Cohen's Lifestyle Geo's weightloss journey

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6pm Friday- Now that will be a nice end to your week Geo! I'm glad that you are feeling a little better & that you had booked in for a massage. Do what you can to nurture yourself until you are able to find a new position(or your current boss goes elsewhere.) I found myself making many changes as I was losing weight & you may too, xo Cate
 
I am so excited to get my plan tmr....if only 6pm tmr can come now....my Significant Other has successfully iritated me today....he wants me to begin my plan after Easter. Why? Coz his dad's birthday is around the corner and my sis in law, who is a fast-food junkie, wants to give us all a treat and order in pizzas!!! it'll be jus so much more easier to eat out at a restaurant...at least i'll be eating healthier....gee, i don't need the extra kilos just b4 i embark on my plan...now, i could invite them over and cook them a healthy meal but that would mean a catastrophe...my MIL and SIL don't quite have Visitor's ettiquette....they run through my kitchen and stand a hair's breadth away from me when I am in the kitchen....yucks! plus, they don't like the fact that I can cook better than them (my Significant Other let out Freudian slip once)...so they'll have negative comments about whatever that's from my kitchen, even if it's cooked by a Michelin star chef...i think i'm gonna roast a small chicken and bring it over and politely stay away from the pizzas....
 
geo said:
... plus, they don't like the fact that I can cook better than them (my Significant Other let out Freudian slip once)...
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Ouch! What a mistake that was! I don't think my MIL or one of my S'sIL would talk to me ever again if my LH had said that to them. Yesterday must have been the day for significant others to annoy us. When my husband drove me crazy I knew it was time to get some help from the chemist.
Don't let any of them stand in your way Geo! Explain to your SO how important this is to you & say that there will always be some occasion that involves food & that you need to do this now! Cheers, cate.
 
Hey cate, I can understand why MIL & SIL watch over me in the kitchen...my SO apologised to them after that slip....but i know that hurt them alot... it's hard for me being in between them. my SO can be so blunt at times. needs some social behaviourial or EQ counselling i guess..anyways, this is my deal with SO. I'm gonna make a healthy greek salad and some baked tandoori chicken breasts and take it to the party...it'll be like a potluck then...and I'd still be able to mingle with them over food but over my kinda food. I'm going to stick with my plan...tmr will be Day 1 on Cohen, come what may. Thanks for the support, cate.
Can't wait for 6pm...as usual my supervisor has given me last minute's notice to stay back for 2 meetings this afternoon...that didn't affect me coz I'm excited about 6pm.

geo
 
Sweets, I think when you read your plan you won't be eating pot luck. You'll take your own meal & eat that. It's such a precise thing. You'll get used to it but it will be a shock. I'm sure you're more than capable of doing it though, xo Cate
 
Good luck with your in-laws, Geo! I know you can resist temptation and stick to your Cohen meals.. ;)

mmmmm tandoori chicken...
 
thanks dietgrrl....i picked up my eating plan today!!! :) at the moment i'm visualising myself weighing the portions every night and packing food from home....i can live with this plan....i know i can do this and i want to do this myself and my hubby...i'm excited about reading the book....just glanced through it and i just had to pop in here and see how my friends are doing..
 
Welcome to Cohen's Geo & congratulations on taking your first big step toward the new slim & healthy you. Today is day one of the rest of your life & it's all good, xo Cate
 
DAY 1
Breaky of baked half a tomato and mozarella with dried rosemary...peppermint tea w/o sugar and milk...

Lunch (in half an hour's time) pan grilled fish & stir-fried spinach

My toe
I tripped and fell at the market this morning...i fell forward and my legs went into an odd position...the impact ripped 3/4 of the nail on the big toe.....OUUUUUUUCCCCCH! I won't even wish that upon my greatest enemy! i didn't realise what had happened until i got up and took a few steps....my gold sandals were stained with blood and my french manicured big toe....i was mortified...never had that happen to me b4...limped away from the crowd and called for my hubby...the wait at the hospital seemed like eternity...so many kids sick on a saturday morning?!
anyway, the doc said he could either rip out the entire nail :( or let nature take its course and let it heal and drop off on its own....i chose the latter as i was in excruciating pain....any more pain and I might have passed out...so he did a dressing on my toe and prescribed antibiotics...i am wondering if i should still be on the programme...the cohen clinic's closed for the weekend....but since there's nothing "chemical" about Cohen and its all about food being my medicine, i think i'll just stay on it....in any case, i'm fine except for my toe...no hunger pangs thanks ot the water...the doc said that i could have the antibiotics after food and crackers are fine....so that's what i did..had my medication after mid morning snack of saladas...i like saladas. tried them for the first time today...anyways, i'm gonna rest my toe and watch tv to take my mind off the pain...catch you folks later...have a beautiful weekend! muacks!
 
