Does Cabbage Soup Diet Work?
If you’ve never heard of a cabbage soup diet, let me fill you in on the basics. A cabbage soup diet is a radical fat loss program designed to maximize results and minimize calories by eating a sparse variety of vegetables (mainly cabbage, hence the name). There’s no easy answer to the question of whether a cabbage soup diet does work. I guess it depends on what you’re really looking for in a weight loss program. I’ll elaborate. A cabbage soup diet is an extreme form of dieting not too far from simply starving yourself for a week. It’s true that you can eat a small variety of foods—well, actually soups made of cabbage, mushrooms, celery, tomatoes, onions, and carrots. The problem is that you are left with an almost dangerously low amount of calories. Your body is a machine. It needs fuel to burn. Another problem is that your body does not get the proper balance of nutritious foods that promote good health. Will you die from a cabbage soup diet? Very unlikely. Will you wish you were dead? It’s certainly possible. It comes down to this in the minds of most experts—anyone who has the will power to torture themselves with this diet should also have the will power to do it the right way by simply eating a healthy food regimen. Those are the problems with the diet. Still, there are some benefits, too. (After all, if there weren’t, it wouldn’t be so popular.) It generally performs the claims heaped upon it. If you stick to the diet, you can lose ten pounds in seven days. It is an inexpensive diet and can help you burn it off super fast if you’re in a desperate hurry to lose the pounds for a big event. If you are interested in the diet, here’s how it works: First Day – Drinks: water, tea (unsweetened), and cranberry juice Food: as much fruit and soup as you want (except you can’t have a banana) Second Day – Drinks: water, tea (unsweetened), and cranberry juice Food: veggies and soup (minus corn, peas, or beans); no fruit although you can eat a baked potato with butter if you like Third Day – Drinks: water, tea (unsweetened), and cranberry juice Food: more fruit, more vegetables, and more soup—that’s it for now Fourth Day – Drinks: water, unlimited skim milk Food: less than nine bananas and the soup again Fifth Day – Drinks: water, H20, and Dihydrogen monoxide (hey, it’s sounds like more of a variety, anyway!) Food: less than 20 oz. of skinless beef or chicken, less than seven tomatoes, and at least one bowl of soup Sixth Day – Drinks: pretty much more of the same thing Food: lots of beef and vegetables (you can even splurge on the meat with 2 steaks if you also have vegetables and salad with it), but no carbohydrates like potato products Seventh Day – Drinks: fruit juice (unsweetened) Food: veggies and brown rice, along with no less than one bowl of soup
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