This is MY choice!

Congratulations on the shorts! I totally understand how hard it is to get out of your comfort zone. Whenever I'm at the beach, I'm always wearing a dress over my bathing suit or a tank top when I get into the water. My friends are always like, "UH you can take it off. No one cares." Well, I CARE!

ALSOOO, you're so GREAT for being able to not touch any of that bad food! I find it hardest to say no to food when it's around my friends. I think that's such a big accomplishment! :) Food is like a in the moment thing -- if you look back on it now, it's ok that you didnt eat all that bad food -- it wasn't anything life changing. Be glad you didnt consume the 192038103 calories :) YAY!
 
Thanks Olux! It would have been so easy to just eat it all - I would have really really reallllly enjoyed it at the time. But I know how guilty I would be feeling today. It's great to feel proud instead of guilty! Something that I will file away in my brain to refer to the next time some cheesecake or something comes out...
 
hi guys... eeek I'm nervous about this one!

Six weeks into Cohens, 14 kg down. I took the before pic in my usual around-the-house clothes, so I used the same clothes for my 6 weeks in photo, though my jeans aren't really staying up!

It's not a huge difference yet, but it's something.

x (eek)
 
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Congrats, girl!! I cant wait for the day when I feel confident enough to bathe with just a swim suit on!! I admit I will in my Mum's backyard pool but not in public!
I know how you feel about watching your friends eat all that yummy food in front of you. I am sure will read about it in my diary!!
You are looking great in your pics already, yah for you!!:hurray:
 
OH DEAR!!!!!!!!!!!

I WOKE UP AT 11am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:willy_nilly:

I needed the sleep though, I was feeling a bit run-down and fighting something off... but ELEVEN O'CLOCK?!?!?!?! That's CRAZY!

So I tried to eat as quickly as I could, but now my meal schedule is so completely crazy for today!

eek...
 
Oh my effing effing effing EEEEEEEFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFING.......

RAURGH!!!!!!!!

:banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:

I am so effing OVER this. I AM OVER IT!!
Another effing dinner party tonight and everyone had to bring a plate. Because my man was coming, I'd have to bring something, even though I was bringing my own little individual dinner (they knew that beforehand and it was totally fine). So I made Vietnamese Rice Paper rolls and three dipping sauces. Everyone loved them, which is great.

So... my dinner was boring as bat-sh*t because I ran out of time. I weighed some shredded cabbage and some fresh mint and coriander, all of which I also used in the rice paper rolls. I then had that with some tinned tuna. That's it. No time, no ingenuity. Man it sucked.

This turned out to be the menu:

caramalised onion and sundried tomato tart
Vietnamese Rice Paper rolls
Spaghetti Marinara
spinach and fetta turnovers (puff pastry)
More gourmet pizza and garlic bread (someone was disorganised)
Moroccan cous-cous salad
Butter chicken with saffron rice.

Dessert?
More tiramisu
creme brulee
cherry flan
Homemade hazelnut gelato
varieties of lindt chocolates

Oh yeah - end it with a cheese plate with 5 different cheeses.

And if that wasn't enough, there was an endless supply of beautiful wines and ports.

I didn't have FREAKING ANY OF IT. I sat there with my stupid tasteless cabbage and ate it shred by shred as everyone else gorged themselves and drank themselves silly.

They are some of my best friends and everyone had a great night except me. After about an hour and a half I couldn't even get involved in the conversation because everyone had been drinking and were all loud and having fun. I'm so depressed about it. I've never felt like so much of an outsider.

I HATE that everyone's lives revolve so much around food. And that not having it leaves me as an outcast (cry cry). Of course, no one really noticed too much, which is good, but I just sat there like an idiot all night wanting to not be there and wishing like hell that they would all stop talking about how great the gelato is (just like farero rocher! But so much better!), or how gorgeous the butter chicken is (it took four hours to make the sauce from scratch!) or what is in the custard of the tiramisu (egg yolks whisked with sugar, blended with marscarpone and cointreau, then fold in the beaten egg whites).

I even forgot my soda water.
 
