Blood sugar diet thread 10

[thenewaveragebear1983]

New thread for the Blood Sugar dieters

Link to our old thread;

Blood sugar diet thread 9 www.mumsnet.com/Talk/fasting_diet/3143559-blood-sugar-diet-thread-9

I’m sorry you’re having a similar experience HouseRefurb it’s so frustrating. 7kg loss initially is good though, isn’t it? Maybe yours has slowed down as muscle weighs more than fat and given your exercise regime I bet your building muscle. I’m not doing enough to say that. However BSD is not extremely hard and I do feel like I’m doing the right thing but just need to be patient. chocEgg I’ve at least a stone to lose to get to the bottom of ‘overweight’ and the top end of an ok weight & BMI but to be middle of a healthy weight I need to lose 2 stone. If I had a lot more to lose maybe it’d start off quicker, but I’d be surprised if I didn’t have much visceral fat... hey let’s hope that’s the reason!
bear How do you work out your visceral fat pls? Or your body fat percentage? I’m sure I read one of your posts mentioning you’d measured yours (albeit not at the start of BSD).

Sorry snow I haven’t measured mine. I think you can measure your body fat percentage on some of the weighing scales at places like boots and some gyms. I also think you can get home scales which give you a body fat percentage, but obviously these are not as accurate. On the obesity programme with HUgh fernley Whit this week, he used a simple length of string round the tummy and even that could demonstrate to you whether you have lost inches round the abdomen (which is a sign of visceral fat on your organs). I wish I’d done mine because I’m sure I am significantly more muscular now than 6 months ago, and on some of the weeks when I lost nothing it might have helped to see that actually something was happening!

This diet does do things though- I have had pcos for years, and as part of my plan this year to ‘self improve’ I went to the gp for some help with certain symptoms. Well, long story short, they’d lost all my history when I moved surgery and couldn’t prescribe anything without rediagnosing this condition. Round of blood tests, (testing for various hormonal imbalances) have all come back negative. A quick phone conversation with the gp about this suggests that as a result of low carbing for two years, exercising and insulin management (ie. sugar free!) she said that basically I’ve balanced my hormones so much that there’s no cause for concern any more. So it is doing positive things inside that we can’t see. That could be life changing to someone with pcos who’s struggling to conceive (not me, thankfully we’ve had no trouble).

Weighed in this morning at 10.10, total weight lost now is 1stone 10lb. Not sure what I’ve lost this week as I’ve been dithering about, and my mission for the weekend is to maintain through a combination of a run every day, nice meals, g&t, and no snacking, mindless eating and extras. Easy, huh??

Another 2lbs off this morning! Eating some carbs and keeping everything moving digestively is definitely what works for me at the minute! 10lbs total loss so far in 1.5weeks. Still have plenty to lose but it's heading in the right direction and will hopefully stop me throwing caution to the winds at the weekend!

Brilliant- well done!

I'm stuck on 8lb loss but as it is TOTM I'm just glad I didn't like any on. Hopefully I'll lose at least another lb this week.

Primal I was like that last week but actually managed to lose 1lb. This was a miracle! I usually put on 3-4lbs and have done forever! So hopefully you'll find the same. I used to hate that weigh in week back at WW and SW.

Thank you. Yes hope so.

Wow bear that’s amazing! I’m sure this and the pilates is doing something as I feel leaner. No clothes are looser but I’m not putting on so must be a good thing.
It’s cocktail making tonight was going to drive and make mocktails but think they’ll be just as bad as all syrups and juices. Have looked up low calorie cocktails and will see if I can make those & if not just miss out the sugar syrups in the ones I make and use diet mixers. It’ll still be fun! I’ll over have a low cal lunch - veg miso soup at 70cals then a low cal dinner around 200-300 so I’ve got a bit if wriggle room for a couple of cocktails. Not healthy, not ideal but don’t want to sabotage anything!!

Hi all, wretched week this week: out for dinner at a burger joint one night (but I didn't succumb to chips or beer, and didn't eat the bun on my overloaded burger) and then last night out very late for a work event and just never had real dinner, just yogurt and berries and nuts when I got home. Amazingly I wasn't starving though. Maybe my eating is getting reset by BSD?

I'm a little flat on the loss curve this week, but am happy to now officially be 4 stone 1 lb less than I was in early/mid-January. 4 stone and 13 lb to go! Will be even happier when work gets hugely less stressful next week and I have time to go back to the gym as well as cook properly again.

snowglobes very sorry it is going slowly for you, but all the issues people have pointed out are important. If you really are that close (relatively) to your goal, it is much much harder to lose, particularly as it sounds like you'd already changed a lot of your habits previous to this. So it may take a while to get that last stone off, especially depending on your frame and other life issues. You're not doing it wrong, it's just very hard work that gets harder the closer you get to goal.

Sympathies to those of you facing the dreaded lack of movements. That's how I found this thread in the first place :) It's pretty common early in BSD, esp if it's a big change in eating habits. Prunes, flaxseed, and gallons of water worked for me (so, so, so much herbal tea) - and once it gets going again, it will be different (reflecting the new intake), but regular. Some posters on the BSD forum recommend an occasional bowl of oatmeal, which is just carby enough to get stuff going again.

