Weight Loss Journals - petecohen.tv

Hurrah at last I can log on and start catching up. My blogs had been getting sporadic am afraid, but then my internet went on the blink. Think it's sorted now so I'll backtrack tomorrow and have a good old catch up. I've been busy being positive and doing lots of walking. Especially since I'm dogsitting and have a great excuse. Although I've fallen over twice since she came and tonight fell into the road skinning my knees - how ridiculous at my age. It did hurt though ! At least I didn't go under a truck, break any bones or let go of the lead ! I did learn something though - at my age you stay in a crumpled heap and can't leap up like you used to back in the day. Off to bed with a paracetamol. Night all, glad to be back. xx

Forgot my food diary:
Brekky: weetabix+milk+coffee
Snack: satsuma+oatcake
Lunch: egg salad sandwich+pack of pom bears
Snack: satsuma+cup of tea
Tea: salmon+prawn salad with baked potato with balsamic dressing +satsuma and cup of coffee
+++water

Here's my blog as promised Pete:
How am I getting on so far:
Overall I am feeling very positive, although I had a downslide last week and annoyed with myself for letting stressful situations get the better of my temper. I won't go into all the boring detail again you'll be glad to hear.
I went away at the weekend and did lots of exercise with my youngest son who is into fitness and triathlons like you wouldn't believe, but you will understand Pete as you know him. The weekend gave me a lift and honed my thinking as being far away from the madding crowd gave me that bit of extra head space to get things into perspective. It was also good that my hubby and me were able to exercise together which was great, our days do seem to be split up recently he exercises in the early morning I can only manage the evening.
Today I feel far more in control than I did at the beginning of this course. I had a great time on the last year's live session but let things slide at christmas, now I have to get on with it and shift the weight I put back on at christmas. I'm using more of the tools, in fact I probably know them backward by now.

I think the way forward to is continue with the blogging and I haven't had as much time to devote to it as I would have liked, but now am going to build time into my day ME time ! I also like the support and ideas from the group. This year's session is also great and I'm delighted to be part of such a kind and supportive group of pals. You all really do help you know and I'll do my level best to get more involved. I get so involved supporting people in my job it's does get difficult to motivate myself once I get home. But this week at least I've got my sensible hat on, addicted to satsumas, but better than jaffa cakes and I'll take things a day at a time.
Thanks Pete keep on doing the do ! hugs Annie xx :-)) xx
ps Pete - just had a thought - could lower carbs help out with pain relief - since reducing my carbs alot I've not had to take so many painkillers - it could be the exercise, but exercise alone in the past hasn't reduced the painkillers ??? Can a high carb diet aggravate arthritis?

Survived last week which was horrid in all sorts of ways. Enjoyed last weeks live session and the superfans session too.
Did my homework and although I didn't have a completely carb free day had a vastly reduced carb free weekend. It was quite easy as I spent the weekend doing a mini bootcamp with our son and he and his partner did all the cooking. It was great, I he encouraged his old mum to do far more exercise than I had done in a while and their cooking was fab. Enjoyed some new flavours with harissa dressing on our salads.
I didn't get any headaches for once, but did have a major wobble on sunday morning when out hiking (hypo or something). I'm not diabetic but I've had these do's in the past and call them sugar shakes. Prob lack of it. Anyway it all went well and I've found I've already halved my painkillers for my back. So that's really good news.
I definitely wasn't coping with stress very well last week. A combination of stress at home and work wasn't good, especially post holiday, all the benefits of being away seemed to vanish. Fortunately our trip to Wales has restored that. Looking forward to tomorrow night already. Food diary:
Brekky: 2 weetabix+milk 1 coffee
Snack: 1 satsuma
Lunch: Tuna, tomato+spinach leaf sandwich
Snack: 2 satsumas 1 coffee
Tea: prawns and hardboiled egg salad, mixed salad with balsamic vinegar + 1 satsuma and a cup of tea.
Drank more water and lost 2lb over the weekend. Will put a coin in my jar.
Am feeling pretty good tonight, hope it continues and everyone is in a happy place too.
Nite all Annie :-)) xx

