What Is the Cookie Diet?

Video Transcript

"Hello my name is Cher Pastore and I'm a registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator with CAP Nutrition LLC in New York City. I know you're thinking the cookie diet, cookies and diets don't go together, however there is a well known physician who made the cookie diet 34 years ago. So his name is Dr. Sanford Siegal and he invented the cookie diet. And what he says he's tried to help people, his patients, lose weight. And in order to help them lose the weight, he put them on a 1,000 calories a day diet. All these patients were complaining about how hungry they were because 1,000 calories is very restrictive. So then he created this cookie to help them control their hunger. He made the cookie of a patented blend of amino acids and protein substances which help the person stay fuller. So the diet is composed of six cookies per day. You take three cookies for breakfast, you take 3 cookies for lunch, if you want to space it out a little bit more you can. But you take six cookies per day with 8 ounces of water with each cookie. Then in the nighttime you have a regular dinner but it has to be a healthy dinner comprised of lean protein which is chicken or turkey or fish, serving of vegetables and a serving of whole grain starch. And again, you have to drink 8 ounces of water. So by doing so, the patient can stay in a very low caloric level of about 1,000 calories which will produce weight loss for the majority of people, pretty rapid weight loss and you won't get so hungry by this special thing he devised. Of course it's not necessarily healthy because you're omitting a lot of fruits and vegetables and dairy products so it's possible you can stay on it for a very short time, maybe three weeks, four weeks, get off a large amount of weight and then slowly reintroduce foods into your diet, healthy, natural foods like fruits and vegetables and lean protein."