Leah Remini: Weight Loss and 1st Personal Diet
Leah Remini has lost weight, a lot of weight.
To shed 80 post-baby pounds in just four months – which seems rather extreme – Leah Remini relied on the 1st Personal Diet.
The individualized plan uses blood-test results to determine which foods will correct a woman’s hormonal imbalances and speed her metabolism.
Followers rave that the daily e-mails with personalized menus and words of encouragement from creator R. Cohen, M.D., make the $249 price tag (for a 12-week plan) worth it.
Have you tried the 1st Personal Diet? Does it really work? [source: First]
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04-25-07 at 12:46 pm
I would like to be fit and trim annd most of all healthy.
06-05-07 at 2:27 am
Dr Cohen’s 1st Personal Diet is the only one that’s EVER worked for me in 30 years of dieting and even having had a lap band. It’s completely brilliant; totally safe and healthy and I can recommend it without hesitation. Huge weightloss in a short space of time without pain or suffering. In fact I’ve never felt better!!! No physical cravings; lots of energy; and four of my friends would all agree - one has lost 34 kilos since January!
Go for it.
07-19-07 at 3:36 am
The testimonials for Dr. Cohen’s 1st personal diet imply great success with large weight loss achieved in a short period of time. How are people doing 1 and 2 years later? Are they able to maintain the weight loss? A common diet caution is the faster you take it off, the faster it comes back on. Thanks. I appreciate any input.
09-20-07 at 4:03 pm
I lost 40 pounds in 3 months on the first personal diet plan. I started in April 2007 and reached my goal weight of 130 near the end of July. It is now mid September and I have maintained my weight loss without much difficulty. I did have to make life changes that got me 40 pounds overweight. I had to significantly cut down or out sugar and sodas and stop eating carbs for 3 meals a day. I have stuck to a healthier diet since ending the program and feel and look great. I know for me I had to change what I ate and I found for myself the better food I eat I dont eat as much as when I ate the majority of carbs. The diet is awesome and helps get you on the right track to what your body really needs to run and feel great, not just on the diet but also afterwards.
10-12-07 at 4:57 am
I have 2 sisters and 1 friend that have lost large amounts (40, 77, 89 lbs) of weight with this diet in a span of a weeks and gained a large amounts of wrinkles and hanging skin in return. They look very old, haggard and saggy. The return eventual of “normal skin” after the dieting period was a myth for each of them. One has even undergone several plastic surgeries costing thousands of dollars in an attempt to look normal…tummy tuck, two upper arm reductions(huge scars), breast implants, mini face lift. They lost quickly alright but all three also had negative personality changes while on the program. The diet is extremely restrictive requiring strict weighing of all food. The amounts of food allowed is tiny as well as what is allowed is extremely limited.
10-29-07 at 6:15 pm
I too would like to know what people think of this diet, I am on my second day and was horrified to find that my neighbor who is short I am tall, and my daughter are on diets which other than a couple of things are exactly the same??? this has made me wonder..
It has cost me $680 her in Australia, and I was horrified to find that the portions of veges were almost nothing when weighed out.. anyone can loose weight when they eat almost nothing, and if the amounts and food are almost the same for everyone then why the blood tests..
So yes I would be very interested to see what others think.. A bit of meat/chicken/seafood and a bit of veges eg 110g meat + 100g veges for lunch is not much, and veges are not weight gaining so why not more veges..
02-01-08 at 7:39 pm
Leah was my inspiration to research the Cohen diet….she is absolutely BEAUTIFUL! I have been following the support group online which was formed for those on the diet, as well as those who have completed their success and find that there is nothing out there like it. The success of both the weight loss and lifestyle changes seem to outweigh any cost financially. I have also noticed that people have had significant improvements in their blood pressure, sugar levels, cholesterol as well as they have been able to go off meds, including that which was prescribed for acid reflux. I dont know about you, but after dieting for a large amount of my life, I look forward to registering. It will be nice to be on a diet where I can eat the groceries I have at home, rather than buy required foods made by the company itself. They teach you what your body needs…and I love education.
Good luck everyone!
04-30-08 at 3:43 pm
I did 1st personal diet last year and lost 16 pounds in two weeks. I was down 24 within the first month and felt great and I had no more skin flapping then I would have after being on any other diet. I had surgeries that prevented me from staying on the plan then, but I just registered and am looking forward to starting soon.
05-15-08 at 6:10 pm
I have been on Dr. Cohen’s diet since Jan. 18, 2008, and to date have lost 59 lbs. I feel wonderful…have loads of energy….am never hungry….and most importantly– I have been taken off of 3 of my 4 meds for high blood pressure, and my glucose level has gone from 97 to 86. I’m thrilled! My clothing size has gone from 24 to 18….and I’m starting to look like I did when I first met my husband! I still have abou 100 lbs to lose, but it’s easy…and I will continue on this program until I’ve reached my goal. Love it!!
