There are hundreds of diet regimens that claim to make you lose weight faster than you ever expected, and each promises to produce better results than the next. But only a few work in the long term and the pretenders will only remove excess water from you and then you will return to your previous weight.
Only time and reputation can prove the effectiveness of a diet regimen. And such a regimen exists only in the name of Dr. Siegal’s cookie diet. This diet regimen refers to a low-calorie diet based on a hunger substitute in the form of cookies. Dr. Siegal’s diet calls for only 4 to 6 cookies a day in addition to other foods or meals.
To this day, there are already several cookie diets on the market. But Dr. Siegal’s recipe is still the best seller among its competitors. This is probably due to its long reputation and satisfactory results among the doctor’s patients and consumers. It is due to the effectiveness of this diet that his recipe has been around for more than three decades.
It was in 1975 when Dr. Sanford Siegal was doing research for a book on the effects of natural food substances on hunger and satiety that he developed his specific amino acid blend that is now his biscuits. The author and weight loss physician from South Florida tried baking cookies with this special formula and used it to control his patients’ hunger. His patients were instructed to consume a maximum of six cookies per day to control their cravings, plus a good meal for dinner consisting primarily of six ounces of chicken, turkey, fish, or other seafood. The cookies are estimated to be around 500 calories plus dinner, which ideally should be around 300 calories to make up for an 800 calorie intake per day.
The weight loss doctor’s innovation was an immediate success. In a matter of years, the number of his patients has grown dramatically and so have the success stories after using the (then) new diet. His name and his diet program spread throughout Florida, expanding his clinics, 14 of them in the state and another 10 in other parts of the United States (the number may have decreased after the split with the franchisee). Less than a decade after obtaining the prescription, more than 200 physicians were already using Sanford Siegal’s creation and program for their own patients. A short time later, Dr. Siegal devised new products such as shakes and soups with the same properties as his already famous cookies.
His cookies, baked in his own bakery in Miami, are now available in five different flavors: oatmeal raisin, banana, chocolate, blueberry, and coconut. He did not market his cookies until two years after discovering them when his son convinced him to do so. The formula for these hunger-suppressing cookies has been kept a secret from the public to prevent imitators from duplicating the product and naming the recipe after themselves. However, this hasn’t stopped them from imitating the product and because they don’t work, they just give the real product a bad name.