Oh sweety, i know exactly where you are coming from, just check out my last diary entry mind you the food at your dinner party sounds soooo much yummier!!
Just hang in there, you are doing soooo well and when everything is said and done you are going to look a million dollars!!:drool5:
Keep it up!!
 
decisionmaker said:
Thanks Olux! It would have been so easy to just eat it all - I would have really really reallllly enjoyed it at the time. But I know how guilty I would be feeling today. It's great to feel proud instead of guilty! Something that I will file away in my brain to refer to the next time some cheesecake or something comes out...
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Joh, Be really proud of yourself for resisting what sounds like huge & bloody delicious temptations! Give yourself lots of credit. Fantastic job! You're very right- it is great to feel proud instead of guilty. Remember that sweetie. You are doing so well, xo Cate.
 
Cate and Sexee - thanks so much. It's so great to be able to vent on here knowing that there are people that understand and that can in fact help me out along the way.

I've decided to veto dinner parties until I get to my goal weight. Which is a big thing for me, as that is what a lot of my friends do very regularly (eg. we're all meant to get together soon for an Indian night where we all bring an indian dish). But I was so upset and depressed last night and this morning (and most of today really) that I am just going to have to keep myself out of those situations. If I have to make up an excuse so that I don't feel silly, I will. I hate lying, and I hate having to cancel these things, but I know that I value my sanity and my happiness more.

I may change my mind in a few weeks, but I just need to give it a break for a while. The friends that know about it are being really great and supportive (that's why I choose them, I suppose!) but I don't think they really understand how insanely hard it is.

Thanks so much guys. You're life-savers. x:Angel_anim:
 
You can vent to me anytime you like!! Just know I will return the favour sooner or later!!
If you think by skipping social dos that revolve around food will relieve some of the stress during your journey that's you choice.
But in regards to the Indian night why don't you make a curry that complies to your cohens diet sure you wont get to eat everyone elses yummy stuff but you still get to socialise with your friends!
But I know where you are coming from and it sometimes it seems it would be easier just to put life on hold and keep to yourself.But me I spend so much time in my house as it is I use whatever excuse I can to get out!!

But you want to rant, Im here for ya!!
 
hehe, you are asking for it, sexee! never tell a pms-ing, dieting girl to 'feel free to rant' haha. :) About the Indian night, it isn't for a few weeks so I'll see how I'm feeling. It's just that I really pride myself on making awesome curries from scratch, and nothing on the Cohen's plan really seems to cut it. Curry is my favourite food, so I don't know if it's a good idea...

I was bad. And I feel really stupid about it because I managed to make it through all those freaking dinner parties without a deviation. I ate a big ANZAC biscuit, and what's worse is I ate it right before I went to bed last night. :svengo:That is going to be the biggest challenge with me, I think. I'm always a strong person and a healthy eater when I am around other people, but I have always been a sneaky eater. Hiding food, eating in the car, etc. Then the only person I have to defend my actions to is myself. Which, before now, has never been too hard.

I need to keep reminding myself that I'm not powerless to food and that I am making a decision. If I go get an anzac, then I make that decision to not lose any weight the next day...

SO SILLY! I only have 0.2kg to lose until I hit my second mini-goal, and I could have done it!!! Oh well, maybe I'll be there tomorrow. I've decided that my 15kg reward will be a sexy new bra. :drool5:I really need one and seeing as I'm feeling so much more attractive, it might as well be a good one!

xx
 
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hehe, you are asking for it, sexee! never tell a pms-ing, dieting girl to 'feel free to rant' haha. :) About the Indian night, it isn't for a few weeks so I'll see how I'm feeling. It's just that I really pride myself on making awesome curries from scratch, and nothing on the Cohen's plan really seems to cut it. Curry is my favourite food, so I don't know if it's a good idea...
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LMAO!! You crack me up!!
Curries are my fav too, right up there with pastas, risottos all the things we cant have!!
I have a great recipe for this "Twice cooked duck curry" Its is awesome though I tend to cook it with chicken as duck is hard to come by up here!
Sweety, sorry to hear about the cookie incident!! I know what you mean about been a sneaky eater that sounds like me. I don't know about you but I find at that TOM I tend to start craving sweets.What I do is I buy the 31 piece pack of Extra sugarfree gum strawberry flavour and whenever I feel like something sweet I just pop a couple of pieces in my gob and that helps me get passed that sweet craving!
So sweety,suck it up and keep going!! :p
 
What a handy hint that is!!! I had kind of forgotten all about the chewing gum thing - that is probably going to be a bit help. Yeah, I definitely agree with the craving sweet things TOM thing... I also crave fat, salt, etc. :reddevil: all the evil things! Very strange...

