My new life

[Jens Mum]

Hi Katie,
firstly I would like to thank you for the wonderful support you are giving me in my diary. Some days it would be very hard with out everyones support.
Well done on your results you are doing amazing. What a great inspiration you are to everyone.
I was thinking about your friend and yes it is hard to get back on track after you have had a weekend off - mind you I think it depends on how much you deviate too. It has taken me around a couple of weeks to get back on track properly but I have been trying and trying and I have finally made it back. Have you thought maybe your friend might be slightly jealous of your success if she isn't doing so well? Does she come on the forum? maybe if she doesn't then maybe she needs too....As eveyone else has said you can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink it. You can give someone so much support and encouragement but unless they really want the final outcome then they want stick to it like glue. I hope this makes sense and doesn't come across as ramble.
Hope you have a great weekend and the scales come down (here is a big nudge for you nudge
Cheers Jo

[katiefrank70]

Hi all

Well that's the 18th week done and dusted.

Thanks for dropping by all you wonderful people. I could kiss you as a matter of fact I just will. Ready for a big sloppy

Mette, thanks heaps for that nudge, it worked. I agree about me mate. She's not on cohens. Hope you have a great weekend.

Louise, hahaha me being a shiny example (might be a bit tarnished). Yep my kitchen is looking like being done by next week. woohoo. will have to move out mon & tues nite due to floor tiles going down. Small price to pay to not have to wait 4 weeks.

Koh, hugs back to you oh puppy dog. Here's a big bone for ya. Yep feeling wonderful. I agree. She doesn't know what she is missing. But it's her journey and that's it. Prob is she drops the ups quickly when she 100% and thinks it's ok.

Shanara, no worries. I know ya can get tied up here and there are soooo many diaries to read. Sometimes it is just impossible. I have great admiration for those who can read them all and post. Re Envy, maybe, not that Jen strikes me as an envious person, but ya never know what's going on deep down inside someone do ya. I think maybe she's hit personal issues that she can't sort out. ie hubby.

Jo, TVM and your quite welcome. Glad to hear you are back on track. No more cravings??? Really hope not. They aren't fun. Ty for the nudge, it worked it worked. No jen won't come on here, she's not interested. I keep quoting the forum at her. I think she's sick of hearing about it. This place has been one huge site of inspiration and strength for me and I can't sing all ya praises loud enough.

Thanks for all the NUDGES guys. It sure helped me to move down the scales. I didn't quite hit the kg mark for the week, but at least it is moving

YAY

and that's good enough for me. So for the final tally it is 900gm bringing me to 68.9 and 1.25" off my measurements. I think with the reduction of stress and a cool change has got me mobile again.

YAAAAAAAAAAYYYY

hubby's coming home for 4 days.

YAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY (did I say that all ready)

Here's hoping ya all have a wonderful fat busting weekend.

Happy losing

Katie

[louise41]

Katie 900gms is great for any week on diet, for a stressful week coping without your kitchen etc, its just great!! Congratuations. I hope that once yuour kitchen is finished you get the results your wishing for - -having a lovely relaxing weekend if you can!

[Kohinoor]

Hi Katie,

YAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY (did I say that all ready)

Umm, yeah, I think we got that bit And why not??? You are heading for a bunch more YAY's too.

Like, aren't you now less than 3Kgs from being able to order refeed? (depends on your ticker - and whether you've posted high end or low end of your goal range). Assuming it's your "low end", you're looking pretty cool for the refeed option.

Anyway, doesn't matter - you're looking pretty cool anyway

Hmm - has this been fast, or what?
Are you on top of the world, or what?
Is hubby going to be "bowled over" by the way you are looking today, or what?

Keep on cruising, girl - not much further to go now

Koh

[thenewvee]

Yaaaaaaaaay!!!

On the movement front. 900g is not too shabby!!


Big excitement for you this week with renos being completed and hubby coming home!

I just know you are going to have a fabulous week.

Vee

[SOON TO BE]

All i can say is

YYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Sorry there not big, must work out how to do that.

Great going Katie, hubby being home to for a few days will be great.

Keep smiling, Happy days
Tara x

[indiana13]

YYYAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY for KATIE!

Looks like you're off and moving again...big losses are just around the corner i can feel it!

Em x

[Shanara]

hi Katie

Great you are moving again and that ticker is sliding in the right direction - go girl !!!

Katie sometimes we can only support so much and then have to honour a persons autonomy and their right to choose for themselves. We can only say - that's it - have supported enough - now choosing not to play the game.

have a great week this week - time to move into new kitchen coming up.
Shanara

[Mette]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY

Your hubby coming home and great losses! Does it get any better than that? Keep up the great work and have a great week, pretty lady!

