Cohen's Lifestyle Kristy's Journey... =)

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Valentines Day dinner was really nice. I stuck to my guns and stayed away from the alcohol, just had a pepsi max. Entree was a king prawn with a mango salsa + a mini bruschetta, entree was spinach & ricotta ravioli with a tomato sauce which I only had a few bites of, main was chicken stuffed with pinenuts and spinach with a yummy sauce and lots of garden salad, dessert was a mini chocolate cake (about 3 bites). I skipped the coffee afterwards because it would have made me overfull. I left not feeling really overfull which was great. Overall, had a nice valentines day. Got a beautiful card and a little make-up kit :) apparently my really good present I'll get tomorrow for my bday!!!

Today's weight - 57.4kgs. 300grams down from yesterday! Which is awesome. Started today with a 45 min walk/jog (13 mins of jogging), and some yoghurt and mango. Feelin good and ready for a good week!

Catch you all later
K xo
 
That Valentine's dinner sounds lovely! I cooked at home, Cohen-style. Very low-key but we don't really acknowledge Valentine's day that much. Sniff a card would be nice though. :)
 
The dinner was very nice. It was awesome to have a nice night out and not dred the scales the next day, because I knew that I was very controlled and thats what made me happy! :)

I had a horrible day. I started it well...but it just went downhill. I was feeling quite down today as today is 8 months since a very good friend/house mate took his life. I still battle with this everyday and today it really hit me that it would be my first bday without him. I felt I had no strength today with my eating. All I ate differently to what I had 'planned' for my day were 2 biscuits and 2 starbursts, but I still do not like that I gave in to them. Im not beating myself up, it could have been a lot worse... I didn't go anywhere near the chocolates!!

I also feel as though I am getting sick. I have been hot & cold all day, feeling really run down and my throate has been dry and sore since lunch time. Fingers crossed I wake up tomorrow feeling a lot better! Would suck to wake up sick on my bday :( perhaps have a break from the exercise tomorrow if I don't feel better.

Anyways, going 2 rest on the couch...talk to u all soon xo
 
Hey MissKriss

Sorry to hear your feeling un-well! It would suck to be sick on your birthday so I hope it's just a one day thing! Even though you having a few little treats here and there it sounds like your doing REALLY well with your eating! You should be proud of yourself for being such a good role model to all of us!
I think you have come to a big turning point seeming as though you can go out and avoid the things that you know your bosy reacts with such as alchohol. I know it must be hard to resist sometimes but like Cate was saying you start to build your resistance internally so that is FAB!

Hope you have the most wonderful birthday and get spoilt rotten! It must feel WONDERFUL to be slim and gorgeous on your birthday. try to focus on the positive things in life in regards to your friend passing awa, think of him as he was and the good times you shared. At least you realise this is a trigger for you to eat and are aware.

Have a lovely evening sweet

xx nic
 
Happy Birthday Kristy!
:beating: xoxoxo:beating:
Mwah! Cate​

I hope you woke up on your birthday feeling a little better Kristy. It is still your day no matter what. I'm sorry about your friend & your sorrow. Sometimes sadness creeps up on me when I'm not feeling 100%. As time goes by, although you still miss your loved ones, it becomes easier to focus on the good memories & the bad ones fade. When I think of my sister or my younger brother I now smile & feel good about the love we shared.
Having a bad day & not eating mindlessly is something to be very proud of. Take care & enjoy your day. Smile.
xoxo Cate
 
Hi all and thanks so much for the lovely birthday wishes.

Unfortunately, I have been feeling horrible all day. But I put a smile on my face and got through the day. I had lunch bought for me, my boss bought me a cake which I shared around and then I had dinner out with some of my close friends tonight. I ate all the wrong things all day but just not in huge quantities. I have drank SO much water today because my throate has been on fire...nothing will soothe it so I'm just doing my best to deal with the pain. I stayed away from alcohol all together today.

I have decided I'll stay away from the scales until Saturday morning. I plan on doing 3 days of just cohens foods, 5 crackers, 2 fruits, a heap of water and hopefully I'll feel well enough to exercise. I know the scales would be up quite a bit tomorrow and also with being sick I'de say I'm retaining more fluid than normal... so I just know there is no point getting on them and getting upset.

I was spoilt today! My man got me Vera Wang perfume - gorgeous! I also got a heap of money and vouchers to spend on clothes. Woohoo! Cant wait!

Well im off, thanks again for the bday wishes.
Be back soon.
K
 
Thanks Cate. I hope I do too.

Today -
I got up and exercised for 45 mins, 15 of that being jogging. Yoghurt, apple & cinnamon for breakfast, had to train/bus it to work for the first time this year (had a friends parking bay for 6 weeks!) which seemed like it took for ever (1hour). Already had 1.2lrs of water when I got to work... had a black coffee, small banana for morning tea... just kept feeling worse and worse as the day passed by and ended up having to go home at 1pm. I could not face the bus and train with the way I was feeling. I got a taxi. The driver was very weird... she was doing 40 in a 60 zone and I had to tell her to hurry up! It was frustrating me so badly... Tuna & Salad with 3 crackers for lunch and then had a 2.5 hour sleep and here I am now and munching on an apple for afternoon tea.

