Was just reading the old thread about keeping Cohen's a secret. Well, the first time when I did it, I just told everybody what I was doing - I felt it would keep me honest, and I knew a lot of people who'd done it and succeeded, so I felt confident that if it worked for them, it could work for me.
This time round I thought I'd keep it secret and just say I'd committed myself to losing some weight. The main thing for me this time is that I didn't want any negative comments about Cohen in general just because I was silly enough to NOT do what they said last time. It was my decision to stop eating sensibly and ignore the problem for another three years.
But hubby actually told everyone this time one by one - he felt it better to explain to them why I wouldn't eat their food if asked out and so on. So, despite my intentions to keep my mouth shut, it all came out anyway. And pretty soon, I was losing so much fat off my abdomen that people just had to ask exactly HOW I was doing it. Some know I was on Cohen's before, so ask directly "Are you doing Cohen's again?"
I had one interesting encounter on the weekend with a friend I see from time to time - she lives in the country. She's also had weight problems, knee replacements and so on. She's very negative about Cohen's, partly because a doctor friend of hers had condemned it. And she KNOWS I lost a lot of weight last time and put it back on again. So she was full of "Well, that diet doesn't work because you just put it on again afterwards". It seems useless to keep trying to explain that if you DON'T FOLLOW THE RULES, you will REGAIN WEIGHT. She said she doesn't believe in the whole Cohen "premise" (wonder how much she knows what it is), but at the same time kept asking me HOW I managed to lose so much weight so quickly. I just said again and again, "Whatever you choose to do, you just have to be tough and strict with yourself". She believes she can't possibly be "tough" on herself. And I said, well, whatever you do decide to do, it basically amounts to controlling the amount and type of food you eat - if you do that, you will have success. (We on Cohen's just know we'll FEEL better and lose it faster if we do what Cohen says, that's all!)
And this is the whole problem for so many people - Cohen's is a pretty strict diet, very low calorie altogether, and if you want to do it you have to be prepared for it, disciplined, and determined to stick to what they say. But it's also a choice - no-one puts a gun at your head and demands you go on the diet. You CHOOSE to do it, so having done that, you just commit to the rules and do EXACTLY what they say.
So for me, it's all out in the open again. I don't really like talking about it generally, which is why it's so great to come on here and find other people who understand it all!
This time round I thought I'd keep it secret and just say I'd committed myself to losing some weight. The main thing for me this time is that I didn't want any negative comments about Cohen in general just because I was silly enough to NOT do what they said last time. It was my decision to stop eating sensibly and ignore the problem for another three years.
But hubby actually told everyone this time one by one - he felt it better to explain to them why I wouldn't eat their food if asked out and so on. So, despite my intentions to keep my mouth shut, it all came out anyway. And pretty soon, I was losing so much fat off my abdomen that people just had to ask exactly HOW I was doing it. Some know I was on Cohen's before, so ask directly "Are you doing Cohen's again?"
I had one interesting encounter on the weekend with a friend I see from time to time - she lives in the country. She's also had weight problems, knee replacements and so on. She's very negative about Cohen's, partly because a doctor friend of hers had condemned it. And she KNOWS I lost a lot of weight last time and put it back on again. So she was full of "Well, that diet doesn't work because you just put it on again afterwards". It seems useless to keep trying to explain that if you DON'T FOLLOW THE RULES, you will REGAIN WEIGHT. She said she doesn't believe in the whole Cohen "premise" (wonder how much she knows what it is), but at the same time kept asking me HOW I managed to lose so much weight so quickly. I just said again and again, "Whatever you choose to do, you just have to be tough and strict with yourself". She believes she can't possibly be "tough" on herself. And I said, well, whatever you do decide to do, it basically amounts to controlling the amount and type of food you eat - if you do that, you will have success. (We on Cohen's just know we'll FEEL better and lose it faster if we do what Cohen says, that's all!)
And this is the whole problem for so many people - Cohen's is a pretty strict diet, very low calorie altogether, and if you want to do it you have to be prepared for it, disciplined, and determined to stick to what they say. But it's also a choice - no-one puts a gun at your head and demands you go on the diet. You CHOOSE to do it, so having done that, you just commit to the rules and do EXACTLY what they say.
So for me, it's all out in the open again. I don't really like talking about it generally, which is why it's so great to come on here and find other people who understand it all!
