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I had ricotta and mushrooms for breaky today...ran out of my usual sunday morning mozarella....i really hate ricotta...pre-cohen's i never really ventured much with ricotta...now i hate it...i should just stick to yogurt and mozarella..yesterday was really weird. i had yogurt for brekky. and then i wasn't hungry at all! usually 2 hours after yogurt, i'lll reach for crackers...but i didn't...had lunch of cabbage and chicken soup even though i wasn't hungry. By 4pm i still hadn't touched my crackers! i forced an allowance of saladas down at 4.30pm..went to church and then when we got home at 8.30pm, i wasn't hungry still...so forced myself to have dinner and one more allowance of crackers...i didnt have the last allowance...and for fruit, i had half my allowance after church at a food court while my hubby was having his dinner..hmm..

yesterday i went marketing and bought loads of stuff and forgot about me! so i've got to head to the market as soon as my hubby gets back from his morning jog. he's inspired by my inches off hence he's doing it the good old way: EXERCISE! As much as i had wanted to get back on my gym routine before cohens', i couldn't coz of my knees...the extra weight on my poor knees!
today i've got tonnes to do...got to get the guest room sorted for my parents' stay...oh my hubby is back...shall pop in later.
 
Hi Geo, It sounds like your body is adjusting to the smaller portions already. It will love you just as you should love it (your body that is :D) xo Cate
 
hey cate! I love how my body feels now...i don't feel stuffed and no guilty feelings after a massive binge..i like how i sit at a food court and have my fruits while watching people stuff their faces into a coconut gravy laksa...again i didn't finish my cracker and fruit allowance yesterday..i hope that isn't slowing down my metabolism...but i am drinking loads of water...breakfast today was yogurt...nice to have some sanity back...i totally hated that ricotta cheese yesterday...lunch was beef and mushrooms just five minutes ago. i love that combination! i have my folks over today...tonight they are having fried fish..i'm gonna have a wholesome nourishing bowl of chicken soup. be back later...it's pouring elephants here!
 
Geo- When you get in the Cohen's zone it's like flipping a switch! Yay to not eating junk food. Yay to eating healthily! Yay to becoming slim. You are going to love it! xoxo Cate
 
Thanks sweet cate! you must be busy packing to visit your mum. Have a good trip, dear.
So i have a little bit of a problem today...a challenge..A BIG ONE.
As Mother's Day is approaching, i came up with this wonderful idea of inviting both my mum and my MIL (SIL since she lives with them) to our place for a Mother's Day lunch. I didn't want to eat out as we all know how challenging it is to order something healthy with strict instructions which chefs don't take too seriously. Plus restuarants are always crowded on Mother's Day...so here's how my challenge began..
we invited my SIL AND MIL on sunday 9th may. 9th May happens to be my niece's 3rd bithday and my hubby and I did factor that in to our party. We planned to get a cake and i planned to make her my special chicken soup which she loves. My challenging SIL wants to order pizza and KFC coz it's a her daughter's bday...I'm cooking lunch for everyone by the way. A decent 5 course meal (cohen version for myself of course)...silly SIL wants to celebrate her daughter's bday at my place after Mother's Day lunch with KFC and Pizza. The problem is she is a forceful person who doesn't take no for an answer easily. when i refuse her junk, she's going to blow up the issue...she did that once when i was on a NO- CARB diet....God help me...my dear friends, pray for me. See, my issue isn't about food. I can resist junk. I can't put junk into my body now..i love how i am feeling...lighter. Silly SIL defeats my purpose of wanting to disguise my programme and eat in :(
 
Oh Geo. That is awful! I would tell your SIL that you are offended that she wishes to brink junk food to your home. That is truly offensive! It's time you stood up to this bully, my sweet friend. You don't have to say anything about being on Cohen's. That is irrelevant. Does she not care at all what you think or how this may make you feel? I won't even start on the cruelty to children with KFC etc! LOL. I do think that it is setting such a bad example to kids to call junk food a treat. It's poison. I should not be so shocked as I have had many experiences of in-laws not seeming to care about my feelings. Stand up for yourself Geo. Be strong.
I think you are doing well on Cohen's & have a great attitude & deserve to succeed. I think it's time that you stood up to those who seem to be getting in your way. You don't have to be rude but I think it's time to be strong & firm. I would be honoured & grateful if you were putting on a lunch for me & my family. That is so thoughtful Geo. You are very kind & sweet. Don't let her bully you, xoxo Cate
 
