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!