Blood sugar diet thread 8

[thenewaveragebear1983]

Thread 8 for the blood sugar dieters

Oh my goodness I didn't believe my eyes this morning so had to get back on the scales to double check.

W1 weigh in R2 and 8.2 lbs down.

Only 1 more lb and my damage I did over two weeks is off and I back to what I was.

I'm so gobsmacked as the losses on this are so good I got 7lbs on W1 last time and that blew my mind.

Bmi down from 22.1 to 20.6.

I've reconsidered the fast day for today as I'm pretty hungry today. I'm doing 16:8 anyway so may be too much to do that aswell.

Wow - that's amazing PinkBlossom! Congratulations :)

Thanks for good wishes all. He seems quite relaxed (probably more than I am!) and had a good sleep. Luckily I have a lot of work to do today (self-employed) so that will take my mind off fretting

Wow, congratulations! That's fab.

I haven't lost anything more since yesterday, but that's ok, I don't think I could sustain a 5lb lost every 3 days!

I'm just finding that I'm not really hungry at all.

Although I did go out last night and have a diet coke and within about half an hour I was really hungry - hunger pangs, stomach growling... first time it's happened all week. Fascinating..!

Ifyouhappen I get the same with fizzy pop, proper starving hungry on it but I only drink fizzy flavour water and don't get issues with that it's strange.

I would imagine that flavoured water may not be the best option on this BUT my taste buds have changed and I can't stand plain water or any type of low cal squash any more and end up not drinking instead.

Wow pink that's a superb loss!

The scales finally moved for me by 1lb but at least I'm going in the right direction again. The continued plateau over the weekend was no surprise as I didn't stick to the diet with two nights out that I wanted to enjoy but I've been back on it since then.

Weigh in day is Saturday so will take stock of it all then and hopefully I'll be a few lbs down.

Really interested in doing this but not sure where to start?? Any help much appreciated

Spaghetti good luck for Saturday I'm sure you will be down some by then.

Plateaus are a PITA but just stick with it and you will be on the move again.

I have heard that fruit/herb tea bags infused into sparkling water is nice, although haven't tried it myself. I think you just put a bag into the fizzy water and leave it a while. I love tap water, drink gallons of the stuff, which is lucky for me so never have to worry about drinking enough.

Couldn't resist the scales this morning, and I'm another 1.5lb off, making 6.5 since Friday. Proper weigh in day is tomorrow so hopefully that will keep my head focused today- another half would be awesome! I've decided to take some cooked chicken to this gathering, and some hummus and some strawberries, so hopefully can resist the sandwiches and crisps. Sleeping brilliantly the last few nights as well, or would be if ds wasn't disco dancing all night. All in all, feeling positive. I'd like to squeeze a little run in today but not sure if I'll manage that too.

Have a great day everyone!

Sanasa you need this book

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B016USSX5O/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Basically it's a low carb, low calorie plan that you follow for 8 weeks. If you read the opening posts of this thread and thread 7 it will give you an idea, but the book obviously is the best. There's loads of online recipes and things too. Any questions, just ask!

Thank you thenewaveragebear
Book ordered! Excited to try it

Jiggly, good luck to ds.
Well done Pink, on losses.
Well done Bear. Why is it falling off you? Is it because I'm eating your share of chocolate. And everyone else's?

Talking of chocolate. After last night, I've decided. I need to have an emergency stock. But which one? Out of my favourites, some have less calories than others:

2 maynards wine gums : 30 calories
Milky way crisp roll, 2 rolls: 128
Fox's classic biscuit bar: 131
Mino Oreo snack pack: 120
Hula hoops: 121
Walkers crisps: 130

I need to find something I like, That does the LEAST damage. Any suggestions?

Plus the crisps are my downfall. I love crisps. And I crave the saltiness. One lovely poster explained, on a previous thread, why that was. But I cant remember.
Bear, or anyone else, can you remember what the reason is why I crave salty things? And what do I do about it? Instead of turning to the crisps? I cant stand Bovril, so that's no good.

ToSee, I am a BIG Diet Coke lover as well. Although I do like water. I drink a lot of water. hot water and lemon at work. And endless cups of tea. I do love going to work!!

And I do like some sparkling waters. Favourite is : Sainsbury's Sparkling Flavoured Water, Mango & Passionfruit.
Is now the time to tell you that when I go out with my 'girl friends' I drink a bottle of that water, before downing a bottle of red wine? No? Probably not.

Back to my previous conversation with YumYum:
"We have both still kept a lot off that's the main thing."
Indeed.Indeed!!

I just thought I ought to say. I was the same weight, my whole life. I have never been other than a size 12. Then suddenly I was a size 14-16. With an extra 2 3/4 stone!!
But that one time I did go below 9 stone, only to 8 3/4 - and it was only for a couple of months, it was the time in my 20's when I was running a pub and hotel with my then bf. Hard work. 6am to 2am. hardly ate. then our relationship fell apart and I left my relationship, my job, my home in one big swoop. It was then my family and best friend were shocked and said I was too thin.
Within a month, I was back to normal. Back to 9 stone. But that's why all this BMI, I believe is rubbish, take it with a pinch of salt! Because it always tells me that I should be below 9 stone, 8.75 or 8.5 stone for my height. But my friends and family would disagree!!

