Cookie Diet

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I appreciate the New York Times’ coverage of the cookie diet. The normal problem with crash dieting is that you inevitably go through periods of obsession with denied foods, then cheating on the diet, and then eventual reinvigoration of the original diet in an effort to punish yourself for cheating. Cookie diets (more accurately, “puck of random undisclosed shit” diets) are brilliant, because they take the whole process and wrap it up into a cohesive, yet insanely expensive package. The very food you obsess over is the food you’re asked to eat - because they’re cookies! - and so the inevitable failure of the diet is the diet itself.

And you get to pay a ton of money to do it, because otherwise you just have an eating disorder.

I somehow missed this one.

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