Have not felt like eating really the whole day but know I must keep my energy up. We have kangaroo out for dinner but really dont think ill be able to stomach it. I might just do a scrambled egg with mushrooms & tomato.

Hoping to be better tomorrow...I do not like being away from work. Especially now I am the only admin support for a group of 35 people and it is approaching one of our important deadlines. Eek! I am doing all the right things to get better so fingers crossed tomorrow I will wake up feeling much better.

Sorry for the rather depressing post.
Ciao
K
 
Hi all,

Feeling average today, just popping in.

My cold is a lot better. Work was really busy so the day went really fast. Had a lunch out for one of the girls 21sts. I stuck to baked mozzarella wrapped in zucchini with lots of salad. Had a few chips which I shouldn't have because I was doing carb 3 days carb free.... after work I had a pedicure booked which was great to just sit there and relax for 45 mins. I then went and spent my voucher at Bra's n Things. Got lots of pjs on special which I really needed so I'm set now. I then got Chris some curry for dinner and seeing as I had NO appetite what so ever i just got some plain yoghurt and a fruit salad from Sumo Salad for dinner.

According to my scales (grr I shouldn't have got on them!) I'm 2kgs above end refeed weight. *sigh*. I'm hoping by Saturday I'll be down 1kg. It HAS to be so much fluid retention from being sick... I really hope :( I've been drinking so so much water and not going to the loo near as much as normal. We'll see..

so glad im better so i can get up and go for a good work out in the morning. going to go for an hour.

catch you all later.
K
 
Hey all!

Have not posted for a few days... not much too much to say really except that I've managed to pick up nearly 3kgs since finishing refeed weight :( I don't really expect to get all the way down to what I finished on because Im exercising...but about 1kg above that I'm wine with. So 57.5. Im currently 59.4. I know its REALLY SILLY to weigh yourself after a night on the town ... but I just couldn't help it. I needed something to help me stay away from a big cafe breakfast and coffee this morning! This is definately making me stay away...!!!! Im hoping some of this weight is just water weight as Im still sick and im due for my TOM. Either way, i'm going to do cohens as close to 100% as I can this week... not sure whether I need to have original plan weights or not? I'll do a few days just cohens foods, 2 fruit and 5 crackers and see what happens. *sigh*

I guess I had to expect this with the amount of events I've had. Phew, they are mostly over now. Oh damn, I just remembered I have dinner at my mums tomorrow night. A roast dinner... arghhh!!! I'll get there eventually... I know I am not letting myself get any heavier than what I am today and I WILL get on top of this little gain.

We bought a bike rack for the car this week so we're planning on taking our bikes somewhere today for a big ride, should be fun! Thought I'de be hungover today but only had about 5 drinks out last night, and feeling fine. Just have really sore feet! bad bad choice of heels.....

Alrighty, ill catch u all soon.
xxx
 
Hi Kristy- Don't stress out about it as it will be fluid. I know how you feel though. It freaks me out as my weight fluctuates a lot. Tues morning go back on Cohen's for a few days & it will be gone. You won't have to weigh your food- just size it up with your eyes & stick to roughly re-feed weights. Moderation is def. the key for all of us. You'll get the balance right. It will be trial & error, t & e,........It's good to fix it fast & then just take it easy for a while. Enjoy the rest of the w/e & dinner at your Mum's. A roast is ok for you, just limit the carbs (spuds etc) & have smallish sweets. Enjoy your life, xo Cate
 
Hey Cate,

Thanks :) Yeah, I can feel I am really bloated in the tummy area! I dont feel heavier anywhere else or think that I look it. So its all good. By the end of this week I should have it under control!

We did end up going out for breaky - eek! I just had scrambled eggs with mushrooms and a little bit of bacon, about 1/2 a piece of toast. We then went for a 7km walk (70 mins) which felt awesome. I just made chicken & vege pizzas with mountain bread which were really yum! I'll enjoy the roast tomorrow, been looking forward to it for ages! Mum doesn't do sweets which is good... :)

Thanks for the re-assurance Cate. Looking forward to getting down and then just finding a bit more of a balance.... my mind will be a lot more at ease then!

Cheers
Kristy
 
Thank you for the lovely welcome Kristy!!! I hope that you are feeling better.

I found that when I finished Cohen’s first time, that in order not to throw my body into a shock and gain weight (which did end up happening a year later, but let’s say that I only did the ‘job’ ½ way the first time – focused on the food and weight loss, while not working on myself emotionally etc....). Anyway, to get back to my point – in order not to start gaining weight the first time around (as I don’t think that the reefed really prepares the body well – not in my case anyway), for the first several months post Cohen’s I stuck to 4 100% Cohen’s days (90% did not work – it had to be 100%), and the remainder followed Cohen prescribed guidelines, with an indulgence or two on a Saturday / Sunday. That seemed to work really well – I actually ended up losing an extra kilo or two in that time period. I am not sure whether this helps, but ... (actually I'll post this in your thread, in case you don't read my diary...)

