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Hi there,
the old me - don't beat yourself up about the deviations, this is a learning curve, surely we are meant to learn what it is that encourages binging in us so that we are able to recognise the trigger points? I think that it is great that we have this forum to share these hurdles in, and i don't think you be embarrassed to tell us anything.
Borderaussie - welcome! Good luck staying focussed this time around.
pinky8484 - welcome to you also.
Good to hear from you myshy!
dilfizzle, i agree that its pretty slack you haven't heard back about the mango yet! maybe you should send a repeat request?

I did 2.5 days with no deviation and since then have been on and off. I am very annoyed with myself, but knowing that i am going to be away with the school for three days this week makes it hard to stay on cohens, cause i wont be able to when away. When i do get back on the wagon, i will join in this reporting of deviation free days, i think it is a great idea!
chiko
 
HI CHIKO that's a good idea...I'll try again tomorrow...

Also, don't beat yourself up over it...Just get back on track when you can...

IF you are going to be away for 3 days, is there anyway you can take your crispbread with you, maybe pre cook some of your protein and pack them in bags?

Also, weigh up some vegies or something in bags and just cook when you are ready to eat? Or is it not going to be easy?


 
Hi everyone,
the old me, I have always been a night eater. The only way I could overcome this was by having a few weeks of telling myself that I could eat whatever I wanted, but only if I ate it at the dining table, absolutely no eating in front of the telly, and then I tried to go to bed early whenever I could. It seemed to break the pattern and although I still binged, it was not nearly as frequently and once I started on Cohens I was able to stick to it.
myshy , good to hear from you, and so pleased to hear your Mum is ok.
pinky8484, good to hear that your knee is healing well. The weight loss will certainly help and you'll be on your feet in no time at all.
ridiculous, good luck getting back on track. I'm sure the weight will disappear again as soon as your back on it.
dilfizzle, even if you haven't lost any weight on the scales you have most probably lost cm's. Try taking your measurements and see. Last week I only lost 1kg, but when I did my measurements I had lost 10.5cm off my body!!
megz,welcome and good luck. You won't regret joining for one second. As far as I know there is not a pre program diet. I just tried to increase my water and cut out foods that I knew would be eliminated (bread, milk, rice, pasta etc) for the week or so before I received my program. The 2nd time I started I didn't eliminate anything before I started, and the 2nd time I did it I lost 5kg in my first week. The 1st time I did it I only lost 2.5kg in my first week. A wedding is always great motivation. When do you get married?
Tasm82, who knows, you may find that as the weight starts to come off you might get a surprise. I hope so, and you'll be so much healthier and able to run around after any little feet a lot better.
chikoyou are probably just not in the right frame of mind at the moment as you know you are going away and won't be able to stick to it. Give yourself permission to go off ( but try to eat as well as you can) and then set your mind to get back on track and focused when you get back.
Fornight, you can also have philadelphia cream cheese, but I dont know if you are able to get that.
I feeling a bit hungry tonight, and really fancy something a bit different to eat, but reading this and posting again has helped me through the worst of it, and now I think i'll go to bed. I know I have finished the 2 weeks back on Cohens, and know that I can now begin the re-feed any time I feel it is getting too much for me (which helps a bit), but I don't want to start it until I am close to 75kg if I can hang out that long. I hope so.
Have a great night everyone. Talk to you all soon.
 
Scaredy Cat....

Hi All,

I was just wondering, does anyone battle with fear of losing weight? I've been large or have at least thought i was for most of my life, from teen to now, i don't ever remember thinking that i'm thin and enjoying it. I really don't know what to expect. It's kinda hard to remember the motivation when i've never really felt that way to begin with. I guess subconsiously i don't think that it's possible for me. I know that i want to look better and be healthier and i do. But...what happens when i feel i'm succeeding. That's when i begin to sabotage. I'm scared of looming failure or success.

WHAT'S GOING ON????:eek:

Can the consultants help with this sort of thing. I haven't even started and i'm really scared.

Oh by the way....i'm excited too :eek:

I think i better get to bed, my brain is getting the better of me. Maybe when i wake up to my first Cohens brekky, everything will seem less daunting.

