Christmas Cookie Solutions

Yes, this is the season of weight gain.  But this is a horrible month to be on a diet. You ruin the JOY for you and the joy to the world.  So, what’s a person to do when cookie trays are a passin’ and Christmas Carols are a pumpin’?  

We've run a 4-year study called the Healthy Weight Registry.  We wanted to discover what perpetually skinny people do to stay perpetually skinny.  One thing we've asked them is what they do during the holidays that the rest of us don't do.  They do a lot of crazy cool things they need testing, but one that's relevant to us cookie lovers is this:  When they were at a holiday party and they tried something they didn't absolutely LOVE, they simply didn’t eat the rest of it.  They either didn't take it or they didn't finish it.  They left it. 
 
• That no-bake brownie-mix brownie? They left it.
​• That gluten-free Avocado Cupcake?  They left it.
• That Thumbprint cookie with the real thumbprint?  They left it.

When we first read this "Leave it if you don't love it" idea, my researchers and I were all trying to finish up our Avocado Cupcakes so we could be the first to say "That's nothing new.  That's totally obvious." 

There's never been a cookie in the world that isn't worth choking down, but there might only be 2 out of 10 that are really worth LOVING.  
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"Leave it if you don't love it." 
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