Blood Sugar Diet & Fast 800 Thread 22

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Blood Sugar Diet & Fast 800 Thread 21

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Hi, noticed the thread was full so started this new one. Link to previous one above.

I had a bit of a day off today as went to my mothers for lunch (god bless bubbles). Had a bit of bread, a small piece of shortbread then had some toast and a club for tea. I'll be honest and say I didn't enjoy the sweet stuff at all. Also got very full and felt bloaty so actually looking forward to being back on it tomorrow. Didn't hugely binge though - probably had about 1500 cals so a normal non diet day.

Kids off to mums for a sleepover next weekend so we'll have a takeaway but I'm hoping I'll have exercised that off given the opportunity afforded by a kid free house ;). Aim to be mega strict between now and then so see if I can have some kind of loss.

In terms of exercise I do some yoga and walking with dh who is a foot taller than me and walks fast so I'm knackered if I keep up with him. I also try and do a few YouTube workouts a week. I do a short Lucy Wyndham Read metabolism interval session most days and either a longer one of hers or body fit by Amy dumbbell session. And the occasional jog but it's too cold atm.

Morning
@shreddergodo I might give that workout a try, I’ve been doing Chloe Ting since last Wednesday which is quite good.
I think that I need to get myself on the treadmill 😖 I absolutely despise treadmills but there is no way I’m getting my flabby Lycra clad self out in the street for the neighbours to see until I’ve lost at least a stone!
Had a very strange weigh in this morning - scales said 10st 7lbs which is same as Friday which I was disappointed with, anyway as I’ve been recording weight in st and also kg I switched scales to kg jumped back on and they said 66.6kg which was different from Friday!! Tried both ways again and was still saying 10st 7lbs but 66.6kg! I tried in pounds and when it was converted it was 66.6kg / 10st 5lb 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️
Either way my week one loss was either 6lbs or 8lbs which I’ll take!

Morning all! Scale says I'm up 3lbs, which considering the bottle of prosecco yesterday I'll take lol. Was planning on getting back on track today but a friend just sent amazing doughnuts as a thank you so I'll be on track aside from those lol.

Plan is to get to 177 by the end of the month and currently (after weekend's gain) that means I've got 5lbs to go but I think it's probably more like 3lbs when the dust settles.

I've booked into physio for later today and I've decided not to do any hit workouts until I've seen her. I did do yoga this morning though so I am doing SOMETHING, even if it's not what I necessarily want to do.

Dinner tonight is satay chicken from the Fast800 cookbook. Think lunch will be eggs and I'll only have 2 meals because of the doughnuts!

Feeling strangely focussed despite the hiccups which is at least something!

I also had a day off haha! Gosh darn it! Some pastry this morning with friend on a walk. Was really fun. I’m interested to see how I feel afterwards though... back on it with an oN plan dinner. Still going to do the workout at nap time ...

So today was a write off honestly... I ended up eating so much post pastries... sugar crash? Or maybe just in F- it mood but I did walk loads And did my workout. Will just get back on it again tomorrow. Wonder how I’ll feel after carbs tonight (quite a lot of fresh sourdough).

@shreddergodo it wasn’t a total write off- sounds like you did plenty of exercise to off set the carbs!
I had a rubbish day at work and could have easily fallen into a BIG bowl of pasta and garlic bread but managed to resist, I know I would have just felt horrible after it so I stuck to scrambled egg and mushrooms 😕
I have set myself the goal of a serious cheat day when I get to 9st ................... could be a while 😂

@Forfecksake17 omg how amazing would that be. I'm dreaming of a chocolate filled easter extravaganza!

Weighed in this morning to check the damage. 1.5lbs on (so now 10stone 3.5lbs) after yesterdays bread 'n' pastry day... siiiigh. Oh well, that's easy enough to lose and also gave me some confidence... I thought it'd gain everything back I'd lost for some reason. I still have a bit of an ED mindset and scale fear ya know?