06-08-08 at 7:13 pm
I am intrigued by how this Cohen’s diet works, but not enough to pay $700 Australian to find out for myself. Why the incredibly hush-hush secrecy?? It is so hard to find any info about this diet on the Web, other than the obviously-biased feedback on the official website.
Why is everybody so afraid to actually publish what is on their own diet sheet? I too am highly suspicious that everyone’s diet plan is basically the same, despite the blood tests which are supposed to guarantee a diet personalised to one’s individual results. I knew a gal who was doing this. She had lost a heap of weight with it before, then gained it back in drayloads. She started again full of zest, but after 3 days of eating 1 egg, an apple, a couple of crackers and some boiled mushrooms, soon gave up.
I have recently lost 37 lb in 11 weeks of eating a Very Low Calorie Diet, about 450 - 600 cals per day on average, with a few days of higher cals. I had no cravings or hunger on this, and continued to work full time, walk several hours per week, garden, and do intense weight training throughout. I presume that I have just been doing something quite similar to Cohen’s by coincidence, and therefore kicking my natural hormonal processes into gear. I ate non-fat yoghurt or cottage cheese plus berries for breakfast, or sometimes 1 yolk + 4 whites; lunch and dinner I ate virtually unlimited veggies (often 500 - 600g per day) either in soup or steamed or as salad; and I ate from 100 - 125g (raw weight) of no-fat chicken, white fish, prawns, pork, beef, or lamb, twice daily. Often ate 1/2 large grapefruit, and the juice of a lemon per day. Added spices, herbs, lots of hot salsa, sometimes a few drops of tasty sesame oil, soy sauce, diet jelly, apple cider vinegar, and allowed myself about 1 cup of milk (mostly full-fat) in my tea & decaf daily. The occasional cake or cookies (about once per 2-3 weeks) seemed to make no difference at all to my weightloss.
I find that with the intensity of exercise I’m doing, all my 52-year-old skin is firming up wonderfully. Bingo wings are all-but-gone! along with lots of aches & pains that had been plaguing me for years.
Can anybody tell me how different this is, from what they have experienced on Cohen’s?
06-26-08 at 7:47 pm
I am agreeing with others who think that this diet is just a low-carb, low dairy, low-fat diet … but the difference for me so far (just a few days) is that I’m not hungry. I am amazed at the small amount I am eating and feeling satisfied and that has almost never been true.
It sounds like Loraine stumbled upon it all by herself and I ask myself some of the same questions about the quantity of vegetables (I am NOT weighing lettuce!).
The rationale for me was that I was actually paying for a consultant … someone to keep me accountable to the diet. I could go to Weight Watchers but I’ve tried it several times and have never lost the weight … it was just up and down, down and up, and every week forking over $12.50 to them until I reached “goal” (which I never did). So for something that works I’m more than pleased to pay this small amount … even if the diet is like every other dieter in the world. If it works then that’s all I care about.
So maybe it is kicking in something that I haven’t been able to access before … I don’t know what and I don’t know how but I’m finding it pretty easy to follow.
I look forward to hearing how others are doing.
07-17-08 at 3:37 pm
Hi
I am currently on Cohens. I agree with those who question the ethics of the plan and I agree there should be more of the “scientific research” published which apparently supports the findings of R Cohen M.D but the long and short of it, the plan works for me. I have read quite extensively about insulin, hormonal balance, body types etc etc and I lead a very healthy lifestyle, own vegetable garden, no processed foods, fitness training 3 times a week…but the creeping scales is my enemy and Cohens is the only combination of foods which gets me back on track. - I wish I knew why this particular style of diet works for me, but for now I am truly grateful to have found it - it really has changed my life for the better. I feel energized, happy, my skin has NEVER sagged from the quick reduction in weight. I lost 50 pounds on Cohens last year and soon after I had extensive health and fitness tests done at a medical clinic, including a Bio Impedance Analysis - which basically gives you a true age of your body (internally) - I am 35 but my true age was 20 years!!!! I wish I had the same test prior to starting Cohens-it would have been interesting to compare, but the doctor was very impressed and did state that he hadn’t had a great result like that for 10 years!!
My advice to anyone considering the program - go for it - enjoy the new you.
08-02-08 at 2:48 am
I agree with Lorraine here - there’s too much secrecy involving this diet. And I’m not utterly convinced that they give you a personalized diet - I have a sneaky suspicion everyone’s diet is almost the same. One loses weight far too quickly on this diet which isn’t good because it’s a well known fact that the faster you lose weight while dieting, the faster you gain it back!
