Friday’s Food Feature | Smartforlife.com: Eat Cookies, Lose Weight?
Here is a press release from http://smartforlife.com. The offer a program for weight management that you supposedly eat cookies to help manage you appetite and lose weight. While it all sounds great don’t it always helps to add an exercise regiment to your weight loss plan. Too good to be true? You be the judge.
Eat Cookies to Lose Weight with Smart for Life’s ‘Smart Cookies’
Natural Meal Replacement Cookies Plus a Healthy Dinner Add Up to Diet Success
BOCA RATON, FL (February 2008) — A few cookies a day melts the pounds away. That’s the idea behind Smart for Life™ Weight Management Centers, which offer a weight loss program based on all-natural meal-replacing cookies that are specially formulated to suppress hunger. Eat six Smart Cookies a day plus a low-fat, high protein dinner like chicken and vegetables, and start tightening your belt.
The brainchild of bariatric medicine specialist Dr. Sasson Moulavi, the Smart for Life Weight Loss Program works by retraining your eating habits to focus on small meals. Instead of having your blood sugar spike after large meals and then crash a few hours later – sending an “Eat Now!” message to your brain — the strategy keeps your blood sugar balanced to turn off your hunger pangs and turn on your fat burners.
Follow the program on your own, or go to a Smart for Life Weight Management Center for one-on-one physician supervision that includes a complete workup, an evaluation to determine if there is a metabolic or hormonal condition that has prevented you from losing weight in the past, and vitamins and supplements to help address those problems at no extra charge. The supervised program also includes weekly weigh-ins and behavioral modification assistance for long-term weight control.
Smart for Life’s Smart Cookie Squares contain a special blend of protein, fiber and amino acids that help you feel full. They’re baked with all-natural, whole grain and organic ingredients that contain none of the additives, artificial preservatives or other toxic ingredients present in many weight loss foods. They come in a choice of chocolate, pina colada, banana, blueberry, cinnamon oatmeal raisin and pizza flavors, with just 80 calories per cookie.
For meal replacement variety, dieters can choose from an assortment of Smart for Life muffins, shakes, soups and puddings — all packed with the same flavor as the program’s Smart Cookies.
After reaching your desired weight, you can elect to continue eating a few cookies a day as an aid to keeping the pounds off or transition to multiple small meals that regulate blood sugar levels to keep hunger at bay.
Visit www.smartforlife.com, and change your eating habits for life.
Smart Cookie Ingredients
February 2008
Oatmeal Raisin
INGREDIENTS: Triple Filtered Water, Vegetable Glycerin, Doctors Protein BlendTM (Milk Protein, Egg Protein, Organic Whey Protein), Hydrolyzed Collagen (Gelatin), Organic Whole Oats, Organic Seedless Raisins, Organic Crisp Rice (Organic Brown Rice Flour, Organic Molasses, Calcium Carbonate), Organic Whole-Grain Wheat Flour, Vegetable Gum, Organic Soybean Oil and/or Enriched Organic Golden Flax Meal (Organic Flax, Fish Oil), Organic Fractioned Palm Oil, Raw Organic Oat and/or Wheat Bran, Organic Invert Sugar, Organic Brown Sugar, Organic Cinnamon, Organic Pure Tahitian Vanilla Extract, Baking Soda, Baking Powder, Sea Salt, Natural Flavoring, Organic Nutmeg. Contains at least 60% Organic Ingredients.
Nutrition Facts: Serving Size 34g, Servings per Container 6, Amount per Serving: Calories 105, Fat Cal. 20, 2.5g Total Fat 4% DV*, 1.5g Sat. Fat 5% DV*, 0g Trans Fat, 0mg Cholest. 0% DV*, 120mg Sodium 5% DV*, 15g Total Carb. 3% DV*, 1.5g Fiber 6%, 5g Sugar, 5g Protein.
