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The Cabbage Soup Diet

The Cabbage Soup diet has been around for awhile. It’s one of the better known fad or crash diets in existence. Like most extreme diets, no one knows where the cabbage soup diet originated. But that hasn’t stopped people from giving it a try. Results have been mixed. Some people report losing a significant amount of weight in a short period of time. But others report no weight loss at all.

What is the Cabbage Soup Diet?

The cabbage soup diet is an extremely low calorie diet. In fact, some say it’s dangerously low. But most fad or crash diets are extremely low calorie diets. Like most quickie diets, this one is only supposed to be followed for 7 days. The cabbage soup diet provides temporary weight loss by cutting your calories to almost nothing.

The name of the diet, the cabbage soup diet, is pretty explanatory. You basically spend a few days eating a lot of cabbage soup. Whoever invented this diet, or someone who changed something along the way, claimed that cabbage has fat burning properties. This has never been proven, and should probably be regarded as untrue.

The Cabbage Soup Diet Involves Lots of Cabbage

You should only attempt the cabbage soup diet if you love cabbage or really need to lose weight quickly. This is a strict diet that must be followed exactly as instructed. And that means eating a lot of cabbage soup for 7 days straight. There’s no set recipe for the cabbage soup. So any cabbage soup recipe would probably work. You can only drink water, unsweetened fruit juice and skim milk (on certain days). But you can eat other foods in moderation.

The cabbage soup diet is a seven day diet, but it’s hard to follow. On the first day you can eat as much cabbage soup and fruit as you like. Bananas are the exception, and you can’t eat them on the first day. No explanation is given for this.

On the second day you can eat more cabbage soup, but instead of fruit you should eat vegetables. One potato is also allowed. One the third day, there is of course more cabbage soup. But you can also eat vegetables and fruits, minus potatoes and bananas. There’s still no explanation given for this.

On the fourth day of the cabbage soup diet you can eat bananas with your cabbage soup, and also drink skimmed milk. On the fifth and sixth days of the cabbage soup diet, you can eat beef and vegetables (minus potatoes) with your cabbage soup. And on the final day you can eat vegetables and brown rice with your cabbage soup. You can also drink unsweetened fruit juice.

Cabbage Soup Diet Results

You probably will lose weight with the cabbage soup diet. Most people do report losing a significant amount of weight fairly quickly. But they also report gaining it all back fairly quickly too. Diets like the cabbage soup diet don’t provide long term weight loss. Diets such as this one are strictly for quickie weight loss, like for a special event. If you do decide to try the cabbage soup diet, try to make your cabbage soup interesting and tasty. Maybe then the seven days won’t be so bad.