For those who know me, I’m infamous for my love of food, but also my wacky diets. If you’ve heard of a diet, I’ve probably tried it. I must say most of them actually do work. I wish I would just be good at maintaining a healthy eating habit, but it’s just too hard when there is just so much yummy food out there! Plus, it doesn’t help when the future husband has as many cravings, if not more, as me. Of course, he rarely gains a pound regardless of how much he eats. The man once finished 11 full size muffins in one sitting, no joke.

Anyhoos, I am fortunate in that I do lose weight pretty fast. However, I think that’s also why I’m a victim of fad diets and yoyo-ing since I always have it in the back of my mind that I can drop the pounds fairly quickly. My latest go around: The Cookie Diet!

Like all other brides, I want to be in tip top shape for the wedding. I knew my dress fitting was coming up and I had a few inches to lose. Therefore, I somehow got convinced by a radio ad for the cookie diet!   I’m sure many of you heard of this diet already. There are actually several companies that make it, but I went with www.thecookiediet.com (Smart for Life). I’m sure most of you have a two questions 1.) How does it work? and 2.) Did it work?

Question 1: Basically there a 6 cookies to each pack. You eat a cookie every few hours with water and this is a replacement for two of your daily meals. You still have a healthy dinner including protein and veggies. Despite the name “cookie diet”, these are not cookies! Instead they are kind of more like mini-cakes and aren’t anywhere close to as tasty as real cookies or cakes. However, I must admit that over time, I started liking the taste especially the chocolate and blueberry flavors!

Question 2: Yes! I stuck strictly on what the diet told me to do and I lost about 14 lbs in a matter of 2 1/2 weeks. Of course after the dress fitting, I went out and did my usual gorging and gained some back. However, now that the date is getting near, I’m back on the cookies and I’ve already lost a few pounds in these past few days.

Although this worked out great for me, I’m already making a list of the foods I want to eat after this round of cookies!