Diet Fad Trades Meals for Cookies – Does it Work?
Trade meals for cookies, and lose weight — it’s a dieter’s fantasy. The lesson here is portion control. But will results stick? January 16, 2009 So you ate a few more cookies over the holidays than you should have, and now you’re weighing in at a few more pounds than you’d like. What to do? Perhaps you should eat more cookies. Purveyors of several all-the-rage “cookie diets” say you can lose as much as 15 pounds a month on their programs, and they boast of a sizable batch of already sized-down cookie dieters — reportedly including Jennifer Hudson, Mandy Moore, Howard Stern, Kelly Clarkson and former Madonna husband Guy Ritchie. But before visions of sugar cookies (or rum balls, pfeffernuesse, gingerbread men . . .) start dancing in your head, be warned: On a cookie diet, you can’t eat just any cookies. You have to eat special cookie-diet cookies. These cookies have been the toast of fan magazines and TV talk shows; on Friday, the granddaddy of them all — Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet —
