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Hi Everyone

Wow, so many new people, so many posts, so little time!

Welcome to all the newbies.... good luck, stick with it and watch the weight drop off before your eyes! The results are amazing.

Welcome back to all the oldies... good luck with getting back on track.. we're all here to help.

Well it was time to move my ticker. I was just saying to Juzzy yesterday how disappointed I was that I hadn't lost much this week but then i jumped on the scales before bed last night and low and behold... 1.1kg gone! Be careful what you wish for huh!!! And you know what that means?

I'M HALF WAY TO MY GOAL WEIGHT!!:D

YAY ME!! :)

But on a serious note.... Consciously I know I have changed a lot, but subconsciously, I am still having trouble with my "Fat Girl Mentality" :( ... is anyone still having trouble with that? Like, I'm still engaging in negative self talk and putting myself down in conversation and not giving myself enough credit for getting this far. I still think of myself as fat and I just can't shake it. Any suggestions on how to rid myself of my Fat Girl Mentality? Thanks ladies!
 
Hi and Congrats to all!

Guys you are ALL doing so well.
It doesn't matter if you have slipped, get back up and head towards your goal. At least we are all losing weight - not gaining. My thought is that at least now on cohen's I'm losing weight not gaining it like before, keeping my eyes on the prize!!!

My week has been quite good. I went back to the gym, and man it has changed. I walked and rode a bike watching the comedy channel! There are screen on all the equiptment! You just plug in your headphones! I really enjoyed it. I'm only going to go twice a week.

Well just a quick catch up - all the best to everyone

Mitmary:)
 
Hey Guys

Second post for the day, go the lazy saturday!!

Lizzi - i have a fair bit of weight to lose, but i guess i only have myself to blame for that!! When i started i weighed 121.8 kgs. Cohens wants me to get down to between 60-55 kgs. i dont know if that is possible!!

Sunshine you have done so incredibly well so far and now being half way to goal is great!! I bet when you started you never imagined being the weight you are now!

As for the "fat girl" mentality. I dont think it is something that is going to go away quickly, if you are anything like me you would have been having these thoughts most of your life. And now, even tho you have changed physically, the mental side of things may take some time to get used to. I guess it is a matter of some positive self talk. Reminding yourself that you are thin, you deserve to be thin, and no amount of chocolate mud cake is going to make you go back to how you were!! And anyway, the mirror cant lie right? It made us look fat when we were fat and it will make us look thin when we are thin! Need more encouragement? Go to those awful change rooms that have mirrors on all the walls.... that was enough to make me want to lose weight!

Oh, sunshine, i also did a ticker, just for you!

Cheers Ladies

Juzz
 
Peaches said:
I am on Diovan 80mg.

It will not affect the results. However, I suggest you talk to your GP about it. The Cohen diet reduces your blood pressure. With the HBP pill, it may make your blood pressure very low. My GP advised me to take only half a pill per day instead of the daily dosage of 1.
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Thanks for your advice. I am having my first Cohen Consultation tomorrow morning. I'm nervous about it. The Singapore branch was set up a year ago and they only have two consultants and both are guys. I am not exactly that comfortable talking to guys about my weight issue.
 
Hi everyone, I'm back - again.
For the last few months I have again struggled with my weight, and my eating habits and have re-gained 14kgs :mad: :mad: I have been back on the wagon today, and I'm feeling motivated and really keen to get back on track and get control of myself again. I started the program on July 1st 2005, and lost 35kg in four months. By the end of November last year I had completed the re-feed and was going great guns. In February this year I decided I was going to lose another 10 kg, and so I started the program again, lasted 1 week and then decided to stop, but never did the re-feed again. Since then, the weight has been slowly creeping back on, but in the last few weeks, it is no longer creeping back on slowly, it is now creeping back on very quickly.I made a decision last night that I HAVE to get back on this or I'll be back where I started (112kg) in no time at all, so I am back
hoping to give and get support. Missysmum, it's so good to have someone familiar starting back at the same time, and Lizzi great to see you're still doing so well. Hopefully I'll soon get to know all the rest of you, and look forward to chatting.
Beck
 
rjm when I come onto this forum, before I log in, your original post is the 1st one I see. Aside from a handful of people I personally know who have done Cohens, your post was the one that opened up to me a nation-wide, and even overseas group of people doing this program. Until then I thought hardly anyone had heard of it. It's only under a year ago that you 1st did it, but because of all the posts since then, it feels like longer, and I've always looked at you originals in awe, because you are the originals. I don't know if that makes sense, but I figure you will have a lot of good advice for us, and sincerely believe you will get the support you need here. After all, so you should, you started this thread. Welcome back!!!!!
 