I know someone who is currently on this diet and has lost in excess of 20kg in a month. They aren’t allowed to exercise either. One is allowed diet soda and coffee - which contain caffeine - which makes me think if this is not the reason why they have so much “energy”. I know when I drink loads of coffee and diet soda I don’t sleep as much.
Sorry, but I”m a skeptic when it comes to diets as a whole as the Doctor or business on the other end just land up getting richer and you’re the poor sod at the bottom of the food chain who battles.
I’m one for exercise and eating healthy - no fads - I believe that’s the only way to do it over the long-term. The success of any diet is keeping the fat off over the long-term anyway, and I haven’t come across any long-term success stories concerning the Cohen diet - everyone I’ve met seem to be new dieters to the Cohen 1st Personal diet. Perhaps this is what all the secrecy is about, especially on their Forum, which I find to be very one-sided, I guess someone who signs up there and has failed on their diet over the long-term won’t be allowed to post.
People should stop being so naive, these guys play on a person’s desperation to lose weight fast.
09-05-08 at 2:08 pm
I have lost 20 pounds in two months on Dr. Cohen’s plan. I don’t even care why or how it works as long as the results are remarkable and they are! It was worth the $249 to learn that I was simply consuming more food than my body needed… Enough of that! I’m looking to lose another 11 pounds and am committed to keep it off even if it means eating like the plan suggests for life… Rock on Dr. Cohen!
09-29-08 at 2:55 am
Yeah rock on Dr Cohen - take a look at the Zone diet, I’d say they’re one and the same! And no-one knows the long-term side-effects of starvation diets which do in effect take away one’s appetite within 3 days. Rock on Dr. Cohen!! People tend to suffer from vitamin and mineral deficiencies too. Yeah Rock on Dr Cohen. Why don’t people just get off their butts and exercise and use some common sense when it comes to eating? Rock on Dr. Cohen! Rock on the Zone diet - which is known to have very few long-term successes!
What they don’t tell you:
1) Dieting slows down your Basal Metabolic Rate.
2) Dieting slows down your Resting Metabolic Rate.
3) Dieting makes you lose your muscle mass.
4) Dieting makes your body increase it’s number of fat cells
Yeah - rock on Dr Cohen!!!!! Way to go!!!!
11-15-08 at 10:25 pm
could someone please tell me what a typical day of food is like??? I know they are all supposed to be differenct but I would just like an idea of the calorie count. Also, how long some of the people were actually able to keep the weight off.
11-25-08 at 2:18 pm
Dr Cohen has done the research (for which many should be gratefu), he has had the results…and we are reaping the benefits. What more needs to be said?
Many years ago a very important statement was made by Gayelord Hauser - a nutritionist in the 50’s. He said that 40 years from then, endocrinology would be a much studied field…and that statement has materialized.
Endocrine glands play a huge part in our well-being and if the truth be known , we are ‘naught but a jangle of hormones!’ Thanks Dr Cohen for making the jangle sound more like a jingle!
An amazing man with amazing accomplishments!…I would suggest that any reader should address the wealth of treasures that he has given to infertile coulples and now the great help to obesity sufferers.
He has no obligation to reveal his diet’s ‘fomulae’ to anyone! This doctor’s success has come by 99% persperation and 1% inspiration.
In much appreciation of Doctor Cohen.
01-07-09 at 9:03 pm
I have just registered for Dr. Cohen diet plan and can’t wait to start it! For all of you that are so negative, I just want you to know you have no impact on those of us that truly appreciate his expertise and want to make a positive change in our life….one that will last a life time if you want it to. God gave us all the gift of chosing our pathes in life, I feel sorry for those of you that prefer to try and place not just rocks but boulders in another person’s way.
02-20-09 at 5:03 am
hi i did the diet 3 year ago mentine the weigth very well but around last year i had to go on and antidepression table call zoloft weigth gain can i repeat the same diet or do i need new one am no longer on zoloft
02-20-09 at 8:09 am
My mom has had great results with this diet and I never expected her to do so well. She hasn’t gained any weight back and she started a year ago.
To be honest, I think if you eat that little, anyone can lose weight. That is why they are so secretive: those diets barely differ. It’s the same bloody diet. Nothing personal about it in my opinion.
What I don’t understand is why it costs Americans $249 and in Europe it costs between €600 - €700!! For the same diet plan! That’s robbery. And it really isn’t healthy to eat so little, no matter how ‘energized’ you feel. Probably some survival mechanism to give you the energy to gather some more berries.
03-16-09 at 2:02 am
I have been on this for a month and have lost 8 kgs. I was aiming to lose 10 but I blame my cheats for not being there.
I have no worries about anything bad said up above - Yes the portions are small and it gets pretty boring/repetitive, BUT im doing this to shed the kilos and the centimetres.
