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The Cookie Diet : Does it Really Work?
Posted on 05. Apr, 2009 by admin.
S Millson asked:
The Cookie Diet is a popular diet that boasts eating six cookies, one full dinner meal, vegetables, and liquids on a daily basis for a total of 800 calories to lose weight quickly and safely.
Does a diet based around cookies really work? Sure it does! Dr. Sanford Siegal has created a diet called “The Cookie Diet” that is helping his followers drop an average of fifteen pounds per month. The diet works by consuming six cookies that zap dieters hunger. The diet only allows for one main meal, dinner. The only foods you are allowed to eat for dinner is six ounces of fish, turkey, chicken, or seafood.
The cookies help to keep the dieter on track because every single time a dieter feels even a sudden urge of hunger they are instructed to eat one of Dr. Siegal’s cookies. The total caloric intake per day should amount to eight hundred calories. Dr. Siegal also points out that the dieter should consume eight glasses of liquid a day.
The main argument of the critics of this diet is that the total calories consumed on a daily basis are way below the recommended caloric intake recommended by most dieticians and doctors. Siegal is quick to defend his cookie diet by responding that there has been no problems reported of patient safety and that the lower calorie intake is supplemented and taken care of by vitamins.
The cookie’s Dr. Siegal uses does not have any harmful drugs or chemicals inside of them. The cookies contain amino acids that help to keep hunger away. The proteins used in the cookies to suppress hunger are rice, oats, bran, and whole wheat flour.
The only complain by most dieters of this diet is that the cookies do not taste nearly as good as normal grocery store style cookies. Dr. Siegal explains that although the cookies are available in three different flavors (coconut, raisin, or chocolate) they are not meant to be full of flavor. The six cookies give the patient sixty grams of carbs a day. In comparison, one cookie has close to the amount of carbohydrates in a slice of bread.
Obviously, a cookie diet is not something that a person would want to stay on for an extended period of time. With all the facts in front of you do you think “The Cookie Diet” is a fad or a real and useful diet? Well, we did some research and could find nothing but positive remarks from actual dieters. Although there were dieticians that advised against this diet, the actual patients reported losing weight safely and feeling great.
Dr. Siegel says that each patient should use The Cookie Diet as a starting point and continue with their diet through sound nutrition and exercise. Goal setting is considered to be one of the most beneficial and useful ways to lose weight for a long period of time. Good luck in your quest to lose weight. Remember to always consult with your doctor before making any changes related to your health.
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Eat Cookies and Lose Weight
Posted on 05. Apr, 2009 by admin.
Brigitta Schwulst asked:
Cookie Diet Review
History of the Cookie Diet
Dr. Siegal, a doctor based in Miami, Florida, developed the original cookie diet. The cookie diet is also his trademark. As an obesity expert, he developed the cookie diet in 1975 as an answer for his patients who were losing faith in their diets due to hunger. He developed the cookie diet cookies a convenient, sensible snack that should curb hunger and therefore help his patients to stick to their diet.
Dr. Siegal realized, early in his career, a fact that helped shape his future reputation: he realized that his patients were failing at their diets because hunger was causing them to cheat. He figured out that he could help his patients stick to their diets and lose weight if he could control their hunger. With extensive chemistry knowledge in his background added to his passion for cooking, Dr, Siegal discovered that if he combined certain food proteins, called amino acids, in a particular way he could produce foods that offered unusual hunger control qualities per calorie. Using his discovery, he created his now-famous diet cookies. Later he went on to develop other products using the same technology like shakes and soup that had the same hunger-controlling qualities.
The cookie diet cookies do not however contain any prescription drugs and they are therefore available to purchase without obtaining a doctors prescription. The Cookie Diet cookies can be used as a diet in themselves or they can be used in conjunction with other diets as a snack alternative or they can simply be used to help control the appetite.
Over the past thirty-two years, according to the official site, the cookie diet has been used by more than 500,000 people and the cookie diet has helped them reach their goal weight. The cookie diet has also been used by more than 200 other physicians in their own practices to help people lose weight.
The Cookie Diet today
Recently there has been a sudden resurgence of interest in the cookie diet. There are two companies who seem to offer the ‘cookie diet’ – Dr. Siegal’s official company and a company called Smart for Life.
Both of these companies offer “cookies” which aim to help you lose weight and both are easily found on the internet id you search for cookie diet.
The cookie diet no longer consists only of cookies but both companies offer shakes, meal replacements, soups, muffins as well as a variety of cookies.
Does the Cookie Diet work?
