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Hi Annie! Thanks so much for your Congrats! I feel pretty amazing!!!! I just cant believe that I have reached this point…and NOTHING is going to stop me from finishing! Well… actually my holidays are gonna stop me from finishing in one hit… (I will do refeed before I go… but am pretty sure I will be about 5-7kgs out from my goal) but when I get back I will be getting down to my goal weight!

YOU CAN DO THIS!!! IF I CAN… SO CAN YOU! Seriously… I don’t know how to make that switch turn on for you?! I just know that I made a decision early on that I was the only one that could make the CHOICE NOT to put anything in my mouth that was not allowed on the program NO MATTER what the reason… and for the most part I haven’t. I made a choice to have some chocolate with some long lost friends when we went to a chocolate factory very early on, and this was about relationship, rather than emotion… but I found the cravings for it pretty full on afterwards… so that was it! I ended up throwing out the bag because I wanted to keep eating it. I still have 2 bags of choc in the freezer for when I am finished but they don’t even call to me anymore… because of that decision… I go to parties and stuff now and there is heaps of food… which looks divine but I am not going to lose it this close to the end!

Is part of it you need to “clean” your house again? Like get rid of everything that could lead you astray? Spend some time preparing meals for the next few days … that way you wont want to see food wasted… you will Have to eat what you have already prepared. Could you keep a food journal and write 100% at the top of it as your goal and then every time you go to write in it you are reminded of your goal? Could you put up some motivational posters around the house to remind you of what you have achieved, where you have come from and what you want to achieve? I have a photo of me at my heaviest as my desktop on my computer and it sure is confronting… but it is a great reminder!

You are so close mate! You can do this! Don’t let anything or anyone get in your way… (including yourself! ) = )

Anyway… I wish there was something I could do to help!

Blessya
Kannadew
 
Hi Annie

I so hear where you are coming from, I have struggled the same as you. I just LOVE FOOD. Unlike smoking and drinking you can just go cold turkey, but with food you need it too survive and there are so many temptation around all the time.

You can do it. I agree with things that Kannadew has suggested, anything to help get you motivated again. Maybe write down what your eating now and the amounts and maybe seeing it in writing might help you stop because it tend too look so much worse when it is on paper and very confronting.

I hope that you can get on track and I wish I could help, but I sure know where your coming from, but at the end of the day as we all know the choice is our to make and our alone.

I wish you all the luck and will be here to help motivate you if you want as I know how much support and encouragement I need to help with this ongoing problem I have with food.
 
Annie, As your friend I have a few things to say to you-
You are gorgeous! You will be even more gorgeous when you are slim. You are obviously intelligent & strong & are such a nice person. You know what you have to do. Only you can do it!! You know you can. I know you can, xoxo Cate.
 
D-Day tomorrow

Hi All,

Cate, K and Sal thanks so much for your lovely & encouraging words, you guys rock!

Well tomorrow is 2nd Feb and it was a year ago that I first started this program at 108 kilos, tomorrow will be take# 101 ...not really but it feels like that many times I have tried to get back on the wagon. This time I am committed, I am prepared and I am pumped!! Pumped because I caught my reflection in a store window and OMG - my pants looked tight, it really is starting to show that I have put on 7 kilos....argggggg...there is no way I am putting it all back on..no way !! I think I mentioned in Sam's diary that I would rather quit work than face everybody at work after I have lost all this weight...sad I know but I really would feel that humiliated.

The way I have figured it is that as of next thursday I am on holidays and not due back to work till the 28th Feb so I am hoping that I would have lost what I put on in the last few months and no-one at work would really notice...that thought keeps me motivated so I AM PUMPED !!

I have all 3 meals prepared for tomm but I will admit that I will be doing a 'Sam' and have my last supper tonight and I am also having Indian..Doh !!

Will pop back in on weekend to catch up with everyone's diaries and update my ticker .

Till next time
TTFN
Annie Lusion
 
one more thing....