I am sooo very excited and I can't sleep.....its 12 hrs away from my consultation.

I want to ask a BIG question.

Was anyone suffering from plateau in the course of this diet?

I am a terrribly impatient plateau-person and I always fall off the wagon due to plateau.
 
Hi again,
L-jay, thanks for that lovely welcome. I have often looked back at those first posts of mine recently, and thought "Was that me". I seem to have lost all control recently, but i am now so pleased that I have made the decision to start again. I have done it once, and I know i can do it again!
The most important thing I have learnt from this whole process, is the importance of the re-feed. When I first finished, I had no trouble maintaining my weight, but as soon as I tried to start again, and didn't complete the re-feed I began to have major troubles, so for all you people out there DO THE RE-FEED It is an essential part of the program. Anyway, I'm so pleased to be back. Have a great day everyone. Talk to you all soon.
Beck
 
Good Morning All

Dilfizzle – Dont be to worried about the froth on coffee as far as deviations go that is hardly worth beating your self up about !

Missys mum how are u going ?

Chyrstelle When I strated on April 06th I was 93 kilos and am now 81.2, so I am happy with my progress so far

Eenjie – how are you going ?

Karol good on you for moving on and not getting lost in what happened also excellent Dr Phil info

ChikoHow are you going ?

Fornight Welcome to you :)

Lizzi congrats on sticking with it while away

Jam You have made such a sensational effort you must be so proud of yourself

Ljay We would never get sick of hearing from you that is what we are here for you come on here and say whatever you want anytime you wnat and we will be here to support you.

MagicLeaWelcome to you .


Ready to loose how did you go with hens day

Juzzy What a brilliant effort you have made sounds like the weight is jsut falling off you !

Peaches, Kim & RJM Welcome back to all of you, you will al be back on track in no time and we will be here for you in the mean time..

SunshineHalfway there already you must be so pleased with yourself congrats.

Well girls it has been great reading all of your posts i'm so proud of you all for those of you who are just starting, coming back or sticking with it you are all making such a fantastic effort I admire you all..:D
 
Sorry but this is a long one yet again!

Carissa: Thanks for the congrats – it is a long time – and still longer to go …. Then there will be years of a new problem in my life – maintaining! And I am SO ready to swap problems!!! Especially since the tools of this program can make it possible.
You are doing so well Carissa! It seems like yesterday that you started and you have come so far. I hope it feels that way to you.

And there are so many others who have come so far. (Especially Ready To Lose, juzzy and MitMary7 in the last few weeks – sorry if I left you out here) I find it exciting just to watch every one’s progress and realize that this plan is doing something about an issue that is so out of control in our society. I know that each of our lives are changing and there is so much satisfaction in knowing what that means for me and that all of you are involved too.

So let’s make a statement with our loss to a whole country that is struggling:

THIS CAN BE DONE!!​
L-Jay: thanks for your encouragement too. I don’t do shift work very often, it’s just that when I do it is without warning. Good on you Ready to Lose because your shifts are so long! I know someone on Cohen’s who does shift work regularly, and it makes it so difficult for her. I admire people who can do this on constantly changing patterns of sleep.

And L-Jay thanks for your honesty. It sounds like you are now putting yourself on the line 110% and I am so looking forward to seeing you succeed. It is not easy to do that. Not at all. I know that I have it fairly well together at the moment, but that is only because I have spent most of my life since I was a teenager on diets – going on and off them, cheating on my plans, not being able to stick to them – and then as time went on and I really stuck to things, having years where it would plateau and I couldn’t move past it. Sometimes there were legitimate health reasons why I would fail, but that is not to make excuses. So I would give in. I could keep my weight stable until I tried to lose weight again, and then it would just yo-yo and spiral out of control again. So this is simply a now or never situation for me. And it will be NOW!

You can do this, and so can the rest of you who feel you are sabotaging yourselves. There comes a point when you want to do this, and you want it for yourself and deep down inside you are determined that this will happen. No one can impose that readiness on us, and it is so exciting when it happens AND it co-incides with a plan that works and is right for us! The 2 things have to go together.