I've figured a way out of that KFC mess with the SSIL. Looking on the brightest side possible, SSIL's rude act of wanting to order in unhealthy food just gave me license to bring in my healthy food over to her place when we visit my PILs. you see, each time we visit my PIL over the weekend, i've been very mindful of their feelings or rather i don't want to offend them by bringing in my own food. Usually, i'll have my fruit allowance at their place. BUT NOW, since my SSIL thinks it's absolutely fine to order in food at someone else's party/place, she just gave me permission to do the same. Don't mean to sound tit for tat but that's the brightest side possible.
I switched brands of yogurt for a simple reason, the grocer ran out of my usual brand. This brand is supposed to be 99% fat free and it tastes really weird..my usual brand is non-fat yogurt...for some strange reason that tasted better...smoother, no curdling..this brand is just weird...man i have a week of that to endure...i'll probably add in my fruit allowance to make that tasty. Lunch is grilled chilli chicken with cucumber and tomatoes...
 
I so had to share this with everyone. There's this annoying lab assistant in my office. Just so happens that my lunch coincides with her lunch hour and she's been observing me bringing my own meals instead of buying at the canteen. Just a while ago she saw me warming up my lunch and she asked how i survived eating so little. I told her that's all i needed. Then she commented that even though i've been eating so little, I have been putting on weight! can you beat that???? hmmm
 
God, she's a b***h I have to say. How rude! It's funny how people need to impress their own opinions onto you especially when it's about choice of food. Everybody has their own opinions of 'what's right'. Yet what they don't notice that even though we may be eating what seems to be a small portion to them - it's 100% packed with healthy nutrients! Compared to having a big meal but most of it is junk or fried, etc.???

I think she's just jealous ;)
 
dietgrrl, she is definitely jealous...she came back to me this morning and told me she has lost 3kgs! i wished her well and just walked off...my colleague told me i should have returned that comment with sarcasm but i don't want to cheapen myself...seemingly not many people in the office like her...so i guess she's a bonafide you know what. :p
cohen wise, last saturday i marinated the chicken with some ginger powder, salt and chilli powder...i must say it is delicious...just thought i'd share...my usual marinate is rosemary, salt and pepper. here's what i had yesterday

Breakfast: yogurt
Mid morning snack: 1 serving of saladas with plain tea
Lunch: Grilled chicken with cucumber and tomato
Mid afternoon snack: An apple
Dinner: Chicken soup with cabbage and tomato
After dinner snack : 1/2 orange (i wasn't hungry actually, just wanted to force it down and 1/2 was all i could manage)
Water: 3 litres

I just could not finish the other 2 servings of saladas and 1/2 portion of fruit. Wondering if it's ok not to finish them...
 
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Geo, I think it's important to finish your portions even if you feel full. It may be a different thing on refeed (and your consultant would give you guidelines on how to decrease your portions) but for now, see your meals like your 'medicine'. It's been prescribed as such, and your expected weight loss is based on what you should be eating and your blood test results, etc. Undereating can slow down your weight loss if your body thinks it's starving.

Perhaps have your salada squares and fruit with yoghurt during breakfast?? I love yoghurt with fresh fruit!!!
 
bad start to a weekend...i had just woken up and was lying in bed when the hubby had nothing nice to say to begin the morning...we have an invitation to a wedding coming up and he said something really retarded (my apologies to the people who in reality suffer from the condition). just got me so mad coz he was clearly not using his brains when he said what he said..plus what he had "copied" what he said from a "mentally challenged" cousin of mine (he knows how i feel abt this cousin). i'm beginning to think my husband is autistic....no joke. doesn't seem to understand that there's a time for everything. Last evening we went over to my mum place's to pass them their dinner. We were there around 7pm. I was supposed to have my dinner from 8pm. at 7.45pm i told him i wanted to get home to prepare my dinner and he told me to wait. he was busy fixing the cable tv for my parents. i called the cable company and they arranged for a man to come have a look at the situation today and he still would not move! my parents told him it was alright yet he wouldnt move....we ended up leaving my parent's place at 9.30pm! and i was damn hungry by then! by the time i had dinner, it was 10.30pm...this morning he had to say that. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! just soooo annoying! he's in our bedroom now while i got up and got to the study room. now's gonna start the BS about me managing my temper. But why can't he see that i loose my temper only becoz he says the most silliest of things. i don't loose my temper with normal people! sometimes i feel we're better off divorced.
 
thanks dietgrrl.
well i explained my point to my hubby and after a couple of hours, he understood my point and that he shouldn't have said what he said. i hope he means it.

