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Niyah said it all. I agree with everything! It will get better & better as you go. Learn to go with it & don't set yourself up for failure by putting so much pressure on yourself. Hide those scales! Take it easy as much as possible. Thanks for your pm. It was very sweet. You can do this FlaMie, Cheers, Cate.
 
Day 9 - Another Disappointing Day

Well, into my 9th un-deviated Cohen day. *Sniff* stupid weighing machine has simply stopped responding or something is just wrong with what I've been doing lately? Shouldn't I at least have dropped another 500-1kg after last Thursday? That's so sad to see my weight remaining stagnant...thank god it hasn't gone up though but if this continues, I don't know how long more I can sustain on the programme!

Anyway, today has been good...think God heard my prayers. I didn't feel much hunger and I didn't even have to eat my fruits / crispbreads at all. So, I'm saving them for dinner in a while after typing this. I've drunk so much water that I've hit past the 3L mark already. I'm so sure that I'm already hitting 4L today. The small Nalgene bottle helps me to keep track of my water intake very well. The fact that it is small, it is less daunting to drink from it as well. I can almost finish 1 bottle in about 3 gulps...cool!
 
Niyah 01 said:
FlaMie - DON'T WEIGHT YOURSELF EVERY DAY!!! It's very tempting, but you aren't really tracking fat loss. Your body will be shedding fluid, adjusting to less food in intestinal track, and all you are doing is upsetting your head by watching this every day of the week.

If you stick severely to ONE WEIGH PER WEEK, you will seldom be disappointed. You can track a fairly steady downward progression, remembering that you will still get some variations, like for end-of-month when some people retain fluid etc.

Week 1 is the worst week of the Diet. Week 2 is the next worst. Plan to do AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE. You just won't have as much energy was normal, so plan to under-utilise yourself if you possibly can and rest as much as possible when you can. I have a really busy job too, and you just have to be kind to yourself in those early couple of weeks. Your husband will probably understand, and love you the more for caring for yourself and your body.

Once you get to Week 3 and 4, your body WILL adjust to the new regime, and you will ultimately start feeling better. Get some good vitamin and mineral tablets (take the recommended ones if you possibly can). Believe me, most people go from the horrors of the first week or two to quite a high as they see the weight steadily going downwards, and find they are fitting into smaller and smaller clothes. Look forward to a shopping trip in a month or so and treat yourself to some new things. That will be the biggest shot in the arm.

Drink lots of water whenever you feel hungry in that first while.

Stick with it - IT WORKS! Don't do big jobs or extra things in that first while, don't over-exercise, and just rest up. It won't be long until you are through the bad bit and really starting to feel great.

However, you may always find yourself feeling more peckish and tantalised by food coming up to EOM - I quite often have one or two really horrible days when my mind wants me to spoil myself because I feel rotten, bloated etc. DON'T GIVE IN - you'll feel better in a day or two if you don't, and once EOM is out the way, you just return to normal. So, PLAN FOR IT! Give yourself lots of pep talks about how you can and will get through it.

I'm half way through my eighth week now, and apart from about 2 days of pre-EOM pantry bugs (not hungry, not wanting to peck things to "spoil" myself), I can honestly say I am rarely hungry. The only times I have felt desperate are when I am disorganised and get a meal too late. By then, sometimes I'm so tired I can hardly be bothered making it! But I do, and the results are worth it.

When you get up each day, just remind yourself - "All I have to do today is another 24 hours of what I did yesterday". You will gradually start experimenting more with food, and find out what to make when you're really peckish or wanting a treat. But don't ask too much of yourself just yet - get your body into it, and your mind will follow!
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Gosh...thanks so much for the lengthy advice and I know they are good advice for me. I'll try to avoid the weighing machine for a while and see if the weight will eventually drops off in about 19 days <-- my first weigh in at the clinic...hope the result will be promising. I really hope I can finish off the programme by June because there's an important function coming up.
 
cate said:
Niyah said it all. I agree with everything! It will get better & better as you go. Learn to go with it & don't set yourself up for failure by putting so much pressure on yourself. Hide those scales! Take it easy as much as possible. Thanks for your pm. It was very sweet. You can do this FlaMie, Cheers, Cate.
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not that I'm stressing myself, is just that there'll be a function coming up in July and I hope I can finish by then without deviating.
 
You should be finished by June, FlaMie but whatever happens you will look stunning by then so don't fret. I had the same experience as you and got disheartened but in any other event we'd be delighted if we lost 4kg over 2weeks let alone 4days! Our bodies need time to adjust to it - yes, there'll be slow weks but there will also be weeks where you lose a lot more. I think we should all stop being so addicted to the scales as they are probably part of the reason we have weight problems in the first place!! Keep at it -you'll be looking good in no time, sweetie.
Del xx
 
Hang in there....

I've just completed day one...so you are so ahead of (my) the game. Typically if you can get through the first 14 days of anything you'll make it. If you feel like you're going to fall off the wagon say a prayer or write, that's what I do. Otherwise, get a good book and read it will take your minf off of the deviation

One meal at a time....
 
