Blood sugar diet thread 8

[thenewaveragebear1983]

Thread 8 for the blood sugar dieters

Jiggly well done on the NSVs!
bear you are doing brilliantly - great losses. It just shows that if we focus, BSD does work no matter which round we're on. Your results are really inspiring - for you!
Welcome geeup good luck for your round in Nov We are a friendly bunch. The BSD threads are a little sea of niceness and sanity in the MN madness.
I am one pound back up since the weekend which isn't ideal because it's my birthday this week and I have two lunch dates with friends for which I'm giving myself a BSD-pass.

Hello all. Still not doing very well here. Ok with meals. It’s just the eating chocolate etc in between. Haven’t dared to weigh myself.

Thanks

Not doing too brilliantly today though. Had a chocolate brownie and latte for lunch. Then the PTA chairman dropped round a bag of chocolate bars for the function at the end of the week, I date checked it all and found some was out of date, so would need to be chucked (or fed to non-paying consumers!) so just ate 2 out of date mars bars and an out of date crunchie! Wtf???? What a tragic way for a bsd'er to go.....death by out of date chocolate poisoning

Is anyone else feeling really slow and sluggish these days? I feel like a wrung out cloth, no energy at all, sleeping like a log and then feeling all 'meh' by 10 am. I am drinking way to much coffee to get me through the day as well. Don't feel ill per se, just absolutely washed out, like how you feel just after flu or an illness. It's not that though, as I've had it for weeks, it must be a virus in its own right.

Hope you're all doing better than me today!!

Yes! Me bear. I've felt shit all day. No energy and bloated. I am starting to wonder if it's because I had a carby weekend with fairy cakes and an M&S pasta ready meal last night because I'd had such a busy weekend. Followed this up with another fairy cake and scoffing spoonfuls of left over spaghetti at DC dinner time.

I'm annoyed with myself. I've lost weight, done ok at the gym and had more energy than I can remember having for years since I've been BSD'ing. I'm not sure why I have lost the plot these past few days.

Hello. Please can I join your thread? I've just started week 4 of the BSD 8-week plan. I'm 14lbs down so far, so pretty pleased with that. I had a blip yesterday as we were out for dinner - managed to avoid potatoes, but had too much white wine, crisps and olives. Restarted today, though. So far, so good and it's the only diet I've ever done where I actually like the food I'm eating. I've got (at least) another 2 stone to lose.

Welcome Avon and congratulations on your loss so far! What are you eating, are you following the book or freestyling?

Following the book pretty religiously, apart from any avocado, which I hate! At the end of this week I’m just going to restart with week 1.

Good for you.

I hated avocado too. Now I love them, I eat it every day. I like them a touch underripe as they are too mushy when they ripen fully.

One thing I have noticed is that if I don’t drink a LOT of water during the day, my mouth is very dry by nighttime.

Avon yes, I also find if I don't drink water during the morning by the afternoon I am really 'picky' and can't stop nibbling, although drinking the water at the point I notice this doesn't work. I do try and drink at least a few glasses throughout the morning.

I've rehidden the scales. I don't think it can actually be linked, but there seems to be a definite correlation between weighing myself and then going off track (even if I weigh in and it's a good result!) - this seems odd I know, and I'm sure really they aren't linked, but i felt like I was doing so much better when I didn't weigh for a few days. I ended up eating terribly yesterday.

Today I am going out with my sister and her baby for a walk and a coffee. Lunch will be either something out, or salad when I get home, dinner is spicy chicken possibly with a peanut butter sauce.

Busy couple of days at work. It would be so easy to eat sandwiches and crisps for lunch to get me through it! Going to stick to salad which I shall buy first thing and put in the fridge so I'm not tempted by anything quicker to grab cone lunchtime.

I’ve realised that I frequently confuse feeling hungry with being thirsty. Now when I think I’m hungry I have a glass of water first. More often than not, I don’t want anything to eat afterwards. 😲

Odd day for me- I've picked a lot on cheese and other tidbits purely because there was nothing in the fridge. Finally got to the supermarket this evening. Everything on plan but just not very interesting and have gone way over on calories on what feels like nothing. I need to rev up my menu a bit, which couldn't come at a worse time because we're trying to have a cheap week and use up some freezer stuff.

Had this for my tea. I mentioned before about 'men's diet' foods being high protein and sugar free and women's being low fat and high sugar. Here's another example. It wasn't particularly tasty, I wouldn't buy it again, but it was 'on plan'. No added sugar, but that's not actually advertised on it. It does make me think of all the years and all the money I've spent on low fat diet products and foods over the years, and how I'm basically a salesman's dream as I would buy anything low fat! Clearly didn't work for me.

