The Sugar Cookie Diet

You've heard of the Atkins diet, the African Mango diet, the South Beach diet, the diet where you eat only chicken Ceasar salads (minus the best parts--croutons and dressing), liquid diets, diet pills, diet shakes, but have you yet heard of the Sugar Cookie Diet?  Yes, that's right, the sugar cookie diet, invented by a ingenious stay-at-home mom who has discovered marvellous secrets of diet and body chemistry through the sugar cookie.

Here's how it works--

1.  Make yourself some sugar cookies, from scratch, with lots of butter and sugar, which we all know have been influences in diet for thousands of years.  

2.  Ice the sugar cookies with lots of icing.  Add sprinkles for an extra helping of sugar.   Icing is linked to happiness--more sugar, more happiness.

3.  Reduce the amount of food you normally eat, and substitute sugar cookies for said food.  Sugar cookies are better to eat than spinach, as everyone knows.

4.  Enjoy your cookies.  They are the perfect breakfast food, lunch food, or dinner food.  If you wonder what to snack on, you have the answer in the name of the diet--sugar cookies.

The "fine" print:  (Be sure you want to know before continuing. . . ) This diet is a great way to enjoy the holidays, and I would recommend adopting it around any holiday that could be used as an excuse to make sugar cookies . . . BUT. . .It won't actually help you lose weight (Shocking, I know.)

Since this diet is so fantastic and so incredibly successful as a tool to modify food intake, at some point, this diet will probably be published, and you will have to pay to get this expertise.  Be sure that you take full advantage of this amazing system of changing your diet before The Sugar Cookie Diet is refined it into a system that is actually workable for those that want to lost weight.  Go ahead; enjoy the Sugar Cookie Diet before the good parts are extracted (that would be the sugar cookies).

As you've probably guessed, I am the infamous, I mean ingenious, stay-at-home mom who invented the Sugar Cookie Diet.  This is the "diet" that I adopt during the two weeks around Christmas every year.  In case you are wondering, yes, I gained a few pounds, (and have lost  most of them again. Just eliminating sugar cookies and adding the spinach back will do the trick.)  Let me know how your implementation of the Sugar Cookie Diet goes, though I can probably guess . . .

A belated merry Christmas, happy New Year, and an early happy Valentines Day to all you fellow sugar cookie junkies out there. Just to make sure that you don't run out of opportunities to enjoy the Sugar Cookie Diet, here is a list of major holidays for 2012.

January	1 New Year's Day 4 Trivia Day 6 Feast of the Epiphany- Three Kings Day 13 Friday the 13th 16 Martin Luther King's Birthday - observed on 16th this year. 23 Chinese New Years It's the Year 4710! 25 Opposite Day 26 Australia Day
February	2 Groundhog's Day 5 Super Bowl Sunday , Superbowl XLV 12 Lincoln's Birthday 14 Valentines Day 15 Singles Awareness Day -  Are you single or in between relations? Then, this day is for you! 20 Hoodie-Hoo Day 20 President's Day 21 Mardi Gras(Fat Tuesday) 22 Ash Wednesday 22 Washington's Birthday 26 Oscar Night 29 Leap Day - It's this year!
March	8 International Women's Day 8 Purim begins at sundown 11 Daylight Savings Begins at 2:00 a.m. 15 Ides of March 17 St. Patrick's Day 20 Spring (Vernal) Equinox 20 International Earth Day - also called Sun-Earth Day 25 Feast of the Annunciation
April	1 April Fool's Day 1 Palm Sunday 1 International Tatting Day 6 Good Friday 6 National Walk to Work Day 1st Friday 7 Passover begins at sundown, lasts 8 days. 8 Easter Sunday 13 Friday the 13th 15 Income taxes due 16 Patriot's Day Third Monday 22 Earth Day (U.S.) 25 Administrative Professionals Day formerly "Secretaries Day" 26 Take Your Daughter to Work Day 4th Thursday 27 Arbor Day always the last Friday in April
May	1 May Day 5 Cinco de Mayo 6 National Teacher's Day 8 VE Day, WW II 13 Mother's Day 19 Armed Forces Day -third Saturday 24 Victoria Day (Canada) 28 Memorial Day
June	6 D Day, WWII 14 Flag Day 17 Father's Day - third Sunday 19 Juneteenth Day 20 Summer Solstice (The longest day of the year!)
July	1 Canada Day (Dominion Day) 4 Independence Day 13 Friday the 13th 20 Ramadan begins 22 Hammock Day ...relax and enjoy! 27 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony - not until 2012
August	3 National Watermelon Day 10 National S'mores Day 13 Left Hander's Day 14 V-J Day 15 Feast of the Assumption 15 World Youth Day date varies widely 30 National Marshmallow Toasting Day
September	2 VJ Day, WWII 3 Labor Day 9 Grandparents Day the first Sunday after Labor Day 11 911 Remembrance 16 Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown 17 Constitution Day 21 International Peace Day (UN) 22 Autumnal Equinox 25 Yom Kippur 28 Native American Day the fourth Friday of the  month 30 Sukkot begins at sundown
October	1 International Day for the Elderly 8 Columbus Day observed 8 Thanksgiving Day in Canada, 2nd Monday 16 Boss's Day 20 Sweetest Day 3rd Saturday 24 United Nations Day 26 Eid-Ul-Adha 27 Make a Difference Day 4th Saturday 31 Halloween
November	1 All Saint's Day 1 Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) 2 All Soul's Day - usually on the 2nd 4 Daylight Savings time ends gain 1 hour of sleep 6 Election Day -please exercise your right to vote 11 Veteran's Day 13 Sadie Hawkins Day 15 Great American Smokeout - third Thursday 20 Universal Children's Day 22 Thanksgiving Day 23 Black Friday
December	2 Advent begins 7 Pearl Harbor Day 9 Chanukah lasts 8 days 12 Poinsettia Day 21 Winter Solstice (shortest day of the year) 23 Festivus - for the rest of us! 25 Christmas 26 Boxing Day 26 Kwanzaa 27 National Fruitcake Day 31 New Year's Eve