Cabbage Soup Diet
The very definition of an ill-advised fad diet.
BACKGROUND
Look up the definition of fad diet and you’ll see a picture illustrating the Cabbage Soup Diet. It should not be followed as a long-term eating plan, as it is dangerously low in calories and could do more harm than good. It is possible to lose 10 pounds in a week when you stick to this uber-low calorie plan.
The Cabbage Soup Diet does offer fast weight loss, but it is completely lacking in nutrition, flavor and variety. You'll consume mostly soups of cabbage, onion, celery, carrots, tomatoes and mushrooms. Nutritionists argue that the pounds shed are more likely attributed to the dramatic and dangerous loss in calories and not the proposed fat-burning power found in the cabbage. This diet deprives your body of essential nutrients and has been correlated to difficulty concentrating, feeling light-headed and weak.
PRO
- You will lose weight
CON
- Unhealthy
- Dangerously caloric intake
- Primarily losing water weight
- Will regain lost weight if don't stick to healthy eating and exercise following completion
- Does not promote exercise; would be too weak to do so
DIET and NUTRITION
The one-week Cabbage Soup Diet relies on this simple plan:
Day One All-you-can-eat soup and fruit (no bananas). Consume plenty of water, cranberry juice and unsweetened tea.
Day Two Consume all the soup and vegetables you like (no beans, peas or corn). Have a buttered baked potato with dinner. No fruit today.
Day Three Eat all the soup, fruits and vegetables you like, nothing else.
Day Four Eat your soup, no more than eight bananas and all the skim milk you want.
Day Five Have at least one serving of soup today. You can also have 10-20 ounces of skinless chicken or beef and no more than six tomatoes. Drink plenty of water.
Day Six Eat plenty of vegetables and your servings of beef. Today is the day you can go a bit overboard with the meat (2 steaks if you like) - just make sure to add salad and vegetables. Stay away from the carbs - no fries, potatoes, etc.
Day Seven Have at least one serving of soup. Only eat brown rice, vegetables and unsweetened fruit juice.
EXERCISE
No recommendations are made. Given the severely low calories you'll be consuming, you likely won't have the strength for physical activity.
CONCLUSION
For rapid weight loss as a jump-start to a more healthy eating plan, the Cabbage Soup Diet could possibly be a solution. However, fasting or liquid diets like Cabbage Soup promising dramatic weight loss results in only a week are typically only helping you shed water weight. This weight will creep right back on once you stop the diet and continue with previous poor eating habits. Finishing the Cabbage Soup Diet and beginning a healthy eating and exercise regimen is the best advice anyone following this unhealthy approach can receive. Be sure to speak with your physician before beginning.
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Related Diets: Juice Diet, Maple Syrup Diet, Grapefruit Solution, 21 Pounds in 21 Days, Martha's Vineyard Diet
Wikipedia
The Cabbage soup diet is a radical weight loss diet designed around heavy consumption of a low-calorie cabbage soup over the time of seven days. It is generally considered a fad diet, in that it is designed for short-term weight-loss and requires no long-term commitment. It has inspired several copy-cats based around similar principles.
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Hi,i just started the cabbage diet for the 1st time and its been 3 days...The soup definitely makes you go to the toilet alot and you let alot of gas out..I've also noticed that you get bad headaches in the morning...I also drink green tea with the cabbage soup which helps...but i have yet to see if i have lost weight...will keep you updated..as i am having my weigh in for the biggest looser on the 7th day so the scales will be a revelation of whether the cabbage soup worked for me..
Hi, I started my 1st day today 3/25/08 andI'm 5'1 at 154 lbs I'm very excited the soup doesn't taste bad it's okay. will give updates each day to see my results on day 7!!
And u get diaria. belive me, ive tried :)
As of today I have been on this diet for 11 days. I was trying to stay on it 2 full weeks but started getting headaches and really tired. I stuck to it most of today but had a piece of chicken tonight for dinner, I can tell my metabolism is slowing way down and I don't think I'm burning much because of it slowing down. I'm still going to eat the fruits & veggies but will have chicken, steak, fish or a salad for dinner and start walking now that the weather is better. Anything is better than nothing! So in the past 11 days I lost 9-1/2 pounds, can't complain about that! :) Also I think it's a really good way to flush out the body, was for me anyway! Good luck to you all, stick with it, it does work, I just don't think you should stay on it too long, take a week or two break from it so you don't wear your body down and end up tired with headaches and as other people have said, take a vitamin everyday! :)
My husband and I did the cabbage soup diet and did well. He lost 11 lbs and I lost 8lbs. Now we are still kinds of doing the diet- we eat the soup for breakfast and lunch- with other fruits and veggies, but for dinner we eat a healthy dinner and fruit after dinner. We have been doing that for a week and lost another 4 lbs for him and 2 for me. We never felt dizzy, but we did take our vitamins daily and did a walk daily.
