Peter 14.7 Diary : new me started 27 Feb 07

[Peter 14.7]

Cohen Date: W7D3 Thursday 12th April
Today's Weight: 94.2kg (-0.8kg)
Total CMs (updated Tues.): 6.25cm week 41.25cm total

Breakfast: 9:15am Yoghurt & Stewed Apples
Snack: 11am 2 Crackers
Lunch: 2:30pm Fetta Salad with Crackers ( tom, onion, lettice)
Snack: 5pm 2 Crackers
Dinner: 7:30pm Prawns & Silverbeet Fry Up
Supper: 9pm Orange
Fluids: 1 decaf coffee, 1 real Coffee, 3.1 Litre water
Deviations:

I cannot remember the last time I lost 0.8kg in day. Would have been in the very early days. Was pretty stunned. Only 0.2kg before GOAL 2 and mid way point!

FYI what I did different was:

I stuck to my cracker theory with two in the mid point between brekkie, lunch and dinner and one at lunch.

Drank 3.1litre of water. Cannot remember ever doing that before either.

Yoghurt for Brekkie. Seems to help loss more than egg or cheese meal.

Peter

[baloo]

Mate, I'm starting to think *you* need to be drug tested !

Well done though. You seem to be keeping up with me

[Peter 14.7]

Thank Baloo and your 0.6kg drop today aint shabby either, Peter

PS where is your ticker?

[baloo]

.6 was yesterday, today was .5.

Having some ticker/signature problems at the moment. Not sure if you missed the fun last night but asy deleted me off the board. She says it was an accident but I think she meant it and it was a way for her to show me who's boss around here

I should get it up soon. But if you want to see how much I've lost, you can click the spreadsheet link.

[Peter 14.7]

Originally Posted by Baloo

Asy says it was an accident but I think she meant it and it was a way for her to show me who's boss around here

Ahhh...absolute power, corrupts absolutely.

Please dont hurt me Asy, Peter

[Peter 14.7]

Cohen Date: W7D3 Friday 13th April
Today's Weight: 94.0kg (-0.2kg) GOAL TWO!
Total CMs (updated Tues.): 6.25cm week 41.25cm total

Breakfast: 8:15am Yoghurt & Stewed Apples
Snack:11am 2 Crackers
Lunch: 1:30pm Turkey Fried with Green Salad( tom, onion, lettuce)
Snack: 2pm 2 crackers
Snack: 5pm 2 crackers
Dinner: 7pm Roast Chicken & Salad (tom, lettuce, cucumber)
Supper: 8:30pm Orange
Fluids: 2 decaf coffee, 2.6litre water
Deviations:

Well only 0.2kg but it puts me onto GOAL 2!

Half way, it is all downhill from now on. Will post more about this new community thread.

Again Drank 3.1litre of water. Didn’t finish till 9pm but I made it.

Peter

[Peter 14.7]

Cohen Date: W7D4 Saturday 14th April
Today's Weight: 93.6kg (-0.4kg)
Total CMs (updated Tues.): 6.25cm week 41.25cm total

Breakfast: 8:45am Scrambled Egg & Asparagus & 1 Cracker
Snack: 11:15am 2 Cracker
Lunch: 2pm Chicken Soup (chicken, Cohen vegs, green beans & broccoli) 2 crackers
Snack: 4:30pm 2 Cracker
Dinner: 7pm Steak & some Lamb with Green Salad (over grams in salad & Some very fine cheese & dressing)
Supper: 9pm Orange
Fluids: 1 decaf coffee, 2.5litre water
Deviations: Some lamb, over allowance of Salad & Mixed Protein (lamb, beef and cheese)

The deviations relate to travelling 5 hours to a Friends Birthday Party.

Was a BBQ so I tool my own beef but it was not a good cut so tried some lamb fillet. Yes lamb is not on the list. Also salad was pre-made with some parmesan cheese but very fine and some dressing. I avoided cakes, pavlova, alcohol you name it.

Very hard to travel and drink. Lots of stops.

Overall Ok considering the situation but unable to weigh until Monday morning.