Since the diet, using the cookies, uses only 800 calories a day, chances are that you will lose weight on the cookie diet. Whether the cookies are healthy and provide the right nutrients, vitamins etc, is a topic debated by medical research. Apparently even Dr. Siegal does not recommend the diet as a long term option. If you’re looking a short term solution then the cookie diet may be a viable option, but whether it will help you to change your lifestyle in the long run and keep the pounds off, remains a mystery. Join me on my website at http://www.weightwatching.co.za
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Do Cookies And Diet Really Co-Exist?
Posted on 04. Apr, 2009 by admin.
David Taggart asked:
What on earth is this cookie frenzie that everybody keeps on talking about? Surprisingly enough, it has been around for more than thirty years. Many wonder if such a wild diet plan can really work and if indeed weight loss is even really possible by eating cookies.
This cookie lifestyle is based off the idea that the reason most diets fail is simply because people starve themselves, get hungry, and overeat. Even if the person who is dieting is the most motivated person in the world to shed fat, he or she is likely to give in to the hunger pains; really most people are not able to manage weight loss when they are constantly hungry.
So where does this crazy cookie diet come in? Although it may sound crazy and funny, the main purpose is to curb those strong hunger pains. Because of the special amino acids that Dr Seigals cookies have, they supposedly will help you to lose weight by making those strong appetite urges go away.
Does it Really Work?
That depends. What do I mean by that? How you utilize the diet. The main purpose behind the diet is to curb your appetite, the cookie diet is a healthy eating plan that will help you to do this. Having to constantly watch my weight with additional pounds to lose myself, I understand how difficult it can be to lose weight. I am always looking for ways to shred those nagging pounds that seem to never go away no matter what I am doing.
This diet may be a way to curb your diet without having the urge to over indulge yourself. Sure, they are not the girl scout cookies that are a little taste of heaven, but they actually taste pretty good.
One living testimonial who lost over seventy pounds in only three months was Warren Thompson. How on earth did he do that? Well, he had a meal every two hours that included a lean meat like a chicken breast and complex carbohydrates like vegetables along with that famous cookie. That does not sound all that hard really does it?
If your main problem in sticking to that healthy lifestyle plan and losing weight is that you just cannot seem to get through the day without overeating because you are constantly hungry, give Dr. Seigals cookie diet a go and you may discover that it will keep you from becoming too hungry that causes you to binge and eat excess calories and consequently gain more weight and fat. Good Luck!
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Cookie Diet
Posted on 04. Apr, 2009 by admin.
kalidas asked:
In the world of fad diets almost nothing can be more absurd than the cookie diet. This diet is based on a mixture of amino acids baked into a cookie designed to control a patient’s hunger.
Fad diets are short term diets in which people are to lose a lot of weight, and are popular because of their claims of great weight loss. Often times, like the cookie diet, these diets rely on one miracle food with amazing properties for weight loss. In this sense they are something like the old traveling medicine shows, in which a slick talking salesman would expound on the virtues of some magical formula created by a Guru of some type.
The cookie diet came about as the result of research into natural foods done for a book in 1975. To maintain the cookie diet people would eat six cookies a day, plus a regular dinner. There were about 500 calories combined in the cookies, and the dinner could be 300 calories in the evening. People went wild over the cookie diet to the extent that 14 clinics opened in Florida. In the middle 1980s over 200 doctors were prescribing Dr. Siegel’s cookie diet in their own practices. The diet was quickly expanded to miracle soups and shakes that also contained the amino acids.
There is another version of the cookie diet referred to as the Hollywood cookie diet because it became popular with many Hollywood stars. Stars and starlets made their use of the diet well known, which helped vault it to public attention. This diet is similar to the original in that it consists of a cookie for breakfast, a cookie as a snack in the morning, a cookie for lunch, a cookie as a mid-afternoon snack, and then a reasonable dinner. Each cookie contains approximately 150 calories, loaded with fiber, protein and 13 vitamins and minerals.
If you’re thinking of the cookie diet take Donnie Brasco’s advice – forget about it. Eat less, exercise more – that’s the formula for good health. Even if the star of your favorite movie claims to love them, avoid so called miracle weight loss foods.
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Losing Weight Stories - The Fortune Cookie Diet
Posted on 03. Apr, 2009 by admin.
C. D. Anderson asked:
Last week my wife and I went to our favorite Chinese restaurant, and at the end of the meal, we opened our fortune cookies as usual. But when I saw my fortune this time, it was incredible.
