Cohen's Lifestyle Anorexia Lifestyle Support A.K.A Cohen's Lifestyle

Prefix for Cohen's Lifestyle
I'm not sure, but I think its actually a program that body builders use.. hence lowering insulin levels by eating foods low in simple sugars. Here is a sample Guess Who. More or less, the blood test is just a way to tell if they are healthy enough to go on this diet.

People pay all this money for stuff they could have researched on their own. To each their own I suppose!
 
fatty_doll said:
I'm not sure, but I think its actually a program that body builders use.. hence lowering insulin levels by eating foods low in simple sugars. Here is a sample Guess Who. More or less, the blood test is just a way to tell if they are healthy enough to go on this diet.

People pay all this money for stuff they could have researched on their own. To each their own I suppose!
Click to expand...

Doll,
I am actually on the pro bodybuilding circuit =) I can tell you that eating low carb is not what should be done. Actually if done right competitors eat carbs on competition day and even during the show. However there are more extremes and the carbs are not wheat based. Yams, rice cakes, etc

Also a cool tidbit that is fun to know. The night before you do a "peak" depending on your body and all the factors to some that includes a nice slice of full fat cheesecake.
 
Guess Who said:
Doll,
I am actually on the pro bodybuilding circuit =) I can tell you that eating low carb is not what should be done. Actually if done right competitors eat carbs on competition day and even during the show. However there are more extremes and the carbs are not wheat based. Yams, rice cakes, etc

Also a cool tidbit that is fun to know. The night before you do a "peak" depending on your body and all the factors to some that includes a nice slice of full fat cheesecake.
Click to expand...

I love cheesecake. Someday I hope to bodybuild actually. :D Thats sort of my long term goal--to compete in Ms. Fitness stuff. (very long term though)

theres this guy in a myspace muscle group I'm in that preaches lowering insulin levels.. the problem with this though is that lowering it too much is like giving yourself diabetes. :| I'm not a fan the low carb diet myself but I know it was a huge craze not too many years ago.
 
Guess Who,

To be honest, I've no interest to know who you are but I would like to speak for myself.

For the last 15 years of my life, I've been FAT and only getting fatter. No diet that I've tried nor any other slimming centres that promised miraculous weight loss had worked. However, 6 months down today, I've lost close to 29kg. You may say that it is calorie deficit but I seriously don't think so if I can still eat pan fried food, surely that adds to the calories. Also, there's a refeed programme that basically puts unhealthy and calorie laden food back into one's diet - so, how can we be starving? I used to eat like 3 bowls of rice per meal, yes I mean it. However, I don't feel a single bit hungry on the programme. So, I leave you to decide for yourself.
 
FlaMie said:
Guess Who,

To be honest, I've no interest to know who you are but I would like to speak for myself.

For the last 15 years of my life, I've been FAT and only getting fatter. No diet that I've tried nor any other slimming centres that promised miraculous weight loss had worked. However, 6 months down today, I've lost close to 29kg. You may say that it is calorie deficit but I seriously don't think so if I can still eat pan fried food, surely that adds to the calories. Also, there's a refeed programme that basically puts unhealthy and calorie laden food back into one's diet - so, how can we be starving? I used to eat like 3 bowls of rice per meal, yes I mean it. However, I don't feel a single bit hungry on the programme. So, I leave you to decide for yourself.
Click to expand...


Flamie--but still I don't think anyone has said exactly what it is the Cohens diet is like. Is it indeed low carb? Can you explain what a typical day of food looks like? if there are any restrictions?

I think really this is all of what the confusion is really about... Not that we're trying to steale diet plans, but more or less just that we are curious as to what the program actual intails.
 
fatty_doll said:
I love cheesecake. Someday I hope to bodybuild actually. :D Thats sort of my long term goal--to compete in Ms. Fitness stuff. (very long term though)

theres this guy in a myspace muscle group I'm in that preaches lowering insulin levels.. the problem with this though is that lowering it too much is like giving yourself diabetes. :| I'm not a fan the low carb diet myself but I know it was a huge craze not too many years ago.
Click to expand...

It's actually SO AWESOME to be in the circuit you know. We (my girlfriend and I) thought it was long term as well. As I said in some of my other posts for years her and I worked our tails off, Her more thin than myself, and nothing. We never got leaner nor did we really build any muscle. I used to think because of my size at the time that I could never do figure, but rather I would have to do bodybuilding. Not true at all. All these times I was doing what I was "supposed" to do. I was lifting heavy with compounds only and counting my calories, macro percentages and everything but no results. We heard about Keith Klein through some friends in the industry and we had a visit with him. I think I dropped 3% bodyfat just sitting in his office =) I posted some pictures but if you go to muscular development.com then click on comp photos, then Branch Warren classic, then third place Virginia Haas.

It is SOOOO possible. I will tell you the 12 week diet down can be hard.
 
Guess Who, I have refrained from posting until now because I've been trying to work out whether you are serious or mischievous.

Anyway, I will add a couple of things. Firstly, as a body builder, I'm not really sure why you are posting here telling everyone on Cohen's they are doing the wrong thing. For a start, your goals are COMPLETELY different. We are not trying to building muscle and sculpt body shape, add mass. Second, many of us were so unfit and overweight that exercise is quite difficult and painful, not to mention causing of further injury at times. Thirdly, the diet does function on reasonably low calories and thus does NOT support massive amounts of exercise. This is all clearly explained when you join up. However, as the diet aims to keep the function of HGH in the body at its maximum, you don't worry about exercise UNTIL THE END when you refeed. You will then be instructed how to resume normal eating and keep healthy.

