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Thank you so much guys for your kind and supportive words. Without you all I couldn't have done this. When ever I felt like caving in I would come here to look for inspiration.

Sharon I've been wondering where you have been. Glad to see you back here.

Will be calling my clinic in a min to discuss refeed. I can't wait to start as my food hasn't been sustaining me over the last few weeks so have been exceptionally hungry at times and feeling very weak and light-headed.

As for celebrating Sharon, hopefully hubby will be buying me a new car very soon.

I will try and post pics of me at some stage

Irene x
 
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MELLY P!!!!!

how are you travelling in your refeed!!!! please let us know! :)
xxxx
 
Refeed

Hey FatCat,
Refeed is going well!! I'm onto day 7 and it's great to be able to eat more food. It's amazing how your body adjusts to the slowly introduced quantaties, I've found that I actually get hungry for more!! Since starting Refeed I have dropped 1.6kgs! I went down 400grams last night which blew me away considering I had such a MASSIVE dinner, I had:
155g Steak
135g Chicken
205g of Veg
a peice of Bread and 150g of Rockmelon!!!:eek: :eek:
(I'm at the mixing proteins stage of refeed which happens at about day 5 or 6)
But I just couldn't believe the scales went down again!! Amazing!! Obviously my body can handle a fair bit of food before it starts gaining!
I've had ZERO problems with introducing bread into my diet (something I was very afraid of doing!) I'm having 3 peices a day now.
Lunch today is actually a Tuna & Salad Sandwich!
So far so good! The only thing I noticed in the first 5 days was hardcore constipation, but after one herbal slim tea the problem has been fixed and all is good in that department!

Your so close to refeed it's not funny!!!
Well done girl I can't believe you have lost so much in such a short amount of time - you must be stoked!!

This time next week I will be on the last day and sitting back enjoying a Vino! Can't wait!

Happy losing and I will keep you updated.
I'm going to post the full set of before and afters fairly soonish - it is soo shocking to see where I have come from, but pretty cool to actually visualize the changes!
 
Wow Melly P you are losing so much on refeed. You go girl!

I had a slice of bread today and felt ok stomach wise. I also enjoyed blueberries with my yoghurt. It was so good. Tonight I'm having 30gms extra protein and 40gms veges with my dinner.

Hopefully the scales will be kind to me tomorrow lol

Irene
 
OH MY GOSH! :eek: :eek: :eek:
your dinner is like nearly my whole days intake! hahahaha
now thats a scary thought :)
so good to see everything is going swimmingly well with you! im also hoping that bread wont be that much of a prob but we will just have to see when the time comes!
oh my yes i know!even though my last weigh in showed poor results ive switched my menu back-cut out cheese and if everything goes according to plan ill probably be ordering refeed in about 3-4 weeks give or take depending if the scales are nice to me :rolleyes: and then i can join you on the vino bus! i have a beautiful bottle of reisling from margaret river that my mum bought for me from her wine tour and its itching to be opened!

who knew at the start of this journey this program really does pay off!
even though youve had some minor slip ups your weight loss has been astounding melly! and i sincerly thankyou for all your encouragment and support over the months! (it was YOU who first replied to my first ever post on this forum!)

make sure you keep in touch with us on refeed and this time next week we will all raise our glass of sprite zero in your name!
:)
xx
 
Hi Everyone,

Thought I would say hello and do a ticker update. Still going well and nearly finished but it is dragging out. Good to see so many new people doing the program and doing it well. Keep it up becasue there is an end.

I need some advise - a friend of mind started shortly after me but deviated and has being on and off the program. She now looks at me (53kgs lighter) differently and i feel that our friendship is going to disappear. I would like to do more to encourage and motivate her but she will not return my emails or phone calls, any suggestion of how i can help her.

Thanks to all for the support and encouragement

cheers Jewls:)
 
Friendship

Hi Jewls, the resolve to lose weight is such a personal thing that when one succeeds where another fails, the one lagging feels lousy and envious. My younger sister, we used to be very close, is the one who could not come to terms with my weight loss. She's also on the plump side. At one stage, she would ignore me and rejected my invitations to hangout by saying I'm now very boring because I'm obsessed about the eating program.

I backed off, gave her space and time to get used to the fact, but still kept in touch through SMSes asking about her work, boyfriend etc. Eventually she called me but we still haven't come round to talking about weight loss and she still won't go out with me :eek: But at least it's better!

