OK, I’ve been avoiding this one for a while. Seemed kinda obvious to me. The WSJ has a good rundown of the cookie diets here.

The cookie diet is just like every other of the millions of diets out there – lower your calorie intake to less than what you are burning everyday and lose weight. There is a reason that there are millions of diets: they don’t work. Why? Because when most people end their diets, they go back to their old eating habits.

Says Bonnie Taub-Dix, a private weight-loss consultant in New York and spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association about the cookie diet:

“A lot of patients tell me, ‘Just tell me what to do and I’ll do it.’ But that usually puts the kibosh on success. They can’t wait for the day when they can stop doing it,”

Yup, just like every other diet, if you are waiting for the day your diet ends, you just won’t be successful. So don’t just start a “New Year’s Resolution” diet that will only leave you disappointed. Make the changes that you know you need to make. Slowly. Deliberately. It won’t be any easier tomorrow, so start today.