[katiefrank70]

Hi all

Thanks for dropping by Louise, Koh, Vee, Tara, Em, Shanara and Mette. All your support has just been absolutely wonderful.

Louise, well it's nearly done. Not very relaxing as had to get the floor ready for tiling. At least it's done 3 weeks early TG. Glad to read of all your wonderful drops, less than 5kg to go. Wowzers

Koh, . Yep on top of the world, this diet is super fast, and hubby says he can't see me when I turn sideways. Ty for the compliments. Even better I'm feeling great. Great to be able to wear clothes that I have only admired from a distance. Unfortunately 61 is the top end of my goal. But I think I only have 4 or so to go before I order Refeed

Vee, yep almost too much excitement for this little duck to bear. LOL. You look absolutely fantabulous in your leathers. Your BF better keep a good eye on you.

Tara, YAY again. Yep always great to have hubby come home. It's backup for parental control on my rebel. hehehe. Plus he's just so sweet.

Em, you sure felt right. Ty for the cheers. Am hoping you have been doing great. Will try to drop by some diaries and read up. Have missed my browsing time.

Shanara, ty. I agree with you. Jen can only travel her own journey. Now she has had her Chrisco hamper arrive, only to put more temptations in her way. Really glad to read of your super losses.

Mette, maybe it will improve if I win X-Lotto. hehehe. But that won't ever happen for me. Got to buy a ticket first. Am hoping life has settled down for you, and have had some fat busting days.

Well have been resisting making this log. Have logged on a few times, only to tell myself I'm too busy for this post. All excuses of course. After having some very wonderful drops, going right down to 67.9 ( a 600gm drop in one night), I stuffed up. I have all the excuses in the world for what I did. And that's just it EXCUSES!!!!. Went out for tea with the family on Mon nite, and after being so good with prawn entree (no sauce) side salad, etc, they brought me out a plate of hot chips. So after trying to resist for oh at least 20 secs I had approx 10 with a few smears of hubby's gravy. (Why not go the whole hog sheeeessh) and to top it off came home and had a sugar free choc biscuit. Am I stupid or WHAT!!!!

So 2 days after, I am now sitting on 69kg. I'm hoping it will start to drop again tom morn. Who knows. Sheesssh, I just want to kick myself. Am very very disappointed with myself. How could I be so weak, after being so strong. I am back 100% but am frightened at how I could be sabotaging my efforts at such a late stage of my diet. It is frightening, and I think I really need to plan and work on why I have these thoughts. So I am strong in maintenance. I don't want to go back to my easy food style. It just doesn't work.

Sorry for the long winded post, but I need to get this out so I can get my head around this.

Here's hoping everyone is doing way better.

Happy losing

Katie

[indiana13]

Hi Katie,

Don't beat yourself up about the deviation, its done now and it sounds like you're pretty dissapointed that you did it but I'm sure if you get back into 100% cohen's again it will come off in the next few days(it did for me after I had a week of the flu and eating the wrong foods)! The main thing is to get straight back into 100% style because if you don't things can turn a bit ugly lol...anyway...stupid restaurant - why do they have to have chips with EVERYTHING??!! You did well to stop at 10, many others would have eaten the whole bowl. And well done for being so honest in your diary and with yourself...not easy I know..

Keep going strong, and those scales will keep moving back down and beyond and in no time at all you'll be at goal - just look how far you've come - you should be so proud of yourself!

Goodluck losing that fluid - i'm sure thats all it is!

Em x

[Mette]

Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, learn from it, draw the line and move on. You can't change it, but you can do better next time. You've come so far and done so well, and letting all that go now would be silly. Maybe there are some issues in your mind that you need to work out so you don't fall back into the old ways once you reach maintenance.
I wish there was a way that I could make being d-free easy, but there isn't. But hang in there, pretty lady, the results are worth it! You can do this and you DESERVE success! You can beat those inner demons! Punch them out! And then jump on them for good measure! I have faith in you!
Stay strong and keep smiling!

[louise41]

Katie, the great thing is that you did not use it for an excuse to continue off the diet, it was a slip up and then you got right back on the diet and you know how to keep that weight loss ticker on the downward trend in the long term. Keep up your great work and dont forget to applaud your self for your successes, you are really on the homestretch now!

[katiefrank70]

Hi all

Thanks for dropping by Em, Mette and Louise. Thanks so much for your support. I really need all the support I can get right now.

Em, that's right I had to go back on the diet 100% just wasn't happy with myself over my D. And I agree. Why do they have to serve chips with EVERYTHING!!! If you think about it, all they are is sticks of starchy carbs, fat and THEN you load them up with heaps of salt so they taste good. Why do we eat them then?? makes no sense.

