Peter 14.7 Diary : new me started 27 Feb 07

[baloo]

Great stuff Peter. Here's to never seeing triple figures again !

[Peter 14.7]

Cohen Date: W4D4 Friday to W4D6 Sunday

Period Weight: 100.2(unable to weigh)
Total CMs (updated Tues.): 9.5cm week 22.75cm total

Cohen Date: W4D5 Friday
Breakfast: 9:00am Yoghurt & Apple
Snack: 10:30am 2 Crispbread
Lunch: 2pm Chicken with Vegs
Snack: 4pm 2 Crispbread
Dinner: 7:30pm Steak & Veg
Supper: 9pm Fruit
Fluids: 2 weak real coffee, 2.0l water
Deviations: Sweet & Low not Sugarine

Cohen Date: W4D6 Saturday
Breakfast: 9:00am Egg & Veg (tomato, onion, mushrooms)
Snack: 12:30am 2 Crispbread
Lunch: 3pm Chicken with Salad & Crispbread (roast chicken, lettuce)
Snack: Nil
Dinner: 7pm Thai Seafood with Cohen Veg,
Supper: 8pm Apple (I think?)
Supper: 12am 1 Crispbread
Fluids: 2 weak real coffee, 1 decaf coffee, 2 tea, 2.0l water
Deviations:
Oil on mushrooms and onion for brekkie,
Only 4 hrs between lunch and dinner
Oil in Thai Meal more than recommended but still as low as possible
Mixed Proteins in Dinner: One small piece of chicken with Seafood (I forgot)
Unable to weigh grams to exact and guessed, probably overate vegies.
Ate crispbread just before going to sleep
Sweet & Low not Sugarine

Cohen Date: W4D7 Sunday
Breakfast: 9:00am Egg & Veg (asparagus)
Snack: 11:00am 2 Crispbread
Lunch: 2pm Baked chicken with tomatoes and green salad
Professionally prepared so chicken was wrapped in prosciutto and stuffed with spinach and white cheese. Tomatoes and Green Salad lightly in vinegar and oil.
I un-wrapped the chicken, pulled out the stuffing, and didn’t eat the cherry tomatoes.
Snack: Nil
Dinner: 8pm Turkey with Cohen Veg
Supper: 9pm Apple
Fluids: 1 decaf coffee, 2 tea, 2.0l water
Deviations:
Residual non-Cohen food in Chicken serve
Oil on salad and tomatoes
Unable to weigh grams to exact and guessed, probably overate vegies.
Equal not Sugarine

My full report on this period is posted earlier FYI.

Peter

[Peter 14.7]

Cohen Date: W4D7 Monday
Today's Weight: 98.8kg (-1.4kg over 5 days , average of 0.28kg per day)
Total CMs (updated Tues.): 9.5cm week 22.75cm total

Breakfast: 9:00am Yoghurt & Apple
Snack: 10:30am 2 Crispbread
Lunch: 2pm Beef Strip with Vegs (Bok Choy, spring onions, mushrooms)
Snack: 5:15pm 2 Crispbread
Dinner: 7:30pm Baked Mushrooms & Cheese & 2 Crispbread(spring onion, mix ricotta & mozzarella) YUMMY
Supper: 9pm Stewed Peaches (small portion no sugar)
Fluids: 1 decaf coffee, 2.0l water just
Deviations: Crispbreads not 2.5hours apart.

My comments on this day are posted earlier FYI.

Peter

[Peter 14.7]

Cohen Date: W5D1 Tuesday (1 month after starting)
Today's Weight: 98.2kg (-0.6kg)
Total CMs (updated Tues.): 7.75cm week 30.5cm total

Breakfast: 9:00am Egg & Asparagus & 2 Crispbreads
Snack: 11:30am Mixture of Cohen Fruits
Lunch: 2pm Prawn Soup & 1 Crispbreads Strip with Vegs (Bok Choy, onion garlic) OK BUT BLAND
Snack:
Dinner:7:15pm Roast Beef with Veg (squash, zuchini, onion, garlic)
Supper: 9pm Orange
Fluids: 2 decaf coffee, 2.0l water
Deviations: Equal.

Well I am one month in and the statistics are:

Total Loss 13.8kg and 24.25cm

This week the big loss in cm was legs and hips. Thus losing tree trunk and love handles.
After initial big losses in chest and waist. Now both only minor loss of 1cm and 1.5cm. I expect waist to hold out and be the last to get moving again.

Significantly, if anyone has any doubt about the factor of loss between no deviations and some/minor deviations I note that:

my loss for five days whilst away on business was average of 0.28kg per day.

my loss yesterday being pure Cohen’s more than double at 0.6kg!

Conclusions: even small deviations have a significant effect.

