Goood Affterrrnooooon everyone!
i hope everyones having a pleasant and relaxed sunday arvo!
last night at work was a mixture of things...FIRSTLY there was a HUGE fight even my two bosses got involved to try and break it up it was that big!(that and the fact that the company we get our doormen/bouncers from seriously need to rethink their hiring strategies..our guys are not tough at all..i mean cmon SAFETY ppl!) so anyway after the trouble makers were kicked out they somehow found a vent leading to our air conditioners and let pepper spray in.... i dont think ive ever coughed and spluttered in my whole life, well after that we had to evacuate the whole club for about 30 minutes as it was dangerous to the health of our patrons (regarding asthma etc etc)
so anyway later on in the night i was on my break and i saw a bouncer friend that used to work at our club but his company had moved him on to another club, i ran up to him to say hello AND HE PICKED ME UP!!!! i was screaming for dear life going NOOOO NOOOOO YOUR GOING TO BREAK YOUR BACK OMG OMG and i was so embarrased because in the back of my mind i was thinking ' ohmygosh people are going to be thinking HOW THE HELL HAS HE MANAGED TO LIFT THAT LOAD!!!!' and after he let me go he goes to me ' jesus caroline dont stress you weigh like what 60 kilo u lightweight!!'
i could not believe i heard those words come out of his mouth.he must of been drunk!! i dont even remember the last time i was picked up...probably when i was a friggen baby and even then i was a heavy little thing!!
so that was my eventful saturday night!
Anyway moving onto today i got home at 6am (after work) and went straight to bed, only to wake up 2 and a half hours later to have my breakfast! oh i hope that wont affect my starting weight for refeed tomorrow but i was sooo hungry i actually woke up from my sleep because i needed breakfast! and then about an hour and a half later i had to have some fruit and crackers..im glad im starting my refeed tomorrow because i have been hungry all day
so good sign for caroline
bit nervous that refeed starts tomorrow... i cant believe only one more sleep to the start of a 17 day journey (fingers crossed the bread doesnt upset the balance and make me go back two days) and then after that...life...outside cohens...
oh gosh! its like i dont want to let go! haha
anyways im going to head off and make myself a nice green tea and make up a shopping list for tomorrow morning
Just popping in to say good luck with refeed tomorrow. You have done so well and achieved such an amazing result so far, I have no doubt that you will blitz refeed
WOW That would have been a bit scarey at work hey!! I would have freaked out LOL!!
Well done on commencing your refeed I hope it all goes well for you(actually I know it will ) you have done so well already!!
Annie, Di and Char - thanks for the encouragement yes i hope i blitz refeed too and not have to go back any days! As for you di i am going to give you a great bick kick up the tooshie because you were supposed to beat me to refeed!! Alls well that ends well though because you SERIOUSLY do not have long to go i know you can do it and you know you can do it so just DO IT!
well today was good! looking over my refeed it seems as though i have bits were ill have two or three days of the same thing and then something gets increased or 'tweaked' which seems so logical as i dont want to be suddenly piling all this meat or fruit or bread into my mouth and wondering why im heavier the next day!
so today i increased my lunch and dinner meals (im keeping my breakfast meals the same throughout refeed as cannot increase your yoghurt cheese or egg type allowance and i always have a yoghurt brekkie) but its so weird how even 35 grams more of protein / veges can make you fuller for longer!
i finished my dinner about 30 minutes ago and im pleasantly full! haha! strange to think the same meal just 35 grams 'lighter' left me wanting more but i guess its cos my body was giving me the 'hungry' signs so yeh!
soooo glad im doing this on my study break,even though my days are going to be spent researching and typing up 2 presentations due in the first week back and assignments (i have one due this thurs ) PLUS ill be studying for a mid term thats taking place the first week back grrr so at least i can do refeed at home in my pajamas rather then lugging around food at uni and feeling affects of the different foods im introducing!