Good night all, thanks for letting me get that one off my chest

Has anyone tried Virtual Model? It's great to be able to see approx. what you may look like at goal. I just went onto see myself at 15kg from now. It was encouraging to see that there is definitely a marked difference. It's not all that accurate though, i think it doesn't go over 115kg cause no matter how large i made my virtual model, she stayed the same shape. See what you think: I signed up at . i think i had to fudge the application a bit cause it's an american web site. Let me know how you go if any decide to take a look.:)
 
Catch Up!

Hey Everyone!

Haven't been able to get on the computer lately. Is anyone else just craving something "Bad"? I see people eat pies -yum My kids eat Macca's, Chocolates, Ok I'll shutup. This is the longest I've ever done this. I'm singing at the Arts Centre this Sunday coming. I thought I'd leave buying my new jeans and top until Friday. Something to look forward too.
My friend is only 10 kg from his goal weight, he looks great. My other friend is proberly 1/2 way. I have to lose the most. Everyone was saying today how great he looked. I guess I used to hide my weight well. Some people say I've lost lots, others are amazed when I tell them how much I've lost. Can't wait to be 1/2 way.
But the bright side is - I'm still "shinking". Hopefully by my birthday I'll be back at 100kg. Hoping this is a one off experience. I don't ever want to put this much weight on ever again.
Just think of Summer! Sexy swimsuit here I come!

Have a great week of losing,
Mitmary
 
Hi everyone,
mumbine, don't be scared of losing weight. It is such a good feeling. When I was big I was always trying to melt into the background (bit difficult when you weight 112kg) so people wouldn't notice me. When we went to Queensland last year (weighing 75kg) I felt quite comfortable wearing my swimmers (one piece of course) and didn't feel like anyone was even looking at me. Previously I had always felt subconscious in public, especially if I had to eat when out. I felt like everyone was looking at the fat lady and how much she was eating. Now I eat whatever I want when I'm out and realise that no-one really cares what I am eating. It is so good just to feel normal. I don't want to be super skinny, I just want to live like any other "normal" person does without always feeling like I don't belong, so go for it, you'll be there before you know it and when you feel those feelings of sabotage, get on here and read through all of your previous posts, as well as everyone elses. It helps. Also once you are through the first few weeks on this you begin to not think of food as much. It is just something to fill you up. Good luck today.
Mitmary7, yesterday I was really feeling like something different to eat, but resisted and this morning I'm down another .5kg. One of the other girls said previously that when she has really bad cravings she usually drops weight the day after. Do you take Chromium. This also helps with the cravings.
I changed the batteries in my food scales yesterday as I had had a slow week, and I upped my water and the scales have moved again with another half a kilo gone this morning. Hopefully this will be a better week than last week was and I will shift a bit more of this weight.
Cryss and missys mum, how are you going. We haven't heard from you in a while.
Sorry not much to say today. Have a great day everyone.
Talk to you all soon.
 
Oh god.... am feeling cranky and moody. Luckily my bf can stand my grumbling these few days. Hopefully this lousy feeling will go away soon.
(Less than a week on the program)

Can i use homemade chilli paste - ing: dried chilli, onion and garlic.
How abt tomatoe sauce - ing : tomatoe only.
Does it include in my veg allowance?

Now i try to use curry powder in my dishes - is it unlimited amt?

I really cant use dried herbs/spices, even the smell of it in supermarket gets mi running away. sigh!!

Fortnight : u can find the oil spray can at the cohen's clinique
 
L-Jay, thought I'd try your "days without deviations" ticker, but as you can see, I'm a bit of a chicken I only put 30 days for the time being. I'll update it later to read more.
 
New start...again

Thanks to those of you have offered support and helpful suggestions. Its time to do this thing properly. I think the deviation free days report will help as its a bit sad to see a zero there! I am looking forward to changing it to a one tonight! Hope you all have a great Cohens day. its a beautiful day here in Tas and I am going out for a walk to try and undo some of the damage.
 
A big welcome to all the new people. Looking forward to hearing how you are all getting on.

Thanks to everyone yet again for all the excellent suggestions, and encouragement.There are just too many of you to personalise this

Got back last night after 2 days away. I thought I'd let you all know how I organized my food. In the morning, I had a cooked apple with yoghurt & a cracker (we had a microwave in the cabin). Then I made my lunch, which was stirfry veg, on 2 crackers with mozzarella cheese, grilled. I put this into a plastic container and took it with me. Had to eat it cold, but it was still delish. (kind of like pizza the next day - sometimes tastes better). At tea I had stir-fry with either chicken or steak. And before I went to bed, a mandarine and 2 crackers.