Peter

[baloo]

Agree on the deviations. 5 days spent in HK resulted in a total of .4kg loss, and that was trying to stay as close to Cohen approved foods as possible. This is a *rapid* weight loss pregramme. The rapid only kicks in when we don't deviate. There's a lesson there for all of us.

How's the torso looking Peter ? The other day I looked in the mirror, looked again from a different angle and realised I'd seen an old friend I hadn't seen in years. I said "Hello, nice to see you" to my ribs ! I didn't get a reply though, they must have forgotten who I am.

[Peter 14.7]

Hows my torso?

Well for some reason I have never had oblique muscles (either side of your abdominals) so I have lost fat there and have my usual hollow. That is good.

Ribs I will have to check. Where the loss comes is interesting. At first it was chest and waist, now it is more hips and legs.

They problem I know I will have form past experiences is when the chest gets flatter, the gut looks fatter. I start to look more fat than stocky.

FYI we are both 178cm tall.

Peter 14.7

[Peter 14.7]

Cohen Date: W5D2 Wednesday
Today's Weight: 98.4kg (+0.2kg)
Total CMs (updated Tues.): 7.75cm week 30.5cm total

Breakfast: 8:30am Yoghurt & Mango
Snack: 11:00am 1 Ryvita
Lunch: 2:30pm Turkey & Mushroom Soup & 1 Ryvita (mushroom, onion)
Snack: 5pm 2 Salada
Dinner: 7:30pm Steak with Green Salad (spinach, onion, tomato)
Supper: 8:45pm Orange
Fluids: 2 decaf coffee, 2.5l water, 1 tea
Deviations: Equal x 1.

Went up 0.2kg today. Increased water intake as new goal.

Peter

[Peter 14.7]

Cohen Date: W5D3 Thursday
Today's Weight: 97.8kg (-0.6kg)
Total CMs (updated Tues.): 7.75cm week 30.5cm total

Breakfast: 8:15am Yoghurt & Apple
Snack: Crackers
Lunch: Fetta on Crackers with Tomato, onion and Lettice
Snack: Nil
Dinner: Roast Chicken & Veg ( squash, onion, tomatoe)
Supper: Crackers
Fluids: 1 tea, 1 coffee, 1.5l water
Deviations: not enough water

Down 0.8kg today.

Peter

[Peter 14.7]

Cohen Date: W5D4 Friday
Today's Weight: 97.6kg (-0.2kg)
Total CMs (updated Tues.): 7.75cm week 30.5cm total

Breakfast: 8:30am Scrambled Egg & Vegs & 2 Crackers (tomato, onion, spinach)
Snack: 11:30am 2 Crispbread
Lunch: 1:30pm Veal and Veg Soup ( mushrooms, bokchoy, etc..)
Snack: 3pm Apple
Snack: 5pm 2 Crispbread
Dinner: 7:30pm Baked Fish & Prawn with Vegs (spinach, onion, tomato)
Supper: 8pm Stewed Peach half in Diet Sprite
Fluids: 1 decaf coffee, 2l water , small diet sprite.
Deviations: Not enough water.

Down 0.2kg today. Water still hard to not forget.

Peter

[Peter 14.7]

Cohen Date: W5D5 Saturday
Today's Weight: 97.6kg (did not weigh?)
Total CMs (updated Tues.): 7.75cm week 30.5cm total

Breakfast: 8:30am Poached Egg & Vegs & 1 Cracker (tomato, onion, spinach)
Snack: 11:30am Fresh Fruit (kiwi, apple)
Snack: 12:30am 2 Crispbread
Lunch: 1:30pm Chicken Salad (onion, lettuce, cucumbers, tomato)
Snack: 3pm Apple
Snack: 5pm 2 Crispbread
Dinner: 6:30pm Steak & Asparagus
Supper: 8pm Stewed Peach half in Diet Sprite
Fluids: 2 decaf coffee, 2l water.
Deviations: Not enough water.

Well today was significant because I forgot to weigh!

The new diet is so much my lifestyle I did not think to weigh myself. As well I spent the day out and was not worried, confident I would find a café for fruit and for salad that was ok.

I take this as a very good sign that my mindset has changed from focussed diet to new eating habits.

Peter

[lessfatty]

May I rain on your parade a little and ask how you will know the gram weights and protiens will be put in your salad?

Fruit is OK of course if you basically keep it under allowance.

[Peter 14.7]

Wow What a flash new format.

In reply to LF it was simple. I told them the vegs I oculd have and that i wanted 120g veg and 120g cooked chicken breast.

I checked before hand it was a good cafe and that they didchicken sandwiched and wrote it donw in long hand for the waiter.

FYI I lost 0.6kg in two days. Need to cut out the Equal and get more waterinto me.