Cocktail making sounds fun just go and enjoy and let us know the good ones.

very 4 stones in 4 months is amazing. I would love to achieve that.

I am in a much better frame of mind today. Scales not moving much but I feel good.
I had a pouch of Jamie Oliver black dahl for dinner with some spinach leaves and a little feta cheese on top. It was immense. Just had some skinny soup of lunch. I haven't eaten so healthily for years. I am bit spotty though which is either hormones or all the good veg flushing the toxins out.

I have been playing about with some on line weigh loss calculators and
I have decided that for now I am going to just try an aim for 800 cals 2 days per week. I will allow myself upto 1500 cals one day per week if I really need to. The other 4 days I will keep to under 1200 but will try and get closer to 800 if I can. This should create enough deficit to lose 2lbs per week.

Does anyone else notice that they seem to have a better sense of smell?

I've just made myself a cup of (black) tea, and am suddenly much more aware of all the different aromas in it. Wondering if my body is becoming more attuned to things, or if it is fluke!

I've been working from home today for the first time since starting BSD. Not only have I avoided the biscuits, but I have managed to avoid snacking at all. Feeling very virtuous and just a little bit hard done by.

Dandelion I’ve not noticed the sense of smell, but I do find my food tastes amazing (and not just because I’m an excellent chef!!). I think sugar just deadens my tastebuds. I also found that when I have had sugary stuff, occasional chocolate etc, it just tastes really greasy.

Today: decided on a no count day as various things on and dc off school as it’s voting day. Had a shake for breakfast, a salad lunch, and tonight will gave gammon, egg and mushrooms. I’ve run 4K this morning and did Jillian Michaels this afternoon, so hopefully will offset the food! I have done a rudimentary guesstimate if my calories (including a g&t tonight!) and it looks like I’ll finish at around 1450 and 49g carbs, which isn’t too terrible considering I’ve eaten quite a lot.

Looking forward to the bank holiday, nice to have some family time and hopefully some sun!

I keep thinking I can smell something awful, which is probably my low carb breath.

I've been rubbish with logging food the last few days. Back on the wagon tomorrow.

Think I've actually put a lb or two back on

Primal the only way I can keep any kind of discipline is by filling in MOD a day or two days beforehand. So on Sunday I filled in everything I was going to eat on Mon and Tues. It doesn't mean it's set in stone but at least if I add something in I know I have to drop something else which makes me think about what I want more.

Had 2 M&S veggie burgers tonight which came in quite high cal but very filling. Not sure they agreed with me though!

I’m a little bit drunk. Only had 3 cocktails but each had 3 units of alcohol plus sugar syrup plus juices. Laughed loads making them! I’m not even going to try to guess the calories. Life’s too short and tomorrow is another day!! A BSD day...

Hope everyone is well.

I had been doing ok but had a bit of a plateau week so far. Lots of very late work nights and no exercise AT ALL. Mid way through week 4 and 12lbs down though so shouldn't grumble.

Put me too- I plan the whole week out in advance, planning which days I’ll have things on etc and calculate all the calories. Exactly as you say, it means I know if I can have anything extra. I find it particularly helpful if I’ve got a high calorie meal that could otherwise take me by surprise.

Snow they sound amazing, hope your head’s ok today!!

I ate a lot yesterday and feel a bit bloated this morning, so my plan is to have a nice light day today. Lots of jobs to do clearing a patch of our garden and doing multiple trips to the tip. I’m going to seize the day as Dh is off work and go for a run this morning first thing. Food will be: avocado and crispy bacon for brunch, and lamb steaks with roasted med veg and goats cheese for dinner.

I was tracking religiously but went a bit off piste with TOTM.

Still same weight as Monday so hopefully I can have a good few days and at least lose 1lb this week.

The scales were flirting with another lb off... then settled on yesterday's weight!

I am facing a very high cal couple of days.

I have just ordered a McDonald's meal. Consider this my 'mea culpa'. We're on the road travelling and DH insisted on making a toilet stop. So of course we had to stop here at the one place I struggle to resist. I've been doing so well too! And since I'm in confession mode I am ordering the meal not just the burger AND I am having milkshake not black coffee.

Can someone show me BSD mercy? Or will Michael Moseley be appearing at my door with a blood sugar monitor?!

I’ll show you mercy- provided that the milkshake is strawberry and you are planning to dunk your fries in it

Bear we might actually be the same person

I was totally on board until I got to the dunk your fries

Well done Phyllis!

I am not doing so well I have to confess but I am convinced I will be properly back in the zone soon Have done a run then had green omelette but blew it a bit by having healthy ice cream and a protein bite crispy square thing - could have been worse though.

Ive just done a sad thing. We are going to the beach tomorrow where there is the best fish and chip shop in the world. I’ve just been to Waitrose and bought myself a salad to eat while the rest of my family eat gorgeous chips .

Remind me that eating chips will cause the 10lbs I’ve lost so far to go straight back on my tummy please ...

Well done therein!! That’s great willpower. Though you’ll have to eat your salad well away from the chippy and your family... too tempting to nick 1....or 2.... etc. Etc.
Enjoy the beach!!!