Blood sugar diet thread 12

[thenewaveragebear1983]

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

Well. In the latest instalment of ‘aren’t bodies weird?’ I decided to weigh myself after my run this evening, purely because my reasoning was that I already feel thoroughly peed off with myself, I’ve eaten absolutely tonnes this week, I’m bound to have put on a few pounds (especially as it’s the evening) and might as well compound my misery, seeing as I’m bound to put on a few over the weekend. Might as well face the music.

Well, I was 10.2.4 which is the lowest I’ve been in ages and it’s the evening. I cannot work my body out sometimes! That’s good though, and means I’m not going away already thinking I’ve gained.

Well done to you and your weird body bear
I'm so glad I don't really do the scales thing!

Hi all, can I come back, it's been 2 weeks and I haven't maintained, gained 5 lbs. Carbs, started off with tiny bits here and there and gradually increased until last night I had a massive bowl of pasta for the first time this year. The stupidest bit is that bread and the pasta have both given me stomach pains. I feel awful. Back in my bigger bras which I hate (only keep them for time of the month). I will read thread and catch up on news.

Welcome back west, I think maintenance is hard on this plan and the tricky bit is learning what and how much you can reintroduce. It’s all a learning curve.

I was still 10.2 this morning, yay!, so weirdly that’s quite motivating to try and at least stay a little bit on plan. I’m off on my jollies so will catch up with you all on Monday!

Thank you for kind words Bear, hope the cruise is great fun. Bon voyage!

Right I am off to clean bathrooms and then it's all the dog bedding and floor mopping, that should keep me out of the fridge for a bit.

west welcome back. I was on holiday last month and had some pizza. It was lovely at the time but it gave me stomach pains too.

Thanks onanother, I was so surprised about stomach pains, bad enough to stop me sleeping! I hope no one reads too much into my inability to maintain and think it's all too difficult. I really went badly off, DH and I have been eating french fries and mayo with red meat most nights where usually we eat fish and veg. Bread with breakfast and lunch and lots of wine followed by cheese. I had a recall on a mammogram which scared us, waited a week for another mammogram and ultrasound (2 benign cysts found), apparently 3 Drs have to check results and sign off before letter saying "you are fine" is sent out. Still waiting for that letter but in all likelihood all is well. Looking forward to fish and veg tonight, have so overdone it on food the past few days I feel puffed up and unwell. One of the things I was so worried about was that I have never done family photo albums which is shameful and what a mess I would leave behind of photos in boxes, on old phones, my old laptop. Sorry this is a long post!

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you west
Know what you mean about maintaining - I don't seem to have the willpower to allow myself the odd carb - it just opened the floodgates.

I've been maintaining for a few weeks now. Still low carb day to day but will eat them at restaurants if needed and had a piece of focaccia yesterday at a work do.
I'm not avoiding pulses at all as such a big part of my cooking (home made baked beans, curries, chilli, soups etc)
It's working ok so far

West, keeping everything crossed for you - I had my first mammogram earlier in the year, and was amazingly nervous until the normal result came through.
Hope the cruise is fabulous, Bear!
I am maintaining as too many carbs at he end of the day when tired, for most of this week...

I had abnormal result in April from mammogram but after various poking- biopsies and 4 clinc visits - all was well. Yes - it is stressful so good luck

Thanks very much everyone. Had an ok day yesterday, didn't stick to BSD fully but improvement on previous days. Made myself weigh and very chuffed to lose 1/2 lb. Really going to try to go without any carbs today and aim for 1,000 kc.

Hi all - popping in after having been away from thread several weeks.

Maintenance has been going pretty well. I've stopped counting & tracking cals/carbs, but trying my best to stick to the general framework on BSD eating: lower carb fruits, no potatoes or similar, no bread, no rice, no crisps, no beer, no added sugar, only portion-controlled pulses and pulse/bean stuff such as hummus, lentils, etc etc. I have been bobbing around the same weight now for about a month I think with very little effort. A pound or two up sometimes, then a pound or two down, but generally hovering around the same number.

I have had more wine than I should, but cut it with fizzy water when I can (expensive red wine as is, as fizzy water in it would be a waste and an abomination!). I still eat a lot more dark chocolate than I should, but I consider it medicinal. And I have a bit of ice cream a few times a week, but do my best to have it only in portion-controlled amounts. And I really don't feel deprived at all. This may be more challenging as we get into the season of baked treats everywhere, but so far so good.

Exercise has been more of an issue - I'm not going to the gym as regularly as I was, as work has been awful, but I am definitely walking more. I'm also delighting in things like not getting out of breath on the stairs, when younger and slimmer colleagues do. And went to a concert the other night and danced for hours with no knee or joint pain. So good progress on the 'stay active' front, not so good on regular gym visits.

