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Week 8

Hi guys..

Just typed a massive post and lost it...

Anyway... pretty grumpy this week - had 4 days without any movement on the scales - ended up with 0.8kg for the week... which is pretty frustrating :mad:

Maintaining a positive attitude is more difficult when you don't have a great week... also had a bit of recurring TTOTM this week after having only finished 2 weeks ago :confused:

I know that a loss is a loss - and so I'm going to focus on having a great week this week rather than dwell on the disappointment of last week. Also going to have early nights each night this week and see how that effects my weight loss...

Hope you are all doing well

Jackie
 
Hi Iamslim

These weeks happen to us and this week I actually wish I was in your position re TTOM... I was due two weeks ago, have had and still have the PMT, bloating and other symptoms I get with it but nothing still... I even did a pregnancy test just in case... I think this is the first time I've ever wanted it. I have a black tie event on Friday and it will also be my first time out out for about 12 months and my first time eating out since I started the program in May and I've bought a beautiful dress and am all excited and I am predicting that it will start Thursday, if not on Friday... Just to be a pain! grrrr... keep going strong and you will find that even though you may have had a small loss this week you might have a big one next...

Dont let it get you down! I know, easier said than done!!! And after what I posted the other week when I had my small loss feel free to tell me to take my own advice! ha ha ha

Have a good day!

Lauren
 
Thanks Lauren...

Its funny... when I've read posts on here where Cohenites have been upset about a small loss, I've thought to myself that "a loss is a loss and at least your not going up"... but then when it happened to me, I was the one who was disappointed and even though I kept telling myself that I still lost for the week, I couldn't help feeling bad...

Reality is... some weeks are going to be better than others and I suppose I was frustrated mainly because my plan is to have dropped all the weight by mid December when I have my first dress fitting... who knows - where last week was a 0.8kg loss, this week may be 2kgs or something.

Good luck with your black tie function - I know that whenever I go out for dinner, I usually call the place in advance and ask them to cook me something especially so that it fits within Cohens. Went out for dinner on Saturday night and had steak and salad - I asked them to cook 110gms of steak and for the salad to have no dressing (which I emphasised). When it came back to me it had olive oil on it - so I sent it back and told them I wanted the salad with no dressing!

You are doing so well and I'm sure you will look beautiful in your sexy new dress!! Let me know how it goes...

I was a bit naughty this morning and jumped on the scales - overnight I've dropped 0.6kg so I feel a lot less frustrated - now I just need to focus on having a great week!

Jackie
 
Thanks Iamslim... I might have to post a piccy from it as I am very excited!!! The company that has invited me has organised my food. I asked them to request from the convention centre steak or chicken just grilled using only salt and pepper and then said for it to be served with vegetables from the list. The convention centre replied to them, they just forwarded my email, that they will put me down for the vegetarian option which is 'layered pumpkin, roasted eggplant potato polenta torte with sunflower seed veloute'. She asked if that was acceptable and I replied that it wasn't acceptable it's very specific (I left the weights out to make it easier for them as I am confident with my estimations as when I weight my food now 9/10 times I am spot on first time). I said not to worry I will just have my dinner before I come and not eat anything there and that embarrassed them when she told them not to prepare a meal for me at all so they are now conforming! Sometimes it can be hard work for something so simple!!!

I know what you mean when you said it's easy to be supportive of others but when it comes to your situation it can be hard give yourself the same support!

Have a good day.

L x
 
Week 9

Hi all....

Well have to say that this week I am not really a happy camper... This is the second week in a row that I have been doing the "put some weight back on" thing... I figured that after last weeks dismal effort (of 0.8kg) that I would have to have a bumper week this week... and I was well on the way - by Sunday morning (a day before my weekly weigh-in) I had dropped 1.6kg for the week - I was thinking "fab.. all I have to do is drop another .2kg today and then I will be down to 76kgs!!!"