I'd suggest you back away for a while and let your friend make the next move to get in touch. While you may have the best of intentions, your success might make her feel lousy about herself. However, let her know in small ways that you still value her friendship and remind her that there are other commonalities in your friendship other than the fact that you were once as well-endowed as her :p
 
Hi Jewls, sorry i don't really know how you can help your friend, but to me it doesn't seem she wants your help and is jealous of your ability to stay on track. I would just keep sending her emails, so that she knows you are still there for her, but concentrate on YOU. You're nearly done, finish it completely then maybe go visit her and give her your ALL. Just an idea.

I was wondering, could you let me know when you started Cohens? I'm half way through my 2nd week, and we have a similar weight loss goal, and was just wondering how long it has taken for you to lose your 53.8kg (which, by the way, is just fantastic). Well done.
 
Bluegum

Hi BlueGum, I don't know if you're still visiting the forum but a while ago, you had to stop because of a kidney operation. Are you well?
 
Jewls, congratulations your nearly at refeed hun :)

As for your friend, i dont know what kind of advice i can give to you other then one of my personal and hurtful experiences..

One of my friends that i was very close with started losing weight the same time i did, but found she had no willpower to stick to her plan or excersise (she wasnt on cohens). Also because she had a boyfriend he would always take her out for meals (italian,thai satays eg fatty carby stuff) and she claime d she was happy at the weight she was at (she was around 12-14)

well as i was quickly losing weight she was putting it on...i saw this friend about 2 weeks ago after not seeing her for 2 months (she wouldnt reply to my emails/sms's claiming she was always busy to do stuff) and amazingly enough, i had lost 20 odd kilo, and she had put on 20 odd kilo!

at first she was all OMG CAROLINE YOUR SO SKINNY WOW YOU LOOK AMAZING IM SO JEALOUS!!!..then came the talking behind my back, saying i must of had an eating disorder (SHE KNEW I WAS ON COHENS) and 'play fighting' with me saying things like ' caroline your such a skinny bitch' as a joke but i could tell the malice in her voice.

well what did i do? i havent contacted her since.

im going to let her come to terms with her own issues before she wants to be my friend again! if she really valued what we had then she will see straight past this nonsense of weight.

hope that helped in some way...good luck xx
 
Ticker update

Hi everyone,
just figured out the ticker thing and wanted to post it. Everyone's advise has been great and I look forward to your support. I've wanted to deviate so bad--PMS, but have not given in to temptation. I just want to get this weight off. My birthday is coming up in April along with my daughters and two neices. Hope I can avoid giving in to my temptation. Giving up chocolate for lent has helped me avoid eating that tiny piece of chocolate chip.
Anyways keep up the great work everyone.

P.S. If your friends can't be happy for your success then they can't be much of a friend. If you've offered all the support and she hasn't accepted then you've done all that you can do as a caring friend. Give her time and let her come to you.

Ciao cohen friends
YM2B



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Since we have been and alot of us are still "fat"...I think we can relate or think like our still "fat" friends...

I would be very excited for friends or acquaintances that lost weight..I would be inspired and want to know all the details....BUT... I remember one friend who wouldn't stop saying how much weight she lost every time I would see her... ..it was constant weight loss conversation in front of people... LOOK ..my stomach went down.. I lost another 5 lbs... I'm wearing my skinny clothes...it drew so much attention to my fat..and would make me feel more self conscience..It wasn't that I was jealous of her and didn't want to be friends anymore because she was skinny and I was fat.... it just was just too much.

Now, I'm not saying that any of you are doing that...because I was not like your so called "friends" ..I was truly excited when someone looses weight..because it meant that there was hope for me to do it too! But, I can remember feeling enough...and a tad self conscience around them when the conversation would go to being fat and losing all that weight! ..

So, what I am saying ..is that we can think back a bit and remember when we felt like that and as everyone said...Give them time to get use to the way you look and it becomes the "normal" way ... and the hype is gone...where everywhere you go..everyone says ...Oh My!..which is what we are looking forward to.... I mean if you are fat and standing next to someone who lost a bunch of weight and the person you run into is just carrying on about all the weight she lost...you can't help but feel they are thinking...."SO WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO LOSE WEIGHT"...who want to feel bad all the time...so, they just rather stay away from what makes them feel bad...the skinny person....instead of leaning on them for advise and support. It would only take one remark ..like from their boyfriend.. to say ... why don't you go on that diet that "Mary" went on? to piss them off...and especially for the friend that started with you but fell off the diet wagon...whew...

They'll come around tho...

DD
 
Hey Melly P,
It is awesome to hear how well you are doing, and I can see from your emails you are so happy and sound so full of life and energy. Your posts are keeping me motivated as I have about three Kilos to go. I need to be about 57 k's also. Cant wait until you post all of your photos. Would love to hear more about your refeed process and day to day menu as I am so looking forward to it. But so worried I will put weight back on!
 