So until tomorrow happy losing everyone (even me hopefully ha!)
xx
I'm so glad Day 1 went well hun. And you WILL blitz it, i'm sure. I'm sure it will be so much easier doing it at home instead of lugging it all to Uni. That would have been a pain in the butt, especially if something didn't agree with you.....lol.
Can't wait to here how you go and good luck with your assignments.
Yeah so today has been really frustrating in regards to the 'whole wheat' bread thing.
my program says im allowed white, brown or whole wheat bread. it doesnt say 'whole grain' or 'whole meal' like all the friggen normal breads are. Ive spoken to my consultant and she keeps saying 'whole wheat' means no grains no seeds.
okay so being anal i rang up bakers delight...
Me: " Hi errr i was wondering if you had whole wheat bread?"
Bakers delight girl: " You mean wholeMEAL or wholeGRAIN??"
Me: no i mean wholeWHEAT..
BDG: ' uhh..i think they are the same arent they?'
Me: "okay well what would u recommend?"
BDG: " The cape seed loaf is really popular"
Me: "Kay thanks for your help !"
so i get on the internet to look up cape seed loaf and its got all kinds of seeds and grains in it and even AROUND it....BUT MY CONSULTANT SAID NO SEEDS OR GRAINS!!!!
For f@*$*@ks sake, i mean seriouslyyyyyyy. Im just going to stick to white bread, get the Hi-Fibre Lo-Gi loaf, i even checked the ingredients...
WHEAT flour,WHEAT starch,WHEAT gluten etc etc....that should be enough friggen whole wheat for ya! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
although i do thank irene (isparkle50) she did try to help me best i could i must of been so annoying to her so if your reading this irene THANKYOU so much and APOLOGIES!!!
In regards to today ive been feeling really off and really bloated even though i had 'bowel movement' on sunday...the only thing i really did different was have apple with my yoghurt, then another apple with crackers 2 and a half hours later..maybe too much sugar/carbs to close together?? i DID have a plum this afternoon though (1 good fruit was introduced today) which was delisioso!! and i had the tiniest bowel movement which may mean ill have a bigger movement tomorrow and feel better..hope so!
other then that everythings been fine and dandy - cept for my scales which gave me three readings lol!! so i jotted all three down and will see what i weigh tomorrow morning
Caroline - have the consultants in your clinic all done the program???? Maybe you could get your consultant to ask around to find out what others have used. The bread thing would have me confused as well. Hope you find something you like.....woohoo....2 down, 15 to go!!!
thanks for your help sam , im feeling really depressed this morning as ive gained 400grams over the past two days and i havent even introduced bread yet. Now im scared that introducing bread today will lead to over a kilo gain tomorrow which means going backwards its really frustrating.
looking over past peoples refeeds they seemed to have gained weight the 2nd day of refeed but then had a loss the next day..
not me i gained 200 grams the first night then another 200 last night!
So i emailed my consultant cos i was really worried about me gaining MORE weight and going backwards into refeed and she sent me one back saying 'not to worry it will all drop off' ... so i felt a a little better...
then she added in the next paragraph 'but if you do gain a kilo or over you your body probably wasnt ready for that amount of food so you will have to go back two days..' ... so then i felt like shit
hahaha but then after lunch my mood perked up, i had an open chicken sandwich with fresh english spinach, red onion, tomato, mushroom and cucumber..and i didnt get bloated or feel sick woo hoo ! the funniest thing is...my bread had grains in it!! HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
in the email my consultant recommended that i get 'Helgas' bread so off to woolworths i trotted...when i went into the bread aisle (which seemed so foreign to me now ) i spotted the helgas bread and staring me in the face was a loaf called 'Farmhouse Wheat' OHHH this must be the wholeWHEAT she was talking about...it wasnt until i was at home eating my sandwich i took a good look at it and noticed the grains LOL!!!but hey i checked the package and its allllllll WHEAT..WHOLE WHEAT so as far as im concerned this is what ill be eating. and no bloating or sick feeling just proved it even more
i took two coloxyl today as well to get some bowel movement happening (as in the morning i felt that feeling you get in the pit of your tummy, you know how you can just 'feeeeeeel' that theres something there that needs to be shifted...!!!
well im off to finish this bloody essay ive been procrastinating to do tonight!
