Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet
December 14, 2009
Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet:Diet cookies will be good for diet conscious people.
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A 29 year-old mother from Phoenix who lost 120 pounds in six months with the help of the Dr. Siegal’s COOKIE DIET six-cookies-a-day weight-loss program and foods, appeared this morning on the Joy Fit Club segment on NBC’s Today Show. The Joy Fit Club feature, hosted by nutritionist and author Joy Bauer, airs twice a month and salutes those who have lost at least 100 pounds. Raper lost the weight in 2007 and has kept it off for two years.
“The first time I met Dr. Siegal he was doing a personal appearance at a mall in Arizona. This was shortly after I’d lost the weight on his diet,” said Raper. “I walked up to him and pulled out a picture of myself when I was over 100 pounds heavier and I told him, ‘This used to be me.’”
Appearing on the Today Show with Raper was her mother, Yvonne Henderson, who admitted to being skeptical when she first learned that her daughter was following a diet based on a cookie.
“At first I thought she was insane eating cookies to lose weight. But soon I saw the weight falling off her. So after Josie lost a lot of weight I went on Dr. Siegal’s diet and sure enough, it worked. I’ve lost fifty pounds so far,” said Henderson.
After meeting Raper several times over the next year, Dr. Siegal was so impressed with her and by the determination she demonstrated by losing 120 pounds that, in June 2009, he dedicated his latest book, Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet Book: How a Doctor and His Cookie Helped 500,000 People Lose Weight Fast (2009, Hyde Park Publishing Ltd., 320 pages, ISBN 978-0-9822728-3-19999), to her.
“A few months ago, Dr. Siegal sent me an autographed copy of his new book. At first I read the handwritten message on the dedication page but I didn’t notice what else was on the page,” continued Raper. “But the next day I was showing the autograph to my husband and that’s when I saw that that Dr. Siegal had dedicated his book to me. It said, ‘To Josie Raper, who is half her size yet twice the person for sharing her story with the world and inspiring others to change their lives.’ I couldn’t believe it. I was so happy I cried.”
Sanford Siegal, D.O., M.D., is a practicing physician, author, and weight-loss expert who conceived the idea of a diet based on a hunger-controlling cookie in the early 1970s while writing a book about natural food substances that are particularly effective at satisfying hunger. He set out to engineer a food to control hunger and enable his patients to stick to the low-calorie diet that he favors. After a number of years of experimentation, Dr. Siegal developed a formula for a particular mixture of amino acids that resulted from combining certain food substances. He baked his formula into a cookie and tried it with a few patients. Dr. Siegal’s COOKIE DIET® was an immediate success. Soon, his South Florida medical practice had expanded to include 14 clinics and he was supplying his cookies and other foods to hundreds of other doctors throughout North America.
