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The Svelte Cookie Monster
Cookie Monster, looking thin and svelte, can be an example to us all!

Fatty Facts!

Americans are a lot fatter than they used to be.
Americans spend more money than ever before on diets and dieting.
Facts about Women’s Plus 43% of the retail apparel market is Women’s Plus
By 2012 Women’s Plus is projected to grow to 62.4 billion dollars!!
Women’s Plus will grow 20% over the next 5 years Source: OldNavy.com - Old Navy just came out with a plus size line to accommodate the expanding need.

DIETS & WEIGHT LOSS IN THE 2000s:

The New Diet (Fad?) - You Decide!

Picture of a Diet-to-Go Dinner Meal December 2007: Here is another testament to how busy we all are! Picture of a Diet-to-Go Lunch Meal We don't even have the time to lose weight! I just came across this new (to me) diet plan called "Diet-to-Go" - if had been up to me, I would have called it "Diet-A-Go-Go" - but nobody asked me. Anyway, "Diet-to-Go" specializes in "Freshly prepared, delicious, and nutritionally balanced meals delivered to your home." - Sounds good to me! Which made me wonder how the food looks and tastes...so I snagged a few pictures from their website, and I have to say it looks good, but I haven't tried it, so I can't say. I wonder if they would send me a few samples so that I could say...

Anyway, all this talk of ready-made diet food made me think about my college roommate Petunia. She was from LA (and really fit the part - tall blue-eyed blond surfer chick-ee-doodle), drove a white corvette and was on the loud side. She was also on a diet. A rather loud diet.

Periodically, large boxes of astronaut food would be delivered to our dorm room, which theoretically would provide Petunia with enough sustenance to remain among the living, while melting away unwanted pounds and inches from her waistline. All very good in theory, except the food was all freeze dried, and looked about as appetizing as the boxes it came in.

Apparently that was the way it tasted too, because all I had to do was say "Dominoes Pizza" and Petunia would get all misty eyed recalling what a slice of pizza tasted like. Ready made diet meals really have come a long way!

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An estimated 125 million Americans take daily dietary supplements, including vitamins. Source: Drugstore.com

Dr. Siegal's COOKIE DIET was created in 1975 by renowned physician, author and weight-loss expert Sanford Siegal, D.O., M.D. More than 500,000 overweight people have used Dr. Siegal's hunger-controlling foods. However, until recently, the only place to get them was at Dr. Siegal's clinics in Florida or from several hundred doctors to whom he provided them. CookieDietOnline.com was launched on May 14, 2007. With almost no advertising, average daily sales for the first two weeks were over $10,000.

Already, Celebrities are jumping on the bandwagon and going on the Cookie Diet. Others, have endorsed the Cookie Diet for years! Retro Housewife caught up with one of the Cookie Diet's most enthusiastic supporters:

"Mr. Cookie Monster, do you feel somewhat vindicated now that the Cookie Diet is gaining popularity and acceptance?"

To which Mr. Monster replied, "COOOOKIE!"

It seems that the Cookie Diet certainly makes one happier than any other diet that Retro Housewife has investigated.

Too Much Information Running Through My Brain! Too Much Information Driving Me Insane^!

Any Police fans out there? If, in the 1950s and 1960s we were a bit naive and simplistic in our approach to diets and weight loss, we have more than made up for it.

Never have we been so well informed, misinformed, inundated, misled, educated, indoctrinated, brainwashed, cajoled, coerced, manipulated, bribed, blackmailed, encouraged, discouraged and just plain confused about the subject as we are today. And never have we been fatter. God's little joke on us. I think he is trying to teach us something about shortcuts and having our cake and eating it too.

And then there's the diet plans. Oh Lordy, Lordy! The diet plans! Join here, subscribe there, meet on Tuesdays, measure on Wednesdays, buy our meal plan on Friday. (Emergency Liposuctions, Amputations and Lobotomies are conveniently scheduled on Mondays, in anticipation of the measuring and weighing later in the week...)

I suppose the irony of spending lots of money NOT TO EAT has gotten lost in the shuffle somewhere?

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Other Diet Decades

1940s Diets
1950s Diets
1960s Diets
1970s Diets
1980s Diets
1990s Diets
2000s Diets
My Mini-Directory of Diet Plans Now In Alphabetical Order! What a Concept! (Will grow as I find new diets...ironic isn't it?)

Atkins Diet - The Atkins diet is based on the premise that carbohydrates make you gain weight. It recommends a diet high in protein (meat), low in carbs (grains, etc.). I think you have to be out of your mind to go on this diet. IMO, eating lots of meat is not a good long term strategy.

Diet-to-Go coupon ==>> Get $20 off your entire order! Get $20 off your first order with coupon code CJ2000

Medifast Diet - With Medifast you can lose 2-5 pounds a week. Medifast’s delicious meals make dieting quick and easy. Get one week free.

Nutrisystem - Nutrisystem has been around for over 30 years, and is a fairly sensible diet plan. With this plan, dieters buy the food from Nutrisystem, which makes it a good diet for people who are too busy to cook. One thing I like in particular about this diet plan is that they have tailored diet plans: Specifically, Nutrisystem offers a Women’s Program, a Men’s Program, a Type II Diabetic Program (the Type II Diabetic weight loss plan is dietitian-approved.), an All-Vegetarian Program - they even have a Vegan diet plan, the only one around where you can get your food pre-packaged, a "Silver Program" for Older Women (older being over 60), and a "Silver Program" for Older Men. That sounds very sensible to me.

The Sonoma Diet - Here's a diet for the gregarious! The Sonoma Diet encourages you to drink wine (Sonoma California being a very lovely wine area...)

Weight Watchers - Good old Weight Watchers! The way to get started on a Weight Watchers diet is to take the free personal assessment. Weight Watchers now has the advantage that many supermarket foods come with a "points" calculation!

Zone Diet - Established in 2002, ZoneLiving.com is based on the vision of Dr. Barry Sears, best selling author of the Zone Diet Books and a leading authority on the dietary control of hormonal response. Official site of The Zone Diet.