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Losing weight is a mental game

Hi all.

Just decided to postpone my trip to Bali. My reason is simple. Last week was not good - fell off the wagon again.

Think it was a reaction to the endless routine of planning meals, weighing and just feeling "deprived". Plus lots of stress at work and home - a new boss who wants us to be more productive and my parents who have a whole list of medical problems that are stressing them (and me) out.

Took some time this weekend to plan a more nurturing schedule for myself. Realised that I had worn myself thin because of work and seeing to my family's needs.

So I now have small rewards for myself when I get through a week without falling off the wagon - a manicure, time to paint, going for a walk or even a time-out to listen to my favourite music uninterrupted for 30 minutes.

Sticking to the program has required small changes - no more late nights for one. Used to be able to get away with less than 6 hours of sleep. On Cohens, I need 6-7 hours a night and now think 8 hours would be optimum.

The trip to Bali will be a worthwhile reward I have reached my goal-weight. I plan to attend one day at cooking school during my trip to learn some new recipes. Seems too masochistic to attend cooking school now when I have to weight my food and only eat prescribed amounts of meat and veggies and not get to taste the food cooked during the session.

Wooneybear totally understand your situation.

I have decided not to beat myself up despite the slips. Just figure out what else needs to be put in place and keep moving along. I am sure that I will get to my goal weight, and have my Bali trip to celebrate the achievement.

Tried on my "skinny" clothes that I have not worn in the past 5 years, and most of them fit me. Realised that my mental body image needed to be updated and plan on doing this every weekend to affirm that indeed my body is shrinking. Colleagues at work have noticed, and their encouragement keeps me motivated.

Even with falling off the wagon, my weight loss is still pretty remarkable.

To all the new members, welcome. Your determination is an inspiration to me. And not forgetting Lizzi, ICIW, Kath, Minxy - you gals rock! (Sorry if I missed any names)
 
A newie to come on board.....

Good morning all

When I was 20, I weighed 56kgs. After my first child I weighed 68kgs. I went on a massive fitness and weightloss regime.. I got back to 60kgs. It was hard work and I couldn't keep it up (over 1 hour of high intensity exercise each day). Then after my second child, I weighed 75kgs. Last year I worked soooooooooo hard running etc, and dropped to 68kgs. Now.. I am back at 74kgs.
Hence....... I am now on the Cohens lifestyle page.
I have had my first appointment, am having my bloodtests tomorrow and then getting my program either Friday or monday.
I am sooooooooooooo excited. I just want to have my program now. Since last week when I spoke to them, I wanted to do it immediately.
I am terrified of being hungry (love my food), not having enough energy to walk my dogs (kelpie and board collie). Other programs and ideas I've had, haven't worked.
I can't believe I had tricked myself into believing I was 'normal' for a mother of two. Now I have taken my rose coloured glasses off and want to see my body weighing 62kgs and maintaining it.
I am keen on sticking to this til the end. I CAN NOT WAIT to be slim again.
You are all motivation to start and finish this program.
Cheers, Tania
 
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welcome

Welcome Tania you will love the results and the people on this program. The first week you will feel hungry and then you will kick into Ketosis and loose the hunger, even thoughy you will be eating less than ever before. Once you start seeing the results you will be motivated.

I have just looked at my measurements over the past 14 months (this of course includes time prior to Cohens. I have lost over 130cm off my body!!!!!!!! Eg my waist was 107cm now it is 78cm. My leg was 80 cm and now 67 cm. I still have a way to go but if could loss all that mass off my body I can get to goal. :p
 
chiko

hi there everyone,
i have been reading your messages for about two weeks and i can't beleive how supportive you are of each other. I decided I'd like to join in. I started Cohens on 27th April and am surprised at how easily i have adapted to the food! my first weigh in is on Wednesday afternoon, i am a little worried because whenever i weigh myself in the afternoon, eg. after work today, i weigh 85kg, but when i weigh in the morning its 81-82, according to their scales (in the afternoon) i started at 86. I will be pretty pissed off if their scales only show a small loss! does anyone know, does it really matter how much of the diet coke caffeine free you drink if you stick completely to everything else? can someone tell me what the slimmers tea is and what its for?
well that will be all of my questions for now, hopefully i will be able to be of support to you guys at some stage!

