Cookie Diets

Here's a new one on me. There's something out there called a Cookie Diet. Obviously there's more than one. I'm going to start with Dr. Siegal.
The first and probably most well known of the cookie diets is Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet. Dr. Sanford Siegal is a D.O. and M.D. who lives in Florida and says he first came up with the idea of treating hunger with cookies back in 1975. He’s a weight loss doctor who has written books about thyroid problems and weight loss. He says on his blog that he discovered in the 1970s that hunger is the main cause of diet failures, and that a diet of around 800 calories a day is most effective for weight loss. Of course such drastically low calories would have to be accompanied by serious appetite suppression. Well, I could have told him that! Dr Siegal also is selling his cookies for about $8 a day for a package of 6. You then drink about 6 glasses of fluids to wash down the cookies and have a small dinner consisting of a 6 oz turkey, chicken, fish, or seafood and 1 cup of vegetables. They also suggest you visit one of their centers and get a doctors checkup before starting their cookie diet. Does it work? Sure! Stick to it and you can lose up to 15 pds in a month. I just can't stick to it...

Smart for Life
Sasson Moulavi used to sell cookies with Dr. Siegal but decided to start his own business. This started the whole cookie diet wars. The original partnership started in 2002 and Moulavi was told not to sell any Seigal brands in his shops-what a franchise?

Anyway, Mr. Moulavi didn't listen and went and started his own business and renamed it Smart for Life in 2006. He sells his cookies for $133.90 for a two week supply. That turns about to be about $9.50 a day. The cookies are also supposed to be 60 percent organic.
In addition to the cookies, Smart for Life sells muffins, shakes, soup and dessert mixes, jams, salad dressing and coffee creamer.


The two companies are now fighting over which has the right to call its diet the cookie diet.



Cheers!