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The Cookie Diet - Information
What is the cookie diet? It's an 800 calorie per day diet in which you eat 6 specially baked cookies per day and only one meal.
On the cookie diet, you have one meal only: dinner," "The dinner consists of 6 ounces of chicken, turkey, fish or seafood."
Along with the lean meat choices, the diet allows one cup of vegetables with dinner. Red meats are discouraged because of their high fat content. The rest of the cookie diet consists of exactly six hunger-suppressing cookies per day, which are baked in Siegal's own bakery in Miami and available only to patients in Siegal's clinics (five in Florida, and one in Montreal.)
The cookies are not for breakfast or for lunch, but rather for whenever the dieter is hungry, though they must eat six a day. The six cookies, plus the one dinner, adds up to 800 calories. Dieters on the cookie diet should also consume eight glasses of liquid a day, which includes coffee and tea.
Too Few Calories?
Critics say the cookie diet's requirement of 800 calories a day is too low, and that it lacks nutritional staples that give us the vitamins and minerals we need.
"The cookie diet is really just another fad diet that will hook people in with the gimmick of being able to eat cookies all day," said Amy Campbell, a nutrition and diabetes educator at the Joslin Clinic in Boston. "While this sounds appealing, a closer look at the details reveals that this is not a nutritious eating plan at all."
The 800 calories a day is below that which is recommended for safe and effective weight loss, and the cookie diet is woefully lacking in fruits and vegetables, as well as calcium, vitamin D4 and fiber, she said.
