Blood sugar diet thread 12

[thenewaveragebear1983]

Shiny new thread for the blood sugar dieters. Info to follow.....

Yay, another 6lb down! Have eaten

B breakfast muffin,
L 2 rashers bacon, small piece of black pudding , a fried egg
D a mushroom with goats cheese, pine kernels and loads of spinach

Went to the cinema and took a packet of 62 cal posh corn with me

Day 26 with no alcohol

Feel fab and highly motivated. Also walked 3.5 miles 🙂

I am currently enjoying a small glass of wine and 25g of Aldi 85% cocoa chocolate. It actually feels like a real treat whereas I had reached the point before the diet of no food feeling like a treat because I was eating crap all the time.

Well done waterandlemonjuice! Steak and greens for dinner here.

Well done everyone! I’m weighing in early because DP has a big birthday dinner tonight and we are staying overnight. Managed to be down half a pound over the week, so effectively a maintain, but I’m amazed it isn’t a big gain.

Nice to see some good losses on here for other people.

Amazing waterandlemon.

I'm not making toomuch any progress. But i have finally hopped on the scales. 10 stone exactly - I do enjoy working with nice round numbers.

Really struggle outside of routine, looking forward to school hols being over.

Well done to all the ‘losers’ !!
It’s been a difficult few days, and overall over dh’s holiday weeks I think I’ve gained about 3lbs. Not terrible, and I lost most of the water gain last week and plan to do the same again this week.

I have a lovely free week this week as my boys are away with mil, so I’ve planned a super healthy menu and lots of jobs to keep busy, and lots of running. I am also very inspired by your alcohol free missions and am tempted to see if I can go a month without a drink, and importantly whether that actually helps my weight loss and my running. I have a hypno session on Wednesday too, to do some binge reduction work so I’m feeling quite optimistic about that too.

That will be interesting bear. Enjoy your week to yourself. 😊

Today no more soft start, back to it proper style. I have my week's dinners made already - lamb and aubergine from the main book (2 portions) and pork meatballs from the recipe book (3 portions). I also made kimchi and sweet chilli sauce from the recipe book too which are both tasty.

Hi everyone, I have lost 2 lbs, feeling blah, could be a difficult BSD week ahead, we are going away for a last minute holiday tomorrow, DH had a gap in his diary and we have hurriedly booked kennels and a fab cottage by a pebble beach. DH is a foodie and will want to eat out everyday. I just have mixed feelings, last holiday gain took me 3 weeks to lose. It's just 4 days this time. Could be good for me to get rid of the scales for a bit and get my wetsuit on. I know it's a nice problem to have and I am lucky but it's so much easier to BSD at home!

Hello all

Hi dont know - sorry to hear about DS. I don’t know a lot about the subject but I second Bear in advising you to read about the appetite hormones. There have been some interesting articles/programs about them. I hope you get the professional help you need.

Not a bad week given I was away for the start and have managed to resist cake/jacket potato skins/pizza - even though I’ve been making them all for the DD’s. Start of week 10 today and another 3lbs lost which puts me at 11.9. Would dearly love to get to 10.7 - but I haven’t been at this weight this century! That really does give me pause to think...

Encouraging to see some losses from everyone else - and moral support over the ether for those that are wavering! Hoping for a good week again. BBQ tonight and next Saturday so fingers crossed nothing drastic to get in the way.

Oh dear dontknow I'm sorry to hear about your DS's diagnosis and that must be a very difficult condition to deal with and manage. Definitely you'll need to wait to hear from your endocrinology team and especially the dietician. Maybe they can connect you with a patient or family organisation, although that may not exist due to it being fairly rare, or with other families that have had to manage this problem?

In the meantime, diabetes.org.uk has some clear info about low glycaemic index diets, and maybe you want to check their forums to see if there is anyone there with similar experience? I think your DS's specific problem is fairly rare, but most discussions of low GI come up in the context of diabetes.