Yesterday
we went over to my PIL's. SSIL was there and she was just looking at me INTENSELY as i entered their house. MIL immediately commented that i had lost weight. and SSIL looked jealous! then she went on to say that she too was going on a diet after her daughter's birthday. I wished her well. :p
She then asked me what i was doing. told her very simply that i choose healthy food over junk food. And you know what? She thought that pizza was healthy!! she's 100% committed to junk food. She's celebrating her daughter's birthday at her place now instead of mine and she's ordering in pizza and KFC.
MIL was surprised to find out how much willpower i have. I told SSIL that she should go ahead and order whatever she wanted and asked her permission to have my homecooked meals at her place while everyone stuffs their faces into KFC and pizzas. Some reverse psychology there...LOL! She agreed but was adamant that pizza was healthy. told her politely I have my own beliefs. that shut her up. but she was too jealous to have any more conversations with me. she had offered me ice-cream, i turned it down. MIL offered me a whole load of malay cakes, turned those down and took out my saladas to munch on. MIL gave up offering me anything and SSIL commented that loosing too much weight was not good. Hello, i am 24kilos overweight! of course i have to loose those. just jealous.
today
i have lots of cleaning to do now since my folks have gone back to their place. the hubby doesn't seem to be moving his butt to help me...guess after this break, i'll have to slog.
breakfast was mushroom and tomato scrabbled eggs. gonna have steak and cucumber salad for lunch and for dinner, i'll have to figure that out. will be back later..
 
Giving Geo & dietgrrl rep this way,
for your recent comments,
as the forum won't let me!!!!!!!!
Go you two!!!!!!!!!!
Geo & dietgrrl ROCK!
 
Hey, Cate!! :)

Geo, haha your SSIL is soo (unintentionally) funny. Sounds like she is miserable with her life and tries to bring everybody else down.
 
the MIL popped in for a surprise visit yesterday. she gave us 2-hour notice. within those 2 hrs, i prepared my meals for this week, cooled them and put them in the freezer, hid the kitchen scale and cohen's programme booklet, vacuumed and mopped the house and showered again. LOL! she had gone to a market on saturday night and saw some huge indian mangoes and bought them for me....that's what she said. so she decided to come over to pass 3 mangoes to me....as luck would have it, because of my late breaky i had to have lunch at 3.15pm while she was here...she examined my lunch! haha...she wanted to see if she could cook whatever it is i'm eating for her daughter so that she too could loose weight. SSIL is probably around 100kilos. she's much bigger than me.
she went into my kitchen, opened my fridge to see if she could fish out any clues! LOL! i maintained that i choose healthy options.
Today i've got to go get some groceries. it's a holiday here. i managed to finish that aweful tub of yogurt last week. i'm gonna stick to my usual brand of yogurt this week. gonna get some veggies. so tata for now...
 
hooray! i bought my usual non-fat yogurt. along with that, i bought a head of cabbage...really wanted to get caulis...but thinking of the mess they make while cutting, i decided against it. also grabbed some green leafy vegetables, mandarins and apples.

MIL is still not over me loosing weight. she called around lunchtime to ask my hubby what i was having for lunch. LOL! i think i have unintentionally gotten into her radar...haha...i really can't tell her i'm on cohen's. she's gonna get worked up about me spending that amount of money. i know it's my money but i don't want to listen to her whine.
my first 4 week weigh-in is coming by soon and i'm a little worried. it's gonna be near aunt flo's visit. i'm a little worried about the water retention showing up on the scales. plus i would most probably have to weigh-in in the evening because of work...not that good at all..
 
Geo- You are so funny! Why are you worried about your 4 week weigh-in? No-one will get out a whip or smack you if you are retaining some fluid. You are doing so well & are entertaining me in the process. I love reading about your crazy (don't take offence) out-laws/in-laws. Life is pretty funny really & I think you are going to succeed against all odds. Sending you a big hug, along with a big grin, xo :D Cate
 
haha..no offence taken cate. i'm "reporting" them as they are...my ever so out-laws never fail to amuse people...my mum always says it's a wonder that my hubby is not like them...LOL! anyways, came back to update my diary on my thoughts about weighing-in. Well after much thinking, i decided not to worry about it. I know that i've lost weight (now that it's evident and people are noticing it). i'm sure dr. cohen would have seen hundreds of cases of fluid retention. so i'm clear about that. I took out a dress that my mum had tailored for me just before i got married. and guess what? it's fitting tightly now. i'm happy coz i wasn't even able to stuff myself into that dress 6 months after i got married. yooohoo! so i'm giving myself another 2 weeks before i wear that to work. speaking about work. got to get some sleep now. i'm back to work tomorrow. not looking forward to it but i'm keeping my spirits high, thinking of how i'm gonna fit into that dress. oh, by the way, the blouse that my mum got me from australia, i can already fit into that! thanks everyone for the encouragement :p Goodnight!
 
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