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lessfatty said:
Does anyone have soy sauce on the program? Its so good with fish (sashimi) and steak, I just cannot live without it.

I guess it is a no-no, but I dont really care a 1/2 teaspoon of soy sauce every so often is not going to break the program.
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Try putting balsamic vinegar on the fish or steak. Its great too! soya sauce has too much salt and can add load to your kidneys. It make your body retain water too. In addition some japanese soya sauce (which is often used for sashimi) have a little sugar added - definitely not advisable to take it.
 
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ticker update~
1/3 down, 2/3 to go~~ :D
 
Hello everyone. I haven't been posting, but I am thrilled to read that there are so many doing so well!! And still new ones coming all the time. This program can change your weight and is worth every bit of perseverence. Some of you have lost a lot and that is absolutely fantastic. Don't ever think that it is an impossible task - it's simply not true! This works and if you can just wait out the time you will put the weight loss behind you.

I am getting closer all the time, and when I try on clothes I am rewarded and validated for sticking with it - but my goodness I will be glad when it is over!! Been SSSOOOOO long!!!

How are some of the 'old posters' doing? You have all been quiet too. Where are you the old me and gayegel? And Netski you are basically there - a huge congratulations to you!!

Thanks reb for asking about me (you are doing so well - be proud of your self plus plus!). When I finish I keep saying I am looking forward to so many things - milk in my tea and coffee, carrots, scallops, avocado ... my list keeps changing and growing. I look at some of my old favourites of cream cakes or mashed potato or a bread roll (all carbs and fats) and think yum, but the reality is that I think I could only actually enjoy them in small quantities anyhow. But I am not sure about milk, chocolate and rice ... still think they might be terrific.

When I finish, I will be going to 3 residential conferences back to back over 2 weeks, and only home for 3 nights in the middle. At the first there will be 3 nights of provided 3 course meals that should be scrummy!! Then I am on holidays for about 3 and a half weeks. I will be going to 2 states and travelling around as well as staying with others. I know where there are some top places I always wanted to go back to, some very ordinary cafes, buy out shops, and others a bit more special. The reality is, that wherever I go, the real treat will be the freedom to order whatever I want and to socially join in with others. It won't be about the things I can now eat that I love - but the freedom to choose my quantity and type of food as I want!!! So it is not about what I will actually eat, but more about being able to make the choice as I want. I am so looking forward to that. And not weighing food or waiting for 5 hours. The time can't come fast enough.

Got to go for now - have a good day.

Began 9th July 2005 … To end 20th October, 2006​
lizzi . . . 53 days to go! … 7 weeks 4days ​
 
Good morning all

I am slowley but sureley getting back into this program 100% I just want to get it over and done with!!! I have so many functions coming up over the next 3 months and for once in my life I don't have to dread them because I don't want people to see me. Now I love seeing how my body has changed (the great thing is that I have not had to work out to to loose weight. I really love the fast results.

I am just amazed that all my clothes are just getting too big, even the size 14s are swimming on me. When I go shopping I am still tempted to read the size 22 clothes. I love shopping however, I think I better stop until I get to goal as they will be too big.

I will update my ticker at the end of the week.
 
Lizzi- I love to read your posts!!!

I also would love to see a before & after shot of you.. You have come so far!! Im so proud of you!! :)
 
Whinger.......

Goodmorning all you soon to be skinny's,

Im sorry i was a whinger about my 7kg weight loss... i had a real good think about it last night and i am very happy with my achievements so far..

You know one thing i was thinking... AM I EVER GOING TO GET THERE??? I suppose im thinking this because each and every diet i go on.. i give up and never get there..

But i am sticking to this like superglue (haha lame) and i dont want to give up until im wearing my Size 12 Summer Clothes :rolleyes:

Im scared shitless of the re-feed.. i know its 100 years away but i hope i do ok with it.. and be able to maintain my new sexy body when i finally get there :)
 
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Just a ticker update.
Having a little cry here

Am feeling so tired and wanted to throw in the towel last night. I've been meeting up with friends over the past 2 nights with my own food but have been home late. Didn't want to cook cuz my landlady had already gone to bed and the kitchen had been all cleaned up and it wouldn't have been fair to mess it up again. Sat at the edge of my bed and felt like crying. This is so hard but I know I have to keep at it.
It looks like I have so little left to loose, but its such a battle everyday!. I guess what doesn't kill me only makes me stronger!

Have a great day everyone.
 
U r stronger than you think u r!

Jr_Mint said:
Just a ticker update.
Having a little cry here

Am feeling so tired and wanted to throw in the towel last night. I've been meeting up with friends over the past 2 nights with my own food but have been home late. Didn't want to cook cuz my landlady had already gone to bed and the kitchen had been all cleaned up and it wouldn't have been fair to mess it up again. Sat at the edge of my bed and felt like crying. This is so hard but I know I have to keep at it.
It looks like I have so little left to loose, but its such a battle everyday!. I guess what doesn't kill me only makes me stronger!

Have a great day everyone.
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Hang in there Mint! you must perservere. It's only 3 kg more to go... We will be cheering for you all the way to your ideal weight. Chin up gal.... it will be over very soon for you.. Cheers!!!!:) :)
 
STORM- I just noticed.. you started Cohen's 1 day before me!! :)

And your weight loss to date is 9kg's?? WELL DONE!!!!!!!!!
 
