Blood sugar diet thread 8

[thenewaveragebear1983]

Thread 8 for the blood sugar dieters

Oblomov the food looks beautiful. Would you recommend Budapest? I've never been and am always looking for new places.

I was also celebrating 11+ AvonCalling so fed badly off the BSD wagon with too much wine and garlic bread

Managed to haul myself back onto the straight and narrow yesterday and have zero excuses to not be good this week - well at least until we go on holiday at the weekend!

Couch, yes totally. It’s so beautiful. Cheap. Fun. Clean. Brilliant. I’ve been many times.

But then I like: Prague, Bruges, Barcelona, all Italian cities.

Next year we might do: Bratislava, Dubrovnik or Romania.....

My low carbing? Funnily enough not so good.
During the week, fine.
Majorca and Budapest? Not so much! 😳🙄
Fried cheese, wine, cocktails. Not exactly 800 calories. More like :

3364
3218
4298
5672

So, err just the 4900 over, then? Ooooops!! 😁

Trying to be on it: cod loin, chorizo and ratatouille!

bear that looks amazing!
Oblomov I love Prague, Barcelona, Bologna, Rome, Milan, etc, so I'm definitely going to add Budapest to my list.Thanks!
I've been at the hospital all day because my uncle is ill. I'm so tired and so tempted to order in a takeaway but may raid my cupboards to see if there is anything BSD friendly and easy to cook.

Would doing BSD in a 16:8 window add any benefit?

Hi all, Another20 yes it's possible, although in order to get the calories low, a lot of people only eat 2 meals anyway. I tend to eat at around 12 and 6, so do an 18:6 pattern most days when I'm being good. There's not a huge amount of time spent eating on such a meagre amount of calories. Do you do the plan already? --

Really good day yesterday. Ended on 850 and 48 carbs. Today, I've been gardening with ds. It's been such a beautiful day and we've been digging out bushes and hacking away ivy, it's been very strenuous. I haven't counted but I've also hardly eaten so will likely be around the 800s. Having mustard chicken and sprouts for tea (sprouts being one of my favourite foods so I'm happy!).

It's like a veil has lifted from my brain .... If that makes sense? I was feeling so low last week, this week feel so much brighter. I don't know if the plan follows my mood of if my mood follows the plan, but when one is better the other is better too. I have been taking a vitamin though and went to bed earlier last night. Perhaps that has helped??

Hope everyone's doing well?

Finished on 923 but found that hard today.

Back on the wagon after my holiday. I came home weighing 2lb more than before I went and 10 days later that has gone, plus another 2lb. I've been doing this diet with days off for special events and holidays (when I just do my best, not a total pig out) since June and I am down from 13 stone 1 lb to 10 stone 12lb. I want to be 9 stone so I'm hoping for 10 stone by Christmas and to be settled at 9 by Easter next year. I tend to eat much the same each day. Spinach and poached egg is favourite breakfast. Salad with tofu or Quorn cocktail sausages for lunch and a normal main course for supper with loads of salad or veg ( just a small portion) and some berries. It was very hard this week, I wanted puddings and wine and all other sorts of nice food I'd been eating over the previous fortnight but this is far too important to me than anything else at the moment, so renewed effort is very necessary.

Urg I fucked up today.

I saw it coming but I stepped in anyway.

So I'm going away tomorrow and wanted a pair of white leggings. So I spent yesterday evening and this mornin in and out of change rooms trying in clothes that make me look awful and looking at my lump horrible stomache and thighs. All the good work I've done of trying to feel proud of my body, the exercise to be stronger all feels undone. Do tonight at diner I just kept eating probably 3 serves if dinner and I've eaten like 200grams of walnuts. I don't even like walnuts that much. Fuck this stuff is hard bloody hard.

ICJump it is bloody hard. That's why you should feel proud of yourself. Look at how much you've lost and how many inches you've lost. And even though it's hard, you keep going.

I must admit I rarely go into changing rooms now. I hate the lighting, the disheartening feeling when clothes don't sit right or look ok. That horrible panicky feeling if clothes get stuck. I just order online now. It doesn't feel as bad trying on stuff at home. Pack some of your favourite and most flattering clothes to take away and have a brilliant time.
It's been a sad week for the Place family because my relative passed away. I've been helping to organise the funeral and feeling guilty that DS is not having much of a holiday at all. From a BSD pov, I'm doing ok. Lots of rushing about and anti-social hours mean I've been averaging 830 cals.
But it is International Gin and Tonic day today so I may have a G&T tonight.
I thought it was time for a namechange so have opted for something BSD-friendly

Is that you place with a shiny new username, or......???