Morning all
@shreddergodo 1.5lbs gain for bread and pastries sounds well worth it to me 😂
I know exactly what you mean about fear of what the scales will say and the impact it has.
Just realised that today is Pancake Tuesday so no doubt I will have to make ( and resist!) a mountain of the bloody things! The positive side though is that lent starts tomorrow so that should help with motivation and temptation! Every year we all give up two things each, husband and I do no alcohol or crisps and daughter does fizzy drinks and chocolate. At least at the weekends I can now tell myself that I wouldn’t have been having crisps and wine anyway!
Weighed in today and I am 66.2kg, I going to stick to Kg as I’m getting confused otherwise with dodgy scales! If I could get to 54kg by Easter I would be super happy 🤞

Morning gang! I'm down 1lb despite doughnuts yesterday lol. I did have an amazing insight though as to how much my body craved more and more carbs after eating that exact combo of carbs and sugar. I felt so 'hungry' all afternoon & evening even though I'd had more than enough calories to sustain my body for a couple of days. I remember eating like that everyday and no wonder - I thought I was genuinely hungry but I was just craving crap because I ate crap and it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.

I also will be having pancakes today (we're having breakfast for dinner lol so I can get more protein) but will make lunch no carbs to try and get some sort of balance. I think 5lbs by the end of the month is slightly unrealistic but I'm going to aim for 3 so it's nice to feel focused again. Figure I'll feel hungry again for a few days but will push past it!

@Forfecksake17 I started this diet in Feb thinking I'd do a month then transition onto the 5:2 but if by the end of feb I'm up for it, I think I will carry it on for 'lent' aka until I can get myself an Easter egg as big as my head when I reach my goal weight at easter haha!

@PhoenixMama I was ravenous post-pastry too. I got in and ate a bunch of bread before even starting our family meal, like a crazed animal. I feel like that's what sugar does to me, makes me incensed like I'm dying or something.

I would just like to be in the 9st bracket by the end of the month. Hopefully get down to 10.1 this week and 9.11 next? Surely that's doable even though I'm dealing with damage control. I feel like exercise will make some difference, going to do some yoga when DC is in bed tonight, light some incense and make it all 'nice' and hippy-y haha

Hello all!
@shreddergodo and @PhoenixMama I’m in your boat with the off wagon shenanigans was relatively on plan with food but drank 3 nights in a row. I’ve also got my period and the scales are all over the place. Really lacking motivation today, my toddler is waking up so early and I just can’t be arsed to do anything including counting protein and carbs! Phoenix I’m going to join you in pancakes today. I feel like I’ve had a bit of an epiphany that I’m going to need to be loosing weight for quite a while and then stick with some kind of different way of eating if I’m not going to just put it on again, sounds obvious but I think I was imagining a short sharp fix and then back to eating whatever. So anyway with that in mind I’m going to eat a pancake today but have a very virtuous rest of my day and get back on it properly tomorrow! @Forfecksake17 I’m very impressed that you are making them for everyone else, I think I’d find it literally impossible!

I am so sick of cooking and preparing food! Day 16 and I’m still so hungry all day every day protein and fat are high and carbs always under 40g. Drinking loads of water and green tea. Sleeping at least 7.5/8 hours a night. So tempted to eat junk tonight once the kids are in bed!

Hi @Squaretoe I think that doing this plan and having to be so ‘focussed’ on what you can and can’t eat and counting calories/ protein/ fat and carbs does mean that a lot of our brain space is taken up with thoughts of food.
I hope you don’t think I’m being condescending in any way but I just know that I can be guilty of this - maybe your not actually physically hungry so much as just thinking about food ALL the time and feeling a bit deprived 😕 sometimes it the freedom to just be able to eat whatever i want without thinking about it a 100 different ways that I miss rather than the food if that makes sense?
Maybe if you feel like you need to just have the one nite to eat freely then just do it and know that you can get back on it again tomorrow- my thoughts are that one planned nite off is better than being so demotivated that you end up just sacking it off completely 🤷🏻‍♀️
Sorry if that’s a load of shit 😂

@Forfecksake17 no I totally get you! I think you’re right, it also doesn’t help the the corona cafe is permanently open these days, I am sick of getting the kids snacks all day that I can’t eat! 😂
DH has been supportive but is very up for a planned evening off!

