Aren’t you just sick of hearing about the newest fad diets all the time?

Try the cookie-diet now!

If you, like me, keep wondering when people will understand that the only way to sustainable, long-term, and healthy weight loss is eating right and exercising, this will probably be as amusing to you as it was to me.

From an early age on I was told that what looks too good to be true generally IS too good to be true! So I was pretty sceptical when I first heard of the Cookie diet. Cookies and weight loss – that doesn’t fit together, does it?

Get this. Dr. Siegal developed a diet where you eat six cookies a day and top them off with a meal that’s low in calories but high in protein at night. Doesn’t that kind of make you wonder where he got his doctorate from?

The Cookies You're Meant To Eat

Celebrities like Kelly Clarkson and Jennifer Hudson have allegedly tried the diet and lost weight, but it is highly unlikely that the cookies had anything to do with that. Much rather, they were probably such a small size that the diet simply causes for a calorie deficit to be created, which as we all know, makes you lose weight. Dr. Siegal says it is a combination of special amino acids in the cookies that make you lose the weight, because the cookies are supposed to suppress hunger.

What the cookie diet essentially is, is a very low calorie and low carbohydrate diet. You are not supposed to eat more than 800 calories per day. Therefore your daily meal plan will consist of lots of water, 6 diet cookies and a dinner that consists of lean chicken, turkey or fish and vegetables.

Probably those special kinds of cookies are healthy containing fibre, protein, armino acids, vitamins and other stuff that is good for your body, but that doesn’t make them the perfect way to lose weight. Dieticians argue that consuming only 800 calories per day is not enough to maintain healthy and energy. They also say that the diet seriously lacks fruit and vegetables that are only allowed to be eaten for dinner at a very restricted quantity.

Apparently, the cookies aren’t even that good, because Dr. Siegal doesn’t want people eating too much of them. When on the diet, you get a box of cookies delivered which costs about 60 dollars and is supposed to see you through all week. What you choose to eat for the high-protein low calorie meal in the evenings is up to you.

I was surprised to find out that there are actually different types of cookie diets. The first one was by Dr. Siegal, but soon other diets followed as obviously cash diets are big business today. Other cookie diets available that are also well known are the Smart for Life Cookie diet and the Hollywood Cookie diet.

I haven’t tried any of them, but I don’t think I will, because I know I need variety and I would probably not stick to the diet. I would get so sick of the cookies after a couple of days, which would be a waste of money. Honestly, this one sounds a lot like the usual 7 day diets or the master cleanse to me – you lose the weight quickly, but the minute you think you’ve gotten rid of it, it comes back to laugh in your face faster than you can say “size eight”.

1. by Pam June 18th, 2010 4:38 pm

   Funny, because this sounds kind of like the “loaf” prisoners complain (and are suing) about. It’s all the nutrition they need in a loaf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutraloaf It’s funny what we’ll do when it’s a choice.