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Hi all,
Dreamer, I don't expect to see numbers every day. I know what I expect to lose and if I don't then I will assess what I may have been doing different or wrong. I occasionally become a little heavy handed on the salt, or may be slacking on my water. If everything is in order I just move on.
I am a bit obsessive because the last time I decided I was becoming obsessive with weighing I threw my scales away. The next time I weighed myself I was 112kgs!!!!!! I don't feel myself putting weight on, I don't feel big (a bit like when I was anorexic I never felt small). Anyway I feel that I do need to keep an eye on my weight, but I do set myself realistic goals.
 
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Hey everyone, I'll have to spend a good hour catching up on all the posts. Rjm I'm a bit like you, I like to keep tabs on myself everyday. If I go up 1/2 kg or so, I dont worry about it if I know I am being 100% which I have been. And this way works for me too. The same thing would happen if I didnt have scales.

Anyway, I am going great, I've noticed a significant loss especially in the last 2 days. Most of the time I dont feel hungry anymore, and that makes it all the easier.
 
I go to the same clinic as ICL, Herm, Brieziel, 8-2Much, and others go to...

I have found Sue and Karin MAGNIFICENT!?

I don't need hand-holding, I don't need someone to ring me daily to check whether I've eaten my veggies, I'm VERY happy with the level of support I get.

Initially I was going in for weighing weekly, now I've dropped back to forthnightly, and Sue's quite happy to run things at my pace. If I don't come in and don't tell her I'm not, she rings me to see what's up. My emails get answered within hours, without fail.

I think it's a matter of TELLING them what you want from them. If they rang me every day I'd feel choked. It'd drive me nuts! The support I'm getting is just PERFECT for me. But I really do think it's critical to let them know what you want. She's good, but she ain't no mind reader.

Mermaid, I sure hope your programme gets sorted out. It'd be VERY frustrating to be unwell on the programme. I'm feeling very lucky that I'm settled in to it really well... Please let us know how things go, I'm hoping it's easilly sorted.

asy :D
 
myshy said:
Hi Everyone,
Once I get home I still have to deal with three kids, a non supportive partner and all the housework etc. Not to mention our busy lives outside of all this.

Myshy
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Hi Myshy,
Have you considered an aupair???????? I have had one now for over a year, since I started working full time. They make SOOO much difference to our lives.
The aupair picks the children up from school, does all the housework (including laundry and ironing), cooks the dinners, helps the children with homework, takes them to extra curricular activities etc etc etc. It costs a lot less than paying for after school care for 2 children, and it means when we get home we can concentrate on time with the children and each other. Its made a big difference to our stress levels and relationships.
Ours lives in. We don't have a big house... we moved the children around to fit them in, and only have one bathroom, which can be a strain. But most of the aupairs don't expect a huge home. We bought a little car for them to use, which uses $30 petrol every fortnight.
I can highly recommend it!
 
Asyoz dropped of the clothes at the clinic today.... woo hoo it'll be like xmas unwrapping a new wardrobe! Can't wait to see how your weigh in went!! (under 1/2 way???)

HeavenlyLamb I'd like an Aupair to look after my other half (he he he) -they classify as children sometimes don't they?

Weighed my self again this morning (there goes the serial weigher again!!!-----ohhh i'm such a bad girl!) i just love cohens! i'm down another 1/2 kg woohoo! i have past my first goal which was 92kg so i have booked myself in for a spray tan.
My other half is really proud of me. he was really sceptical at first and is still concerned that at 58kg i'll be too thin, however he's asked me to tell him when i get to 89kg (i have to show him that figure on the scales) and he says has a surprise for me! I LOVE surprises!
I find my fat is melting and going soft (gross) and really floppy. My celulite is definately diminishing, which is great, and i'm looking forward to toning up after all this excess baggage has gone.
Have a wonderful melting day everyone, and stay positive!!!
 
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Hello Everyone,

I am terrible...I deviated - badly. Melbourne Cup day yesterday and I swore to myself I was going to be good but I deviated by having "just the one" sandwich..then it went downhill very fast..red wine, champagne, pies and then to top it all off....McDonalds just before bed.