You'll do it by July, no worries! Just don't stress about exactly how it happens.

The good thing about this diet is that it works - and it's worked for everyone I've ever seen do it properly. If you can just trust your body to do what it needs to do, the fat will go. If you measure weekly, you'll see fat disappearing, whereas the scales will do your head in.

I keep an Excel chart and have drawn a trend line on it. The trend is a very nice downwards pattern, even though each individual weigh jumps around all over the place. The trend line keeps me sane!

Before too long the looseness in your clothes will convince you that all you have to do is get up and do it for just another day. It's just one day at a time.

I can absolutely promise that if you stick to your guns for 4 weeks, you'll find the next few months after that a breeze. You can expect you'll start getting hungry as you roll in to the finish, but that's normal and your body is signalling it's lost enough weight.

What do you get if you give up??? Nothing, nothing, nothing. You won't even enjoy the extra calories because you'll know too much about what they are doing to you. You'll be able to add in nice things once you're down to your goal weight, so just believe that it will work for you the same as it's worked for heaps of others on here already, and keep at it.

Rest lots, drink lots and trust your body to do what it needs to do.
 
Hi Cuddlebones, I certainly hope that I can be done by June (optimism rules!). Well, I've in fact staved off my midyear travel to Australia this year because I want to be committed to the programme. So far, I've not deviated one bit and I think I just lost another kg!! so that makes 5kg over 10 days. Hmmm, praying REAL hard that I can keep to the programme. I don't find that much difference physically yet. I think I still look the same as when i was 87kg. Guess certainly that's the fluid loss. However, I can kina feel that my shirts are hanging a bit loose and my pants are beginning to drop and I can see that the waistband is already about 2 inches too big. :)
 
bubblinb said:
I've just completed day one...so you are so ahead of (my) the game. Typically if you can get through the first 14 days of anything you'll make it. If you feel like you're going to fall off the wagon say a prayer or write, that's what I do. Otherwise, get a good book and read it will take your minf off of the deviation

One meal at a time....
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Heya, day 1 was ok with me. I breezed through that without much problem but my day 2, 3 and 4 were horrid with headaches. However, since the weekend is coming along, you could well rest if you have the same experience.

Let's egg each other on...looking forward to your after photos...you don't have that much to lose unlike me though. :(
 
Day 10 and still going - undeviated

A nice 10-day completion to my Cohen programme today. I continue to stay on the programme believing what many have advised that the programme will certainly work. I'm beginning to get the hang of ignoring my hunger pangs and just grit my teeth and push my energy / attention somewhere else. Water wise I've been drinking more than 3L these 2 days - must be the weather...nonetheless a good thing, except that it's a mad rush to run to the nearest toilet after each class (about 30 mins) hahaha :rotflmao:. So afraid that I would not be able to make it one of these days...gosh, unthinkable!!! :eek:

I stepped onto that horrid weighing machine today and think I saw another kg drop today...yes! That makes 5kg over 10 days...woohoo!!! So, I'm unofficially down to 82kg. Certainly hope that I can meet my first goal real soon. I haven't been a 70s girl for a long long long time.

Physically I think I still look the same, hardly any change...but I think I've lost a couple of inches off my chest (gasp!) as my shirts are beginning to hang loosely. I've also noticed about 2 inches drop in my waistband...well and good.

I know my journey ahead is still long and arduous to say the least but I guess I'm off to a good start with these small improvements. Certainly looking forward to end my programme by July *hopefully* as I've got a big function coming along and I don't want to miss it for good .
 
Hey Niyah, thanks for dropping in again to provide another booster to me. I've been reading and re-reading what you wrote yesterday and I think I agree that I just have to be focused and believe that the programme will work...since it has worked for many people.

Journey - painful? Yes, it is. Drop it? No, it's not worth it especially since it is just a matter of time when I can eat those sinful food again. Whatever the case, I believe the programme will help me to adjust to a better eating habit and lifestyle. :)
 
11th Day Story

Today is an extremely hectic day. I knew and was prepared that today will be busy but I didn't think it would get to this level.



Upon reaching my work place, I was immediately swarmed with a task and because of that, I totally forgot to place my lunchbox into the fridge! I almost freaked out when I recalled at about 12. However, I wasn't able to do anything about it as I was in a meeting which lasted till 2.20pm!!! Gosh, I had my breakfast at 6.30am and that was a good 8 hours! However, strangely, I didn't feel hungry at all...which is an extremely WONDERFUL thing. I prayed so hard that the lunch wouldn't have turned bad else I'll be in for trouble. Well, good thing it didn't.

After was filled with even more meetings and I was tied up at my workplace till 7.20pm!! Duh! That meant I was going to have a late dinner of more than 5 hrs from lunch :(. To worsen the situation, I was caught in a BL**** traffic jam! That got me soooo frustrated that I had to source the best alternative route home but still, that took me another 40 mins. Yes, I was home at about 8.20pm. Then I quickly got down to preparing for dinner and by the time I could eat, it was already 8.50pm...sigh...almost contemplated of just buying takeaways halfway to home...good thing I didn't but the hunger was almost unbearable!

