Cate's Diary

Beck- Hi. I'll be back on Monday, for sure! Dendeng is Indonesian & is delicious but Carbs, carbs - sweet soy, palm sugar. Plus I had it on rice! I won't be having anything like that for quite some time. Is your ticker up to date? I now have 8.5kgs to lose to get back to my lowest weight after Cohen's. Sigh.........I have the let down post-carb feeling today, big-time! It's horrible & all you want to do is eat chocolate, anything really sweet at all. Come on Monday!
Good news/bad news-
Bad news is I put on another kg in the last 2 days. I got such a huge shock! It has jumped up 3.5kgs in about 2 weeks & today I weigh more than I have since I completed Cohen's. It had obviously decided to head right up! OMG!!
Good news is I told my LH what I weighed this morning & he said "You had better get back on Cohen's!" so, at least he isn't going to argue that I'm just fine the way I am. It took us both by surprise. He knows what it means to me to never be fat again. He also suggested I might have to cut my exercise down for a while.
Mood- Not feeling so confident today. It's taken some of the wind out of my sails. I have gone shopping & bought mangoes, kiwi fruit & chicken breasts, green prawn cutlets & have ordered more chicken for next week. I have trimmed the chicken & frozen it in meal 2 portions (to go with 120g vegies).
I will read my book over the week-end & physche myself into this. I can do it! I have shown I can do it. I must do it. I'll have another look at the Beck diet solution book as well. We have a wedding to go to tomorrow & I'll have champagne, then Sunday I may start but probably won't until Monday. I'll see how I feel Sunday morning.
The 2 young workers are here again today, getting ready for the concrete pouring tomorrow at 6.30am(!!). I made them custard biscuits yesterday. Big mistake as I ate about 5 I think. I attacked the pantry yesterday. I think Chelle's "pantry monster" visited me yesterday. Fancy reacting to weight going on lately by binging. Our brains are a very strange thing. I can't wait to get mine back on track. Why, oh why, do we self-sabotage? I was feeling strong & confident & today Pffft! Out the window!
OK- I had better go do something other than raving in here, cheers, Cate.
 
Im so sorry Cate, my mum Janet ( joy is my MIL :p ...close...) asked me to pass on this message but i was reluctant... .....Okay she told me once she hit the extra 7-7.5 kg range, the weight just started adding on of its own accord... She told me last week but i didnt want to be a the bearer of bad news.... So it may not be what you are doing, but that your body has changed a bit... well i shall be thinking of you both on monday, before you know it the days will pass then the weeks and with them those few kilos you have to loose.... Those Pantry Mosters are nasty little devils arent they.. ha ha ha... be warned cohenites they are looking for new homes...:)

TTFN
Chelle
 
I'm feeling better this afternoon & now determined to get back onto Cohen's 100% & get rid of these nasty kilos & that nasty, nasty fat! Cate'son the warpath! The pantry demons had better look out!
Another worker just rocked up. It's all happening out here. The Bobcat just fired up. I have never seen a guy work like this one does. His son was here at 7 this morning, with his mate, until about 4 & now the dad has the bobcat going within 1 minute of arriving. I kid you not! He does an 8 hour day & then off to work somewhere else & most week-ends. His wife must only rarely see him. My LH should be home soon. See you for now, probably be back later as it's tennis, tennis & more tennis tonight on tv & my LH is a sports nut, Cate.
 
A friend has this freaky watermelon as her Facebook photo & it made me laugh so I thought I would use it for a while, cheers, Cate.
 
Yikes!! Still the same weight. C'Mon Monday!!!
Concrete being laid right now. It's all happening.....
I'll be absent for the rest of today as I have a wedding to go to. Cheers, Cate, feeling FAT!!!!!!!
 
Hi Cate,
No my ticker is not up to date. I've been too embarrassed to update it. I am back up to 82kgs so have gained 6.5kgs since November with most of it being more recently. It seems to trick you. You seem to be able to eat badly for a short while with very little consequence then all of a sudden BAM. It starts to pile back on at an alarming rate. I am spending the weekend trying not to eat sugar and tomorrow I might try to not have any coffee (which is probably my biggest temptation..cappucino's..yum) and then Monday its back to being healthy and having energy and feeling good. We can do it and by this time next week we will probably be down at least a kilo or 2 and we'll be over the worst of the first few days and we should be starting to feel great!! I might pull out one of my fat photos to put on the fridge and the pantry doors to help keep me inspired.
Your workers sound fantastic. Its often hard to find good trademen but once you do hang on to them.
Sorry to have a bit of a ramble in your diary, but I'm just trying to get us both motivated for Monday. Hopefully we can keep each other inspired and get back to goal quickly.
Take care
Beck
 
Hi Beck, Thanks for the encouragement & support. It sounds like we're pretty well in the same place. Monday it is! You are so right about our bodies tricking us. I was lulled into a false sense of security. Time to snap out of it. I'm freaking out a little and must do this. I'll weigh & measure tomorrow. Monday is day 1!!! Cheers, Cate.
The wedding last night was good fun. I did lots of dancing after lots of champagne. I got lots of lovely compliments but didn't feel like I deserved them. It was held in a marquee and was catered for by a fancy catering crowd form Launceston who did a fantastic job. Suffering a bit today, mainly feeling tired. Poor LH is at work again today. He has the next 4 days off thank goodness.
I'm too tired & freaked out by my weight gain to say much today. Hurry up feel good Cohen's zone. Cheers, but without bubbly, Cate.
 
Right! I have decided I am aiming for 10kgs to give myself a bit of lee-way so I am going to do a ticker and I am only going to weigh weekly on Mondays. I'm off to do one now & will post it tomorrow. I think I would like to do a waist one as well as I think that's one of the measurements that is really important to reduce. Off to play, feeling determined, Cate.
 