Today I feel so angry at myself. I also didn't make my breakfast and lunch for today so I am going to have make do somehow.

And the worse thing is - I stepped on the scales this morning (stupid move) and I have put on a kilo.

So the moral of my story is - don't deviate cause it isn't worth it and it's definately not worth the feeling you have let yourself down.

Sorry for the depressing post.....:eek:

But I suppose the only thing I can do ....as Finding Nemo says ......is "just keep swimming":p , get back on the wagon, continue to read your inspirational posts and know that I have learnt a valuable lesson.

dreamer - sorry I can't remember the brand of scales I have - but I got them on Ebay. Huge range of kitchen and personal scales on there.

Hope you all have a great day :)

lilsaintly1
 
Hi again,
Well this morning I have hit my first goal!!! I was feeling really hungry last night and that niggly little voice was saying "just one thing won't hurt", so I reminded myself of the 40th I have to go to in 3 weeks time with all my old school friends (many of whom I haven't seen since I was 112kgs) and the little voice magically disappeared and hasn't been heard from since, and my reward this morning was .5kg drop bringing me down under 90.
L-Jay, great to see you dropping again at a rapid rate. One of the things I love about Cohens is that most of the time I don't feel like eating at all, I just eat because it is that time of the day. After many years of obsessively stuffing myself or obsessively starving myself, it is so nice for food to no longer be an issue. It makes me feel "normal".
Myshy, great to "see" you again. Sorry to hear things are so stressful for you. You are doing really well to be maintaining your weight and good on you for keeping your fruit and crackers in the car. You could even try keeping some little tins of tuna (the kind with the ringpull lids) in the car too, at least then you would be getting your protein as well. Hope things settle down for you soon.
Briezel, looks like we are at just about the same stage. Your other half will be seeing you at 89 in no time at all.
Have a great day all. Talk to you soon.
 
Approved Crispbreads

MelissaAnn said:
Does anyone have a list of approved crackers? I am in the USA and a friend of mine just found the ryvitas, are there any others?
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MelissaAnn - I have attempted to attach the revised list of approved crispbread (and drinks)...hope this works!
 
I must not have worded my post very well!

asyoz said:
I go to the same clinic as ICL, Herm, Brieziel, 8-2Much, and others go to...

I have found Sue and Karin MAGNIFICENT!?

I don't need hand-holding, I don't need someone to ring me daily to check whether I've eaten my veggies, I'm VERY happy with the level of support I get.

Initially I was going in for weighing weekly, now I've dropped back to forthnightly, and Sue's quite happy to run things at my pace. If I don't come in and don't tell her I'm not, she rings me to see what's up. My emails get answered within hours, without fail.

I think it's a matter of TELLING them what you want from them. If they rang me every day I'd feel choked. It'd drive me nuts! The support I'm getting is just PERFECT for me. But I really do think it's critical to let them know what you want. She's good, but she ain't no mind reader.

asy :D
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I realise that Sue and Karin are not "mind readers" but during the introduction and hand over of my plan they indicated that they would be contacting me to check up on me! and made a point about the amount of support you recieve from the clinic.

I didn't ask for any or extra support/check up phone calls and I haven't needed it, I was merely asking how much contact you have had from your clinic, not bagging mine - just asking :confused: and really it was to get an idea of where most of you guys are located.

Sue has actually rung me this morning and booked me in on Minday for my 4 week check in - so maybe she is a "mind reader"! ;)

Janine
 
G'day Everyone,

How are you all? Hope you are traveling well and staying Cohen's Kosher. I know it can be tricky at times but lets beat the negative talk and prove our skinny selves right! (Can you tell I'm in need of some motivation!!!)

