The importance of refeed

[ConnieK..]

Good morning everyone,

I just decided there was a need to stress some things about refeed and put them fresh into everybodies minds.

This post is not directed at anyone in particular, but rather at everyone, from the new beginners to the almost finished, whether you have deviated or whether you haven't, whether you are at goal weight, under or above.

THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT ELEMENT OF THIS PROGRAM IS THE REFEED!


You must follow it exactly - this means

1. for the exact amount of days
2. adding the exact amounts of foods
3. exactly as it is written

You have spent months, or even over a year in cases, getting to your goal range. The longest refeed is 21 days. Thats 3 weeks at most to get your body ready for THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. It doesn't sound so long does it? I mean it's not even a month.

Dr Cohen has spent all the time on your program getting your hormones into perfect working order for you, making the weight come off, and it has worked. Now the tricky bit, if you started eating anything and everything tomorrow you would get the same reaction as in the back on the bus post (http://newyouforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7521) and so Dr Cohen has given you a refeed plan that is tailored for YOU to reintroduce the foods as slowly or as quickly as YOUR body requires. He got you to this point, he can get you through.

I know about the temptations that hit when you do refeed, I have been there. I know you are at goal, you are thinner than you have been in years, you feel fantastic, you can see a shiny new horizon only a few days away where your social life begins again. It seems sooo close, and it is. And that's why you need to do this last peice right! If you don't your hormones will be out of whack as you enter maintenance, and trust me on this one , the heady rush of the first month of maintenance will use that imbalance to whack a few kilos straight back on that fantastic new body you just got for yourself. You have trusted the program, and it worked. But it is not over, you need to do this step as diligently as you did the program. If you were a deviator on a regular basis then you need to do refeed with ABSOLUTELY NO DEVIATIONS. I can't stress it enough.

You owe it to yourself and the body you have worked so hard for to give refeed the attention and respect it deserves in order to give you the best chance at mantaining what you have acheived.

Now I do not mean to cause offence, it is not my intention. What I do mean to do, is to make everyone realise the IMPORTANCE of refeed.

Thanks
Connie

This has been a public service announcement from the "been there done that - am passionate about Cohens as it saved my life"** club.

**membership free with maintenance.