Haven't blogged for a while as I was on holiday in Spain. Managed to log on to our LIVE session while over there and was really pleased not to miss it. Had a great time and kept pretty much with the healthy eating, didn't lose any weight, but then didn't put any one which was ok.
This is going to turn in to a rant, but at least I'll get it off my chest and apologise for that now.
Some one cloned one of our cards in the uk before we left for holiday and had a great spending spree. Having to call the fraud people from Spain isn't too good for stress. But it's getting sorted and the cheeky beggars are still spending on it when it's supposed to be stopped. I mean how bright can these robbers be - sainsbury's food shopping on line and dominos pizza !!!! I do hope the police go knocking on a few doors. They've spent about £1000 altogether though. Came home to a broken boiler and to cut a long story short the insurance company have taken until tonight to tell us the fault is not covered by them. They've delayed things from 5am Sunday morning when I could have got my own plumber out. The house is like a fridge, had to electric heaters etc etc, thank goodness for my Mum and we can wash there. But I have to remind myself that we never had central heating in the 'old days'. A little hot water in the taps would be good though. And to top off my week a situation has arisen at work with a mood hoover life sucking out type of colleague who is kicking off about absolutely nothing at all, but her silly accusations are affecting our department. She has no idea how hard working and dedicated all our staff are - our days are filled to capacity and she's expecting us to take work from her! it's just so demoralising. We now have to prove everything we do just to prove her wrong - bring it on! So am afraid it's been that sort of week. Oh and I've still got water pouring into the floor pan of my car so that now has to go back to be fixed.
It's all sortable no one has died - but unfortunately it's been a run of events that has pushed me over the edge. Really enjoyed my LIVE sessions this week, but as there is no heat in my hall I really do have to go and get warm. I'm going to Wales with my hubby at the weekend for a 'boot camp' organised by our son (you know which one I mean pete). Hopefully our pipes won't freeze as it's given -2 for the weekend. I'm still going away as I'm sure the fresh air and exercise will put me back on the right track.
Rant over. I still feel very positive doing this programme and all your messages are still buzzing round my head Pete even though I've paused the 21 day programme for a little longer. As always you are always in my thoughts. Nite all hugs Annie (a little happier for my rant - sorry folks!). xx

Brekky: 2 weetabix with milk+coffee
Lunch: 2 oatcakes with cheese+bacon+coffee
Tea: chicken+tomato pasta (my son makes a lovely sauce with cherry tomatoes and fresh basil) scrummy and even better he made it for me.
2 shortbread biscuits.
Another very busy day. Had to visit our other team this morning so it was an early start and quite a drive, but a worthwhile visit. Trying to get sqared up before I go away on Saturday. So much to do, but I'm sure the place will keep chugging on if I'm not there, why do we bother so much !
Really enjoyed the LIVE session on Wed Pete and the one tonight was especially good. It is really good to put a face to the names, they have been so supportive over the months.
I'm in a good place with me again this week, just wish I could say the same about some of my colleagues at work. How I wish I could transfer some of the kinship I feel here to them. Maybe it's me thats changing and not them. I've certainly become more tolerant of others, not that I was ever that intolerant before, but some I work with sometimes seem to look only for the bad in others and it's really getting on my nerves. Life is too short to be so critical of others, we all have bad days/can't cope days why can't some people be a little more understanding of others needs. I guess everyone comes in and sounds off at me - I think I may have to start telling them to vent elsewhere, some days its just a bit too much.
Sorry for the rant. Am so glad we had the superfan session tonight it's done me so much good.
Love to everyone, hope you have a great 2 weeks. I have my diary to take away on Saturday and am looking forward to some chill time with lots of walking.
Nite nite annie xx

Just catching up. Fancy not blogging on day 1. Not a good start, but never mind. It was all in my head, just didn't get chance to write it down.
Brekky: swiss museli+berries+coffee
Lunch: omlette with tomato, mushroom and salad, 1 kiwi, 1 satsuma
Resisted the biscuits - hurrah !
Drank more water - double hurah !!
Tea: homemade veg soup+chicken sandwich
More water.

Just a quick hello Pete and to all you lovely ladies on the LIVE session tonight. Really enjoyed it and didn't the time fly by. Got my notebook ready for tomorrow and will definitely be writing down what I eat, I find it a great reminder about what not to eat. The thought of being so very honest does stop me reaching for the biscuits quite so often. Shame I won't be there next week, but our trip has been organised for months, I will do my very best to log on and join in.
Good luck to everyone with DAY 1 tomorrow. Night all annie xx

Brekky: swiss granola+berries+coffee
Snack: 2 shortbread biscuits+cup of tea
Lunch: chicken sandwich+crisps
Tea: Beans on toast with grated cheese
Snack: 2 satsumas, 2 kiwi fruits
2 choc biscuits from a bag of misshapes that a patient kindly brought in. I think they don't count as they were misshapes! who am I kidding. Drank more water though. That won't make up for the biscuit consumption. Must try harder. Council meeting straight from work, am exhausted, am off to bed. Hope you all had a more successful day then me ! hugs annie xx