Yes to it being hard. Due to my pcos I spend 50% of the month at least 'due on' and eating rubbish. I did the same yesterday IC. Feel the carbs and do it anyway. I desperately need new clothes, but can't bring myself to try on stuff so end up in the same old things which, when my life revolves around toddler clubs and playdoh, usually look decidedly tatty and unloved. There's some beautiful things in the shops for Autumn but I can't actually find things that suit me or fit me! But we must keep on. I am barely losing anything overall but I do have good losses when i try so it must be working a little bit. I do find that our allowed foods are so calorie dense that even a day of free eating can result in a massive overspend on calories. The long and short of it is, for me at least, I eat far far too much, and far too often. My appetite has no off switch!

Thanks for the kind words place and bear.

I’m place I’m for your loss. Death is such an administrative process in the west. And we don’t seam to have a way of helping young people with it. Once tings have settle a day or two focused on him will help.

Bear yes I’ve not really got an off switch. In some ways I wonder about doing the shakes instead of food to help seperate myself from eating so much. But I don’t want to do it around the kids as I think it’s unhealthy.

Place I don't know how but I totally missed that in your post, you must think I'm so insensitive. Sorry for your loss

So sorry for your loss, —Couch— BSD new user name.

Goodness yes, the nightmare of clothes trying on IC, we all understand that one!!

Well, I haven’t been doing that well, because I have been doing a MN trial of a Gousto box. Too much faffing of numerous bowls and pans. But food delicious. But on average 800 calories per portion!! and high carbs. So I have mentioned that in my review.

I haven’t lost any weight. But finally stepped in the scales today, having not weighed for about 3 weeks. It’s ok. I need a big push to get down towards the 10’s.

Dh has been at slimming world, paid for by his work. And has lost a stone and a bit in the last month. But he too has relaxed, plus gousto box, has put on 4 lbs and is not impressed so he’s going to ‘go for it’ for the next month too.

I have my friends birthday London boat party at end November, so I’ll aim for that.

Thank you for all your kind wishes.
bear don't be silly. It's easy to miss points and I don't think anyone on these threads would think you insensitive when you offer so much support to us all.
Oblomov interesting that the boxes are so anti-BSD. That's disappointing.
Yesterday I discovered a box of chocolates I had been given for my birthday so I ended up on 1124 cals and 79g carbs.

I wonder if I should post 'Psst! It is I, leCouch!' at the end of my posts in the style of Allo Allo

Place it's like you've given us the nod but otherwise can roam incognito. We won't tell a soul.....,,

Not a great BSD day. Tomorrow. Honest......

(Cider has been drunk, can you tell?!)

Talking of Allo Allo:

Good moaning Crabtree

Jumping in as want to start this. Reading for ideas. Veggie but hoping that does not mean too tricky.

Morning all. Glorious sunny chilly day here so once again I'm out in the garden. Having a few days off plan to try to get my mojo back. Kids are off this week so that's just one massive danger zone right there, so I'm planning my menu and also activities to do with them so we don't all just graze all day.

Is pumpkin BSD friendly? Can you eat the flesh of the big carver pumpkins or are they too watery? I'll have 3 to do so was thinking maybe some spicy pumpkin soup??

Hi down to 97.8 kgs 😁 I don’t think you can eat carver pumpkins. I was fancying some pumpkin myself but think you need to get proper eating ones

Hello, I'm starting bsd today! This seems like a lovely supportive thread. I weigh more than ever before 12 stone! I'm 5'6" so it is not dreadful but I'm 2 stone heavier than I would like, most of my clothes no longer fit, and I feel sluggish. There is a family history of diabetes, so I am susceptible and need to be careful, even though my blood sugar is very good at the moment. I have never been on a diet before but this seems very achievable. I think I will combine it with 16:8 and go for two meals a day, as I will struggle with breakfast options. I'm doing 8 weeks so that will take me to Christmas

Good moaning Oblomov and fellow BSDers.

bear I think Ramsay is right about the pumpkins. I don't think they're suitable for cooking.

Welcome purple and sunshine ! Remember to take your measurements as well as your weight when you start because some weeks the scale won't move but you'll lose inches.

I'm averaging about 960 per day this week. Yesterday included wine and dessert but I'm giving myself a BSD-pass considering how fraught this week has been.

Evening all.
Yes I thought I'd heard that about the pumpkins, that's a shame. But then nothing worse that watery soup so I won't waste my efforts....

Had a terrible week and weekend, BSD wise anyway. Eaten a ridiculous amount of rubbish. I'm not sure that I can keep up this binge/diet cycle much longer, it is terrible for my self esteem and my willpower. Busy week ahead as the kids are off school, and it's dd's birthday next weekend. There always will be something though won't there? So for now I'm just keeping on going, on plan when I can, and until I can stop myself going completely off the rails as soon as I am faced with any temptation, I'll have to accept that I am maintaining not losing. I just wonder if that's too depressing a prospect for the foreseeable?