BrunetteGenie
New member
]Hi everyone, Im new to this as well. I have also started the Cohen Lifestyle challenge as I call it, and I thought I would put some of my journey down for others to read. Im into my 18th day on the program an am doing really well I havent deviated once, which im really proud of. Im ashamed to say I weighed 117kgs and in the first 2 weeks I lost 8 Kgs and 18cms which I am wrapped about. Im 42 going on 43 and am 5 7" tall and my ideal weight is 61-64kgs.
..gee really not sure about that..Ive never weighed that much except when I was in primary school. Ive always been a large child, not huge, but in High School the weight just piled on. Since High school Ive tried numerous diets including weight watchers, atkins, and some of the meal replacement programs also, but with limited success.
A bit about me I am a single mum of 6 years now, after a 12.5 year marriage that broke down. I have 3 growing kids and I work fulltime and am studying part time, so I dont have a lot of time to myself. I live in little tassie and it would be great to hook up with some fellow taswegians who are also on the journey to enlightenment. By the way my kids are being very supportive while Im doing this. And I will do it, after handing over that kind of money, which i scrimped from all my accounts to pay for this, Im not going to let it go without a fight.
Im tired of being single and after many attempts at forming relationships have come to the conclustion that the only way that a male will think Im anything other than NICE (ohh god I hate that word) is to lose weight. Ive had 2 relationships since my divorce, the first guy was an alcoholic who kept trying to tell me he liked me the way I was but kept hounding me to lose weight...I soon got rid of him. I dont need anyone to tell me I need to lose weight, but its not as simple and easy as people think. The 2nd guy was pretty much the same but not alcholic, why cant they accept me for the person I am not what I look like....males can be so shallow.
The exercise part for me has always been the hardest part, I think that is what has drawn me to cohens in particular, because I had a young family and worked late I couldnt leave them at home alone while I went for a walk or bike ride early in the morning. I also hate gyms, the atmosphere is not me.
Also I have read the posts on here and done some research before I joined the program and found this site purely by accident. I thoroughly enjoy reading about everyones experiences and their journey through Cohens.
I was initially woried about what foods I would be limited too, it is restrictive, but Im enjoying playing around and mixing foods and combinations. Although I do have the odd cravings for a piece of carrot cake or chocolate they arent that bad that i have caved in and had any and that I am extremely pround of.
Another thing that drew me to cohens was the medically based program and the fact that the lose skin after weight loss shrinks also. I would not be able to afford surgery to remove all my lose skin once I get to my goal weight. Not so keen on all the water, but hey Im managing to down 2-3 litres every day without too many trips to the little girls room.
I do have one question for every one though....over the last 2 weeks my skin has become incredibly itchy, does anyone else have this problem?
anyway enough about me, I will endeavour to get back every few days to add my thoughts and hopefully get myself one of those little ticker do hickeys to put at the end of my page.
so chow for now
Genie
..gee really not sure about that..Ive never weighed that much except when I was in primary school. Ive always been a large child, not huge, but in High School the weight just piled on. Since High school Ive tried numerous diets including weight watchers, atkins, and some of the meal replacement programs also, but with limited success. A bit about me I am a single mum of 6 years now, after a 12.5 year marriage that broke down. I have 3 growing kids and I work fulltime and am studying part time, so I dont have a lot of time to myself. I live in little tassie and it would be great to hook up with some fellow taswegians who are also on the journey to enlightenment. By the way my kids are being very supportive while Im doing this. And I will do it, after handing over that kind of money, which i scrimped from all my accounts to pay for this, Im not going to let it go without a fight.
Im tired of being single and after many attempts at forming relationships have come to the conclustion that the only way that a male will think Im anything other than NICE (ohh god I hate that word) is to lose weight. Ive had 2 relationships since my divorce, the first guy was an alcoholic who kept trying to tell me he liked me the way I was but kept hounding me to lose weight...I soon got rid of him. I dont need anyone to tell me I need to lose weight, but its not as simple and easy as people think. The 2nd guy was pretty much the same but not alcholic, why cant they accept me for the person I am not what I look like....males can be so shallow.
The exercise part for me has always been the hardest part, I think that is what has drawn me to cohens in particular, because I had a young family and worked late I couldnt leave them at home alone while I went for a walk or bike ride early in the morning. I also hate gyms, the atmosphere is not me.
Also I have read the posts on here and done some research before I joined the program and found this site purely by accident. I thoroughly enjoy reading about everyones experiences and their journey through Cohens.
I was initially woried about what foods I would be limited too, it is restrictive, but Im enjoying playing around and mixing foods and combinations. Although I do have the odd cravings for a piece of carrot cake or chocolate they arent that bad that i have caved in and had any and that I am extremely pround of.
Another thing that drew me to cohens was the medically based program and the fact that the lose skin after weight loss shrinks also. I would not be able to afford surgery to remove all my lose skin once I get to my goal weight. Not so keen on all the water, but hey Im managing to down 2-3 litres every day without too many trips to the little girls room.
I do have one question for every one though....over the last 2 weeks my skin has become incredibly itchy, does anyone else have this problem?
anyway enough about me, I will endeavour to get back every few days to add my thoughts and hopefully get myself one of those little ticker do hickeys to put at the end of my page.
so chow for now
Genie
