Blood Sugar Diet & Fast 800 Diet | Thread 23

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Happily starting a new thread as the other is almost full!

Perhaps useful to go over our stats:
Current weight: 10 stone 3lbs
Starting weight: 11 stone 4.5lbs
Weeks on Fast 800 Diet so far: 6

ChillinwiththeVillains Thank you.
I've going to family dinner this weekend. Also there will be plenty of alcohol and chocolate 😬
I'll get through it though!

Mmmmm. Yes, I have a BBQ with friends this weekend. It's going to be awkward not drinking, but I am determined to do 60 days with no alcohol. I'll see...

All I wanted to do yesterday was sit on the sofa and eat bad things 😔 Bad, bad, bad.

So I am fasting completely today.

When this BH weekend is over, I must try a fitness class. I can't continue like this on a seemingly never ending plateau as I just get depressed and eat a bit of the child's Easter egg mindlessly.

And I have left my coat at home today and it's too flaming cold to walk around at lunchtime.

Could I join please? The last time I weighed myself I was 11’13” but that was before my mum was diagnosed with breast cancer and I have since comfort ate and drank too much wine so no doubt I will be a few pounds heavier. I want to start fast 800 and intermittent fasting on Tuesday

Rosepetal72 welcome! (Although I've only just joined!)
Today (day 3) was HARD. I kept on reminding myself that the first week is hard and this kept me going.
I was really silly and baked brownies with my daughter and thought it wouldn't affect me. Well it did! I didn't eat any, but boy did they trigger huge cravings.
I ended up ending the day on 1100 calories which isn't too bad. All the food was low carb.
Note to self: do not bake desserts (yet!)
Looking forward to a good sleep and beginning with a fresh start tomorrow.
I too intermittent fast. I find it much easier to delay lunch for as long as possible.

@Rosepetal72 welcome 👋🏻 Good luck for Tuesday. My advice would be to either know the first couple of days could be a bit tough (or they might not be!). Or get into it slowly by cutting down before cutting out.

Cozytoesandtoast00 I too made chocolate brownies today 🙈 I managed to resist though, but I would have found it super hard in the first few days! Well done for not giving in.

Well, the scales are still not moving for me, but I have reached a mental stage where I am okay with this plateau. I know I am in a calorie deficit every day. I know I am not eating many carbs. I know I am going to see the reward of not drinking alcohol. I know the weight will come off. It's annoying it's not as fast as it was the last time I did Fast 800, but that's my own fault to be honest for letting things go after that.

I have a big holiday coming up end of June and it is a sun holiday which I have done in over 20 years with extended family and I really want to feel good in shorts and a vest top if not a bikini. I did really well on fast 800 last year and tried calorie counting last month but I can't control sugar cravings if I'm eating any carbs at all so I'm hoping to get back on this thread. Not feeling very enthusiastic about it all at the moment especially as it's Easter and lots of socialising planned over next couple of Months. I know I will feel so bad on holidays if I don't lose at least a stone by then. Any inspiration for me please.

My scales finally shifted a little bit. Hurrah hurrah, down 2.8kg total now. Hoping the whoosh continues but I did drink wine last night.

@MysweetAudrina my advice is to be really strict for the first few weeks. Don't deviate from the plan and the set meals (at the back of the book if you have that?). That has the most initial weight loss.

Then it's natural to plateau a bit, but if you've lost 10-14 lbs by then, hopefully you can ride that out 😁

After about 10 days of being really good and losing half a stone I totally fell off the wagon and haven't managed to get back on it. Far too much chocolate in the house.
Going on an all inclusive holiday this week so probably will get back on it after my holiday!
Annoyed though cos I've gained 2lb back. I'm a bigger so can't stop at one biscuit or one chocolate.

too many excuses for me! There's always something (oh it's Easter, oh it's the weekend, oh I'll do it next week)

Main task today will be to find a battery for my scales so I know my current weight.

@cheeseisthebest, hope you have put it all behind you and can have a few days eating to plan before you go off on holiday. And then you’ll come back all relaxed and determined.
@Diegofrompennyburn hope scales are now working. I am finding daily weighing very motivating (if sometimes depressing). I read a Joe Wicks’ FB post abour consistency being what changes the scales and so kept thinking that I would be owed weight loss. Weirdly after a weekend wiyu wine, chocolate and pannacotta they are shifting down. But I am averaging about 1,000kcal and trying to have just one off plan thing a day. Started running again too for first time in two months after covid. I managed 7k slowly so am off again to run the same route, I think adding exercise may well be key for me.
@xraydelta did you manage to get back to working out? I know you had hoped to?

Just an update from me.
My son broke his leg at the weekend and so with all the drama, I went off plan for two days (massively!)
I still managed to lose 6lb so I'm counting that as a win! Back to the plan today.
I'm finding it hard to stick to 800 Cal's and I'm nearer 900-1000.
I'm not putting too much pressure on myself to lose a lot quickly but I'm sticking to the food recommendations and keeping the carbs low.
I agree with consistently is key chillinwithvilllians and believe that if I get back on track after a blip then that is success for me.
Onwards and upwards!!

• 6lb is my weekly loss

Time for a restart on this. I lost over 4 stone a couple of years ago, just after the first lockdown. I've put about a stone and a half back on so am going to do a few weeks on Fast 800 then move onto 5:2.

I'm doing it through the online programme as I think the discipline will help and also the exercise videos - I need to get more active.

