reb: Thanks for your laughter, I had a bit of a chuckle myself – it was a good feeling. About the sugar …. Sugarine and hermesetes are fine – except for the hermesetes granules that are sweetened with fruit sugar ( that jar is the one to avoid)
What I am looking forward to when I finish the program? Free choice – to live without deprivation of food, but to choose responsibly. To be totally off the ‘diet’ necessity and simply to eat to maintain for the first time in my life being where I want to be. I am also looking forward to buying clothes that I expect will continue to fit, and to buy them from any shop I can walk into! Also I am looking forward to becoming toned and living with good health. Many of these things are intangibles, but they are what I am most looking forward to – a consistent normality of being the right weight, fit and healthy, wearing the clothes I want to wear (or the ones I can afford, anyway!).
Baby81: Just concentrate on the basics – lots of water, and learning to weigh accurately and eat within the time frames. The rest will all fall into place.
Jewls: Thanks for the thoughts. It is not that I am really discouraged – but the length of time is starting to jar – and my 4 weekly weigh in was only 2.3kgs lost, when even my lowest goal was to be 2.4!! But although you can’t see it through the written page, I am still fighting on.
And today is a better day just as I thought it might be. Lots of water after travelling, a good sleep, and a trip to the loo, and I am down another 0.4kgs today. So there you go!
I love the encouragement that this program gives and the confidence that the weight issue will change – and it is nice to hear that is resounding in your mind already Jewls!
sunshine: Adjust your goal if you want, but why don’t you wait until you get there? This is to be the last time you diet, so stick with it if you can until you reach the place you are sure you are going to be happy to stay on for life – that way you really do say goodbye to dieting! That is a prize in itself. You are getting closer now, and will probably have a faster spurt soon if you just stay patient.
lisa c.: Thanks, but up off your hands and knees! The struggle is there for all of us whether we have 10 kgs or 110kgs to lose – and we are all making it – and when some of the people on this forum finish they are going to have a great story to tell, which is absolutely fabulous. And totally life changing as well.
rjm: You are so close!! That must be the best of feelings. You have 2 days to go and I have 102 days to go – but I am savouring your feeling in expectation and anticipation and exhilaration and emphatically inexpressible rapture & exaltation!!
the old me: Aren’t the cravings terrible when they happen? I am not exactly craving, but I am always extra restless when I am on holidays, because food and new dining experiences are part of the holiday special treat thing and you miss out while others enjoy – it doesn’t even have to be too wicked – I would settle for a normal salad meal out and cappuccino – just a basic dining experience that is ‘buy off the menu’!! Nevermind, the end of October and then November is already being anticipated. About the bush flower essence, I wish people would always explain why we can and can’t have things, and then we might not make so many errors! I think the issue is that homeopathic medicines are made from alcohol, and that is the most key problem. Yes it is a flower essence, but predominantly it is alcohol based.
dilfizzle: Donuts are not an issue for me, although I did get a wiff of some hot cinnamon ones the other day, and I thought yum! I have been looking in at food, and realizing, that what I would choose straight out of this diet are not the same things I would once have chosen. I will be very intrigued to check out my tastes in Life After Cohens!
Eendjie: I have to laugh at your hubbie being eaten into oblivion while you cook and buy for him. Good one. Thanks for your nice words. I don’t know that I am more determined than anyone else, I just had to make a choice – now or never, because it has been going on for far too long, and I want to be a healthy person – I have a lot of living to do, because life is precious. I don’t want to miss out on opportunities in life because I was fat or unhealthy. SO that is a very motivating choice to me. I determined that a long time ago, and everything seemed to plot against my achieving it – like it does for some of you. Well, this is my ‘try one more time’ experience, and Cohen’s is the tool that can make it happen. I just wish that Dr Cohen had taken out proper marketing and advertising years ago. I remember seeing a black and white, poor print quality, small print ad over 10 years ago and there wasn’t enough money to ‘waste’ on what could be a fraud – often those kinds of ads were. What a shame he didn’t believe in his own product enough to push it forward and make sure we had enough information to choose wisely!! I certainly didn’t know anyone who had tried it. Fortunately, that has changed, and as a result, so are we all changing.
Well, I got to go and have some holiday fun,
Have a good day everyone,
Began 9th July 2005 … To end 20th October, 2006
Lizzi . . . 101 days to go! … 14 weeks 4 days
Have started exercising so perhaps that is why.