Hey guys this will be a bit of a short one as i may be going out tonight so i thought i better post now before i have tea to let you all know whats going on!
well this morning marks the day i am exactly 1 kilo up from my starting refeed weight i reang my clinic first thing and they said to continue with the normal refeeding plan BUT if tomorrow morning im OVER the kilo hump then i go back two days (so instead of eating fridays portions i eat wednesdays etc)
im not happy about this at all but i guess it had to happen to some of us and maybe this can also in return help the rest of you so i feel a teeny bit better knowing that.
Logically in my head though i am trying to prepare myself for going back two days as today i increased my food portions AGAIN so therefore more food = more weight...gee i hope not i hope my body goes whacko and i wake up tomorrow not gained!
did have SOME bowel movement again today but i dont think its enough to get me over (or should i say under ) my kilo hump lol
did incorporate spinach into all my meals though..
ANYWAY gotta run hope everyone had a better day then me!
hello everyone.
well i the good news is i havent had to go backwards...yet (that yet is always in the back of my mind)
Can anyone please help me try to understand this ....
this morning i work up and went to the toilet and then decided to jump on the scales straight after...well at first it gave me three readings of 1.1 kilos over (which i thought F*@$^*K have to go back two days)....i was thinking about this for a couple of minutes and then i thought id hop back on the scales just to make sure i was 1.1 over...well this time i got 5 consisted readings of 71.1 (which was 600 grams over the previous)... i decided not to weigh myself after the 5th time i saw 71.1 as i thought id jinx myself!
ANYWAY so i had breakfast (600 mls water, yoghurt with apple + teaspoon of psyllium) and decided to head back to bed for another nap....
waking up about 3 hours later i got up and thought id just weight myself to see how much id put on since breakkie...
i was back down to 70.5!!!! what the hey??
anyone have any thoughts??
I regards to refeed - today i was increasing my veggies at lunch and dinner and im still not finding the meals to be 'too much food'
hope i can continue moving ahead tomorrow as i get to have 2 bad fruits (which will be plums ) on top of my original 2 fruits allowance for the day, since tuesday ive been able to have 1 bad fruit on top of my original allowance mmmm i love fruit!!
Caroline, keep up the great work. It is a help reading your refeed posts. I"ve received my refeed and am having my consult on Thursday so you are giving me a great insight into what is ahead. I'm a couple of weeks behind you as i'm just under 3kgs from my top goal but have been getting the odd 'hunger' feeling so I'm feeling that maybe the top of 57 rather than the lower 54kg maybe where I'm needing to be. Thanks for the laughs and the info you've been providing, truly wonderful.
Lauren
Update on the weekend! word of warning....do not try to attempt refeed if you work weekend nights in a bar! - totally messes up the system
so considering i only got into bed at six this morning and had a few hours sleep my readings were all over the joint, doesnt worry me though because after id had breakfast and fruit + crackers i went back to bed for another couple of hours kip and when i weighed myself after i woke i was only 200 grams heavier then my refeed start weight (if you go over a kilo your refeed start weight u need to go back 2 days...i think ive mentioned this about a gazillion odd times dont you think? )
its still a bit troubling going to the bathroom so i have resorted to putting psyllium in my brekkie every morning, upping my water intake to about 3.5-4L and incorporating spinach in every meal, if worst comes to worst ill take another colloxyl tomorrow night or might try that herbal tea even though it might make me vomit up a lung.
