Cookie Diet Review - Can you really lose weight by eating cookies? Presumably, if you limited the intake of cookies as well as the types of cookies you are eating, you could lose weight. However, cookies are so high in carbohydrates and sugar that the odds are slim, no pun intended. Dr Siegal’s Cookie Diet supposedly shows you how you really can enjoy the sweets that you love without having to deal with the extra pound or workout because you indulged.
The cookies in this diet, of course, aren’t your typical cookies. They are meal replacement bars, and they aren’t nearly as delicious as the ones that grandma used to make. Mentally though the gist of this diet is to get you to think you really are eating cookies to lose weight.
However, Dr Siegal’s cookie diet may have some limited benefits. The cookies have fiber, protein, amino acids, and other ingredients that are designed to keep you fuller, longer. This diet was developed in 1975 and is the original and the most popular cookie diet available today. The goal is to give people the things that they love while still allowing them to lose weight and live a healthy lifestyle, which is what the cookie diet consists of. There are no big decisions to make with this diet other than figuring out which flavor of cookie you want, and what you want for dinner. Beyond that, it’s not too hard to follow.
If you eat 4-6 cookies per day (now that’s a great habit to get yourself into), you’ll consume around 500 calories, and dinners simply involve lean protein and vegetables that you can enjoy, or a frozen diet dinner and a salad. Each one has between 300 and 1,000 calories, giving you the average of 800-1,500 calories a day. Keep in mind that no matter how good Dr Siegal’s cookie diet might be, anyone on a diet with less than 1,200 calories needs to be attended by their doctor on their weight loss journey. Taking in too few calories can actually harm the body. The 800 calorie limit doesn’t seem to be a problem according to the diet’s creator (but that is an exceptionally low amount of food for an individual), and has people easily losing up to 15 pounds a month.
If you could manage hunger, suppress your appetite, and enjoy the foods that you love like cookies on a regular basis, wouldn’t you give it a try? We wouldn’t recommend it. Anyone can lose weight when they’re only consuming 800 calories, which is the issue with this program. Even if you slack on your exercise routines, you’ll still lose weight at some point. Even if it isn’t a lot, it’s more than you lost eating cheeseburgers. The main problem we see with this fad diet is that once you go off the routine and terrible habit of eating 6 cookies a day, what are you going to do then?
Even though these cookies may have some benefits, you are liable to start eating very unhealthy cookies once you program you body to eat 6 cookies a day and then drop the diet when you reach your weight loss goals.
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