Hi everyone,
I've only posted a couple times when I first started. Basically I haven't had any real big problems with the diet and I have kept on it only with a couple deviations as cooked shrimp and not allowing for the cooked part by taking off 10-15% of the weight when weighing the food and using some Hoyt garlic powder with cornstarch in it, but other than that I have lived,ate & slept Cohen's since the 20th of October. I have only lost 6 kilos since starting this diet. The past two weeks I have only lost 2 kilo only...and yes I am a scales fanatic which I know Dr. Cohen doesn't want any of us to weigh but only once a month but with all the hard work that you do, you want to see what or if you lost any weight at all.
The point is I am getting down in the dumps and discouraged with this, is this normal to go for like two weeks and have a minimal weight loss like this? I know that my body hangs onto every bit of weight I have when I diet and it is hard for me to lose the weight.
Another thing, is it normal to feel dizzy and faint around 3ish in the afternoon? My consultant told me to make sure that I have a piece of fruit and crispbreads at that time which i am doing now. I saw my doctor on Monday and he said that it might be my blood sugar dropping and that it was a good idea to do what the consultant suggested to do. Other than that he was really happy that I was on the diet and my blood pressure was a good 110/70 when a few months back it was bordering on 130/90 and this is with medication and they were thinking of increasing the medication to remedy the increase in the b/p. Also the asthma symptoms I had prior to starting on this diet have all subsided and I no longer have to use 3 different medications, so I can see alot of positive things healthwise that are occuring but not the weight loss....Other than that I really feel so much better for just losing 6 kilos already.
I want quit but can't help but get discouraged here and just wondering if there is something that I should be doing and I am not.
Everybody is doing so fantastic...I am so proud of everybody for such a great weight loss and sticktooiveness that everyone has .... even BAM...& the others that have deviated :::smiles:::
Jo@Bribie Island who wants to lose the weight....badly...
Hi Dear...
I perfectly understand what you are going through now. It's like you put in so much effort and everytime you get on the scales, you close your eyes and hope against all hope that you see a lower figure. You are desperate to see a lower weight and when you don't, it turns to frustration. And when you are frustrated, you vent it on eating the forbidden foods. You can't help it but you are getting discouraged and you see no point in keeping up with this.
I went through all that before and honestly, I just want you to know that you should keep going. Keep persevering. Just keep trying and you will see some results.
You have improved in your health right? You know, what gave me the blow was that when I was 10 months into the program, I lost the weight and expected my blood pressure to be normal but when I went for my medical check up, it was borderline hypertension! I was so devastated and discouraged that I binged and I vented my frusration on forbidden foods.
Looking back, I guess it was natural for me to vent my frustrations out. Especially when I spent a good long ten months on a restrcited diet and I don't see the results? But you just gotta keep going. My weight loss stagnates when I'm having my PMS and during my periods. That's a good 2 weeks that I don't lose any weight. So you just got to be patient and allow your body to adapt to the hormonal changes.
And lastly, lock your weighing machine up. The reason why you and I are feeling discouraged is because we are not losing weight. So the weighing machine is the cause of it all! Lock it up. And perhaps set yourself a longer timeframe before you get on the scales again? 2 weeks? 1 month?
I'm setting myself a 2 weeks ban from the weighing machine. It gets very tempting to look at my weight but I try not to. I'm just scared that my last lap of efforts may "backfire" if it seems that I'm not losing weight and I get discouraged all over again. As I read somewhere, Cohen is really more like a mental exercise so exercise all the mental willpower to pull you through.
Try your best. Don't look back at the past but into what you could do in the future. Cheer up k!