Added an extra .5kg to my weight-loss ticker. That felt really bad doing that ticker!! Now to change my avatar. I need something very positive & cheerful. I don't want to feel like an ugly, freaky watermelon! Maybe back to my ladybird or might play again & have a good look around. Cheers, Cate.
 
Love the SpongeBob avatar. It really suits. My YD watches the show and our cockatiel (Basil) goes crazy whenever it starts. We now have to mute the music or you could probably hear him singing along down there in Tassie!!Lol. It made me laugh to see it. I am looking forward to tomorrow, or maybe a few days after tomorrow when I am over the worst of the symptoms. Come on Cohens hormones.
Take care. Have a good day tomorrow.
Beck
 
go girls

To the newly refreshed Cate..

Wishing you all the strength you need for your C day ( OMG its today)... I will be thinking of you and sending encouraging thoughts.. You will succeed... be good, be strong, be kind... good luck..

I need some deviation free company.. it be mighty lonely...

TTFN
Chelle...
 
Thanks Beck, Chelle & Del. I'm ready!! I love that Avatar as well & the tune from Sponge Bob sticks in my head for dayyyys after hearing it. A bit like the Ting Tings "That's not my name". Gee I laughed at myself when I read that they sang that song!
I expected to weigh a bit less this morning but didn't. Have measured up & will do a search in here to find my old measurements when I finished Cohen's. I might be horrified.I'm not sure. I think my bum has got fat. It's 10cm more than my bust. OMG! I am a pear, albeit a smaller pear than I used to be. Do pear trees have big trunks like Oak trees?
I'm off to do some gardening. Breakfast felt like just a usual one- yoghurt & mango, with sweetener added. I've been getting used to natural yoghurt the last week again. I didn't realise that I was having less yoghurt & more fruit though for the last year. Lunch will be interesting. A chicken stir-fry. I'll cook it myself as my LH would probably put fish sauce, soy sauce etc in it.
See you later gals, xo Cate.
 
Well I'm getting through the first day & it will take some time before I get used to the size of my meals again. At least it feels like second nature now. I realise that I have been eating too much and/or not enough protein in relation to my vegetables. This will be good for me. Hunger won't kill me!!
I had a chicken stir-fry for lunch which was a not as nice as i used to cook. I had it with cabbage, instead of Bok Choy or spinach. Cabbage is best with minced beef I think.
My LH is sitting next to me eating a prawn omelette on home-made toast. My fault! I did say "You eat what you like, when you like. Don't worry about me!" So he didn't.
That's it...I have to go cook my dinner. It will be ready in 5 minutes & I am allowed to eat at 6.30. OMG I am ravenous. I still have 1 piece of fruit & 2 crackers left as well. I'll save them for about 8.30pm. Dinner tonight is a prawn stir-fry with fresh garlic, coriander & spinach from our garden. Yum.
Bye for now, Cate
 
Hi Cate,
Good to hear that you are doing ok. The hunger will soon pass. I have found that sleep (today) has been the best thing for me. I felt pretty foggy headed and really tired and a little nanna nap percked me right up and helped pass a bit of time.
Hopefully tomorrow will only get better for us both.
Have a great night.
Take care
Beck
 
Hi Beck, I fell asleep at about 4pm & slept for about 1/2 an hour. I have a bit of a head-ache too. It's not been too hard but I have had my last fruit for the day & am about to have my last 2 crackers. I have to leave something for now as it's when I have the munchies usually. This time though I actually am hungry.
I'm going to have a look at the scales in the morning because I am so curious to know how it will all go this time around.
1st day 100% Cohen's!
'Night, Cate
 
YAY!!

Sorry I've been off the past few days, but I did see your invite to go 100% with the two of you.. I was going to go on Saturday and that well... didn't work out... and neither did Sunday...

But today! Today... Both of you are and I am TOO!!

So far been ok... I'm working my way through my first liter of water... which I really haven't had any of this past 4 weeks....
 
CohenInAz- Excellent news! It sure helps to feel that we are doing this together. The hoping the weight would just go away of it's own accord just didn't work & I know that Cohen's does! Get that water into you! I drank over 3 litres yesterday. Every time I felt hungry I drank water. I have to watch out I don't drink too much.
Ticker- I am going to change my ticker every time I weigh myself & there is a variance. Now that means if I put on even .5kg I will change it. That might make me stop weighing as often as I know the weight will fluctuate as it goes down & it will go down, now that I am 100%. I will head off now to change it. I knew that I was lighter when I woke this morning. I can't believe that the bloated, horrible feeling had gone already! 1kg down. I may have to change my ticker to losing 8.5kgs as my LH glanced across last night & I was afraid he had seen the 10.5kg target, which would bring me 2kg under my lowest weight after Cohen's. He would be upset if he knew I planned on going 2kg under as he thought I was too skinny. I wasn't but his support is important to me. Cheers, Cate.
P.S. Changed ticker to reflect 1kg loss & changed target weight in case LH looks properly.
 
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Hi Cate, you are so inspiring -great work 1kg already!!! It's so encouraging reading your posts and seeing how motivated you are - hope it won't be long before I only have 10kg to lose. The school ball is in 6 weeks and I'm hoping that I'll be looking a lot better by then and can find a dress that is flattering -last year I went black and in the photos I look like a drag queen (and not in a good way!!).
Hi Az -good on you for joining these pumped ladies too - 100% is the only way by the looks of things.

Bye for now - better get ready for school tomorrow - bye holidays :eek:

Have a great Cohen's day,
Del xx
 
Fantastic work, Cate! Keep it up and you'll be there in no time. Del, you're right - 100% seems the only way. :Angel_anim:

Must run, ladies. Great work! Keep it up!
 
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