Peter

[Peter 14.7]

Cohen Date: W7D5 Sunday 15th April
Today's Weight: 93.6kg (??? Unable to weigh)
Total CMs (updated Tues.): 6.25cm week 41.25cm total

Breakfast: 9am 1.5 Poached Egg, No vegs
Snack: 11:15am 2 Cracker
Lunch: 2pm BBQ Turkey & with Green Salad (over grams in salad & Some very fine cheese & dressing)
Snack: 4:30pm 2 Cracker
Dinner: 7pm Baked Mushrooms with Cheese (Ricotta/Mozzarella) 2 Cracker
Fluids: 1 tea, 1 real coffee, 2 decaf coffee, 2.5litre water
Deviations: Over allowance of Salad & Mixed Protein (turkey and cheese), No veg with Breakfast.

The deviations relate to travelling back 5 hours from a Friends Birthday Party and staying overnight at BnB.

In hindsight, I should have asked for/taken some tomato/etc. or so with brekkie. I am sure they would not have minded but the BnB was booked out and very busy.

On the plus side I go HUGE comments on loss.

Sister of the birthday girl thought my wife had brought a NEW guy to the party! In a way she did.
Her mother said I looked 10 years younger and she has known me from 16.

Three ladies very interested in Cohen’s so I gave then the spiel. One I think will sign up.

Tomorrow weigh in with be interesting. Off to Sydney from midday Monday until Midday Wednesday so 2 days of Cohen’s away from home. My wife says the change is much more visible now than the first time I sent to Sydney.

Will try to post but if note, good luck.

Peter

[SOS]

Congratulations on achieving your half way point. You are on the downhill run now. Imagine the comments when you have reached goal. No one will recognise the new partner that your wife is with........keep them guessing...

[Kristine..]

Hi Peter

Well done on passing the Half Way mark!

This is great progress and the time seems to have flown by. I am sure it is very difficult when away for business and away from home such a lot. My week in Sydney recently saw me eating 7/11 bought yoghurt with fruit in it - nice, but full fat, had sugar etc, and that was only one meal each day!

By the time I got to the end of the five days I had accumulated nearly one kilo of 'stodge weight' - luckily I now know how to dislodge 'food weight' fairly quickly, and kept myself to egg salads for lunch for the next two days to balance and sooth the body. It had worked hard for that week plus there were FanTales on the meeting room table and once I had eaten one .....

By the way, "Lunch: 2pm Chicken Soup (chicken, Cohen vegs, green beans & broccoli) 2 crackers" - as you know, green beans and brocollli are not on the shopping list. I have found that if I don't have vegetables that the weight teeters - maybe the tryptophan in the Cohen's vegetables really does continue to trigger HGH and all the other lovely things and the zucchini, mushrooms, cucumber, celery etc are more of nature's miracles. When in doubt, eat a cucumber!

Good luck for the easy second part of the journey. It will still take vigilance and application but now that you are steaming along it will seem like a piece of cake! Sorry!! It will seem like a breeze!!

Hehehe

cheers

Kristine

[Peter 14.7]

Thanks SOS and Kristine for your kind words.

Cohen Date: W7D7 Monday 16th April
Today's Weight: 93.4kg (-0.2kg)
Total CMs (updated Tues.): 6.25cm week 41.25cm total

And as you can read a Loss on only 0.2kg over 2 days due to deviations. Still a loss. Gives me motivation to stay online in Sydney.

Peter

[lessfatty]

Well done on the 1/2 way point, just keep doing what you are doing

Honestly we have to live our life, work, family, obligations and that means deviations on occasion, yes they hurt but as I have seen you have always been pragmatic on the choices, if the cost you a couple of weeks, it doesnt really matter.

[Peter 14.7]

Well here are the 3 days I was in Sydney in a block.

Cohen Date: W7D7 Monday 16th April
Today's Weight: 93.4kg (-0.2kg)
Total CMs (updated Tues.): 9.1cm week 51.5cm total

Breakfast: 8am Yoghurt & Peaches (canned but washed and drained)
Snack: 10:30am 2 Cracker
Lunch: 1pm Chicken Salad (chicken & vegs to correct grams)
Snack: 2 Cracker & Apple
Dinner: 7pm Beef Salad (over allowance of grams and some fine cracked rice as garnish)
Fluids: At best 2.0L Water, 3 decaf coffee.
Deviations: Not enough water, over allowance of grams and cracked rice.

