Dr. Siegal's Cookie Diet is a weight loss program that started in 1975 and is still popular today. Dr. Sanford Siegal developed the program for his obese patients, and based it on the hunger-controlling diet cookies that he formulated. If you like cookies but need to lose weight, this diet may be worth considering, but do not start the Cookie Diet or any other weight loss program before getting your doctor's approval.
First Steps
The first step of Dr. Siegal's Cookie Diet is to determine the number of calories you need to eat if you wanted to stay at your current weight. During this step, you start to lose weight. You can access the instructions for this 28-Day Calorie Burn Rate Self-Test after you create a free account at the Cookie-Diet's website. Step Two is to set your weight loss goals using the calorie burn rate that you determined in the first step.
The Diet
During the Cookie Diet's third step, you continue to lose weight until you reach your goal weight. During step three, the Cookie Diet recommends eating 1,000 calories per day to guarantee weight loss, but you can eat up to 1,200 calories if you prefer. Along with Dr. Siegal's Diet Cookies or Diet Shake Mixes, you eat one regular dinner each day. You can also drink as much calorie-free Vitazest Green Tea with Lemon and Honey or Vitazest Water Brand Pomegranate as you want.
Diet Cookies
You can eat up to six cookies per day on the Cookie Diet. These Diet Cookies come in weekly boxes with seven bags of six cookies each, and flavors include oatmeal raisin, chocolate, banana and coconut. Each cookie provides about 90 calories, 2.5 g fat, 11 g carbohydrates and 5 g protein from sources such as beef protein hydrosylate, milk proteins and egg white solids. The Cookie Diet claims that the cookies are hunger-controlling because of the proprietary amino acid blend.
Diet Shake Mixes
A serving of Diet Shake Mix can be an alternative to two diet cookies. Some of the flavors are Pina Colada, Crème Brulee and Chocolate, and you make the shakes by blending the mix with water and ice. If you want, you can add a packet of non-nutritive sweetener such as sucralose or aspartame. Each shake provides 130 calories, 1 g fat, 19 g carbohydrates, 12 g protein and 18 percent of the daily value for calcium.
Other Information
You can only eat one regular meal per day on the Cookie Diet, and the diet cookies and diet shake mixes are not fortified with vitamins and minerals. The instructions for the diet are to take a nutritional supplement such as the Premium Multiple Vitamin and Mineral Formulation to be sure that you meet your daily requirements for vitamins and minerals. Even if you do take the supplement, remember that getting your nutrients from whole foods can provide health benefits that supplements do not. For example, the 2005 Dietary Guidelines from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services states that whole grains may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease.
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