In 1975, Dr. Sanford Siegal of Siegal Medical Group in Miami, Florida, developed the Cookie Diet to help his overweight patients lose weight. If you are looking for a weight-loss program that lets you eat six cookies a day, this diet may be for you. Before you start, though, you should learn how the diet works and get your doctor's approval.
Setting Goals
After you sign up for an account, you can view the instructions for each step of the Cookie Diet. The program begins with the 28-Day Calorie Burn Rate Self-Test, and you start the test by weighing yourself. Then follow the Cookie Diet while closely monitoring your calorie intake and weigh yourself again at the end of 28 days. This helps you determine your metabolic rate, or how fast you can lose weight by eating a certain number of calories. Next, you can set a goal for the date you would like to achieve your goal weight.
Daily Meal Patterns
The instructions for the Cookie Diet are to have one regular dinner and six special diet cookies for a daily total of 1,000 to 1,200 calories a day. If you prefer, you can substitute a diet shake for two diet cookies. Meal ideas and recipes are available at the Cookie Diet's website once you sign up for the program. The Cookie Diet allows you to have unlimited amounts of calorie-free Flavored Vitazest brand water, which comes in pomegranate or green tea with lemon and honey.
Cookies and Shakes
Aside from your regular dinner, the only calories you get on Dr. Siegal's Cookie Diet come from diet cookies or shakes. Cookies come in chocolate, oatmeal raisin, banana, coconut and blueberry flavors, and the shake flavors are chocolate, crème brulee, pina colada, strawberry and vanilla. Each cookie has 90 calories, 2.5 g total fat, 11 g carbohydrates, 2 g dietary fiber and 5 g protein, and each shake has 130 calories, 1 g total fat, 19 g carbohydrates and 13 g protein.
Dietary Supplement
To help meet your requirements for vitamins and minerals, you might want to take a daily multivitamin and mineral dietary supplement. You can buy the official Dr. Siegal's Cookie Diet Premium Multivitamin and Minerals from the Cookie Diet's website. There are 30 tablets in the bottle, and you take one tablet per day. Each tablet provides 70 percent of the daily value for vitamin A and 100 percent of the daily value for vitamins B1, B2, B3, B12 and B6 folic acid, vitamins C, D and E, pantothenic acid, and some essential minerals.
Concerns
While you are on the Cookie Diet, pay special attention to your calcium and iron intake. The multivitamin and mineral supplement that you can get from the Cookie Diet's website does not provide iron, and each tablet only has 16 percent of the daily value for calcium. You should also be aware of the risk of regaining weight once you go off the diet, since the Cookie Diet does not teach you how to eat a calorie-controlled diet with regular food. Always get your doctor's approval before starting a diet program for weight loss.
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