Sunday, October 26, 2008

The Shocking Story About The Cookie Diet Plan

By Tyler Tefit

The biggest problem many people face when trying to lose weight is that they feel much hungrier than normal as their diet requires them to reduce the amount of food they consume. However, The Cookie Diet Plan devised by Dr Siegel in 1975 provides the ideal solution to this particular problem. Although you may be eating cookies the plan is such that still lose weight.

The cookies specially formulated by Dr Siegel that you eat help to stave off hunger when dieting and exercising. Certainly when you use exercise in your weight loss plans sometimes people may find themselves eating more after they have exercised. This is because the muscles used when we exercise will tell the brain that they need more energy (food) so that they can recover. But as the Cookie diet plan helps to eliminate these feelings the person trying to lose control is more able to control their eating habits.

But the Cookie Diet isn't solely about you eating cookies in order to lose weight. Rather what it is a diet which is medically supervised as it requires the user to only consume around 800 calories each day for with no specifics on how long it should be used for. Before anyone is able to use this particular diet they will have a complete medical checkup which involves lab work and a complete breakdown of their medical history. Throughout the term of the diet you will need to see a doctor regularly to be weighed and also to discuss how the diet is progressing.

This diet places a lot of emphasis on suppressing a person's appetite and it is the cookies which help to do this. They cookies that Dr Siegel uses have been specially created for him and contain low levels of Glycemic index products in them such as oatmeal and whole meal flour. Instead the levels of amino acids is increased and it is these which help to suppress a person's appetite.

Whilst on this particular diet when a person feels hungry during the day they need to eat six of the cookies instead of their usual meals. Then in the evening they will be required to eat one meal that consists of lean meat or another source of food that contains protein along with one cup of vegetables.

But what do you do if you find yourself still feeling hungry? As this diet actually restricts your calorie intake many people find that after being on it for a number of days the cookies alone don't help to suppress their feelings of hunger. This is why most of the patients (around 60%) of all those who use the Cookie diet will be prescribed other kinds of appetite suppressants also.

Certainly there are other problems associated with being on a diet that you are restricted to only consuming 800 calories each day. One of these being you are unlikely to be getting the recommended amounts of vitamins and minerals your body needs to function each day. To counteract this Dr Siegel that patients are recommended to take supplements to address this problem and he has found that those who have used this diet for many months have not suffered any ill effects.

Dr Siegel estimates that those who use the Cookie Diet plan correctly will lose around 15 pounds of excess weight each month. Also as the diet helps them to lose the weight more quickly it has a much more beneficial effect psychologically on them and they find it much easier to stay on track with it.

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