Sacred Heart Diet
Quick weight loss program, similar to the Cabbage Soup Diet.
BACKGROUND
The Sacred Heart Diet is a 7-day eating plan that is supposed to shed pounds quickly by consuming a special soup made of broth and vegetables as your main source of food. According to the diet, during the seven days, you can lose up to 10 pounds or more. Each day has specific guidelines for which foods and drinks to consume. There is a thorough list of restricted foods and beverages, so that you'll know exactly what you can and can't consume.
This diet supposedly comes from the Sacred Heart Memorial Hospital, although reports on the Web refute this. It is used for overweight heart patients in order to lose weight rapidly, usually prior to surgery. In addition to losing weight quickly, it is intended to also wash your body of impurities while giving you a surge of energy without the ingestion of caffeine or other energy-enhancing products. This diet is also sometimes referred to as the Cabbage Soup Diet.
PRO
- There are notable health benefits from avoiding certain processed foods like refined sugars and flours
- Does not call for any funky supplements or herbal concoctions
- Reliance on the diet's consumption of vegetables, fresh fruit and lean protein is beneficial to one's health and can possibly aid in weight loss also.
- Its one-week time frame is manageable for individuals with a strong will power and who want to lose weight quickly
- Supports exercise
CON
- Diet may be restrictive for some
- No scientific evidence that this soup will actually burn calories
- Once you've completed it, you are on your own to reestablish your eating routine
- Does not give any guidelines for how to sustain long-term weight loss
- Given its strictness, the individual may run the risk of having a gorge fest when Day 7 is completed
- Sacred Heart Hospital and The American Heart Association deny any relationship with the diet
DIET and NUTRITION
The soup, which is made from 11 ingredients, is the supposed magic pill of The Sacred Heart Diet. The soup includes canned tomatoes, mushrooms, green beans, bell peppers, celery, beef stock and vegetable juice. You can find the complete Sacred Heart Diet Recipe here.
For the seven days of this diet, you will eliminate bread, white sugar, alcohol, fried foods, and carbonated beverages
The Diet has specific guidelines for each day that you must adhere to in order to reap the supposed benefits.
Each day, you will consume your sacred soup in addition to certain kinds of fruit, certain allowable beverages, protein and other cooked or canned vegetables. For instance, on Day One, you may eat as much soup as you want to as well as fruit except for bananas. On this first day, you can only drink coffee, black tea, water or unsweetened juice without milk or sugar added to the beverages On Day Two, you can have soup, vegetables and a baked potato with a small pat of butter for dinner. On Day Four, you may eat at least 3 bananas, and drink as much skim milk and soup as you can. The diet continues for the following three days in which you add lean red meat or chicken and still continue to eat the soup.
Abiding by the diet's guidelines is intended to yield the results you are looking for.
EXERCISE
There are no specific exercise recommendations for The Sacred Heart Diet other than to follow your usual exercise routine by getting in some form of exercise on most days of the week.
CONCLUSION
Albeit it is a very restrictive diet, The Sacred Heart Diet is a commendable eating plan given its reliance on vegetables, fruits and lean protein. It is clearly high in fiber, nutrients and minerals. It is similar to many low carbohydrate diets out there for its avoidance of refined sugars, flour of any sort, fried foods and added fat. Although there is no scientific proof that the sacred soup which you ingest every day is a magic pill to melt off the pounds, it is a great way to feel full and to get in more than your five veggies a day. But its reliance on veggies and fruit might give some stomach cramps if your system is not used to this way of eating. Since this such a one-shot punch to lose weight, it might be that you gain the weight back just as quickly or even more quickly as you lost it.
And do make a pact with yourself before starting this diet that on Day 8, when The Sacred Diet officially ends, you don't hightail it to McDonalds and order 3 double cheeseburgers and 2 super-sized fries. Do be gentle on your gut as you acclimate it back to the foods that you normally consume: order the Happy Meal.
