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asyoz said:
Hey LF,

That's the really cool thing about a forum of our own, so long as you're a good boy, you can do whatever you like!!!

If you have the time and the inclination to go through 320 pages of posts, we'll all be really grateful!

May I humbly suggest that you do it using the "add-quote" function?

That way you retain the poster's details and the old post link with the recipe. Only cut out all the superfluous stuff from the posts and only post the actual recipe, otherwise it'll be unweildy.

asy :D
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Well lets just consider it a group project without a clear end date. This thread
 
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ello

hi everyone

thank you all for the lovely messages of support. You guys are great....

And thanks for the imagery lessfatty!

i am feeling better today. I am getting there.

Got some scales and weighed myself. Couldn't belive it! if they are accurate, i am weighing in at 96kg..... but i have my reservations about that.

thats like 11.8 kg loss in 19 days? if that is the right calculation.

no, it can not be right!

how are you going briezel and wildsky?
i will be on cohens a month on 6.11.06. Not sure what my official weight loss and weigh will be by then.... but i am getting a bit more positive about reaching that goal after all.

i want to get to 85kg by Christmas. That would be just amazing. But that is like 11 kg away and i have my reservations about getting there.

i know i am cynical... but i am getting better.

wanna hear something funny.

i bought a bottle of johnsons and johnsons's holiday skin cream, thinking it was nice body lotion. Been applying it for two days without reading the packaging. It turns out to have a tanning lotion in it and now i have become an orange person, complete with orange fingers! and it is so noticable, i have had three showers scrubbing it off with no success.

I am going to see my mum tomorrow. I am sure she will piss herself at my funny colouring!

Less fatty - my husband not only has to come home to a woman crying into a peice of chicken..... this woman has become orange over night.

i really should move to hollywood. I would fit right it there (maybe when i have lost the weight) hehe
 
hey everyone, a ticker update for me

Living it- beleive the results! alot of the loss would be fluid and glycogen from the muscles, but the rest is fat! you will never ever be over 100 again! do you feel better for it

I haven't posted for a while, words cannot say how stressed I am, everything is falling apart- uni is full on I don't know how I'm going to get everything done and my parents criticise me so much I really am beginning to feel like I am kidding myself and I will never get anywhere and I should just get a full time job at a call centre or something. My housemate I loathe, shes a spoilt spoon-fed uni brat and shes disgusting and messy and selfish (all of this I can't confront her because she's a cow and its her house), I'm ready to live on the streets because my lovely parents won't let me move home, instead they buy me a benz I can't afford to run. So all in all I am feeling sorry for myself and I am finding it incredibly hard to eat anything at all- sorry by the way just getting sh@# off my chest anyway I'm supposed to be happy i get the car tomorrow and my weight loss is happening but at the moment I just want a stable home not a skinny body don't know what to do

hope everyone else is better than me, but don't worry I'll pull through (somehow)

congrats lessfatty on being double figures thats excellent news
 
Mermaid_sister said:
hey everyone, a ticker update for me

Living it- beleive the results! alot of the loss would be fluid and glycogen from the muscles, but the rest is fat! you will never ever be over 100 again! do you feel better for it

I haven't posted for a while, words cannot say how stressed I am, everything is falling apart- uni is full on I don't know how I'm going to get everything done and my parents criticise me so much I really am beginning to feel like I am kidding myself and I will never get anywhere and I should just get a full time job at a call centre or something. My housemate I loathe, shes a spoilt spoon-fed uni brat and shes disgusting and messy and selfish (all of this I can't confront her because she's a cow and its her house), I'm ready to live on the streets because my lovely parents won't let me move home, instead they buy me a benz I can't afford to run. So all in all I am feeling sorry for myself and I am finding it incredibly hard to eat anything at all- sorry by the way just getting sh@# off my chest anyway I'm supposed to be happy i get the car tomorrow and my weight loss is happening but at the moment I just want a stable home not a skinny body don't know what to do

hope everyone else is better than me, but don't worry I'll pull through (somehow)

congrats lessfatty on being double figures thats excellent news
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Sound like you need to buy a nice secure unit near uni more than a Benz! I hope it is the SL500! A young guy in his 20's (I am 39) drove past me today in a brand new one whilst I was riding my bike home, quite envious.

Nov is Crunch time at Uni, when everything you avoided for so long come due and you cannot avoid it any longer. But come summer vacation and your results are back (and if you pass) you will feel pretty pleased with yourself, losing weight reaching your goals, looking a feeling better driving around in your new car.
 
less fatty- dare to dream! its a 1987 something and It is only mine because my Dad is a head honcho for BEA australia, he got it cheap, fixed it up etc. I am considering selling it tho! I have a family meeting tomorrow (translation- lets all point out how much of a failure I am!) so I really am going to have to put all that drama training to good use to be able to get my old room back at my folks until something else and yes secure comes up.

There is just no uni work happening at this time- its amazing how everything goes wrong at the worst possible time!
 