So make that decision deep inside you that this is what you want – to deal with this issue and to move on. Life thows up so much to us, that it is wonderfully freeing to take hold of something that matters and say: I can deal with this one – and then it will be done for life. Maintenance is a different issue, but losing is something we can all conquer.

karol: Thank you for your great thoughts too. This forum is excellent isn’t it? Losing weight will not make us happy if we don’t like ourself, and if we are afraid to show out the person that is hiding. We need to know that on the inside we are worth loving, and being known. We have to know that we are as precious a person as everyone else on this planet and that we deserve as much as everyone else. Just trust that trying to cover something with weight is not a way forward. And when anyone of us feels like we need some support, we have to be able to post on here and know that it is OK to do so - we are all going through the same things.

rjm: You wonderful person with the insight to start this forum. You know about refeed!! You have taught us all something. And your tales of surviving post-Cohen’s in Scotland are legendary!! So make this your special time. Great to see the ticker – and it will be moving in no time – you can pass me in a week or two I bet! Welcome back.

To everyone else, and all those just beginning, I hope it is all going well for you today, and thanks for all your posts. Sorry I can’t include you all personally, you all matter and you all contribute to our progress.

You can all get there!

We can all do this!

lizzi
 
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an easy post to make

Well yesterday I was 92.5 and today I was 89.5, that shows how bad I was being. But I want to be positive, so I wasnt being bad, I was just meandering (okay, I probably wasnt meandering, more like racing) off the track and going the long way. Did the plan 100% yesterday. So nothing here to report except good stuff.

That is so true about the refeed. After talking to a consultant on Friday, she really stressed that.
Thanks carissa andlizzi
 
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Bad Weekend!

Hi Guys!

I know, I haven't had a chance to post anything really...
I just caught up on all the reading and I am so IMPRESSED with everyone's results!

I am feeling so down today, because I weighed myself on Thursday and I lost 2kgs after being on the program for 5 days...THEN, I weighed myself today and I am back to where I started!

THEN...the weekend arrived!

This is when I spend time with my Fiancé and his family! Gosh, I think it’s a bad idea!

I so overate from Friday night and Saturday!!!! I didn’t eat any of my 5 crispbreads, fruit or drink any water...BUT…I had plenty of rice and so many NON-COHEN based foods! I feel like there is no way I can go forward…

I really don’t know how to cope with the eating out thing, so any advice would be very much appreciated…

What should I do? Every Saturday I am at my Fiancés house, where his parents cook for the whole family and we hang out with the family and play with the children…

How should I deal with these situations?

Like most of you guys, I am feeling like this is the “ultimate” program…The program that will cure all my woes of being “over-weight!

Ooooh, I am so feeling like crap, because this is the second time I have done this – deviate.

Grrr….Very Angry!!!:mad:
 
Welcome back rjm I wondered where all the original girls had disappeared to. It is surprising how easy weight does come back but you are motivated to lose it again which is so good. In the beginning of this forum and the old one you motivated me so well and the girls here now are great motivators as well and so welcoming, so I know you will shift the weight again.

My weekend has gone well I guess I am lucky I don't have any withdrawel symptoms no headaches nothing which is good but am pleased with my results going back on cohens.

Cant wait to see how much I will lose on thursday when I weigh in at the clinic. I feel much more motivated knowing someone is watching what I am doing this time. So much better then never going to a clinic.

Rjm didn't you go to Dee Why as well?

Had feta cheese with a salad today love feta just wish it is more then once a week.

Difizzle I really know how you feel, every friday to monday I spend away and trying to feed and cook for other people is terrible for me, to cook really nice food and not have any is so hard and thats why I stopped my diet no willpower. So last time I was up at my ex husbands I told him my diet was out the window and to my surprise his response was well he didnt know how to tell me either but the amount of food I give him is too much and if I wanted to go to weight watchers he would go with me. Wasn't that so good of him, explained I am on a diet and he said just give him the same.. So maybe telling the relatives how you really need their encouragement and is it possible to have something you can eat on those times when you visit and give them an idea of what you should be eating they may help the situation.

I am not worried who knows I am on a diet as most people can see for themselves I am losing weight and give me so much encouragement especially my children. My son got in the car the other day with 2 meat pies he said didnt buy you one mum was thinking about your diet I said thanks son,(he just got married 3 weeks ago and was taking one home for the new bride). When I said thats how it starts 1 pie 1 cake a little bit more then you should eat with that he ate them both and said thanks for the advice I was extra hungry she wont know I had any, and she will thank me for that in years to come. Don't think that was exactly the message I was trying to give.