I DO get hungry sometimes but the 2L of water def helps.
I cant make a comment on how thinks will pan out down the line, but for now im all for the diet !!!
03-19-09 at 9:39 pm
Okie dokie, so i’m really trying to lose some pounds and inches. I have tried sooooo many other diets that it is almost sickening to even talk about. But I just cannot believe how great Leah Remini looks. I figure, the best way to lose weight is to do your research and find out how others have accomplished weight loss. I live in the US so i paid 250 bucks for this baby. I’m currently waiting for my plan to come in but I will definitely keep you all posted on how it works. Wish me luck!
04-02-09 at 2:09 pm
Tiffany, it’s been roughly two weeks…have you received your plan and if so how are you doing? A friend’s friend has been doing this since Oct. 2008 and today she has lost 70lbs. I’m interested and doing research. Let me know truly how you’re doing. Thanks!
04-06-09 at 7:39 am
Typical day on Cohen Diet:
Meal 1:
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55 g cheese (no feta) 70 g vegetable
1 egg 80 g vegetable
1 yoghurt (can be mixed with fruit from allowance)
Meal 2:
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105 g meat 105 g vegetable
115 g chicken 105 g vegetable
100 g fish 120 g vegetable
110 g fish 105 g vegetable
65 g cheese (no feta) 110 g vegetable
55 g feta 115 g vegetable
Meal 3:
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90 g meat 120 g vegetable
110 g chicken 110 g vegetable
120 g fish 95 g vegetable
Cracker: 6
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Fruit : 3
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04-16-09 at 8:19 am
To “Anne”: it’s not the same as the Zone diet and I’ve been on the diet for 12 weeks, lost 46 lbs, and considerable improved my muscle strength and tone over the course of the diet (doing yoga for that).
Let the nay sayers carry around their extra weight and be right about how the diet doesn’t work.
Me, I’m going to be the healthiest I’ve been in my life, weight less than I did in High School, look great, and be busy with something else in my life than explaining why I can’t lose weight.
04-17-09 at 4:49 pm
I did the program 3 years ago before going o/s I was really motivated and was happy as the weight dropped off. I found it hard to get to goal weight as I was starving near goal weight and found I was binging alot and going around in circles. I had a baby 6 months ago and binged during most of pregnancy and have 30kg to lose. I am breastfeeding so can’t do the diet at the moment. Once I finish Bfeeding I will go back to Cohens to dropp the weight.
The food options are the same for everyone it is the quantaties that are different ie give or take 15gms up or down. You will lose weight following other peoples programs.
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05-01-09 at 9:31 am
I too was very successful on Dr. Cohen’s Diet. I lost 50 pounds in a little over a year. I kept it off as long as I stayed on Dr. Cohen’s diet. I gained 30 pounds back since September of this year. UGH! I even went to Weight Watchers to help maintain the weight loss but since there is not very much food on Dr. Cohen’s diet I continued to gain the weight. In all fariness to the diet I never did follow the maintenance plan I went straight to eating larger quantities of food. I am once again following the orginial diet that was sent to me while attending Weight Watchers. The diet deisgned for me comes out to 18 Weight Watchers points. I am supposed to be eating 23 points a day, so there is a significant difference. All that being said the diet did work. My sister bought the diet as well she weighs more than I do and the only difference was the quantity. All of the food choices were exactly the same so I do not buy into the specially designed food angle. Sooooo here I go again, wish me luck!
05-06-09 at 4:53 pm
Sounds similar to the Suzanne Somers diet. Is anyone familiar with that diet. I also lost 30 pounds being on it and then I stopped eating correctly and all the weight came back. Not rocket science.
06-08-09 at 8:46 am
To all of u,
Every person has got the right to follow any diet they wish,we are all adults here,are we not?people are so judgmental when one loses weight quick,esp on Dr Cohen’s remind me again,what are they doing here if it’s a sham,or a reap off? Let us (the cohenites) decide for ourselves, if i had to chose between gaining 30kg’s in 3 months(with all its side effects) and losing 30 kgs in 3 months (with all the side effects), i would chose to lose, as for those who says the food is little, you get wrinkles, you become moody, blah,blah,blah…please, be our guest and go to gym, and let us be. if i am “being naive”..let me be,IN PEACE.
Rock on Dr Cohen!
06-28-09 at 6:53 am
I have been on it for almost 6 weeks, I have lost 11.6 kilos(25lbs). I think it really teaches portion size I have 10 more kilos to go, In europe it costs more than 1000usd, in usa about 325 I think. I wonder too about how “personal” the plan is, but its working and quickly-on the forum there are a lot of maintainers but fat isn’t just physical their are alot of people with hang ups that keep them heavy -especially the lifers and people with fat families, and food focused lifestyles.