I have just printed myself out a big bright colourful poster to stick onto my pantry door to help me stay on track. It reads, "STICK WITH IT! The only person you are cheating is yourself. KEEP GOING!" I have found myself recently justifying a teaspoon here and a tablespoon there, especially around dinner time and with the kids. It's just not good enough. A teaspoon here or there quickly adds up and I am so mad at myself for allowing my thought process to overtake like this. It is exactly how I ended up 30 kilos overweight. Arrrgghhh! The frustration! So, I am vowing to you all that from this day forward until refeed there will not so much as be a lick of a bloody spoon! It is only food and the light is at the end of the tunnel. I do not want to jeopardise all of the great work I have done so far. Help me along guys! I only wish I'd won the superdraw on Sat night. I'd be flying you all to Brissie for celebrations when I get to to goal weight! (It would be a Cohen friendly affair of course - maybe Dreamworld where we could laugh ourselves silly as we bash around on rollercoaster's etc!)

Official 12 week weigh in this Friday! I can not believe how quickly the time has gone. For those of you starting out, I was so daunted by the task at hand. I would never have imagined that I would have made it this far. WOW! It is a great feeling - you just wait until you get there!

Anyway, thanks for listening. Hope to read more great stories later.
Bye for now,
 
Ok, Someone Shoot me now!

I am having so much trouble at the moment, ive deviated for the past 2 weeks, havent had one single Cohen's Meal..

Why cant i get back on the wagon?.. i feel like crap, beginning to think i also look like crap (even though im being told i look great).. :( WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME???

I just had lunch, once again a Non-Cohen meal.. i wont tell you what i had, because i am so discusted!

Someone please give me some advice, now im desperate.. really desperate.. how on earth do i get my lazy ass back onto the Cohen's Wagon of Weightloss??

Im sorry for this being a depressing post, i am just not with it at all :(

Bam xo
 
Bam... i deviated quite a bit 2 weeks back... but now i'm back on the wagon... juz think about it.. if u dun get back on it... u will nvr reach refeeding... and once u dun clear refeeding... the hard work that u put in will be wasted... the weight that u lost will juz keep piling back... and u be back to sq 1...ye people tell mi i look great too... but i dun wanna look juz great... i wanna look fantastic! :rolleyes: so bam, get on back... remember ur target for Xmas~!!

~BAM~ said:
Ok, Someone Shoot me now!

I am having so much trouble at the moment, ive deviated for the past 2 weeks, havent had one single Cohen's Meal..

Why cant i get back on the wagon?.. i feel like crap, beginning to think i also look like crap (even though im being told i look great).. :( WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME???

I just had lunch, once again a Non-Cohen meal.. i wont tell you what i had, because i am so discusted!

Someone please give me some advice, now im desperate.. really desperate.. how on earth do i get my lazy ass back onto the Cohen's Wagon of Weightloss??

Im sorry for this being a depressing post, i am just not with it at all :(

Bam xo
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Me too

Hi Bam,

I know exactly how you feel..I am the Deviating Queen! (see my previous post) Bascially its the social aspect of it. I eat out alot with friends and find it hard to not just say - I'll get back on the wagon tomorrow.

The thing is - when I am not deviating i feel fantastic.

I am unsure where you live but just think - the days are getting hotter - imagine how you are going to feel when you can wake up on a sunny day and just pick any piece of clothing in your wardrobe and it is going to fit! For me I think...I will be able to wear tops with no sleeves. I am always trying to cover my flabby arms and when I see other women walking around in nice dresses/tops etc I wish i had that freedom.

If you would like - we can stop deviating together. Keep eachother motivated etc.

Any tips from other sucessful Coheners for us "deviators" would be great!

Cheers
lilsaintly1
 
BAM are you still in touch with your clinic? how about you go see them and that might give you a kick start and some accountability to someone else......
 
LILSAINTLY1- Thankyou for replying to my whinging :) Im glad you know how it feels aswell, i love deviating because i feel normal, but then after the guilt kicks in and i feel ill.. anyway, ill take your offer up on the "stop deviating together" i think that would be good, and yes i know what you mean about the sleeves thing.. i am always trying to do the same (cover up) although ive been told numerous times there nothing wrong with me.. anyway im self-concious about them..

DREAMER- Thankyou also for your reply, and yes im going to do this.. i have to finish this, ive done well so far :)

Thanks guys so much for your support, i really appreciate it.. :)
 
Deviations

I think most of the times we deviated as we have to have social activities with our friends like have dinner together... i had a couple of farewell dinner which i have to turn down as the food they are eating are non cohen food.. But i tell myself.. ppl who understand me will understand...