Have a great night,
chiko
 
Hi Everyone, and welcome to all the new members! There are so many of you!

I have decided to weigh myself everyday, which I'm not sure if it's a good thing, because since saturday, I haven't lost anything. Maybe tomorrow will be better....

I don't know what's going on with me at the momen, but I am in a cleaning frenzy! It started with the wardrobe on Saturday, and it has snowballed into a massive clean up! Tonight, I srubbed all my walls in my bathroom, and cleaned my shower etc. Who does that on a Monday night! Freaky. Maybe I'm shedding dust to make up for my lack of kilo shedding this week! It's just so crazy, I might be onto something....

I have upped my water to 4lts in a bid to help move my kilos. I tried having chicken for dinner too, but I really don't feel satisfied unless I have my steak , so I'm back to steak. I am only having one piece of fruit a day, but am struggling to not eat my crispbread - they're just so tasty.

Anyway, fingers crossed for a loss in the morning. Hope you all have a lovely evening!

Bella
 
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Post Refeed Girls,

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Good Morning All

I havent been on since saturday and thought I would jump on this morning and have a quick read boy was i wrong so many posts !!

First of all thankyou to all of you for not giving me a hard time about having my break I ended up only having half a glass of wine it was just not as good as I thought it would be and didnt seem worth it. But god girls am I feeling the cold more than I ever have is this because we are not having carbs >>

Ridiculous - i totaly understand how frustrating it is to see it in the measurements but not so much on the scales so i have decided to forget the scales and enjoy the inches coming off !

Netski - It can be a very demanding lifestyle one that I have used as an excuse to not doing anything about my weight for so long but there is no stopping me now. I get what you mean about forgetting other men can find you attractive I have been with my husband for 13 years and have notcied that men are starting to look again it feels good !!

Jam - I too have experienced heaps of loss in the measurments but not so much in the scales but I am not going to let it get me down !

Gaygel - congrats on getting your house back as much as you love your family you need that privacy !

Lizzi - you are doing so well such an inspiration to all of us here.

Pink Lilly - when I first started this program I though I would drown from all of the water I had to drink but it has only been a month and I am used to it in fact I miss it if it I dont drink enough

Ready to lose - good job getting through the footy specially in this cold, I think the hardest thing about this program is the going out !

Kitty kat - You will find time I know it seems that it will take so much time but I do mine once a week and it takes a while but then it is done, I juggle a full time job, study and a very high attention child with not a lot of help from hubby you just have to make yourself do it cause if you are not prepared that is when you will fall.

ICIW - you are going brilliantly I look forward to reading your posts you are so motivating.

Hopeful 1 - I think it is a great idea to postpone your trip and use it as a reward just think how skinny you will be walking down those Bali beaches !

Last but not least welcome to Tania, Chiko, Wooney Bear, Momiji and Feeling Frumpy !!

Hope I havent forgotten anyone there were so many posts...hope you all have a brilliant day
 
Welcome to all the New Cohenettes!

;) Hi Everyone,

WOW!!How great to see so many new comers to the program and site! Well done on taking a big step to a better lifestyle and new body!

I was writing down little messages to everyone - then I realised I would be typing a long, long post! So instead I will just do a quickie:)

Congrats to the legends who are now doing or waiting on their re feeds - you guys are proof that it is achievable. I am very jealous - but it will encourage me to keep at it!

Life has been a little crazy since coming home from Sydney - getting pulled every which way - sometimes I feel that I am not doing either job properly (Mum or Work).

That has led me to having the odd chocolate - which in turn makes me feel worse. Very hard to get 100% commited once you have deviated!

Since my 8 week weigh in I haven't lost any more - stayed at 69kgs - need to be at 65kgs for goal.