I just thought this may help some who have to go away, though its not always possible to eat what you'd prefer.

I wont say I wasnt tempted when we went to Maccas for the little people. Especially when my friend ordered a dessert involving cadburys chocolate, cake, cream and hot fudge. But I did fall down when it came to water. Didnt drink nearly enough. So I am looking forward to getting into that today.

Have a couple of confessions. Thursday night I ate a bit of chicken skin, and Friday I ate (okay scoffed) extra cheese. I know it doesnt sound significant, but I promised 100% honesty.

dilfizzle I'm pretty sure, under the circumstances they would consider supplying you with your refeed.

rjm you are moving along well. Not really all that far to go.

Everybody I am really sorry I cant do individual replies, the problem is, there are so many posts, by the time I get to posting I cant remember everything I read and who posted what.

Keep up the good work everyone
 
Reload72 said:
Fortnight : u can find the oil spray can at the cohen's clinique
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it's not the spray can that they are talking about. The spray can is still filled with olive oil. I think they are talking about a ready can (purchase off the shelves) filled with oil-replacment substitute that you can spray and cook on it.
 
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Spray oil

No fortnight... You use the spray oil... just a light spray. What reload72 has said is correct... we use spray canolla oil... it is in a orange tin i'm at work now and i cant recall the brand but we ran out and i bought a differnet one in a light blue tin and the difference is unbelievable... U only need one quick squirt and it looks thick... not really overly impressed with it i must say...

anyways if you use olive oil only use a slight amount as it goes a long way...

Good luck...

Tam
 
Okay, feeling better....just breathe

:)

Thanks to everyone for their well wishes on my new journey and also to rjm for replying to my post. I'm really not feeling too bad at the moment. I'm beginning to become excited about the weight loss thing again. After losing 15kg initally (i put most of it back on) i did experience so many compliments & i felt so much more confident. I've got that to look forward to again.

For my first Cohens meal I had a lush brekky, my own concoction:

APPLE CRUMBLE

1 x paradise light wholemeal crispbread broken into pieces, spray w/oil & dust with cinnamon or nutmeg

1x apple finely diced add small amt of water & artificial sugar, soften in microwave, drain & mix with crumble

Yoghurt allowance mixed with art. sugar or cinnamon

Dollop yoghurt ontop & enjoy! DELISH

I'm really looking forward to mozarella melts for lunch. yum! Doncha love cheese??? ;)

**** L-Jay ***** You are amazing for being so committed and prepared on your weekend away. Really inspiring.

MELBOURNITES: Does anyone know if there are any Cohen support groups still running close to melbourne? would be great if there was. I was always intending on getting there before the clinics closed.
 
Tasm82 Hmmm...our consultant prefer us to use olive oil instead of canolla oil and it must be cold-pressed olive oil. He showed us the spray can but he said it is just something nice to have but not a necessity. I am using a pour and store container which will allow me to use just a few drops of olive oil each time so that works fine for me.\

Reload sorry, my mistake.


I have to plan some damage control for tomorrow's dinner. Its some sort of an old friends' reunion gathering and we are having Malay's barbaque meat on the sticks (Satay). I don't want those friends to know I am on diet and I don't want to make them feel I am an odd one for eating home-cooked meal so I plan to bring some subway salads (no dressing) and then eat the bbq meat as my protein. That way, I can cook up some excuse that I bought the salad but forgot to eat that day etc etc.
 
lizzi said:
Reload72: Hi there. The combinations are unlimited! I use a lot of basil, marjoram, chives, oregano, whatever. Each has it's own set of tastes. With cottage cheese, you could use spring onion with it, or chilli. I melt a combination of cottage or ricotta cheese + mozerella over almost anything I feel like - cauliflower, or cabbage, or tomato and capsican, or asparagus - any combination really - and it works well. And each day I use a different set of favourites - curry goes down well too. by experimenting you will soon find the ones that you like.

lizzi
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Lizzi Thanks, I tried the curry powder in my cooking over the weekend, very nice. Curry is one of my favourite food. .... Really need more cooking tips , Thinking of making some tomato soup

Fornight : Remember ...NO peanut sauce on Meat Sticks...Argghhh :p
 
Happy Monday

Hello to everyone :)

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Gosh, posting on here can become quite involved can't it, with all the individual replies... I tend to want to address everyone's comments, news or experiences but right now, with limited time I will have to just say a quick hello and let you know that it's you bunch of girls that keeps me honest on this program ... I think it would be fair to say that disclosing our weight to even a family member would have us sweating profusely but here it is simply run of the mill .. it is a very supportive and non-judgemental environment .... so thankyou all for that.