Common Misspellings
sacrid, saecred, hart, scared
Related Diets: Cabbage Soup Diet, Juice Diet, Maple Syrup Diet, Purple Diet
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On day 4 - hate day 4!!!!!! Cant wait till tomorrow - beef day!! Soup is disgusting!!!!!! But been on the diet twice - lost 14 pounds the first time (only lasted five and a half days on diet) Day four of second round and I've lost 15 pounds - no lie!!!! I have been working out everday though - hard! Side note - after diet the first time big time cravings, I ate bad for two days straight - gained 6 pounds back right away. I'm hoping to have a bit more self control when I finish this time, but we'll see. Good luck all!
I too have tried to cabbage soup diet and the only similarity is that you eat alot of soup but the cabbage soup is GROSS...this soup is good but I can tell I will get sick of it easliy. Anyways, I love fruit so today was good but I think you have to have a ton of will power to make it through any diet...and I do not have much will power lately lol. I just dont feel like doing it but I am forcing my self to see if it actually works. I I can hang.. I am using this as a start into eating right from here on out and lose weight gradually ...maybe doing this diet once a month or so. wish me luck~
I have tried the diet twice. I lose 5-8 pounds a week but then I fall back and gain the weight. This time I will try it again for 2 weeks see what happens.I need to lose 15 pounds before the holidays. It is my first day and I am starving...I am going to the gym later , I hope I have some energy left.
OK. This is my first day trying this diet. I have very high hopes for it considering I reallllly need to lose the weight but heres the thing. THIS SOUP IS ACTUALLY REALLY GOOD. does anyone else think is taste like MINESTRONE. its good to the point were i think i messed up on it..lol.
I really need some support..lol I just wanna make sure Im doing this right. This is my 1st days and i've ate cantaloupe for breakfast anf some soup for lunch. ill snak on some more fruit later on and have some soup for dinner. and i doing okay so far?
unfortunately i have nooo scale so i cant really keep track but my body should feel better right? and i should be able to fit into those jeans i threw in the back of my closet by the last day right??? lol i sure hope so
OK. This is my first day trying this diet. I have very high hopes for it considering I reallllly need to lose the weight but heres the thing. THIS SOUP IS ACTUALLY REALLY GOOD. does anyone else think is taste like MINESTRONE. its good to the point were i think i messed up on it..lol.
I really need some support..lol I just wanna make sure Im doing this right. This is my 1st days and i've ate cantaloupe for breakfast anf some soup for lunch. ill snak on some more fruit later on and have some soup for dinner. and i doing okay so far?
unfortunately i have nooo scale so i cant really keep track but my body should feel better right? and i should be able to fit into those jeans i threw in the back of my closet by the last day right??? lol i sure hope so
HEY i'VE BEEN ON THE DIET TODAY FOR A TOTAL OF 4 DAYS AND DID EVERYTHING I WAS TOLD TO DO AND ALREADY LOST 6 LBS. IT'S GREAT
I tried this soup a couple of years ago and lost 25# in one week. The secret is to eat as much soup in a day as you can consume. It is not easy consistently eating the soup (no more than chocolate cake 10x day). But if you are wiling to sacrifice for 7 days only and follow it to a "T", you will lose the weight. Good luck. I am starting mine again tomorrow with 2 friend because I have put weight back on but it is due to Snickers and Coca-Cola. You are what you eat.
I did the diet for the first week and did not cheat at all. I decided that I wanted to do it for a second week so that I could continue to lose weight. Much to my dismay I am on day 5 of my second week and I have not lost on e single pound this week. Any have this problem?
i only weigh 147lbs should i use this diet i just wanna lose 17 lbs? so should i?
This is a quick easy way to lose those few extra pounds. I have used it several times, just before the holidays, before weddings, vacations,etc. Lose weight and feel great. It's awesome. I don't know why they are saying it is sometimes called the cabbage soup diet, as it is nothing like it!