......I know it's naughty that I am having something like Indian the day before I re-start ...very very naughty!! I also want to mention that i will not be using the word 'naughty' ever again when I post in here and why you ask? well it's because I am not going to be naughty again !!

Have a great weekend

Annie Lusion
 
Hi Annie, I feel like being naughty. I would like to go out for Indian with you. Have some for me!! Aaarggghhhh! xo Cate (Had a bad day at the orifice-whoops "office")
 
Hi Annie

I too was very naughty right up until I started my program, but now I am on it I feel proud of myself I have stuck to it for 1 week now and lost 4.6kg whoo hoo!!

I hope you enjoyed your indian, have a lovely weekend and good luck with starting, I hope the detoxing is not too bad.
 
CohenDate: Week 1 Day 1
Today's Weight: 87 kilos
Breakfast: Omellete with vegies, 2 crackers
Lunch: Tuna Salad, 2 crackers
Dinner: Beef Rissoles with salad, 1 cracker
Snacks: Nectarine and kiwi
Fluids: 3.5 litres of water
Deviations: None
Weight loss: updating weekly

Had a great first day, felt really good. Just a slight headache this morning.
I just caught up with everybodies diaries, everyone is doing so well , with some great losses. I too am really liking the forum at the moment, wish we could all meet up for a chat one day..wouldnt that be cool?

I will be off to the supermarket soon, I do my weekly shop on sunday mornings, buy the paper a coffee and come home and spend Sunday mornings reading the paper(love my Sunday mornings) I am off to the Hillary Duff concert this evening..yikes!! I am taking my 10 and 8 year old nieces.
I am only working Mon-Wed this week and then I am on holidays...yay! My mother in law arrives on Monday 11th and then soon a after that we are off to Queensland..can't wait!

Hope everyone has a great week, I will try and update my diary every few days and I will update my ticker weekly.

Till next time
TTFN
Annie Lusion
 
YAAAYY for You Annie! I am so glad that you have started yourself back up again… and made it official with weigh-ins and a reporting format etc!! Excellent!

I look forward to following your progress!! You will be at the end in NO time!

Blessya
Kannadew
 
CohenDate: Week 1 Day 2
Today's Weight: 86.1 kilos
Breakfast: Ricotta cheese on crackers with mushroom, zucchini and tomato
Lunch: Yoghurt, 2 crackers
Dinner: Beef stirfry
Snacks: Nectarine
Fluids: 3.5 litres of water, 1 coffee
Deviations: None
Weight loss: .9

Day two has been really good so far, had my meal 2 for breakfast and meal 1 for lunch, for the first time ever I had yoghurt, I bought the Black Swan no fat Greek yoghurt, it was delicious, I was quite surprised at how full it has kept me.

Thanks for popping in K, you are doing so well, 42.2 is an amazing loss, are we going to see any before and after pics when you finish?

Better head off to prepare dinner (beef stirfry) and then get ready for the big concert, just found out that Rickee Lee is the support act ...yippy..hmmmm??

Till next time TTFN
Annie Lusion
 
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Annie so glad you made it back on the wagon and it looks like you mean business.
I will be checking in here regularly now.

Take care.

[/COLOR]Sam:)

How was the concert?
 
CohenDate: Week 1 Day 3
Today's Weight: 85.7 kilos
Breakfast: Yoghurt, 2 crackers
Lunch: Tuna salad, 2 crackers
Dinner: Chicken strips on salad.
Snacks: Nectarine, honeydew
Fluids: 3+ litres of water, 1 coffee
Deviations: None
Weight loss: 1.3

Day 3 over..yay!
It was a little tough at work today, eating at work is definetely one of my weakness, there is so much food around always! But I was good and wasnt really that tempted, gee that yoghurt keeps me full..I love it!!

Aunt Flo's in town at the moment....yukkkkk, she always makes me feel very bloated and ughhhhhh. I still have a slight headache, but other than that feel pretty good.

Thanks Sam, concert was ok, I enjoyed watching my nieces enjoy it! We had great seats on the side of stage but first row, she was very close to us, my nieces had made signs which she actually acknowledged!

