Die with a T
I saw something interesting on Yahoo.com today. The Headline was, "The Cookie Diet?"
Now before you get excited, no you don't just eat tons of cookies and lose weight. The actual cookie diet is an overall eating plan that just allows you to have certain cookies as every now and then.
The reason Yahoo was drawing attention to it because they track the searches done by users online and the surge in diet related searches is up...a lot. It's because of the new year resolutions. These are the top 10 diet searches:
1. Cabbage Soup Diet
2. Grapefruit Diet
3. Maple Syrup Diet
4. Apple Cider Vinegar Diet
5. Cayenne Pepper Diet
6. Special K Diet
7. Cabbage Diet
8. Rice Diet
9. Green Tea Diet
10. Cookie Diet
Which one should you follow?
None of them. Diets don't work.
Change your eating style for the long term, that's the only way to get lasting, real results.
Most sound, responsible diets are essentially the same. They may have a gimmicky food you eat more of, but when you're not eating that one food you're advised to eat a "sensible diet" and exercise.
That's all you need.
My idea for a new diet is called...The Common Sense diet. Now I just need to see if that's trademarked already.
Train smart,
RL
Now before you get excited, no you don't just eat tons of cookies and lose weight. The actual cookie diet is an overall eating plan that just allows you to have certain cookies as every now and then.
The reason Yahoo was drawing attention to it because they track the searches done by users online and the surge in diet related searches is up...a lot. It's because of the new year resolutions. These are the top 10 diet searches:
1. Cabbage Soup Diet
2. Grapefruit Diet
3. Maple Syrup Diet
4. Apple Cider Vinegar Diet
5. Cayenne Pepper Diet
6. Special K Diet
7. Cabbage Diet
8. Rice Diet
9. Green Tea Diet
10. Cookie Diet
Which one should you follow?
None of them. Diets don't work.
Change your eating style for the long term, that's the only way to get lasting, real results.
Most sound, responsible diets are essentially the same. They may have a gimmicky food you eat more of, but when you're not eating that one food you're advised to eat a "sensible diet" and exercise.
That's all you need.
My idea for a new diet is called...The Common Sense diet. Now I just need to see if that's trademarked already.
Train smart,
RL
posted by Ryan at 8:42 AM
4 Comments:
The Cookie Diet that you saw on Yahoo has been around for a long time. It was created by a Miami doctor named Sanford Siegal. Here is the announcement that prompted the Yahoo story:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/CookieDietCookies/DrSanfordSiegal/prweb496332.htm
Yes, I know it has been around awhile. It seems every year around this time another diet with a catchy name gets put back into the news. You have to give Dr. Siegal credit for coming up with a diet name that would catch people's attention.
Ryan,
My name is Shiraz and I am the Director of Business Development at Smart for Life Weight Management which acquired the rights and the trademark for the cookie diet from Dr. Seigal.
We actually offer a very comprehensive, medically supervised weight loss program. The cookie diet is our attention grabber but the system is structured and effective.
We don't deserve credit for coming up with a good name, that part is easy. We deserve credit for helping thousands of people get to a healthy weight and for helping them stay there.
You hit the nail on the head with your post about diets not working and success requiring lifestyle change. That's actually what we do here, the cookie just helps people lose quickly and that loss motivates them to stick to the things we teach them each week.
Smart for Life offers a full maintenance program for anyone and everyone that reaches their goal weight. The maintenance program is all about eating real food in a sensible way and increasing their physical activity levels. The Smart for Life program works so well because there is a caring support staff helping the patient along at every step. It's not just about the cookies, it's about getting healthy!
Let me know if you have any questions, and feel free to take a look at our website.
http://www.cookiediet.com
Regards,
Shiraz
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