The Cookie Diet from Dr. Sanford Siegal - Interest surges online

October 17, 2009 by Baby Chums
Filed under: News, Product News

The Cookie Diet uses unsurprisingly, cookies, to entice dieters into easy weight loss. After all, what could be more appealing than losing weight while indulging in one of your favorite snacks?

Hunger and a craving for sweets are the main reasons people crash their diets. “Hunger kills diets,” is one of the Cookie Diet inventors Dr. Siegal’s favorite phrases. Google Trends suggests that internet interest in the, “Cookie Diet” is surging.

If eating cookies and not being hungry was part of your diet plan, your giving yourself a better chance of weight-loss success?

These aren’t your regular cookies, instead they’re designed to be meal replacements. Fiber, protein, and other ingredients intended to keep you feeling full. Containing no drugs or secret ingredients, other than amino acids and fiber.

Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet. Sanford Siegal, MD, a Miami obesity physician who developed the cookie formula in 1975 is considered the inventor of the cookie diet plan. Several other cookie diet’s seem to have sprung from his idea including the popular Hollywood Cookie Diet and the Smart for Life diet.

On the Cookie Diet, there are no decisions about what to eat except which flavor cookie to eat, and what to have for dinner. It’s a relatively mindless diet strategy that has reportedly helped half a million of Siegal’s patients lose weight.

Siegal says his patients usually drop about 15 pounds per month on a typical calorie plan.

“One of the greatest motivators to sticking to a diet is when you manage hunger, decrease cravings, and watch the weight come off, and virtually everyone will lose weight at 800 calories,” Siegal say’s with confidence.

Internet interest is surging for the, “Cookie Diet” `with Siegal saying: `Honestly, I wouldn’t be hurt if this is all just a fad,

“My goal was to help people lose weight and we’ve succeeded . . . But if we’ve been doing it for 34 years, it can’t be a fad.”