Actually, No.
The fruit and crispbread are carbohydrates, and will cause an insulin release.
Please make sure you address all these technical questions to your consultant. If they haven't explained to you how this program works make sure that they do.
The Cohen's program is not just about food reduction. Any mug can drop to a minimal calorie intake. This program is about stimulating the metabolism of the body through manipulation of the pituitary gland.
It is most important that breakfast is eaten as soon as possible after waking. It is vital that you have protein meals at minimum intervals of five hours to ensure that there is no mixing of proteins in the stomach.
Good advise, thanks Chelsea.
Momma is on the internet program the same as myself in my opinion the email "consultants" are not so helpfull as real consultants (or as this forum), we have a guide book to read, that is all.
I read the internet program guide and it says "
Your daily fruit and crackers can be eaten with any of the meals or in between meals". My first impression of that sentences meaning is that up to one fruit and one serving of crackers can be eaten
anytime so long as you then have one meal in between eg. after dinner and before breakfast, I had assumed I could if I wanted eat fruit and crackers at 5am should that take my fancy. However clearly the correct interpretation of the sentence
is that we should only eat fruit and/or crackers at meal time or between breakfast and lunch or between lunch and dinner (or maybe just after dinner?) Thanks Chelsea for pointing this out...and the fact that good consultants are important on the program as it is a fine balancing act.
...not that that effects me I always have fruit with my breakfast
The program also says "Keep a 5 hour minimum interval between meals" and
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You last meal for the day must end no latter than 9 p.m." ...That is the guides grammer not mine "You" not "Your"
This makes good sense as you would have fully digested the last protein meal in 5 hours (Fruits and crackers would however spend very little time in your stomach before being moved on and/or absorbed...as Chelsea suggests causing the insulin spike)
For me I have found the steak (rare) and tuna (sashimi style raw or marginally grilled) the most filling for the longest time, I love the cheese, but 2 hours after eating a cheese meal I get really hungry...then I have 3 hours of being hungry waiting for the next meal! Lunch at work is microwaved chicken and vegetable soups I prepare and freeze on weekends.
Amino-acids are the building blocks of proteins, just as sugar is the building block of starches). One amino acid Tryptophan is used by our bodies (modified) to create the brain chemical serotonin!!!
One key point with this program is that all the foods on the list are either rich sources or extreamly rich sources of the amino-acid tryptophan.
Well tomorrow I will take another blood test to check how I am going, my bad Cholesterol went up after starting the program, so I am keen to see if it was just a case of lot of waste being dumped into my system at the start of the diet (I lost 7KG in the first 2 weeks), and that now I am stable with low fat, low carb intake the bad Cholesterol has been flushed from my system.
