It's Dr. Cohen's 1st Personal Diet
Cheers, Cate

Hi, Can you give me your diet plan how did you managed to lose so much weight?

Hi Jeni... I dont want to reply for Cate in any way!...but we are not actually able to give out our specific plans as they are copyrighted by Cohen's. However, the first 2 pages of this thread really has some great information about Cohen's if you are interested in finding out more. Also this thread gives you a ton of information as it talks about preparing for Cohens http://weight-loss.fitness.com/cohen...re-cohens.html

Hope this helps you with your questions!

Bless ya
Kath

Wait, so you dont exercise heavily on this? just eat the food listed each day every day and the pounds come flying off??

Absolutely- they do!! Hard to believe I know but that's what happens. I lost 36kgs in 28 weeks, without any exercise & am now maintaining my goal weight with regular, but not excessive exercise. I feel like pinching myself really at my good fortune. I am now enjoying becoming fit, without all of that excess weight. Finding Cohen's & doing the program made 2007 a wonderful year for me. Cheers, Cate.

Do you need to purchase anything? i have seen people talking about $600 or something, also i am from england so can i do this? and finally does every follow the same food eating as in the other thread?

Yoshi, I don't know how many countries have Cohen's. I did a Google search for Cohen's Lifestyle Clinic UK but all it came up with is the Australian Site- Weight-loss and Wellness through Nutrition - Cohen's Lifestyle Clinic
We pay $680 but that covers personal consultants & have local contacts, that we can ring or email. It is probably worth going to their web-site & making direct enquiries to them. I'm sure they will put you on the right path. Come back in here & ask any questions or let us know how you go. The American plan is cheaper but has strict time limits & limited support. Our Australian consultants are mostly very helpful. The program is great. You cook your own food. It's good, healthy food, but is a very strict program, that is best followed exactly. It works which is fantastic & you feel great. Good luck, cheers, Cate

Do you have to eat seafood on the Cohens program. I am allergic to seafood so it is hard to stick to many diet programs. Do you know if there is a seafood free option?

2chubby- There are many other options on Cohen's beside seafood- cheese, red meat, chicken, tofu, yoghurt... It's a great program. It works! Cheers, Cate.

First of all I have never posted anything on the internet or have any experiece with chat groups etc, so please bear with me. I've been reading all about the sucess stories on the Cohens Lifestyle. It sounds to good to be true and before I pay $249.00 I have some questions. Is the plan simple to follow? How many meals or snacks do you get a day. IS the food very limited? I have 6 more members in my family, would I have to cook special food for me and then something else for the family or can this be incorporated into family meals? I am discouraged right now because I have tried and failed so many times I hate to waste $$$ on another diet plan. Please help me!!!! thanks , kreed

Hi Kreed

Welcome to the world of electronic friendships!!!

The plan is simple to follow. It's completely black and white and there are no grey areas. For some people, like me, that makes it simple. For others it's too structured and strict. At the end of the day it is going to be up to you and your mindset - how much do you want it?!?

You get three main meals plus fruit and crackers for snacks etc whenever between your meals. You get a list of allowed foods and recommendations on some of them regarding how often you have them in a week. If its not on the list you cant have it while on the weight loss part, more foods will be brought in on the refeed (reintroduction) phase of the program and then you will be given maintenance guidelines which advise you more on how to eat as apposed to what to eat.

Meal portions all have to be weighed so you will have to cook yours seperately but it doesn't have to be as hard as it sounds i.e. if you are doing steamed veggies for family you can put yours to the side or in a seperate dish etc etc...

I hope this has helped with some of your questions.

Lauren

Humm, this sounds intresting. How do they handle people who want to goto the gym at least 5 days a week as well? Or do they tell you to just focus initial food program for the first few weeks and then build up.
I'm just concerend that I dont know if I could handle just eating the basics and then working out as well.

Tony,

I wasn't sold on it either in the beginning but at almost 61 and 50+ lbs overweight on a 1.7m frame (5'7") I wasn't about to try to find time to go to a gym when I work 6 days a week and am sitting behind a computer all day and spend 4 hours to and from work on public transit daily. With the little time available to me, I figured even if I could find the time to get back to exercising regularly (only way would be to find another job - which is not easy at 61), I might die of old age or a heart attack in the process before I got back to being a lean mean machine.

Cohen was the fix for that. I was a commercial diver till I was in my Mid-late 40's but when I quite diving and came onshore again, I starting flying a desk and piling on the weight. When I quit smoking 3.5 years ago I added even more weight. (when I quit diving at 47 I only weighed 5 kg more than my military discharge weight of 69kg at 20 years of age. Most of that was muscle as I lifted regularly and along with the constant oil-field diving stayed pretty fit (except for the smoking - but a regular diet of pure O2 in recompression chambers helped to offset that).

When I started Cohen's in January this year, I tipped the scales at 94kg. I took two different medications for HBP (and that only kept it at ~138/85 - borderline high) I also took statins for cholesterol and also allipurinol for gout. The unexpected result of Cohen's was not only did I lose all the weight plus a bit but my BP is now steady at 110/70 without meds (doc stopped them). He also stopped all my other meds as well as a full blood workup has revealed that all systems are now completely back into normal ranges and for the first time in over a decade I am completely pill free. I regained 20 years of my youth. I am now slowly getting back into some cardio (easy-easy) on a elliptical Cross-trainer that I pick up for a song. Once that gets going good, the mountain bike comes down off the rack as does the membership to the pool. Also, All my Scuba gear will be dusted off.

Yeah, as a fitness trainer who only has to do a little bit to refurbish the machine to get back into shape it's a bit different when you are technically "obese" and it hurts your knees to walk up a flight of stairs AND you have medical problems as well. So, while the fitness routine is without a doubt the best way to go for THE AVERAGE PERSON, it is not necessarily the way to go for the "Overweight" or "Obese" person. Or for persons with certain medical problems. As this is not a high protein diet it's great for gout sufferers. (the reason I never tried Atkins). Most cardio is high impact on the joints so as a 30 year gout sufferer, it's not what you would call good for my joints. The elliptical (while not good in the long term I know) and cycling and swimming are all low impact cardio's that will not deliberately sabo my joints further than the damage all the weight has already done.

SMS
The "New" Stallion
Cohen Singapore Graduate
Class of June "08

yea, thanks for the link! I was wondering how to find info on this in the US

This sounds very similar to what I am doing. I had blood tests done that showed I'm pre diabetic. So now I'm on this low glycemic diet to help get my body functioning the way it should. From what I've heard from others doing the same thing I'm doing, they burn fat and build muscle better than on any other plan they've ever been on.