Okay so if your prone to getting hideously jealous i would look away right about now...
i had ROCKMELON today...... mmmmmm
and tomorrow morning im having my yoghurt with apple + BANANNA with some PINEAPPLE for an afternoon snack.
also i dont have to wait 5 hours to eat my meals tomorrow....kinda scared about that one!! means im going to have to plan my day so i dont have breakfast too early otherwise dinner will be at like 3pm and ill be starving for the night haha
sorry for the smugness about the fruit. i seriously love a good fruit.i always have,it was just the other stuff (like doritos nachos flavour loaded with salsa and topped with melted cheese and sourcream and chives) that proceeded to run its course on my hips...
happy losing everyone! xx
ps: LAUREN thanks for checking in on my diary glad to know ive been of some help hehe, oooo so excited about your refeed! just make sure you dont wait too long so the odd hunger sign doesnt turn into 'GIMME GIMME GIMME NOWWWWWWWWWWWWW'
Boy public holidays really do suck sometimes!! especially when all your friends were out the night before having a 'sunday session' at the pub and your getting colourful messages of stories from what happened !!
damn i cant wait till i go out for drinks with girls again...wait a minute..why thats only 2 weeks away wow im a little bit nervous...im so used to cohens strict eat this at this time, wait this long until you eat this..etc
i wonder what itll be like...
today i didnt have to wait 5 hours between meals.My consultant said to make it easier i should just have my meals 4 hours apart.needless to say it was STRANGE.
almost like time flew by...i had lunch and then WHAM...where did 4 hours go? gotta have dinner!
i also got to have 3 pieces of bread today, but thought mmmm bread overload, so i opted for 2 pieces at lunch..then the remaining 3 crackers later in the evening.
Also i was mixing proteins today so i had half a tuna sandwich, and half a chicken sandwich! AND my veges increased AGAIN...180 grams for lunch...180grams for tea...the strange thing is after these meals...i wasnt 'stuffed'...i didnt feel 'boy i am FULL'....but it was a HELL of a lot of food compared to my previous meals!
as i look over this weeks menu every day is increasing food and adding more! surely i will PUT on weight...surely!! its so so so much food!
gosh i hope i dont have a gain tomorrow.
i also have been itching to get back to 'curves' (my previous gym)...in the morning i find that i am so energetic i just wanna pump pump pump! hehe but i know that will have to wait another 9 days ...wait...only 9 more days of refeed??..
Glad to hear you have settled into refeed ands worked out the bread stuff.
Yes the portions are large....I found it hard fitting in all this food.
What do you feel about the mixing of protein? It was my least favourite part of plan and oh so fiddly.
Anyway keep up the eating and have a great day.
Oh and by the way thanks for the birthday greeting last week.
Today wasnt so bad, increased to veges again so i was having 200g at lunch and tea...
am finding i need to go vege shopping tomorrow otherwise ill be like mother hubboard with nothing in her cupboard!!
Sam - Mixing proteins is a bit fiddly, but i find that if i just stick with mixing one meal and then just increasing the other with same protein is much easier! (consultant told me to do it that way)
tomorrow though i am mixing new protein with old protein...going to have some salmon sashimi for lunch to accompany my chicken sandwich...should be interesting!!!
Also going to introduce pears tomorrow...now when i first started cohens once at christmas i accidently ate some pear from the fruit platter (it looked like apple godamnit!!) and it didnt sit too well in my stomach - got pretty yukky pains....so i wonder what will happen tomorrow when i have it with my brekkie...ive had a bananna and they are absolutely fine - dont leave me bloated etc, maybe the fact that im mixing it with my yoghurt with reduce the insulin levels... we will have to see!!
tomorrow i have a full on day, studying in the morning, food shopping, running errands , then a concert in the afternoon which will run from 4 - 8pm GAH! how the hell am i going to be able to incorporate my meals into them i have no idea...looks like lunch - dinner will be more then a 4 hour wait but i suppose that happens in life anyway so it will just be another test to see how cohens have adapted my body to different waiting /eating times.
Annie - Yes i know! 69.9, i was only on the scales twice before i decided not to hop on again in case they change (they are pretty shifty scales)! but the thing is, my scales at home are heavier then the clinic ones...so im really excited to see what numbers will pop up at the clinic when i go in for my final weigh in !!!
Warm wishes and big hugs to everyone and HAPPY LOSING!xx