I had the most delicious dinner last night. My three girls wanted tacos and instantly my tastebuds went into overdrive!!! Then I decided to have taco-less tacos!!! I minced my beef and marinated it in a paste of chilli powder and diet sprite (sounds gross I know but it was super delish). I sliced up my quota of lettuce (don't ya love lettuce - it's so light and adds so much bulk), cucumber, tomato and capsicum, stired through my chilli mince concoction ant then I broke up my two crackers and stired that through too which gave the whole meal a delicious crunch. It was super nice, so nice in fact I think I will have the same tonight.

I love the idea of us all sharing recipes here, its a wonderful way to get inspired!

Anyway, must head off, will come and write some more a bit later. *hugs* to all

:) Leanne :)
 
Hello Toy you All

Good Afternoon ladies,

Wow, i'm always amazed at the number of newbies starting the program. Welcome and goodluck, you are embarking on an amazing journey of tears, tantrums, cravings, success, happiness and wellness. You've come to the right place for support, fun and a great place for honesty and advice.

To all the regulars hope everyone is sticking in there. I've been reading but not posting sorry, But remember i am there in thought everytime you crave think of me saying "don't give in, you're better and stronger than this" nourish your soul with sucess don't punish it with failure. If you falter pick up the broken peieces and keep going.

I'll tell you a little story. Over the weekend i was doing my motorbike licence. I was really nervous and very tense it took a lot of time to relax into riding. We were learning safe drinving but also emergency stopping. We were in the rain i was cold(shiverring) wet and very tired just as i was bringing my bike to an emergency stop it skidded out and the fell ontop of me. i went crashing down. i fell off and skided under the bike for a while. Ouch! i jumped from underneath the bike, turned off the bike with the emergency button, dusted myself off and got back on the bike. It wasnt till i got home after getting my licence that i realised what i had done but i tought me a few things

1. Whenever you brake in the wet DON"T lock up your tires( obviously)
but more importantly
2. Whenever you come off you ride ( being it a lifestyle change, a new years resolutio to quit smoking) whatever your current "ride" is. When, not if, when you fall off, pick yourself up as quick as you can get back on it , but dont forget to assess the damage and figure out what went wrong . Its the only way to do it. THroughout life we busy ourselves with tasks that really at the end of the day don't make you a better person or dont give you depth . Spend some time thinking about who you are what your strengths are and also how you can avoid falling off life's ride.


Have a wonderful evening with your family, friends and yourself.and Buon Appetite for dinner i'm having curried beef and cauliflour soup . yummo

I'm pretty excited about my ticker movement in 3.6kg time so approx 2-3 weeks i'll only have 10kg to go. I'll also be at my previously decided goal but i adjusted my goal for cohens
 
Wedding Wedding Wedding

what am i to do.... i ordered a bridesmaids dress for my brother in laws wedding that was to be in august this year... was a size 22 ish and then it got put off until next year in hawaii.... just got a msg to find a good alterations lady cause the wedding is back on in six weeks... aaaarrrgggghhhh.... It took 5 months to get this one and it is the same size as my other bridesmaid dress from febuary... i tried that on last night (not knowing that this was happening) and yep you guessed it after loosing 13 kgs it fell of my bust and when unsipped falls over my hips as well....

Hope these dresses are made to go in a long way!!!!!!! The bride is coming to Kalg this weekend to get it altered... i am going to have to tell he i can't until another 4-5 weeks as if i get it altered now it's not going to fit again!!!! Too much drama for my liking!!!!

anyways that's my winge for today!!!

Tam
 
Tears Brewing

Okay I have had such a successful cohens day today. So...why after having a great day to have the urge to finish off the brownies in the cupboard. All these excuses, already self sabotaging.

I'm on the verge of tears, could be the diet dunno! All i know is i want brownies and i don't know if i've got the will power to stop a binge coming on.

I get the feeling maybe i need some more counselling.......

:(
 
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