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 cook loads from Jamie Oliver with only moderate tweaking, his satay chicken is to die for.

I buy the merchant gourmet French puy lentils (check the labels as some have rice as well but the French one is just lentils. Aldi sell them occasionally so I stock up), plus also I buy a ‘free from’ lentil pasta- it’s only lentil flour, so ok in small amounts when sometimes I need pasta! And poppadoms (again, check the label as some have rice flour or potato starch), they are only 40 cals or so each but can be great in the evening if you really want crisps!

Lentil pasta sounds good for a change. Any great snack suggestions? Heading to shop in 5 mins.

Just checking in. I have a really sore head today not sure if it is diet, weather or age related. This is day 7 for me so I will weigh in tomorrow. Fingers crossed it’s a good one.

I have had a good first week but made 3 mistakes:

1 I bought almond nut butter
2 I opened almond nut butter
3 I devoured almond nut butter

Thankfully it was only a small jar and it is now empty and I won’t be buying anymore until I can behave and eat sensibly.

Snack suggestions. Well I am trying not to snack as I would rather keep my 800 cals for 2 meals.

Olives
Nuts
Dark chocolate
Mixed seeds
Mini cheese

These would make good snacks but you would have to weight them out as they are fairly high in carbs.

Jamie Oliver also does those lentil pouches like the Merchant Gourmet ones. I picked a few packs up from Sainsburys as they were on offer. Not tried them yet but thought they would good to have in.

I meant fairly high in cals not carbs. Sorry I will blame the headache.

Thanks Belinda.

I'm actually embarrassed how much food I bought today. Loads of quorn stuff, hummus and veg, yoghurt and chickpeas. Trying to plan my meals ahead of time and have standby snacks.

ChocEgg I’m loving corgetti - it’s a faff to spiralise but Tesco do packs at a £1 each and 2 for 3. The carrot & squash ones are yummy too albeit higher carbs.

Weigh in at 12st 1lb after first week so gain of 1lb
Religiously stuck to 800 cals so don’t understand..... have ordered new scales! I’m still motivated as it’s not yet been difficult and just HAS to be scales. Or the ‘whoosh’ waiting to happen? Will start taking measurements too. Hope you’ve all had more success than me!

Morning all
Snow I literally have no idea how that can have happened!? Did you weigh during the week or just this morning? (Just wondering if there’s a fluctuation and you missed it?) hang on in there though, If you’ve done 800 calories for a week it will^^ surely show next week!

I’ve maintained over the weekend with a combination of lots of exercise, large meals and increased fat at mealtimes- but no snacks, none of the grazing and extras that creep in at weekends usually. I’m happy with that as I haven’t undone any hard work from the week but have still enjoyed my weekend.

Week ahead: again, I’m going to try to get a few 800’s in by having shakes for lunch and main meals for dinner. Keeping up the no snacking really is my challenge at the moment (very apparent this weekend). I’m going to a short treadmill run and a 20 minute shred workout to mix things up a bit for my workout.

Weigh-in after Week 2: another 2lb off so 9lb lost in 2 weeks. Pretty good considering my poor, bloated PMT tummy.

ChocEgg I spent about £185 in the first week, stocking up the freezer and cupboards, but it paid off in terms of being organised and less stressed. I haven't fallen off the wagon once and have had a good variety of meals. I've only spent about £65 more on "diet" food since, so that seems ok for 3 weeks. We'd normally spend about £80 per week, so pretty comparable. (Yes, I've got a spreadsheet )

So don't be embarrassed, be proud of your commitment and organisational skills

Snow it has to be the scales. Keep going!

Bear it sounds like a good weekend. Did you do a lot of exercise before the BSD? I don't do much and am in awe of your energy. I don't sleep at all well, though, so I think that has added to my sluggishness and weight gain over the past few years. BTW, we had a pork chop with your broccoli cheese on Friday, and you were right - yum!

Square I did zero exercise before January. We bought a treadmill in September and I sort of half heartedly used it, but then in December I decided I was going to run every day in January just for 10 minutes. I’ve just built on that, I’ve now run over 350km this year. I’m not fast, or graceful, but I cannot tell you how much I enjoy it, it has changed my life. The big thing for me is how much more energised I feel and I realise how very little time I actually gave to myself previously. Now I get half an hour a day, just for me.