I had deviated majorly last week at a wedding dinner... no choice.. it was my cousin's wedding dinner.. and i told myself... that was the last.. promised myself not to munch any quantity more than the allowed crisp...

Bam, I am sure you do not want to give up at this stage, right?? so lets work hard to reach the goal.. I will join you and LILSAINTLY1 in the "stop deviating together" if allowed.. cos i want to reach my target fast!!!
 
heavenlylamb said:
Hi Myshy,
Have you considered an aupair????????
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Yup, They're magic!

I had a Uni student living with us, and her job was to pick the kids up from school, do the laundry and some cleaning. She didn't get paid, but got free room and board and lots of time to study.

I must admit, if you aren't paying them, you need to make sure you get someone with a good personality, as she didn't really work out long term as she got too involved with her boyfriend and stopped studying in the evening, which meant she started putting the kids into after school care, which sorta defeated her main purpose. She left 2/3 of the way through the year (by mutual decision) but, what I'm saying is, while she worked, it was magnificent.

Hey Janine, Don't fret, they're pretty darned good, and I didn't think you were having a go, I was just explaining my thoughts!

Melissa Anne, did you not get a list of crispbreads from your clinic?

8-2, Dreamworld sounds FANTASTIC!!! You'll be finished in no time!

And.. THANKS BRIE!!! can't wait to see them!!!

asy :D
 
A message for BAM!

Hello BAM!

I am your subconscious.....
Just thought this might help kick start you again...these are YOUR WORDS to me when I was ready to quit.:)

HANG IN THERE! YOU CAN DO IT!

Please remember why you started and how determined you were to finish. Only you can make those decisions. Look, we are the same now - only 10 kilos to go. Let's enjoy Christmas hey, as skinny, gorgeous girls that we are!:D

The following is a copy of a post that BAM sent me when I was feeling like crap and wanting to throw it in and it helped me BIG TIME!

"8-2 Much- DO NOT THROW IT IN!!!!
I know how hard it is, having been on this diet for 2 weeks and 2 days and having attended 2 BBQ's with Alcohol and being the only one not eating or socialising, being the designated driver.. i know its so hard! But once you are over that, it gets easier.. believe me
I just keep picturing myself wearing Size 12 clothes this Summer and not having to hide underneath Jackets to feel comfortable and looking like a complete idiot wearing as much clothes as possible in the stinking hot weather.. Megan.. you can do this honey, just believe in yourself. I know it is easier said then done, and believe me i almost threw it in the other day when i felt that terrible that i was about to faint.. but i sat down, had my water and re-thought all those wonderful thoughts of not being uncomfortable in my own skin anymore.. it really does work! Ive cried about being fat so many times, and now.. the only tears i shed are those of happiness, im happy that i have finally taken this step in my life, and my god its a hard one, but it will be completely worth it in the end.
Its only a really short time out of your life to be dedicated and willing to do something for yourself, it will all be fine Megan. Please hang in there
Take Care, you dont have that far to go and it will all be over soon
P.S- Im in the same boat if you need me!!"


C'mon BAM we need you!:p
 
8-2 Much- Thankyou for that, maybe i should take some of my own advice.. Jesus i need to give myself a huge kick up the butt, problem is.. im not that flexiable.. hehe

Anyways, starting tomorrow.. no more naughty's.. i cant afford to feel this crapy, i just walked past my own reflection and i wasnt happy, last week i was smiling at myself in the reflection.. i think ive put on weight :(

Ok, here goes.. BIG KICK!

Im a deadset doofus.. i shouldnt have been so stupid, ive set myself back so far now.. hopefully i will lose weight again.. and finish and be happy :)

Thankyou all for your wonderful advice, im so glad i can come on here and be saved from my self-destructing self.. if that made sense.. hehe

Mwwwah to all, keep up the excellent work.. and if you are thinking of deviating, please dont.. it really isnt worth feeling the way i do..!!!!

Over & out, BAM X
 
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