Mermaid_sister said:
hey everyone, a ticker update for me

Living it- beleive the results! alot of the loss would be fluid and glycogen from the muscles, but the rest is fat! you will never ever be over 100 again! do you feel better for it

I haven't posted for a while, words cannot say how stressed I am, everything is falling apart- uni is full on I don't know how I'm going to get everything done and my parents criticise me so much I really am beginning to feel like I am kidding myself and I will never get anywhere and I should just get a full time job at a call centre or something. My housemate I loathe, shes a spoilt spoon-fed uni brat and shes disgusting and messy and selfish (all of this I can't confront her because she's a cow and its her house), I'm ready to live on the streets because my lovely parents won't let me move home, instead they buy me a benz I can't afford to run. So all in all I am feeling sorry for myself and I am finding it incredibly hard to eat anything at all- sorry by the way just getting sh@# off my chest anyway I'm supposed to be happy i get the car tomorrow and my weight loss is happening but at the moment I just want a stable home not a skinny body don't know what to do

hope everyone else is better than me, but don't worry I'll pull through (somehow)

congrats lessfatty on being double figures thats excellent news
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Mermaid Sister

OK - when i was going to uni i use to live in the library during the day where i would get most of my work done without any interruptions. They are usually open till 10. After that, i would go to a cafe and sit and drink tea over another 2-3 hours where i would catch up on all the reading. That meant i went home, showered and slept. Perhaps it can help you avoid the housemate.

More over, perhaps you can sell your car and use the money to move into a place of your own? that would really tick your parents off. You could also but a less expensive car if you need one to run around in?

If i were you, i would totally not worry about the housemate. Just concentrate on your exams and make sure you keep eating healthy.

And Less fatty is right. When you have passed, made some cash and lost all the weight you can look back at your days at uni with fondness (as i do now).

Best of luck with it....
 
Hey guys!
Can someone please answer a couple of questions for me by any chance? I received my plan in the post yesterday afternoon and there are just a couple of little things I would like to clarify. Firstly, it says for meals that you must keep the 'whole line together' for eg. 95g tofu and 100g veg. Now if I was wanting a slice of tomato on my daily allowance of crispbreads is that not possible? Unless I eat the crsipbreads at the same time as my meal? I was hoping to have a meal for breakky, then a piece of fruit at m.t, then meal for lunch, then crispbreads with tomato for a.t then meal for dinner but I can't see that I am allowed to do that. Also, it says that meal's must be 5 hours apart? Does that exclude your crispbreads and fruit? Can I have these in between main meals still? Sorry if these questions seem blatently obvious but I just really want to make sure I am doing this program 100% correctly.
Any answers would be most appreciated! Thanks guys!
 
Beautiful Bride- you can't have tomato with your crispbreads unfortunately. Just plain old crispbreads in between meals. You can also only have two at a time and once you have had some you have to wait 2.5 hours before you can have anymore. Fruit you can eat whenever. The crispbreads you can have with your meals so that way if say you have tomato with lunch, you can have your crispbread with it. Also as it says 'keep the whole line together' it means that 95gms tofu with 100gms veg is the exact amount of protein and vegatable combination to acheive the optimum chemical balance in your system to promote fat burning. This is why no veggies allowed between meals because they have to be complimented with a protein... does that make sense? I hope I'm not going round in circles here some one else may explain it better if ur still confused. Good Luck!
 
Thanks Mermaid Sister!
That makes sense... I thought that may have been the case but I really wanted to double check! I have decided to start the program on Monday so I look forwrad to the kilo's dissapearing!!
Keep up the awesome work everyone! You are all so inspiriational!
 
Starting Over...

Hi everyone, SoonToBeSkinny checking in...since my frustrating weigh in Monday ( and going out of town) I have been off the diet. I will need to restart Sunday when I arrive home.

I am sure I will have gained 5-10 lbs in the week off when I get back on the scale.

This time around I am eliminating crackers...and if I can fruit. If I need the fruit maximum 2 a day not the 3 suggested.

Has anyone who has been a slow loser elimanated fruit and crackers and seen better results?

I think I am one of those people who cant have carbs, even if its the semi healthy kind!

Hopefully this try will be more successful.

SoonToBeSkinny
 
Hey soon,

Have you checked with your clinic about removing stuff from the plan???

You need all the food groups, in the proportions they've set, to ensure you stay healthy.

Maybe a discussion with your clinic would be a good idea, see what they have to say, maybe reduce rather than remove?

asy :D
 
hey everyone!

In much better spirits today! and the academy award goes to... me! no but seriously my parents came around and I am moving home, which means I can concentrate 110% on study and 100% on Cohens and have the security of my parents house over my head god bless the family meeting! (I never thought I would say that)

Hope everyone else is well
 
Metamucil

Hi

Just a quick question, I've been lurking about for some time and have been on cohen's for almost 8 weeks and loving it. Are we allowed to have metamucil?

