The cabbage soup diet is one of innumerable fad diets intended to help you lose a large amount of weight in a short period of time. Like all fad diets, the cabbage soup diet can be unhealthy to sustain for a long period of time. Consult a doctor before starting the cabbage soup diet.
Quick Weight Loss
"The New Cabbage Soup Diet," written by Margaret Danbrot is simply a revised and updated edition of the original cabbage soup diet, promising healthier, safer weight loss. It contains success stories from dieters, tips for readers to shed pounds and a maintenance program to help keep them off. The book's cover indicates the diet's ability to help you lose up to 10 pounds in a week. While eating cabbage soup every day may become monotonous, you also get to eat other foods. Though your calorie intake on this diet is low, you can eat as much cabbage soup as you want and a decent portion of the other allowed foods.
Benefits
In addition to helping you lose weight fast, the cabbage soup diet will prevent you from eating many unhealthy foods, if you stick to the diet. Though this diet is not healthy for long-term use, it can help get you started on weight loss before switching to a more moderate diet.
Basis of Diet
For the duration of the week-long diet, you eat cabbage soup every day, with other foods allowed on specific days. You may not eat any bread, or drink any carbonated beverages or alcohol at any point throughout the diet.
Daily Plan
During the first day, you can add any fruit besides bananas. The second day allows you to add other vegetables, including a baked potato, which is not allowed on other days. Fruits and vegetables are allowed on day 3, while up to six bananas and fat-free milk are allowed on the fourth day. On the fifth day, you can add up to 6 tomatoes and 450 g of meat or fish; on the sixth day you can eat meat and any vegetables. The final day you can add brown rice, pure fruit juice and vegetables.
Difficulties and Precautions
The cabbage soup diet can be difficult to sustain because of its monotony. Other issues with the cabbage soup diet are that it can cause gas, can be high in salt and does not give you the proper amount of calories and necessary vitamins and nutrients. This may cause lightheadedness, weakness and decreased concentration.
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