I was wondering, if you were on a diet already...and started the cabbage soup diet , do u still lose weight!? It's my 1st day and i feel that i got fatter...or maybe am just paranoid :S?
natalie,ive been on the diet for 3 days and have lost about 3lbs so i think it works at least i hope lol but also theres a new show on tlc called i can make u thin try that if u cant stick with this
hi everyone, my name is natalie and i weigh about 198 lbs. Ireally want to go on this diet but i need to no a bit of things. Does it work? Well, it better work for my fat bottom. Im gay, i'm a guy, i changed my name when i was a little boy to natalie cause i wanted to be a girl when i grew up.
well im on day 2 of the diet and i half to say it is hard to stick to but its so worth it i just know that if go off of it 2months from now when im still 170 ill regret it so muchi think the best thing to do is kepp busy!!1so you wont think about those chips lol i hope i was always in good shape but after having my second child 3 years ago lol i still havent lost it so l hope this does the trick good luck to everyone
As a vegetarian, does anyone have thoughts on substitutions for the beef day? Could I replace with cheese or soy meat? Also, when this is for a short term fix, how quickly have others found the weight comes back on?
I started the diet on Monday, I weighed myself this morning and I lost 5-1/2 pounds! I was trying to hold out till Monday to weigh in but couldn't help myself, I wanted to see if it was working and that it is, I',m very happy with my results so far! :)
I'm allergic to bananas - any suggestions on substitutes for day 4? Any help would be greatly appreciated
Back in 2001 I was given a copy of this diet by a friend, at the time I weighed about 300 lbs. I Stayed on this diet for 5 months and dropped down to 210 lbs. I felt great while on this diet, I wasnt tired, and I was really stoked to see the weight drop off. There were two hard things about this diet...the first, the soup. I hated it. I poured it into a cup and drank it 3 times a day...the second, my wife. She would cook these wonderfully smelling meals for the family and I was stuck with the soup. sometimes I had to leave the house for an hour to get away from the smell. I enjoyed the steak days, I love to BBQ so my meat day was always Saturday where I could fire up the grill. I even had a few drinks (Liquor and diet coke) about 4 weeks into it and it didnt affect anything. I kept right on with the diet and continued to loose the weight. I also went biking and rollerblading about 3 times a week for excersise. So this diet was a good thing for me, my advise to you...remember we are all different. How one thing affects someone may be completly different for someone else. I don't get sick...I cant remember the kast time I was sick...I dont get headaches or light headed, I dont get cramps or stomach pains...I have never had a bad side affect from this diet...but you may be different. Good Luck to all of you who will be trying this diet. Remember to stick with it and remember where you want to be...you will get there if you want it bad enough, nothing is easy about loosing weight, we all have to sacrifice something.
ohhh kayyyy RACHAEL this is a cabbage soup FAN site. not a "I HATE CABBAGE SOUP" website. and no it wont make you sick beacuse cabbage soup is the best thing ever created by god himself. and i am appauled that you would question it's great ness. so far me and nicole have lost 4.75 pounds together. keep up the cabbage soup!!! lova yaaaaaassszzz!!!
I'm going to start this diet tomorrow, I weigh 260 lbs, and I hope to lose a lot of weight quickly on this diet before I start my caloire counting diet. My goal is to weigh 230 by May. We will see! I'll keep you all posted
Hi everyone! I'm starting this diet tomorrow and I can't wait! I'm 5'4 and i think i weigh about 140 wanting to lose about 10 pounds! I don't have a scale at home, but I'm buying one tonight. I'm not fat, but I do have a little bit of a belly gut goin' on =) I've done SO much research on this diet, and I've read every comment on here. I can't wait to see the results! I've never been on a diet before, but I'm so motivated to lose these pounds! It's about to be spring break and I work at a night club doing beer tub. What that pretty much means is I dance the entire time on a platform in a BIKINI serving beer. I need to look my best! I'm going tonight to get all the things I need for the diet. I hate tomatoes, but I'm going to try to eat them on one of the days. Good luck to all of you and I'll keep you all updated on how I do!
Can I cheat and eat dessert on the beef day instead of 10-20 oz of beef? Calories may equal out.
Ladies, get real! Stop saying "I HATE THIS, I HATE THAT". BE POSITIVE, is the main thing to make it work and exercise. You will never make it in anything if you keep repeating the word "HATE"
Starting tomorrow... I've just finished making the soup but just realized that i forgot to add a can of diced tomatoes... WHOOPS! that goes along well with the rest of my day though! I can't wait to eat mango and bananas!
on day 5, have lost 8 lbs..just cant look at the soup anymore..is it ok to continue and not have soup?
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