Our Journey

My first Blog!!

I wanted to create a blog site to remember my progress as myself and my hubby Ryan start our journey on loosing weight!

It's been a hard year for me especially - I have been very sick - in and out of hospital, many doctor's visits trying to find out what was wrong with me! But it has also been a wake up call for me - I realise that my lifestyle has not been very healthy in the past few years and before I get much older i must change my lifestyle! We hope to have children one day - God willing - and that is one of my main purposes of loosing weight! Diabetes's also runs in my family - so another incentive to loose this weight - as weight is a big contributor to diabetes!

We looked at a lot of options - and in the end decided to try the "Cohen's Diet"! Some people may criticise us and think its just another one of those diets - but we are now into our third week and we have already learnt different ways of cooking and looking at food in a whole new way - It's a "LIFESTYLE CHANGE"! I guess we chose this one as we have seen results on other people! Our pastor and his family went on this "lifestyle change" and now a couple months later look amazing! Also some other people from our church have changed their lifestyle and couldn't look better!

As I was saying we are now into our third week - we are already noticing the changes. Our clothes are looser and fitting better! I feel fantastic for the first time in a long time! Every week we have to measure ourselves and so far i have lost 22cm all over! We are not allowed to weight ourselves until four weeks are up - so I can't wait till then and let you all know how much Ryan & I have lost! I'm feeling very positive about it all!

I will post some photos tonight when I get home from work and also explain how this diet works and what foods we are allowed to eat!

That's enough about our lifestyle change for now!

Today my Uncle Ralph & Aunt Josephine flew back to Holland! They were supposed to stay for another two months but Aunt Josephine's Father passed away on Tuesday so they decided to cut their trip short and go home to be with Josephine's mother and to attend her fathers funeral! We went to visit them last night one last time! Going to miss them heaps and heaps! Here's a photo of my Uncle and Aunt and Myself and Ryan!

Ok, well it's time for me to go to work so I'm signing off from my first post!