Mette, You are absolutely right! Why would I let this all go, just for some horrible chips. Too close to goal to be doing that rot. And it has served as a huge wakeup call to me. On maintenance I will have to be vigilant forever! So I have been wandering around the supermarket (my kids just hate it) and looking at the alternatives instead of the junk at eye level. Surprising what you can find at your feet, or 1ft above your head. I shall no longer shop at eye level

Louise, ty for your never ending support. I do know how to keep it going down, and I have my eye on that prize. Hoping you are thinking of refeed soon.

Well I feel much better. Have been totally 100% and have no desire to go out ever again LOL. There are a few xmas/ studying celebrations that are planned, but I'm taking my cohen's friendly plate and that's it. Oh and my sprite zero (with mango) yummy. Who says you can't enjoy cohens LOL

After that horrible rise to 69. I can happily say it didn't hang around long. Had a 200gm drop wed nite, and a HUGE 1.1kg drop last nite. I was blown away with that one. So now happily sitting on 67.8kg.

But I realize it will take longer for my hgh to come back on board. Right now I just feel so emotional. But that could be all the stress of my 13yo. BTW I have a son up for sale, starting bid @ 99c. Slightly used, very sneaky & cunning, will keep you on your toes. Has a high intelligence and uses it for evil. He even looks like an angel (see pic)
If that is what you are looking for. Then he's the one!!!
Hell I'll even pay you 99c

Ok gonna starting punching those demons as suggested by Mette Tho I don't think Brad will like it much LOL.

Take care everyone. Hoping you have a great cohen's day.

Katie

[thenewvee]

Hey Katie!!
You are a champ for getting right back on the plan! Beating yourself up about your slip up is only going to make you feel worse, so don't do it, cause you wouldn't say those things to any of us if we slipped up! Be kind to yourself, ok you slipped up, made a bad choice. The thing you can learn from it is what strategy you can put in place in a situation like that so that it does not happen again! It does get hard as we get closer to goal, and I've noticed a slip up gets harder and harder to get back into balance from and to loose again. It sets me back a whole week. So I reckon it's just not worth it anymore. Sticking to the program will mean I'll be finished sooner then I can work on having moderate amounts of all the things I may have missed while on the program.

I do believe teenagers are sent to test us!! LOL I can so relate to what you are saying and feeling! I don't have any answers for that problem, only can comment that you are very lucky to have a great hubby to back you up and take some of the load off (when he's around).

It sounds like the kitchen must be finished now. I hope it is and that you are enjoying the benefits of it! That is at least one stress less for you!

Keep on keeping on, Katie, hugz to you!

Vee

[louise41]

Hi Katie, Im pleased to hear you werent "punished" for your devation. It must have b een a relief to have that lovely drop.
Your son does look llike an angel, and how can anyone that cute that obviously loves dogs be evil?

[Kohinoor]

Hi Katie,

Mmmmm - I'm tempted.....

BTW I have a son up for sale, starting bid @ 99c. Slightly used, very sneaky & cunning, will keep you on your toes. Has a high intelligence and uses it for evil.

Well, you could always put a "Buy It Now" price up - and, if it were in the order of $10,000, I might consider (as long as you can afford that much ) And, of course, that would cover about 2 months - THEN you get him back. Still, $10k for a LONG holiday - not too bad, is it ??



KKK would be happy to guide him through that 2 months (who knows, he might even LEARN something while here).

So, there you go, Katie - a holiday for you, and the remote chance that KKK might kick him into shape - and all for a bargain basement price too !!

A real WIN/WIN situation right there...

Koh

PS Anyone who loves dogs can't be ALL bad....

[katiefrank70]

Hi all

Don't know what happened. I posted my reply and it never logged up. Grrrr darn computers

Thanks folks for dropping by and all your lovely words of encouragement.

Vee, yep you are right. 100% or nothing. That's the way to go. And that's all I am going to do. Keeping myself out of temptations way from now on.

Louise, sigh he has dual personalities. Good vs Evil. Unfortunately evil is winning at the moment. I only hope it is a teen phase and he outgrows it. The bombs are just too much.

Koh Nice try. I reckon you would be sending him back in a week.

Well had a great end to week 19. A cool 1.7kg drop and a 1.5" loss (not that I deserve it this week) but it's there. Even the early arrival of TOM didn't slow it up. Once again barely no symptoms (just emotional which I put down to my little rebel)

Kitchen almost completed, just the cooktop to be installed. At least it is finally here.

Really hoping everyone is doing just great.

Katie

[Kohinoor]

Katie,

I suspect your Size 12's are heading for "baggydom" - and 10's are now more the order of the day, yes? But don't buy TOO many, 'cos you'll likely be in Size 8's by Xmas

But then, those "after Xmas Sales" will be calling your new slim name

Rock on, girl - you're on third, and just about to scamper and slide into Home Base !!!

Koh

[louise41]

Wow what a great loss katie, I bet your celebrating!!!! Your getting so close to goal as well. congratulations