Cohen Date: W8D1 Tuesday 17th April
Today's Weight: 93.4kg (?? did not weigh)
Total CMs (updated Tues.): 6.25cm week 41.25cm total

Breakfast: 8am Mushrooms, Tomato & 2 Eggs (cohens veg but over allowance & in more oil)
Snack: 2 Cracker
Lunch: 1pm Beef Burger Salad (cohens veg but over allowance & in more oil)
Snack: 2 Cracker & Apple
Dinner: 8pm Prawn & Seafood Extender & Green Salad (over allowance of grams)
Fluids: At best 2.0L Water, 3 decaf coffee.
Deviations: Not enough water, More Grams and Oils than Allowance, Seafood Extender.

Cohen Date: W8D2 Wednesday 18th April
Today's Weight: 93.4kg (?? did not weigh)
Total CMs (updated Tues.): 6.25cm week 41.25cm total

Breakfast: 7am Mushrooms, Tomato & Eggs (cohens veg but over allowance)
Snack: 2 Cracker & Apple
Lunch: 2pm Chicken Salad (chicken & vegs to correct grams)
Snack: 2 Cracker
Dinner: 8pm Roast Chicken (bought) & Green Salad (over allowance of grams)
Supper: Mandarin
Fluids: At best 2.0L Water, 3 decaf coffee.
Deviations: Not enough water, More Grams than Allowance.

As you can see the good news is:

1. I stuck to Cohen Vegs about 90%
2. I didn’t give in to temptation
3. Maintained 5hr between meals.
4. My café did pure cohens Chicken salads.

The variations are:

1. About 50% meals are over allowance in grams
2. More oil in café meals than allowance in some cases
3. Some non cohens food like Seafood Extender got eaten
4. Too much tomato got eaten
5. Not enough water.

disclaimer: bloody hard to wander around clients offices, construction sites, in planes, taxis, etc… carrying a 1.25 litre bottle of water. I lost 2 half empty bottles simply by putting them down and leaving them.

So for three days from Monday morning till today, Thursday morning I have only lost 0.2kg. However considering the need to be realistic about the situation that is not too bad.

Peter

[Peter 14.7]

Cohen Date: W8D3 Thursday 19th April
Today's Weight: 93.2kg (-0.2kg over three days)
Total CMs (updated Tues.): 9.1cm week 51.5cm total

Breakfast: 8:30am Mushroom, Tomato & Egg & 2 Crackers
Snack: 11am 2 Crackers
Lunch: Chicken Soup (Cohen veg & chicken in home made broth)
Snack: 11am 2 Crackers
Dinner: Lamb Fillet & Mushrooms
Supper: Mandarin
Fluids: 2 decaf coffee, 1 tea, 2l water
Deviations: Lamb

Well back home and able to be strict again. As always after a trip, tomorrow’s weigh in will be interesting to see if I go back up to 0.4kg a day. Even 0.2kg is equal to the last 3 days so that is positive.

Ate Lamb due ot having to visit sick mum again. They had cooked specially so I ate only meat not trim or fat.

Need to update CMS

Peter

[Peter 14.7]

Cohen Date: W8D4 Friday 20th April
Today's Weight: 92.4kg (-0.8kg)
Total CMs (updated Tues.): 9.1cm week 51.5cm total

Breakfast: 8:30am Mushroom with Cheese Grilled ( mozzarella)
Snack: 11am 2 Crackers & Orange
Lunch: Chicken Salad ( chicken, tom, onion and endive lettuce)
Snack: 11am 2 Crackers
Dinner: Roast Beef with Baked Mushroom, Tomato & Squash
Supper: Orange
Fluids: 3 decaf coffee, 2.2litre water
Deviations: Nil

Whilst lamb is banned I don’t know why when I lost a massive 0.8kg in a day!

I think my theory on this and that is “down the spout” and in the end COHEN JUST WORKS!

I need to calibrate my cms to reflect the 7 day week as I measured two days late but it all good news. Been a good boy today. Pure to the gram and mix.

