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’ve learned that the weeks I don’t lose are the weeks where I shrink. I actually visibly noticed my belly fat disappearing (I’ve had two c-sections and 3 giant babies so have a definite kangaroo pouch!) and literally over the course of a few days it went just to skin. I know that sounds bizarre but it definitely happened! And the exercise is really tightening my silhouette (violin hips I think it’s referred to!) and making it more like a straight line than various lumps and bumps. I did have a few weeks where I looked a bit like a deflated scrotum balloon that someone had stuck a pin in, but thankfully the skin is tightening up a bit now!!

at deflated scrotum I'll look forward to that!

I am a bit worried about loose skin which is why I don't want to lose too much. But after posting this morning I put on my belt - and have moved a notch since last week!

I have a kangaroo pouch too from two big babies by c section. It is shrinking

"Deflated scrotum balloon"
Like Primal I do no exercise.
Madness that sounds really shite
Welcome back Place.

I treated myself to a Tesco Mini salad £2. Was ok, not exactly scintillating!

I've just taken a photo of mine. My 2 x cs pouch. I was shocked at how bad it was. The pouch and the routundness of my stomach. I look pregnant. Vile. Truely hideous.

It’s amazing the lasting damage from even a relatively straightforward c-section.
I also think the combination between big baby, (mine was gestational diabetes related), followed by c-section, followed by weeks of inactivity post op, does nothing really for the stomach area. My first baby I was only 19 and although I was still huge it all just went back. After 1st and second cs there was no hope of that. Even now, and mine’s gone down a lot, it’s the first place I gain weight and retain water so I often look a bit pregnant! I’m lucky because my scar is very neat, my friend’s had to be done top to bottom for her second one so she has a full length scar.

Be kind to yourself Oblomov We'll get there.

Thanks all for your replies! I'm pretty bad at throwing money at things out of desperation, so this is sensible advice. I'll buy the book. I've got the strongest motivating factor I've ever had in my life - so hopefully that will help!

And sorry, I just barged in earlier without even a 'hello'! Looking forward to joining the chat here.

kumamom I second what everyone else has said. With WW and Rosemary Conley, I think the payment is justified in a way because it gives you a good support network. With BSD, you honestly won't find a better support network than the one on here so really all you need is the book and MN. Save the £99 for new clothes when you finish your 8 weeks

Yesterday didn’t end up that great as I picked at a few things a shouldn’t have. It’s hard for me to ‘switch on’ to a healthier way of eating because I think I’m such a carb junkie.
Today, I’ve decided to fast to reset my gauges, if that makes sense.
I’m just having coffee and tea until I have a 600 cal dinner tonight. Then back to fasting til tomorrow afternoon.

It’s great to see the positivity on this thread. I can’t wait for my c s cation belly to shrink too.

For anyone who likes cold coffee drinks, I've just discovered Califia Cold Brew coffee with almond milk. I bought the unsweetened version and it's quite a strong coffee taste, but only 19cals and 0.9g carbs per 100ml. I've just had a large glass as I didn't have lunch and it's too late now, so am hoping this will keep the hunger pangs at bay.

www.califiafarms.com/collections/cold-brew-coffees

Good to know they are nice turnip, I’d seen them in Sainsbury’s and wondered about trying them.

Grrr I’m making the beetroot falafel from the book. The book says a serving is 290 cals, my fitness pal says it’s 345 cals without the Greek yoghurt. And it’s seems really high in carbs. And it was a massive faff to make ... it had better be nice after all this.

Seriously ... 40g of carbs

Hi All

Hoping to join the thread - i’ve recently started the blood sugar diet, following some ill health I thought it was the best time to start whilst I recuperate.

Anyhow I need a spot to mark down my progress and i’ve been stalking this thread....otherwise I may just start eating!

Thanks

Really don’t sweat the carbs- if they’re the right sort they’ll be fine. If you avoid white flour, grains, breakfast cereals, rice, potatoes and sugar, and not too much fruit- and stick to 800 cals, you’ll be ok. Or even if you go up to 1000, there’s quite simply a limit to how many you can actually eat for that calorie count.