Chocolate
INGREDIENTS: Triple Filtered Water, Vegetable Glycerin, Doctors Protein BlendTM (Milk Protein, Egg Protein, Organic Whey Protein), Hydrolyzed Collagen (Gelatin), Organic Whole Oats, Organic Crisp Rice (Organic Brown Rice Flour, Organic Molasses, Calcium Carbonate), Organic Whole-Grain Wheat Flour, Organic Dark Chocolate Chips, Organic Carob Powder, Organic Soybean Oil and/or Enriched Organic Golden Flax Meal (Organic Flax, Fish Oil), Vegetable Gum, Organic Fractioned Palm Oil, Raw Organic Oat and/or Wheat Bran, Organic Oat Flour, Organic Invert Sugar, Organic Pure Tahitian Vanilla Extract, Baking Soda, Baking Powder, Sea Salt, Natural Flavoring. Contains at least 60% Organic Ingredients.
Nutrition Facts: Serving Size 34g, Servings per Container 6, Amount per Serving: Calories 105, Fat Cal. 20, 2.5g Total Fat 4% DV*, 1.5g Sat. Fat 5% DV*, 0g Trans Fat, 0mg Cholest. 0% DV*, 120mg Sodium 5% DV*, 15g Total Carb. 3% DV*, 1.5g Fiber 6%, 5g Sugar, 5g Protein.
Blueberry
INGREDIENTS: Triple Filtered Water, Vegetable Glycerin, Doctors Protein BlendTM (Milk Protein, Egg Protein, Organic Whey Protein), Hydrolyzed Collagen (Gelatin), Organic Whole Oats, Organic Crisp Rice (Organic Brown Rice Flour, Organic Molasses, Calcium Carbonate), Organic Invert Sugar, Organic Dried Blueberries, Organic Whole-Grain Wheat Flour, Vegetable Gum, Organic Soybean Oil and/or Enriched Organic Golden Flax Meal (Organic Flax, Fish Oil), Vegetable Gum, Organic Fractioned Palm Oil, Raw Organic Oat and/or Wheat Bran, Organic Oat Flour, Organic Pure Tahitian Vanilla Extract, Baking Soda, Baking Powder, Sea Salt, Natural Flavoring, Organic Nutmeg. Contains at least 60% Organic Ingredients.
Nutrition Facts: Serving Size 34g, Servings per Container 6, Amount per Serving: Calories 105, Fat Cal. 20, 2.5g Total Fat 4% DV*, 1.5g Sat. Fat 5% DV*, 0g Trans Fat, 0mg Cholest. 0% DV*, 120mg Sodium 5% DV*, 15g Total Carb. 3% DV*, 1.5g Fiber 6%, 5g Sugar, 5g Protein.
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Marijke
Mar 28, 2008 at 3:44 pm
This company is really pushing its product. Several Montreal radio personalities are on this diet and have been extolling its virtues. And, first impressions say that “wow, that program must really work.”
BUT (small word, big meaning), their weight loss seems to be too much to be healthy, despite medical supervision.
The losses I’m hearing (37 lbs in 11 weeks) seem to be too much too fast. It takes us longer to gain that weight; I don’t understand the need to rush to take it off. From all the reading I’ve done, weight that comes off that fast rarely stays off. Weight that comes off slowly has a better chance of it.
Losing weight is more than substituting meals with nutritious cookies; it’s learning portion control, how to cook and taste foods, etc.
So…. I guess you can say I’m skeptical!
Scott
Mar 29, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Thats totally understandable with a lot of the weight loss programs going under and leaving people high and dry.
There are so many alternatives these days and ways to learn to lose weight and a lot of it is in self control and researching foods and changing eating habits…sometimes people needs support groups and a little help and motivation. Cookies sound good but damn…sooner or later your gonna get tired of eating cookies.
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Heather
Apr 22, 2008 at 6:15 pm
I know. Too good to be true, etc. And I was skeptical too, but I got to the point where I needed to do something serious and soon (my cholestrol was pretty high). I have a high stress job and counting calories wasn’t working for me. I needed something very easy and controlled, but I wanted it to be as healthy as possible. Many meal replacement plans seem composed of overly manufactured foods. The cookies are all organic and all the research, etc. checks out. The hard truth - for the skeptics out there - is that I’ve lost 20 pounds in 9 weeks. For many of you this feels ‘way too fast’. I feel fantastic. I have tons of energy, I sleep better, I feel better about myself, I am not massively hungry all the time, I am learning to control my cravings. All the same, when the weight is totally off (in 3 more months or so), I will of course have to continue to eat a very healthy diet or it will come back on. BUt that is true of any weight loss program - fast or slow. Calories in, calories out. No more, no less.
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