My husband just baked a mean batch of chocolate chip cookies. Unfortunately I can't incorporate these fat, gooey wonders into my healthy diet every day. However, there are special cookie diets out there with celebrity followers. Madonna's ex, Guy Ritchie, has allegedly tried slimming down with cookies. I don't think macrobiotic Madonna would approve, but he can eat all the cookies he wants now.

Cookie diets basically follow the Slim-Fast plan, replacing one or two meals daily with a cookie meal that's ultimately lower in calories than a typical meal. Do they include Ghirardelli dark chocolate chips? No, but Dr. Sanford Siegal, inventor of the Dr. Siegal's Cookie Diet, swears by a secret mix of amino acids. The Hollywood Cookie Diet purports their protein and fiber cookies are so satisfying, dieters don't always eat their daily allotment. Soypal Cookies -- ugh-looking -- contain okara, a soy pulp which expands two to three times in size when adding water.

Dr. Siegal is opening a retail cookie diet store in Beverly Hills later this week. Wow, a cookie diet storefront for the stars. Do these diets include dunks in skim milk? Critics say cookie diets are way too low-cal -- Siegal's diet is 800 calories per day -- and research shows most people won't stick to it. Fans says cookie dieters can lose weight and learn portion control. It all sounds half-baked to me, ingesting only 800 cals a day is too extreme.