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Sep. 28.

The Cookie Diet

When I first heard about the cookie diet, I was excited because this sounded like something that was made for me. Nobody loves cookies like I do! But I don’t think that I will be giving it a try, although I still will eat cookies.

The cookie diet was created by Dr. Sanford Siegal in 1975. Dr. Siegal is a physician and a weight loss expert. The diet is simply eating six ‘special’ cookies each day. Not just any cookies but ones that Dr Siegal developed and ones that he will sell to you. There is also shakes that work along with the cookies.

Back to the diet, six cookies each day and a reasonable dinner and that’s it. If you read The cookie diet website this particular way of losing weight has been a complete success. There are even rip off cookie diets that are trying to cash in on Dr. Siegal success.

One problem that I see is that the total calories for the day are only 800. You can lose weigh fast but that many calories is awfully low. Another problem is the lack of fruit and vegetables, any good diet should have lots of fruits and vegetables. And one website suggested that the cookies didn’t taste very good.

Cookies that don’t taste good! I couldn’t put up with that.

Like other fad diets the cookie diet loses the weight fast which means you will probably will put the weight back on fast.

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Sep. 23.

Morning Banana diet

The morning banana diet started in Japan created by Hitoshi Watanabe. As you can probably guess bananas are an important part of this diet.

 Each morning you eat bananas and drink room temperature water. Why room temperature water? I don’t know. For lunch and dinner you eat whatever you like. After 8 o’clock in the evening you don’t eat anything. And you can’t drink alcohol; eat ice cream, eat dairy products or any kind of desserts after dinner.

 What do you drink with your meals? You guessed it, room temperature water.

 One of the reasons that this diet is so popular is that exercise isn’t encouraged. You can if you want but that is up to you.

 Why bananas?

Because bananas are supposed to increase your metabolism, it makes you feel full and it promotes fat burning.

A red flag should go up whenever a weight loss program concentrates on just one food and doesn’t encourage exercise.

I wouldn’t do it anyway because I don’t like bananas.

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