My emotional weight loss is hitting a huge hurdle, it's like breaking 70kg down for the first time in years, maybe 6 years is causing resistance...like my body wants to hold on to it or something.

They say when you get passed something hard like this, something that really challenges you, the other side is like a level up in so many ways, you feel elated and stronger for the great accomplishment.

I am keeping this one in mind this week.

Good work Shine, you sound like you are on track with your thinking!

It is interesting what your consultant has said and I am going to email mine to find out what they are saying as they haven't let me know of any changes. I did Cohen's about 5years ago and the program at that stage said that we could drink normal Diet Coke, Pepsi Light, Pepsi Max, Coke Zero etc etc WITH caffiene so the fact that they changed it does seem odd. Clarification never hurt anyone Also I would LOVE it if we could have the caffiene varieties as yep your right you can get them in a pub instead of drinking soda water with a slice of lemon.

Keep strong and you will start to seem some amazing results. Also remember when you have less to loose your body will loose less per week in general I have found that since I am working on my last 10 kg's that I am not loosing at the same rate I did inicially.

Have a great week!
xx nic

Thanks nickychick!
I will be interested to know what your consultant says.
I talked to my SIL tonight who had her opinion about my centre, thinking that she got better and more detailed information from her centre.

Not sure what to do about this! I will sit on it for a while, make a list of all my questions, take them to my first check in on Tuesday week and see how I go with getting all the answers I am looking for.

Tonight was my second social occasion. My aunt's 60th at my cousin's Japanese restaurant. It was cocktail style, so there was plates being handed around, a few single serve dishes and a buffet table of the most amazing smelling food.

I had a look at everything, plenty of fish and fresh veggies, which makes me think that the only thing stopping me from enjoying such feasts would be my lack of scales!

Anyway, too hard.

I ate my meal in the car with hubby before we went in, and enjoyed some plain mineral water during the evening.

Felt so good walking out of there with my strength of commitment to Cohens. Everyone was very supportive, for the weight loss but even more so for correcting my hormones for hopefully better fertility.

No one challenged me anyway (apart from Mum who always likes to bend the rules, still she complemented me on my results, my clothes are sitting on my body much more gently) and were all very interested in how it worked.

Shine- Fantastic! Well done. I'm in a hurry but just wanted to say how well you did. That's being strong & focussed & augers well for success! Cheers, cate

Good work Shine!

I think that when you manage to stay on Cohen's when you have a social occassion it really breaks a barrier and I always feel so proud of myself after for resisting and staying strong- it reall isn't worth the guild if you give in.

So I emailed my consultant as I think she was being a bit slack with me and giving me updates. I used to have a really good consultant but she got sick and left, now I have one that seems nice enough but doesn't really check up on me.. SO I emailed her about a couple of questions and about the Diet coke Caffiene free thing and guess what- YOUR RIGHT!!! She said Dr C has just made the change and we can now also have tangerines too. Grrrrr it really annoys me that she didn't tell me right away as that makes life SO much easier- like you I can go to the pub and have a Diet Coke, Pepsi Max or Coke Zero instead of just soda water. Thanks so much for putting that is the forum as I probably would have never had found out if I didn't read what you had wrote

Hope you have a wonderful weekend and get the answers that you want from your clinic

xx nicole

Hi Cate, thanks so much for the encouragement! I think I am taking mental notes on my life after Cohens. Looking at the food on the buffet and knowing that there are so many healthy and slimming choices out there available to us. My biggest thing in the past was snacking and serving sizes. Anyway, I am excited about the future.

NickyChick, wow, thanks for checking back. Good to know that we are having some consistency through our clinics, I was beginning to doubt!! Sorry to hear your consultant is a bit slack, sounds like you got what you needed to know which is good.

Hubby is away, so I won't be measuring on my usual Tuesday night, it will be Wednesday during the day sometime, but that shouldn't matter too much I don't think.

Then it will be one week til my first blood test and official weigh in!....then my holiday to Port Douglas!

Oh, and I bought minced chicken for the first time and made the rissoles, really yummy and great with iceberg lettice and fresh parsley.

