Celebrity Cookie Diet

Did you ever dream about eating nothing but cookies all day long, avoiding the sweaty gym, remaining healthy and developing a slim, sleek figure? According to the Hollywood Celebrity Cookie Diet, you can. If this sounds too good to be true, however, you are correct. You can't have your cookie and eat it too.

Celebrity Spokespeople

The myriad of celebrity spokespeople displaying their thinner frames has helped boost the popularity of Dr. Siegal's Cookie Diet. According to Celebrities.com, Jennifer Hudson, Kelly Clarkson, Mandy Moore, Kim Kardashian and Jessica Simpson attribute their substantial weight loss to Dr. Sanford Siegal's secret formula. The Huffington Post adds Snooki to the celebrity cookie diet list. With the voices of these celebrities proclaiming their weight-loss successes, the success of the cookie diet fad has followed.

Celebrity Cookie Diet Plan

The cookie diet is a type of calorie-restricting diet, meaning you consume far fewer calories than you expend. The Hollywood Celebrity Cookie Diet requires you to eat one cookie for each meal -- breakfast, lunch and dinner -- and to drink a few glasses of water each day, according to an advertisement posted by the Hollywood Celebrity Cookie Diet. No exercise is required. Dr. Siegal's Cookie Diet requires you to eat six 90-calorie cookies throughout the day and a dinner with 300 to 800 calories, resulting in a total daily calorie intake of between 840 and 1,340 calories, according to Softepedia.

Sustainability

Because you consume so few calories each day on Dr. Siegal's and the Hollywood Celebrity cookie diets, you burn more calories than you consume and thus lose weight. The Hollywood Celebrity Cookie Diet advertisement claims that "you can subsist off of these cookies for the rest of your life." You cannot indefinitely burn more calories than you consume, however. Like all calorie-restricting diet plans, you will eventually need to consume sufficient calories to sustain your weight and you body's functions.

Replacing "Real" Food

The manufacturers who market these cookie diets sell special cookies designed to suppress your appetite and provide nutrients. Rather than eating actual food, the dieter is encouraged to subsist off of these manufactured products. While explaining that actual food has greater value than scientifically identified nutrients, food expert Michael Pollan says in a Cooking Up a Story interview that "Every food is a complex system, and so far science has failed to reduce it."

Health Implications

Weight loss does not necessarily equal good health. According to the Mayo Clinic, because you have restricted your caloric intake, you will likely lose weight on a cookie diet, but likely will not meet all of your nutritional needs. Extreme diets are difficult to maintain, and once you start eating your regular diet, those lost pounds will return. The Mayo Clinic recommends making permanent changes to your diet and exercise program instead.