Hollywood Cookie Diet
Mandy Moore and Kelly Clarkson claim to lose weight with cookies.
BACKGROUND
The Hollywood Cookie Diet is easy. Simply eat four cookies a day, which replaces your breakfast and lunch, then eat a healthy dinner. So, eat a cookie for breakfast, a mid-morning snack, lunch and mid-afternoon snack. Each cookie is individually wrapped so you can eat on the go.
The Hollywood Cookie Diet claims that it works because it is based on caloric restriction. This is understandable since you are replacing meals with cookies. But the idea of replacing nearly all of your daily caloric intake with cookies seems to be a recipe only good for short term results.
So what's with the Hollywood part? Reportedly, Kelly Clarkson has used the Hollywood Cookie Diet to slim down, and Mandy Moore has been quoted as saying "I love life, and I love my cookies!"
The cookies come in several flavors: Chocolate Chip, Lemon, Oatmeal Raisin, or a variety pack that includes all three.
PRO
- It's simple
- The Hollywood Cookie Diet website gives a free recipe list download
- The website claims that you can get free diet coaching via email or phone
- Contains 13 vitamins and minerals
- Available online and major pharmacies
CON
- The Hollywood Cookie Diet is not a long-term solution
- Extremely low in calories
- Not appropriate for those with certain food allergies
- No exercise support
- Expensive
DIET and NUTRITION
Each cookie is 150 calories, with 4 grams of fiber and only 8 grams of sugar, and contains wheat, soy, milk and eggs, among a long list of other ingredients. The diet is centered around the cookies. However, for those times when you are expected to eat real food, they give you a recipe list download. Some examples include:
- Tuna Fish and Cannellini Bean Salad
- Lemony Lentil Soup
- Zucchini Fennel Apple and Asparagus Salad
EXERCISE
There is no exercise advice given with the Hollywood Cookie Diet.
CONCLUSION
There is no magic formula to why the Hollywood Cookie Diet would work for you. Calorie deficit works, but the idea of eating cookies, even more nutritious ones, as a meal replacement for any given amount of time is simply unrealistic. It's also expensive. The only conceivable approach would be to do it for 3-4 weeks to jump start your weight loss. Then you have to move on to a more sensible eating schedule.
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Related Diets: Dr. Siegal's Cookie Diet, Slim-Fast, Smart for Life, Soypal Cookie Diet, Genisoy, Glenny's, Vitalicious
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Very filling and quite tasty.
Terrible diet.
1. They taste terrible. And this is coming from a gal who can deal with fat-free ice cream, fat-free muffins, Luna bars and Balance bars - I've tried numerous "diet" replacements for real food (even though I knew they were unhealthy) and I've been able to enjoy these "foods" in the past. But these Hollywood Diet Cookies are disgusting, they taste like the worst gummy, mealy protein bar you've ever had - except it's shaped like a cookie. Ridiculously unsatisfying.
2. They give you the runs like crazy. On the toilet for hours a day. I do not recommend!!!
3. And I didn't even lose weight. I am already a healthy eater, I used this as a quick fix, hoping to lose a couple of pounds in a week. I ended up the same weight (a pound heavier!), dying for real food, with an upset digestive system, bloated and miserable from eating processed food for seven days.
4. If you buy it at a drugstore, it is not real food!
5. Eat fresh, healthy salads with plenty of veggies, topped with sliced nuts or fish or cheese for protein. Drink lots of water. Avoid processed "diet" foods (diet soda, protein bars, fat-free anything). One month on this plan will set you on the right path to skinnier, healthier you. Hollywood Diet Cookies will only make you crave the real thing, at great expense to your wallet and digestive system.
I have been on the cookie diet for a week now and have lost 11lbs. Love it!! I was so busy always chasing after my 2 kids that I wasn't eating healthy. Now I usually have 3 cookies a day and take my kids for a 1 or 2 mile a day stroller ride. Just ordered a one month supply!