Finally, I thought to myself, a diet plan I can follow! It doesn’t have any foods I have to avoid. It doesn’t make me count calories. It doesn’t make me measure portions. I don’t have to go to any meetings. All right, I can do that! All I have to do is figure out the right way to use this fortune that’s been written especially for me. I can’t go wrong!
You see, it said:
YOU WILL HAVE A NEW LOOK THAT WILL DO WONDERS.
How could I miss? That phrase, NEW LOOK, flashed and blinked in front of my eyes, I wanted it so bad I could almost taste it. All I had to do was figure out exactly what to do with this incredible fortune to get my NEW LOOK. I thought, OK, I’ll try putting it in my wallet so I can keep it close at hand all day and see if that works. So, into my wallet it went, right in front of that OLD LOOK driver’s license picture. That way, I could carry it with me everywhere I went. If I have it with me all the time, that’s a good thing, right? That surely ought to be enough, right?
Right?
Wrong the first time.
OK, time for a new plan. Maybe if I tape it to the corner of my mirror. I think the problem with having it in my wallet was that I wasn’t reading it every day. You know, out of sight, out of mind. Or maybe it’s just because I was trying to fly by the seat of my pants, and my fortune didn’t like being sat on. So, I taped it to my mirror. I got up every morning and I read my own personal fortune, promising me my NEW LOOK. Every night before I went to bed, I read it again. I was so sure I’d found the magic key this time. That should have worked, right?
Right?
You guessed it. Wrong the second time.
Well, you know what they say about trying again. So, I tried my third and very best plan. I taped it smack in the middle of my steering wheel, so I could read it all the time when I was driving. I have a really long commute (both ways) so I figured I’d increase my opportunities to incorporate my fortune right into my brain cells, and finally, I would see that NEW LOOK. Because, you know, they PROMISED! That should have worked, right?
Right?
Well, my car has a NEW LOOK, but I look pretty much the same, under all these bandages.
So, you can take time to thank me now, because I’ve saved you a lot of work, See, you can cross the Fortune Cookie Diet off your ways to lose weight without even having to try it.
Believe me, it’s just too dangerous!
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The Ideal Diet
Posted on 02. Apr, 2009 by admin.
Diets In Review asked:
Stress, hectic schedules, and the over hassle of counting calories can get in the way of you reaching your weight loss goals. Hunger pains, poor food choices, and cravings are also common obstacles most dieters face. For many of us, the ideal diet would curb hunger, offer choices, and easily fit into our life.
Nutrisystem is an amazing program that includes a wide variety of delicious, prepackaged, calorie counted meals. With plans specialized for vegetarians, diabetics, men, and women, this program offers a solution for everyone. It eliminates the confusion, difficult choices, preparation, and measuring that plague dieters. By simply choosing the food you desire, Nutrisystem brings the healthy meals right to your front door. Instead of starving for hours, the program allows you to eat five meals a day – breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner, and a dessert.
Nutrisystem provides meal plan guidelines, exercise information, as well as nutrition professionals available for guidance or support. It also provides helpful suggestions on grocery shopping and additional food preparation at home. This all inclusive weight loss program fits with any lifestyle or schedule.
With foods like pancakes, pasta parmesan, rotini with meatballs, oatmeal raisin cookies, and pizza, there is something for every craving, meal, and snack. All meals are prepackaged and guaranteed to help you reach your goal. Nutrisystem is easy to sit with, provides proven results, and takes the guesswork out of dieting.
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What is the Cookie Diet and How Can I Lose Weight With It?
Posted on 01. Apr, 2009 by admin.
Tyler Monesy asked:
You probably have heard of the cookie diet and you probably wondered to yourself how on earth it works.
I was in the same boat as you and I’ll admit I was even a little skeptical at first myself. I said to myself, “what is the cookie diet?!….That sounds like a nice dream..” Well, I was wrong. It is very much a reality and I will explain how.
It’s not the cookies that make you lose weight per se. You see the cookies, I found out, are made up of specific ingredients that include certain types of amino acids. These acids are food proteins that actually suppress your hunger. This is the key to losing weight.
Normally, a diet doesn’t work because you need to consume LESS calories every week in order to lose weight. When you eat a low calorie diet, it is very hard to deal with severe hunger pains so we succumb to our hunger and over eat.
Most foods that suppress our hunger successfully are fatty foods that are high in calories. That’s where the cookie comes in. This particular cookie successfully suppresses your hunger while also remaining a low calorie food. BOOM. How come nobody came out with a natural hunger suppressing food before?!