OK, can't figure out the ticker thing... can someone point me in the right direction? I know how to get one, just not include it in my sig.

Shine, This is my 3rd attempt at posting in here this morning. Fingers & toes crossed this time (& on another computer!) Chicken mince must be minced chicken breast only.
Copy & paste this time-
"HOW DO I GET A TICKER???

1) Go to the ticker website of your choice (most popular is tickerfactory.com)

2) Design your ticker. Copy the BBC CODE (the 1st set of codes)

3) Come back here...go to USER CP, EDIT SIG.

4) Paste your code in your signature box and either click on PREVIEW OR you can just click SAVE.


This will place this new signature into EACH post you've ever done, or ever will do (until you alter your signature).

Some Signature information:
Signatures are dynamic, they do not stay with the posts made at the time they were there. If you change your sig, it'll change on ALL posts. "
If it tells you that your sig is too long get rid of some gaps between the words & that usually works. Cheers Cate.

Hello Shine:

Thank you for visiting my diary and adding your support.

I'm here now in yours returning the favour.

I see you and I have similiar stats and have the same GW of 63kg but I am happy to get to 65 this time. Yes this is my 3rd or 4th attempt. I did start Cohens 2 months ago and lost 2.4kg in a week but then we went on holidays and no I didn't gain any while away...I actually gained over the School holidays while my sister was visiting..too many lunches out and drinks at night. But those scales are a real reality check!

Anway all the best and I can see you are doing well already
That's the fantastic thing about this program is you do see and feel the result quickly which is the motivation to keep us going with it.

How old is your son Sasha??
I have 2 aged 10 and 7.

Keep well now - Sam

Hi Shine - I haven't been around for a while - been away. You sound like you are going really well.

I find the big "decades" always a big mind-thing. I don't know whether when you are desperate to see the big break-through on the scales, your body picks up the stress and refuses to part with the weight, but it always seems to happen on the 5 or 10kg 'barriers'!

Hi Cate, thanks for the ticker lesson! I will get on to that now.

Hi Sam, I was thinking 65 as well. I was really suprised with the set 60 - 63kg goal weight, thinking that was a tad light, I will re-assess when I get closer. So true, the fast results are very encouraging. I have done Weight Watchers before, about 4 years ago, but I was also playing hockey 3 times a week so I was really fit and strong too which helped big time. This time I am a mama with less time to do such activities! My boy, Sacha is 2 and 3 months! In the last year I have had 2 miscarriages so I am hoping the added fertility benefits of Cohens really helps us out with giving Sacha a sibling! The gap is getting bigger all the time. I am hoping to start trying again in the new year.

10 and 7! I cannot imagine life with my children at this age! I wonder what life will be like for us then?!!

Hi Niyah, things have slowed down some, but I am not fussed by this, I am enjoying my bod below 70..just! I am wearing some jeans that I haven't been able to for about 3 years now, and they are baggy! I went to the Salvos store today and picked up 2 pairs of jeans for a grand total of $16.50. They fit, but are a little tight...and I know this will be fine in the next week or two!

Exciting times!

Hi Shine- I love the Salvos! I enjoy finding really good bargains & often the clothes I get are brand spanking new. You are doing really well. I am so sorry about your miscarriages. Hopefully your hormones will be getting sorted with Cohen's & you will be able to provide Sacha (lovely name) with a sibling before too long. You will also be slim & healthy and able to chase them around! Our grandkids are 10, 3 & 1 & the gap doesn't matter much at all. The 10 yr old & the 1 year old are really close especially. My boys are 28 & 26! It's just lovely. They are wonderful, young men & I am very proud of how they have turned out. It's the toughest job in the world but also the most rewarding. Keep up the good work Shine. I'm curious about the stock also so it will be interesting to hear what your consultant says. Keep shining, xo Cate

Hello Cate, thanks for the encouragement, it means so much!
And thanks for the reassurance about the gap between children as well. I know really, a minor issue in the scheme of things, but still, it is there and we are keen to bring number 2 into this world.