I have been on weight watchers nad just needed an extra boost during a time when I was getting bored and losing motivation on my wieght loss journey. I was very surprised how easy this cookie diet was for me. It is nothing I could personally do over a long time, but for the short term goal I was after, it was the perfect diet for me.
if you lie t keep up with it if you dont thats fine to i will give it a try
I started this last Friday. I have owned a diet clinic before and know that it isn't a long term goal but is a great starter. I agree with some of the bloggers and am not getting hungry at all. I'm pretty impressed with it and would recommend it to anyone that needs to get started on a diet.
ok Ive kind of read nothing but bad responses, well the first time i used it for 3 days i lost 5 lbs? but I dont know if i can do that again!! lol
So I am starting today, and I will get back to you guys soon? wish me luck. ps im 19 and 219 lbs. See u in 3 daysss!
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This was dumb. I tried the Hollywood Cookie Dggiet for 3 months and gained 12 pounds. Instead of helping me lose weight, it lead me to beleive that I could eat any cookie i wanted. This sucked. DONT DO IT.
I have tried them all, and I mean ALL! But this is the only one I can stick to and get results without taking appetite supressants. I like the chocolate chip most of all, and if you buy them from their site, you can get 7 boxes for $19.95. When you're busy working, it's so much nicer than remembering to pack your meals. I keep dinner simple and eat it at 3:00 pm at my desk (chicken breast on my forman grill with vegies) and then a cup of Laci LaBeau Super Dieters tea when I get home and watch my soaps! Finally, a realistic solution for real people!
They call it a cookie, but really it's like any protein bar on the shelf, just shaped like a cookie. Tastes like a protein bar. The only redeeming taste aspect is that the choco chips taste real. The rest taste powdery-healthy-dry like nutrition bars. My local store had these 50% off, (12 for $10). I don't plan to repurchase.
okay you lose the weight and then what. you have to eat these cookies for the rest of your life because once you stop eating them you gain all the weight you had before or maybe even more. ive tryed this & all that i lost was my money.
I used to think this diet sounded crazy myself, but ince I really got involved in strength training and nutrition, I realized that this cookie is almost exactly like the protein bar recipes recommended by my favorite strength training magazines; it is just ready to go! So for those of you that think it is "crazy", it really isn't. These cookies are a well balance quick snack that look like cookies.
I have lost 34 pounds in the SMART FOR LIFE cookie diet. Their cookies are the ONLY ones that are organic, there made with triple filter water and kosher. Check it out at smartforlife 100% results and good ingredients.
I loved this cookie diet, lost 50 lbs and the cookie was delicious(especially when you heat them in the microwave for 10 sec)..Too bad some of the storeshave taken off the shelves:(..Bring them back!!!!!!!!!!
I didn't like Dr. Siegal's cookies at all. I then tried SMART FOR LIFE WEIGHT MANAGEMENT'S and they were so much better. They were moister and filled me up more. The cookies have helped me loose 52lbs to date and I only have 23 more to go. lots of flavors of cookies, soups, muffins and snack chips. The clinic staff was unbelivable in the support that they gave me. give it a try.
Trust me when i tell you smart for life's cookie plan is so muh better than this one! Check it out for yourself The cookies taste better, there is variety of product so you wont get bored, and you lose the weight fast! The bagels are my favorite!
completley insane, it doesnt even workk and itss super expensive
Something this review doesn't mention: the cookies are very large, and high in fiber. They're not just "a sweet snack with some vitamins added", they're suppressing your appetite and giving you a very full feeling.
Before starting them, I was eating a 300 cal breakfast, small lunch, and modest dinner. I was coming in around 1200-1300 cals/day. That was working, but I was constantly fighting the snack urge in the mid afternoon.
Instead of doing their recommended 4 cookies (150 cal ea) + 800 cal dinner for 1400 cals/day, I still do the 300 cal breakfast and a 600ish cal dinner ... with 1 cookie for lunch, 1 cookie for mid afternoon snack, and 1 cookie for a dinner dessert (keeps me from wanting a midnight snack). 1350 cals compared to the 1400 cals the cookie diet recommends, yet I'm getting 2 reasonable meals and not snacking at all. That, some exercise, and a multi-vitamin, all works fine for me.
This seems completely insane to me.
Well the cookies taste good with coffee for breakfast. I was eating nothing for breakfast before, so at least this as better than what I was eating, which was nothing. I haven't lost weight yet, but the cookies taste good. :-)
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