Just really miss hot chocolate in this cold weather and there isn't any substitute for that . Oh well , one day cheers Dianne
 
Hi dilfizzle put it behind you right now. stressing about it isnt going to change it. You are going to get off to the right start.
When I started this program, I took my meals with me everywhere. If we were going to a friends for tea, I'd take my food, sometimes already cooked, if it was stir-fry they sometimes let me cook it there. BBQ's were easy. For our 10th anniversary, we had about 30 friends together and bbq in the park. Everyone bought a dish like salads (not the healthy variety), and amazing desserts. I had a goal to be 80kg by then and I was. I took my own food to my own celebration. You need to get in the habit of preparing your food ahead and taking it with you.
If you feel there is too much temptation at this early stage, is it possible to excuse yourself for a couple of weeks until you get into the swing of it? People understand. We are talking about the rest of YOUR life here, not keeping everyone else happy. They arent going to disown you for doing something that matters to you and your health and happiness. Work out what measures you need to take to guarantee your success, and do it. It's only for a little while. Once you are on track, you will not want to deviate. Use the weekend as a lesson to learn from. Use it to your advantage. You've worked out a weakness, so now you can work with it rather than letting it beat you.
For people who dont get it, I used to say certain things arent agreeing with me right now, they make me sick (fat isnt healthy) so I'm trying to be careful in order to feel better. When its a health issue people tend to be more understanding. If you cant stand up to the temptation, keep away from it until such a time that you know you can.
You will get there.
Also if you are going to someones place for tea and have your food, save your soft drink allowance for a treat there.
Thanks the old me
missysmum I think you hit the nail on the head. Its not about not having will power. Its about doing everything to ensure success, and one of these things is making sure we have good support networks.
 
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Hi everyone,

So good to read about all your successes - you all seem to be doing really well.

I'm starting tomorrow! and can't wait. I'm sick of looking and feeling the way I do and am looking forward to a new me!

So hope to catch up with you all along the way.
 
Thanks L-Jay and missys-mum!

You guys are TOP POSITIVE!

I think, I am going to preapre my snacks and take them with me...That will be much better for me...

Unfortunately for me, my Fiancés sister is coming to Melbourne and they have invited everyone for YUM CHA. :(

Now my issue is, do I go or do I not go?
If I go, what do I eat?
If I dont go, what do I say to them?:eek:

GOSH, who knew there would be all of these issues???!!!
ON the otherhand, thanks for counselling me through this...It makes me feel much better, that there are people out there that understand what I am going through!

My goal at the end of the month is to be 84kgs! I hope I can do that easily!

To all of you out there, is it hard to wait 5 hours before you eat a meal??? Its Sunday and in my house Sunday means an earlier dinner...

HOWEVER, I've prepared my Beef Stir Fry to eat at 7:30pm!

Who was it that said they prepare all their vegies for Stir Fry and cooks two dishes? I am thinking of preparing all the vegies and doing that of a night time, instead of just cooking my food in the oven using Cooking bags.

 
Hi everyone. Missysmum, so good to hear you are going so well.
dilfizzle, I'm with L-jay. I took my food everywhere with me. With the yum-cha, you could make your meal the cheese and crackers which are quite easy to take with you and eat. You can also have your diet soft drink (I usually have diet coke as a special treat if I go out, and have diet sprite the rest of the time) I just told everyone that I was on this diet, and I also told them that it would be very short term if I stuck to it properly, and that for the next few months I was putting myself first and if there was anywhere I thought I couldn't cope with, I simply wouldn't go. Just remember that every time you deviate you add another week onto the program, and who wants to be on this for one second longer than is necessary.
sms, you won't regret starting this. Stick with it and you'll have lost your weight in no time.
L-jay, good to see the scales are moving in the right direction again!
Lizzi, thanks for the lovely welcome back.
As you can probably see from my ticker, my compulsive weighing is still a problem, but I'm pleased to report that 2kg's have disappeared from my scales after my first day back on the program, which helps so much with the enthusiasm. Anyway, I'm feeling great and so focused, just like I was at the beginning which is a good start.
Have a great day everyone. Talk to you all soon.
Beck

PS It feels really good to be back on here, and back in control of myself!
 
thanks for your reply rjm.And i would like to thank everyone for your kind welcome. i have now been on the program for 1 week and have lost 2.9kg and i must say i am feeling great no more bloating after meals anymore . and i am now getting used to drinking the water must say but the 1st few day i think all i did was sit on the toilet. but boy i would love to have 2 meals a day from meal 1 if i could i would have youghurt and a egg each day. But i know i can't .
 
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Very true RJM!

I am definately going to try and take my food on Saturdays! now, with regards to YUM CHA, I think I'll just avoid it instead of being there and not eating...Afterwards, I'll go over to the house and take my own Dinner. I know, sounds anti-social, but you are right...I want to be off this sooner rather than later!

By the way, don't stress about the scale thing...Cause I am so scale compulsive too!!!

Good luck SMS with the program...To learn from my mistakes, just stick to it and you'll go far...

Just to ask again, is it hard for you guys to wait 5 hours between meals and to weight your food to the gram???!!!
 
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