I did the research and it doesn’t appear that anybody has which is very surprising to me. Of course, the amino acids don’t have to be put into a cookie in order to work. You could put them in soup, shakes or anything really. But, a cookie is the most convenient, durable and easy to carry snack.
What the Doctor who invented the cookie diet plan did was create a food that is LOW in calories, but also suppresses your hunger naturally using amino acids and food proteins. He is one of the only people to ever develop a low calorie food that is a natural hunger suppressant. Why more people haven’t done it, I have no idea. It’s simple, logical and scientific.
Basically, you eat 7 cookies a day which is about 500 calories and then a nutritious dinner consisting of lean meat and a green vegetable which is about 300. This gives you an 800 calorie/day diet and would normally be near impossible if it weren’t for the hunger suppressing agents in the cookie. I would recommend the cookie diet plan to anyone who is looking to lose weight the healthy way.
It could go in your purse, pocket, briefcase, car, etc. Plus, who doesn’t love cookies? Also with the cookie diet, you are supposed to eat lean meat, chicken or fish and 1 cup of green vegetables for dinner every night. So, it’s not just eating cookies all day!
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Eat Cookies to Lose Weight. You Can Have Your Part in Most Popular Weight Loss Cookie Diet Program Success
Posted on 01. Apr, 2009 by admin.
Mona Banczerowska asked:
Eat cookies to lose weight. You can have your part in most popular weight loss cookie diet program success.
Smart for Life™ Weight Management Centers has launched a new web site designed for all those willing to offer the unique cookie-based weight loss program as a complimentary service to their existing business practice. It is the perfect opportunity to start earning huge additional income. You will be positioning your practice on the crest of a billion dollar boom industry after all.
“Since, literally, we were being flooded with inquiries from potential affiliates keen to provide their community with proven diet products, we’ve decided to enable them quick and easy online application. Our new smart for life cookie diet site is dedicated to all those entrepreneurs who want to cooperate with us and promote our innovative Smart Foods” – explains Dr. Sasson Moulvai, the Medical Director of Smart for Life™ Weight Management Centers headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.
Since the site’s launch at the beginning of May 2008, it has been riding the waves of popularity and Smart for Life Human Resources Department has received hundreds of affiliate applications from all over the country.
What stands behind this extraordinary renown of Smart for Life™ brand and startling success of their Smart Foods? What earns them nationwide recognition making Smart for Life™ one of the most popular diet programs? The secret is in the Cookie. Diet based on scientifically formulated, all-natural, hunger-controlling and yet tasty meal squares which keep patients hunger-free all day and provide all necessary nutrients.
This weight loss plan prevents dieters from food cravings and feeling deprived owing to delicious nutritionally-filling food replacements – smart cookies, smart soups, smart desserts… The diet is very simple – six smart cookies throughout the day, eight glasses of water or other no calorie drinks and a low fat protein dinner consisting of six ounces of fish, chicken, turkey and vegetables. Following this diet plan, you are losing 3-4 pounds a week. Little and often is the secret to long term weight loss. And Smart for Life reprograms patients to eat less more often and build healthy food habits for life.
Losing weight – quick, safe and for good - is about smartly managing hunger and eating right foods in good proportions and those are the premises behind the America’s most sought after cookie diet. With Smart for Life unique approach to dieting you stay focused on being fit and healthy, not only becoming slim. “At the core of Smart for Life™ weight loss plan is the commitment to promote a balanced lifestyle and champion simple healthy habits that we all overlook or forget about as a result of life in our hectic twenty-first century”, says Dr. Moulavi.
What else sets Smart for Life™ cookie top diet program apart from the rest? Based on the recent study made by such verified sources such as Forbes, Fresh Direct, Amazon and Bureau of Labor Statistics, it has turned that beside Smart for Life™ weight loss program, only one more available diet plan from all researched companies offers medical supervision (with a note that it was available only in the city of Miami). With a physician control, progress monitoring and nutrition specialist advice, fast and yet safe weight loss is assured only by Smart for Life™ Weight Management Centers.
The research has also pointed out that Smart for Life™ weight loss program creates an inner mechanism for food portion control in contrast to the other diet plans on the market. And last but not least, the diet survey credited Smart for Life™ for the exceptional preparation process of their natural diet products.
How to lose unhealthy weight – safely, effectively and permanently? The answer is by following the right diet plan. So eat well to look great with Smart for Life™ medical weight loss food products. Crunch cookies and lose weight. Not any cookies of course…
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What is the Cookie Diet?
Posted on 01. Apr, 2009 by admin.
