Will the cookie diet work? Most experts agree that losing weight is about calorie control, so since calorie restriction is the main premise of the diet, you will lose weight. But then again, if you eat this few calories, your body will start to conserve energy and slow your metabolism. You do not want that to happen. A slow metabolism means you won’t burn calories as fast as you used to, so if you ever go off the diet, you are likely to regain weight.
On a good note Dr. Siegal’s cookies are made from real food, not chemicals or drugs, so there is nothing really bad about them. On a bad note, 800 calories a day is low and hard to do over long periods of time. The person who will most likely benefit from this is Dr. Seigal himself as the diet cookies are not cheap. A week’s supply can cost $70 for 42 cookies. Wouldn’t it be cheaper to mix up some bran, protein powder and sawdust yourself? (please note that last line is a joke - don’t go using that recipe and come crying back to us saying the sawdust has messed up your regularity.)
The cookie diet has been in the media recently because of the the mandjshow.com. We do not know who they are but they must be popular. We do know who Madonna is. Madonna made the cookie diet infamous when she said her husband Guy Ritchie was on it and that he said the cookie diet made him lose interest in sex.
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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.