I need to get focused again as I have my 12 week blood test on Monday and weigh in around the same time.

So message to all the new comers - it does work - don't deviate - because it is very, very hard to get back on track at times.

I am very disappointed as imagine what I could have done in 4 weeks if I hadn't gotten too cocky with it all!

Anyway - I am sorry that this post has been 'all about me' - I needed to be completely honest with someone/somewhere - and here felt like the place.

Have a great week, and I look forward to hearing/reading about all the successes of you all.

Lisa
 
Tuesday

Thanks gals - you are real inspirations :) I decided to "start again" yesterday - which I seem to do often :p the only trouble was, I had to buy lunch on my way to work because we literally had no fresh "cohen" foods in the fridge, when money is tight - its so hard to buy meat and fruit and veggies. But, I had some chicken and salad with no dressing - so it was better than other choices I could have made.
I also work at a Gloria Jeans Coffee store - not a good place to be when on this diet. When I started I was so good, never had a coffee (I don't like it black) never ate any of the foods and then slowly, over the last few months I've been put on closes - so of course at the end of the day when there is food that goes out, I just hate throwing perfectly good food away, so we all take it home to our families....which was fine...until I started eating it too. Last night I had a brownie!! I only ate half and then said to myself, "what are you doing...." so I threw the rest out.
So yeah...officially starting again today :D I had yogurt blended with sprite zero and mango allowance (I know we're not meant to have tinned fruit, but all the summer fruits are gone now :( ) I've just cooked up some chicken pieces and a salad for lunch and then there is tuna "mornay" (made with cauliflower) for tea...I do like the recipes on the Cohen's website!

My worry now is the timing factor. I work shifts and I don't get a lunch break normally because they are only 5 hours. Today I start at 12.30pm. so I made sure I ate breaky before 7.30am so I could eat lunch just before I started. On Friday though I work 11-4pm...so how can I eat properly? I either have to get up at 5.30am to have breakfast, lunch at 10.30am and tea at 5 when I get home (and then have crispbread & fruit later to tie me over)....or have breakfast at 10am (can I wait that long???) lunch at 5 and dinner at 10pm....but then I have to stay up longer to let it digest...I hate that shift and I've tried to change it, but I seem to be the only one available for it :mad:

Anyway...we'll cross that bridge later, its only Tuesday - I have to get through today first!!

Thanx for letting me vent...if I write it down - I have to live up to it...and I've stuck a photo of me that I hate on my wardrobe to remind me of what I looked like 20kgs ago...I'm not going back there again!!
 
Hi everyone and welcome to all of you newbies. There are so many of us now that it is almost impossible to do individual comments, so sorry for those I have missed but I am still thinking of you. I did not visit over the weekend and came in yesterday to see that I had three pages to catch up on, so this morning I decided to come in early and post some of my thoughts.

Just some observations:
PinkLily, I think you said something about chicken for lunch and dinner. Just check your plan because in mine I can only have chicken and steak once a day but fish can be twice a day.

Carissa and all you other Mums, I admire what you do, it is not easy doing this as well as providing for a family. I spent Saturday with my 5mth granddaughter, we had a lovely time at the hairdressers, shopping and visiting my mum, but I could give her back that night and have my time! So make sure you do have a little time for yourselves and acknowledge your achievements because even though they may seem small they are huge in the context of things. Hey and look at what you will be able to do with your kids - wont they love it when you go down the slide with them - hey this is MY Mum!!

ICIW looks like you may have to wait until August when I am aiming to meet you there!

Miss Kath I new you would sot it out. Only a few days to go now.

Ridi you can come and do my house next! Interesting process hey.

Gayegel what are you going to do with all the free time? More golf? Do they have lights on the greens?

Lizzi, a thyroid now that's not a bad thing. A friend of mine had that problem and she has not had a problem keeping her weight under control since it has been fixed. Often thought I'd like one of them too.

