Looking for a way to lose weight without cutting carbs or painful hours at the gym? All this week we're going to show you alternative ways people have found to lose weight.

Our Jennifer Ryan has found a diet where patients are losing 15 to 40 pounds a month. And get this, they're doing it by satisfying their cookie cravings.

Chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin ... The last thing you'd expect to be able to eat on a diet. But Minerva Alfonso swears by them.

She’s lost 95 pounds in five months.

It's called the cookie diet. And the man behind the special recipe is Dr. Sanford Siegal.

"The cookies are a combination of what is called amino acids," he said. "And this particular mixture of amino acid is very effective in controlling hunger."

Read more about the Cookie diet at http://wusa9.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=46576.