Now that's a nice number. I love even numbers.
Brekky: porridge with berries 2 rounds of toast+coffee
Lunch: tomato+mushroom omlette+salad
Tea: my son's homemade curry which was lovely but very hot, it was low fat so was fine. Does very hot curry speed metabolism up?
Snacks: 3 chocolate biscuits and another cup of tea.
Not bad considering it's been an awful day. My server crashed and burned at 10.15am today, we had 4 big clinics running with patients managing to trudge through the awful weather. Proud that our staff carried on without computers, I won't go into boring details but it is very difficult to run a clinic without a computer. It finally got fixed at 6pm and I got home at 8.30pm phew wot a day! Am sooooo looking forward to a lie in tomorrow. But we survived another day in the nhs, if people only knew what goes on behind the scenes to get things running.
It's a bit warmer today just the -4 on the way home tonight.
Hope everyone is coping with the big freeze and not struggling too much. Am setting myself just the one challenge tomorrow - drink more water, shouldn't be that difficult surely!
Nite all - have a great weekend xx

Food diary Thursday 7th
Brekky: porridge+berries+coffee
Lunch: homemade coleslaw, ham+tomatoes
Tea: savoury mince, baked potato+peas
Snacks: rich tea biscuits, 4 oatcakes+philly cheese+cup of tea
Still not drinking enough water, have decided to rewatch the 21 daily videos. Can't believe how tired I've been this week, it surely can't be all this cold weather? I just want to curl up and sleep. It was -13 this morning, never thought I'd see that on my car thermometer.
Can't help thinking how lucky we are to have a warm and cozy home, my mind drifts to the homeless in this terrible weather. I've no idea how they manage. Maybe that's something I should involve myself in more?
My mind seems to be drifting just about everywhere since christmas. I'm hoping to get refocused and get some energy back from the the live group next week - gosh I've missed you guys, didn't realise how much until this week. I've kept the faith pretty well with the healthy natural eating and that's becoming second nature now, I'm just lacking a bit of umph. Not like me at all as I'm really a winter girl. So I'll just have to give myself a big slap come Saturday morning, get my pinny on and knuckle down to a little indoor exercise ie housework and get myself into gear. Hopefully the thaw will set in and I can get out and do a few miles.
Hope everyone else is managing with the weather. Thanks for the lovely videos Pete -they are stunning. I wouldn't be surprised if you haven't been playing golf in the snow though?
Hugs to all from the place where your road salt comes from! Annie xx

Hi Pete, how do I put a photo on my page/profile????
Thanks

Well what a day. Managed to get to work through the snow storm and we even managed to run all our clinics around and about which was geat. On the other hand it seemed like everyone on our books rang in to tell us it was snowing ! So exhausting. Unfortunately I had bought theatre tickets for my 83 year old parents for Manchester tonight, and it wasn't worth risking the roads. That will teach me to plan surprises in January ! Onto the more mundane. Am winding back down into my healthy eating. Had a lovely new food processor for christmas and can now get back to making health coleslaws. Yes I know I could have got busy with a sharp knife, but after a 10 hour day at work I never seem to have the energy. Today's foods:
Brekky: nutty museli+coffee
Snack: 1 satsuma
Lunch: Cup of tea, mushroom soup+ 2 of my Mum's homemade sausage rolls (I just couldn't say no when she had made them specially, will have to have a word with her to stop baking).
Tea: 2 pork meatballs, cous cous and coleslaw/tomato salad, 1 cup of tea.
Have not drunk enough water again, must start that tomorrow.
Had enough of my salad left for lunch tomorrow so that's all packed up ready for work.
Hope everyone manages to get through the snow/ice safely tomorrow.
Hugs Annie xx

Well I'm back blogging as promised. Not going to be much today, although I could say lots I'm soooo tired. First day back at work after the holidays, although I did some emergency clinics over christmas, but you all know how it is so I won't moan on about it all.
Am pleased to be be back 'doin the do' Pete and looking forward to next Tuesday. I've missed blogging, can't believe I just said that, but it really does help out. I did overdo things at christmas, but for once haven't gone mad with chocolate and def didn't go too barmy with puddings, I couldn't resist the roast dinners though. But am not going to get down over it as they were quite delicious and now in the past. Off to squeeze another 2 chapters of Twilight - it helps keep my hand out of the biscuit tin (and don't anyone tell me how it ends just yet, I've nearly finished it and there are 3 more volumes to go - yipee !!! Night all - wishing everyone a peaceful and healthy 2010.
Love Annie xx

Brekky: museli+berries+coffee
Lunch: root canal filling with extra antibiotics
Tea: soup+grilled fish+mint tea+water
Well a good day despite yet another trip to my lovely dentist. This saga just runs and runs. Hopefully this infection will clear up soon surely?
The magician at the nursing home was really good. My did he have his work cut out as most of residents have dementia of one sort or another, but he was great. My mother in law was a little start and became the oldest magician's assistant at 91! It's amazing how her wicked sense of humour still shines through the dementia and she had the room in tucks and stopped the magician in his tracks more than once. We had a great afternoon.
Did a little christmas shopping after, staggered home to watch a little tv and fell asleep on the sofa, hence this very late blog. Off to bed.
Hope everyone had a peaceful day. Nite all Annie :-)) xx