Thanks for your condolences regarding the biscuit. haha. I still am proud of myself for being so strong, but I HATE that I had a moment of weakness! D'oh! I suppose we can't be faultless and perfect though... I'm trying my best. And at least I didn't go completely off the rails and think that since I'd had a little bit, I might as well go completely mental... Which is kind of what I would usually do.

Thanks, hon. x :waving: (I love the little waving man)

(p.s. send me the recipe! though... if it's really bad and really yummy, maybe wait a while...)
 
HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL YEAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Goal 1: Lose 10% of my body weight *DONE! Jan 7*
Goal 2: Lose 15kg by the time work returns (Feb 2) *DONE Jan 22*

:hurray:

Wow - so exciting!!! It's all happening, kids ;)
Because I hit that goal earlier than I expected, I've changed a my future goals. Next goal is a big one!!! When I get there, there'll be a huge soda-water party!

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(important to note that I originally wrote 'if I get there' and changed it to 'when I get there'. So empowering. I love Cohens!)

Future Goals:

Goal 3: Lose 20.3kg (BMI 25) by my birthday (Feb 24, 84.8kg)

Goal 4: Lose 23kg by anniversary (March 22, 82.1kg)

Goal 5: Be in the 70s by trip to Melbourne (April 10, 79.9kg = 25.2kg down)

Goal 6: GOAL WEIGHT by trip to Adelaide (July 2, 74.0kg)

Goal 7: Remain within 2kg of goal weight for Dunc's birthday (August 17)
 
Awesome job, chicky babe!! You have set up some good goals there. I love that you have changed you attitude.....when I reach this......!!!!Wicked, keep it up and we will be sexy and healthier before you know it!!
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I just got home from netball and I did really well! It's been the first week since I started Cohen's that I haven't been completely and utterly exhausted. Last week I was so close to vomiting on the way home... This week I made it through and did really well. Yay! It's so nice to see progress.

I did have a little boo-boo though... I had an extra half a piece of fruit because I forgot that I had my first piece with yoghurt for breakfast. Just a half an orange before I jumped on the netball court, and then I realised that I had overdosed on fruit! OOPS! Perhaps that's why I wasn't completely exhausted at netty. hmm... interesting... ;)

WANNABSEXEE (or should I say Definitely-Well-and-Truly-on-her-way-to-Being-Sexee!)you are such a great support. Thanks for continuing to read and respond to my drivel! I'd be stuck without you :)
 
Seven weeks down

I've lost 0.4kg today, which takes my weight to 89.7. Ah - it is so brilliant to be in the eighties!

So this morning was my 7-week measurement:

Arm : 30cm (no change)
Bust: 92cm (+1... but it's that time of the month...)
Waist: 74cm (-3)
Hips: 113 (-3)
Thigh: 65 (-1)

That brings my total loss to 53cm. WOOP!
 
I have no idea what Cohen's is (never heard about it until I saw this website) but will look it up in a mo. It seems to be working well for you, though! I just eat less of everything, but still eat the same family meals as before.

Can I just ask you: how come you have not been running yet??? I used to run regularly and did a half marathon when my BMI was the same as yours is now.... Or is there another reason why you haven't started??? sorry, just curious!

Keep going, you are doing great!
 
Sorry, I am still trying to get the hang of this forum - I missed the second page!

I agree with you on the vetoing dinner parties. Why is it that socialising has to revolve around food? I always meet friends for coffe (cake temptation) or drinks, but why can we not meet for a walk in the park/run/gym session instead??? You have to convert your friends! :)
 
decisionmaker said:
I've lost 0.4kg today, which takes my weight to 89.7. Ah - it is so brilliant to be in the eighties!

So this morning was my 7-week measurement:

Arm : 30cm (no change)
Bust: 92cm (+1... but it's that time of the month...)
Waist: 74cm (-3)
Hips: 113 (-3)
Thigh: 65 (-1)

That brings my total loss to 53cm. WOOP!
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Awesome work, Joh!! 53cm loss, wow, thats over half a metre loss, bye bye. SWEET!
I cant wait till I see the 8 at the front on my scales!! Lets do this!!
 
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