@Squaretoe my hubby is trying to convince me to have some red wine tonite before we are off it for lent- I am tempted! He is being really supportive too and is doing the intermittent fasting part with me ( well except liquid calories at the weekend!!) 🙄
Whatever you decide to do tonite will be the right choice for you! 😘

@Forfecksake17 thank you, back on it tomorrow! Are you going for the wine?

@Squaretoe think I probably will have one

( LARGE) glass tonite. There needs to be some luxuries in life eh! 😉

Looks like we're all back on it tomorrow lol I'm really cross with myself that I've been plateau'd all this month. I've got some nice clothes that are just that little bit too tight and I'm annoyed they don't fit yet. It's just that little 5lbs that won't budge. Going to be super strict from tomorrow, which will be tougher on Thurs/Fri as my bubbled friend is going to be staying but he'll just have to get with the plan lol (he's the worst with crisps so I'm going to have to stay strong - I might ask you all to remind me when I feel weak lol!!!

@BoozeHound I weirdly had the same epiphany last night, and it was kid of a relief to think, oh I'll have some days off here and there but in general I'll be on this plan for more than a month. I wanted to get rid of the weight BAM and then get on with my life, but I think that's also ignoring the fact that the way that I was eating is unhealthy. I also noticed that my toddler is snacking on healthier things and asking for less chocolate because I'm not scoffing it in front of him! There are actually some parts of this diet that I genuinely enjoy...so why not make it more long term. I think I see the plan as a bit 'illicit' or something because very low calorie diets have always been really demonised to me and something you do but don't tell anyone about because they're seen as unhealthy and disordered... but honestly I feel really food. I always feel really well with regards to my body RN, it's changed already and I really want to keep seeing that... anyways sorry that is a rant but enjoy your pancakes and then get back on it.
Sorry you're LO is getting up so early, you must be exhausted! I know that feeling well. Sometimes I cheat and just let him watch a few Peppa pigs in bed whilst I doze... not amazing parenting but sleep deprived me is also not a great parent.

@Squaretoe I"m still hungry, mostly in the evenings when I've finished my eating window. Green tea doesn't cut in when they neighbours are making something sooooo yummy smelling :'(

@Forfecksake17 Definitely a mind over matter thing, when I'm immersed in work I forget about food, but when I'm on Instagram looking at everyones pancake extravanganzas my belly rumbles like crazy and all I want to do is eat until I'm full. Go for the wine if you want it- perhaps you can join Boozehound and I on the long train :P

I weighed myself and I'm back to my Sunday weight so no big deal when I went off the rails Monday and still ate over 800 yesterday. Keen to see 10 st 1 lbs end of this week, will probs have pancakes at some point soon..

I think I need a reminder of not just why I'm doing this but why I don't want to eat like a pig anymore:

1. I feel tired and overwhelmed by life when I'm in the sugar crash cycle, especially with my high energy toddler who I LOVE but I end up being a bad parent letting him watch TV and eat crap when I feel crap.

1. Feeling awkward around my husband and not wanting him to touch or look at me. That has REALLY changed over the last week, and I'm receiving a lot of lovely compliments. Don't know if it's the plan or I'm making more of an effort and also maybe able to 'hear them more' instead of cringing away.

1. I get distracted by food from work so I never get any proper work done.

1. Feeling full and disgusting in the evenings, trying to sleep with my heart pounding.

1. I use food to stop myself feeling certain things and I think those things are important moving forward.

1. Skin gets spotty and greasy when I eat sugar all the time.

There. That was really helpful actually, instead of focusing on what 'could be' if I changed my WOE, focusing on what WAS and WHY I changed things...

OK. I have started again today. I did 5:2 and lost quite a bit but it has crept back on especially over lockdown. I am 15.7 and my goal is 11.7.
I am going to do fast 800 for four weeks initially to give myself a kick start and then will probably move to 5.2. I am 48 and am determined to get healthier for my fifties.