Wooneybear, forget the past and just start again. There have been other brave people who have done this and you have already taken the first step by talking to us. So keep in contact and take one day at a time for a week and then you will be well on the way.

To all the newbies, can I offer a word of advise? Try to stay away from the scales for the first month and just concentrate on the measurements and how your clothes are feeling and how your skin looks. This will give you plenty of motivation and given the first month is going to be one of the hardest don't sabotage it by concentrating on the daily scales. You have been there and done that before trust yourselves and the program - it works.

Karol you know you will be fine next weekend, you have made the decision to do this which is so obvious by your wafer incident. Do you think you lost it because of low blood sugar? I know I can get quite stroppy if I haven't eaten esp. if it was hours ago. I have found that with the fresh fruit and vegies, I have not needed the help of the slimmer's tea, maybe it's your body saying I don't need this.

Tasm82 there are plenty more options so don't worry about the mushrooms. Initially we may think the choices are limited, but you sound pretty creative so I am sure you will find lots of alternatives.

Hopeful1 you are doing so well. Thanks for sharing where you're at. Shame about the Bali trip but you'll look great when you eventually get there. I can't believe how positive you are and how far you have come in such a short time. I feel really proud just knowing you.

Hey isn't it interesting how we all carry our weight differently and we all lose it differently!

Oh! and one last thing. I have been making the chicken and asparagus soup with canned asparagus including the water. Sunday evening I was starving. It wasn't until yesterday lunch when I was eating the other lot I made at the same time that I realised I had not checked the label on the can when I bought it. Some cans of asparagus contain SUGAR and even this little bit can cause the hunger pangs!![/COLOR]
 
Hey Lisa c - 5 kilos. God girl pull your finger out and just get on with it!! Stuff the chockie - in four weeks you can be finished!!! Then you can do whatever.

Wooneybear I am sure that you will come up with something for Friday. How about if you have your fruit at 7.00 - 7.30 then your bickies around 10 then your breakie just befor you start at 11. Then maybe you can sneak in your next bickies during your shift and have your lunch ready to eat as soon as you finish before you go home. That means tea would be around 9.00 but you would still have two lots of fruit and another lot of bickies to tied you over 'til then.
 
So many posts - too little time!

Hi ladies - took me ages to get through all the posts since I last looked at this forum. I had to skim over them a bit, so sorry but won't be able to respond individually to you all.

I had a complete blow out on re-feed. Somehow the extra foods, bread etc is making me hungrier. I may have mentioned before that I bake my own bread, which you can imagine smells divine when it comes out of the oven. So on Friday night I baked a loaf and long after dinner and after I had snacked on fruit, I couldn't help myself and had two slices of warm, fresh bread with fat free cheese on top. Well, the next day I had put on 4 KILOS overnight!!!! Oops! So the golden rule on re-feed is that if you put on more than 1kg, you have to go back 2 days in the re-feed program and re-do them so back I went! I am now back to 66kg on day 11 of re-feed, so today I get to incorporate "new vegies" including broccoli and eggplant and I get 50g of cooked potato (or pasta/rice etc) with my dinner. I am quite excited about that as I can more or less cook the same meal for hubby and I which will be the first for a long time! Yay!

It is quite a worry that after deviating as I did, that I ended up with an instant gain of 4kg. I am sure that the heaviness of bread has something to do with it, and the fact that I ate the sinful slices late in the evening, not long before I went to bed. Nevertheless, it certainly shows that the balance in our bodies during this program is quite delicate. I feel like an idiot for trying to cheat, considering I am so close to the end now, and I wanted to encourage everyone to stay true to all the rules and give it your best shot! It is also a bit of a worry for me that the last 2 kilos I had hoped to lose are not shifting through this re-feed program. To be honest, I'm not overly concerned, but I had expected to keep losing in re-feed, at least for the first week. Never mind - I'll deal with that later. Maybe jump back on to Cohens for a week or two later on in the year. I think that they recommend that if you go back on the program, you ought to re-do the re-feed, which in my case would mean restricted foods for a whole month. Not really up for that at present, but will keep it in the back of my mind...