There's also a good general article here on the BBC Good Food site, but more importantly they link to this useful site from the University of Sydney which is legit well-respected nutritional science and has a database where you can find out the GI of various foods.

Well the past two days of get-togethers with friends have been fairly disastrous on the BSD front. There was wine, so much wine, there was tons of Indian food (including my personal carby gateway drug, peshwari naan), and there was dessert.

But I had a great time and caught up with people I have been missing, which is what is really important. At least I don't eat like that every day any more, and I actually ate less and ate fewer bad things than I would have at the same gathering last year. (And my weight loss was commented on, so yay, people are noticing the hard work.)

So today back to BSD land. Luckily the horrible period at work is finally over (hence some of the celebratory wine). So now my schedule is more flexible and manageable again, and it'll be easier to get to the gym and I won't be working so late that it's difficult to pack lunch.

I do feel a bit jittery still from all the sugar this weekend, and a little hungover from the alcohol too. It's a good reminder of why I really shouldn't eat like that except very occasionally. On the plus side, it means I'm really craving 'normal' BSD eating with lots of veg, nice cheese, and lean protein.

westwing re eating out, just avoid the bread, don't have pudding, ignore rice and potatoes and eat lovely fish (if you like it) and meat and vegetables and cheese boards. I did low carb a while ago and we generally eat out a lot (not ATM as trying to save money as well as losing weight) and it's very easy to do low carb. I used to drink dry white wine as well and still lost over 4 stone. Trying to lose it again now but that's because I went back to sugar and bread and potatoes and wine.

I've meal planned for the week and our evening meals are Halloumi and courgette kebabs, salmon steaks, garlic and rosemary fried lamb, Thai fish cakes and roast chicken. Lunches are butternut squash soup for a couple of days, once in a restaurant and once at a friend's house where I'll just do my best to eat low carb.

That condition sounds tough to deal with, I hope you find a solution

Thanks waterandlemonjuice, I will follow that advice. I love fish so that part is easy. I don't have a sweet tooth at all so I am lucky there. Your weeks menu plan looks great. I am so very close to goal and it keeps slipping out of my grasp is the problem. Thinking about it a change of tactic would be good for me morale wise. Considering looking at exercise for a week and see what happens, taking a more averagebear approach and packing my trainers for holiday. My family would be astonished to see me attempt a run. I have completely ignored the exercise chapter in BSD book and am inclined to snort at mindfulness. But I am slightly stuck.

Oh and bear saw your post in S&B - sounds like you need to spend some of your free week trying lots of things on and seeing what suits your new shape? So wonderful, congratulations!

Hi everyone - mind if I join in?
Planning on starting tomorrow, so just trying to work out what to eat. I’ve ready the book and think I’ve got a fairly good idea.

I haven’t weighed myself for a while and suspect that I have around 4 stones to lose.

Inspired by my mum who has just started and I can already see a difference in her face.

Also - I feel so old and frumpy. Going to read as much as I can, but just wanted to say ‘hello’.

Sorry for spamming this thread again today, but I'm feeling really miserable. Friends and get-together this weekend were great, aside from completely hopelessly going off BSD. Whatever, these things happen. But I've just seen a picture of myself at said gathering and it is really, really unflattering. Partly it's my own fault, as I wore something that was comfy, but that turns out to be bulky and too big and wrongly shaped for me now. But partly I'm just really sad, because I feel like I've worked so hard this year, I've lost over 5 stone, and yet I'm still huge and look like crap. Just slightly less huge crap.

I know that I'm being silly. I still have 4 stone to lose but that will go in time, for now I'm not gaining which is good, and it was mostly a bad camera angle and an outfit I definitely now need to burn. I also know I shouldn't be so shallow and appearance-driven; after all, many of my improvements have been in health and stamina and that's the best part of losing weight. However, my shallow side finds it so depressing to have worked so hard and still be so far from where I want to be, still looking like the 'before' picture. I was feeling great about my progress, despite the hiccups, but now I feel like all the work has been for not very much.