But then I got up on Monday and had put on 0.4kg overnight taking me back up to 76.6kg... :mad: I was gutted... but I put on a brave face and thought "its ok, going on past experience I usually drop a bit overnight at the start of the week". Tuesday brought a 0.2kg loss, but then this morning I got up and had even put that back on... :eek:

What's going on with my body??? :confused: I know what you're all probably saying - "a loss is a loss" and sure 1.2kgs for the week is fab... its just that I really want to hit goal by middle of December.... and the way that I've been going the past 2 weeks that doesn't seem likely...

Maintaining a positive attitude is the best way to go forward I know - I especially know that the more I think about it then whatever I'm focusing on is what I will attract - so if I'm thinking about putting on weight then that's what will happen... whereas if I think about how slim and wonderful I'm looking and all the compliments I am getting then I will continue to drop the weight... so that's what I will do!

I took photo's of myself last week in my underwear (front, side and back) - so know I have week 1, week 4 and week 8 pics - boy you should see the difference. You can most tell in my face, but also on the back view you can see that I have no folds and on my front my stomach and waist has shrunk... Yay :jump:

Anyway... enough from me - hope everyone is well!

Jackie
 
Week's 10 & 11

Hi All,

Sorry I've been away for the past couple of weeks, but I was really miffed with my week 10 results that I didn't even want to think about it, let alone relive it by writing about it...

Week 10

Had a bad week weight wise in week 10... I still kept 100% to the plan (in fact have not deviated at all since the beginning), but didn't see much movement on the scales... only dropped 0.6kgs for the week :mad:

I thought that perhaps it was because I was eating chow mien for dinner each night (ie not mixing it up) but I can't be sure... by the time I got to Monday I was totally fed up with the week and glad that it was over...

Week 11

Week 11 started out much the same as week 10.. I decided to mix it up and have more salads and chicken and steak and be very careful in all my measurements - I think sometimes we all get a little bit lax about measuring spices etc (of course my meat and vege measurements are always spot on!).

Then on Friday I had an appointment with my success coach and I discussed with him the fact that I felt my weight loss had slowed down and that I was worried that I will not have dropped all the weight I need to by mid December when my first wedding dress measurements will be taken... I said that I had now fallen into the habit of weighing every day and that right before I jump on the scales I hear in mind the words "you wont have lost anything" and then when there is no movement on the scales, that voice in my head gets validated and grows in strength... I also said that this is not the way I wanted to approach the situation - I want to be positive and focus on my acheivements because I know this is the quickest way to encourage positive outcomes... you have to become the change you wish to be!

He agreed and commented that I should (each time I step off the scales rather than before) say in my head "thank you for the 1.2kg loss this week" and be referring to the week ahead... so that in my mind I'm already grateful for the loss I'm about to achieve before I achieve it and to act as though I have already acheived it.... He also said that I was so caught up in the daily weigh in that I wasn't just letting it happen - that I needed to surrender to the process and allow it to work its magic..

I agreed... and said that early on, when I was dropping weight every day, that weighing myself daily was positive reinforcement... now its taken on a negative quality. I decided to only weigh myself on Monday's again (and since then I have decided to only weigh on my 4 week weigh in dates)... That way I am surrendering and just believing that I will acheive and succeed...

Before I left the session on Friday, I wrote in my diary - "Thank you for the 1.2kg loss this week"... I knew at that point that I had dropped 0.6kgs since Monday.

On Monday, I weighed in at home and amazingly... I had dropped 1.4kg for the week - so I had dropped 0.8kg in 3 days!

Altogether, that means that I have dropped 17kgs in 11 weeks :jump:

Suffice it to say I have written in my dairy this week "thank you for the 1.6kg loss this week!!!"... I got my TTOM on Monday night so we'll see how we go!

Hope you are all well...

Jackie x
 
Hey Jackie.. your posts are really quite inspiring - you are doing so well, and you know your words of wisdom and hardship are keeping others motivated.

Well done and keep going....

I also got engaged last week, and for the last 2 months work has been so unbelievably crazy that I've been eating terribly and just feeling so full afterwards, I can't seem to stop the vicious circle. I'm thinking of calling Cohen's and starting all over again since it's been a while I've been sticking to the plan....

But nevertheless, your posts are inspiring! Thank you :)

pp1
 
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