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.
Common Misspellings
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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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I'm on end of day 2 now and lost 2 pounds already!! This diet is tremendously hard, but the results are already showing! If you have strong will power you will get to day7. I'll let you know if I made it:)
I'm on end of day 5 now. Felt a little weak today, think my sugar levels are down. Had a fillet steak today for the beef, and grilled the tomatoes with some parsley and salt and pepper to season, was delicious. Can't wait for day 6 tomorrow more beef, and day 7 brown rice. I'll weigh myself on morning after day 7 and post the results. Good luck to everyone who's doing it. I think it's a great diet, need willpower a bit but not too hard.
I am going to do this soup diet for the second time. The first time I got so sick of the smell of the soup, zI couldnt force myslef to eat it. The soup was great but that smell is so strong, and I wimped out. My mother has done this many times and loves it.. although multivitamins help and drink lots of water.. I will post again after the diet is done.
Long time since my last post. I definately lost weight! By the end of the week I was down 5 pounds! Not a lot but gave me the push to continue in a healthy plan. Now after a hot month sipping margaritas I gained it back! So again, I am going on this diet! I recomended!
Im on day 3 now and im really tired of the soup. I would love some sort of protein but im going to stick with it and see if i get any results. So far i have got a lot of gas and bloating.
Im on day 2 and can't wait to eat my baked potato! I feel fine and i've stuck to the diet completely. I'll let you know!
Hey everyone I have done this diet about 3 times! and it really does work I am on day 7 right now and have lost 10 pounds I went from 154 to 144 and I am going to do it for another week i hope to loose another 10 =)
I am on the 4 day now and the hardest part has gone. In the second day after eating tha cabbage soup I felt very bad. I had nausea, but right now I feel very good. I have lost 5 lbs Before I started the diet I was 51.40 kg now I weight 49 kg.I am 1.62 cm high Yesterday I went swimming, and after I finish the diet I will controle my eating habits, I will eat more fruits drink more water, and eat less food with calories. I will also start running in the morning so I ill keep my body on good shape. :) :)
On day 2 feel bloated and heavy! I hated the tomatoes in the soup so this morning I made it without. Is this ok? Also I am having a small amount of skimmed milk in my tea about 3 x a day. Will this lessen the weight loss. I am 140 and want to be 130. Thank you you are all great motovators.
Thank you all so much for being here! I am so happy to run across this site because I definitely need dieting support. My average weight for my adult life was 150-166 just doing as I pleased. But since 2005 I gained at least ten pounds every year. I am a bit of a dieting incompetent, though Jenny Craig has helped but not near fast enough for me. Before I started this diet I had an exercise routine 3x week, 1 hr treadmill and weights established. I also took vitamins and detox pills and regimens. Frustrated at the high level of my weight I started this. I have had excellent weight loss. I am on my first meat day and it is hard for me to imagine I will lose any weight eating meat the next few days, but since I have already lost eight pounds I am sticking with it. I have a headache right now, so I am going to follow your advice to take an aspirin. I am really curious and thinking what I should do when this week is over. I noticed some of you stayed on the diet longer than a week. I was going to see if I could maintain the weight loss on Jenny Craig the following week. I am so desirous to lose weight and get far far far away from any dreaded weight number as well as look good for my trip in 4 weeks. I gained 20 since February! That is just so shocking to me I don't get it! I wonder if this diet will continue to work if I stick to it several weeks? I think I am healthy and could handle it. Lord knows I have plenty of fat to burn to keep me fueled! Oh! And another note.. those bananas on banana day were the best bananas I ever had and the shake idea is so awesome! I definitely have a new appreciation for the food I ate at all those restaraunts that I did not have before!
Alright people I am a BIG ONE Im 6"2 @248.6 and today is day one of the diet, I did have a granola bar ( Im sorry I needed some substance in my life) but other than that I have done good with the soup and water I had some strawberries, snap peas,watermelon,carrots &an apple as a snack that seems like alot but OMG I think that I may faint tomorrow with no fruit * wish me luck all. Keep pushing on
I am on day 2 and I hate it. The soup is awful I can barely stand to eat one bowl a day. I have tons of gas and yes, I am taking gas x but I have IBS so, this is not a good diet for me it has too much fiber. BUMMER!
This diet gave me cancer. Would not buy again. F-
pls anyone tell me how i can replace the banana
i'm on day 3 too now and struggling. good luck with the exercise and healthy eating. i can't do any exercise on this diet as i'm so weak. am looking forward to banana day tomorrow though. i think that at the end of the day, this diet will definitely shrink your stomach and make you think about what you eat. i've lost 2 pounds and i'm on day 3. don't think i'll be losing a tonne of weight but i know that when it's over i won't want to go back to what i was eating before. it's a great kick-start.
day 3, i purified the soup in a blender, much easier to eat because it was getting old fast. fruit and vegetables all day. but i was starting to get soooo light headed and irritable. unfortuantetly, i cheated and had a few drinks saturday night with some friends. BIG BIG MISTAKE! i ended up throwing up soooo much that night. did lose 4 lbs that night... but i guess my will power is not strong enough for this diet. i think it does work if you can stick to it. for me, im just going to start putting the miles on my treadmill and just eating smaller portions of healthier food. good luck to anyone who can stick to this for 7 days!
hazel, i'm 5'5" and the same weight as you so very interested to see how you get on. i'm starting the diet 2moro as i'm going to ibiza with my friend who looks like a size zero! not looking forward to getting into a bikini at this point so need to lose at least a stone in the next 3 weeks!! good luck to everyone on here!!
day 2 and feeling very nauseated... i ate the soup last night for dinner and i almost threw up. i did drink 6 bottles of water yesterday. maybe too much water??? any suggestions to relieve the nauseousness?
I did the diet for 2 weeks. When I was first given the diet in 2001, it said that it was repeatable. The first week, I lost 14 lbs. and the 2nd week, I lost another 11 lbs. By the end of 2 weeks, I could not eat another bite of cabbage soup. I tried everything...shredding the cabbage, cutting it into bigger chunks, flavoring it differently with tomatoes and soup, etc, but it was still cabbage soup. After the diet, I did keep the weight off for 6 months, then summer came and I decided to try it again. I lost 9 lbs the first week, but very little the 2nd week. I think it was because I began to cheat. DO NOT CHEAT THE DIET because it is very unhealthy if you do. There are some things that are not listed on this website that you should know. Firstly, you must follow the diet to a T! There is a reason you have to drink excessive amounts of water on that day--it is to flush the uric acid out of your system that has been building up. Uric acid causes GOUT and is exacerbated by alcohol, so DO NOT DRINK BEER WHILE YOU ARE ON THE DIET (even if you can convince yourself that beer is mostly water, like I did). As a result, I DID get gout and it was very painful. It also eventually caused me to have kidney stones, which is a pain even childbirth can't even approach, and gall stones, whichj are also pretty bad. Once again, DO NOT DRINK ALCOHOL WHILE ON THE DIET. The diet will cause you to urinate a lot, and will cause your stools to become soft (garbage in = garbage out). It has been years since I have done the diet, but I am ready to try it again...this time a bit wiser about the consequences of cheating.
eat lots of melons, especially on the first day, you can lose an upto to 4lbs. It worked for me.eat lots of melons with the fruit!
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