And it pays off too, because I’ve just been to M&S and bought Size 10 slim leg chino trousers and they fit!! Hurrah!!

Official weigh in day week 2 and I'm down 2lbs so 8.5 lbs in total.

Still not sure how long I'm going to carry on. Was initially a month but I also want to get my weight down to comfortably within my maintenance half stone which is another half stone or so.

My body looks and feels better though. I'm sleeping better and energy is good. Went for another swim this morning and knee holding up. Good yoga session yesterday too and an amusingly brisk walk with dd1.

Week 1 weigh in for me 9 lbs off ! Very happy.

That is the most weight I have lost in the first week of any plan for a very long time. It gives me hope that this time will be different and my poor knackered peri-menopausel body and metabolism might not be totally shot to bits.

I will prepare myself for a mediocre week 2 and 3 as I know that can happen. If I stick to this I have to lose 2-3 lbs a week on average as I am eating 1200 cals below my TDEE. I think doing 16/8 has really helped too so I plan on continuing with that.

Well done to everyone else on the loses. Snowglobes I have no words of wisdom but new scales would be a start.

Can I join you all? I'm about 2 and a half stone above a healthy weight.

I'm gradually moving to this diet from a more general low cal diet. I've started to reduce my carbs and I generally skip breakfast to make the calories work out. I've also started to do a lot more walking but I tend to have all or nothing days rather than a nice overall increase.

How do you all track your cals and walking?

Hi I'm a newbie too. I start out well on lots of these threads but keep yoyo-ing.

The weight losses are really encouraging.

Nosy lots of people use the my fitness pal which is free to download. It's great (but will tell you off for not eating enough).

Beware of logging walking though. Mfp is very generous in calculating exercise calories which can be misleading. Tbh I probably wouldn't log them but carry on anyway but that's just me.

I use ‘fat secret’ - it’s not got the moral compass of mfp and freely lets me ‘undereat’ and set my macros at anything I like. I just got in better with it than mfp but it doesn’t have some of the fancier features of mfp.

And I use Fitbit to track steps/ walking/running etc - agree with poster above who said beware of the calorie estimates, sometimes I feel Fitbit is rather generous with the amounts it says I burn!

I am old school and just note everything down on paper. I can't be doing with scanning bar codes. I fully admit I am a ludite.

I track my steps on an app on my phone. It is fairly accurate but I don't eat back any calories so its just for information.

Thank you everyone! Well done bear - size 10 chinos!!!!!! Can’t wait to post the same. I’m also very impressed with your exercise. I walk the dog an hour on week days but it’s a leisurely amble really so don’t put it on MFP. But better than nothing! I’ve been using MFP to record eating/drinking but I never complete the day as the cals are too low so think I’ll try ‘fat secret’ - thank you for the recommendation.

Sorry, me again! Just wondering what percentages fats, proteins and carbs should be please? Can’t find the recommendations in the book. Think it could be useful to enter goals into new app. The minerals and vits are too complicated. Thank you!

I have never added percentages, but here is what I would deem a pretty near perfect day for me (if you excuse the extra 130 calories!) - it came in at around 20% protein, 20% carbs, 60% fat- but probably could have gone higher protein/lower fat and still been good. I’d probably suggest that you do it retrospectively for a while - eg when you have a good day, look back and see what your percentages were, or in comparison if you have a really hungry day where you can’t stop grazing see what they were then. It can help find your own personal ‘right way of doing it’

I know I am better if I eat more fat, but sometimes it’s not possible!

Thanks, I'll check out fat secret.

Well my first day and I was very confused by MFP awarding me extra calories because I linked my Fitbit - so good info on ignoring that! Ate fairly well - Quorn, quinoa, broccoli and cauliflower cheese made with creme fraiche and parmesan. My 'fails' were 100g of baby potatoes and a couple of mandarins at lunch but I'm just about coming in at 800 so very pleased!

I did have palpitations on commute home - is this a thing with BSD?

Kitchen is now closed in theory so will be interesting to see if I manage not to eat later. Feeling full up after dinner.

I have put my meals into MFP tomorrow and might need a good walk to make it all work!