That's WONDERFUL @Brunneria - you should be very proud of yourself to have achieved those results. I hope the same happens to me but reading your post gives me hope.
@Brunneria @maglil55 - did either of you get any keto flu symptoms - I didn't get anything.
I went on the 8 week blood Sugar Diet, by Dr Michael Moselely and Prof. Rod Taylor, I lost 3.5 stone in the 8weeks, my blood drppoed from high teens down to 5 - 7. I fully recommend this diet, get the book by the same name, there are some lovely recipes in there.I'm following the Diet Doctor 2 week challenge and the carb intake is 20g or less per day. My main motive was to get my BG back to where I wanted to be and it was certainly doing that until I fell victim to this stinking cold (although BG has not risen as much as it usually does when I am ill. )
However, I have only lost 1lb. Prior to this I'd lost 17lbs on a moderate LC diet (about 40 - 50g carbs). Lowering BG is the priority and I'm happy with how it's going. However, I do want to lose more weight. I know Diet Doctor say you don't count calories on their keto diet but I've checked some of their recipes now and the daily total is around 1800 calories. I intend to give the VLC another couple of weeks to see if I can get my BG back in the 4's but after that I think I have to tweak the Diet a bit to lower the calorie intake as I really don't think I will lose anything much on 1800 calories a day.
Does anyone know if the full nutritional information for the Diet Doctor recipes are lurking anywhere on the net or am I just going to have to plod on putting the recipes into my Fitness Pal? (Some were there already but were a bit dubious).
If anyone wants to know what the 2 week challenge is like it is surprisingly easy. I have never been hungry, if anything it is too much food. The shopping lists do help because you only buy what you need. Hubby mostly ate the same as me although I add carbs for him as he won't eat the quantity of greens I get through. You only cook once a day as one day's dinner becomes the next day's lunch (I don't count breakfast as cooking as scrambled eggs only take minutes). Talking of eggs you get through loads of them!! Recipes are very good and some are Really good (don't think I would have found Diet Doctor without this forum).
I went on the 8 week blood Sugar Diet, by Dr Michael Moselely and Prof. Rod Taylor, I lost 3.5 stone in the 8weeks, my blood drppoed from high teens down to 5 - 7. I fully recommend this diet, get the book by the same name, there are some lovely recipes in there.
thank you, @Chook! everyones so supportive on here! so ive lost 26 pounds so far, kept thinking i was going to go back to bingeing but havent so far - its a revelation!@Angelofthemarshes - Yay - go for it girl - you can do it!!! We are here to support each other.
Your history sounds a lot like mine - my first diet was when I was 20 to get down to 8st 7lbs (from 9st 7lbs) before my (first) wedding and I've been yoyo dieting ever since. At one point I had clothes in dress sizes from 8 up to 26 in my wardrobe thinking that one day I might fit back in to the smaller stuff but I kept on drifting back up to the bigger stuff. I think most of my actual binges were in the few years leading up to me being diagnosed with diabetes and, looking back, I think they had a lot to do with hypos. In those days I was trying to follow the low calorie/low fat/lots of complex carbs type of diet and exercised like a mad thing (exercise classes, walking for hours and swimming) in order to lose weight. I'd often feel awful and just binge eat cake or sweets until I felt okay - I told myself that it was because I was 'running on empty' - and I had no idea how right I was, just not quite in the way I originally thought it.
thank you, @Chook! everyones so supportive on here! so ive lost 26 pounds so far, kept thinking i was going to go back to bingeing but havent so far - its a revelation!
I'm in the same boat still too. Started with bed at 6.5 got up to 7.1. Much the same as yesterday. After the school run went with other half to B&Q and a quick visit to M&S (They are looking not bad in the green Veggie stakes). Result was breakfast was a lot later at 11.10 and I had No 2 to pick up from Pre School at 11.30am. Before a very rushed breakfast I was at 7.7 and as usual breakfast reversed the trend until inexplicably at the 2hr mark it started to rise again and was back at 7.9. Just had water and a couple of walnuts about 1 hr ago and, just as inexplicably, I'm back at 6.2???My BG was 6.4 this morning and I'm quite disappointed that it hasn't started going down a bit - it does make me wonder just how much longer my liver can keep annoying me this way.
In an effort to reduce or stop this All Morning Phenomenon (AMP) - can't call it DP - I have eaten mackerel for breakfast because there definitely seems to be a relationship between a big brekkie with protein and low lunchtime BG numbers for me.
Unfortunately the breakfast wasn't quite as big as planned - I only had two fillets of mackerel instead of three because the new dog swiped one off my plate while I'd walked just to the other side of the kitchen to get the lemon I'd cut up. He didn't get to keep it.
I was going to try this (I have the book) but decided on the Diet Doctor challenge first. I've stuck with Diet Doctor since after the 1lb loss I lost another 4lbs over the next 2 weeks and it is really easy, great tasting food. I've tried a few of the recipes in the 8 week diet and will probably incorporate them into DD but right now Very low Carb is working apart from the annoying DP.I went on the 8 week blood Sugar Diet, by Dr Michael Moselely and Prof. Rod Taylor, I lost 3.5 stone in the 8weeks, my blood drppoed from high teens down to 5 - 7. I fully recommend this diet, get the book by the same name, there are some lovely recipes in there.
I had one day I felt a bit off but I had their cup of boullion and felt OK after.What I've done for next week's menu is to look at all the keto recipes on Diet Doctor and make up my own menu of the type of dishes we like - with either no breakfast or something keto from DD - and the same for lunch (probably avocados) - I will stay under 20g of carbs (and hopefully less). I might even have a couple of fasting days if I feel in the mood.
@Brunneria @maglil55 - did either of you get any keto flu symptoms - I didn't get anything.
I'll add that to the mix. I got another aubergine at Tesco tonight - just 1 again although other veg is appearing again.O.M.G. I completely recommend the Garam Masala Chicken with the low carb naan breads. I put a chopped up aubergine fried inches in it which bulked it out in a flavoured way. It's a curry with lots of flavour but no heat. If you want to make the naan breads use very little coconut oil when frying. So much for having some left over for tomorrow.......
Yes, I liked the pizza, too. Mr C had the pepperoni on his side and I had just black olives and extra cheese on mine . We're having the pizza again tonight as (miracle) I have managed to get a late appointment with the nurse practitioner at my doctors surgery. This is the first time I've tried making an appointment with her and it's crazy - you have to speak to the triage nurse before they will let you have an appointment with another nurse....The week 1 pizza is delicious! Basically cheese and pepperoni, and a smear of tomato puree, but very nice indeed. Should have had more salad or veg with it though. It was such a very small volume that i felt empty and went scavenging (low carb hot choc)
Tomorrow i will add coleslaw, for bulk.
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