Week one done! 3.5kilos lost :)

I've decided I need to add everything to MFP as the calories in the BSD recipe book are quite out. Today's breakfast is listed as 330 when it's really 450! So I'm swapping around my dinner plans to try and keep closer to 800.

ICJump great losses! Well done!

Well done ICJump - that's a great loss!

I haven't got the BSD recipe book but we've all found the calories are way out in the diet one so not surprised to hear the same applies there. Very annoying isn't it?

Great losses IC

I'm having a busy day doing housework with ds, just stopped for a lunch/brunch (didn't realise it was only half 11!). Struggling a bit this week, my head says BSD but my heart says Carbs!

Hi all can I join please? I'm on d7, R1 of BSD. Lost 5lbs so far, not really struggling yet. Wonder when I'm going to start encountering major challenges.

My routine is this: 150 calories used up on breakfast (2x strong coffee with milk) Ratatouille with feta, salad with some sort of meat, or a tiny portion of whatever my family is eating, sans carbs. I eat the same thing for lunch and dinner and if I don't it'll mean I've replaced lunch with a couple of boiled/scrambled eggs or something very basic.

I'm 51 and my motivation for doing this is NEEDING to vanquish bloody middle-aged spread. I was an effortless size 10/12 for 45 years, then my metabolism went to shit after a period of severe stress. Developed hypothyroidism and now feel so fecking OLD. Just fat, creaky and knackered. I can't carry on being so debilitated by my weight (182lbs to start, I'm 5ft 6) and I'm determined to address it.

I'm so impressed by the recipe book, which came in the post this morning. Got some gorgeous recipes in, which I can use for the whole family. That said, I've signed up for Gousto boxes for the next few weeks because trying to think of and shop for meals for the family and possibly separate meals for me is going to make my head explode.

Still working my way through the main BSD book which is on my Kindle, but I understand the principles: enough water, low carb, lots of vegetables, exercise every day including muscle building, 800 calories. That's about it isn't it?

Anyway, nice to join you!

Well following on from my post this Morning, I'm really struggling this evening. Ended up eating biscuits at 4 and that never ends well.

I feel so blooming knackered at the moment, so 800 calories just won't do it , but I know (only last week Dammit) if I just do the diet properly for a few days i feel more energised. I feel like a tired old slug, wading through treacle, and somehow that always ends up with sugar (not even carbs, just actual sugary crap). It's annoying that this always follows a good week with a decent loss because I will likely regain almost all of that if I continue like this any more days this week.

I've bought some multi vitamins which I never would normally take, and I really am going to try again tomorrow to get my head back on plan. I think it's largely hormonal, but there's not much I can do about that long term is there, so I need to find a way of stopping myself doing these horrible sabotages that undo all my hard work.

thenewaveragebear1983 I get very tired too, not only menopausal but hypothyroid and have low low ferritin. My plan is to try to get horizontal as often as I need to while doing this diet. Obviously can't do it at work.... but am going to nap at weekends and go to bed early. Also nodding off in chairs like an old codger. I normally eat and eat when I'm tired, just sitting poking food into my mouth like I'm stoking a boiler. It's a miracle I'm only a size 16 given how often I do it....

Welcome mini
bear it's hard. Fingers crossed the vitamins help.
I'm eating too much too early. I don't know if it's the weather that's making me hungrier. It's so dark and miserable here. By 4pm I had eaten 750 cals today. Now I have to try to magic up a meal on 50 cals or eat back my exercise cals (600 cals).

APlaceOnTheCouch. I'm finding that my strong coffees in the morning help me cope with no food.

I really can't cope at all without coffee. 😔

mini I don't drink coffee or tea. I'm also not a big fan of breakfast. So I didn't actually start eating until lunchtime today. It's just I found it difficult to stop
I had some tuna this evening so have ended the day on 1040. I have a busy day tomorrow so hopefully will get back on track.

1,225 here so not a disaster but not great either. 14 hour day at work which really didn't help. Day off tomorrow so will try and squeeze in the gym.

to mini.

The trouble with the sugar to get through the afternoon thing is it works. It would be so much easier to kick if it didn't give you a temporary rush of energy. Something sweet to get through the afternoon has been a long established pattern for me. Especially at work.

I gave up smoking in my early 20's. I half think I would have been better off keeping it up as I was thin then and never craved sugar to keep me going!

Oh no.... wait. It was a disaster at 1594.

For some reason I mentally erased both the glass of red wine and the full fat latte.