The best dietary techniques are those which can be sustained, can deliver desired results, and do not produce any ill effects on the body. Success lies a great deal on the individual setting out on the weight loss journey. The question that crops up for the dieter is, is he/she living a life that supports effective and sustained weight loss and overall good health?
In reality, most dietary techniques may have instances when dieters, feeling deprived, are unable to resist the urge to reach out for calorie-laden foods and end up binging on them. This is one of the common pitfalls of weight-challenged individuals. It also characterizes a certain type of eating personality – the evening eater who diets or abstains from eating his much desired foods (in most cases, calorie laden fastfood, junk food or sweets) for as long as he/she can, but tends to have high-calorie cravings, usually at the end of the day, or before hitting the sack, or at midnight when a nice snack becomes totally irresistible.
Another personality is the three-meals-a-day eater who consumes oversized portions. Many of us who may have watched a famous documentary about a fastfood chain can understand how a supersized meal can burden the system and wreak havoc not just on energy levels but on overall physical state of the body. What most people consider to be normal activity (ordering a supersized fastfood meal) can be quite detrimental to health. A third type of eating personality is the steady snacker who is bound to encounter dietary disasters given the snacker’s tendency to go into fat and calorie overload. Another way of classifying people by their food consumption is to either be an undereater or overeater. The irony of it is that some undereaters may still gain weight (signaling a problem like a sluggish thyroid), while overeaters may try numerous diets and experience gradual weight loss, only to revert to old ways when diet foods start losing their appeal vis-à-vis mouth-watering fastfood fare.
Addressing these various eating personalities that he has encountered — in almost 50 years of dealing with the angsts and aberrations of overweight/obese patients — Dr. Sanford Siegal saw it fit to devise a no-fuss way of suppressing an individual’s appetite – by incorporating an amino acid mixture into low-glycemic index cookies and letting patients take six pieces a day followed by a meal consisting of lean meat or seafood and a cup of vegetables. The cookie doctor estimates that a person on his cookie diet will consume a mere 800 calories each day Any significant weight loss, he pointed out, is not really the offshoot of nibbling the specially formulated cookies per se, but more because of the reduced caloric intake.
Dr. Siegal’s cookie diet benefits consumers in the sense that it lets them stay on track with their weight loss efforts through an effective, hassle-free plan. In lieu of taking diet pills which may be a health risk, the cookie diet lets overweight patients veer away from over-refined, overprocessed or oversugary foods. By putting them on a low-carb diet, shedding excess pounds becomes doable. Moreover, the many health repercussions (developing high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, kidney ailments, diabetes, and other illnesses linked to obesity) of people with weighty issues are nipped in the bud.