Peter

[Peter 14.7]

Cohen Date: W8D5 Saturday 21th April
Today's Weight: 92.2kg (-0.2kg)
Total CMs (updated Tues.): 9.1cm week 51.5cm total

Breakfast: 9:45 am Yoghurt with Stewed Peached & Apple
Snack: 1pm Crackers
Lunch: 3pm Chicken Soup & Crackers
Snack: 5pm Crackers
Dinner: 8pm Steak with Mushrooms and Bolognaise sauce over the top.
Supper: Orange
Fluids: 2.5 litre water, 2 decaf coffee
Deviations: Not 2.5hrs between crackers

A small but satisfying loss of 0.2kg. Often after a big loss you can stall so that’s ok.

Very close to 20kg off.

Peter

[soba]

Hi Peter

I admire the way you stick almost 100% to your plan while you are travelling. You have given me some good ideas to consider when I am away from home.

Currently, I avoid eating out as I am scared that I'll make the wrong choices, but I feel a little more confident after reading your experiences.

Congrats on the weightloss so far - your doing an amazing job.

Soba

[Peter 14.7]

Thanks Soba

As I wrote elsewhere "I don't sweat the small stuff". You cannot suspend your life for 4 months.

And it does seem (for me) if you stick to cohens veg but over the allowance whilst away the impact is much reduced. Virtually everywhere does a green salad. Thai places do a beff slad which is almost pure cohen. We can live.

FYI i also have another thread in community area about eating away if you have not seen that.

Peter

[Peter 14.7]

Cohen Date: W8D6 Sunday 22nd April
Today's Weight: 91.6kg (-0.6kg)
Total CMs (updated Tues.): 9.1cm week 51.5cm total

Breakfast: 8:30 am Baked Mushrooms with Cheese (ricotta/mozzarella mix)
Snack: Nil
Lunch: 12:30pm Minestrone Soup & A little Parmesan & green Salad (no pasta)
Snack: 3pm Crackers
Supper: 5pm Orange
Dinner: 7pm Chicken & Veg Fry Up & 2 Crackers (asparagus, silverbeet)
Supper: Orange
Fluids: 2.5litre, 1 decaf coffee, 1 tea
Deviations: Not 5hrs between lunch & brekkie, Minestrone Soup (see below)

A great loss of 0.6kg. Smashing me past 20kg. WOW! I remember having achieved 16kg loss and being stoked. Now I HAVE less than 16kg to go.

Lunch was a guess-estimate as I was attending a function and consisted of Minestrone Soup. Had some beans but mostly clear soup. I removed the potato.

Coffee was followed by a plate heaving with Italian biscotti, macaroons, almond fingers, etc.. Not a problem. I think I have broken my social eating issue.

Peter

[Peter 14.7]

For those interested here is a study of CM lost.

Having finally updated my CM, I noted two weeks I measured were only 6 days apart and two others 9 days apart (Sydney travel). So I adjusted my spreadsheet to provide a pro-rata actual loss that 7 day week. I note however this in itself is flawed as greater/lesser loss may have occurred before/after the 7 day pro-rata measure date but a least I can fairly compare each week.

And what does this say?

LOSS CM
Week 0 0.0
Week 1 7.3
Week 2 5.4
Week 3 11.1
Week 4 7.8
Week 5 4.5
Week 6 6.3
Week 7 9.1

So as you can see there is no average loss of CM. And the early Weeks when I lost more weight don’t correlate with weeks I lost more CM. Showing why over measuring/weighing can be counter productive if that effects your motivation.

What matters is this is each body part loss of:

Right bicep 6.5cm
Left bicep 3cm
Chest 15.5cm
Waist 18cm
Hips 8cm
Right Thigh 7.5 cm
Left Thigh 6cm
Neck 6cm

Interesting hey? Right arm was significantly fatter than left (I am right handed) but now they are within 0.5cm of each other. Same for right and left thigh. But it cannot be that I am being right handed as thign and bicpet are now almost the same CM except by 0.5cm. I simply had more fat on my RH side.

Waist was 2cm ahead of Chest but now is it 0.5cm less. That is my chest is wider than my waist, good for guy in looks.

FYI Hips did not start to move a lot until the week 3/4.

And the surprise package, neck. That is where I have seen the greatest % change and the most change in appearance. I appear taller because my neck is slimmer. I don’t snore, etc...

Once I complete Baloo’s graph I will post weekly per cm lost to KG lost to compare.

Regards, Peter