Cohen's Lifestyle Is this really the last diet we'll need to go on?

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Ididit4me

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I've heard or seen this claim in some of the posts and I'm curious as to how this works to make it true.

Every diet out there claims "the last diet", because technically, you should be eating better and healthy all the time and if you do that you won't gain the weight. So how is cohen's different?

I'm curious as to the scientific explanation of it. I'm sure that if I lose 50 or 60 or 80 pounds I can gain that back if I go back to the way I was eating prior to Cohens, right?

Not that I want to do that, but with the way my mind is fantasizing about all my junk food that I can't eat today, I fear I will break down afterward and just pig out!:p
 
Ididit4me

I don't mean to be blunt - BUT If you are going to consider this a diet i.e. a restricted eating scheduled for a short time - and then return to eating anything you like - you may find you run into problems. There are plenty of diets out there claiming to be wonderful and yes you will need to maintain a LIFESTYLE of healthy eating to maintain your weight. In Australia Cohens is not actually called a diet but a lifestyle program - so I don't think you are able to revert to your chosen vice the day after refeed finishes.

If you are only new at Cohens I think I can safely say that the further into it you get, the less you desire the high sugar and fat foods. I have read that your body rejects these if you have them. SOme people have spoken of ikky tummy and bloating after a deviation.

WIll the world be full of temptation when we are finished - YES
Will we look good when we are finished - YES
Do you buy a beautiful plant and then not water it = NO
Do you want to have a body you are proud of and then get fat again - NONONO
Does an ex -alcoholic desire a drink - yep (i assume)
Does an ex-fattie want a chocolate - yep

However we are presented with choices along the way with cohens the power we now have over our body will surely help us to choose better options.

So in short - This may well be the last "diet" you are on - that depends on your choice of LIFESTYLE after.

BEst of luck
Sharon
 
I finished my re-feed on December 23rd, 2006. I am still holding my weight but it is an ongoing struggle. I no way eat like I did before Cohen's and if you go back eating as you did before you will not maintain your weight. This is a lifestyle of healthy eating. Can you have an treat, sure, but sweets are limited to only one hour after your carb meal. You are allowed only one carb meal a day. So this was my day today:

Breakfast: One Egg

Lunch: Green Salad with chicken, Artichoke, One slice of bread w/ butter

Treat(within one hour of lunch): dark chocolate pudding

Dinner: Vegetables & Cream Cheese

You can have your carb meal for lunch or dinner ONLY!

You work so hard on this diet you do not want to get back to where you were. I hope that helps. Good Luck.
 
Life after Cohen's

Hi Ididitforme:)

Of course you will gain weight if you revert back to your old eating patterns.
Diets are there to educate our minds and bodies. Cohen's is no different but what Cohen's will teach us is that we have control over what foods trigger those hunger pangs, when you get to refeed and read through that plan it will all make sense.

I have to admit that i have deviated since being away from this forum and those deviations have cost me dearly. So it really is up to you and the choices you make when your plan is completed.

Losing has given some great advice so go with that.

Remember there is no easy fix for weight loss especially with all the temptations we have surrounding us. But make the correct choices and treat a "treat" as just that not as a everyday occurrence.

ATB

Sam:)
 
I agree with Losing and Nans68...

I signed up for the cohens lifestyle program not because i wanted a quick fix and i wanted to lose weight quick and easy (although that has helped :p ) but i signed up because i was not happy with myself,and my body due to my PREVIOUS lifestyle....the lifestyle which caused me to end up a fat frumpy forgotten women.

today being the end of 16 weeks on cohens i think its pretty safe to say i have been teaching my self very valuable lessons along these past weeks. lessons about my willpower, strength, integrity, and most of all, the lesson to treat my body as it should of been treated all along, my temple!

Although i am not off cohens yet i am yet to see what will happen once im in the 'real world' of eating, but i plan to tackle these challenges as i face them ie: keep my cohens online diary going, keep a food/emotional journal, get back to my gym! i believe these three things will be the keys to unlocking cohens as 'the last diet ever' (so to speak) as i do NOT want to go back feeling like the fat girl who never amounted to anything.

Also with ilovewinnies post, i really truly do find it hard to think thats how i will be eating after refeed -as in it seems way way too restricted-almost like a diet in itself. I have read many posts and spoken to cohens graduates to argue the 'everything in moderation' rule (although i do believe carbs should be kept to one meal and not at brekkie!but a one hour window gap for sweets??thats not me as i believe these things can be balanced out). but hey..thats how i am. i guess well just have to see after! ill keep u posted! :)

Good luck i hope you find the answer your looking for xx
 
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Clearly if we return to doing what we did before our old fat bodies will return. It is more than a little frightening to think that there is a life of thinness after Cohen and I will need to live in that "thin" world, a world I have never experience. The great unknown is to how to stay in the world of thin and never return to the land of the fatties.

Anyway for me I absolutely wont be returning to the old life of 3 starchy meals a day, breakfast, lunch and dinner wont be a continuous consumption of breads, cereals, rice, pasta, potatoes! I look forward to eating cake, I look forward to pasta, I look forward to Brie, red wine and chocolate, but not everyday, and not so much. I want to live in the world of thin!
 
The one hour rule regarding the sweets is from Cohen's life after the diet you will get with the re-feed. That is one of the reasons it is hard to follow, because when you have your carb meal you are usually fuller than when you don't have carbs. After your carb meal the clock starts ticking for one hour to consume your "treat" and you can't have sweets without a carb and only one carb meal a day. I hope that explains it better. Good Luck!
 
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