OK, now I’ve seen it all. A diet plan that let’s you replace two meals per day with cookies and eat a sensible dinner. Can you say SCAM? Have I tired the Hollywood Cookie Diet? NO! Will I try the Hollywood Cookie Diet? NO! Why?

I’ll at least give the diet plan a review. The Hollywood part of the diet is reportedly comes from a few Hollywood celebrities such as Kelly Clarkson and Mandy Moore dropping a few pounds.

The diet claims that it works because it is based on caloric restriction. That is pretty obvious since you are exchanging two important meals for cookies. The Hollywood Cookie Diet is a short term fix for weight loss. I would bet that the majority of people who lose weight from this diet will quickly gain it back.

Want some more cons to the Hollywood Cookie Diet? First, since two of your meals are based on sugar you may experience a temporary satisfaction and energy gain, but that will soon be followed by a crash. Sugary foods only provide short term energy and if not used are stored and turned to fat.

Second, how full and satisfied are you going to feel after eating 1 or 2 cookies for breakfast and lunch? From my experience, eating that small amount of food would cause great hunger. This may lead to binge eating during your sensible dinner.

Third, think about the logic behind this diet. The whole purpose if to find something you love to eat (cookies) and make two meals out of followed by a sensible dinner. Their website says that 4 cookies are about 600 calories and a sensible dinner should be around 800 calories for a total caloric intake of 1400. They base their claims on a person who usually eats 3000 calories per day. Following their diet plan this person would lose about 15 over the course of 1 month. Following this logic you could eat anything for breakfast or lunch as long as it was around 600 calories. Let’s take for example Subway. Subway offers several breakfast sandwiches that are under 200 calories. Have a breakfast sandwich and a glass of juice and you are at around 300 calories. Visit them again for lunch have any 6 inch sub for around 300 calories. Don’t like Subway try McDonald’s, they have breakfast sandwiches for around 30o calories as well. For lunch, have a cheeseburger or hamburger for around 300 calories as well. Hopefully you get the point. There are hundreds of options for breakfast and lunch that are much more filling than cookies.

Can’t get the cookies out of  your head? Still think cookies are a better option? Buy a pack of of Oreos. Three Oreos have 160 calories. Eat five for breakfast and six for lunch and you’ll come in around  320 calories 580 calories. The difference is you will pay about $5 for a pack of oreos that conatin 51 cookies. The package will last you 4 and 1/2 days. A box of Hollywood Cookies contain 12 cookies and will cost you $20 and will last you 3 days. You do the math……

My advice don’t try the Hollywood Cookie Diet. There are literally hundreds of other options. Even if you have a sweet tooth, follow the same logic. Eat a candy bar for each meal for the same calories and save yourself hundreds of dollars. Don’t waste you money on this diet!