Am going to go for a walk and try to stomp the feelings off, but really needed to be weepy and sad and discouraged for a minute, with people who would understand. This stupid changing-your-way-of-life stuff is hard.

Big hug to you Veryveryquietly, you are entitled to feel down and disappointed, stupid photos can be upsetting. I wore my go to emergency navy shift dress to my DDs holy communion, felt good, safe choice I thought, I had no idea the fabric was so thin, every bulge was really highlighted in every photo, genuinely astonished my DH or one of my sisters didn't drag me to one side and tell me to change.

Forget about the photo and keep on going. You know you are doing fantastically well. Keep your goals in mind. Be kind to yourself today, upbeat telly or fave movie.

Thanks @veryveryquietly

Veryquietly, 5 stone is AWESOME! Well done! We've all been there with shit photos, a load of them have caused me to be here, I've got one as my wallpaper so I don't forget why I'm doing this. I hope the walk helped. And you're over gal way there, go you!

Half way not gal way

very 5 stone is an amazing achievement and inspiring to those of us at the start of the BSD journey.
Today is the last day of week 6 for me. Came in under carbs and calories at the weekend, not including a couple of glasses of wine. Not that hungry today 449 calories and 14.1g carbs.

very hope the walk helped - and a much healthier way of dealing with how you're feeling, both physically and mentally. 5 stone is just amazing - but I know that all achievements can fall by the wayside in the way of an unflattering pic. Don't let it derail you.

Very 5 stones is absolutely incredible!
Photos aren’t always the kindest medium are they? Keep them though, because in a few months you’ll want to look back on them and see how much more weight you’ve lost. It does take a while for your body to catch up on this plan- I got virtually no comments about my weight loss until several Months in, even though my losses had slowed right down by then, because it was actually the skin shrinking that people noticed, not the poundage. You’re doing amazingly well, don’t ever forget that. This is bloody hard work sometimes and we are up against so much, including our own emotions (by far the harshest critics and the biggest hurdle to overcome).

Do you have a photo app, I use a free one called foto-r-us? It allows you to do collage things and put pictures side by side. It’s a brilliant way to tell and see exactly what’s changed when you don’t always notice it yourself as you see the gradual changes.

Be kind to yourself

Hi everyone, thank you so much. I was so shaken, weirdly upset, but after a walk and a healthy (BSD compliant!) dinner, I'm better now. (Plus good leftover lunch packed for tomorrow, yay.) And I successfully avoided eating my feelings, thank goodness: 885 cals and 36 gr carbs for the day and I am mainlining herbal tea to keep myself from snacking anymore. I've done this and I can keep doing this.

I'm especially better after reading all your great insights and thoughts. Thank you so much for putting up with my wobble. It was odd, as I've been feeling better and better about how I look, but then got thrown by that picture. You're all correct, it is just one photo, and when I lose even more it'll be useful as a reminder of where I've been. I will hide the most hideous in a folder on my computer for future comparison.

I'm now listing a bunch of nice clothes that are now too big on eBay, in hopes of making some cash to buy more new stuff that fits. But I am not selling the bad-picture dress as I don't want someone else to accidentally fall victim to it! I swear it didn't look nearly so bad when I was bigger, but now, ugh.

Its ironic really very because I spent years refusing to have my photo taken. There are virtually no photos of me and my children at Christmases, birthdays etc. I’d love one to compare with now, a ‘true’ shot of me last Christmas maybe, rather than the grim mirror shots I took when I started.

As an aside, I still have ‘fat days’ when I critique myself as cruelly as when I was 2.5 stone heavier, where I stand in the mirror and think to myself ‘I thought a size 8 would be thinner than this’ and ‘I thought this bit or this bit would have gone’ etc - and on these days I don’t see what’s right there. Trying on some old jeans that literally hang off me really helps at those times, as does trying on the new pair that would never have gone on before. Keep the dress and try it on in 6 weeks!!