Just wanted to wish you all a happy day of weight loss!
 
Oh My God!!

Gee Wizz i have never had to pee so much in all my life. And it's only DAY 2.
But all going well. Slight headache later yesterday but hopefully won't get any today!!:)

Well i won't replay to all you cohenettes else i will be here all day typing!!
But have read them all...
Good luck

Tam
 
Day 6 - going well!

Hi to all you fabulous cohenettes. :)

Just a quick note to Tasm82 - I'm now on day six and I too experienced a headache on day one or two - lack of coffee i'd imagine. But an observation - last two nights I've had some mild joint pain. Nothing major, and seems to occur toward bed time. I'm guessing its a part of the detoxing process, so am keeping up the water and have had a panadol as well.

Aside from that, all is going well, i'm so thrilled to be sticking to it for more than two days!!

You all sound so determined and its so inspiring to read!!
 
Thanks!

Just a quickie,

Thanks Jude;) Love your kick up the butt for me - I know, I know, I know. It was (left over from daughters party) I bought it into work today and gave it out to everyone in here. I have been very focused today - have not got the 'taste' for going off track today. It is amazing what a blood test and weigh in around the corner can do for your willpower. Thanks for taking the time to give me what for!

Money Penny - 4kgs!!!Wow...I bet that was a shock to see in the morning! I am sure it will shoot back just as quick when you go back to Cohen Food for 2 days.

To the newies that have headaches - they will pass, I had one day 3 - but it wasn't too bad as I still had a black coffee or 2 and that got me through along with 3 litres of water a day. The hunger was what got me - I went to bed quite early during the first week - as I was soo hungry! That too passed by about day 5 or 6..

Hang in there - once you have done 5 days - you will start to feel pretty good.:)
 
Rah, rah rah!!

Lisa c, glad to hear it.

Moneypenny do you want one too? I can understand, mmmmmmm warm bread, - BUT!!!

Though I shouldn't shout too loud it will all come back to haunt me soon. I am already feeling cockie and I still have 20K to go. All of you who are so close, just think that in a matter of weeks you will be on ICIWs new thread. What were you doing a couple of weeks ago? Went fast didn't it and I bet you couldn't wait to get where you are now. Don't sabotage yourselves, take control.

Can you see the poms poms and hear the cheering, surely you can feel the ground shaking - the finish line is soooooooooo close!
 
Out of season fruits.. *Tip*

Hey guys!!

I am snacking on frozen Mango pieces..devine, let me tell you!! What's even better is that they are in a 'Sara Lee' package!! Totally cohen friendly as they are frozen fresh & 100% Mango - NO additives. I think this is a better alternative than tinned, try them & see what you think! XX ;) This is a great idea for refeed to as they have the right berries as well. - Below is attached pic of them..

Love ALL the posts!! Great to see so many lovely gals doing so well XXXX

Weighed again this morning, my weight is slightly up (.3kg) I'm not fussed at all, I haven't deviated & they tell you not to panic when you notice a small gain (under 1kg). All going well... ;) touch wood!!

Day 7
Add Protein 90gms
Add Veg 120gms
2 Good Fruits
2 Slices Bread - NO thanks!! :eek:

Like moneypenny, I too have been feeling a little hungrier...Not quite sure why??

Keep up the great work, very proud of your committemnt & determination guys!!!

jude - You're an absolutely legend !! - LOVED your quote....
"What were you doing a couple of weeks ago? Went fast didn't it and I bet you couldn't wait to get where you are now. Don't sabotage yourselves, take control."
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-FANTASTIC, how true!! XXXX :D
 
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I CaN I WiLL: I cannot imagine having so much to eat that I couldn’t eat it!! I suppose I remember times when I wasn’t as hungry as I thought I was, but wow!! That is an experience I am definitely looking forward to. You must be feeling so good about yourself at the moment. And SO near the end.