Peter

[Peter 14.7]

Cohen Date: W5D6 Sunday
Today's Weight: 97.0kg (-0.6 over 2 days)
Total CMs (updated Tues.): 7.75cm week 30.5cm total

Breakfast: 8:30am Yoghurt and Stewed Apple & Quince
Snack: Nil
Lunch: 2pm 2 Crispbread & Fetta & Salad (tom, lettuce, onion)
Snack: 5pm Apple
Snack: 6pm 2 Crispbread
Dinner: 7pm Baked Prawns & Veg (silverbeet & squash)
Supper: 8pm Stewed Peach half in Diet Sprite
Fluids: 2 decaf coffee, 2l water.
Deviations: Not enough water, Quince.

Loss of 0.6kg in 2 days. Not bad. That still 2.1kg in a week.

Worked hard in garden all day so tomorrow should be interesting considering I had fetta for lunch.

Peter

[Supershrinker]

WOW Peter you are doing amazingly... good on you.. what an inspiration.

reading diaries like this is getting my motivation way up .... something about knowing you're not alone in the world.

THank you for sharing and WOW... way to go *insert clapping smiley*

[Peter 14.7]

Cohen Date: W5D7 Monday
Today's Weight: 96.8kg (-0.2kg)
Total CMs (updated Tues.): 7.75cm week 30.5cm total

Breakfast: 8:45am Yoghurt and Peach
Snack:
Lunch: 2:15pm Baked Mushrooms with Ricotta & Mozzarella Topping & Crackers
Snack: 6pm 2 Crispbread
Dinner: 8pm McDonalds Herb Chicken Salad & 2 Crispbreads
Supper: 9:30pm Apple
Fluids: 2 tea, 1 real coffee, 2.5L water!
Deviations:. McD Salad with 4 Cherry Tomatoes, 5g sugar and 3g fat per serve. And under allowance on protein and vegs.

Small loss of 0.2kg and after a day of gardening but was low water.

This could be usual movement and/or slowing in loss. So I will focus on no deviations and see if loss rises. Goal of 3l water.

Outcome: Only made 2.5lt. Still that better than usual and a start.

Deviation: Had a family emergency so went to Frankston (2hr drive) to visit sick mum. Forced to eat McDonalds Salad and food late before bed.

So I went to MCD website this morning and salad is not all that bad only 5g sugar and 3g fat however included minute bits of carrot and 4 big cherry tomatoes and a lot of additives.

FYI the web site has all the detail but the format is web designer gone mad and very hard to get around! Cannot even work out how many grams in a box. Woke up next day hungry so it must have been under quota.

Peter

[Peter 14.7]

Cohen Date: W6D1 Tuesday
Today's Weight: 96.6kg (-0.2kg)
Total CMs (updated Tues.): 4.5cm week 35cm total

Breakfast: 9am Scrambled Egg & Veg (zucchini, onion, tomato)
Snack:11:30 2 Crispbreads & Herbal Tea
Lunch:3pm Curry Prawn Soup ( prawns, spring onions, silverbeet, curry powder)
Snack: 6pm 2 Crispbread
Dinner: 8pm Steak & Veg (zucchini, onion)
Supper: Nil
Fluids: 1 tea, 1 decaf coffee with sugarine, 2ltre water
Deviations:.

Again a small loss of 0.2kg but considering yesterday deviations that is not too bad.

End of week 5 so cm updated. A loss of 1 to 2cm all round however I feel the error factor is significant. Gut out, gut slightly in, same location etc… So unless I put texta on my body to ensure the exact same post it is a general guide when considered week to week.

Overall I have slowed a lot which I think may be eating crackers with meal and too much cheese. So I will avoid crackers at meal and see what happens.

Peter

[Supershrinker]

What cheese are you eating Peter? I know for me ricotta makes me bloat and put on weight and yet mozzarella helps me lose it. Tuna also makes me put on weight. Bizarre how the human body works.

You have done amazingly to do date... way to go.

[Peter 14.7]

Both. The mushrooms was both Ricotta & Mozarella.

I dont seem to have been able to track an actual problem with either or both as yet.

However cheese is confusing.

We are recommended to eat low fat chicken breast, beef, crackers but not low fat fetta. Yet fetta is once a week only?

Thanks for your comments but It seems i have slowed to 0.3kg to 0,2kg a day since my rapid start. GOing to enter into the mycohenguide of baloo and see if it can show a link.

Peter

[jools]

I rarely have cheese. I just think that it will slow me down. Don't need to be on this diet any longer than I have to.

Keep up the good work Pete. Doing just great. See if you can find a freckle or something to use as a marker so you measure the same place each week.

[Peter 14.7]

I think you are right Jools.

I relaxed a bit after my inital dilligence. I am not into deviations but it all adds up. I only really enjoy the fetta so I will keep cheese to a minimum.

I also think the spacing of crackers and not at meals works for me. Today I amd being super good so it I move more than 0.2kg to say 0.4kg plus tomorrow then i may be onto something?

Peter