I sort of knew this anyway, but reading Fat Chance has reiterated it- it’s all about the fibre. Lentils, pulses, beans all have higher fibre, so while your beet falafel may be 40g carbs, see what the fibre content is. Some low carbers deduct fibre totals from their daily count of carbs as they aren’t digested.

Hey, welcome more newbies! Lovely so many joining up here.

A much better day today than yesterday. Lunch was roasted spring cabbage with bacon (I am super weird and simply ADORE cabbage, sprouts, cauliflower, etc so I was very happy with this); dinner was prosciutto-wrapped chicken breast with sauteed red pepper and courgette, and a small glass of red wine. Ended the day on 1100 cals, which isn't great for a BSD day, but is pretty grand in the great scheme of things.

Thanks turnip for the cold brew coffee rec - I love almond milk in cold coffee, so may have to give that brand a try.

kumamon I’m in the middle of the online programme at the moment. There is a forum, but it is pants and I always come back to MN. Effectively the £99 gets you 8 weeks of meal plans, access to additional recipes (I assume also in the books, but I haven’t cross referenced), and their forum. It is a 12 week course because you have a week to get ready (they recommend tapering your carb consumption, I went on a mega binge instead), then halfway through and towards the end you have “implementation weeks” where you don’t get a recipe pack or meal plan, and have to work it out yourself (which is what everyone else on this thread is doing, I think).

For me, it was worth the money. I knew I would find it easier to follow the plan if I had paid for it, and I decided if it didn’t work then I would at least know it wasn’t me messing up food plans. I was 15st 1lb when it started on April 16th, lost over half a stone in the first week and I am currently 13st 5. No idea if I would have had the same results myself, but I am happy.

Whatever you do though, use My Fitness Pal or similar to track water and food. I weigh daily and find the little tracker really motivating.

It’s all gone horribly wrong for me today and for the first time In literally ages I found myself bingeing on chocolate. Now, in my bad days I would hardly have called 8 little chocolate eggs a binge, so that’s a sign of changes I’ve made, but anyway, I ate them and I felt bingey and out of control and that is what counts. A combination of totm, feeling ridiculously grouchy and cranky, I spent yesterday constantly wanting and not having things, and today I just cracked. I think having, although planned, those sandwiches and sweet stuff on Saturday, has just switched on my carb cravings at totally the wrong time. I feel completely knackered also which can’t help can it? Too many busy weekends and late nights and too much wine recently!

Today and yesterday I ate breakfast too, which definitely seems to have a detrimental effect on my appetite all day as I was constantly on the lookout for food and grazed my way to 600 calories before I’d even planned dinner. Then dinner. Then a split second of madness which was probably a few hundred calories but lots of carbs. To be honest, it’s not the cals/carbs it’s the yucky feeling now that I hate, and that horrible feeling of knowing it but doing it anyway.

Soooooo, kitchen closing probably near to tdee, a lot of carbs,15k steps (5km run) and promising to try harder tomorrow!

I always feel grim after carbs/sugar now - although that feeling does help me stay away from them.

Three days in, only one day in the 800s, two others around 1000. I am looking at the average across the week though.

Ah bear don’t beat yourself up! You did go for a run. I’ve been grumpy today too and sad. No reason just am. Hoping a better day tomorrow.

It's all gone wrong for me today, my 10 hour working day turned into a 14 hour day with no proper break, I did manage to eat well up until I got home at 9.30pm (I left home at 6am with enough food for lunch a few nuts to snack as and when) when I had a bagel. My partner was called out just as I got in so it is now 10.30pm and we still haven't eaten so it will be poached egg on a slice of toast when he gets back at 11pm.

Morning. I seem to have whooshed off 3lb overnight. Doubt it is sustainable but it was lovely to see 11.0. It even flickered to 10.13 - I've not seen that for 4 years and then it was only for one day!

This has also shown me that I have been kidding myself about how much weight I needed to lose. My original plan was half a stone lower than this point. But I don't think that will be enough at all now. I think I need to aim for 10 stone.