Cabbage Soup Diet – Magic or Fraud?
Lose 2 To 5 Pounds A Week
It’s very easy to describe the cabbage soup diet – FAKE. There’s really no need for further explanation. But for those who insist here is more.
The origins of the cabbage soup diet are nebulous. It was one of the diets faxed from machine to machine in the early 1980′s. To gain acceptance the diet often used well-respected names, calling itself things like the Children’s Hospital diet. Needless to say, the diet has no relation to any of the institutions, nations, or people used in these names.
Most people on the cabbage soup diet plan drink nothing but water or unsweetened fruit juice. Here’s how the diet works.
Day one — cabbage soup and fruit, but not bananas.
Day two — cabbage soup plus vegetables, which could include a half baked potato with no butter.
Day three — add vegetables and fruit to the daily cabbage soup, but no bananas or potato.
Day four — enjoy the daily Cabbage soup plus up to eight bananas and skimmed milk.
Day five – cabbage soup, six tomatoes and up to 20 ounces of beef.
Day six — cabbage soup, unlimited beef, and any vegetables except potatoes.
Day seven — Along with cabbage soup eat brown rice, vegetables and unsweetened fruit juice no potatoes.
It was often claimed the cabbage soup diet could result in as much as 10 pounds of weight loss in only week. Unfortunately that would be 10 pounds in water weight. Nutritionists agree that it’s just not possible to lose 10 pounds of fat in only one week. But given a week the cabbage soup diet could make someone seriously ill from malnutrition.
It’s also pretty hard to stick to the cabbage soup diet. Not because it’s too complicated, but rather because seven days of cabbage soup becomes monotonous. Many people who have started the cabbage soup diet quit after only one or two days. Even as more exciting cabbage soup recipes, including some with various spices, made the rounds people still quit early.
Realistically people don’t need a fad diet like the cabbage soup diet to lose weight. Exercise more and cut out calories in order to accomplish a goal.
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