2 more days before my holidays start...yipeeeee. I am very excited and can't wait (can you tell?) Last year was a tough year work wise and I am a little over it so this holiday has come at a perfect time!!

ok must run, need to make start on cleanng house (MIL is due in a week..doh)

Happy Cohen's days
Till next time....
TTFN
Annie Lusion
 
Hi Annie,

Congrats on your first 3 days, and how amazing! Congrats on the weight loss! :party:

You must enjoy your holiday.
 
Week 1 over...yay!!

Hi All,

Wow ..what a week!!! Good news is that I stuck to Cohen 100%... I did it ...yay!!

Loss for the week was 2.4 kilos and a total of 19 cm's. My clothes feel so much better and I feel on top of the world.

I was very adventurous with my dinners this week and made a yummy chicken curry one night and prawns with garlic, chili and lemon another night.. yummmyyyyyyy. Happy to post recipes if anyone is interested.

Well I am officially on holidays and it feels sooooooooo good. Had a very busy week at work writing up my staff's reports (due 29th Feb) and also with handover with my replacement while I am on leave. So happy I don't have to deal with work for another 3 weeks...yay!

Esthee, thanks for popping in, you are doing so great !

It has been very quiet in here, where is everybody else?

Have a very busy weekend as still cleaning for when MIL arrives, need to prepare some dinners and iron enough shirts for hubby while I am away.

Have a great weekend all, I will try and pop in before I leave for Qld.


TTFN
Annie Lusion
 
Hi Annie

You have it made it through the hardest part "congrats".And a well done on losing 2.4kilos!!!!!!!.
I hope you and your mil have a fabulous holiday up here in Queensland a ndI hope you have a few good days of sunshine. We have had so many weeks of rain which we need desperatley so I can't complain...be warned the humidity is a killer though.

Well done again Annie.

Sam:)
 
YAAAY Annie! I'm so stoked for you! What a great result!

Personally I think the achievement of being 100% for a whole week in some ways has to mean more since this is what you have really been struggling with for a while now! You have given yourself a great psychological boost. YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN DO THIS!!!

Good on ya mate!

Blessya
Kannadew
 
Congrats Annie on such a good week and sticking to it 100% that is fantastic.

Enjoy your holidays in the sunshine state. I love going to to QLD we go a few times a year as my husbands family lives up there. We are going up this Oct for his Grandma's 80th B'day and then again for 4 wks at Xmas. We spend Xmas up there every second year with his family and every other year here with mine.

Anyway good luck with next week...skinny thoughts to you.
 
Hi Annie!

I am so happy for you completing a full week at 100%. After completing the first week the next one feels so much more do able. (Spelling?) I think everyone was a bit busy last week, but I'm sure everyone is reading the forum and supporting everyone else. For me knowing everyone is there, reading, understanding and supporting is definitely one of the main reasons for me still going strong. I think it was in Cate's diary (excuse me, I'm actually in my pj's already heading to bed and not really awake enough to look through everyone's diaries again ;) ) he he he just lost my train of thought, and have no idea what I wanted to say. Oh yes. Someone said that most of us, and I know its true for me, are overweight not only because of food, but because its our way of dealing with life. It has been my band-aid since I was a very little confused girl. So coming to this forum, sharing just our everyday stuff is what's going to make this diet a success.

Why am I writing this? Just to let you know that I'm cheering for you. And I hope your holiday with the MIL is going to be wonderful and sunny. (and not too humid :) )

Esthee
 
Hi Annie, Have a lovely holiday with your MIL. You are lucky that you get on so well.The prospect of a holiday in Queensland with my MIL would give me nightmares! Will have to catch up with you again in Melb one day, xo Cate.
 
Hi Annie, just popping in to say hello, introduce myself and catch up on your journey.

My names Jenny, live in Geelong, mum of 2... all the rest. lol

Wishing you luck with the journey, looks like your doing awesome. XXX
 
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