Dr. Siegal's Cookie Diet

Dr. Siegal's Cookie Diet is perhaps one of the strangest diets out there. It seems like every dieter's fantasy, doesn't it? Eat nothing but cookies and still lose weight?

The sad truth is that you can't just stuff your face with Oreos or mom's chocolate chip cookies all day. To properly follow the Cookie Diet, you have to eat Dr. Siegal's specially formulated cookies.

Special Cookies

Dr. Siegal created these cookies to help his patients lose weight. He designed them using certain food proteins to create an appetite suppressant effect. Many people find this to be the case.

If you want to completely follow the Cookie Diet, you will eat six cookies total throughout the day. For dinner, you should eat lean meat and one cup of vegetables. Of course, calorie counts vary based on the choices you make, but in general, this adds up to about 800 calories per day.

Not So Yummy

The Cookie Diet website fully admits that the cookies are not delicious. They may taste good, but "delicious cookies make people fat". Which I suppose is true. How many times have you suddenly found that you've eaten through the entire box of Thin Mints?

Nonetheless, the cookies should help suppress your appetite, making you lose weight.

This diet is very low in calories, which is not good for some people. Most medical authorities suggest that you eat at least 1200 calories per day, more if you are very active.

When you eat less calories, your body may think that it's starving and try to hold onto your weight. In the end, this could create a yo-yo diet effect which is very bad for your metabolism. Once you stop the diet, you are likely to regain the weight.

However, there's nothing really wrong with the cookies by themselves and they could work for you as an appetite suppressing snack within a more traditional healthy diet. If you find that you are constantly hungry when dieting, but don't want to take any risky drugs, then Dr. Siegal's cookies may be just what you need.