I have never met ANYONE on Cohen's whom I would describe as even vaguely "anorexic" and I think it a very unfair statement. There are a lot of photos of people on here which you can view - please tell me which one is "anorexic".

There's a simple basic assumption behind weight loss. You either have to consume less calories than your body requires daily, or you need to burn off more in exercise. You apparently choose the latter - that's your choice. But we also have the same right to exercise our choice in the matter. Or perhaps you don't need to lose weight - so why post in here in such a critical manner where people do?

None of us will give you a sample diet, since we all pay for it and agree to keep it private. You can say what you like about it, but that's how the system works. I joined after seeing MANY OTHER PEOPLE lose weight and KEEP IT OFF LONG TERM. If you don't know any, then that's bad luck, but fortunately I do. Perhaps the diet has been around here in Oz much longer term than you're acquainted with.

Please do research, but don't bag people who are sincerely trying to lose weight. If you want to see people successfully keeping weight off long term, please read Cate's diary before you comment further, or go to "New You" forum where there are tons of others. Don't judge until you get facts.

You're free to your own choices - and we ours. I choose Cohen's, so I don't appreciate being labelled an "anorexia support group". Please show me all the massively overweight people who've lost weight through strenuous exercise ALONE. Most people I know recognise the need to restrict calories. If there's something sinister about wanting to be a more healthy body weight and BMI index, I haven't found it yet.
 
Guess Who said:
It's actually SO AWESOME to be in the circuit you know. We (my girlfriend and I) thought it was long term as well. As I said in some of my other posts for years her and I worked our tails off, Her more thin than myself, and nothing. We never got leaner nor did we really build any muscle. I used to think because of my size at the time that I could never do figure, but rather I would have to do bodybuilding. Not true at all. All these times I was doing what I was "supposed" to do. I was lifting heavy with compounds only and counting my calories, macro percentages and everything but no results. We heard about Keith Klein through some friends in the industry and we had a visit with him. I think I dropped 3% bodyfat just sitting in his office =) I posted some pictures but if you go to muscular development.com then click on comp photos, then Branch Warren classic, then third place Virginia Haas.

It is SOOOO possible. I will tell you the 12 week diet down can be hard.
Click to expand...

I'm at 34% fat right now.. I need to drop to about 21% before I will be comfortable competing. Also I need to be able to do at least a single pushup (that was embarresing learning I couldn't do one of those!) One step at a time though!

She is teenie tiny but so muscular!
 
fatty_doll said:
I'm at 34% fat right now.. I need to drop to about 21% before I will be comfortable competing. Also I need to be able to do at least a single pushup (that was embarresing learning I couldn't do one of those!) One step at a time though!

She is teenie tiny but so muscular!
Click to expand...



You train at a gym right now? Do you see any nutritionists or anything? Is there some where you can get BF% (with old school calipers) and measured say every three weeks?
 
Okay I am not really dissing anyone's diet, and even if I was you shouldn't let it get to you.

Now Cate, you are the only one on this board that I can find that has been on the program for like two years and is still here. Now your diary is way long so I have not read it all. I did read something about you having to go back on the program. Let me ask you, you started off weighing somewhere around 235 pounds. Have you kept that weight off for the two years since you started? If so then the way you keep it off, is that something that is doable for the rest of your life? Also if you did gain it back, may I ask how much of it came back?
 
Last edited:
Guess Who said:
You train at a gym right now? Do you see any nutritionists or anything? Is there some where you can get BF% (with old school calipers) and measured say every three weeks?
Click to expand...

Yeh I train at the gym now, but only 2-3 times a week.. I plan on stepping it up this next week though. My hubby, who is a trainer/athlete, is going to design a specific workout for me this weekend. And no-I'm not seeing a nutritionalist.. I try to keep it low budget and research stuff all on my own if possible. Someone said that I should get a meter for BF% online--one of the hand held ones. I plan on buying one in a week or so. Do you know if those are horribly accurate?
 
I am not going to type in this thread again. I think it's a very strange way to get your kicks but each to his own. You have been deliberately provocative by suggesting that we are anorexic and it is very offensive. I'm used to rude people but I won't bother even reading this again & I hope this thread dies a lingering death & peters out......It's certainly not worth getting hot under the collar about or wasting time on.
I would prefer to support my friends in what for us is a common interest & common goals. I view this as a support group & I think it works well. I would even suggest that our main focus is on dealing with the psychological aspects of being overweight including low self-esteem and we try to help each other with that by recommending books etc & by using positive affirmations & generally just encouraging one another.
Everyone is entitled to make their own choices & we have chosen Cohen's. I don't attack anyone else or try to sabotage other sections of the forum as I feel that it is none of my business what others choose to do. Losing weight & changing your lifestyle takes a determined attitude. Whatever path anyone chooses I respect that decision even if it may not be one I have chosen.
Now I'm off to check my friends' diaries & see if I can actually support someone who may genuinely be interested in that.
Have a good week-end everyone. Cheers, Cate.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top