I'm so sorry about your toe Geo. Ouch! The antibiotics won't mess up the program so stick with it over the week-end. Hope it feels better very soon. Cheers, Cate
 
hey thanks cate & dietgrrl...
i just did the dressing for my toe and it hurt big time..i decided to bear with the pain and not take the painkillers...took the antibiotics though....i'm still on the programme....i had baked chicken with celery & mushrooms for dinner yesterday...just to check with you all, did any of you experience vomitting during the first few days? i'm having really bad stomach cramps and vomitted in the wee hours...i didn't throw up my dinner....it was like a greenish liquid....i've been combing through the threads here and i didn't find anything on anyone throwing up during the first couple of days on the program....the clinic's closed for the weekend and i can't get answers just as yet....i don't really have an appetite now but i ate anyway....had an egg and tomato for breaky....lunch's gonna be roast beef and asparagus...feeling really tired today....i guess i'll sleep to conserve that energy...be back later...
geo
 
Geo, best to check with your doctor. You're not pregnant are you? :D

Yea, of all my reading on this forum, and others - I've never heard of vomiting. Please do check with your doctor - be well!
 
Geo, You may be allergic to the anti-biotics. I have never heard of anyone vomiting on Cohen's either except for one who was pregnant :)o ).Take the painkillers please as it may be the pain making you sick. We all have different pain thresholds & often pain can cause nausea. Get as much sleep as you can as it's a great healer. Back to the Doc's please if the nausea continues, xo Cate
 
hi pple. things got reali bad yst. i collapsed in pain just before lunch and had to be rushed to the hospital in an ambulance...went for an MRI scan (if that's what it's called), ultrasound, liver function test...all in a day...had to be kept for observation overnight...my first hospital stay...anyways, this doc at the ward said that i am allergic to the antibiotics ...like cate had predicted...erythomicin...well it's more of side effects of the medication and the doc didn't warn me about it...i'm on hospitalisation leave for the next couple of days...catch u all later...
 
Oh Geo, You poor thing. Take care. I'm allergic to so many things that I'm used to thinking that way unfortunately. Hope you feel much better soon, xo Cate
 
Geo, hugs - TAKE CARE! Health first ya?

Did your doctor ask whether you were allergic to anything before he prescribed the antibiotics? That is one of my pet peeves - lousy doctors! Unfortunately I get them here and it scares me to get sick! When I got malaria, the doctor spent less than 5 mins with me and couldn't be bothered to talk to me re: medication. He ended up giving me 6 different types of pills, and one of them - the antibiotics, I ended up being allergic to (had a full body rash!).

Hope you feel better soon!
 
hey cate & dietgrrl,
dietgrrl, it must have been scary experience for you when u were down with malaria..i did tell the doctor that i'm allergic to aspirin...the only known allergy i had. this is the first time i've was prescibed erythomycin...just my luck... that greenish thing i vomitted was bile...what an experience. i'm off cohen for now as the hospital served me porridge for lunch & breaky..i was put on drips yesterday and had to go "nil by mouth" for dinner because they kept doing all those silly tests on me...the scariest was the MRI..I could feel the saline solution rushing through my body.,..i'm on a soft diet as my tonsils have swelled from all that vomitting...
 
Geo- You may be allergic to all the anti-inflammatories as well if you are allergic to Aspirin & Erythomicin so that's something to be aware of in the future. I don't think doctors are careful enough. It shouldn't be up to us to tell them what we should or shouldn't take but it seems almost every doctor I have ever seen needs to be reminded that I have Asthma, for example. Memories of "Should I take that with my asthma?" and the "Just keep an eye on it" & then the chest pains & the feeling of someone sitting on my chest crushing me & barely able to breathe....after only one tablet! Ahh.... to get a good doctor & for them to stay put in one place! Get well soon Geo, sending you a hug & a kiss & a bunch of scent-free dried Australian native flowers, xoxo Cate
 
hey everyone....didn't post in here for sometime as i was upset....my MIL made a comment about the toe accident...quite a mean one....and it really upset me....how am i gonna solve that? well, i'm gonna get on the programme and PROVE her....she actually said "fat people must take care and walk with caution." and my SIL is like double my size! i was screaming inside to tell her that i didn't choose to be fat....then again..i did subconsciously...anyways, my toe's almost healed...i trimmed the nail closely to the nail bed last night..finished my final dressing this morning...just have to walk with caution now and doc said to air it..i'm back to work on monday...anyways, i'm going out later to the supermarket to get some meat...my mum's accompanying me this time... glad to be back!
 
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