I am proud to say the very least that I managed a good 11 undeviated days and that's a good 33 meals! Wow! Never knew I could have this level of determination. Let's wish for a good day tomorrow.
 
Heya Cate!

cate said:
FlaMie- Good thinking!! That's the way, cheers, Cate
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Thanks for dropping in to offer encouragement big sister! Well, I'm trying my REAL best to stay on track...so far so good...and have lost an unofficial 5kg. Certainly will stay on track till the 70s :hurray:
 
FlaMie, Good for you, little sister! If you can stay on track for the first 5kgs(done!) & continue on track until the 70's you can stay on track for another 5kgs & then just 5kgs more & you will be in the 60's and so on. You can do it! Take baby steps, break it up into 5kgs, do it just day by day. Think how proud of yourself you will be. If it feels good now to be so strong & determined, just imagine how good you will feel to get to your goal weight, without deviating. You will find you have more internal strength than you thought you were capable of. Keep it up FlaMie, cheers, Cate
 
You're doing well FlaMie! It can't get any worse from here on - it'll all get better and better! You'll still have those hectic days, but be better able to cope with them.

Lots of my days kind of go like that - pretty awful! My backstop is always the Subway salad bowl if I'm desperate and have got nothing in the fridge at home, but mostly I don't need to do that.

Our bodies learning amazingly to adjust to the long hours between meals without too much complaints, so you just get better at planning what to do in an emergency without resorting to greasy take-aways.

Have a great week! Will go back and update my diary a little - another weight today.
 
Trudging through Day 12

I don't know why I'm so mentally weak today. I almost crashed in around evening time. I so much wanted to just deviate from the programme and have a hearty meal somewhere since it's the weekend over here. I guess the efforts put in in the last 2 weeks managed to stop me from deviating. I eventually told myself forget it, have a diet coke and just carry on...bite the bullet!! Yes, I managed to clear the day - another deviation free day. Certainly glad that I didn't disappoint myself.

My husband has his friends over and ohhhhh they brought over herbal chicken...yummy...but I DIDN'T EAT IT! They almost literally stuffed it down my bowl of Cohen soup which I managed to retract in time...gosh...no way am I going to feed my body with that oily stuff...not just yet.

I'm glad to say that I'll be hitting 14 days by Sunday. I certainly hope that I'll be 100% deviation free. Not easy I know...but guess there are many out there who have done it, why can't I?

To be continued ... ;)
 
Thank you Cate!

cate said:
FlaMie, Good for you, little sister! If you can stay on track for the first 5kgs(done!) & continue on track until the 70's you can stay on track for another 5kgs & then just 5kgs more & you will be in the 60's and so on. You can do it! Take baby steps, break it up into 5kgs, do it just day by day. Think how proud of yourself you will be. If it feels good now to be so strong & determined, just imagine how good you will feel to get to your goal weight, without deviating. You will find you have more internal strength than you thought you were capable of. Keep it up FlaMie, cheers, Cate
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Hahah yes Cate, I've been thinking ALOT about the eventual svelte me in bikini...rofl! Guess that'll be my first DARE after I've lost all the weight...and yes *if I ever*. I've also made my husband promised to take makeover shots in wedding gown again...I was still plump in my wedding photo though not fat/obese. Nonetheless, at least there's something I'm certainly looking forward to.

Suddenly a fear struck me...what if I don't finish losing in 4 mths? That'll be terrible...my function is coming up! OH NO!
 
Hey Niyah, I guess if I'm a little more creative with my cooking, staying on track shouldn't be a big problem. However, I'm kinda getting sick with the same old food all the time that I no longer find it a joy to eat but a chore!
 
13th Day - Hitting Half Mth

Woke up for breakfast at 9.15am today and had this yogurt. Well, not too bad, getting used to having yogurt for breakfast. Sour surely but well, heck, it is fast and oil free.

Lunch was chicken/cauliflower/wongbok stir fry and stew...yummy except that chicken breast meat really aint suited for stew...it got real tough but the vegetables were delicious and I wished I could have more...I'm a real vege person and not really that into meat...sigh but Cohen programme talks about food balance:puke:

I really need LOADS of ideas before I get bored with the same food all the time - day in and day out. I really want to hang on to the programme as long as I can. Know what? Today I was out after breakfast and simply refused to have lunch outside...despite my relatives being around. I insisted to go home to cook my lunch...YES I DID IT but that was a good 6 hrs after breakfast when I had my lunch...so was darn hungry and gobbled down my food. I don't feel full at all! I'm so afraid that I would get hungry soon again. Wishing I won't of course.

Cate: Sorry big sister, I just couldn't resist standing on the weighing machine every day. Perhaps that's the way I motivate myself:biggrinjester:Not too bad, I noticed that I'm finally below 180 pounds! I'm like another 0.5kg away from 80kg...from yesterday till this morning somehow there's a significant drop, don't know what I did but it sure felt good.

Anyway, I hope that I can hit my first goal of 79.9kg really soon...could it be in a day or two? After that I'll be looking at 5kg target all the way (hopefully) to my ideal weight. :)
 
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