Yeah, 2 miscarriages. We are so lucky to have Sacha, and I think if he wasn't, then it would have been all the more difficult to cope. The first one I put in a good place in my head, of course sad, but realistic with the ratio of 1:4 pregnancies end up missing, but with the second one, well it really got me angry more than anything and a whole lot more of thinking life is so unfair, we had one, but two?? So, not just bad luck I think, hence Cohens, especially because the hospitals don't do tests until you lose 3, and I am not waiting around for that to happen.

Today, we went to an afternoon tea party for Hubby's cousin. She had a Frocktober party, everyone had to wear a frock, yes EVERYONE. My boys did well in their outfits! Anyway, all well and good and comfy with not enjoying the spread, until the CHRISTMAS LEG OF HAM came out and jeez, I was almost ready to say to hubby "we-gotta-go-right-now". But no, we stayed, I was so proud of myself, sipping on my "party drink" of Pepsi Max. *sigh*

I am now home realising that it might have been at this point that even if I did eat it, I wouldn't be tasting or feeling it now... so really, small indulgences really are quite unnecessary.

But wow, I am enjoying the aromas of some good food out there!!!

I deviated yesterday.

I thought so long and hard about it. I couldn't call the clinic as it was Sunday evening. I was feeling headachey, nauseated, had the runs, tired. Not sure what pain killers I could use, knowing that they are no good on an empty stomach. I called my friend who did Cohens last year and asked her advice. I really wanted to go to bed without dinner. She said not to do that. But nothing on the menu seemed appetizing at all. So I made a plan to make sure I had my meat and veggies, but served them up as a chicken noodle soup with home made stock and noodles. This may not be as bad as it seems, in a way the noodles made up for the 3 serves of crispbread I hadn't had yet. And the only thing in the stock that I think was off limits was a drizzle of soy sauce.

I didn't deviate to sugar or starches. It was just a dip and I am back on track today, but feeling nervous about my blood test tomorrow, but feeling well again as well.

Also, I fell asleep on the sofa pretty much straight after my chicken soup rather than waiting the 2.5 hours. But, avoided painkillers.

Damn, ya know?

Still trying to figure out what made me feel so ill. I had a sleep in yesterday morning which pushed my meals back 2 hours, I was slightly behind on my water, but nothing more drastic than 1/2 a liter. Already had one piece of fruit, and two crispbreads. I had 2 coffees, one instant and one espresso, which was heaps more than usual, but the headache had already started before the second one. Often I find that caffeine stops a headache.

Anyway, nearly 8am, off to make my mango and yoghurt and fill up my water bottles.

Wow, I feel so blah about this! And I didn't even have dairy, oil, fat, alcohol or sugar!!!

Shine, Good for you 'fessing up in your diary. I think you have moved on already & that's good. If you put weight on from it fair enough. Don't worry about it. It's done & dusted. If you haven't put weight don't let yourself think that it can be done again without any problems. It's a mental minefield! I wonder why put noodles in the soup or was it already made. I think going to bed on an empty stomach would have been a better solution or at least perhaps have eaten some crackers with fruit or yoghurt & fruit perhaps, followed by pain killers. Ask your consultant in case it happens again.
I laughed when you said you feel so blah about it when you didn't deviate for alcohol etc. Imagine how bad you would have felt then? You'll be right. Put it behind you.
Cheers, cate

Thanks Cate,

Yes, back on track without a problem. Hoping I didn't gain too much from the noodles, probably stopped that Cohens Chemical Reaction happening in my bod and it might take a few days to get it back working properly again, but I won't be deviating.

A little concerned about my blood test results tomorrow morning.

I guess we'll wait and see.

Not weighing myself to check if it effected, will just wait til tomorrow morning for the first official one.

I chose to put the noodles in, I just needed something bulky in my tum and I thought the Chicken Soup for the Soul thing was really what I needed. Like I said, the quantity of noodles was probably equal to my crispbread allowance.

With your recommendation; I had yoghurt for breaky... I guess there are all sorts of deviations! To deviate by having an extra piece of fruit to combat feeling ravenously hungry, or an extra serve of yoghurt to help with illness is probably not half has bad as a piece of pavlova!!

The fact that I am back on track makes me feel so strong and happy about it. Gawd, I felt so terribly ill yesterday. So very glad that has gone away!