Thanks heaps G
 
Good Evening Everyone,

Hope the weekend is treating you well.

I think it would be detrimental to our progress but after the way I am feeling now I feel I should create a 'confessional' thread! You know, bless me Dr Cohen it has been 2 weeks since my last deviation....!!!! (Sorry, that's the Irish coming out in me!)

I just deviated in a high fat way. Poo! It was only a couple of mouthfuls of hot chips - but I stuffed a lot in there! Hate to think how much useless carb and grease I ingested. I get so disappointed that I let my negativity and emotions control these situations (fight with 5 of my sisters) every bloody time. Where is my strength when I need it? Why can't I beat this feeling to eat every time I'm feeling low? I'm sick of it and I don't want it to happen again. I'm so close now why would I go and bugger it up? ARRGGGH! NOT HAPPY WITH ME!

Anyway, what's done is done. It just frightens the living daylights out of me - I need to stop this kind of emotional eating if I want to stay thin and healthy for a lifetime.

Talk later - I'm off to lick my wounds!



HEY G GIRL - Metamucil is fine - if not recommended. Make sure you get sugar free if you want to use the orange flavoured variety.

MERMAID SISTER - Way to go! Glad to hear things are looking up for you.
 
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Hi everyone,
Just a little update on my Cohens plan, I lost 4 kilos in a week and just a happy chappy here. I know that in the future I will have my good weeks and my bad weeks so I am taking it all one day at a time and being realistic about the complete outcome.
I have found the program really good and I thrive on the discipline but I missed little things and have had to re-read my program a couple of times to memorize exactly what I need when I grocery shop...and make lists and READ LABELS in the grocery store.... Does anyone have a good 'Curry powder' that they use? All the ones I have seen have additives...wheat flour, gluten...i.e., etc. I just want pure curry...
Also I asked about Cohen's being able to see if we deviate in our diets when we have our blood tests and she said that they could...but as long as you were losing weight there was no problem and that is why I came home from the meeting and went thru everything I was using and checked the ingredients...
Keep up the good work everyone ....gosh it is getting very light in here now...smiles...
Til next time...
CAP'
 
Ticker Update

Hi All.

Well done to everyone involved in setting up the new forum, its great

Please Help!!! i only have a little more to lose before i start the next step (that gross word R_F__d) but i'm finding that i have the cruelest cravings...for just anything that i know i can not have. I have remained strong with no deviations.......but not sure how i"m going to hang in for at least another 2 weeks as i seem to be losing about 1.5kg per week, so still a few more weeks before R_F__d.:mad:

Anyone close to the end having the same problems.:confused:

Enjoy the rest of your weekend
 
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back from my step daughters wedding........ It was a lovely day and all went very smoothly. except for the rings. I wonder why it is that rings always cause problems at weddings.
My son was page boy and he did a great job of carrying and carefully holding onto the ring pillow, which we thought he might have some difficulty with, being a fidgety sort of kid.
then he gave the pillow to the best man, who pulled the wrong ribbon on the rings, causing the knot to become way too tight.......... he couldn't get the rings off. He had to ask the congregation if anyone had a knife or scissors. fortunately, the grooms mum had some scissors and came to the rescue.

I didn't sprain my ankle in my high heeled shoes, and my outfit looked great and was comfortable to wear, which was fantastic. It was nice to feel so much better than I did a few months ago.
 
Hi All,

MERMAID SISTER - WOOHOO! So happy for you. Was wondering how the "family meeting" was going to turn out. Now nothing but positive attention to study and eating. You go girl!


8-2 MUCH - Dont despair too much. Were only human after all. Youve done so well to lose the 17kg you have thus far. Tomorrows another day. You arent too far from the finish line, so hang in there.

Hope everyone has been having a relatively light Saturday. Was so cold here today, and would have been no effort to be tempted to eat something nice and hot and naughty. Was inspired by my sisters and b-i-laws comments today when they saw me for the first time since starting this amazing program. Its so worth sticking to. Its such a small amount of time to go without those nice tasting foods that put us in to this situation in the first place. I reckon its worth the sacrafice for a healthier and more confident me/you. Oh my, I can almost taste the feeling of slimness.

Night all and hope tomorrow is a lighter day for all.:)

Cheers
 
HEAVENLY LAMB - Wonderful news about the wedding being a success. Especially your outfit and the shoes. Hehehe. That would have been a purler to see the best man trying to undo the rings and having to ask around for scissors. Funniest Home Video moment? LOL

Would love to see pics of you in your outfit if you would care to share them with us. Im sure Im talking on behalf of everyone in this case. PLEASE!!!!
 
Hi wildskyz,
I just downloaded my photos - and there are none of me on there...... oops!
because I wasnt in the bridal party, I was in charge of photography. I'm sure someone else will have some of me!

Another exciting thing that happened was that I forgot to take clothes for a BBQ that was on today.... so I had to buy something. and I was able to find a great top in a NORMAL shop!! No plus-sizes for me anymore!!
 
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