If you need to lose weight but can't stand giving up cookies, you could try the Siegal Cookie Diet. It's simple and may help you lose weight if it's complemented by a consistent exercise plan, but MayoClinic.com warns that it may not be a healthy choice. Ask your doctor for advice in choosing a good weight-loss diet.
Diet Background
Dr. Sanford Siegal, medical director of the Siegal Medical Group in south Florida, developed his cookie diet program to help overweight patients lose weight. The diet products and plan are available online, so you can follow Dr. Siegal's Cookie Diet for weight loss even if you're not one of his patients. The diet claims to be hunger-controlling because of a proprietary amino acid blend that is an ingredient in the diet cookies and shakes.
Getting Started
The first step of the Siegal diet is to figure out your calorie needs by taking Dr. Siegal's 28-Day Calorie Burn Self-Rate Test. Weigh yourself at the beginning and end of this self-test, and follow the Cookie Diet meal plan throughout the test. Step 2 of the diet is to use Dr. Siegal's calculator to set your weight-loss goals. You can either set how many calories you eat per day to find out when you will achieve your goal weight, or you can set a goal date and find out how many calories you need to eat each day.
Diet Cookies and Shakes
Each day on the diet, you eat six diet cookies that come in oatmeal raisin, chocolate, blueberry, coconut and banana. Each cookie has about 90 calories, 2.5g fat, 11g carbohydrates and 5g protein, and no vitamin C, vitamin A, calcium or iron. You can drink a shake instead of having two diet cookies. Each shake has about 130 calories.1g fat, 19g carbohydrates, 12g protein and 18 percent of the daily value for calcium. Shakes come in chocolate, strawberry, pina colada, crème brulee and vanilla.
Other Information
The only regular food that you eat on the Cookie Diet is at your dinner, which may include chicken, fish or vegetables. The diet shakes and cookies are not high in most essential vitamins and minerals, and to meet your requirements, the program recommends a daily multivitamin and mineral supplement. You can have as much Vitazest Water Brand Pomegranate or Green Tea with Lemon and Honey as you want, and these beverages do not have calories, vitamins or minerals.
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