I've tried the sacred heart diet twice. The first time I lost 17 lbs in on week. I went back to my old eating habits and I gained it all back plus an extra 5 lbs. The second time I lost 6 lbs after day 3 and went back to my old eating habits. I gained that 6 lbs back plus an extra 5 lbs. The diet works if you can stick to it. I did get tired of eating the soup. I'm about to go back on the diet for the 3rd time. I've finally reached the point where I'm truly disgusted with myself. It's all about disiplining yourself. I need to eat for nutrition. I've been on the diet for 4 days now and I've lost 11 lbs already. I plan to stick to it this time and once I reach my goal weight I'll reintroduce some low carb back into my diet in moderation. My struggle now is getting into the gym, it's getting cold outside and the last thing I want to do is go to the gym after a long day of work but I also know that keeping myself busy will keep me out of the fridge.
I usually start this diet when I want to lose some weight. It's a great way to drop some pounds quickly and to get your mind ready. I usually only do the first three days - I can't handle that soup, it's disgusting. But I just went off the soup yesterday was day 3. I stuck to the plan and I lost 5 pounds. Today I'm back to eating regular foods - whole grain breads, skim milk, veg/fruits chicken breast and a salad with 1 tablespoon of olive oil. I will not exceed 1800 calories today, and will gradually increase my calaries to 2000 in the next 3 days.
From now on, I will find it easy to eat properly and not binge on junk.
I am SO disappointed!! This is my fourth day and I couldn't wait to wiegh myself. I gained 2 pounds! I did not cheat one tiny bit- I have done absolutely everything according to the plan. I am even walking one hour every day and exercising for 1/2 hour. What did I do wrong? Please someone help! Should I stay on it and continue to try to loose something by the end of the 7 days?
I am on day 3 of the diet. Day one was very hard I felt like I needed more, I was tired, grumpy, and a little hungry I didn't feel like the soup was filling. On day two I was looking for excuses to cheat or stop the diet but I kept it up. Today (day 3) I feel good I have a little more enery then the past two days and I dont feel as hungry. I weighed myself and I have lost 4 pounds. Hopefully the weight keeps falling off.
Can anybody tell me the best excersise that they've tried. I need something that wont take more than 1 hour bc I am a full time student and I work full time, Please let me know if you have any suggestions.
i follow this diet every so often when I need to lose 5-8 pounds. It works well, but I ensure that I continue to eat 1800 calories a day, this way my body doesn't think I'm starving myself. This generally means five large bowls of this disgusting soup every day, plus all the other food (fruits/veg etc, what applies to that day). DON'T STARVE YOURSELF, make sure you maintain your calorie intake, this way when you go off this diet, you can maintain the same calorie level, in my case 1800 per day, by switching to 'regular' food. My regular food is whole grains, skim milk, lean chicken, vegs/fruits etc.
GOOD LUCK FOLKS!
hi guys! so i was planning on starting my diet today...everything was going good...i ate fruit in school and everything...then it started snowing and our power went out! so i couldn't go out and get the ingredients i needed for the soup!! so i ate weight watchers southwestern style soup instead which had pretty much the same stuff in it...hope that works! i was soo upset i couldn't make it! i also had some spoonfuls of ground turkey..=[ ahhh hopefully tomorrow will be better! i love baked potatoes!
This was something my Doctor had me try about 4 years ago. It worked great. Although after going through 1 week I couldn't stand the soup.
However, I felt good and lost weight.
My advice, If you can stomach the soup this might be for you!
it was a little difficult to get past the first couple days, but by the third day i was ok and i started seeing results. after the diet was over i didn't put much of the weight that i had lost back on. the most important thing after you are off of the diet is just to continue exercising and eating in moderation
I started this diet . i have been doing it on and off 4 about 4 months with diet and exercise . i have lost 45 pounds . yep yep yep . im excited . i feel so good
renee i feel the same way, i have cheated at all and i have not seen a change in my scale!! i feel like i am doing something wrong or that i missed an important step. what is going on?
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