Take care, and keep smiling...
3D x
 
Hey there 3D :)

I think that sounds like a really good plan to me. I went into maintenance at a hard time being valentines day and my birthday... I've had so many events on - I probably could have taken it a bit more easy but I also could have been A LOT worse.... I'll get there! Now things are slowing down a bit I should be able to get back down and then start seeing what works for me to maintain. As close to 100% cohens days Monday - Thursday sounds like a good plan...and then relax it up a little on the weekend. That should be pretty do-able.

I'm feeling so bloated at the moment. I had wayy to many carbs last night and obviously the alcohol as well. I also did a silly thing of having vegemite toast at 2am in the morning when I was a little drunk...whoops. I know thats incredibly bad. I've stayed away from carbs mostly today - just 1/2 piece of toast this morning and lunch I had a mountain bread... they are not even equivalent to one piece of bread though - they are awesome! Dinner was steak and cohens veges and now im full so wont be having anything else tonight.

Im so tired but hoping with an early night Ill be alright for exercise in the morning!

Catch ya!
K
 
Good morning,

I had a great sleep so got up and exercised for 45 minutes this morning. Probably only feeling about 80% so was a bit poor with the running, could only run for 2.5 mins at a time. But thats better than nothing... I probably did about 2.5 jogging x 5 with rests in between. Im feeling pretty good.

The scales went UP!!!!!!! only 100grams.... but still, sigh. I was really hoping yesterday's weight was WORST case scenario after the drinking and that I'de drop some fluid today from the alcohol. But nope. Oh well, no point stressing. I had my yoghurt with apple & cinnamon for breaky (bought a new yoghurt ... Margaret River one, really dont like it!!), I have tuna & salad for lunch, a serve of rock melon for snack and some crackers, roast at mums tonight for dinner. I might get a skinny flat white on the way to work. From tomorrow I'll do cohens 100% just without the weighing and see how that goes. I should be able to do it from tomorrow up until Saturday night where we're going to my Dad's house to stay the night and he'll cook dinner. Not sure what. Hopefully just a BBQ so I can have meat and salad and still stay coheny.

Off to work - with my new size 8 pants on! woo. feeling really really bloated still so they're a tad tight on the belly, but they're still size 8 and they fit!!!

Check in later.. have a good day all xx
 
MissKris said:
Off to work - with my new size 8 pants on! woo. feeling really really bloated still so they're a tad tight on the belly, but they're still size 8 and they fit!!!
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Wee Hoo for size 8 pants!!!!!
Only in my dreams Kristy, xo Cate​
 
I definately don't feel like a size 8 today :( gosh, I have felt terrible all day. Could have eaten better as well. Had a skinny latte, which isnt really bad. But still not coheny. Also the choc brownie at my arvo meeting wasn't very coheny! *sigh*

Mum was not feeling very well tonight so we gave dinner a miss. Probably a good thing! I ended up just making a ham, cheese & tomato mountain bread wrap for dinner with a serve of steamed vege on the side..not the greatest dinner but hey. Then I had a Vaalia Lemon Creme yoghurt.

Im looking forward to going back on plan for a good 4-5 days, hoping I loose this bloated tummy and feel a lot better....today I have just been feeling so horrible and fat. I know I don't look a lot different but to me my tummy and legs feel HUGE!

Wondering whether I should keep up with the exercise this week while I want to loose a bit? I think I will. I might just take it easy and stick to 60 mins walking a day....

This Friday my boss may want to take Chris and I out for dinner, Saturday night is my Dads place, Sunday I have a house warming. Should be all stuff I should be able to manage pretty well and make good food choices. Will not drink any alcohol at all.

Anyway - hope everyones well, sorry for the constant whinging!
K xo
 
Hey Kris *hugs* I hope you feel better soon! That bloatedness could perhaps be just water weight and you need to just flush it out? You're still a size 8, no matter what! ;)
 
Yeahs - im gonna lay off the salt for 5 days as well!!! Its my TOM at the moment too, first day, so thats definately a reason for the huge belly. But pretty sure some of it is FAT weight. Yuk! I'll get there, its not a race.

I do not regret when I decided to do refeed and finish up on cohens, because I feel I really needed to do it at that point. Was hungry and crabby etc - was my time. But I have to be honest with myself, Im not 100% happy with myself. Well, I dont know ANYONE is ever 100% happy... but im probably only 70% happy with my body. I think I want to work at getting down to about 53kgs. Not right now - maybe later on in the year. Ide be happy to do my best at maintaining around 57 and then try my luck at loosing another 4kgs down the track......... but anyways. Im very thoughtful today! Ill go now and hopefully ill wake up feeling a bit better about myself tomorrow and not so hard on myself.

Ciao!
 
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