Review Of The Cabbage Soup Diet

The cabbage soup diet is to low in calories and it is considered a fad diet.

They claim you can lose ten pounds in as little as one week.

Many people use it for fast weight loss if they have something special coming up they want to attend, and need to drop a few pounds.

The foods eaten on this diet are healthy (vegetables, fruit and brown rice). But it is too limited in variety and calories. If you only need to lose three or four pounds it would work fine.

If you really need to lose weight, it takes time and a good, healthy nutrition plan. You want a plan you can follow for more than a couple of weeks.

Foods You Can Eat

This diet is a very strict weight loss program. Alcohol is eliminated, you can have water and fruit juice (unsweetened) on a day fruit is permitted.

The recipe for the cabbage soup diet is based on cabbage, onions, green peppers, celery, carrots, mushrooms, tomatoes and onion soup mix.

If the stock is used as well as soup mix the finished soup could be very high in sodium content.

There are no limits on the amount of soup you can consume.

You can also add the following items on the specific days as follows:

Day 1: you can have unlimited fruit except bananas.

Day 2: you can have one potato with limited butter and vegetables.

Day 3: you can have vegetables and fruit, no potatoes or bananas.

Day 4: you can have up to 8 bananas and all the skimmed milk you want.

Day 5: you can have a maximum of 6 tomatoes and beef not to exceed 20 ounces.

Day 6: you can have all the vegetables and beef you want excluding potatoes.

Day 7: you can have vegetables, brown rice, and fruit juice (unsweetened), but exclude potatoes.

Is the Cabbage Soup Diet Healthy?

The Cabbage Soup Diet is deficient in protein, carbohydrates and essential fats. There have been reports of short duration health issues on this diet such as headaches, dizziness and weakness and fatigue.

Losing weight quickly comes from losing muscle tissue and water. Water weight loss is temporary.

A low calorie diet normally slows down the metabolic rate, making weight loss more difficult.

The key to healthy and successful weight loss is healthy diet and implementing an exercise plan.

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