When work and life slows down a bit I'm going to start working hard and go back to full BSD and regular gym, as I have another 50 lbs to go to my ideal weight. But in the meantime I just want to say to new BSD folks, hang in there, it can be done. Even if you're really really big (I was! now I'm just pretty big) and older (I'm in my 50s). I'm 80 lbs less than I was at the beginning of January and it's staying off with little effort. I'm not slim by any means, still overweight, but my quality of life is 100% better.

I'm also many many £s lighter from having to buy new bras and clothes, but that's a different story. Bras are so expensive! And my saggy upper arms are a nightmare. But these are minor issues.

Love and good wishes to you all

Hi very it's nice to know your maintenance is going well.

Sorry to be a windbag threadkiller

I’m back in England, I reckon about 5lbs heavier! Will catch up on the thread this evening.

Hi very, enjoyed reading your post, its great you are maintaining sensibly. I am with you on the bra thing, expensive having 3 different sizes in my case (depending on 5 lbs up or down and then there's time of the month bras) but if my bra isn't comfy everything goes downhill.

I planned a strict proper BSD week starting this morning but slept so badly last night and woke with several bad dreams for some reason. Energy levels terrible and felt unnerved by weird dreams so had to have a large breakfast including rye bread. Feel more human now and intend to pick it up again with this evenings stir fry.

It's probably the menopause with the weird dreams and pounding heart. But if anyone has any tips that would be great. I am considering St Johns Wort herbal tablets, I never take meds or supplements so a bit nervous but having too many nights like this and so tired the next day.

Have a good week everyone.

Caught up on all the news, very you have done so well! West totally understand about the bras, I think I have been about 6 different sizes this year already.

Unable to really get back into BSD today, I’ve been really tired and resorted to convenience food and Belgian chocolates! No wine though which is a good start. Going to calorie and carb count quite strictly for the rest of the week just to reset my mind into the BSD way, plus I will be carrying about 3lbs of water which I’d like to be rid of ASAP too. Run tomorrow am, healthy day of protein and salad, circuit training in the evening, gallons of water and hopefully a decent night sleep!

Post cruise weigh in: 10.7.4!! That’s a whopping 5lb gain in 4 days totally worth it though! Mostly water wine weight.

Anyway, line drawn.

Did you know it’s just 11 weeks until Christmas? Do you have any goals to hit before then? For me it’s to finally get that target weight, I want to be in the 9’s and stay there, so after this weekend that’s about 8-10 lbs I want to lose. I could do this so easily before Christmas even at a pound a week. My diet will need to change in January as I am going to be training for a half marathon (in April) so I want to be at target before then.
I reckon a few strict, low carb weeks could do it and then I need to just maintain it (although I seem ok with maintenance usually as my weight has been pretty stable for a good few months now)

My other goal is to get better at trusting myself to eat well and not be so obsessive with calorie counting and carb counting- just trust myself to eat only when I’m hungry and also to only eat the foods which I know will keep the carbs low. Realistically I only need to carb and calorie count if I’m not on the plan properly and I find that when I find myself spiralling off the plan a bit, that’s when I get more calorie/carb focussed.

So those are my two goals before Christmas! Anyone else?

I've decided my target weight is 9st 7lb. I have no idea how close I am to it I will be able to weigh myself next week. I have also signed up for a half marathon in May so need to get back into running. I used to do a lot of 10k runs but fell by the wayside a year or so ago due to arthritis and then got fat . Food wise doing well this week so far, sticking with 800- 1000 calories and under 50g carbs. Not doing too well on the exercise front though apart from dog walking as my boiler has broken so no got water for a shower. Hopefully it'll be fixed today 🤞

Morning everyone.
Trying to get back on it, after my trips to Berlin and Tenerife.

Am the same weight 11-3, as I have been for the last few months.

Am most unhappy at recent photos.

Will try and get back on it.

Onanothertrain which half marathon are you doing? I’m doing Shakespeare’s Stratford in April. Have you done one before?

Oblomov good to ‘see’ you again, you know we’re always here for support when you need us!

Made the fatal mistake of going to asda sans shopping list, so this weeks meals might be a bit dull as I stuck to the usual staples rather than trawling the recipe books.

bear I haven't done one before but always said I wanted to do one. My furthest official run has been 9 miles but that was a while ago. I'm doing the isle of tiree half marathon

Things are going to be hopeless for the next two weeks so I'm going to set out to maintain until 1 Nov, then try to get rid of another half-stone before the holidays. More than that would be gravy - or rather, not gravy, way too caloric! Will rejoin you all round about Halloween.

A reasonable day for me, I’d imagine I’ve come in ok for calories and pretty low for carbs, but I didn’t keep track so who knows!

21k steps, including an 8.5km run and 45 mins circuits. I definitely felt the hangover from my weekend of gluttony!