Netski: Hi there! Interested in what you have said about limiting your favourite meal because it feels so good. Let your hair down and eat your favourite Cohen meals as often as you want! Or if it involves cheese, 3 times a week at this early stage. If it is on the program it won’t make you lose any slower. Be nice to yourself, I’m sure you deserve it. As for cutting out diet drink, mayonnaise, cooking spray and salt – yes that is panicing early in my book. The diet drink has almost no value of anything. The rest are little luxuries that will cause no damage if we have what we are allowed. If anything on the program is debatable it is the number of crispbreads or the amount of fruit. Personally I love them and cutting them out didn’t help me, but did help some others. You are losing fine at the moment, just don’t be too hard on yourself in areas you don’t need to be. Anyway, that’s my cent’s worth and I am glad the scales are now moving for you.
Oh yea, water is good but there are all kinds of theories about working out quantities. Too much can flush out all the vitamin balance in your body I think and make you feel weak. One theory is to have 2-3 litres and add a litre for every extra 25kgs you are carrying.

Hopeful1: I understand about putting off Bali, especially with the cooking classes. I have put off my trip to Brisbane because I am sure I will enjoy it more when I don’t have to concentrate on weighing foods.Great about trying on the skinny clothes – I try clothes on almost every weekend and it is very satisfying. Now that I can go into normal shops, I think I might go back to window shopping and trying on clothes to redevelop my sense of style. It has been an incredibly long time since I have done that!

Welcome Tania! Seems like you have been on a roller coaster. Good for you for getting started on this – it will be quite a ride and well worth it.

So many other posts to get through – they will have to wait until later. But this is a great site and you guys are awesome – thank you for sharing your experiences!

lizzi
 
So many people so little time

Hello all my princesses,

Hope everyone is going strong. I must admit i had another GREAT cohens day. As well as a great cohens meal. I put my chicken allowance, mushroom and zucchini allowance some spices and one crisp bread and put in n a food processor till it was all finely chopped, made it into 3 small patties , grilled on a health grill and eat and enjoy, yummo.

Lizzi- thankyou for you tip, its very true that there is nothing wrong with eating yummy food on cohens, as long as it fits allowance. Sometimes its easy to forget that we can loose weight and enjoy ourselves. Cheers

Karol- You and me all the way to the finsh line together. I've got 99 days left to get to my goal- Its a little target i've set myself. I really think i freaked out too early, i think i'm just so desperate to loose the weight now! I need to look at the big picure, at least we both has loses week 2

All- Has anyone noticed if black coffee and tea has increased or decreased you weight loss speed. I'm neither here nor there about coffee and tea, i mean i like the flavour a lot but if it has consequences it can go .

I'm really excited to see so many people on re-feed and so many people starting. What an amzing committmrnt you are all making. Some of you may know my grandad has been diagnosed with cancer last week. We are working through it as a family , but the one thing it has taught us is to NEVER take your health for granted. One day Grandad was feeling great the next he was in hopital. Please for your families , friend and especially for yourselves. Be good to your body, do the best by it and it will do the best for you! Take care!

I'm off to my netball game, we never win but we have a great time and an awsome workout!
 
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Damn scales must be stuck....

This place is out of control! There are new people everytime! Great to see so many people making the commitment to change their life!

Well, still no loss :( That sucks. I know people will say to stop eating the crispbread and the fruit, but where do I get my fibre from then? Other than the tea, what does everyone do to, well, help them?

Still cleaning though. Washed some walls when I got home today. Don't know why - they just looked dirty. Then tidied up the lounge. Might vacuum after this post. I'm a cray lady, and my house smells like cleaning products. I'm not sure what I'm going to do when the whole place is clean - it's only a 2 bedroom unit, there aint that much left to clean!

I am feeling the cold so soooooo bad at the moment. I can't get warm. I literally have to have a shower before I go to bed so that I am warm, otherwise I can't get to sleep cos I'm shivering. This is one thing I really am NOT going to miss if I ever lose my last 7kgs.

Have a great night guys

Bella
 
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