Also, as someone else pointed out, they do not have any vitamin value, so a multivitamin is suggested when on the plan.

I havent tried the shakes or soups yet. Will see what happens on those soon.

I am really disappointed to discover the nutritional values since this was developed by a doctor. I thought they would be a little more responsible.

I know it’s a gimmic, but does that really matter if it is working for you? I was skeptical, but I am no longer. First week was dramatic (15 lbs), but since then I have AVERAGED 5 lbs a week. My doctor said that if I plateau, to increase the cookies to 7/day for 1 week, then resume the normal 6/day (I am not recommending this), but I have not plateaued yet!

I say try it!! Who cares if it is a gimmic. I wish peanut M&M’s would do it, but they don’t.

FYI, I have never written to a BLOG before, but I wanted to share my success with others, and maybe help them!

Good Luck!

This reminds me of an article in Runners World several months ago. Basically, the author attempted to live solely on energy bars and see if they could truly replace all his meals. While on a basic nutritional level he was balanced, his biggest issue was that he was sick of sweet foods, and he began to crave savory flavors. (That and apparently he began smelling like chemicals, which is when he stopped the whole experiment.)

Both that article and this one point to something interesting: while filling, low cal foods can work to replace one or more meals a day, our bodies are actually trained to crave more flavors than just default “sweet”. There’s also articles about how sweet flavors can make you hungrier, but that’s a whole other discussion.

Anyhow, I just found the similarities in the experiments interesting and wanted to share.

They are expensive. Needless to say, I ain’t sending away for any.

Zone Perfects are good. The only thing on any of those bars is sometimes….your better off just getting a Snickers! ;D

At most I’ve eat three bars per day — but usually only two.

Even at 3 per day — you’re only talking $100-is for 5 weeks versus $ 269 for these cookies.

For example, say you decide to eat 10 servings of Edamame or 10 servings of anything. If you continue to eat that much of ANYTHING…..carbs, veggies, meat….you WILL gain weight. No question.

One thing I did forget to mention is alot of people will say will Donuts are bad for you and candy is bad. I agree IF you constantly eat it. I am in full belief that NO FOOD is bad for you. I say again….NO FOOD is bad for you.

What’s bad for you is if you eat too much of ANY food. You can just as easy eat too much of a fruit or too many veggies and gain weight. You can go on Atkins and lose weight, but then be deficient in other areas and have too much fat intake.

A balanced diet plus physical activity is what you need.

How much? I don’t know. I am not you. I can’t tell you what YOU need to do. I can only tell you what worked for me.

Sorry if this sounds like a rant, but people get sucked into Atkins or to other “diets” to lose weight and they will for a while, but then there body lacks something and they fall of the wagon to get it. The idea here is to change for good. To break free of the bonds of food and certain diets. Be balanced. Eat a donut if you want….just don’t eat 12 donuts! Eat one.

The problem is like Lay’s says….you can never eat just one.