This is absurd!

I wonder how The Cookie Diet compares to something like the South Beach Diet. Dr. Siegal’s sawdust cookies must do wonders for you colon though. I understand that the diet includes shakes too. I wonder how expensive the Cookie Diet Shakes are? You can make your own shakes like this with some Slimfast and bran from a local health food store. No need to spend $10 a shake. I’ve also heard of people losing weight on a Chinese diet called Wu Yi Source. I wonder how that diet performs. Could you lose 55 pounds on that diet? I don’t know. There is also a Hollywood Cookie Diet. I wonder if it’s the same thing or something different? I had gotten an email from some place called Shape Medical Weight Loss Center. It would be good to find out if this kind of program would work better than the Cookie Diet. They say they use pills. That might be better than a cardboard like cookie. But what I’m really looking for is a way to lose belly fat. Will the Cookie diet help with that? I’d like to know.

800 calories a day? I’d rather have the cookies taste like meat.

Yeah - that’s what I’d tell Madonna too if I didn’t want to have sex with her.

I’m telling you - at 70$ a week for cookies - the good Dr. Seigal is onto something.

You ask a lot of questions there, toy soldier boy. But I like your attitude. Inquisitiveness is good. The answers are is yes yes, maybe, it depends of course, and no - in no aparticular order.

Are those cookie shakes? or cookie diet shakes?

I would probably die if I followed the cookie diet and ate only 800 calories a day. At least it would feel that way. I did the Atkins diet once which is a low carb diet, and I was able to lose weight fast but then I gained all that weight right back. I’d rather eat meat all day then go on a cookie diet. Fad diets all suck anyway because they are short term quick weight loss tricks on your body. What you need is a long term weight loss plan that allows you to have a cookie now and then without depriving yourself. Programs like weight watchers and nutrisystem are good for that. Eating fiber is a good way to feel full but yikes. From what I understand these cookies (if you can call them that) taste like cardboard anyway. Maybe the cookie diet shakes are better but I doubt it. No cookie shakes for me.

No cookie shakes for me either.

Yup - these restrictive diets don’t work because you don’t feel good on them. You are always hungry. ANd saying no to yourself. That feels bad.

I believe in exercise and eating real food. Exercise makes you feel good, makes you strong, and helps you burn more calories. I’m sure a bowl of porridge does the same thing as a cookie.

hey - watch for my new porridge cookies coming out!

I am not sure how one would call the Cookie Diet a fad diet since it has been out since 1975. I have been on the Cookie Diet 3 months and I am down 32 pounds! The cookies are not bad, but they are filling.

Weird. You want to avoid white in your diet. White stuff like sugar, rice, bread, flour are Simple sugars, and whites are all absorbed quickly by your body and are turned into fat stores. These cookies for sure have sugarin them. They say eating complex carbohydrates is better. They take a longer time to be absorbed into your body and this enables your blood sugar to remain level. It’s better to eat brown foods like brown rice instead of white rice, whole grains breads and pasta made from wheat flour instead of white refined flours.

My retired mom spends a lot of time watching TV. she was cautioning me because she knows I have tried many diet things that the “cookie” diet contains ingredients from China and may be toxic!!! She says that reporters have contacted the company and they refuse to comment or to recall the product! Anyone else hear this?

This article wasn’t critical, it was cynical (as admitted in the “sawdust” comment). First, I’ve been on the diet and it works, so the dream isn’t shattered, it’s realised. Second, every ingredient is organic and the water is certified triple-filtered, so the next half-truth of throwing together flower, vitamins, protein powder and fiber won’t equal this product. Third, the cookies come recommended with exercise, like all responsible approaches to dieting. Exercise will mitigate the restricted caloric-effects on metabolism, so the author only gave you another half-truth. Fourth, the daily cost can be substantially less when purchased in-volume, so it’s only expensive when compared to Oreos (but we’re talking dietary Folks, so another half-truth is exposed). Further, the cost is off-set by groceries and dining-out not purchased, and remains much cheaper than diet plans that make you buy pre-packaged foods (a much more appropriate comparison). Fifth and finally, the author failed to admit that the word “cookie” itself is a term of convenience, as the manufacturers themselves readily admit that their product is much more a food product than desert cookie.
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@TempleMonkey

why can’t we just exercise and eat real food? Good high quality nutritious stuff.

The trouble is these diets are hard to sustain. The trick isn’t to lose weight while dieting. People can do that. It’s to not gain weight when not dieting.

we set our selves up for the yoyo - dieting (restriction) countered with our regular eating patterns, which are probably excessive.

How do we want to live the rest of our lives? On a perpetual diet? Or by learning a healthy way to fuel our bodies, get the nutrition we need and delight in the food we are eating, instead of punishing ourselves.

The latter may be harder to do. It is harder. It isn’t quick. It can’t be sold in a pill or cookie. There is no miracle. But by god, that’s what we want isn’t it.

I think research is more and more proving that exercise is the key. We are a very sedentary bunch now.

and why are we to busy to eat properly? Our society is broken if that’s pushed to the back. It should be foremost in our lives - eating and exercising to take care of ourselves should be number one.

Couldn’t a bowl of porridge just do the same stuff?