A final reason, I've recently been diagnosed with ADHD and one of the repeated things that comes up with managing it is to clean up your diet. I'm really curious to see if following something like this will have any additional benefits.

It's lovely to hear about your successes but also to see the support if we slip a little off track.

Hello, I have just started this.

I lost 12lb between Feb and April by doing normal dieting, which was an initial 2 weeks weight loss by cutting out snacking, then 6 weeks of calorie counting. I basically used a tracker and ate the number of calories I needed for a 1.75lb a week weight loss.

It was all going well then I had 2 PMT days where I ate over double the allowance. I managed to lose the extra couple of pounds, but I have struggled to shift much more since then due to trips away.

A friend told me about Fast 800 and it seemed really appealing as I am going on holiday in just under 4 weeks. On the first day I lost just over 1lb.

I have a feeling that the metabolism will adjust but I haven't been exercising much so that will be my final push when it plateaus.

It hasn't been too much a shock as I was already dieting. In the long term I think something like 5:2 may work for me.

@Maladicta I saw a psychiatrist for my ADHD and he said there is some evidence that a mediterranean diet is good for ADHD symptoms.

@MistySkiesAreGone oh that's really good to hear, anything's worth a go tbh! How have you found it?
My diagnosis is very recent and I'm still coming to terms with it tbh. The first time I did Fast 800 it was a hyper focus so while the results were amazing, they weren't sustainable. I'm trying to be more measured this time.
Just got to get rid of Covid first...

I do notice more ease of doing things when I have oily fish like mackarel. To be honest diet probably makes the biggest difference to my ADHD.

Morning all. Day 4 here. 11st 0.8, so a 3lb loss in 3 days.

I'm not finding it too hard hunger wise but I do feel like my brain has slowed down. I feel like I used to have a lot more thoughts, and my motivation is being suppressed. Does anyone have tips with how to cope with this?

I think I have been a bit stressed anyway with a big work event which is today and tomorrow, so hopefully it will feel like a weight is lifted when that is done.

I'm also weighing myself daily and I am becoming anxious about this i.e. the prospect of no movement on the scales, despite eating tiny amounts, feels like something I would berate myself for. Whereas before it was just curiosity/helping me stay on track. I suppose as I know that if there was no change then I have nowhere lower to go with the calories. Should I

• carry on weighing but try and think more positively about it i.e. as long as I stick to 800 then of course the scales will shift, at least for the next couple of weeks. In that frame of thinking I think losing say 8.5lbs is pretty realistic in a fortnight, which from past experience I would pretty good at this weight
• stop weighing and stick to the plan and try and lighten up about it

I don't know, advice welcome! I will probably do a bit of both. I am away from scales until wednesday and am also out and about this weekend, so that should help with breaking the scale obsession!

I think also maybe taking the plan 1 week at a time. I have in mind that I will do 3 weeks, but very focused on doing each day and then getting to the end of week 1.

I'm diagnosed with ADHD and I can report that the first week was pretty awful. Tired, unable to focus and feeling generally rubbish. I actually binged on ice-cream on day three! Decided to get back on it and I'm glad I did.

Week 3, day one, I feel bloody brilliant. Focus has hugely improved and I'm not pre occupied with food or hungry. I supposed my body has adjusted.

I've gone from 12:3.5 to 11:8.2 and really don't feel hungry anymore. It's my TOTM at the moment and I normally put on a few pounds (even if dieting) but I haven't this time.

I generally hover around 900 Cal's per day. Sometimes 1000 at the weekend. So may have lost more if I'd gone lower. But this works for me.
My tips.
The first few days are HARD but keep going even if you have a blip.
Go very low carb in the day and save your carbs ( root veg, small amount of pulses, berries) for the eve. This helps with sleep.
Have two meals a day. Much more satisfying than grazing
Chug loads of water. I like sparkling water.
Don't do any intensive exercise in the first two weeks. Power walks will do.
Get plenty of sleep.

Thank you so much for the reply/tips. Good to hear from someone with ADHD. That is really interesting to hear that focus improves, as I kind of feel like I am waiting around for weight loss but want to just live normally while doing it.

That sounds like the kind of weight loss I hope to achieve.

That is a really good tip about evening carbs. I need mental focus in the daytime for work but will give that a go.

-Oats, banana, yoghurt, milk, nuts
-Chicken, prawns, salad
-Soup, cod, potato

950 cals (includes dinner out)

I need to join so much. I had meant to restart in January and now look! Another undiagnosed ADHD her and menopausal. I have stopped the 2/3 litres Over this time and feel crap. I need something to make me daily accountable, hoping it’s this thread.

First day done! Lovely lentils with a poached egg and steamed leeks for dinner last night, sea bass with sprouts tonight.

I slept really well, must keep reminding myself of the other benefits as well as weight loss.

Forgot the vital statistics- 13st 5lbs today, hopefully not tomorrow 😆

Hi there! Occasional poster here. Glad to see this thread is so lively. I lost 4.5 stones at the beginning of lockdown with Fast 500 and have put 1.5 back on😞very much like @Maladicta . New leaf turned over since beginning of the year and despite ups and downs have lost 10 lbs. Some great success stories here that are very inspirational.
Can I ask a nerdy question: I am fantasising about eating pavlova/meringue - has anybody here successfully made low carb version? I have become a bit obsessed with this using a combo of egg white and xylitol with various additions but all my efforts have been soggy.
What am I doing wrong? Should I be using erythritol? Also read that inulin is a good thing to include but have also read that it is a bit of a dodgy ingredient.