Bam

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STORM- I just noticed.. you started Cohen's 1 day before me!! :)

And your weight loss to date is 9kg's?? WELL DONE!!!!!!!!!
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Hi Bam,

Thank for the encouragement... But reading this forum, make me realise that I must prepare for slow down in the next month. There are also some varietion... some start slow and accelerate..
 
good afternoon everyone,
hope you are all doing well
Lizzi i would also love to see a before and after photo if you don't mind it is motivating to look at these photo's Netski, Mel . & less of me thanks so much for sharing your photos with us all you all look fantastic I have also put Netski & mel's before and after photo's on my fridge for motivation
hope you don't mind mel i forgot to ask
 
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Reb- Thats a great idea about the Before & After pics :)

I just bought a Roxy Size 12 Halter Top off ebay, and its hanging in my wardrobe waiting for me to be able to wear it!!! Thats my source of motivation.. along with this forum and all you fantastic people!! I cant stress enough how much help you guys have been :) xx
 
just wanted to see this ticker thingy move - slowing down but still losing. Interim pants no longer fit - anybody need some 38 inch jeans - two weeks old?
 
HI Everyone

Just been out at lunch time and tried on a wedding dress, with a wedding just over 3 months away, this is the first time I have tried one on. I've been very apprehensive about going into a bridal boutique at my current size, but I know I need a dress, darnit, so I took a deep breath and in I went.

the girl was really nice and showed me a few dresses that she thinks would suit me "we've dressed all shaped women" was her comment. I tried on one dress, a size 20, it wasn't what I like, but it was a massive motivator to keep myself sticking to the diet, and avoiding deviations like the plague.

We managed to get half of the zip done up, all I could think while looking at myself was "stick to cohen's, you'll lose your weight if you stick to your diet, you can wear whatever you want if you stick to your diet". if I decide to get a dress made, they would wait until it was 6 weeks out from the wedding, so a lot of losses can happen in that time.

Anyway, it's weigh day tomorrow, and i'm rather nervous, as this is my second go around, I'm not sure that I'll be getting such a big loss like I did the first time, but any loss is better that a gain. And to keep myself motivated I've stuck up some collages of wedding dresses that I've make, and I stare at them while eating my cohen's meals.

Hope everyone is doing well
thanks
Slinkee:)
 
big daddy said:
just wanted to see this ticker thingy move - slowing down but still losing. Interim pants no longer fit - anybody need some 38 inch jeans - two weeks old?
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Are you a boy "daddy" ?

I',m not out of 44in pants, into 42in, 40in await me but currently with 40in I get "overhang" (yuk!). I am looking forward to 38in jeans maybe in 6 weeks or so...it has been a long long timer since I fitted 38in jeans.

--- See who says men cannot join the girls in some conversation about dress sizes :)

Cheers Glenn
 
Are you hungry often ?

My consultant says that I get hungry before meals because I haven’t stuck to the plan 100%, which means for example I had a tofu salad at a restaurant and I tried to eat quantities to the program I have been given. Its not like I visited a all you can eat pizza hut and ate until I dropped.

Do you girls/guys get hungry before meals? The acquaintance who recommended me to the program said she was felt hungry often (but not to the point of staving).
 
Hey lessfatty

i agree "overhang" is yuk. Especially when running for the bus in the rain yesterday, i was contemplating missing the bus just so I could pull my pants up and cover it. LOL
 
Less Fatty- I have the opposite problem.. im never hungry :(
This isnt a good thing because i have alot of trouble eating my meals when i have to and sometimes i have left parts of it just becasue i cannot eat it!!

In a way im scared of the end of the program.. because i know that when im off the program i WILL get hungry and want to eat everything in sight.. I know one thing.. if i go back to the way i used to eat.. ill put the weight on in no time! and im scared... :(
 
It's a long one!!

Hi All, just dropping by to say I am still around.

Jewls and Lucee (can't get a song out of my head but don't know what it is - Luceeeee) sorry I had to miss our Saturday meeting, I was looking forward to it. Thanks for your thoughts and prayers, Mum has a couple of crushed vertebrae but I am looking at bringing her home to my place this weekend. She is doing really well after spending the past month in hospital and then rehab. She is moving into the master bedroom with the ensuite. I have just finished painting the ensuite, washing the bedroom down and setting up her furniture. What a weekend! couldn't have managed the 500 trips up and down the ladder if I still carried the extra weight.

That reminds me. I had the privilege of minding my beautiful granddaughter the other weekend and carrying her 8Ks up and down the stairs all the time was exhausting. Imagine carrying that all the time. He, he he. Go on borrow a child, if you don't have one, pick them up and carry them around and just internalise what you have already achieved.

Lucee you have done really well I wish I could have seen you, but I will have to try to recognise you at our next coffee meet. Jewls, 19K (Poss. 20 by now) is a big break through you must really be noticing the difference. Keep on motivating everyone but remember to keep a bit for you. Always look after No. 1 first and then you will be able to look after everyone else.

I must admit that when I was catching up on all the posts yesterday I had a tears then laughter. Such a focus on paprika and cheese! What a laugh. And dreams! You know I think this is the sub conscious looking at failure. We are all so good at failure in our previous attempts at weight loss that I think we play the scenario out in our dreams because we are trying to enforce change. Does that make sense? Just remember it is only a dream.

Lizzi congratulations your will power is remarkable, and what strength. You are a wonderful woman and I bet you are glowing.

The before and after photos are great. Well done to all of you who have been brave enough to post them.

Hey guys, I know that there has been some discussion about the principles of Cohen's and why some foods and not others. I agree with the thought that not all have been tested so it is easier for them to say no. But really what does it matter, if it works then just do it. There are heaps of different ways to do each meal, you do it for everyone else you cook for, so just get used to doing it for yourselves. I bet you used to buy basically the same things each week at the supermarket for your family - you just came home and put them together differently, so they didn't complain about the same old same old.

Look time passes so quickly, and life is far too short. We made a decision to invest in our future so lets stop worrying about what we are missing and focus on what we are gaining. We've seen the proof, paid the money, lets just do it.

Talk about long posts! Forgive me, I just decided to indulge myself!
 
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