Cookie Diets would you try one Eat Cookies Lose Weight

What if I told you, you could lose weight eating cookies? Well, it’s true! It may just be the answer you’ve been looking for in your quest to lose weight. Diets that deprive us never work, but if you learn how to add your favorite foods into your diet, you’ll finally be able to lose weight and keep it off for good. Here are the reasons why you’ll find success on a cookie diet.

- It works!

There are companies out there pushing their own cookie diet, but I’m not talking about needing to spend your money on those expensive gimmicks, I’m talking about your favorite store bought cookies. What’s your favorite? I love Oreos. I could never live without my Oreos! So, this brings me to how the cookie diet started for me. For those of you that don’t know, I struggled with my weight as a teenager, finally figured out on my own how to lose weight, and then went on to become a personal trainer. When I was a teen, I began reading as many books and magazines as I could about fitness and losing weight. When I was at my most desperate point to lose weight, I tried many things, many crazy things in fact. I was never happy. 

When I tried to do what I “thought” dieting was, I cut out all the foods I loved, I starved myself, and I was miserable. As I learned more about nutrition and fitness, I also put into my weight loss plan the things that were an extension of who I was, and all of the things I loved, and enjoyed. This wasn’t only about food, it was about living my life on many levels that I had not been. When it came to my eating, I also needed to figure out what was missing, and how I can finally not feel terrible over it. One day, I remember, I was hungry for chocolate chip cookies. I remember looking at the calories, and I said to myself, “hummm, I could have 2 cookies for 160 calories.” I gave that some though. I concluded, that if I had those 2 cookies, I’d be satisfied. I continued to analyze it a bit. I said to myself, “if I’m hungry for those cookies again, which I’m sure I will be, I’ll have another 2 cookies in two hours.” All I wanted to eat all along were those Chocolate chip cookies. I always want to eat cookies. So, I did this for almost that whole day, 2 cookies, every two hours. What were my results? I was satisfied for the first time in a longtime, I didn‘t overeat that day, and I ate less total calories that day than I had in years! I also thought to myself, “you mean it was this simple all along?” I had finally found my answer to getting my eating under control.

- Why it works.

When we eat what we love in moderation, as I did adding in my cookies as snacks, we’re in control of our cravings. We’ll never be able to lose weight, unless we’re satisfied with our eating. Most diets don’t work, because we torture ourselves with them. I know what it’s like to keep coming up with different rules and schemes to lose weight, and it’s madness. I’m so grateful for coming to this realization when I did about food, because I don’t know how I would have kept living with my food battles anymore. It had gotten so bad, and that combined with other past hurts and struggles, I didn’t want to live anymore. But, I kept going on and fighting to figure it out, to find my answer, and I found the will to survive. Something as simple as eating a few cookies a day, was my answer to life and freedom, how crazy is that? But, it’s true. It gave me a way to eat the things I loved in moderation, instead of trying to fight against my love for those foods each day. There are so many other things I want to be doing in life, not fighting myself over what I can’t eat. When we don’t allow ourselves to eat what we love, it’s all we think about, and we also end up overeating and binging in most cases.

- Then I tried it on a client.

It never occurred to me that there was actually a “cookie diet.” To me it’s just a moderation, control diet. We’re in control by allowing ourselves to eat the foods we love, rather than let them gain control of us. When we follow what I’ve done when I first starting eating those chocolate chip cookies, we win the battle, especially the one that has caused us to overeat for so long. I never heard of the cookie diet, but I find it interesting that there is one today. Over a year ago, I had a client that was severely obese. As we worked together, she adopted a few of my strategies at first(which is always a few in the beginning by design), and we were making great strides. In the beginning, it’s usually always easy to lose a lot of weight with the most minuet changes. She was doing very well, but she was still struggling with some of the “moderation” principles. She was eating all of the “good foods” I had suggested, but even though she knew she could eat things in moderation, she was still struggling. 

She said to me one day, “all I want is cookies, I can’t stop thinking about them.” I thought to myself, “well, that’s no fun.” I don’t want anyone to be miserable thinking that they can’t eat what they want all day. Even though we worked on moderation, she was struggling with that part. I recalled what I had gone through years ago, with those chocolate chips. I figured, that would be a great plan for her to control her cravings and thoughts about them, and be satisfied. I told her to eat 2 cookies every two hours, whenever she wanted them. I also told her they should total about 160 calories. I never really thought much about what had worked for me back when, and I surely never thought I’d be thinking about recommending this to a client as a personal trainer. But, somehow with her, it made sense. 

Sometimes we need to think differently, accept things could be different, and know that what works to help someone is what matters. It worked extremely well for her! She’s became in control of her eating, and those voices telling her to overeat. She doesn’t eat a package of cookies anymore, because as she said, “the desire isn’t there.“ Now, she’s satisfied knowing she can have them whenever she wants, and its made her want them less too. She basically went through all the things I was feeling as a teenager. Who would have thought that a few cookies a day could change lives like this.

If you’ve been struggling with cravings, hunger, and overeating issues, this may help to give you control over those things. When we’re not deprived, we’re able to fill our “satisfaction factor,” which usually causes us to overeat when we’re “not” satisfied. No plan should be so strict that we’re feeling so many emotions, because we’re starving, or because we can’t follow a plan that makes us eat what we dislike, etc. For each of us, there’s going to be something that works very well. Perhaps trying this idea of “the cookie diet,” is finally your answer, as it was mine, to finally losing weight for good and keeping it off.