So, I just need to get below the 10 stone. into the 9's. I might never get back to 9.5. But if I got into the 9's and stayed there and made sure I never got back to say above 10.6, I think that would suffice. But, saying that. I'm finding it very hard to get out of the 10's right now. I've been struggling to get out of the 10's for over a year!!

Anyway, onwards and upwards. Shit, I'm gong to be in Majorca in a bikini in 23 days

Oblov I don't know why we crave the salt, but I know it happens. I just add salt to my food, and it seems to curb it rather than have specifically salty stuff. I suppose you could have some Parma ham or similar salty treat? Incidentally, you can bake Parma ham and it goes like crisps, also grated Parmesan in a thin layer on a non stick tray, goes like crisps. (Massively over calories! Low on carbs!)

Re: the falling off me this week , I'm going to sound like a right twat when I say this so I apologise now- but I'm just sticking to the diet. Not drinking helps, massively. Dh wanted to open wine, left from the weekend, last night and I refused to tell him where it was hidden! Anyone who follows this thread will know I am a terrible dieter usually, so who knows how long it will last, but I realised/acknowledged to myself that actually, even when I stick to it, I still cheat. A lot. I weigh more than I did this time last year, and I have been on a diet for a year!!! So I've had firm words with myself and I am really going to try to do a full month properly on plan. Not on "bear's sort of BSD but not really plan". I'm not saying this to be smug, please believe me- I've had my bad weeks months and they suck, but I know that for me personally it is me that doesn't work, not the diet. I'm also exercising for the first time in years, which must be helping.

Oblov I understand about the treats, maybe doing 800 calories + 1 treat a day would help? Or maybe going completely brutal, cold turkey, boot camp style would work better for you? I couldn't stop at one treat, so I know when I'm being good that it's better to have no sugar at all. The pressure of the holiday maybe isn't helping you either, I actually gained quite a lot of weight on my 7 weeks to summer holiday countdown!

I've got to do some baking for the PTA now... I WILL NOT SAMPLE MY CAKES.

If I come back later and say 'I just had a small one' slap me.

Spaghetti, if you find you really HAVE to, make a tiny one to test - that's what I do. Or cut a tiny bit off one.

I'm still downward, was absolutely starving last night but got through it, though sleep was v poor!

Bear I spotted this in the recipe book so passion fruit is definitely allowed!

Day 3 for me and 5lb down so far, although I have been peeing so much it is probably mostly water . Still feeling quite pleased with myself.

Oblomov when I am sort if on it, lindt orange and almond usually hits the spot it is quite rich and 2 pieces feels enough - approx. 100 cals and 5g carbs I think. I cant copy and paste for some reason but all the supermarkets sell it. When I am off the wagon (like now) I eat crisps but in general I would be more likely to crave bread. Halloumi crisps (Bear mentioned them before) might be an option but Halloumi is so high in calories I am sure it must be a mistake and some scientist somewhere measured a tub of lard and accidentally recorded the cals as halloumi.

Bear, Pink and stars wow to your losses that is amazing! Good news on the jeans Jiggly!

Thanks Bear. I'm struggling to keep strict, so I can't see going brutal working. But, I will think about it.
Keep strong spaghetti.
Cheers YumYum, I will look at those. I will look up the Lindt and see what it is.

Yes. Large Lindt red ball. I like those a lot. 80 calories. For emergencies?

Made it through a buffet lunch relatively unscathed- took salad and chicken and olives, had 1 small prawn mayo sandwich and the teeniest sliver of cake. I won't calorie/carb count today, but feel pretty happy that I didn't go mad.

Tonight's tea is broccoli, bacon and cheese bake.

That Lindt chocolate sounds nice, although you must have spectacular will to stop at 2 squares!

Spaghetti I feel your pain with the PTA baking- last summer I made about a million cupcakes, for various PTA functions. Torture I tell you. I seem to manage to resist the actual cakes, as they are 'for school' so they aren't available if that makes sense. But one little swipe of icing or cake batter and I'll be rummaging around the kitchen looking for goodies. Stay strong!

I have been known to snap a square in half Bear and just eat that {Preens at idea of actually being in possession of willpower}

the orange almond one is pretty satisfiying honest - about 50% cocoa I think and some nuttiness. I am not sure I could stop at one red ball though (that sounds weird when I say it in my head). At least they are individually wrapped so very good for emergencies and no issues of actually snapping off a super large square! I think it needs to be something treaty and nice but not something just you can't stop eating - I experimented with white toast today - let's just say I failed the experiment!

Good work on the buffet Bear

I didn't know there was even such a thing as half a square of chocolate. I have zero self control round anything like that though, once the first minuscule piece has entered my mouth. That's why I am better to say no. I think it takes far more self control to have a tiny piece and stop, than to have none. Hats off to you!

Well done on the lunch bear. I licked the spoon which clearly doesn't count.

I then squirted washing up liquid in the bowl asap to stop me scraping it out!

well done spaghetti no going back that way!

Bear I honestly don't deserve praise at the moment

Just had broccoli bacon cheese bake- oh boy, it way yummy but mega mega calories! Very rich. I could probably have used double the quantity of broccoli or cauli and reduced the cals per portion quite substantially. It was basically- broccoli, full fat soft cheese (I used half a tub), 2 rashers of bacon cooked til crispy then cut up, and cheese on the top. Cook the broccoli and mash it with the cheese, add the rest and bake. Proper comfort food!