I have also realised that whenever my partner thinks I might be dieting, the wine and chocolates come out. It is definitely sabotage which he denies but I refuse to let this shitty behaviour derail me this time.

Hi @cansu 👋 I think lockdown has been the culprit for a few of us! Honestly if someone had told me 18 months ago what damage I could inflict on my body over a 10 month period I would have thought they were mad.
Loved your post @shreddergodo! I can totally relate to all the things you listed.
No loss for me today 😏 can’t complain I guess, gotta take the rough with the smooth and at least it wasn’t a gain!
Tried one of those Lucy W-read workouts this morning which was quite good though not sure if it’s deceptively ‘easier’ than the other workouts I’ve being doing - feels like it could creep up on me and I’ll not be able to move in the morning 😂

Helloll! Down another 1lb this morning - 4 to go to goal #1. Feeling relatively focussed but really hate not being able to run. I know everyone's suggesting hiit workouts but what I liked about the running was I got out of the house, away from dd and just got some time to myself. Working out at home does NOT feel the same way. Trying to figure out what to do.

I ordered myself some new clothes in various sales and generally I think I'm a tight 14 right now but honestly clothing sizes are weird! I'm everything from an 18 - 12! I'm aiming for a comfortable 14/maybe an M&S 12. The smallest I've ever been in my entire life was a small 12 and that was pre-kid, 28, and working out 6 days a week - that life (and that body) is never coming back!

HI @PhoenixMama Well done with your pound lost! Sorry to hear you can't run either - I feel you when it's just not the same as HIIT (I've sacked them off, boring and depressing...)can you walk? I can't run but walking is really hitting the spot with my music on and just enjoying the 'warmer' weather... it's really lifting my spirit!

I've also been ordering some new clothes to celebrate my WL so far, it's so satisfying. Even though they aren't that small though, it's more just feeling better at myself so that I actually CARE what I'm wearing instead of always going for comfort... I've also been putting some makeup on in the morning, nothing too crazy but just enough to make me feel a bit jazzier haha

Day 18- weighed in at 10 stone 2.5
Had some sugary treats this AM with a friend, not too bad mainly dates with peanut butter and some cereal bar so not horrible, just going with the flow.

I'm meeting an old friend from school next week for a walk, on the 26th. She has always had this weird... I don't know 'power' over me or something that makes me feel like I have to 'prove' something. I can't really explain it. She works in marketing and always looks down on nursing saying how 'awful and difficult and poorly paid' it must be. Of course it's tough but I love it. We get on REALLY well in many ways ( I know she sounds like a horrible non friend but she's been super supportive in many ways for me, helping me and listening to me over the years) but she's so subtly undermining and for some reason I also feel like I want to prove her wrong. Anyways she would at length go on about how having babies ruins your body (she is child free, which is fine, but is a quite anti kid and anti mum) and so I feel like I have to prove her wrong by feeling confident and well put together when I meet her after the nursery run on Thursday - a week from today. Would love to be in the 9st range then so I need to kick myself up the bum today and tomorrow and not go too crazy this weekend. I think I need more low calorie recipe ideas for lunch then use everything up by dinner, I've been doing the other way around and it's not working great tbh

Hi all,
@PhoenixMama hope the calf gets better soon so you can get out running again, I wish I had your mindset about running. I would literally need to be dragged kicking and screaming!
@shreddergodo think I’m going to try incorporate a long walk into my day if I can. One of my friends walked ( at a very quick pace) for an hour every day during 1st lockdown and she swore by it- her legs were WOW 😍
Reading about your friend reminds me very much of someone who was once upon a time my best friend- we were super close and deep down she was a lovely girl but in the end I just couldn’t equate someone making me feel that way with someone I wanted in my life as a friend if you know what I mean.

Another teeny 1lb off today but I’ll take it!
Hoping I’m going to have a bit of a ‘whoosh’ next week to keep me on track 🤞