Dan Carlin asked:
e diet may take the cake as the world’s worst ever fad diet. The diet relies on eating cookies to control hunger and thus help people lose weight.
Fad diets are intended to help people lose a great deal of weight in a short period of time – they’re popular because they appear to be miracles. Most fad diets center on some super weight loss food, much like the cookie diet centers on the cookie. These diets rely on slick pitches that make it seem silly not to buy and try the diet.
The cookie diet was created by a physician named Sanford Siegel in 1975 while he was researching a book on the effect of natural foods on hunger. The cookie diet consists of eating 6 cookies in place of breakfast and lunch, then consuming a normal dinner. People on the diet ate only 800 calories a day. The cookie diet exploded to 24 clinics around the world. It wasn’t long before over 200 doctors were regularly recommending the cookie diet. It was at this time that shakes and soups were added to the mix, these also containing the amino acids that control hunger.
Later Hollywood grabbed the cookie diet. This diet received a great deal of media attention in part because of the PR efforts of attention grabbing stars and starlets. Like the original cookie diet this Hollywood version replaced breakfast and lunch with cookies, then allowed a reasonable dinner. These cookies each contain 150 calories and fiber, protein and minerals.
Don’t waste time with the cookie diet. If you want to lose weight, or maintain a healthy eating lifestyle, simply lower the amount of calories you eat from everyday foods and add some exercise. Forget miracle foods even if a star tells you to try them.
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But Why is My Diet not Working
Posted on 31. Mar, 2009 by admin.
The Diet Guy asked:
Jennifer, a middle-aged single mother with one six-year-old daughter, has been skipping sweets for a few weeks now. She’s also become a stickler for portion control. She feels as if she’s eating less than ever, and she’s been diligently exercising for an hour at a time at least four days a week. Yet, she hasn’t lost a single pound. The question is, “Why?”
This is a dilemma which affects dieters the world over. They think they are taking the steps necessary to lose weight, but nothing seems to be happening. In essence, they are trapped in a dieting rut and they don’t know how to free themselves. As a result, they become frustrated and depressed and may then engage in binge eating.
One of the problems with diets is that they are often standardized. As a result, they don’t take into consideration your individual physiology and metabolism. They provide a cookie-cutter approach to weight loss—an approach which may not work in your individual case. As a result, an increasing number of people are turning to dieticians to formulate a person weight loss strategy for them. This process has been made easier through the Internet, where you can correspond with a dietician any time of the day or night via e-mail. The dietician can also act as your personal coach, helping you through your dieting dilemmas.
Another reason that you may be failing at your diet is because of a lack of support. You may have family members who can eat whatever they want and seemingly not gain a pound. As a result, they may fill your refrigerator with junk food, leading you into temptation. Also, you may feel as if you have no one to turn to in order to discuss your weight problems. In order to solve this problem, many individuals look to psychotherapists to help them with their food-related issues. This can be particularly important if an individual has turned to purging in an effort to combat their weight problems. Bulimia is a serious disease which must be treated in order to ensure the good health of the patient. Thankfully, there are a number of treatment programs throughout the U.S. specifically focusing on bulimia.
Yet another reason for diet failure is hidden calories. You may literally be consuming calories and not even realize it. For instance, the frappucinos that are so popular today are loaded with calories—as many as 600 in a single serving! You may also be indulging in sugary sodas—another source of extra calories. By taking a few simple steps, such as eliminating the exotic coffee drinks from your diet and substituting skim milk for whole milk, you may be able to eliminate the hidden calories that are denying you dieting success.
Lack of consistency can also be a diet-killer. You might go on a diet for a while, then quit before you’ve made any measurable progress. It’s only natural to want to see quick results. The problem is that healthy weight lose involves loseing only a couple of pounds a week. That means you’ll have to stay on your diet for months before you see appreciable weight loss. Discouraging? It can be, but if you keep a positive attitude you can achieve your ideal weight.
You may also be more successful in your dieting if you consider it to be a lifestyle change. Therefore, your diet becomes a meal plan for life. This means that you must change the way you look at food. It is designed to be fuel for your body, and nothing more. As a result, you should not turn to food to make you feel better or to provide you with a sense of comfort. A lifestyle change implies commitment; it means that you are prepared to follow the plan for the long haul. If you feel as if you cannot be on your diet for any appreciable length of time, perhaps it’s time to consider a different diet. Your aim ultimately should be not simply to lose weight, but to become healthier. A fad diet will not allow you to reach that milestone. Therefore, you must choose your diet carefully.