BLARGH!!!! Im becoming very frustrated now that my Cohens journey is looming to an end. I tend to weigh once every 2 weeks, just to monitor how my loss is going. So its usually once at the clinic, once at home, once at the clinic and so on.

Ive been sitting steady on 1kg a week since Week 2 of the program (its week 20 now), and now my loss has slowed down even more! A fortnight ago i was 62.7, and this morning im 61.2 - a loss kilo and a half. Yes i know half a kilo isnt much, and im probably over-reacting, but its just so frustrating lol!

Argh, i think its just generally one of those days.:eek:
 
lexie!
i know how you feel....trust me!my weight loss has slowed down SOOOO much now that im appraching goal weight (my cohens goals weight is 67-70)...my consultant says its because this is the most compounded and oldest stored fat in the system, i thought i would be able to get down to 67 but looking at my loss my consultant thinks its because my body's natural goal weight will probably be around 70 so i should be starting to feel hunger in the next few weeks..kind of scared :eek:

whats your cohens goal weight n how tall are you if u dont mind me asking?

im also getting TOM this week so im placing my slow loss bets on that and seeing how the weight goes in the next fortnight!

good luck!
xx
 
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lexie!
i know how you feel....trust me!my weight loss has slowed down SOOOO much now that im appraching goal weight (my cohens goals weight is 67-70)...my consultant says its because this is the most compounded and oldest stored fat in the system, i thought i would be able to get down to 67 but looking at my loss my consultant thinks its because my body's natural goal weight will probably be around 70 so i should be starting to feel hunger in the next few weeks..kind of scared :eek:

whats your cohens goal weight n how tall are you if u dont mind me asking?

im also getting TOM this week so im placing my slow loss bets on that and seeing how the weight goes in the next fortnight!

good luck!
xx
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Hey NotSoFatCat!:D

The slow-weight loss just does your mind in doesnt it? Like your just cruising along and BAM jam a spanner in the works! lol.

My cohens goal weight is 57 - 60, so im pretty much at the top end now. But i want to get down to about 55....i still feel a bit too heavy at where i am right now. Oh and im 163cms.

Ive already started to get the "hunger signs", not so much where im DYING FOR SOMETHING TO EAT, but just more like...i want another peice of fruit, or i could go for a few more crackers. I reckon i could easily hold out on it for another month or so, provided i dont go crazy:D . all i do know is that i get very cranky if i dont eat exactly 5 hours after my previous meal now, its kind of like "I CAN EAT NOW!!!:D GIMMIE!", small things amuse small minds lol.

Good luck with the rest of your journey! You're almost there!:)
 
Lexie-oh your almost there thats awesome!! :D
be careful with holding off refeed when your already getting signs!i remember reading posts from past cohenites that tried to hold off and ended up deviating cos of it therefore prolonging the experience!

initially i wanted to be 65 but these past few weeks has really made me think about bodies and weights etc. plus i was very athletic and unfortunately am of bigger build (also being 176cm) so i will never be that little skinni minni frame ive set in my mind. have you also thought about excersise after? if you get a good regime you are definately able to lose more sizes in clothes and a couple of more kilos even off cohens without upsetting the hormone balance!
just a thought! :)

good luck! xx
 
Birthday Treat :eek:)

Hello Everyone! I mark 2 milestones today - my 2nd ticker update and my birthday :p!

I'm so thrilled to be almost halfway to goal weight. It's been unbelievably fast and most times, fun. And what an excellent reputation the diet has built me at work - disciplined yet flexible :D

The local Cohen office has worked with a restaurant to prepare weighed dinner, Cohen-style, so that us Cohenites here in Singapore can eat out too! My dear hubby, who's also on the program, surprised me with a birthday dinner at this restaurant. What a treat! However, it was pricey :cool: and we both agree we won't go back to the restaurant.
 
Well the beginning of the end of a new beginning has started. I started the refeed yesterday after a loss of 45KG that's touching on 100lbs for folks stuck on the middle ages measurement system. I feel great and look forward for the return to normal eating and normal life in 2 weeks time. However when I say "normal eating" will not return to my normal eating patterns of the past: 3 carb meals a day. The future of a slim lessfatty is one carb meal per day, with an abundance of fresh vegetables, fruits and proteins the normal eating pattern of a slim and healthy person. Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

For those who are thinking about trying Cohens, I can only say that it works, I am a normal guy, with kids, work, stress and all the normal problems of adult life, yet I could make the program work for me, it is wasn't easy or without frustration, I was not perfect, but I could make it work, it can work for you, you just have to decide 100% you are going to do it, stick to it.
 
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