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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Easy - Fast - Painless - Works for me!
By D. M. Adam
This is the second time I have used this 'Smart For Life' diet. I went on it about a year and a half ago. I lost almost 50lbs in 3 months. Since then I have slipped and gained back 15. I'm on it again and this time it will be for only a month or so.
I have read a lot of negative reviews about this diet, most of them from people who were unsuccessful and tried to modify the course.
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It is very simple: One cookie and one 16oz bottle of water every 2 hours. I nibble on the cookie and sip the water. I try and take as long as possible with eating. My schedule is 8am, 10, 12, 2, 4, and a light dinner at 6. the last cookie at 8pm if needed. For dinner I usually have chicken breast and vegetables. Or canned soup with frozen vegetables added. I drink a lot of crystal light too. Be careful with sweets including no calorie sweet things. The sweets stimulate your hunger.
READ THE DIRECTIONS. You will lose your hunger after the first day or so. Count your Carbohydrates. You want to stay under 100 grams a day. Six cookies at 105 calories each and a 300 to 400 calorie meal equals 900 to 1,000 calories a day. There is no way you will not lose weight unless you cheat.
I like the Oatmeal cookie. The chocolate chip were too sweet for me and the blueberry tasted too artificial. I wrap them in a paper towel and microwave for 10 seconds. I originally bought the big kit which had soup and shakes. I still have the soup and shakes. Uck!
I also take vitamins twice a day and some fiber tablets. You will lose a lot of bulk and may become constipated.
Take a little walk every day, I walk out from my house for ten minutes and then turn around and walk back.
My blood pressure dropped 15 points, my glucose went down under 100. I weigh myself first thing in the morning and record it on a calendar. It is just amazing to watch the pounds fall off.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Great meal replacement solution
By AZMomof2
Although these are geared for weightloss goals, I bought them as a meal replacement solution because I have irritable bowel syndrome and when I'm at work I need to be careful what I eat. In the past I've avoided eating during the day because I never know what is going to bring on stomach problems. These cookies are very easy on the stomach and because you eat one every two hours it keeps you from being hungry. I will admit the first bite I took I was really questioning whether I could eat these everyday. They do taste a little like cardboard if you eat them cold. They are pretty bland. If you heat them in the microwave for ten seconds somehow it magically makes them tastier. What I love about these cookies are they are healthy (all organic), keep me from being hungry all day, and are so easy and portable. I eat them for breakfast, lunch, and snacks and it's nice that each day's worth of cookies comes in a sealed package so you can grab it on your way out the door. I'm on my 2nd order of these cookies (2 weeks' worth per order) and I'm really happy with them and have come to enjoy the flavor. I am not using these as a weightloss tool, although I do believe if you are used to eating unhealthy food and switch to this you will lose weight because of the calorie restriction (each cookie is 105 calories and you eat six per day). I would recommend these and hope Amazon continues to sell them.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Love the chocolate chip ones
By Anna O
I need to lose about 30 pounds and my problem is that I don't eat very much. I have a pretty sedentary lifestyle. I never eat breakfast, a small lunch and a reasonable dinner that sometimes includes fattening foods but not everyday.
After reading online about dieting, I read that your body can go into starvation mode and hold on to fat if you do not eat enough. My problem is I am just not hungry in the morning. For anything. So I decided that I would buy these cookies and force myself to eat one every two hours as instructed and coupled with a weight loss program (I bought a treadmill and reviewed it on Amazon) would get my butt in gear, literally.
After two weeks of eating these cookies and having a Lean Cuisine or similar type dinner, and other than my one morning cup of coffee every day, drinking only water, I lost about 11 pounds. I was pleased but wondered if I would become dependent on these cookies and have to buy them forever. I'm sure the company would love that but my wallet would not. So I began substituting: a single granola bar instead of a cookie, an apple instead of another, a 100 calorie bag of microwave popcorn, a 100 calorie McDougall's soup. I still eat a cookie or two every day but sometimes you're not in the mood for something sweet and cake-like; you want real food. The soup is great for that, as is the popcorn.
I view these cookies simply as an addition to my changed eating habits and just another option for my every-few-hours-snack. There is a wide range of views regarding the taste of these cookies. I only have tried the choco chip ones and I think they are great. They are very cake-y and break a bit easy. If you have them stored in a warm kitchen, sometimes you have to pry the top cookie from the bottom one but it's not so bad.
I rated this four stars because the first box I got from Amazon did not have the Program Guide that's stated in the product page; it was just the packs of cookies. I got a replacement from Amazon and that one did not have the guidebook either. I think the booklet-- while not totally necessary to have-- really should be included. There is no downloadable one on the company's website, which is a shame.
