduced fruit and occasional 'bad' carbs eg I love risotto so I make it every couple of weeks but try to keep within the carbs and calorie allowance by cutting back on other food on a risotto day.
I've come to the conclusion I'm probably going to have to carb and calorie count forever . Without the discipline of logging, I have no self restraint

I agree with Couch. I fear that I will be on this FORVER! but turn that around, into a positive, its a WOE(Way of eating) rather than a 'diet'.

ie to change your whole attitude to eating.

He (MM) recommends that once you get to your desired weight, you move to a more 'Mediterranean diet', a few more carbs here and there.

But I doubt I will EVER go back to the way I was before. I may introduce a few full roasts and French sticks here and there. but when I notice that the weight begins to creep back on, I will do 800 again or a fast day 5:2. That's the theory. I haven't reached my desired weight yet, so I don't know.

But even those 'on maintenance', admit that's its not easy.

I like your positive spin Oblomov
I've had 2 hours sleep and started the day by eating the ears off a Lindt bunny . . .this may not be a good BSD for me

I'm having a week 2 stall - stayed on 800 cals or close to it and have put on. Grrrr!

But still, I'm sticking with it and hoping for a whoosh - though I'm going out on Saturday and planning gin and nice food!

I've put on 2 lb since monday but to be fair I've had quite a few carbs! Not eaten yet today, heading out into the city so going to try M&S for lunch. Any suggestions? Hoping they will have some kind of ready to eat egg or salad.

Thank you everyone. DD still v poorly but showing signs of improvement .

I'm going to start next week and have been thinking about goals:

To lose 10kg
To hopefully lose the awful weight on my legs - saw some recent photos and was shocked at how dumpy I look compared to my relatively thin face
To maintain a healthy weight long term, probably by some form of 5:2

Luckily I love tofu and most other veggie proteins - I just need to make a quick reference guide re calories

for you and your dd Eagle.

I'm sure this has come up on threads before, but any tips for bsd and constipation (sorry!)? Not an issue here yet, but I'm susceptible!

I've just added to a what I now see is a semi zombie thread about useful apps and recommended Carbs and Cals. It has photos of food portions as well as huge database and was recommended to me by my gp practice nurse.

Just adding to the earlier discussion, totally with you Aplace and Oblomov - good positive twist to think of it as a wol . I tend to have holidays from it but try to keep an eye on the scales and get back to it when things go to pot! I don't very often go as low as 800 maybe once a week but I try to fast 5.30pm - 7.30 ish, I also exercise. I haven't cut things out but eat a lot more veg. As long as I track cals on MFP I seem to lose, when I freestyle it nearly always goes back on. I would rather that than just eat 100% perfectly though

www.oprah.com/health/How-to-Lose-Weight-Diet-Tips-Charting-Your-Weight-Graph

Don't know if this will do a 'clicky link' but I just saw it on a FB group and thought it sounded very interesting and might be useful on here

So coming to my first weekend on bsd and I was wondering what others do. Usually we have "fun food" dinners, homemade burgers, fries, salad, fajitas or go out for a meal. I've come up with doing steak and cauli mash. So far so good. But I usually have wine or beer or g&t. So not that this week. Any jazzing up suggestions for the weekend or do you treat the same as any other day?

That's an interesting article bear. It made me realise that I first put on weight when I was breastfeeding. Partly because the HV kept saying the advice was to eat more calories (without checking how many I was eating in the first place) and because I was working from home so picked at food all day. This time I put on weight because of working from home again and not really exercising.
It's made me realise I need to fit exercising into my routine again.

I thinks it's interesting, particularly the question about when you felt in control of your weight.

I mostly felt that when I was devastatingly unhappy, had no control over anything else, cried constantly, smoked a lot and barely ate at all - 4oz hummus and a packet of square crisps or Discos. Or a bit of toast. That's was all.

I don't want to be back there, no matter how thin I was.

tobee I swear by chia seeds - sprinkled on yoghurt in the morning or on top of a salad. Can be found in all good health food shops for lots of money or in the baking section of many supermarkets for a lot less!

We are eating well: gammon, tonight beef stir fry. Dh is doing all the meal planning, shopping and cooking. Fabulous.
Makes a welcome break for me who normally stands in the supermarket and cries 'oh lord I can't bear to decide whether we are going to eat meatballs or pie and steamed veg, 'YET AGAIN'.

I've stuck to calories all week but not really got my head around the carbs.

What's everyone's plans for eating over the weekend?

Oblomov that looks fab.
I had a busy day today so my eating has been somewhat erratic. I'm currently on about 850 cals with 70g carbs but I'll probably need to go to bed to stop myself eating more

Still not lost anymore this week, despite sticking to around 800 cals and averaging 45g of carbs...

Meh, it'll go eventually, I need to think of this as a WoL, not a quick fix!

Hello everyone. Reporting in because its Saturday. No loss, but no gain, so I guess maintenance is working. Actually, I weighed 9.8.8 yesterday which was the first time I've been below 9.9 without having run before I weighed myself (yes, I know that's cheating ). So I think in real terms I'm still losing, but very slowly now.

Upthread, people were talking about goals. Mine are:

(1) Maintain where I am now. This is my absolute minimum, I really don't ever want to gain.
(2) Ideally, I'd like to get to 9 stone. I'm 9.9ish now, it's feasible if I put in a last effort. But it is less important than maintaining where I am now.

Overall, I guess, I want to be healthy and feel good about myself. When I started I was 12 stone and I felt terrible about myself. I had a work medical this week and I was a healthy BMI and that felt really good. I was actually 9.7 on their scales, but I can't count that, sadly.

Agree that this is a way of life. I'm no longer being perfect, but I've definitely changed how I eat and I can't see that changing now.

Maudes thanks! I have chia seeds already and they are added along with flax seeds to my yoghurt but will add to salad too!

Ending the day at 1500 cals but only 30g carbs.

800 cals hopefully from tomorrow, although I'm not sure how it will pan out because I'm bloody starving most days and eat double that!! Portion size is my enemy here, I just find it so hard to get down to 800 and I'm a massive 'snacky-bored eater' so I really need to focus for the next two weeks if I stand any chance of losing any weight at all before holiday,

Old me would think it's not possible so sod it, and probably gain another few pounds before i go away. New me says I could lose half a stone in two weeks if I behave myself.

(Old me is not convinced by new me's enthusiasm)